Fun Fall Date Ideas to Last all Season

It’s Fall y’all, and you know what that means? Cooler weather. Pumpkin spice wafting in the air. Beautiful scenery. And the coolest thing of all is that this is the best season for falling in love. So whether you’re looking for a first date idea or just looking to spend some time with your long-time love, I think you’ll find these Fall date ideas romantic and inspiring. Today is my 19th anniversary {Happy Anniversary, Mike!}, and even after all these years, my husband and I still go on some pretty great dates. I think I got lucky with my husband because […]

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Know Thyself: Personal Growth in 25 Questions, Part 1

“What are you most proud of?” “How do you relax?” “How do you want to be remembered in life?” These are just a few questions I’m asking myself this month as part of my Blogtober challenge, so I’m dedicating a couple of {more personal} posts about my own personal growth . In doing so, I found a personal growth exercise featuring 25 questions, which I hope you will try to answer. And in a way, I also want this to serve as an {informal} introduction that lets you get to know a little bit about me, the person behind “Green Acres […]

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What I Wore: A Look Back at my Dress Form Outfits

Dress Form Outfit / www.vanessahwood.com

In putting together my editorial calendar for Blogtober 2017, I decided I wanted to put together a collage of sorts, featuring some of my previous dress form outfits. When I started blogging back at the beginning of 2012, my antique dress form was featured in a weekly “dress form outfit” post and showed a different outfit every week. Here are some of my dress form outfits from that first year. As I purchased clothes, whether they were from a thrift store or a department store, they showed up on my dress form at one time or another. Outfit #20 showed […]

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10 Stylish Booties for Fall

I am on the hunt for the perfect pair {or two} of stylish booties to wear this Fall. I mean, I have tall boots that I can wear in the winter months, but I’m looking for some cute, comfortable booties to wear with my Fall outfits. I have a pair of grayish-brown wedge booties, but I want something that will complete the look of my outfit, do you know what I mean? Last week I saw some really cute booties on sale at the Lucky Brand store in Nashville, but they didn’t have my size. I was a bit bummed, but […]

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Who is on Your Celebrity Crush List?

When I decided to write this particular post about my celebrity crush list, my mind started to flip through that imaginary photo album of all the celebrities that I think meet a certain criteria to even be considered one of my celeb crushes. In my opinion, my celebrity crushes should have these following characteristics: (1) they should be able to make me laugh, or cry, depending on the movie; (2) they should be mesmerizing to watch on-screen, and impressive off-screen; (3) they should be someone I look up to or admire; (4) they should make me feel like they are […]

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