

Kate Winslet once wisely remarked that “There’s more to life than cheekbones.”
Don’t I know it!
Recently, I’ve become intimately familiar with one particular beauty among the other 205 bones in the human body: the scaphoid.
It’s one of 27 bones in the hand nestled between the thumb and the wrist and I unknowingly injured mine this past weekend.
I wish I had a good story to go along…
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Let’s face it. We live in a consumer culture where we are bombarded by messages that try to convince us that we need another doodad, an improved something-or-other, a better whatchamacallit or the latest thingamajig if we ever want to be truly happy, content, or satisfied.
But being acquisitive isn’t the way to inner peace.
As soon as you do finally get whatever is was you were…
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I’m not the biggest fan of polka dots in fashion. For me personally, I tend to find them a bit, well, polka-dotty! And the older you get the harder it becomes to pull off this whimsical print.
But don’tcha just love a challenge?
Me, too!
So with a wee bit of internet surfing, I discovered today’s VPOD. This lovely summer dress mixes dotted swiss with a bold geometric…
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Written on
January 18, 2012 by
Mary Kincaid in
1960s,
Dresses,
Home,
decorating,
dress,
polka dots,
vintage,
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Two Saturdays ago, I woke up at 7:40am when I heard a knock on my front door. I peeked through the blinds and saw an LAPD officer.
Uh-oh.
My heart started pounding because police officers never knock on doors to deliver good news like winning the lottery.
In this case, they were checking to see if I had noticed anything missing or had seen or heard anything suspicious…
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Written on
December 27, 2011 by
Mary Kincaid in
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1950s,
1960s,
1970s,
Alfred Shaheen,
Belts,
Hattie Carnegie,
Trifari,
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eBay Roundup - Vintage,
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malcolm starr,
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vintage clothes,
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