After 30 years of ignoring the color, I am finally embracing green. Crazy right? Well, I’ll explain. When I was in 4th grade, we moved into a beautiful new home that my mom helped to design. At the time she was working as a free lance interior designer, and our house was her showcase. Obviously,Continue reading Embracing Green
I knew what I was going to call for this month’s Fab 40s’ theme: preppy! It was during May when we were all dressed in boho style that the idea came to me. Jennie, who used to be our most preppy, and who has now become one of our most boho, asked me if itContinue reading The Fab 40s Attempt Preppy
Chances are you already have some brooches in your jewellery box. Perhaps they’ve been passed down from your mom, aunts, or grandmother. You may have received these jewellery baubles for past birthdays or Christmases. Maybe you even have some pins from the 80s or 90s. It doesn’t really matter how many you have, where they’reContinue reading Collecting Brooches and What to Do with Them
Earrings, Forever 21 (old, but similar) | Cold Shoulder Top, ASOS | Embroidered Jeans, Zara (sold out, but this is their new–and even better–version!) | Glitter Bag, Zara Girls (old, but similar) | Glitter Boots, Zara (last year, but these are very close) I had to have these embroidered jeans. I mean I really hadContinue reading I had to have these Embroidered Jeans!
This month’s Ping Pong Post has expanded. We have two guests joining Samantha, Anna, and me: Sheela, who you already know from The Fab 40s, and Greetje, the author of No Fear of Fashion. That means this green shaggy dress (yes, it’s a dress!) has traveled to four destinations until it was returned recently toContinue reading Green Shaggy Dress–Ping Pong Post 8 with 2 More Bloggers
Oh wow! I can’t believe it’s already October 18, and I have only posted on Kremb de la Kremb one other time this month back on October 3rd. I guess I needed to take a break–just what the doctor ordered! There was a time with this blog that I was posting every single day, MondayContinue reading Just What the Doctor Ordered
The off the shoulder trend is still going strong–at least in my wardrobe. For someone with sloping shoulders, this style works really well for me; it also works well with my heftier topside. The thing is this style may not seem work appropriate, yet, when I wore this very outfit to work last week, IContinue reading Off the Shoulder at Work
This Friday will mark 8 weeks with my new hip. I’m pretty much at a loss of words. I will be so bold as to say my new hip is miraculous. It’s been so long since I’ve been able to walk normally, that to be 8 weeks post a hip replacement and walking without crutches,Continue reading Meet Pinky, My New (and very improved) Hip!
Oh September! You are a blur for all of us Fab 40s. Vero chose such a great and very different theme for us this month: hats. The Fab 40s always post on the last Monday of the month, yet I was definitely caught by surprise with the somewhat early September date. I picked up thisContinue reading The Fab 40s in Hats
It was my turn this month for the Ping Pong Post collaboration running between me, Anna, and Samantha. I’ll be honest: I wanted to go with a simple classic. What’s more sure than a Breton strip shirt? The version I chose–a hand-me-down from my sister–has a bit of spunk to it; it’s boxy and cropped.Continue reading Breton Stripe Shirt–Ping Pong Post No. 7
I splurged on these tennies! I now have two teenagers. I work as a high school librarian with teenagers. It can’t be helped. I’m influenced by teens. What can I say? But, I love it. Working with kids, I like to think it helps keep me young. I don’t stop to think, “Oh, I’m 44.Continue reading Influenced by Teens
Gigi is 13 today. It’s cliché to say this, but it really does feel like yesterday when she was my little cuddle bunny born in Venezuela. Yes, she was a bit tremenda as an infant, crying her way through a colic stage, but she was always and still is so close to me. I usedContinue reading Gigi is a Young Lady