Posts by LCM Lifestyle
Top 3 Best Bag Styles for Spring
As we welcome warmer weather and change up our wardrobe with lighter textures, colors and fabrics, it’s a wonderful opportunity to incorporate in a new handbag into your accessories mix. Let’s look at a few classic styles and learn a bit about their history. Not only do these bags stand the test of time but they continue to evolve without losing their inherent charm and ease of function.
Join me, won’t you?
Read MoreBehold the Dreamy Dragon Fruit
Not only is dragon fruit chock full of all manner of fiber – magical for digestion, lycopene – good for bone health and a potent antioxidant, and magnesium – important for making bone, protein and DNA, it tastes great and is highly adaptable for quick and easy enjoyment!
Read MorePut Your Insomnia to Bed
March is a wonderful time to take critical inventory of the situation with your bed, because quality sleep has everything to do with your overall quality of life. Your bed is a potential game changer! Have you been ignoring all the signs that you need to up your bed related game? Giggle if you must but you know what I’m talking about.
Read MoreThe Best Buttery Cookie Recipe for Valentine’s Day or Any Day
While there are many recipes available for butter cookies, and ways to make them your own ~ including a half dip in melted chocolate, adding chopped pecans or sprinkling with colorful sugar ~ the buttery flavor and crisp texture always bring us back for more. Plus, mixing, dipping and decorating is such fun to do with your kids or grandkids!
Read MoreThe Empowering Habits Series: Zero Expectations
What’s interesting is that in a completely different way, having zero expectations serves many of the same purposes as setting intention. It’a all about the situation when we are choosing which empowering habit to employ. As you work more intensely with these empowering habits you will automatically know which one to implement for each situation. Really? Yes. Really.
Read MoreWhy Hair Care is Like a TV Series
Today I’m waxing poetic about hair and its similarities with series television. Now you might be thinking I’ve lost my mind and what in the wide world could those things have in common? Bear with me and I shall escort you down a path where your luscious locks and your favorite dramas, thrillers and least we forget, comedies, converge in a story of intrigue, laughs, and secrets and lies, with some reality thrown in for good measure.
Read More4 Top Tips to Showcase Your Hip-storic Home
As you may know, my husband and I live in a 1942 cottage style house in an Atlanta neighborhood established in 1915. When we were looking at houses in 1993 and drove by this one after work one night I was less than impressed. The brick was painted a creamy white shade with a subtle pink undertone. No. But the exterior element I was solely focused on: the pink and white striped awnings over the windows facing out to the street. I said, with a frowning face and probably a voice full of heartbreak, ‘I don’t want to live in Candy Land.’ My husband, the architect, on the other hand saw nothing but potential and calmly replied, ‘You can’t go by what it looks like now. You have to think about what it can look like.’
Read MoreThe Family Recipes Series: The Best Baked Macaroni and Cheese
Can you say comfort food? Mac and cheese is easily at the top of the list for go-to feel good dishes that stand the test of time. Most everyone loves this creamy, dreamy side item that can also be a main course by adding animal protein if that’s your thing or veggies such as broccoli and trim-color peppers for your meatless Monday or your meatless everyday!
Read MoreThe Empowering Habits Series: Setting Intention
Did you know the keys to unlock living beautifully each day, mind, body and soul, are largely found in your daily habits? Over time – minutes, hours, days, months and years – we develop habits, good or bad, whether we consciously realize it or not.
Read MoreJ. Crew & thredUP Offer Groundbreaking Resale Program
If you’ve known me for any amount of time or read my stories on The List, you know I’m a big proponent of #rewearrecirculaterepeat. I even have a story about how to best navigate resale sites where I share tips to help you enjoy a positive experience when buying resale items online. While this J. Crew and thredUP collab has been in place for almost a year, I only recently learned about it – and naturally wanted to immediately spread the word. Read on for the specifics on how you can purchase lovingly used J. Crew items and/or earn J. Crew credit selling your own lovingly used items via thredUP.
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