Friday, April 15, 2011

Blown away



Necklace: gift from parents
Top: Target
Scarf as belt: TJMaxx?
Dress as skirt: shop in Cape May
Wedges: Target
Band aid: Sesame Street



I couldn't stay away, y'all. My days off have been wonderful, thank you to everyone who wished me well! I've gotten a lot done--I went to the DMV and got a new license, complete with new, much better picture and incorrect orientation (vertical instead of horizontal) because the employee thought I looked way younger than I actually am. I also took my horse to our trainer on Thursday because he waaaaaaaaay needed a tuneup, and he was fantastic. We got a lot done in half an hour! I also bought another pair of jeans from Gap because I love those long and lean jeans. I'm not lean--though I am long--and I never thought I could wear 100% cotton jeans but they fit really well. (I was not paid to say that, it's just the truth!)



Oh and my car's check engine light came on. SUPER!



Also I guess I lied about the maxi dress thing but also sort of not--this skirt is a halter dress that I wore once in 2007 so I'm trying to find ways to incorporate it into my decidedly not halter dressy wardrobe. I don't remember the skirt being this long, but 2007 was a long time ago! So I tried. I still am not a huge fan of this length on me, but I didn't have to worry about my skirt blowing up and showing the interstate my butt, even with Punishing Winds blasting across the orchard.

I might be posting tomorrow, but if not, I'll see you Sunday!

7 comments:

  1. Love love love the orangey-red skirt with the turquoise scarf, but then you probably could already have guessed that.

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  2. I'm glad someone did! My mom saw it and said "well, that is not the colour I would have chosen" and I chose to ignore that. I like how they look together!

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  3. hey, cute new header thingy!

    my mom says things like "your not worried about the horizontal stripes making you look fat? and i say, mom, i am fat...so i wear things i like...." moms are gems:)

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  4. Thanks Aleisha :) Part of my time off was spent giving the blog a little facelift!

    & yes, moms are so very charming. Love her to death but she knows how to push my buttons! I think she finally gave up on horizontal stripes though, thankfully. Honestly, who even makes the miraculously "slimming" vertically striped shirts? No one, that's who. I'll wear what I want, yo!

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  5. LOL at this one--i know, vertical "slimming" stripes...mmmmm...your outfit is awesome, full of personality and color--can't get better than that:)

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  6. I would say the length of that is perfect for you. Hard to tell in the wind though! I know what you mean about the maxi dresses from before. I'm not a fan of them. I am only 5'5" so I always feel a little too short for them and that they just billow around me like a tent - but this weekend, weird enough I actually found one at an Anthropologie in the return section that was a Petite and I didn't even know they had Petites. It was like it was left there for me. It didn't look too bad either, so it came home with me. :) Hopefully, I still feel that way when I go to put it on.

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  7. Awww Elle I hope it works for you! I guess I don't give maxi dresses enough credit because I know soooooooo many people love them, but I just can't do it. I think this dress toes the line between maxi and knee length, which I like.

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