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August 10, 2015

Happy Monday! Erin, Emily and I are excited for this week; we are launching our rebrand of the KC Blogger Meetup. We have worked together for over 6 months on the redesign, rebranding, and making sure we have everything ready for the big launch on Thursday evening. It is exciting to finally see it all come together! I will be sharing the link to the new site once we go live and be sure to look for a recap of our launch party next week! I have a busy week in front of me and wish I was still in my pj's. If you are going to lounge in pj's....shouldn't they be this pretty?

1 Josie tank and pants set ~ 2 Spendid Stripe set ~ 3 Josie Chemise ~ 4 Bleeker tank set ~ 5 Flora Nikrooz Set ~ 6 Honeydew Sleep is my Cardio set

August 10, 2015
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How to Pattern Mix with Colors

August 06, 2015

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I wore this my last day in California and traveling home. I spent my last morning in Cali with my son and of course on the beach. It was such an amazing trip and the quality time we had together will be memories we both will treasure forever. I cried like most mothers when it was time to say goodbye. It was hard leaving him knowing it would be the holidays before I would see him again.

I made it to the airport and on my plane just fine but something stirred inside me when

we taxied down the runway and the tears started to flow again. I was a sap and was trying to contain myself. Talk about making the person next to you feel weird. I think I hid it and pulled myself together and tried to focus on my magazines and of course my fabulous treats from Bottega Louies I picked up while in LA the day before. It was a long day of traveling with full planes and coming back to the reality of no cool evenings, ocean walks, and not a care in the world! Welcome home to the hot humid Midwest... you know what they say; There's no place like home and my own bed and pillow were a welcome sight.

Orange generally isn't a color I am drawn too. But these muted stripes somehow were appealing. The fit of these shorts are comfy and I liked the length for me. I wasn't too sure what I would wear them with when I first got them, but knew if all else failed a white tank would work. Being the pattern mixer I am, I immediately went right to this tank in my closet and loved it together. I accessorized pulling the blues from the top and my new Kendra Scott earrings. We have a new store opening here next week and I cannot wait to try out the color bar. Have any of you experienced the color bar? I would love to know what you made!

These aren't the brightest of pictures; the sun was trying to make its way out of the morning clouds.

Stripe Shorts ~ Tank (option) ~ Watch ~ Sandals (Almost identical) ~ Jean Jacket ~ Bead bracelets c/o ~ Leather wrap ~ Earrings c/o

August 06, 2015
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Los Angeles Murals

August 05, 2015

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We spent one afternoon in Los Angeles. One afternoon was enough. I was a bit leary of driving up there with fears the 405 would be a parking lot. We lucked out and had no traffic trouble at all on the trip up or back to Dana Point. I remember as a young teen traveling with my family to LA on several occasions. We made the trips to Disneyland, the Rose Bowl, San Juan Capistrano, San Fran... and the list goes on. My Dad had business on everyone of these trips and both my parents were good about scheduling trips in the summer so we could be gone for weeks at a time exploring. I remember on one trip to DC we were visiting the Lincoln Memorial and my younger sister and I were horsing around and I think.... (ok I did) pushed her and she busted her forehead. The park rangers had to come see about the incident and she received a little bandage and TLC from everyone. I'm pretty sure I never acknowledged the "actual" push that lead to the fall.... things can be a bit fuzzy when you're a kid, and then again it is my word against hers!! I digress..... Back to LA. The point here is I traveled a lot growing up and saw pretty much everything you could imagine. Every national Park, national monument, all the states except 5 and the state capitals to all the states we visited as well. What I don't remember was LA being so crowded, dirty, and people driving with no regard for others. We visited the hollywood walk of stars to find a few stars we had to snap a pic of.

My parents were friends (I use the word friends loosely as we weren't like BBQ, backyard, lets get the kids together friends) more like business friends with Mel Blanc and I met him on several occasions as well as his son who I had a crush on but he was way too old for me at the time. If you don't know who Mel Blanc is, he was the voice of many cartoon characters From Bugs Bunny, Sylvester the Cat, Tweety Bird, Barney Rubble and so many others. I have several autographed cards from Mel with all his cartoon characters drawn on the cards with him and even a letter he wrote to my Dad dated 1970 with a large Bugs Bunny watermark across the letter.

Of course I had to make a detour to stop at Bottega Louie for a box of macarons......

After the usual tourist sightseeing and Hollywood sign pic we headed to Beverly Hills. I knew LA had tons of colorful murals and wanted to stop and snap my outfit pics with one. We came across this wall and I knew it was the perfect compliment to what I was wearing. I'm pretty sure we parked illegally and jumped out to snap these pics. Once we were done and we continued to make our way to Beverly Hills then on to Santa Monica to see my Niece. We passed so many other fabulous murals; I wished I could have taken pics with them all.

Shorts ~ Tank ~ Sandals ~ Watch ~ Hat c/o ~ Earrings c/o ~ Clutch ( on sale) ~ Sunnies ~Bracelets

August 05, 2015
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White Denim Cutoffs

August 04, 2015

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Today I'm sharing day two of my trip. What do you do when it rains in California? You go shopping of course! We hit up Fashion Island again for some shopping. We cruised thru the LV store only to fall in love with this neverfull MM lined in rose ballerine. Then a stop by the YSL lipstick counter to try on color 49. (too bright for me) then on to the sunglasses. He picked up these Clubmasters, while I picked out these Celine sunnies! Love them. They are so light and I love the gradiant lens. We grabbed a bite to eat then snapped a few outfits on the sidewalk. The sun was just starting to go down so we headed back to the beach.... Thousand Steps beach! Taking a few more pics.... well just because we are at the ocean and watching the sunset!