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It's been one of those.  Andy is out of town.  I spent an entire evening with an adorable client, and she didn't like a single thing well enough to give it a home in her closet. Coco is cutting three new molars. The "P" key on my computer won't key (forcing me to employ some creative cutting & pasting).  My pants don't fit. Condensate the preceding and discover: I'm a touch unhappy.

According to the profoundly interesting piece of non-fiction literature - The Happiness Hypothesis

Smile dominant people invest in experiences, not things.  Agreed.  And if Peter Pan inquired after my happiest thoughts: the day I married my Mister, the day I met my daughter, the day my son was born.  

But I might add that sometimes pretty things add even more happy to happy experiences.  Specifically the powder blue shoes beneath my wedding gown, the forest green woolen which dressed my 5 lb cherub cradling arms, and the jersey chemise against which my son was laid for our first snuggle. 

Some remember smells, others sounds, I remember what I wore.

I want you to have something pretty to wear in your remembrances.  I want to buy some pants that fit.  I want to make a deal. 

The week of Christian & Stephanie's accident, I stopped by to visit the godkids following my Kierland personal shopping shift.  Claire informed me that I looked quite fancy, and she and Jane would very much like to play dress up in my closet sometime soon.  That was the last time I ever saw the Nielsons in their 1st Avenue estate. 

I wore that self-same blouse the day of the Nie Recovery fundraising carnival in downtown Mesa.

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I celebrated my fifth, sixth, and seventh birthdays within an afternoon trip of the White House.  When Andrew's cousin was to wed in W. DC, I jumped at the chance to celebrate familial expansion and visit our Nation's capital with my groom. 

Post nuptials we visited Abraham, George, and Thomas.  Then Pablo, Henri, Edvard, and Gustav.  Then more famous friends than I can list here.

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More poignant ensembles to come.  Keep your clicker poised to visit the new Cardigan Empire store.

In the meantime, do you have any fashion memories to share?