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On a warm, sunny day halfway through our European trip, Andrew and I took two buses from Amsterdam to get to Keukenhof, also known as the Garden of Europe. The 80-acre park is only open from mid-March to mid-May…

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I can’t believe it’s been a month since I last blogged about anything! (Ugh, I’m such a slacker!) Actually, I am cutting myself some slack because life has been a little hectic lately—all good stuff, though. After returning home from a short vacation in New York City, I handed in my resignation…

As my blogging alias suggests, I’ve been exceedingly practical lately but without the fun fashionista part. You see, I’ve been following this handy spring cleaning checklist to give our house a good top-to-bottom scrub. While it’s supremely rewarding to wipe away a year’s worth of dust and grime from window blinds…

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Last year, I wrote a series of popular “Inspired by Nature” posts which showed flora-meets-fashion visual relationships. Well, I recently found some more examples at my mom’s house. Think of these as summer’s last hurrah as we get ready for fall.

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The Chanel post a couple of weeks ago was supposed to close out my “Inspired by Nature” series, but I’m throwing in this one as a little bonus…

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I can’t remember exactly what type of flowers these are (is it blatantly obvious to everyone else out there? Can you let me know?) But they remind me of Andy Warhol’s series of Flowers: From the Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh website: “It was in 1964…that Warhol embarked on one of his most successful projects using […]