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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 [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Ladies and gentlemen, a SKIRT! And I am one item closer to having worn all 15 of my items. Today was a day of running some accessory-related errands that took me to the fashionable part of town. Of course, after the thinking part of the morning, I may or may not have browsed a favorite [...]

Yeah, so, I have no idea where Day 11 went either. Yes I do – I spent it in my jammies – and you don’t get those pictures. Onward! Today I was off and running dropping small people off at Sunday school and then to the Houston Galleria to return a few things. Oddly, I [...]

Today was fun – a meeting and photo session with another favorite blogger for a very interesting project she is working on. More about that will be shared in the coming weeks. It’s becoming very difficult to pretend it’s fall when it’s still 97 degrees outside and even this ensemble was way too hot by [...]

More reasons to leave the house today – more services. This time with the kids which means ease and comfort but more dressed up. I knew I’d have my four year old climbing all over me, so pants it is today! Because my photography skills are not great – nor is the bathroom mirror and [...]