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Hello, friends! Can you believe we’re only inching toward mid-January? January always feels like a 40-day month to me. I’m trying to use it well—tackling a few house projects and enjoying watching the Patriots again after about five years of them being truly awful. Drake Maye (and his adorable wife) = my new favorite athlete. I'll be drinking coffee later to stay awake for the night game! Go PATS!

 

Last year Bill and I started a “Tipsy Tuesday” tradition, and we picked it back up again last week. It's pretty simple….each Tuesday we go out, sit at a bar, split a salad and an app or entrée, and have a glass of wine. This year, we’re making it more of a project—I printed out a list of 68 restaurants in Newport, and we’re going to work our way through them, checking them off as we go. It’s a great excuse to try places we wouldn’t normally think to go.

 

On Wednesday, I took a Mahjong class at our local club. Great group, great teacher—and I liked it better this time around. But to be honest, I’m still not fully sold. I think I might be more of a card-game-with-friends person, so if you have any favorites, I’m all ears. I keep hearing about Euchre/Youker (apparently very Midwest—my Ohio-educated guys say all their friends play it), so maybe I’ll start the first-ever Newport Euchre league. Ha! Stay tuned 😉

 

Now for the latest from B.Styled…

Earlier this week on Tipsy Tuesday, we talked about something I see all the time in real closets: the tendency to overcomplicate outfit creation.

 

To demonstrate, I created a new reel using the same simple cream-on-cream outfit I shared back in September (one of my most-watched reels ever)… but this time, I winterized it with booties and a few different toppers instead of starting from scratch.

 

See below for replays of both reels….Late Summer, and Mid-Winter.

 

Same base. Same pieces. New season.

 

So if an outfit works, and you love it….you don’t need to reinvent it — you just season-shift it.

 

Click the  image to watch….and many of my 80's girls will recognize the music in the reel on the left…a favorite! 🎶

As we wrap up the weekend, I wanted to share a quick check-in on our January No-Shopping Reset — a free, low-pressure reset designed to help you pause before buying, use what you already own, and make smarter decisions about shopping and getting dressed.

 

Week 1 was about pressing pause and paying attention. 

 

We focused on noticing what actually triggers the urge to shop, cutting down on the constant retail noise, and getting a clearer picture of how much of our buying is driven by habits, scrolling, and what’s being pushed at us—instead of by a list, a plan, and no willy-nilly shopping. 😉 (If you've been around for a while, you know this is a favorite mantra).

 

If you 'sstarted at day one and followed each days' prompt, you've already done some really useful groundwork. And if you missed a day or two, that’s completely fine — this reset is designed to fit real life…and progress, not perfection. 

 

👉🏼 All of the daily prompts live in one place on my website, so you can catch up or jump in anytime.

 

We move from awareness into changing patterns — how to slow/stop impulse decisions, rethink sales, use what you already own more strategically, and stop defaulting to “add to cart” when something feels off.

 

This is where the reset starts to feel very practical and very useful.

 

And in the final week, we focus on changing the habits and knee-jerk shopping reactions that keep us stuck—and start learning how to be better, more thoughtful shoppers who end up with smaller, more functional, better wardrobes.

 

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That's it for today! 

Have a great week ahead, and remember to #justgetdressed. ✅👍🏼

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