It’s easy to shop for clothes at Sears and come out with a boring wardrobe. Generally, those of us who love dressing secondhand don’t have that problem, but there are other style dangers that lurk when we go out sniffing around for used bargains. For one, we have to be vigilant in avoiding clothing that’s stained, [...]
In my last blog I wrote about somebody who offered me a barrage of unsolicited, mean advice about my hair. I did what I believed to be the best thing with her comments—I ignored them. Unlike my experience with this one individual (who, by the way, is no longer in my life), most people who [...]
Someone I used to know always had something bad to say about my hair. I needed a haircut, should color it or style it differently. I never took her advice seriously, partly because her hair looked so terrible, but also because I get compliments on my hair from other people and she’s the only person [...]
I grew up in sunny southern California and always wanted to look like the typical California girl—long straight blond hair, tall, tan. Too bad that I was born with dark curly hair, pale skin and only grew to be just over five feet tall. I never gave any thought to bleaching my hair or getting [...]
I’ve gone to a few sewing conventions, and have got to say that they were jaw-dropping events. The classes were great, that wasn’t what shocked me. It was the way most of the attendees were dressed. Since these events were about home sewing, I expected to see people decked out in beautiful, flattering things they’d [...]
