Life with Dudes Never Looked So Pretty
In addition to making 2014 my happiest year ever, I’ve also declared that it will be fantastically stylish. You know, stylish for a much-older-than-I-look mom of three on a budget. Just because being stylish is like a bazillion percent more fun than being unstylish, and also, were I to run into Stacy or Clinton on the street somewhere looking like the frumpadump they killed off
Planning to get all sassy for a holiday party this year? Yeah, me neither, but I still like to feel a little festive when we sit down for our family-only holiday meal. And, when I take my champagne glass to the street to high five my neighbors. Can’t do that stuff in my slipper socks. Well, I mean, I could. But, I took a vow
I shop online a lot. Why? Lots of reasons really: I live in the sorta boonies (meaning stores I actually like aside from Target take some serious driving to get to). I work from home, on the computer, where I can do pretty much everything I want in jammie pants. My UPS man is cute sweet. Amazon Prime is amazing. Shopping online is faster, easier,
So, cheap is sort of a strong word for what I’m talking about here. Because, if I’m honest, I don’t like to skimp on quality when it comes to clothing. With this body, it’s barely even an option. One of the things I learned from the style gurus when I was on What NOT to Wear is that looking good is an investment. Gone are
DudeDad and I are college graduates. The advanced degree sort even. We have a retirement plan, we save for college, we pay our taxes, our mortgage, and our car payments on time. We’ve never been arrested. We don’t sell drugs. We are legally married and all three of our children are his and mine, together. We volunteer at our children’s schools. We help out with
I was born bald. Basically. Little wisps of barely there hair was all I came out with on my head. Every single other inch of my body was covered with fur, probably to make up for the lack of it on my head. I know, I’m not painting a pleasant picture of myself as an infant, but believe me when I say, bald worked for
It’s not just for the space travelers and biker babes anymore. Leather’s for babes of all makes and models this fall. Including chunky-ish mama bears who spend all of their free time, as limited as it may be, trolling the racks of Marshall’s looking for stylin’ faux leather bargains like these to bring home… Boots, $29, Jacket, $49.99, rocking it like a boss, free! I
I rarely appreciate runway style. Not fully anyway. It’s impractical. It’s flamboyant. And, it’s usually so far out of my price range I’d have to sell an egg, or five at my age, to be able to afford even a runway handkerchief. I’m more of a daily style kinda girl. But, I usually, at the very least, find inspiration from the pieces making waves on
That’s like an enigma right? Comfortable shoes that are also pretty to look at. Just guessing I’d say that 85% of my shoes DON’T fit into that category because I have two types of footwear: moderately comfortable footwear and ridiculously cute footwear. The two rarely overlap. This summer I went to Chicago for BlogHer. Other than walking around the city with my knickers showing to
