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The Woman in the Glass
This ad for a designer faucet stopped me in my tracks. I have felt this way most of my life. Well, at least since I first dipped into Little Women, Jane Eyre, Wuthering…
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Winter Musings
Charity begins at home…and so does kindness. When I need to make changes in myself, mostly in regards to fitness and well-being, I am far more successful when the changes become a source…
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Better Days Ahead
Many years ago, a friend whose life I thought perfect, let me read a card her husband had given her. Inside was a simple handwritten line: “Better days ahead”. As I was to…
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On the Twelfth Day of a Feminine Christmas
I love this elegant image of a woman in a Christmas green knit dress sitting with a friendly reindeer. The deep forest green and red shoes (and hair) make for a lovely Christmas…
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On the Eleventh Day of a Feminine Christmas
This image says “New Year’s Day” to me. Perhaps it’s her pastel coat and floral muff. Perhaps she has done what I do which is to put away my fall colors and hues…
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On the Tenth Day of a Feminine Christmas
All over Facebook are folks wishing others Happy New Year. Many are enhancing their posts with vintage photographs showing people at parties wearing their very finest. Invariably, someone will lament, “Why can’t people…
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On the Ninth Day of a Feminine Christmas
This is one of my favorite feminine Christmas images which I clipped from a British Vogue many years ago. I apologize for the quality but perhaps you will understand why I saved the…
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On the Eighth Day of a Feminine Christmas
This lady is bringing Christmas to someone, at least it appears so since a tree is her passenger. I always have Christmas Eve at home with family and some friends. Sometimes there is…
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On the Seventh Day of a Feminine Christmas
Jewelite was a type of plastic that was used for vanity items. My grandmother had a lovely pink translucent Jewelite dresser set composed of a mirror, brush and comb. The pretty trio was…
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On the Sixth Day of a Feminine Christmas
I found myself with a tear in my eye on the way home from work yesterday, thanks to Sirius Radio’s Holiday Traditions station. Toyland, sung poignantly by Doris Day came on the radio…
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On the Fifth Day of a Feminine Christmas
This is clearly an ad for a blanket. But I love the cheery disarray of the bedroom, especially the wrappings and ribbons scattered about. And how will she ever not step on that…
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On the Fourth Day of a Feminine Christmas
Love came down at Christmas, Love was born at Christmas, Love, all lovely, love divine, Stars and angels gave the sign …Love shall be our token Love be yours, and love be mine…
