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Photo by Alisa Murray Today is the last day of the month-long Ultimate Closet Editing Challenge.  It was a month filled with frustration, inspiration, cheating and creativity.  Each post of mine ended with a statement eluding to either cleaning out my closet or going shopping for the finale. I chose to end this month a [...]

Ladies and gentlemen, The Master has arrived. Manolo Blahnik charmed and wooed a few hundred Houston women today at the Neiman Marcus Houston Galleria shoe salon – although he didn’t have to work very hard.  Houston women have been involved in a torrid love affair with Mr. Blahnik and his fanciful shoes for years.  There [...]

Yes. I can’t believe I typed that title either. Today the nice people at Neiman Marcus have kindly invited me to join a meet and greet with the master himself, Manolo Blahnik. I’ll share more information about the event in tomorrow’s post and you’ll also get to see if he’s coming to a Neiman Marcus [...]

Oh, man do I have a thing for exaggerated beauty – especially when it falls into the whole “lady” genre. These flower pins from Emerson Made just make me swoon in my southern-born boots. I love the idea of pinning them on a small, silk-satin ribbon sash and I am SO going to pin a [...]

SIXTY DEGREES. Sixty degrees. That is what the themometer read this morning. The entire city let out a cheer and ran to their collective closet to put on SOMETHING that felt like fall clothing. I grabbed this military jacket that I’ve been DYING to wear ever since I bought it in New York. In August. [...]

Image by Mark J. Sebastian Oh, you guys.  I don’t even know where to START this story.  Friday night we were leaving Yom Kippur services with the kids and headed to get a bite to eat.  We cut through a nearby neighborhood to get to the restaurant and as we were driving down a darkened [...]

Okay! Let’s catch up! Here is what I’ve been up to the past week. I’ll spare you the boring shorts and t-shirt pictures. Since we spoke last I’ve had to go to Yom Kippur services and go to Austin for some real-job work. Here is what I wore. Oh, also, I cheated again – but [...]

Dear G-d, Tonight my family and I will walk into the sanctuary, take our seats and together with thousands of other folks say thank you for what has been an extraordinary year and say sorry for all the things that could have been done better. My list. It is long. And possibly distinguished. But you [...]

Yes, I cheated again. But I have a good reason – he’s four, very cute and enjoys blueberry cereal bars at breakfast. My black pants most certainly do NOT enjoy the additional of blueberry cereal bars to them and so I had to change clothes. Quickly. Sometimes there is an upside to cheating and it [...]

Day 15. Not quite as far as I’d like to be right now, but happy it’s not the beginning any longer.  This exercise is a cocktail of restraint, patience and creativity with a chaser of frustration.  There’s no way around it right now.  I’d like to say I’ve reached some sort of Zen understanding at [...]