When Karl and I got married, our wedding color was orange (with hot pink accents). We had a signature cocktail at the wedding reception, an Orange Crush. Considering I’m wearing an orange cocktail dress in today’s blog post I felt Orange Crush was a fitting title. Orange is my favorite color, and I think it’s…
Yesterday we got a new mattress; we upgraded to a king-sized bed. I never wanted a bed that big, I heard the superstition that big beds cause divorces. However, as we get older we have different sleep patterns and find a bit of space prevents one another from waking up. we’ve found when we sleep…
Inspired by Oprah’s Favorite Things, below is a list of things I absolutely love and have made my wardrobe, skin, or life in general better. While this is a blog that focuses on style, I think that extends past the wardrobe, dressing table, and medicine cabinet. This list of my favorite things, like Oprah’s list,…
There are some color combinations that are so unexpected but feel so right. One is mixing ice blue with black. The stark black with the delicate pale blue feels vey modern and clean and I knew when I got this ice blue skirt suit I’d be styling it with black accents. Styling an Ice Blue…
A reader reached out asking a question about a casual capsule wardrobe. What would I have in a capsule wardrobe if I wasn’t a fashion blogger? I am an urban planner working in the architecture/engineering/development space. I make enough money so that I can buy clothes that are well made, but I also cannot break…
The first look from my real-life holiday capsule wardrobe is one of the more casual options. This could be worn to Thanksgiving, to a work party right after being at the office, a dinner party at a neighbor’s house. To make it more festive I swapped out the traditional brooch for one shaped like a…
The Nordstrom Fall Sale is here, and it’s a fantastic sale for winter must-haves – coats and boots. From wool walking coats to puffy parkas, the Nordstrom Fall Sale has an amazing variety of outerwear at amazing prices. Below I styled a few of the coats all with items from the sale to show you…
I had a completely different beginning to this week’s post and deleted it because it just seemed to boo boo kitty wah wah poor me. Yesterday I felt that way. I cried, and I took a nap, and I woke up and had some soup and drank tons of water and went back to bed….
The holidays are right around the corner and to help you find great gifts and have them arrive in time, I am starting my gift guides now. Every Friday will be a different gift guide of items that caught my eye around the web. Each gift guide has a different theme, and these are based…