featured and fall

Happy Surprises!  I was featured on this blogpost as a top ten Mormon fashion blogger!  I am so honored!  I love that we can make a choice and a difference by doing something different than the expected!  Yay for Modesty!

Love you all!

Each shirt was 99 cents on a Monday night at Savers!  This black skirt has been one of my best purchases EVER!  Fashion Bug years ago and pounds ago...it has fit me through all sorts of sizes and years!  And of course, my Dansko sandals!

love the fall time, by the way!  the cooler nights and fall leaf colors are fabulous! 

feeling awesome cute!

 love those days when an outfit just comes together and you get all sorts of compliments and feel awesome cute!  i sometimes find myself dressing a bit color bold, pattern heavy and what some people might call young for my age......

 i just nod my head and say, i am immature:) 

i mean who my age gets a zit so painful that it makes your eyesocket ache?  Haahahah?! see that beauty right between the eyes?  hope your day is fabulous!


shrug--lane bryant
tank top--wal-mart
skirt--thrifted fabric and sewn by me
necklace and earrings--boutique clearance
sandal--dansko

khaki comfortable for flying through imaginations!

shirt is venezia from lane bryant, skirt was a pair of a lane bryant 'long' pants that i refashioned into a skirt, black dansko sandals.

our family has been spending the summer tuesdays going on local field trips in Utah 

today we took exit 338 off I-15 and went to the airplane museum 

i highly recommend it! 

my two 4 yr. old nephews didn't stop talking for the whole two hours we were there!  we used words like propeller, torpedo, busted, bombed, rocket, and all sorts of other words that most 4 yr. olds can't wait to use!

This is me with my 2 yr. old neice who i think is in pre-engineering training....:)

men's shirt ripped and sewn into a skirt

 so comfortable!

love the sandals--btw the turquoise is over spray from a spray paint project...i don't know how my apt. manager is going to feel when it won't come off the cement:)

 little pocket left in from the ralph laruen shirt i cut up into strips to sew together

 some of my favorite, most versatile earrings ever, found in a little shop in Panguitch UT.

a bit of a hairdo crisis of late...not sure of the upkeep of being blond, not sure of going longer, love being short...so i am taking photos to assess....

you know your favorite sweater.....

1. well now it can now be your skirt!  i bought this 100%, xxl cotton men's sweater at a garage sale for $1. 
2. then i turned it upside down, added elastic to the waist. 
3. cut off the top of the sweater at a length that was right for me--which mock me now-- is only like 23 inches--yes i am short. 
4. i then cut the sleeves off, square to the sides, which made an automatic side slits.
5. using my sewing machine knit stitch i reinforced the edges (as opposed to hemming the edges, i wanted no bulk) and the side effect was a slight ruffly edge:) 

oh, my summer of skirts hasn't stopped, i just haven't been blogging them.  i have no excuses except summer vacation has been happening!  yay!

outfit 52--keyhole belt, gold shimmery sweater

this belt is leather with a stamp a stamp on the back that says "ring of fire--downtown los angeles"  when i google that phrase i get nowhere that would give me a clue to its origins....but i love the belt's uniqueness and that i got it for $3 at D.I.! 

these earrings were clearanced for $1 at Wal-Mart....not a place i try to shop all that often, but i really liked these and they ended up clinching this outfit of gold and gray for me.  not a color combination that i would normally put together, either! 

the sweater is shimmery metallic gold and  was $1 at Savers!  whoo hoo!  it has no tags in itso i can't even tell you who made this either. 

what i can tell you is 1) that DO go see the movie african cats:  oh, the photography is AMAZING!  i must hold me a baby lion before i die (even if it kills me--which might be an acceptable option:)

2) time and the atonement heal: last year at this time my husband's dad was diagnosed with terminal esophogeal cancer...it was the shortest/longest 11 weeks of our lives...although we both believe strongly in life after death it has been an extremely difficult year.  i am looking forward to June, just to have had the healing experience of TIME...

3) on a lighter note: do go get some chocolate peanut butter molten lava cake from chili's....it makes time worth it...maybe you go on date and see a movie and dessert afterwards? 

4)  this blog has been fun for me to have something to look forward to everyday and to find some really fun other fashion bloggers!

 

outfit 50--winter still.....

today i wanted to stay in my pajamas:  really badly!  so i opted for a comfortable pant and sweater combo instead!  this sweater was $1 at the savers monday colored tag sale!  yipee! 

my sister posed a question to me that has gotten me thinking, can i imagine feeling good all the time?  i have several ailments (fibromyalgia, migraines, ibs, social anxiety) that prohibit me from saying phrases like "i feel awesome!"  mostly i end up saying "i don't feel too bad".  what i would do if i felt good all the time?  would i DO or BE much different?   

i dream of swimming with the dolphins and moving as fast as they do, as free as they seem and as effortlessly as they swim.  it is the only time i imagine those phrases of FREEDOM, MOVEMENT, EFFORTLESSLY, WEIGHTLESSNESS.  the implication being pain free, but not as important. 

wish i could be wearing the sandals all day long at school, they are much cuter than the flats:)

black sweater--mountain lake--$1

beige pants--lane bryant--$40ish

black sandals--dansko--$114ish

black flats--terrasoles, sams club--$40ish

pearl necklace--gift from Melissa, sister

pearl brooch--grandma linda

bling earrings--don't remember

outfit 46--red snakeskin print maxi skirt

 i am grateful for my husband.  

i am grateful for meds that help me feel good:) 

i am grateful for my cats.  

i am grateful to have a job that i (mostly) enjoy.  

i am grateful for my family. 

 i am grateful for sunshine.  

i am grateful that i got my eyeliner tatooed!

i am grateful i know how to swim.

 i am grateful for trials, seasons, changes and frustration 

that make us appreciate the opposites in our life.

lane bryant t-shirt

skirt from who knows where because i have had it for so long

dansko sandals--$114

belt--thrifted--$2

crocheted flower accent--gift from friend

silver necklace and earrings--again, from who knows where because i have had them so long