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A Little Spit and Polish

April 11, 2025 by styledbykdg

I will forever be in awe of the women who can go on a beach vacation and look as put together as they do at a coffee date. This isn’t polite patter to introduce my topic. This is a full throated confession that I spend an inordinate amount of my time on my beach vacation assessing the habits of put together women. This on the scene study plus pre-travel research has netted me a robust vacation pre-game. Full transparency, I […]

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Categories: Accessories, beauty, Lifestyle, skincare, travel, Uncategorized • Tags: B-Tight, Beauty Therapy by Evelyn, exfoliate, It's a 10, Jergens, Maely's, mermaid, pedicure, Sun Bum, Tree Hut

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Les Livres

April 4, 2025 by styledbykdg

In two weeks we leave for Spring Break. The memory of the touch of Carribean air on my skin when we step off the plane in Grand Cayman has me fantasizing about beach and pool reading. One of the many extraordinary aspects of being the mother of a teenager is that she likes to read which extends the coveted vacation reading time exponentially! I have completed my annual stack of books to read on my favorite vacation of the year. […]

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Categories: books, Lifestyle, travel, Uncategorized • Tags: Barnes & Noble, Cara Black, Kramers, Louise Penny, Politics & Prose

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Here Comes the Sun

March 19, 2025 by styledbykdg

For the first time in my daughter’s academic life, the school she attends does not have a week long February break. We usually go to Grand Cayman over February break but instead this year we plan to travel to GC over Spring Break instead. I know, tiny violins. I *had* to do a proper shop for the trip as my beach wardrobe is pretty anemic. Last year’s breaks were staycations in Seattle for work and internships and the summer was […]

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Categories: Accessories, Clothes, Jewelry, Lifestyle, Recent Purchases, travel, Uncategorized • Tags: amazon, Athleta, cover up, Cupshe, flip flop, Gap, H&M, Larroude, NANA jewelry, Old Navy, polo, skirt, sunglasses, swimsuit, tankini, trench coast

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Shaken or Stirred

February 24, 2025 by styledbykdg

“Dry martini,Jigger of gin,Oh, what a spell you’ve got me in,Oh my, do I feel high…” Scotch & Soda by the Kingston Trio Years ago we wanted to host a Christmas party but the chance of wedging ourselves into everyone’s holiday schedule was slim. So we decided to hold the party in February when pretty much no one is having a big shindig but everyone could really use one. Thus, Frosty Cocktails was born. THE SET UP*: We have now […]

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Categories: Clothes, Dress, Entertaining, food, Home, Lifestyle, Uncategorized • Tags: Bloomingdales, caviar, Cocktail Party, diane von furstewnberg, dress, FARM rio, Frances valentine, rag&bone, Shopbop, tuckernuck

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WALRUS

February 17, 2025 by styledbykdg

I am truly sorry I was unable to give you some StyledbyKDG last week. I just could not. Most of the work behind a blog is being everpresent online and on social media, constantly pecking for seeds of what is now and what is next. And for the last 10 days I could not. I could not face reality. That meant no online presence – no NPR, no Instagram, no Facebook, no NY Times, no Wall Street Journal, no AP, […]

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Categories: Lifestyle, Mental health, Uncategorized • Tags: Apple Music, boundaries, hot yoga, Kneipp, Seattle, walrus

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Hello Weekend!

February 7, 2025 by styledbykdg

Looking forward to a busy weekend! We are headed to a White Ford Bronco show at the 9:30 Club tonight – going full old school in both music and venue. Saturday is our daughter’s ACT test so we’ll be simultaneously pacing and running errands while she is doing her thing. We also have my sister and my annual joint family birthday dinner – our birthdays are a week apart by a few years so every year we plan a joint […]

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Categories: Clothes, Dress, Lifestyle, New Purchases, Shoes, Uncategorized • Tags: 9:30 Club, adidas, benihana, cardigan, Dorsey, Gianvito Rossi, J Crew, LL Bean, Mango, Old Navy, ponte, Spanx, Super Bowl, turtleneck, White Ford Bronco, Zara

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It’s Been a Moment

February 5, 2025 by styledbykdg

WHAT I’M CRAVING Paolo Coat in Navy – Sezane $365 Loving this transitional jacket for winter to spring. The jacket is a giving chic but casual peacoat vibes. This coat will work well across the board – jeans, dresses, professional. The navy is classic and versatile. WHAT I AM WATCHING My husband’s best friend and one of our daughter’s godparents is an ER doc in California. We kind of think he and his wife are the coolest and when either […]

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Categories: books, Clothes, food, Home, Jacket, Lifestyle, Outerwear, Outerwear / Coats, travel, Uncategorized • Tags: Burnt Basque Quiche, Jeremy Black, Max tv, Molly Baz, Mount Holyoke College, Musee Carnavalet, National Archives, Paris, Sezane, The Pit

Aquarius Celebrating

January 31, 2025 by styledbykdg

Art work by Beyond Embroidery Art **This was supposed to be published 1/31/25 but due to a technical snafu we are live today!** I am a January Aquarius – IYKYK. Since I was a child, I have greatly disliked my birthday. Not because I am getting older – I have an oddly sanguine obliviousness to the passage of my own time and age, though not that of others. But that is a post for a different time. Birthdays, to me, […]

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Categories: Lifestyle, travel • Tags: aerosoles, amazon, amtrak, aquarius, Banana Republic, birthday, Bloomingdales, boots, carousel, central park, dc, DSW, hotel chelsea, life, luna luna, Marc Fisher, morgan library, moynihan hall, paige, photography, quavaro, Quince, rainier club, sweater, sweater dress, travel, tuckernuck, union station, university club of washington, vacation

Food for Thought

January 19, 2024 by styledbykdg

Who amongst us has not been bombarded with the words “gratitude”, “journaling”, or “manifest” over the past year? The words make me cringe. In my mind’s eye I see the words “smug”, “trying too hard”, the dreaded “#blessed”, and “who the heck has that much time in the morning because I am trying to get a teenager out of the house in time for school, walk the dog and get to work!”. Simultaneously, I was buying books that provided a […]

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Categories: Lifestyle, Tool Box • Tags: amazon, Barnes & Noble, books, manifest, Maryanne Williamson, Queen Anne Book Company, Rev. Steven C. Wilson, Rich Rubin, Ryan Holiday, Stoic

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WALRUS

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