At times, it’s in the details; as noted, on Monday we went back to the trainer/gym after a five month hiatus. Hey, we we’re traveling, parenting teenagers, working, living, cooking. Mortifying, he weighed, measured, (even the neck!!), and calculated body fat percentage. Ouch.

Went home that night with two figures, weight and body fat, and sat on the couch lol and googled what was normal, average, for a fifty year old woman.

Well, hello there. We are overweight. Not overdressed, over-loved, over-shopped, simply bordering here on scary stuff, overweight.

Good food and great wine doesn’t discriminate, that stuff loves everyone.

Soooo, instead of getting all freaked out and crazy we’re simply taking note of what’s going on, it’s been a way fun ride, and stepping it up in the gym and dialing it down at the table. Crazy stuff never seems to work here for us, it’s more about slow and steady and more often than not there’s a bump in the road.

We’re not giving up on our farmer’s market trips, or converting to eating anything frozen or pre-measured, no way in hell. Cooking cooking cooking, moving moving moving, and lifting kind of heavy weights two times a week. 10,000 steps a day? That’s a given.

Overweight, over what? See ya.

all photos | what’s happening this week so far in the kitchen

Keep the faith, always. xo

Quick post, it’s Monday and we’ve got a sick one at home :(.

For the next week or so we’ll be back to Essie Wicked, one of our dark favorites for short nails.

Nothing quite beats the white silk blouse blue denim jeans black leather jacket when you need to be dressed in five minutes or less.

Went back to the gym today after about five months off, wicked wicked wicked, we’ll be sore tomorrow for sure.

Happy Monday all.

Yesterday was a wrap for our October trunk show, we’ll be back again the second week of November if you missed us.

We had some magic happening in that room of ours, beautiful women interacting with beautiful clothing. Second daughter and her friend came by and of course they were looking for the wine, it was 10:30 am on a regular Thursday. We poured some wine for them and then continued right on with our afternoon clients. Clothes and spirits were flying.

Also on our calendar is a street style runway show to benefit WNY Women’s Foundation on Friday November 6th. One of the looks we’re playing with is a featherweight long bronze taffeta skirt, white stretch cotton french cuffed blouse, aka one of our favorites Carolyn Roehm, and then mixing in a biker inspired suede belt and leopard cashmere scarf at the neck.

As mentioned we’re reading Donna Karan’s My Journey. Love how she writes about leaving her office to run home and make dinner for her daughter and husband. Love that our work allows us to do the after school pick-up, put some chickens in the oven and then run back downtown for the pack-up.

Every day dress, where the magic happens, a very good day.

Picked these one size up black jeans a few years ago in some international airport before a long haul flight back home. Needed to change into something fresh and comfortable quick, and they fit the bill. Wore them again yesterday, needed something that fit, lol.

Always tell my girls and clients that a five or ten pound swing happens, so be it. Sometimes up, sometimes down. Oldest daughter put on fifteen when she was living in Spain and eating tapas, she’s now down. We here have gone up, when you are traveling all over and eating and drinking with reckless abandon, stuff happens.

Good thing we kept those jeans. And the sleeveless belted jacket? Bought that several seasons ago as well. Reading Donna Karan’s My Journey and like she says women rarely gain weight in their shoulders so show the shoulders I did. They might be a little rounder, that’s okay.

A column of black, while not original, gets you out the door.

Every day dress, keep those things. 🙂

Have a great Thursday everyone.

Okay, Monday mid-afternoon and we haven’t updated the bloggie regularly. We’ve been working towards smart and here’s what we’re up to:

• went shopping to stock and decorate the new digs, picked up gourds, kale, pumpkins, flowers, lightbulbs, and Good & Plenty, of course.
• everything you see here, we moved in ourselves, desk, chairs, bookshelves, mirror, rolling racks, router, printer, women power, for sure.
• no shame in wearing flat brogues with a menswear inspired shirt-dress. On those days when you’re on your feet all day, we’re working towards smart. 🙂
• we’ve got a hint of pink going on, breast cancer awareness, always.

We’re mid-way through our fall winter twenty-fifteen trunk show, and we’ll be back at it again November 6th through the 13th.

Every day dress, working towards smart. Still using the iPhone for pics, even though we found the battery charger we couldn’t find the camera.

Wishing everyone an awesome week.

While it might be a beautiful world to have the gardens and prep the meals (not to mention her interiors yet’s that’s an entirely different chapter) that our #lifegoals tastemaker Carolyn Roehm puts out, we’re happy right now with simple things.

Husband and I planted a row of hydrangea late spring, 7 plants in total. We tended them off and on all summer and kind of thought they were on the edge. Last weekend spent one day at the country place to put away all the seasonal furniture and there they were: looking established, great, healthy. Beautiful and simple. Cut some stems and brought them back to the city house.

Food has been simple too. Baked fish, roasted zucchini and tomatoes, spinach salad. Photos taken with the iPhone, food was way better than it looks, couldn’t find the battery charger for the digital camera,and the battery was toast.

spinach, mandarin oranges, blue cheese, walnuts, balsamic vinaigrette, super easy

First day at the new office, what a whirlwind.

Every day dress, happy right now.