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December 4, 2024
22

Holiday Dressing Ideas.

Fashion Trends

A roundup of festive holiday looks -- lots of glitz, velvet, and lace!

About Jen Shoop

Meet The Author
December 3, 2024
18

What We Bought Our Kids for Christmas.

Children's Finds
December 3, 2024
4

So Let Me Tell You What I Love —

Musings + Essays
December 2, 2024
2

Target Run: December 2024.

Sales + Budget Buys

Magpie Find

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TRENDING
December 2, 2024
17

Books in Review: 2024.

Book Club
December 1, 2024
2

The Magpie Diary: Dec. 1, 2024.

Musings + Essays
November 30, 2024
2

Jen’s Weekend Drafts: Art Is Forgiving, What I Bought from Black Friday, + More.

Musings
November 29, 2024
0

What I Loved Wearing This Week: Nov. 29, 2024.

Fashion Trends
November 29, 2024
0

Places We Don’t Need to Perform. (And Black Friday Deals.)

Musings + Essays
November 28, 2024
11

Stocking Stuffers for Kids.

Children's Finds
November 28, 2024
4

Happy Thanksgiving, Magpies (+ More Great Shopping.)

Musings + Essays
November 27, 2024
6

Holiday Wish List with Talbots.

Fashion Trends
November 27, 2024
16

The Bad Book Girl Continues Her Unlearning.

Musings + Essays

Featured Essays + Musings

July 8, 2024

The Befores.

Musings on time before children with my husband.
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February 14, 2024

Losing Tilly.

Reflections on losing my dog, Tilly, and what's been helping me through this time of grief.
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November 6, 2024

It’s just that —

Musings on what really matters in life -- not the big, dramatic trips of a lifetime but the tiny, everyday, domestic gestures of love.
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July 22, 2024

10 I Love Yous.

A musing on the many hidden ways of saying "I love you."
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April 3, 2023

Our Lives as Mosaics.

A musing on the notion that our lives are mosaics of the people we love.
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March 20, 2024

Matryoshka.

Reflections on mothering my seven year old daughter -- and how she still needs my little tendernesses.
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June 15, 2023

Bad Days + Blank Pages.

An essay on getting over "bad days" and not giving up on ourselves when we've messed up.
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March 26, 2024

A Magpie Desiderata.

A roundup of life lessons -- what we'd tell our twenty-year-old selves.
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LET'S GO SHOPPING.

November 26, 2024
5

What I’m Buying Mr. Magpie for Christmas…

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November 19, 2024
7

Recent Exclamation Points.

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November 14, 2024
2

What to Wear with Festive Trousers + Skirts.

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