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Hostess with the Leastest

Welcome people into your home and HOST them, even if… 🙃 you have to rearrange furniture to make it work🙃 the forks don’t match🙃 you don’t have a coat tree or entry table or shoe rack to hold everyone’s items🙃 it’s hot and you don’t …

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Brown is the new brown

There was a time when I really didn’t like the color brown. It felt dreary and dull to me. Ugly and boring. But then I saw a lady in a brown satin slip dress and my perspective changed. All of the sudden, I saw it …

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The Adventure Within

Certified Torrey Pines Gliderport Student Pilot, Susan Brennan, reporting for duty 👩🏻‍✈️ I took myself on an adventure yesterday and I wanted to share a little about what led up to this unexpected experience and a few takeaways from it – with the hopes it’ll …

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The Outfit and the Inspo

I’ve been eyeing this look since I first saw it on Friends YEARS ago, but I didn’t have the pieces to try it out. Recently, however, I unexpectedly found this off-the-shoulder blouse and tie at the thrift store and was tickled pink to put my …

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Jean Ribbons DIY

These were a HIT the other night and I wanted to show you how I did this! A few simple steps with a few simple items and off we go to cute jean city! 1. Gather your supplies  – pair of jeans (ideally with looser …

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In exchange

✨ If you want beauty in exchange for ashes, you’re going to have to give up the ashes.✨ If you want peace that surpasses understanding, you have to give up your right to understand.✨ If you want to be forgiven, you’ll need to extend forgiveness …

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Sunrise at 40

I read this passage of scripture the other day, and as I’m coming into the final sunset of my thirties, and the first sunrise of my forties, it felt especially fitting 💕 “O God, to the farthest corners of the planet people will stand in …

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40, I’m comin’ for ya’!

40, I’m comin’ for ya’! There’s a certainty that’s been settling in lately, and I’m welcoming it with open arms 🤩 As I turn the corner on another decade, I’m being greeted with what feels like a beckoning to R E L E A S …

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PNW x PSW

You can take the girl out of the PNW, but you cannot take the PNW out of the girl. The PSW has my heart, BUT I will forever be a lover of moss-laden forest floors and the sun bursting through dark, ominous, gray clouds! There’s …

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When I’m 96

“When I’m 96…” I’ve been using this filter lately, to help me prioritize options in the moment, and I’m finding it most useful! When I’m 96, looking back at my life from my rocking chair on the porch, so many things will be evidently clear. …