Hey peeps! Yikes! I can not believe it’s September. August was a whirlwind of fun-ness. Lots of beach time, walks, live theatre…we rocked and sang along with the cast of Red Rock Diner, and we attended Bard On The Beach, a local, brilliant, Shakespearean Theatre Company. Bard stages four plays every summer, and we so enjoyed The Tempest this year that we may try and squeeze in one more play before they wrap up at the end of September. What else? Oh yes, farmers markets almost every weekend. Lots of eating al fresco. The emphasis this past month was on activities that were easy enough to do with a broken toe, wah wah. On August 1st, as I was entering my hair salon, I somehow managed to slam the door into my toe. It wasn’t just ouch, but tears in my eye, white faced pain ouch! The bottom of the door must have been sharp too…there was blood…I was cut. I can’t really imagine how it happened; after all, I open doors all the time. Ironically, one of the salon employees had a similar thing happen the week earlier. So. Bad. Door. Let’s move on, shall we. Am I the only one that feels that the summer season gets short changed? Each of the four seasons is allotted three months, but the moment we flip that calendar to September, we say adieu to summer. Yes, it’s true, there is that undeniable change in the air here in the Pacific Northwest, and yes, the kids are heading back to school, and the days are growing shorter, but it is still summer. And I’m hanging on to it for just as long as I can. I declare that the only end of summer blues for me will be this dress. I love this dress! I was long on the hunt for blue and white striped woven fabric. Yet when it finally showed up in the drapery department of my local fabric store, at $30.00/m, I hesitated. I balked. I walked. But I kept coming back. Every time I popped into the fabric store, I would make a beeline to my coveted fabric, and not long after, I was rewarded with a 50% off sale tag. Sold! That whole drama {not really but…} happened way back in June. Sometimes when I love a fabric so dearly, I get anxious about the cut, … Continue reading SUMMER BLUES DRESS | NEW LOOK 6799