My favorite time of the year! Last night was the first evening of the annual Nielson Autumn Color Tour. This is where we all hop in the family mobile and drive around Utah County. Every Sunday evening, we will be in search of brilliant fall color. The journey will take us up the mountain ranges in many of the breath-taking Utah canyons. We open all the car windows, have beautiful (Sunday appropriate) music on (really loud). Then we all stick our heads out the window and take it all in. Welcome Autumn.  Read more

Ann Smarty got me interested in the idea of guest posts for my blog. I've written guest posts for other people's blogs (such as Time Goes By), but I've never had a guest poster on my own blogs. When Ann mentioned MyBlogGuest in Ann Smarty, SEO Expert, Shares Her Secrets, it made me wonder if I was missing a bet.  Read more

Wrap a shawl around your waist, and that shawl becomes a sarong. Put a sweater over a dress, and that dress becomes a skirt. Scrunch a tube top around your neck, and that tube top becomes a cowl. Most of us are pretty open to letting our clothing multitask. But what about jewelry? Jewelry can do more than just adorn, and some very simple tricks can totally transform how certain pieces get worn. Here are a few ways that I (and my fellow bloggers) have retooled our jewels.  Read more

When a bank robbery occurred in our town recently, I didn't hear about it first on the local television news or in the newspaper. Those places carried the story long after it had been discussed to death on the local listserv. When the Discovery building hostage situation occurred last Tuesday, it wasn't CNN or NBC providing me with up-to-the-moment information. It was Twitter.  Read more

In my dream world, my (expansive, luxurious, custom) closet is filled with Trina Turk shifts and Diane von Furstenberg wrap dresses. Bright prints adorn high quality fabrics, which, of course, are offset with a variety of cardigans and wraps that I picked up at Barneys or Neiman Marcus or some cute little local boutique.  Read more