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Merry Christmas to You!

December 25, 2018 No Comments

Merry Christmas to you and your family, from me and my family! Today is Christmas, and I’m taking time to reflect on this past year. I’ve had some ups and downs this year that still affect me emotionally on an almost daily basis. Having to put our sweet, precious Daisy down was one of the hardest things I’ve ever had to do this year {or ever, to be honest with you}. Taking care of my husband after some woman pulled out in front of his motorcycle, causing him to flip over her car and be hospitalized for a week, was […]

Life, Style

Links I Love: November 2018

December 2, 2018 No Comments

November was a busy month for my inbox. Every blogger I know or follow on Instagram or Facebook had their own “holiday gift guide”, “Black Friday Specials”, or “Cyber Monday Deals”. In this month’s “links I love”, I featured a few of those holiday gift guides, but I also featured a couple of other great links I’m sure you’ll love as well. First I wanted to link to a post about performing “good deeds”. Ever since I started following Jacey, a.k.a. Damsel in Dior, I have noticed how, despite being a fashion-forward blogger with multiple collaborations and brand partnerships, she […]

Life, Style

Links I Love: October 2018

November 11, 2018 No Comments

Links I Love October / www.vanessahwood.com

Pumpkin spice and everything nice — that’s what Fall is made of, am I right? I’m a little late in getting October’s “links I love” post up. Blogtober blew by with a fury of new blog posts every day {you can check out the recap HERE}, and it totally slipped my mind that I didn’t publish a “links” post until I did the recap. So now I’ve spent the last week or so catching up on emails and putting together some of my favorites from October. There’s going to be a lot of links, so bookmark this post so you […]

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A Month of Blogging: Blogtober 2018 Recap

November 7, 2018 No Comments

Green Acres Meets Paris Blogtober 2018 Recap / www.vanessahwood.com

Anyone who has a blog, whether they are a full-time or a part-time blogger, knows the anxiety and stress that goes along with trying to publish a quality blog post every day. And for me personally, to add to that stress, I challenged myself to do another Blogtober this year, meaning I wrote a blog post every day for the month of October. I typically publish between 5-10 posts a month, most of which are monthly features, but coming up with quality content day after day, that people would enjoy reading, is still quite a bit of a challenge. So […]

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Dress Form Outfit: One Sweater, Three Ways

October 31, 2018 No Comments

Dress Form Outfit / www.vanessahwood.com

I love seeing how other bloggers style one piece of clothing several different ways. I always think to myself, “I can do that!” So when I was transitioning my dresser from summer to winter clothes, I rediscovered this sweater that I purchased from Kohl’s back in the spring. Then I thought, “It’s sweater weather! I can style this at least three ways!” As I said, I purchased this Cloud Chaser sweater from Kohl’s back in the spring. It was originally $40 and I got it on sale {and I mean, “on sale”} for the low price of only $4! Can […]