15 Purple Pants and Purple Skirt Outfits
Silly me, I missed the date to submit to the March Good Buy/Good-Bye Book: Purple & Periwinkle round-up, but I had selected two rare...
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- Mar 14
18 Green Outfits for St Patrick's Day - Warm Weather
St Patrick's Day is right around the corner! For lucky readers in climes where spring is merrily on its way, here is some St Patrick's...
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- Mar 11
18 Green Outfits for St Patrick's Day - Cool Weather
It's still cold here in Minnesota! For readers who are not yet in their warm spring wardrobes, here is some St Patrick's Day outfit...
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- Mar 10
How to Organize Scarves (A Lot of Scarves!)
Today Jodie at Jodie's Touch of Style and I are showing you how we organize our scarf collections! When Jodie first suggested this topic,...
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- Mar 9
OOTD: Style Imitating Art - The Thousand Quilt by Elizabeth Shippen Green
Terri at Meadow Tree Style is the curator for this round of Style Imitating Art, and she chose an illustration circa 1900 by the American...
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- Mar 6
DIY Paper Bead Tutorial: Tube Beads From Magazines & Catalogs
Today's tutorial is about the second type of paper bead that I make frequently, and which makes a terrific companion to the bicone beads...
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- Mar 4
30 Wears: Light Pink/Navy Floral Blouse
With the Winter to Spring transition underway in many places, it seemed like a good time to feature this blouse that hit 31 wears in...
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- Mar 2
Test Driving a 21 Garments + 21 Accessories Capsule
Now that we have built this 21 garment capsule using a grid of color-based rows... ...and we have created our 21 piece accessory capsule...
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- Feb 28
DIY Paper Beads: Magazine and Catalog Bicone Bead Examples - Part 2
In Part 1 of this series, we looked at magazine and catalog images that were nice, neat rectangles but contained patterns/images that...
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- Feb 25
Adding a 21 Piece Accessory Capsule to a 21 For 21 Wardrobe
After using a grid with color-based rows, like so... ...to build out a 21 piece winter wardrobe capsule based on my WFH outfit formula,...
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- Feb 23
OOTD: Style Imitating Art - Decline of the Day by Emperor Ham Nghi
Salazar at 14 Shades of Grey selected this Impressionistic landscape for the challenge because of its history: it was painted by Emperor...
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- Feb 21
DIY Paper Beads: Magazine and Catalog Bicone Bead Examples - Part 1
In my bicone paper bead tutorial, I demonstrated the technique of cutting and rolling the beads using this photo of coral from a magazine...
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- Feb 18
A 21 Piece Capsule For Winter Using a Grid of Color-Based Rows
A couple weeks ago, Janice at The Vivienne Files posted a "21 garments for 21 days" capsule wardrobe based on a black and white color...
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- Feb 16
30 Wears: Olive Pants
As I mentioned in my first 30 wears post way back in June, for a few years now, I have adopted the 30+ wears / <$1 cost per wear (CPW)...
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- Feb 11
Creating Outfits from Color Formulas & Color Wheel Combos
In my outfit formula and color formula post, I distinguished between color combos based on the color wheel (e.g., yellow + red + blue is...
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- Feb 9
OOTD: Style Imitating Art - Sunday Morning by Norman Rockwell
New SIA host Shelbee selected this artwork from the May 16, 1959 cover of the Saturday Evening Post for her first foray because her...
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- Feb 7
My Scarf 2022: February Additions
It's time to add some new items to the capsule wardrobe based on this scarf, color palette, and mascot. Here is where we left things in...
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- Feb 4
16 Red or Pink Outfits for Valentine's Day
Although heart-themed items are popular for Valentine's Day, there's no reason to purchase something with an obvious holiday motif if you...
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- Feb 2
Winter WFH Daily Dozen Capsule: Outfit Formulas + Color Formulas
In my last post, I shared this list of 12 items that are critical pieces for me during this work from home winter: Starting with the...
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- Jan 31
My Winter WFH Daily Dozen
In December, I was inspired by Liz at Closet Play Image to develop a list of the dozen items that are wardrobe workhorses for the fall...