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Hey all, it's {SS} here...

I'm sorry about the lack of posts lately. I've been beyond busy, as has {kh}!! I've wanted to post but it just hasn't happened.

And I've been thinking... there is sometimes a lot I want to say, or write about, but it doesn't quite fit the style blog vibe. It's hard to think about {style} some days when I'm running from school, to job, to other job, to home... I may put together a stylish outfit one day but simply not have a chance to photograph or post about it.

Other days I have the urge to write about a past memory, an experience I had recently or something going on in my life... none of which neccasarily has to do with style or fashion. Don't get me wrong, I love style and fashion, but writing a fashion blog in a world full of other fashion bloggers who have a lot more time and energy to devote to their blogs is hard. It's not that I feel I (or we) have to be at the same level as those bloggers, it's just something to think about.

So here are where the changes come in... I'm going to take a little break from MNSB. That's not to say I'll never post, but I'm not going to worry about posting a certain amount or at a certain time or on a certain subject. When something comes to me that fits the parameters of the blog, I'm going to post it. And who knows, maybe I'll decide I really miss MNSB and be back posting all the time. But for now, I'm taking a break...

... but I still want to write. Yet I don't want to be confined to writing about style and fashion. Also, {kh} and I created this blog together... it's our project and I wouldn't feel comfortable turning posting randomly about life and things not particularly pertaining to style. So, in a few weeks, I'll be launching my own blog: The Intellectual Fashionista: part fashion, part intellect, or something like that. It's not going to make any promises to be a certain kind of blog but will mainly be a springboard for my writing, about all different kinds of things, photography too. But like I said, I'll still be posting here when I can, and I'm sure there will be plenty of stylish posting going on over there too.

I'm not ready to launch the new blog yet, but will certainly let you all know when it is up and ready to go!!

Until then... keep being stylish :)

xo, SS

... life gets BUSY

{SS} here!

I can't believe I haven't posted since Monday!!! Instead of apologies and excuses, I'll just aim for a better week next week. Life gets busy. Also, Wednesday was mine and my mom's birthday, so that kept me busy!

In the meantime, rather than rush to write a post that I haven't really thought about, I'm going to enjoy the rest of my day off and my weekend... I'll be back with you on Monday!! 

{ Source }

xo, SS

Home

I'm home, which is so bittersweet. It was wonderful to get home and be lovingly welcomed back by my mom, bf and neighbors, who had a delicious meal for me ready to eat outside. At the same time though, I miss {Europe} already... the bustling city life, the quietness of towns that have been around for centuries and centuries, flowers I haven't seen here, the smell of fresh foods, chocolate croissants, being with family, hearing snippets of conversations I couldn't quite understand and then those that I could, the sea and all those stylish Europeans!! Plus, I wish I would have had enough room in my tiny suitcase to bring back so much more... I guess I will have to go back :) I have TONS of great photographs and lots of posts I'm excited to share so stay tuned. Europe is full of great style and {confidence}. I love it. 

A Bientot! 

xo, SS

Is less really more?

{Inner French Woman}




After enjoying a beautiful walk home from work whilst trying to figure out my blog post for the day, I {SS} came home and went to the basement to grab my suitcase and bring it up to my room, and a certain someone (she'd like to remain anonymous... evidently she thinks knows that our blog is going to go viral and she isn't ready to be 'that lady someone read about on mynewstyleblog...' okay, I made that part up) stops me midway up the stairs and asks,

"Did you ever think that your life would be simpler if you had less clothes?" 

This causes me to laugh so hard that my red suitcase full of clean laundry and potential clothes for the trip falls to the floor only adding to her point. 

Me: "But really, m**, I actually don't have as many clothes as a lot of people you know. And I have a job that requires me to dress nicely. I can't just wear the same thing everyday!"
Her: "Maybe it's a generational thing."
Me: "Well I do have a lot of things, but I like to have options. And, I'm working on buying less 'cheap' stuff and rather buying select 'quality' items, ie this lovely Ralph number (pointing to Ralph Lauren button-up)"
Her: "Okay, well I know you have to have more clothes than me, and you're into them more than me, and that's okay. But you know, in France the women, they don't dress like that."
Me: "I know. They dress so sylishly"
Her: "But they don't just have a lot of cheap stuff. They dress nicely but it's because they wear the best quality and they wear the classics."

{ though said person and I don't always see eye to eye in terms of style, we both agree that French women tend to exemplify Style }

SS in Paris, France, 2004

This all got me thinking about {my} new style and trying to channel my inner French woman. Yes, I would love to be able to walk through the south of France with a Hermes bag or Gucci shoes (neither of which I currently own) but, at this point in my life I'm okay with the fact that I'll be carrying my Coach wristlet and wearing my Tom's Ballet Flats. My {French Woman} style will come from wearing stripes, my Chanel perfume, bright floral prints, silk scarves and knowing that my name is as French as they get. 

C'est La Vie. 

 xo, SS