Daytime Date: Square Neckline, Buttons, and a Vampy Sweater
Who knew a scrunchie could feel romantic?
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October 10 , 2018
3 Foundations to Learning a New Language
As you know, I publish pretty much everything in both English in Portuguese. What you may not know is that I didn’t actually grow up speaking Portuguese. While my family has roots in Portugal (albeit via South America), my natively-speaking grandfather never taught my dad nor my aunts a word of the language. At the […]
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The Long, Ugly, Nitty-Gritty on How this Blog Came to Be
How one moment changed everything I thought I knew about career and my place in the world. I always loved clothing and style. This love began early, when as a child my mom would let my sister and I choose and new dress to wear on Christmas Eve. I would spend an indecent amount of […]
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Cropped Jeans: How to wear this tricky trend
The story of how I fell in love with Popeye pants. I didn’t want to like them, much less love them. But then, in that cozy lighting of the Nordstrom dressing room, it happened. I fell for the pants with the most difficult (read: potentially ugly) cut to pull off. Cropped. Wide-leg. Jeans. This new trend – […]
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Burgundy Bodysuit for Autumn in California
Hey all! How about a backless, burgundy bodysuit to kick off the season? So rumor has it that it’s Fall here in California – so we hear from other parts of the country, where the air is chilling and leaves are turning. What a lot of people don’t realize about the SF Bay Area is that […]
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October 2018 Playlist
You know that person in your life who is always burned you playlists onto CDs? Yeah, that’s me. Chances are that if you’ve been in my life long enough, I’ll have made you a playlist at some point or another. Could it be that music is the sixth language of love? It wouldn’t surprise me if […]
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Shades of Blue: Monochrome Outfit
Monochrome is everywhere nowadays and I am loving it! It used to be that using one color head-to-toe was deemed tacky, reserved for that odd neighbor up the street who only wore purple, lived on free peppermints from the Denny’s downtown, and never seemed to take out her hair rollers, even for errands. I confess […]
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Feeling Fall: Black Maxi Dress and Ankle Boots
There’s almost nothing more versatile than a black, cotton, maxi dress. Wear it in spring and summer with sandals, in fall and winter with boots – unless you live in a frigid climate, I suppose. Or maybe you could throw on a parka? Hmm. People in cold climates, let me know what the deal is. […]
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