When it comes to holiday parties- I love a good, tacky and absolutely hideous Christmas sweater as much as the next person- but some events call for something a little more fancy or professional looking. Christmas Eve dinner with my family? The annual company holiday get-together (postponed until next year, obviously.) Christmas card photos with […]
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Time has been nothing short of an illusion in 2020, often feeling like it dragged on for an eternity when all the days- each very similar to the one before it in this age of quarantines and lockdowns- seemed to blend together into one continuous loop. As the end of the year gets closer and […]
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With Thanksgiving completed and in the books and Christmas now the next holiday/hurdle to get through to the best of our abilities in our “new normal,” my focus- and my posts- are going to be a lot more festive in the coming weeks. Despite everything going on in the world, it’s a time to be […]
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I haven’t had the opportunity to visit Florence, Massachusetts (a village in the northwestern part of Northampton) that much lately, not because I don’t like it there or because it’s not picturesque and beautiful- because it really is!- but because the pandemic hasn’t really given me a chance to go out to eat or shop […]
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Usually around this time of year, I’d be preparing for my annual Friendsgiving (and depending on how we were all feeling leading up to it- we’d either have a potluck style dinner at one of our homes or we’d go out to eat as a group) and getting ready to cook/bake something to bring to […]
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One of the more trivial, less Earth-shattering things the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has made difficult in my life (when compared to everything else, of course) is my access to professional equipment and the ability to work with extraordinarily talented photographers and artists in my area this year. I would say that 95% of the content […]
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When I worked in cosmetics in what feels like a lifetime ago, I’ll never forget the day I had an older woman, maybe in her late 40s/early 50s (and I say that having been in my early twenties at the time) sit down in my chair with the intention of finding a new eye look […]
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Coffee & Chiffon 