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Buying once, Giving twice, Giving thrice

I am part of a women’s networking group, Women Helping Women 2 Network. In the beginning, a group like this was way out of my comfort zone. I did not see myself as having anything to contribute; I ...

Fall 2018: The Boxy Jacket

Dark pieces don't sell well online. It's a known retail reality. Unless you have a studio outfitted with major lights and multiple views and lots of money to pay for them, it is just hard to get a ...

Fall 2018: The '70s Dress

I love a good thrift store. I love the challenge of the hunt. I love the creativity and vision required to see things the way they could be, not just the way they are. And I love the prices! Severa...

Fall 2018: The Chambray Skirt (and this week's personal shopping appointments in Alexandria)

You win some and you lose some. Mom and I have both had events bomb this month. I had to cancel one due to lack of interest, and she attended another that just ended up being a bust. It happens. In...

"Everything about it swells with hope."

I gave birth to my first child, my daughter, six days before Christmas, and Advent hasn’t been the same for me since. In churches, Advent is the season that leads up to Christmas. It’s a time of an...

Breaking Molds in Big and Small Ways

When my husband and I entered a career in ministry thirty-two years ago, there was never a question that it would be both of us. We have worked in partnership with one another and were ordained tog...

#RefugeesWelcome Tees, Now for Sale

As I've mentioned previously, this particular project was held on the back burner for a while. Other, more pressing items kept getting in the way. And yet it remained important to us. It seemed lik...

#RefugeesWelcome, Part Two

A very style-savvy friend informed me the other day that as long as she's wearing a skirt she feels "dressed up" regardless of the shoes or shirt she has paired with said skirt. I related to that o...

#RefugeesWelcome, Part One

When we started Threads by Nomad in early 2016, I thought we'd be able to launch two big collections each year and sustain our business. Pretty quickly, I realized that I was super wrong and needed...

On Hospitality, Dignity, and a Special Event on Saturday

Have you read Paulo Coelho's The Alchemist? If you haven't, you should. This masterpiece tells the mystical story of Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy who yearns to travel in search of a worldly...