One of my all-time favorite movies is "Beautiful Girls". The cast is great, the plot entertaining, but more than anything, I love how it truly captures how cold winters are in Minnesota. It reminds me of my hometown and why I still live here even when I'm a summer girl at heart. The other thing [...]
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Style Inspiration-Snow White and the Huntsman
One cannot watch "Snow White and the Huntsman" without being completely gobsmacked by the costumes. They are truly incredible! Academy Award winning costume designer Colleen Atwood just may win herself another Oscar. Atwood, a favorite of Tim Burton, is the genius behind such movies as "Edward Scissorhands" and "Alice in Wonderland", but with this new [...]
Spin Your Web With “Spidey” Nails
I have never been a huge comic book fan and I don't know much about super heroes. But I do remember Spider-Man solving crimes and nabbing the bad guys on "The Electric Company" and that was pretty cool. And then, of course, there's the movie franchise featuring Tobey Maguire and Kirsten Dunst. Wasn't a huge [...]
The Ultimate Inspiration
On my 40th birthday my "lifelong" friends shared the above quote. I've thought a lot about it over the past few years and I truly believe we do have friends for reasons, seasons, and a lifetime. I didn't do a post yesterday because I was lucky enough to be spending time with one of my [...]
Playing Dress Up-It’s Not Just For Kids
For the first six years of my life, we lived "out in the country". My dad had just returned from Vietnam. Gone was the man who had to have the best of everything and in his place was, for lack of a better word, a hippy. We lived in an old farmhouse, had chickens, ducks, [...]