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Sharing my 4 favorite things faith, family, fashion & cottage decor!! Most likely find me in joggers & sweats🙊😂 Silver sister👩‍🦳follow ➡️LTK!!
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Good Afternoon to You All, My Monday, Monday Loving Dearies!!! 💜I’ve been so eager to share today’s fantastic “Sitting Pretty 101: A Course in ALL Things Beauty!” product with y’all, bc this hair product, from @k18hair has been what y’all have asked over more in your ??? than any other, lately!!! 💜You’ve been complementing my hair soo frequently!!! Thank YOU!!! 💜Y’all My Sweet @savannahr_2 is always showing me new hair products, to help me find the best care for my hair! When she introduced me to this @k18hair AirWash Dry Shampoo, she used it on her own hair first, letting me observe how to incorporate such a unique, game-changing product into my own routine! 💜For those of you who aren’t dry shampoo fans, and possibly gave-up on it long ago, I get that!!! And so, I want to encourage you to try @k18hair AirWash Dry Shampoo, as it’s very different from what you may remember. 💜I am showcasing this dry shampoo in the TSA-Approved Travel Size-1.6oz, priced at $24! Y’all understand how my home here in North Texas and the locales where I usually travel, are almost always very hot and very humid. Those conditions made me long for exactly this type of hair product for such a long time. 💜LM share some specifics with y’all… ✈️not an aerosol format ✈️zero white-casting in hair ✈️a stainless steel bead, triggering the rattle, tells you this bi-phase formula is well mixed, before use ✈️no heavy, off-putting fragrance to mask hair aroma—instead, odorBIND eliminates hair aroma and replaces it with a light, ‘non-starchy’ scent ✈️patented biotech which lasts for three days ✈️use of this product won’t disturb your hairstyle 🤶🏻Christmastime Stocking Alert 🤶🏻: Literally the perfect stocking stuffer for fam and friends alike!!! 💜You are so Soo SOOOOO Loved Here!!!!! 💜✈️🤶🏻✈️💜 #shannongarms #somethingnewgirl #haircareroutine #dryshampoo #christmaswishlist
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Good Monday, Monday Afternoon, My Sweet Give-Away Loving Dearies!!!! 🤖Today, for Session 433 of “Sitting Pretty 101: A Course in All Things Beauty” I’m absolutely thrilled to host the final Insta-Girlfriends Gift Give-Away of this ‘Prelude to Fall: Healthcare, Self Care, Skincare, Haircare, and Dental Care Series’ with two of the most amazing, technically ahead-of-their-time products you will likely see anywhere!!! 🤖Please meet, from @solawave the Wrinkle Retreat Pro Light Therapy Face Mask and the Skin Therapy Activating Serum!!! 🤖Y’all have teased me about all these advanced, tech-savvy-products, saying that I’m kinda’ ahead of the curve here and such, but truly, I believe that each and every single one of us, indeed, every girl and every woman, deserves to receive the absolute best care…in every aspect of her life! 🤖I know that this isn’t, in fact, currently happening for each and every single one of us, so I literally will do everything I can to help in any possible way, to improve this for all of us!!! 🤖Many, far too many in our much-beloved community, are suffering losses and changes and challenges. Far too many feel discouraged and despair. Still far too many more feel unheard and forgotten! 🤖I don’t forget any of you! Neither does Our Father, and I constantly and petition Him to sustain, comfort and protect each and every single one of you!!! 🤖My Insta-Girlfriends Gift Give-Aways are opportunities to for me to thank you! To recognize how much you matter! To show how much I adore you all!!!!!! 🤖This week, let me showcase this amazing @solawave duo for you all!!! I cannot wait to send Our Winner her very own set, too!!!!!! 🤖Tomorrow, as more refreshing work goes on above my head here at Casa Garms, I will draw for Our Winner and Announce Her Right Away!!!!!!! 🤖You are all so Soo SOOOOO Loved Here!!!!! 🤖🤖💁🏼‍♀️🤖🤖 [📸: @megan_garms Dad 😀] #shannongarms #somethingnewgirl #skincare #solawave #selfcare
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Good Monday, Monday on this 21st Night of September!!! 💃🏼If I ever had a 🎶 I could listen to over and over again, which is My Fam would also enjoy, it would be this one, no doubt about it! 💃🏼One of these fine Septembers, the weather will already be fall-like and spectacular here, but alas, not this year, once again. 💃🏼Is this 🎶 of your all-time-faves too?! I’d love to hear! 💃🏼For today’s Session 432 of “Sitting Pretty 101: A Course in All Things Beauty!!!” let’s all stop right where we are and offer a happy “thanks!!!” to the world’s verrry best and most darling dentist ever, from @stonelodgedental Dr. Saadia Basit! 🦷 It is bc of our very own Dr. Basit that I’m finally pain-free, anxiety-free and terror-free in a dental chair! And!!! My teeth are better than EVER!!! 🦷 Y’all know my feelings about the superiority of all female doctors; in fact, study after study shows that patients under the care of female doctors have the best outcomes! 🦷 Also, Dr. Basit highly recommended this @oralb iO Series 5 Limited Recharable Toothbrush to The Chiefy and I, noting that all of you might be interested in learning about it, too! 🦷 I shared that I had a Give-Away in mind for this outstanding product and I would mention her to everyone and she humbly deflected!!! However, I am going to keep singing her praises to you all!!! 🦷 This Give-Away comes with the travel case, charger, handle, three different, specific brush heads, and refill holder!!! 🦷 It offers five smart modes, including: daily clean, sensitive, super-sensitive, intense, and whitening!!! 🦷 Together, with the @oralb App, personalized coaching and tips will help you become a teeth-brushing pro! 💃🏼Y’all have love love loved this Give-Away series sooo much! Next week will feature our conclusion for this series! However, take 💕 even if you haven’t won, as I’ve decided on our next Insta-Girlfriends Gift Giveaway-Away and I’ll share a clue rn: it’s a masterstroke from @chanel.beauty and I’d love to gift it to TWO of YOU this October!! 💃🏼I’m over the 🌙 about each of YOU!!!! [📸: @megan_garms Dad 😀] #shannongarms #somethingnewgirl #healthcare #dentalcare #giveaway
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Good Monday, Monday Afternoon to YOU ALL!!!! 🍁My Goodness, My Beautiful Dearies!!! Y’all have been delighted with this Insta-Girlfriends Gift Give-Series!!!! I’m thrilled to hear all of your thoughts!!! 🍁These are the self-care, hair-care, dental-care, and skin-care products that I have come to not only love, but fully rely upon!!! 🍁This week, I do believe Our Winner (and of course, I just drew-her-name; so I know who she is) will be over-the-moon with excitement!!!! 🍁Today for Week 4, which is Session 431 of “Sitting Pretty 101: A Course in All Things Beauty!” I’m absolutely delighted to share another amazing Product Duo from @solawave !!! 🍁Please Meet… 🍂 @solawave Neck & Chest Pro Light Therapy Mask, along with 🍂 @solawave Lightboost Face & Neck Serum! 🌺Before I even begin to tell you all about these products, let me address a common question/concern y’all have had, wondering how tricky they are to use—so, here we go: they are easy as pie to use!!! Y’all, easy as pie!!! 🌺This is gentle, pain-free, effective, ingenious, non-invasive, professional-grade skin care, to use in the comfort of your own home!!! 🌺It offers red light, near-infrared light, deep red light, and amber light therapy wavelengths! 🍁To Use: I begin with clean skin and apply this serum to my face, neck and décolletage! 🍁Next, I put on the mask and press start. The treatment lasts for just three minutes. 🍁I’ve found that the mask rests easily upon my skin, easily holds a month-long single charge and turns itself off. 🍁I began using it three times a week and now I typically use it twice each week! It’s been such a blessing!!! 🍁In about seven weeks, I saw the wonderful elimination of many fine lines, a remarkable lessening of my skins’ unevenness and an astonishing improvement in my skins’ texture and elasticity!!! 🍁Y’all, we have just two more weeks to go in this Give-Away Series and I cannot wait to share those amazing products with y’all, too!!! 🍁You are so Soo SOOOOO Loved Here!!!!! 🍁🍂🌺💁🏼‍♀️🌺🍂🍁 [📸: @megan_garms Dad 😀] #shannongarms #somethingnewgirl #skincare #selfcare solawave
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A Very Joyful and Good Labor Day Monday, Monday Afternoon to You All!!! 🍁I’m so happy to be with y’all once again, to share Session 430 of “Sitting Pretty 101: A Course in All Things Beauty!!!” because I’m also unveiling this week’s Insta-Girlfriends Gift Give-Away Product Duo from @solawave along with Our Winner!!! 🍁As y’all now know, I’ve been thrilled with the amazing benefits for my skin, muscles, joints, and overall wellness, due to my multiple red light therapy products! 🍁I’ve shared many times about this important topic, so you can read those notes in other “Sitting Pretty” Sessions, and I encourage you to learn all about them! 🍁These two @solawave products are the @solawave 4-IN-1 Skincare Wand and Renew Complex Activating Serum!!! 🍁This 4-IN-1 Skincare Wand is quite unique, as it’s able to “smooth, de-puff, tighten, soothe, renew, sculpt, tone, and lift!” 🍁Now mind you, this wand is only the length and size of a toothbrush and comes with its’ own travel case—so this is quite a lot of benefits it offers! 🍁Mine travels with me literally everywhere I go and the results are immediate! 🍁I will be “Out and About” tomorrow and I’ll take mine with me to demonstrate, if y’all would like?! Just lmk in your comments below!!! 🍁After this Give-Away, we’ll have three more in this important series and they’re each going to knock your socks off!!!! 🍁And once again, during our week ahead, I”ll share all about this fantastic product duo!!! 🍁You all are so Soo SOOOOO Loved Here!!! 🍁💁🏼‍♀️🍁 [📸: @megan_garms Dad 😀] #shannongarms #somethingnewgirl #skincare #solawave #selfcare
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Good Labor Day Weekend to You All, MY Autumn-Loving, Can’t Wait for Falls’ Glorious Weather, Dearies!!! 🍁Fall is such a blessed time of refreshment and refocusing! I believe that it’s one of Our Fathers’ greatest gift to us! 🍁The doldrums and heaviness of a scorchingly hot, endless summer must ultimately yield to the crisp delight of leaves changing colors, sitting out on a patio for Bible study and the absolute comfort of reaching into your closet for a favorite cardigan—all these are joyful signs that change has come, once again! 🍁This Fall Décor Tour of Casa Garms, which I literally just shot for y’all, has already changed, with the layering of many fresh pieces, some which I’d grown tired of waiting to receive, but now thankfully, they’ve arrived. I’m always like that! Are y’all, too?! 🍁I’m always always always in favour of taking the action, moving ahead and essentially going with my gut, in decision-making! Those who struggle with this approach, might aptly note, “well, this is just updating seasonal home decor, it’s not that difficult!” Excellent observation! However, I’d likely suggest that this is, in fact, exactly the type of low-stress/low-stakes matter, which by resolving, can help you gain greater skill, as a decision-maker! 🍁I absolutely could’ve waited, held-off, gone another route, and so forth, however, what would that approach have accomplished?! 🍁Hmmmm…?! I’d much rather have undertaken this course, as now I can share not only these photos, but additionally, this perspective, with you all, My Dearies!!! 🍁As this summer season gives way to the gorgeous days of autumn, in addition to decorating our homes, apartments or dorm rooms, we can also take steps to sweep away the dreary endlessness of indecision! 🍁I love the symbolism that exists inside each fresh beginning; I am the “Something New” Girl, after all! 🍁I’d love to learn about any brand-“Something New” plans or decisions that you are undertaking this fall! It’s so encouraging and inspiring to learn from other women who are busily and bravely moving forward in their lives!!! 🍁🍁💁🏼‍♀️🍁🍁 #shannongarms #somethingnewgirl #fallhome #autumndecor #falliscoming
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Good Afternoon to You All and Welcome Back to Session 429 of “Sitting Pretty 101: A Course in All Things Beauty!” 🦈 I’m absolutely loving this Insta-Girlfriends Gift Give-Away, bc it’s meant as a Biggie Thank You to All of You for your kindness, graciousness, patience and encouragement!!! 🦈 Y’all began and remain 💯at the Very 💕 of this particular series! It has evolved with both your interests and my own! It’s a powerful series, dedicated to enabling me to share the products that I’ve test test tested repeatedly and cannot wait to share with you all, bc I know that they are top-notch and transformative for care! 🦈 The topics of self-care, hair-care, health-care, skin-care, and dental-care, are very important to me!!! I’ve benefitted from each of these types of care, plus so many more! I believe that each and every girl and woman, deserves the exact same access to be able to take the absolute best care of herself! 🦈 Y’all know how much I love care for my hair and when I’m not with My Sweet Savannah @savannahr_2 this exceptional Air Styling & Drying System, the @sharkbeauty FlexStyle, is ideal for me to use, both at home and while I’m traveling!!! 🦈 All throughout this week ahead, I will share the amazing deets about this product, which curls, volumizes, smoothies, and dries hair, all to create the loveliest of styles! 🦈 Up first however, are you ready to learn who this weeks’ winner is?! I can’t wait to share!!! And, as I already have her address, her @sharkbeauty Shark FlexStyle Air Styling & Drying System is on its’ way to her, with a scheduled arrival of later this week…hopefully just in time for Labor Day Weekend!!!!!!! 🦈 See You in A Quickie Few, Over in MY 🎥🎥!!! 🦈 You are all so Soo SOOOOO Loved Here!!! 🦈🎥💁🏼‍♀️🎥🦈 [📸: @megan_garms Dad 😀] #shannongarms #somethingnewgirl #haircare #sharkflexstyle #giveaway
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Good Afternoon Everyone and Welcome to “SaturdayStyle Session 329: My Rainy Birthday” in Magic Kingdom @waltdisneyworld !!! ☔️I’ll tell y’all, I love love loveee Magic Kingdom so much—sometimes it’s somewhat trying, if you will, on a Heat Advisory Day with 80% humidity or during very strong thunderstorms, but on just a rainy day, it’s extra magical, bc many people duck into quick service dining locations or enjoy true, sit-down, table service meals, but if I’m on sabbatical, I don’t choose those options! ☔️Instead, I find those times to be perfect opportunities to snap the best, least crowded chances to grab 📸/🎥 for you all! ☔️Having these memories are my fave souvenirs ever!!! ☔️I was just reflecting last night, in answer to several questions y’all have had about travel in @waltdisneyworld and I’ll answer y’all here and in My 🎥 today and tomorrow… ✨First, there is NO Perfect Time to visit!!! ✨Second, there are times with better weather, smaller crowds, more festivals, and newer rides AND there are also times with less-than-ideal weather, huge crowds, no festivals, and lots of rides that are closed for refurbishments, and still… ✨There are times when your plans work out-perfectly, everyone in your family is agreeable, patient and delighted to be there AND there are also times when your plans are thrown-into-chaos, everyone in your family is fussy, cross and miserable all day long, and still… ✨Spending time @waltdisneyworld is always magical, unexpectedly beautiful and a true blessing!!! I’ve been delighted to visit many times and even in the worst moments, there are still memories to treasure! There are important lessons to learn, usually about yourself: such as developing patience, along with many equally important character traits, such as kindness, scheduling flexibility, and a better sense of humor!! ☔️Y’all, I love being able to help you in planning your travel to @waltdisneyworld and also, to many other places!!! Traveling, as you are able, is an amazingly beneficial opportunity in life! ☔️You all are so Soo SOOOOO Loved Here!!! ☔️💁🏼‍♀️☔️ #shannongarms #somethingnewgirl #waltdisneyworldresort #magickingdom #travelgirl
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It’s Pre-Fall Fabulous TIme here in North Texas, My Sweet Y’all!!! 🍁Even though we still have two very hot and humid months ahead, once the weather begins to catch-up to the calendar, Your Fave Texas Girl likes to be ready!!! 🍁I know that this summer has been a scorcher for some of you who typically are spared the hottest days! I’m so sorry!!! 🍁Here though, our summers are something we Texans must endure! When the first cooler mornings and evenings arrive, I want to be “Out and About!” and enjoying being outdoors and at sporting events, not inside doing fall projects! Haha!!! 🍁Last year, creating my fall florals from scratch with faux flowers and stems was exhausting! This year, I’ve only had them out since this past weekend, yet I’ve gazed at them with great joy and thankfulness so many times! 🍁Over the years, more and more of you have shared that you’ve begun to start decorating for autumn quite early! 🍁Now, I’ve begun to wonder: are you like me and you’ve already begun or, if not, when will you begin to decorate for fall this year!!! 🍁Please do share, bc I’d love to know!!! 🍁You are so Soo SOOOOO Loved Here!!! 🍁🍁💁🏼‍♀️🍁🍁 [📸: @megan_garms Dad 😀] #shannongarms #somethingnewgirl #falliscoming #ilovefallmostofall #fallstyle
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Good Afternoon and Welcome to Session 327 of “SaturdayStyle!!!” ⚾️Y’all know what a huge sports family we are and The Chiefy and I are loving all the sports we can take in, everywhere we travel! ⚾️At his recent work conference in Phoenix-Scottsdale, we were thrilled to be able to head-out to the ballpark to watch the @dbacks welcome the @dodgers to town!!! ⚾️As The Chiefy is a life-long sportsman and @redsox fan, so am I!!!! I love watching Dave Roberts and @mookiebetts along with the incomparable @shohei.17.41 and @freddiefreeman as they manage and play America’s Pastime! ⚾️We loved our experience so much and were absolutely caught-up in the excitement, with such kind and supportive fans for both teams facing-off!!! ⚾️In a few years, when the conference heads out to The Golden State of California, we have a chance to see both the @padres and the @angels along with The Dodgers, playing at home! ⚾️I cannot wait! I’d still love to visit @fenwaypark for a game, sit out on The Green Monster and enjoy a double-header! ⚾️The Chiefy and I went to Boston and New York for our honeymoon and it would be amazing to visit again! ⚾️If you could take in @mlb game, who would you go cheer for?! I’d love to hear!!!! ⚾️You are all so Soo SOOOOO Loved Here!!! ⚾️💁🏼‍♀️⚾️ #shannongarms #somethingnewgirl #dbacks #ladodgers #baseballgame
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Good Afternoon to You All, My Gorgeous and Darling Dearies!!! 💜Welcome Back to Session 326 of “SaturdayStyle!!!” 💜Have y’all begun to notice all the delightful shades of lilac, lavender, orchid, mauve, wisteria, periwinkle, violet, plum, and eggplant, that have begun to feature in many of the Pre-Fall 2026 Campaigns?! 💜I surely have!!! As you know, I loveee the cooler tones in any palette; especially in pinks, purples, greens, blues, and browns, so I fervently hope all-throughout our miserably humid springtimes and scorchingly hot summers, that the upcoming autumn fashions will showcase this exact range of colors!!! 💜This is when I’m sooo happy to be an August Birthday Baby—there are endless choices for my birthday wish lists during these years!!! 💜A fabulous, sisters-in-law designer team, The Veronicas @veronicabeard is featuring every version of orchid rn: pale orchid haze, orchid haze and orchid haze multi in a dazzling array of choices and their play on purple is stunning! 💜I ordered the Via Slide Sandal in orchid haze high-gloss leather, which is a darling purple leather studded sandal, with all tonal hardware and I cannot wait to show her to you all!!! 💜If there could be one color presented this fall, which would you be happiest with?! 💜Please do share!!!! I cannot wait to find out!!!! 💜I am over the 🌙 about you all!!! 💜🌙 💁🏼‍♀️ 🌙💜 #shannongarms #somethingnewgirl #veronicabeard #fallfashion #purple
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Good Morning from The Desert, Everyone and Welcome to Session 417 of “Sitting Pretty 101: A Course in All Things Beauty!!!” 🏔️For those of you wondering if our cooler weather would last during this visit, most assuredly, it has not! Haha! 🏔️It’s sweltering and very dry! We hit 88 degrees at 8:45 this morning and we are off to the 101-102 range this afternoon! 🏔️In case you are thinking of those lucky folks in @grandcanyonnps South Rim this morning, their high temps will only hit 84! Hurrah! 🏔️Y’all have wanted to know what I’m UP-TO, out here with The Chiefy, at his conference! 🏔️So, here’s a quick look at my morning thus far: 💁🏼‍♀️Fast Breakfast 💁🏼‍♀️Working thankfully with The Chiefy to sort the quirky resort internet services 💁🏼‍♀️Working with and spending time with our family, friends and with you all 💁🏼‍♀️Requests to our hotel concierge for fresh towel service & room service cart to be removed 💁🏼‍♀️Hair curled and pinned up in my @thedrybar Hold Me Hair Clips/High Tops Self-Grip Rollers 💁🏼‍♀️Enjoying a refreshing and moisturizing facial masque to counter-balance this dry climate 💁🏼‍♀️Travel Testing multiple products on my arms and hands 💁🏼‍♀️Employing Red Light Therapy Device on my knees, as they’ve been sore since our time at The Grand Canyon 💁🏼‍♀️Steaming my ensembles for both lunch with The Chiefy and our special event tonight 💁🏼‍♀️Packing my bag for this evening 💁🏼‍♀️Charging my devices 🏔️Today’s Monday, Monday is one of the most specific serums I’ve ever tried; this product has been 💯 requested and tested for you all! 🏔️Please meet @larocheposay MelaB3 Serum: Dark Spot Corrector (Visibly Unifying Clarifying) Melasyl. 🏔️Melasyl is a multi-patented @larocheposay ingredient which actually fades the look of (even more ‘stubborn’) dark spots!!! 💁🏼‍♀️If you’ll come along to My 🎥 I’ll share much more! I’m also sharing our final Insta-Girlfriends Maycember Gift Give-Away of the incredible @peterthomasrothofficial Instant Firm Eye: Temporary Eye Tightener!!! 🏔️You alll are so Soo SOOOOO Loved Here!!! 🏔️💁🏼‍♀️🏔️ [📸: @megan_garms Dad 😀] #shannongarms #somethingnewgirl #beauty #larocheposay #loveyouall
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