There are so many pretty ways to realize your theme for a wedding without causing yourself to cringe when you later look at the photos. I’d be cringing right now if I’d gone all out, say, with a wedding gown …
Tag: Beauty

A Little Flakey on the Decor
With Winter Wonderland as our wedding theme, and our wedding scheduled for January 3rd, we made things easy (and inexpensive) on ourselves with respect to decor and accessories. Planning the wedding during the Advent season meant both online and bricks …

Gut Reaction to Fashion: Choosing a Painless Gown
Twenty-one days after my reproductive organs were yanked through my birth canal, I accidentally went wedding dress shopping. I don’t recommend this. I don’t recommend any kind of shopping three weeks post surgery, unless you traverse said shopping emporium by …
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Pre-Cancer Prevention
Pre-cancer. It’s a strange term that means something isn’t normal…but it’s not malignant, either. It’s a limbo-like term, reassuring and worrisome at the same time. I’ve had this reddish brown spot on the left side of the bridge of my …
Ten Lessons Sans Carols: #4 The Bright Thing to Do
In the post “Gift #9” I talked about my neighborhood and the curmudgeons who circle around the cul-de-sac. In the interest of fairness, I have to say not everyone here in Pine Bluff Trace is mean. There’s also my neighbor …
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Hair Raising
Good hair is work. That’s especially true for the gluten free. Before my celiac diagnosis, my hair and skin misbehaved. An said immune system and damaged gut from said autoimmune disease meant nutritional deficiencies and nutritional deficiencies meant deficient hair …