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Summer Dress Shopping!

Summer Dress Shopping!





Yay!  Its Memorial Day!  To look outside you would never know it.  Here in Chicago, it is cloudy, gloomy and really cold!  I am literally in fleece and jeans but flip flops - it is after all the official start to summer!  I am thinking if I dress like it is summer, summer will notice and come for a nice LONG visit.

So, I have some weddings and events coming up and I really want a new summer dress.  I know we have bunches of them hanging in our closets but there is something about a new sun dress that just starts the summer off right!

This is my dream dress:


But I cannot afford the price tag on this one!  My new obsession is Mod Cloth!  Modcloth.com - I dare you to not sit on this website for hours just drooling over all their clothes!  I found this adorable navy and white broad stripe dress that is similar:


I love this so much!  I only hope it looks this cute once I try it on - usually it does not!  :-)

Then there is always Lilly Pulitzer - the quintessential summer uniform of the preppy at play.  
Here are some of her Summer 2013 offerings:


Whistler Dress in Resort White Gold Digger - I love the coastal colors on this dress - so pretty!

Ooops - gotta go - more later.  The rain stopped and I have to try and mow the lawn!


Summer Dress Shopping!
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How to Dress Up a Stock Kitchen Cabinet

How to Dress Up a Stock Kitchen Cabinet


Back to my ongoing kitchen remodel project! I needed a couple of extra kitchen cabinets and the stock cabinets in my kitchen are now discontinued, so I picked out a white stock cabinet from Home Depot to complete the run of cabinets on the pass-through wall.

Since I can't match the doors, I decided to keep this cabinet open, but after all the uppers were installed on that wall, I wasn't happy with the crappy looking white cabinet - LOL.  Bear in mind that I haven't yet finished painting all my cabinets, so the wood ones will be white when this odyssey is over...

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How to Dress Up a Stock Kitchen Cabinet
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