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We had our first snowfall of the winter last night. It wasn’t a huge snow by any means and it was washed away by noon today because of freezing rain. But while it lasted, I took a few pictures:
Our woods:
A pile of cut logs from some pine trees that caught the pine beetles and had to be cut:
Another view of the woods:
A bit of snow on leaves:
I had to bring your attention to this cute butterfly necklace on ShopBop.com by Kenneth Jay Lane. It is big and bold and will make such a statement!
I have to simply laugh at the many spam comments that come my way on this site. The inane statements. The words spelled completely wrong. The lack of good grammar. Here is a sampling for your reading pleasure:
This post took me a ridiculously long time to prepare because we live in the country and rely on satellite internet which is problematic and oftentimes barely better than dial-up!
We have snow showers forecast for the next two days. Which led me to pick a shoe of the week to be warm and yet stylish. Yes, it can be accomplished thanks to our friends at J.Crew.
The Sperry Top-Sider albatross boot
At J.Crew for $225
Wet Seal print shirt, $23
The North face, $289
Alexander Wang knit legging, 105
J.Crew waterproof boots, $225
Knit hat, $35
Philosophy Snow Angel Gel 16oz, $16
Hanging Snowflake | Seasonal | Wisteria, $16
New feature on the Fashion & Style section of my site: Sweater of the Week. At least, it will be a feature during the cooler months of the year.
From Etsy.com seller MaxMelody
Hand knit cross sweater for $ 58. This sweater can also be worn as a neck warmer.
Click here for the main Etsy site for MaxMelody and check out their other handmade knitted items.
Now that we have survived the eating frenzy and family dramas of Thanksgiving, we can look forward to the Christmas and New Year’s holidays and the various holiday party invitations that should arrive in our mailboxes and in-boxes. And of course, we’ll need a new dress to wear. And maybe some shoes to match.
My favorite look right now:
Handkerchief Dress by Robert Rodriguez for $ 425 from ShopBop.com
My mom and I cooked the family Thanksgiving meal for our family yesterday. And quite frankly, we cooked far too much food.
We seem to have an ingrained fear of running out of food at any gathering we are hosting. So we tend to cook way more than we need. I mean a ridiculous amount of food.
We don’t let the extra food go to waste though. We freeze leftovers. And share plates of food with less fortunate people in our community. We find creative ways to use leftovers on the days following a gathering.
I was reminded of the Thanksgivings of my childhood. Most Thanksgiving meals were spent at my parent’s house where my grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins all gathered to eat with us. My grandmother carried along the family tradition of cooking ridiculous amounts of food.
I remember my grandmother and grandfather coming slowly down the long driveway to our house on Thanksgiving day in their pale green 1963 Ford truck. They would get out of the truck and go around to open the tailgate. There in the bed of the truck was boxes and boxes of food that my grandmother had spent days cooking. Every kind of pie imaginable. Vegetables. Dressing. Biscuits. Cornbread. Pickles.
But that wasn’t all of the food. My mom cooked vast quantities of food as did my other relatives. The food table at our house would be simply groaning with good Southern cooking. I think my favorites were always my grandmother’s sweet potato pie with marshmallows baked on top and my mom’s homemade cranberry sauce.
When I was a child my Thanksgivings were always held in the same place with pretty much the same people. But now, we celebrate Thanksgiving with Danny’s family sometimes and my family sometimes. And a couple of times we’ve just celebrated with our friends instead of family because we were too far away from family. But no matter where we celebrate this holiday, I always try to include my mom’s homemade cranberry sauce.
We must have some traditions each and every year!
Today, Danny and I drove to Corinth, Mississippi and changed our driver’s licenses. We surrendered our Texas driver’s licenses which we had held for close to 25 years and received Mississippi licenses.
I don’t think Danny took it too well. He is such a Texan. I think it physically hurt him to give up his Texas license.
And the company truck he drives is having the license plates changed from Texas to Louisiana. When we lived in Texas, his work truck was just registered at our home address. But now that we have moved, his company is registering his truck out of their Louisiana office. And he does not like the idea of giving up his Texas license plates!
So much change for us over the past few months. Moving is stressful. And building a house is turning out to be mighty stressful also.
As if that all isn’t enough, I am opening another business. I will take pictures and write more about that later but I have rented a historic building in old downtown Iuka, Mississippi where I will be putting in an antique store and coffee shop on the main level. I plan to renovate the upstairs to make office space for my various endeavors. I still have not decided what to do with the basement. It is a large basement with brick walls and is about 2,200 square feet.
The building was built around the time Iuka was built in the mid-1800′s. It is chock full of character and interesting space. On the main level and the upstairs the ceilings are very high and floors are wood. In the basement, the ceiling is normal height and the floors are concrete.
So perhaps tomorrow or Friday I will post pictures of my new building before we start to clean it up and paint the interior!
Here I go again, building an outfit around an accessory:
The Trip-2 Satchel by Jeffrey Campbell at NeedSupply.com for $ 220
Tara Jarmon satin coat, €460
Warren Shirtdress, $198
Rachel Comey buckle shoes, $425
Kendra Scott pink jewelry, $60
Cartier umbrella
Illesteva see through shades, $260
Jeffrey Campbell Trip-2 Satchel, $220
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