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Chic Sightings and Start With Art - X66 by Anne Ryan

Chic Sightings and Start With Art – X66 by Anne Ryan

August 17, 2026

Last weekend, Belovedest and I walked down to the Art Institute of Chicago to see a current exhibit: Beyond Form: Abstraction at Midcentury. As you almost certainly have figured out by now, I'm a big fan of abstract art...

Before we look at art, we usually go up to the third floor of the Modern Wing to The Member Bar, where we can get coffee and pastries. (note, if you're a member, and you can get free regular coffee...)

This is one of the great people-watching venues in Chicago. I think that those of us who purchase memberships to museums are a special bunch! Every time I'm there, I see at least one woman who is strikingly attractive, usually because she's "got her own style."

("get your own style" is a big ... View the Post

08.17.26 17 Comments

Tags: beige, Chic sightings, gray, Start with Art
Love Soft Accents The Impressionist Bracelets by Fierce Lynx Designs

Love Soft Accents? The Impressionist Bracelets by Fierce Lynx Designs

March 24, 2025

Beautiful bracelets! Always such a treat, and such an inspiration to the imagination...

There are four accent colors here, but I'm passing on the dark green and vivid gold for today - in the autumn, our heroine could certainly assemble an entirely different wardrobe in navy with those accents! How fun is that?

But for today, for Spring, we're going with pretty pastels:

Let's get our heroine started with some grey basics; any time you've got silver in jewelry, you can easily translate that to grey clothes. I suspect our heroine might have some grey hair? And blue/green eyes?

The weather's not all that warm where our heroine is, but her heart is set on pretty colors! She manages to find four tops that ... View the Post

03.24.25 8 Comments

Tags: aqua, gray, lavender, Start with a Bracelet, travel capsule wardrobe
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