STYLE YOUR LIFE

A Few Things I've Been Thinking About 

Back to School Shopping for Tweens and Teens fashion your style Sep 02, 2021

Zoe Brown is going into 8th grade this year. Like so many other teens and tweens who are ready to make their own fashion choices she knows finding the perfect first day of school outfit can be daunting. Unlike other girls, I am her grandmother.

I’ve seen her style evolution first-hand. Over the yea...

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Broccoli Hair fashion your style May 28, 2021

My daughter called it my *broccoli* hair. Ouch.

Sadly, she was not wrong.

A recent graduate of Fashion Academy in the late 80's (yes, I've been around for many, many years) I knew my new 'do was the epitome of chic. My hair was permed and piled high on top of my head. To make matters worse my styl...

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Hello Spring fashion your style Apr 04, 2021

April is arriving in style. I think you'll agree that no matter what the temperature, Easter signals the *official* start to spring.

There's still a chill in the air here in Canada. It won't be time to break out my dresses and sandals for a few months yet, however my winter wear is slowly starting ...

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Style Therapy fashion your style Feb 15, 2021

Style is part of self-care. Especially now as we've entered the long-haul part of the pandemic it's time to put über - effort into getting properly dressed again. I'm not saying we need to be *dressed up* because *well-dressed* works just fine right now.

After all denim which was once considered ca...

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Step into 2021 fashion your style Jan 10, 2021

If I have to be on lockdown, at least this time *outside* isn't calling me because it's -2 and the ground is covered in that snow-slash-sloppy-slash-slush that makes you wonder which shoes you're going to wear if you do leave the house. You don't really need to wear boots but you don't want to ruin ...

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Learn to say NO fashion your style Nov 17, 2020

The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases. Each of us carries our own life-plan, which cannot be superseded by any other.

~C.G. Jung

 

Nothing makes me crankier than a pair of shoes that hurt.

I can’t believe that I spent so many years work...

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