Fight the Frump: Where are your favorite stores?

by Allison Worthington on July 3, 2009

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I love handing over the reigns to y’all because y’all are my own personal search engine. Any question I have? *magic* Answers appear, and answers I trust.

I have just finished weaning my youngest. After 11 yrs of being pregnant or nursung, and 5 boys later, we are done. I’ve been exercising (yeah, yeah, I should have been doing it all along) and thinking about ‘getting my groove back’.

With my company growing, I have been shopping. For grown up clothes. Dresses even.  Shocking, right?  I wondered where y’all love to find great clothes. Last night I did a call for favorites-

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Now, for me, I am in love with Shabby Apple dresses. Remember they sent me two dresses for Blissdom? They are wraparounds with a full skirt that hits at the knee. Oh so flattering. I love them desperately. Only problem is Mark thinks they are awful. If it was up to him I would dress like hoochiemama, seriously.

I also love just about anything from Ann Taylor Loft, Chicos, Talbots, and at Walmart they have a label called George. I also am a talented Goodwill shopper. I can go in a store, drop off my donation box, and spot a designer outfit in 5 minutes tops. {*alli does a prideful George Jefferson strut around the room*}

My friends on Twitter weighed in with their favorites. Thanks Ladies!

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Now, Friends of Fussypants, considering you are part of the smartest, most beautiful, fabulous group of readers on the web (*AHEM* because you are here!) time to share your favorites.

Where do you love to find great clothes?

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funny pictures old man cat Blissful Brainstorming...more of that silly community stuff on the web.
And again, I give you a picture for no good reason other than it makes me giggle. We do post family friendly LOLs on Blissfully Domestic LoL by the way. Mostly because I can’t let my boys look at the main Icanhazcheeseburger.com site because of the sidebar ads. Ack, awful. However the LoL guys let us post the Pictures on BD, so I won’t complain about their ads anymore. (blushes)

Thanks to my rampant ADD, I always looking for something new …SQUIRREL..and I have a fun idea- Blissful Brainstorming.

Over at Blissfully domestic we are celebrating 18 months since launch and working on a fabulous redesign full of bells and whistles. We have always been community based, and will continue to be. BD has gone through so many changes. It all started with an idea to form a site full of my friends on my budget of $27. It was a big, improbable, crazy idea. From Daisy Olsen building my vision from scratch, learning to keep it up and running with 300 writers on the dashboard, and fumbling around until we found the wonderful Katie Howard as our Managing Editor; we have tried to look professional on the outside and secretly ran around like chickens with our heads cut off  behind the scenes.  We now feel we have on our ‘big girl pants’ and know a little something about how to do things.

As many of you know, Blissfully Domestic (with the fabulous One2OneNetwork) hosts BlissDom every year. We work to help give the friends of BD; writers, contributors, editors, and our strategic partners, the first opportunity to speak and attend.

Our working mission statement for BD is:

Blissfully Domestic is a go to source for launching and discovering smart ideas, tools, and products that add real value to women’s lives. We support and encourage women in whatever role they find themselves in order to positively grow women and families.

Blissfully Domestic is the reserve of resources for womens’ lives. An intentional launching ground for homemakers, bloggers and businesswomen to further their knowledge, networking, and friendships.

As we grow and change, I will be hosting Skype chats to brainstorm how we at BD can promote you and your blogs, how we can focus on more of the content you want to see and get feedback.

In these chats we will have many of the BD editors, the Blissfully Domestic Divas, in the conversation to answer questions about blogging, topics they write about and just to have fun.

The Skype chats will be in text version only. No voice or video. It gets too crazy that way. And really you do not need to hear my boys yelling and my dirty house. Seriously, I am blissful, but not domestic!

To join in, leave your skype name (signing up for skype is free) here in the comments. If you do not want your skype name public feel free to email me via the contact form.

I will contact everyone within the next week to let you know the time(s).

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