This was an off week for me. Sadly, my close friend’s husband passed away last week after complications from surgery. He was a professor, scholar and author, caring social worker and sociologist who worked on behalf of the disabled. But we knew Jim as a sweet, kind, generous, and wonderful friend. A true Southern Gentleman. …
Fashion Flash Mid-April Edition
Fashion Flash’s newest member, Mary V from Shift Your Stories, is hosting this week’s edition of FF. In addition to being the decluttering maven at her blog, Mary just launched her new ebook, PopUp Purge. As many of us undertake spring cleaning, I think Mary’s book sounds like a valuable resource! Here’s what’s on tap …
Mid-April Beauty Spotlight Team Weekly Roundup
On Friday, April 16, I woke up to 3 inches of heavy, wet snow. I couldn’t believe it when I saw the roof of the house next door covered in white. The poor daffodils were bent under the snow, and the early azaleas tried to peek out from under their thick white coating. The sidewalk, …
Fashion Flash Again Already!
I lost track of time yesterday (Sunday), and I just didn’t have time to get a new post up. This week is going to be a hectic one because I am taking Jeff to get his first cataract surgery on Wednesday, back the next day for a follow-up, and then Friday I head into Boston …
Beauty Spotlight Team Weekly Roundup 10 April 2021
This has been a very strange day. (Friday, I mean.) So this is going to be short & sweet. Hope you have a wonderful weekend, and hope you have a chance to take a look at the BST Weekly Roundup! Erno Laszlo Normalizer Shake-It, which is a cult classic for good reason, is a tinted-toner …
Spring Fashion Flash
This week’s Spring-themed edition of Fashion Flash is hosted by the multi-talented Jackie from Jackie Silver Style. Here’s what’s on tap: how to wear a chambray or denim shirt with style eggs as a beauty food a fabulous cross between lipgloss and liquid lipstick on sale spring cleaning for your face an inspirational poem for …
April Fool’s Beauty Spotlight Team Weekly Roundup
Happy Easter and Passover weekend! Hope you have some wonderful events on your calendar xoxo When you have a moment, take a look at the weekly roundup from the Beauty Spotlight Team! Even though many of us aren’t wearing much lipstick these days, Allison from Never Say Die Beauty could not resist picking up two …
Goodbye March Fashion Flash
Here we are at the end of March with one-quarter of 2021 already gone. Yikes. And it’s time for a new edition of Fashion Flash, hosted this week by Marcia who is now blogging with Cindy at Prime Beauty Blog. In the Goodbye March edition, you will find: spring cleaning tips that don’t require much …
End of March Beauty Spotlight Team Weekly Roundup & Covid Shot #2
I thought I was out of the woods when we drove home from Gillette Stadium after I got my second Moderna vaccine. Again, I was blown away by the efficiency: in and out in 20 minutes including 15 minutes waiting after the shot, including a quick look again at Gillette Stadium. This time, the grass …
Fashion Flash Spring ’21 Edition
It really has been feeling like spring in the Boston area. We have had lovely weather in the 50s and even low 60s over the past few days. Snowdrops and crocuses are up, my hellebores are in bloom, and daffodils are starting to come up. I spent this afternoon raking the oak leaves out of …
Welcome Spring Beauty Spotlight Team Weekly Roundup
Can you believe that spring is finally here? My hellebores are in bloom. The daffodils are starting to come up. Even my rose bushes have buds for new leaves on them. Yay! And things in general are beginning to look up. Hope you take a look at the Welcome Spring weekly roundup from the Beauty …
St. Patrick’s Week Fashion Flash
Nina from Sharing A Journey is hosting Fashion Flash this week. In addition to the great variety you can always expect from the contributors to FF, we have a new member: Mary from Shift Your Stories. Mary is an expert on reducing clutter and helping others to do so. I really need to get to …
Daylight Savings Beauty Spotlight Team Weekly Roundup & A Couple of Other Things
NSDB Giveaways Ending Next Week I’m running two giveaways both of which end next Wednesday: Derma E Radiance Collection: 4 full size CF, vegan skincare products to give your skin a glow in time for spring CRYSTAL Deodorant’s new Magnesium-Enriched Solid Deodorant: two winners, each receiving two different scents I hope you’ll enter if you …
Fashion Flash “Almost Spring” Edition
This week’s “Almost Spring” edition of Fashion Flash was named by our current hostess, Jackie from Jackie Silver Style. Although spring is only a couple of weeks away, it doesn’t yet feel like almost spring. But the weather people are forecasting a taste of spring for the Boston area on Wednesday and Thursday when the …
Early March ’21 Beauty Spotlight Team Weekly Roundup
Today, I went for a hike in the woods at the end of Crooked Lane with my friend Sue. Lately, I’ve been jogging instead. The last time I was in the woods about 10 days ago, I was on snowshoes. Temperatures above freezing and some rain last week melted quite a bit of the snow, …