Cardigan Empire

Salt Lake City Fashion Stylist

Homeaker’s Uniform: How to Add Casual Accessories

Dearest Empress,
For one who spends the majority of her days defending one’s home from dirt and grime from within and without (namely, a homemaker) what should the uniform be?
Like you, I have 2 littles and from morning until dinner, we are typically home. I don’t want to dress up — I have thrown out countless shirts in the last month due to stains (grease, baby fingers, etc.) in an attempt not to hoard, and yet, loathe falling into the frumpy mom category.
Help!
Annie

Dear Annie,
Your question could not be more auspicious.  Please allow me to answer thoroughly in three dainty discourses.  Today: accessories. These add-ons wear at a leisurely languid pace unlike their more fragile body covering cousins.  
Denim bermudas and a t-shirt make a loveless marriage, but add a headscarf and earrings and heartbeats will race.  The same goes for hats, necklaces, colorful flats, and bracelets.  

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Beauty-full Tuesday: Stephanie of Barefoot in the Kitchen

Nearly 8 years marks my introduction to Stephanie, yet I can’t cease to marvel at her elegance: magic sewing skills, exceptional cooking prowess, enviable mothering commitment. And although she is one of the most efficient, capable women I know, she also has the sweetest, most approachable demeanor you’re likely to cross.  Meet my darling new neighbor (yes we moved Saturday last) Stephanie of Barefoot in the Kitchen.  Did I mention I really, really look up to her and adore her, because I do.

I grew up comparing myself to my older sister. It was inevitable. She was taller, thinner, and so much more confident than I. She couldn’t help it. That’s just how she was made.

But I spent so much time focusing on what I wasn’t, that I didn’t notice what I was. Luckily, somewhere between my insecure adolescence and now, I stopped comparing. I found my worth in my role as a sister, a friend, a wife, a mother. My beauty does not lie in my appearance, but in my being. I can be happy with how I look because I recognize who I am; I am me and that is enough.

Knowing who we are is the secret to feeling beautiful, I think. And it is the only way to forget about our insecurities and carry on, becoming the women we were meant to be all along.

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