point grace time

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Aileen, this one’s for you: sun, beach, privacy, good food, nice linens, courteous staff; give yourself some Point Grace time.

Non-stop flight from Boston MA into Turks and Caicos, Gary will pick you up, just like he did for us last time we visited, and then you’ll be in the good hands of Mary, same concierge from before too.

If you like low-key laid back luxury, you’re covered. No sign-in for a chaise or counting of towels, and water abounds without $5+ bottle fees. One bar by the pool, you can get a massage in an open air treatment room seaside, and enjoy some great Pinot Noir at Grace’s Cottage come dinnertime.

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Town is a close walk to stock your kitchen, or you can simply hop on one of the bikes to get some quick supplies, no need to sign those out either.

As for town there’s a good market so you can cook in, and a delightful French bistro Le Bouchon we had both lunch and dinner at.

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Two snorkeling trips, arranged by Mary and company and they had nice towels waiting for us to take along too.

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The airport has had a great upgrade, be sure to visit the second floor where you can enjoy one more cocktail and watch the jets come in and out before bidding good-by, until next time. Travel light, you don’t need much.

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 Point Grace Resort | Turks and Caicos Islands

chop some parsley

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Yesterday’s quick trip to market yielded goods for last night’s dinner and some early green goodness for the planters. Love a one-stop shop.

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Days feel fast, always do when back from vacation and there’s work stuff to be done. To keep calm decided to just simply chop some parsley: when there’s dinner on the table, fresh flowers somewhere and the dogs have been walked, life moves on in a good way.

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No recipes here, or fancy garden schemes, simply enjoying the bounty.

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We’ll be on the road again next week Monday and Tuesday, Saratoga Springs, every day dress. Happy Wednesday everyone. xoxo

creative work wear

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Oh, to be in an industry where you can spend your day in floral pants and open toe studded sandals, love it.

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For creative work wear on this Tuesday, wearing black wash and dry pocket shirt, same one that was worn Saturday night out while in Boston at the Liberty Hotel, and those on trend pants with my new shoes. When something feels right, we say do it or wear it again. Found out the shirt was great in the dryer by mistake, while traveling threw the entire dark load in and there it was, came out perfectly. Normally machine wash on cold and hang to dry, this one can take the heat.

As for those floral pants? They’re all over the spring fashion scene, to keep them from looking too sweet paired them with black even though there’s not a spot of black in the pattern. Always encourage clients to do navy and black.

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In the office, prepping for summer trunk shows and searching for another woman or a few who also want to wear and rep some creative work wear. Every day dress, creative work wear in Upstate New York.

Silk White and Navy Engineered Printed Floral Crepe De Chine Sienna Cropped Pant

Black Sueded Triacetate Pocket Shirt

Worth New York | Spring 2015

 

white shoes?

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Like white jeans white shoes can be worn all year-long too.

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We’re back in the office, it is Monday after all, and we’ll be here until end of May prepping and hosting summer trunk shows.

Happy spring, finally.

We’ll save the open weave espadrille for the beach. 🙂

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three years yesterday

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Three year’s yesterday with a camera and a laptop launched every day dress as a way to share ideas, trends, and good things around family, fashion, and food.

Thank you dear readers: we have 118 email subscribers, 225 Facebook likes, 144,350 site views, and average 250+ visits per day.

We’re not going for a kingdom here, youngest daughter and I talk about the value of 4 quarters or 100 pennies, and if we can reach out, touch, connect, or inspire even in a small way, our work is significant.

If you like where we’re at, thanks for stopping by. We love your comments and feedback the most, definitely one of our goals here is to share the love back more.

Every day dress, three years yesterday, thanks all. xoxo

 

last year’s top, this year’s denim

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For casual dinner on the beach, tucked in last year’s top, left the sleeves long, and paired it with this year’s denim. Hair back, no jewelry, and standard issue Ray Ban’s.

Buy well, wear often.


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work anywhere

IMG_4626With a cell phone and a laptop, we can pretty much work anywhere. Definitely not logging anything close to full days, husband would have my head, yet still able to get stuff done.

Oldest daughter has a conference call at 10 am, husband likes to check and play the market, and I just basically love it all. Writing, talking with colleagues, addressing invites, exchanging clients jeans for one size up or one size down, it can all happen.

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With the personal wardrobe it’s a looser silhouette, bought both pieces on two separate trips, the pants and the blouse, and combined them last night with those new shoes and a simple white wrap watch.

Every day dress, work anywhere.

white on white

IMG_4595 IMG_4596While away, and really just about every day, we like to keep things pretty easy. White on white, and a couple of luxe accessories, and dressed.

Mo, this ones for you: Optic White Yarn Dyed Linen Easy Shirt. We ditched the go-with camisole, like to pair it with a deep navy bra underneath instead. 🙂 Brought two more of the same, both of those in Indigo, different post about that, stay tuned.

This is modern linen too, machine wash on cold, hang to dry, really doesn’t even need an iron, maybe a light one if you’re fastidious.

Every day dress, white on white. Happy Tuesday all.

Optic White Yarn Dyed Linen Easy Shirt | Worth New York Spring 2015

denim | Citizens of Humanity

belt | Louis Vuitton

cuff | Hermes

high and white

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For weekend family events wore a crewneck elbow length fit and flare white knit dress. Left the full-on skin show this time to the under thirty under twenty set.

Knits are easy to pack, take minimal room in the carry-on, only need a quick shake-out, and you’re good to go. Ready for the day/night in ten minutes flat.

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We opted out of the complimentary continental, and cooked in instead. No egg hunt this year, and no chocolate bunnies, simply family time and real food. Missing you E and EJ.

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Hoping everyone had a soulful weekend. xoxo

white dress | Missoni