outfit 65--brother's shirt, husband's belt

 

we have had crazy weather here in SLC.  rainy, cloudy, windy, a few moments of sunshine then mostly rainy.  something like 30 out of the last 53 days have been rainy.  not a usual spring for us.  thus, i have still been able to wear my boots and longer sleeves.  i was also glad to find this GREAT shirt that is a 'hand me-up' from my brother!  

shirt-axiom (?)

tshirt-downeast home

skirt-refashioned by me

boots-sam's club

belt-hubby

outfit 64--prep school pinks

came across a challenge to dress in menswear and using a tie.  

i have never worn a tie before because i usually don't like things that restrictive around my 
fat neck proportional neck:)  

our friend lincoln shared this tie with us in a house purge, which i am pretty sure he had since jr. high--love the vintage feel of it.  

the pink flannel shirt is a ralph lauren from my father in law, who passed away last year.
 thrifted men's belt

the skirt, knee highs and boots are just my comfy go to when it rains and snows!
it has been raining for like 5 days straight--i loved this outfit!  

outfit 63--yellow, purple floral

i went out on a fashion limb:  i really wanted to wear these purple tights because it is May 17th and raining--still--and a little bit cold and A LOT gray.  in a way i guess i created my own fabric "garden" with the floral skirt and bright yellow sweater.   so the limb is, can a person this old and fat where this many colors? 

my limb says YES!  i LOVED this outfit.  it was comfortable and bright and challenged my comfort zone of wearing "matchy-match" clothes. 

a view of my necklace, a hint of the purple up top.

 

this is what i saw looking down.  it made me very happy!

sweater--old navy.  skirt--lane bryant.  tights--lane bryant.  shoes--thrifted.  jewelry--kohls

outfit 61--coral and navy

my co-worker drives the green camaro in the background....it is a what i call a "cute-butt" car.  it just has a GREAT shape.  one of our other co-workers, who pretends to know it all, called it a mustang--huh!  mustang's don't have near the cute butts! 

this outfit was about grandma linda's necklace, which is like plastic cups linked together. and the dankso shoes.  lane bryant pants and the thrifted sweater just matched:) 

outfit 62--private school uniform--somebody called it that

 butt shot

 boob shot

 headless shot

 what's up? shot

close up--i-am-actually-wearing-make-up-but-you-can't-tell-squinty-eye, awesome-vinyl-fabric-flower and gold-jewelry sunshine-in-the-face shot:)

outfit 60--bees and neon

this is me in front of my apiary, holding my bee suit.  i have just checked on my bees--they are in the turquoise boxes in the background!  the cute little girl workers have successfully released the queen and they are busy prepping the honeycomb for some serious egg laying!  the queen will eventually lay up to 1500 eggs daily! 

multicolored neon shirt--jtb woman--$?

black tank --$?

black pants--lane bryant--about $50

black shoes--dansko--modern shoe--about $100

grandma linda's black necklace

gold earrings--jcpenney

outfit 59--EBEW florals!

skirt, scarf and rosettes.  i like flowers.  what i couldn't believe was i had NO obnoxious floral outfit in my closet.

i guess what i mean by obnoxious is overly bright, large and inappropriately sized print for a plus size girl to be wearing....sounds like something i would have.  i mean in jr. high i had red and yellow floral black jeans!

instead i have a skirt with mellow purple and green leaves on it.  I have a pastel purple floral scarf with rosettes i made from a favorite sweater!

black and purple/green flower skirt--zanana by saraf--thrifted--$5

purple tshirt-jones sport-sams club--

scarf--thrifted--41

rosettes--made from an old fav. sweater--$0

shoes--dansko--$100ish