Tag: life
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Strength in Silence
Not everyone needs to know everything about you. This is what I tell myself so that I don’t “over share”. I used to think that by sharing, I was becoming close to someone. That to bare my heart, and share my whole life story with someone would endear them to me and me to them.…
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A Bit of Family Heritage
Originally Published October 3, 2022 at Natural Posh Vintage (my fashion blog (under the topic: Nostalgia) My grandmother, Mimi was a bibliophile, a writer, a teacher and linguist. She was also a writer, an artist (somewhat of a prodigy). When I think of Mimi, I think of her beautiful Irish, Scottish red hair, and her…
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Reworked, Reloved, Redeemed
February 3, 2023|Sewing and Whatnot! Originally published at Naturalposhvintage.com My grandma was masterful at remaking, reworking and cleverly redeeming clothes. Even in the Great Depression she had the knowledge to reuse, fabrics to make beautiful coats that looked like new for her daughters, Louvelle and Gay Lynn. Louvelle had red-auburn hair and deep green eyes.…
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Dreamy Skirts
Originally Published on May 14, 2025 for NaturalPoshVintage.com|Nostalgia Did you ever have an article of clothing that lightened and uplifted your mood when you wore it? It just felt like you. Maybe it was the small details, like the combed cotton texture, or the way it floated about you gracefully as you walked. But for…
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Advice from Women… a tribute.
When I first moved away from home, I was at a new church where I was surrounded with a bunch of “mother’s” in my life who gave me little tidbits of advice. I also did house cleaning for some, and taught some of their kids piano lessons. This is a recollection of advice from the…
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Things remembered…
The thing about nostalgia is that sometimes years after we have let go of an item that we truly enjoyed, a strange thing happens. Kind of like an itch you can’t seem to scratch, you may start thinking about the item again, and remember it with rosy retrospection, to the point that in your mind, you…
Copse and Spinney 