Quotes, Over-50 Lifestyle & Fashion Comfy Finds

These Quotes, Over-50 Lifestyle & Fashion Comfy Finds gather spring and summery finds, boosts, and pieces that are easy to layer and not too trendy. Who has time, storage, or patience for things that won’t be relevant next year? And should too much “fluff” fall flat during this holy season? Skip it for more substantive reflections shared HERE. Today’s OVER 50ish ditty also spotlights a few small Etsy businesses I admire. So in one fell swoop, we can consider comfy warm weather pieces, pin quotes that resonate, and support small business struggling to stay afloat in a competitive arena!

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Fashion Over 50: Feel Good Comfy Casual Finds

If you happen to be in the mood for less fashion and more practical lifestyle everyday ideas – see this piece where I muse about living with chronic illness in life hacks for daily coping. (I had no idea when I penned it how it would be relevant in fresh ways to pandemic life.)

Is this lovely and smartly priced dress above my favorite of the whole caboodle featured here? Ooh la la!

Find a wealth of Brene Brown quotes right here too!

Luxurious, Organic, and Glowy

The packaging for these cheek/lip color “bullets” (below) will blow your mind – heavy, luxurious and a delight to see on the vanity.

Here is a trio in my bathroom, and yes, the packaging of these heavy magnetic close bullets is THAT lovely.

Just seeing my linen robe hanging on a hook waiting for me to get comfy is a blessing! Wrap yourself up in bed, after a bath, or all day as you recover and renew.

Easy Cake Baking Hack

Is this the year we all bake this festive sweetness for Easter?

The method is straight forward: divide your batter three ways, tint, and proceed! Who cares if the layers aren’t perfectly equal or the cake ends up wobbly?

Yum.

What is Renewing Your Energy These Days?

I welcome all of your over 50 wisdom, creative ideas, and experiential advice because oy! I wake up at 5 a.m. no matter when I go to sleep. And this is tricky since there is so much work to be done, and I may be up past 11. A consistent sleep pattern is so important yet challenging at times to establish.

Ever added a green juice to your daily diet? Here’s the recipe I have been using and enjoying. The first time I made it, I thought good gracious, noooooo, this texture makes me squeamish. But a day later, the squeamishness was gone because my body wants this nutritious concoction so I obey!

Timeless & Just Dang Wearable

Never met a shift dress or tunic I didn’t like. My mama started me on shifts back in the 60s as a child, and since we had little money, those knee grazing shifts became mini dresses as I grew taller (hahahaha – it’s all true!).

Do you need to hear this?

Because there are messages everywhere telling you otherwise. It’s amazing how a single setback can set our insecurities aflame. How easily a sense of unworthiness and shame can grow when we fail, stumble, become overly fatigued or are betrayed.

Know what can turn things around rather quickly? Admitting to ourselves that we’re troubled, Feeling the feelings all the way through. Remembering that it will all pass.

Just sharing all of the mixed feelings with someone trustworthy helps. For some reason, just bringing those insecurities into the light can often purify and refine the unlovely.

When I shared this with followers on FB, it really made an impression:

So much lip service is paid to embracing imperfection and living vulnerably, but the reason it still remains so very hard to do is because (1) no one enjoys feeling powerless and (2) other people don’t care to be reminded of our powerlessness either.

The reality is – we are all weary travelers on a journey toward wholeness, and all require a hand since the road is not smooth.

Some of us look less than polished up on the outside if only because of battles we fight every single day that are invisible to the eye.

Grace, flowing freely from unseen realms becomes so critical.

Pull-On Skirts are My Spring & Summer Wild Card

I don’t wait for a special occasion or lunch date (ummm, I don’t see these on the calendar much anymore – do you?) to wear a skirt.

The prairie style ones I started wearing in the 80s are still a favorite, and I pair them with casual t-shirts or sweatshirts. It doesn’t bother me should the patterns of the top and bottom slightly clash…I think to myself ‘how very avant garde Frenchy of me.’

I’m not sure, but such indifference and a more expansive imagination about all things is what it means to grow up.

There’s a freedom that arrives when you decide to live courageously for YOU and not for judgmental spectators discussing your choices because they fear embracing such courage themselves.

Wear Colors That Make You Feel Lively

We should know this by now, yes? And yet we all need reminders. I recall venting to one of our children about the loneliness of my job and about living in a small town where I’m disappearing as my age climbs and as beauty fades.

And his is an old hippie soul, and he said:

“Wear happy colors when you go out…you’ll meet new friends.”

As simple as that sounds, there is something to it.

Cheerful, happy colors draw attention and can lift the spirits of the wearer and of the observer. The thing is, when you get stuck in a rut of wearing neutrals, you tend to forget how you are blending in and maybe even missing out on the joy that color may draw to your very own self.

It’s not about dressing for other people, but dressing to create or stir a new energy…to infuse a moment in time with a bit more vibrance and cheer…ya know?

There’s a dynamic that develops when you change it up, wake up the senses, and invite the new.

Perfect Linen Dress (With Pockets!) to Pair With a Denim Jacket

Not that there isn’t value choosing neutrals too!

Because I understand their practicality and longevity for years and years!

We need staples that we won’t grow tired of…

Classically Timeless Denim Jacket

I love how a denim jacket can make slightly fancy pieces less fancy.

And how classic floral prints can lift the mood.

Comfy Cute Maxi Dress

Colorful or neutral, the secret for me is how comfy the piece is!

I just can’t do all those cropped boxy things or statement pieces that feel like a costume.

Wear it Alone or Open With a Tank

While the drape of this is slightly boxy, it seems comfy enough:

Need an everyday earring that will last forever (and maybe get even better since they’re sterling)?

So perfect for spring and summer.

Need ideas for SPRING gifts and wrap for weddings, grads, and birthdays? Boom.

Lovely Giftwrap Finds

There’s something so enchanting about fresh bright pink with coral-y orange!

And if blue hydrangeas are wrong, I don’t wanna be right.

By the way, aint this the truth:

If you haven’t browsed Rifle Paper Co. in a spell, check them out. What I love about the brand’s site (beyond the amazing patterns and tasteful, cheerful finds) is how it isn’t overwhelmed with choices. Just enough means a calmer shopping experience.

Checkered Everything Is EVERYWHERE

How do these trends even gain such momentum? No idea, but checks are not ever going to go out of style.

For Fans of Zella

I love the brand Zella and it’s one of the reasons I find myself turning to Nordstrom. I had never seen a hoodie dress before (not a fan of it with bare legs) and see its value as a tunic hoodie over leggings for walks on breezy days.

Here’s a reminder I need every single dang day:

Pretty Lip Color

I do love me a lip stain. And not just for adding color, but for sealing in moisture because where I live, mercy, it is not tropical.

I’m so impressed with the way the makers of beauty products are formulating colors that flatter every complexion.

This Blush Color Though!

Oh this gorgeous blue!

Would be such a great piece to pack for travel!

Protect Those Peepers on Walks & Errands

Do you have a signature sunglasses style you stick to? I need new ones and am thinking about prescriptives. Warby Parker has my favorite styles HERE.

More ideas:

Do the times ever feel like the 70s to you? Except I don’t remember the 70s being a season with excess cynicism and self-consciousness.

I am so happy to see all the flared jeans options and platform sandals around town!

Something about all of the 70s references (even if it’s just the superficial fashionable carefree skater vibe happening) helps me feel younger and a bit more carefree.

Cheerful, Nostalgic & Sweet for Spring

Thank goodness we are all so different and don’t see life through the same lens. We need all of the lenses since it’s all a strange beautiful miracle that we’re even here.

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More Fashion Over 50 Picks

Find more inspiration and lovely finds HERE and HERE.

Are you getting exercise each day? I sure hope so! With my sedentary work, I have to be very intentional about making an effort to move, walk, lift weights, and strengthen my body.

Discover new podcasts – there are so many wonderful programs! My husband’s favorites are history ones like THIS.

And I enjoy spiritual/psychological/artistic ones such as: On Being.

Here’s a taste of Krista Tippett’s podcast:

Peace to you right where you are.

-michele

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