#alison lumbatis

Exploring Friendship + Connection with Alison Lumbatis of Get Your Pretty On via an IGTV Live interview and over on the blog today!

I was so thrilled when my friend Alison Lumbatis, Founder of Get Your Pretty On, and Author of The Ultimate Book Of Outfit Formulas, asked me to join her for an Instagram Live to explore friendship and connection and discuss all the details of our upcoming girls trip!  We took a little look back into the history of why I started HeartStories in the first place and all the way through to an…

For a party person like me, I kept wanting to fix it. I wanted to drag that chair into the middle of all the others so Alison could feel all the "sponsor love".  But, of course, things were working out for the best, way beyond my party planning understanding.  There's always more happening than meets the eye.

On Thursday night, we threw a “Sponsor Love” party with the Evelyn Kershaw Salon to show our appreciation to all of our incredible HeartStories GNO Sponsors.  It was a delightful evening to mix and mingle, while getting a fabulous conditioning treatment and blow out.  (I promise to share all the pics soon!) But these two somehow made it off to the side.  They were out of the main room with all…

I was so excited to try all the tips Alison taught us during the Girls Night Out, I instinctively threw that beauty up around my face like so. The look on Scott's face told me clearly, this was NOT a hot spring trend.

Clearly, I was born to be a fashion blogger.  This is such a hot look for spring, you haven’t seen it anywhere else. Don’t forget, you saw it here first.  Last night when I got the mail, I had an unusual package.  It was a thin, but firm and large brown paper envelope.  I was intrigued by the packaging so I  dropped everything else on the counter to check it out.  To my delight, it was from my…

Sisters. We must band together and make absolutely sure that "Mom Jeans" don't happen again. This is what we do. We protect each other and remind each other to NEVER put Mom jeans on our bodies. Well, I guess until our current stretchy skinny jeans become "Mom jeans" and then maybe we have to try something new. But we must trust the expert Moms in this situation!

The other day, I was at my friend Holly’s house.  I was supposed to just be dropping her girls off after school, but the boys and I just took our food and all our stuff in and hung out for a while.  What started as a debrief for both of us about all the stress in our lives, turned into her pulling up her Pinterest page to show me meme after hysterical meme. We were dangerously close to snort…

"It's so much bigger than the clothes and the outfits. It's about connection and support. Most days I can't comprehend it. There comes a point in your life where you can either look back at your past and have the blame and shame or say that you’re an adult now and can make decisions from a healthy place. But doing the work to get there is life changing." ~ Alison Lumbatis, founder, Get Your Pretty On

You know when you plop down on the couch with a good friend to catch up on all of life’s crazy and you instantly feel so safe and understood? One of the great privileges of my work is that I get to do that with women I barely know, but when we finish our chat, I feel like I’ve known them my whole life. I got to do that with Alison Lumbatis of Get Your Pretty On last week and I’ve been dying to…

The sun is actually making an appearance intermittently today, and the high is around 76 degrees. WOOHOO! I pulled out the big guns today: linen, short sleeves, AND sandals.

I am wearing old favorites. The tank  and linen crop pants are both from J.Jill purchased a couple of years ago. The cream knit cropped jacket is a me-made item. I drafted this top using this cropped cardigan I handknit last…