Simple

I don't know about you, but I love wearing blue during the holiday season. I know that red and green are your standard Christmas colors, but I feel like the color blue fits into the holiday category as well. I think of a winter wonder land full of snow and icicles, and therefore blue fits in perfectly with the winter theme. 

I don't feel like there is really anything special about this outfit, but it was comfortable and I like the brightness of the teal blue sweater shirt that I wore. 

Shirt: Express

Pants: Old Navy

Belt: Target

Boots: Khol's

Necklace: Dress Barn (on sale)

Peacock ring: Francesca's Collections 

Silver Ring: Maryland Renaissance Festival

Utter Tragedy

My heart goes out not only to the families affected by the shooting in Connecticut today, but to all parents. I do not have children, but I can only imagine how it feels to be a parent at this moment.

I want to thank all of the teachers and staff who were at the school during the shooting. There is one picture that continues to be shown on the news of a teachers leading students out of the school, in a line. The amount of control that she shows in the photo is unbelievable as you know that she is scared out of her mind, yet she continues to do her job by leading her charges to safety.

I was able to watch President Obama give his speech about this tragedy, and it brought tears to my eyes to see him have to stop to compose himself. Throughout the rest of his speech, you could see tears in his eyes. I cannot imagine how hard it was to give that speech, not only as the President of the United States, but also as a father. No matter what your political affiliations are, it is good to have a President that truly cares about this loss, and is dedicated to helping the victims families.

Please give you children, young siblings, and friend's children extra hugs and kisses tonight.

Pinspired Outfit

This outfit was completely inspired by Bree over at Dream in Fashion. When I saw her outfit, I knew that I had to immediately recreate it (on the same day). Since I do no own cognac boots, I decided to go with a pop of color instead of reaching for my dark brown boots. I liked how she paired this outfit with a short necklace, and decided that my new gold collar necklace from Express would be perfect for this outfit. 

I will be honest, layering clothes is something that I am still relatively new at doing. I am always looking for "new" ways to style my clothes, and this is just one reason why I love Pintrest. Currently, I do not own very many sweaters so I feel limited in my options, but I will not let this stop me in my quest for cute outfits. When I was in Target the other day, I noticed that they had a bunch of chunky cable knit sweaters in stock.  ( Too bad I'm on a budget right now, lol).

I'm excited for this weekend as the man's work Christmas party is on Saturday night. I have always had a great time at this party, and I'm hoping that this year is no exception. This year I wasn't going to dress up as fancy as I normally do, but then a few of his female co-workers asked me what I would wearing this year. I had no idea anyone really looked at my outfits at these parties, much less remembered what I was wearing.  Once I heard this, I knew that I couldn't let them down. I went over to JcPennys to see if they had anything that would work as a fun holiday outfit. Stay tuned as I will reveal my outfit sometime next week!

Have a great weekend.

Sweater: Express

Chambray Shirt: Target

Jeans: Express

Boots: JcPenny

Necklace: Express

Earrings: Francesca's Collections

Rings: Urbana Oyster Festival, Silpada, and Maryland Renaissance Festival 

Color Color Everywhere!

This outfit was completely inspired by Kendi Everday. Her mix of cobalt blue and purple really stood out to me as a fun winter combo. I know that these colors aren't what you would typically wear during the fall/winter days, but I just couldn't help myself. I feel like I pranced around all day because I was so in love with my outfit. 

Is there a color that you just can't stop wearing even though that it isn't "seasonal"?

Shirt: Plato's Closet

Pants: Target

Boots: JcPennys

Scarf: Target

Jacket: Target

Necklace: JcPennys

Burgundy Boots Everywhere

In case you haven't noticed, I am in love with these boots. I made a little mash-up towards the end of the post with all of the outfits that I have created while wearing these boots. (I'm having issues making the collage   appear bigger on the blog. Sorry!) There are three outfits in the collage that haven't actually been blogged about yet, but I felt like giving you a little sneak peak. 

I thought that in today's outfit post I should include an outfit wearing said boots. This shirt came from my black Friday shopping trip at Express (during the 50% off sale). I love the lace detailing at the top of the shirt because, well, I just love  lace. I'm usually not a big fan of graphic designs on clothing, but I am loving this rose. I feel like it is a rocker shirt, but I'm not really sure that a rose and lace classifies as "rocker". Haha. I'm excited to mix it up for another outfit soon.

As I looked closer to this outfit, I realized that I'm almost wearing all Express clothing. What can I say, I really like that store.

Shirt: Express

Necklace: Express

Jeans: Express

Boots: JcPennys

Ring: Gifted

(Sorry that it is so small. Outfits 1, 3, and 4 have not yet been blogged, so think of it as a sneak peak).

Outfit Post: 2, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10

Clothing Recap

What an amazing weekend in the beautiful state of South Carolina. The man and I went down South to visit some family friends. He grew up with them, so they really are like extended family, and we don't get to see them very often as they live 8 hours away. I'm not going to lie, I am jealous of the warm weather that is still going on down there. I ran around in short-sleeves and flats instead of my typical boots and sweater outfits. Most of my outfits were repeats (see last blog post) or simple shirts and jeans, and not really blog post worthy. (They have two babies so fashion wasn't my main focus of the weekend). 

Today's post is of an outfit that I wore sometime last week. The shirt and sweater are both from the clothing swap that I attended about a month ago. I have also included a small collage of the three times that I blogged about my Mint Capri Pants. I definitely wore them more than three times this year, but since I only started blogging in September, I only have three documented times of wearing them. As I find time, I'll try to put together a recap of some of my clothes from this past year (or rather the past four months).  

Sweater: New York and Company, picked up at clothing swap

Shirt: not sure, picked up at clothing swap

Pants: Target

 Boots: Charlotte Russe

Necklace: Express

Mint Capri Pants Recap

Old outfit new location

So I know that I have already worn this outfit before and blogged about it. However we are in the lovely state of South Carolina visiting some friends and the weather here is amazing. I was so excited to be able to wear short sleeves and flats again, so I decided that I'd just show you a nice repeat. Hope you have a great weekend!