Clothing swap continued.....

So the top half of this outfit is pure clothing swap attire. I've worn the purple cardigan a few times now, but I'm pretty sure this is the first time that I've donned the striped tank. Both of these items were from the last clothing swap that I attended. I should be attending another clothing swap this up-coming weekend. (If all goes well). 

The days have been blurring together recently.....I am so sorry. I hope to be back on a regular schedule soon....ugh.

The pants are from Old Navy, the necklace and the shoes are from Dress Barn (recent). That is all.

Spring into Polka Dots

I think the title of this post makes sense when you see the outfit that I wore...lol.

So I have had this particular outfit tucked away in my mind for some time now, but I've felt like the colors were to bright and cheerful to wear during the cold winter months. I decided to wear this combo for Easter, as I kind of felt like an Easter Egg. I had planned on wearing a new cute spring dress that I recently bought, but the weather just wasn't cooperating with me. (Ok so the picture of the dress online doesn't do it justice. It's actually really cute and not so "old" looking in person). 

Okay so back to this outfit. Now these shoes are not actually coral like the shirt, they are more pink. However I like to pretend that from afar the two colors look similar and everyone thinks I'm cool for matching my shoes to my shirt. And my necklace. 

Sweater: The Loft

Shirt: J. Crew Factory

Jeans: Target

Shoes: Old Navy

Necklace: Dress Barn (new item)

Earrings (not shown): My chocolate diamond earrings

Dress Barn has a few knock-off jewelry pieces right now. The necklaces and bracelets resemble those by Stella and Dot, and J.Crew.....at a much lower price. 

Can we just take a quick peak at this necklace for sale at J. Crew right now? I'm obviously searching for it's cheaper twin right now.

Fighting crime

I can't tell you how happy I am to have found this lavender cardigan at the latest clothing swap. I had been wanting this exact color for some time, but I really haven't been shopping (for myself) lately. (Online doesn't count, lol). Since I started going to these clothing swaps, I don't have the want to go shopping as much as I use to. Since I've been able to come home with a load of "new" clothes, I've been having fun styling these items instead of focusing on what is in the stores. Now, that being said, I do like looking at the catalogs that I receive either via e-mail or snail mail. Hence a recent post about Dress Barn and their new spring line. 

This is the outfit that I wore over the weekend when my cousin and I went to the Crime and Punishment museum in D.C. While we had a blast at the museum, we were not there nearly long enough to really see everything. We also did a "lab", which I highly recommend! We had planned on being there for a while, but were limited to 4 hours because of the stinking metro. I understand that it is easier to do the work on the rail system on the weekends instead of during the work week (aka rush hour). But I'm not really cool with it taking us 3 hours to get from point A to point B, including bus transfers. I guess it was an "experience", and it was good bonding time with my cousin. I would rather have spent that time in the museum. :) Okay now my non fashion rant is finished!

I wish that I owned a dark purple cardigan, but I am happy that I had this lavender cardigan to work with!

Cardigan: Clothing swap

Tank: Express

Pants: Old Navy

Boots: Express

Necklace: Express

Earrings: Gifted

Colorful leopard with a Spring Line of Excitement

Remember how I said that I get to dress up at least once a week (at my work) now? Well here is my outfit from Monday, the day that I don't have to wear scrubs. This outfit was actually inspired by J's Everyday Fashion. Now I know that my necklace isn't a bubble necklace, nor does it match my jeans exactly, but it works. I really like her colored jeans that also match her necklace, with the addition of the leopard cardigan. I decided to throw in a little lace with my neutral shirt under the leopard cardigan. I also wore boots because my ankles can't handle the cold just yet.

AND...let's talk about Dress Barn's new line out right now. Now I know that I've said this before, but I absolutely hate the name of this place. I mean, who really wants to by clothes from a barn? However, I can usually find some really cute clothes from this store, and their spring line is no exception. Coral and mint/teal are the stand out colors of this spring for them, and I am loving it. I'm also loving how it mirrors many popular brands out there right now that are not cheap. It's got you covered with the jewelry  (Stella & Dot bangles and necklaces) as well as lots of lace clothing,(lace dress from Francesca's Collections), and symmetrical floral clothing (Prabal Gurung for Target). (The color scheme closely resembles that of J.Crew and Express too). Now go take advantage of this spring line. 

Cardigan: From Clothing Swap

Tank: Express

Pants: Express

Boots: Khol's 

Necklace: Khol's

Earrings: man I'm drawing a blank right now.

Spring on the mind

I don't know what it feels like at your house, but it is COLD here. I would like it to feel warmer outside, so therefore I decided to dress in spring colors. The cardigan that I'm wearing in these photos is one of the items that I got from the clothing swap. I had just decided that I wanted a light purple cardigan right before I went to the swap, so when I saw this on one of the tables, I knew that I had to have it. 

OOTD

Cardigan: From clothing swap (Daisy Fuentes @ Khols)

Floral Tank: Express

Pants: Old Navy

Boots: Candies @ Khols 

Necklace: Express

Earrings: gifted from Alaska 

A non-scrub outfit....finally

I actually got to wear "real" clothes on Friday last week, instead of my normal scrubs. I was so excited that I got to dress up, except that it was actually a "dress down" day. Haha. Everyone else wore blue jeans, but I needed to wear something other than normal jeans. The man definitely laughed at me for getting so excited about wearing "fun clothes". 

I'm going to be on a mini vacation from Friday-Monday, so there won't be any posts. I might do a suitcase post, but I'm not really sure what I'm packing yet, so only time will tell.

Hope your week is going well so far!

Sweater: Express

Tank: Express

Pants: Target

Boots: Express

Necklace: Express

This outfit was brought to you by Express....minus they didn't pay for anything, lol.

Purple and Teal....plus a sale!

SALE ALERT!! Francesca's Collections is having a buy one, get one 50% on new jewelry in their stores right now. Okay, so that is a common sale that goes on in that store. However, they are also having a buy one thing on clearance, and get something else on clearance for free. The clearance sale is store wide, so you may want to go check out a store near you. I had gotten a gift card to Francesca's for Christmas, so I had a lot of fun over the weekend shopping in the store. The man and I were meeting his dad and little sister for lunch near our local Francesca's store, so after lunch us girls went shopping! We told to boys to go find something to do because we were going to be a while. Haha.

**THIS POST CONTAINS MANY PHOTOS!!**

While I was shopping, I found a necklace that I thought went better with my outfit than the necklace that I wore when walked out of the door that morning. 

Cardigan: Express

Teal & Purple Tank: Express (recent)

Pants: Dress Barn

Boots: Express

Necklace: Dress Barn

Earrings: (gifted) Francesca's Collections

Wearing the necklace that I bought while shopping.

I purchased two necklaces and two bracelets while shopping. The mint bracelet and the gray necklace were the regular priced items, and the purple and gold necklace and the black and gold bracelet were the clearance items. 

Leopard, black, and purple

I'm not going to lie, wearing scrubs to work everyday makes me cry a little bit every morning when I get dressed. Okay, maybe that is a lie. I don't cry *every* morning. Come to think of it, almost every job that I've ever held had either some sort of dress code (as is uniform) or required scrubs or jeans (because you don't dress up when you work on a farm). 

The only time that I got to play dress up for work was when I was a P.A. for a loan officer while I was looking for an actual job. Darn.

Well, at least I will be interacting more with patients soon, so wearing scrubs won't be so bad. (Let's face it, I don't want to bring blood and what not home on my nice pretty clothes.)

I have a feeling that life will stay busy, giving me reason to dress in fun clothes....as long as I have time to go home and change first. 

This is one of my many house hunting outfits. I probably haven't called the others"house hunting" clothes, but that's not really important. 

I was going to originally going to wear the leopard shirt with black pants, but I wanted to try to stick to the "rule-of-three". Since I do not own any bright cardigans, I decided to keep the cardigan black and the pants brights. Yup.

Cardigan: Khol's

Leopard shirt: Express (recent)

Pants: Target

Boots: Express (recent)

Belt: Target

I decided to go sans necklace and bracelets with this outfit. The shirt actually ties at the top, and I felt like a necklace made it too busy. I was also in a fuss-free mood and didn't feel like dealing with a lot of accessories. Yeah,  life is just so rough. 

Finally, A New Year's Outfit

So I figured that it has been a few days since I posted about how I wore this sweater, so I could post about it again.  I had been planning on wearing some fancy dress for NYE, but then the man and I decided that we really did not want to go out to celebrate, so we decided to ring in the New Year with family and friend's. The man's brother was hosting another NYE party at his condo, so we were able to have some low-key fun. 

The invitation said "Dress to Impress, but it doesn't take make to impress me". haha. I decided that I wanted to be comfortable since I knew that we would be sitting around the living room playing games, and stuffing ourselves silly with tasty food. 

I will definitely wear this outfit again, probably on a dinner date or something. 

Sweater: Express (recent)

Sequined Tank: Express (recent

Pants: Dress Barn (recent)

Boots: Express (recent

Bracelets: Express, Old Navy, and Francesca's Collections

Rings: Same as always

Earrings: gifted from Kay's Jewelry  (recent)

*I was going to wear a necklace, but I just wasn't feeling them once I tried on 3 different necklaces that evening. 

Anyone look at what the color for 2013 is going to be? It's Emerald! Now I am very excited about this as Emerald and jewel tones are right up my alley when it comes to coloring.

Purple and Black

Please excuse my absence over the past week. I spent the week with my family in Virginia, and never got around to unpacking my computer to post any new blog entries. In fact, I didn't even take any pictures of my outfits while I was there. (WHAT?!?) The lack of pictures was not because I did not have any cute clothes to wear. It was because I just didn't feel like going through the motions while my whole family was there. I enjoyed spending time with them, and forgot about my computer altogether for a few days.

So the pictures that I do have are from over a week ago. I actually got the same sweater that I am wearing in this post for Christmas, but in royal blue. I've already worn it, but I suppose that I get to wear it again since there is no photographic proof. :)

Many of my Christmas presents were clothes, so you can expect to see them make an appearance on this blog in the near future!

I'm still not sure what I'm wearing tonight (New Year's Eve). The man and I are going over to his brother's house for a small get-together, so I have no need to dress fancy-like. I still have a few hours to decide what I am actually going to wear. haha.

HAPPY NEW YEARS EVERYONE!

Sweater: Express (recent)

Pants: Target

Boots: JcPenny

Necklace: Charming Charlies

Earrings: Francesca's Collections

Purple and Green

If you look at these photos, you will see that I'm wearing two sweaters. I always wear the light green sweater over a green tank, and decided that I needed to switch it up. I took a look through my closet and noticed that the purple sweater was on a backwards hanger (meaning that I had not worn it yet) (And yes I know that sweaters should be folded, not hung up). I decided to try out the double sweater look, just for kicks, and I decided that I liked it enough to wear it all day.

 I own a few hats, but I never seem to wear them. As I was walking through my closet, I spied my purple hat and decided that it was time to wear it. (Hence these photos). 

When I say that I walked "through" my closet, I don't mean that my closet is so big that I can prance around in it. The closet is merely a passage-way from the bedroom to the bathroom, and is not as big as it looks. When the man and I were looking at apartments, we almost rented one that had two huge separate closets for us both. However, said apartment was not in the middle of the fun that we live in now, and it was going to be a bit more expensive. Maybe one day I'll actually photograph my closet for the blogging world to see.

Green Sweater: Dress Barn

Purple Sweater: Nordstrom Rack (Fall 2012)

Pants: Target

Necklace: Express

Boots: Charlotte Russe

Hat: JcPenny

Purple and Orange

I am slowly trying to add more cardigans to my closet, because let's face it, they can really make an outfit. In this outfit I'm wearing the cardigan that I got on Black Friday for $10. What, What?!

I knew when I got dressed on this particular day, that I wanted to wear this cardigan, but I was having a difficult time deciding what to wear under it. I really like this burnt orange color, but I kept going through my clothes without finding anything that inspired me. Then I realized that my closet is crammed to the brim with clothing, and that I would find something to wear, I just had to go through every item instead of just scanning the rack. Then I had an epiphany that orange and purple should go together so I went through the purple section of my closet and found this sleeve-less shirt. (Yes, my clothes are color coordinated). 

This is why I want a closet big enough that it can hold all of my clothes, without the items being smashed together. Whenever the man and I look at potential houses for the future, the first thing I think about is converting the smallest room in the house into my grand walk in closet. He may think that I'm silly, but hey, a girl's got to dream. 

How do you ever find anything in your closet?

Cardigan: Dress Barn

Tank: Plato's Closet (Originally from Express)

Pants: Old Navy

Boots: Khol's

Necklace & Earrings: Dress Barn

Multi-colored ring: gifted (but I believe it came from His or Her Salon & Spa, in Midlothian, VA)

Silver ring: Maryland Renaissance Festival

~I am wearing a lace tank from H&M underneath the purple shirt. The purple shirt is see-thru and I didn't want to show off my goods to anyone. Sorry.

****Please excuse the *fluffy* hair.