Perfect Plaid

Top: H&M
Jeans:Kohls

I am so obsessed with plaid. It's my thing now. I really have to resist buying every type of plaid shirt I see in a store. For reals. I used to be really anti plaid, but now I love it. Can't get enough!

Disclaimer...this is an old post but I went to edit the labels and now it shows up as much more recent. Dunno what's up with that, but there you go!

New year, fresh inspiration

Now, I know it's August, and it's not a new year in the calendar sense, but as a teacher, new year means school year. A friend of mine from work and I went outlet mall shopping over the weekend and the topic of my blog came up. I showed her some of my old outfits (ones I never wore last year) and she told me I totally need to do the blog again if it helped me feel inspired because my outfits were super cute. (Aww, shucks)

Soooo... here we are. I still can't figure out a convenient photo snapping location here in my new(ish) apartment, and of course yesterday it was stormy out and my place had terrible lighting. Ohhhh well.
 

Today alot of people commented that my outfit matched so much!, and I can't decide if that's a good thing or means it's toooo matchy matchy. Ya know what I mean? I also got two compliments on my necklace, with one of my coworkers saying I always have the best necklaces.

So,  I have do say, maybe this whole, getting back into the blog and going back to putting more thought into my outfits is not such a bad idea....

Wow, that was a pretty terrible run on sentence, eh?

Take no mind of the smudges that won't come off the mirror...

Yesterday:

 Flats: H&M
Skirt: Gordmans
Tank: NY&CO Outlet

Today:

 Pants: Bergners
Tank: Old Navy Outlet
Necklace: Custom via etsy

4th of July nails

Why yes, I did drop off the face of the blogging earth for almost a year. Life was busy with a new job, new town, and planning a wedding. I've also not been too motivated to photograph outfits anymore.

Anywhoooo...

This took me entirely too long but I haven't done any nail art or stamping (or heck barely painted my nails) since I moved...so it was fun. =)

BM plate 21, if anyone cares. The rest was with nail tape "stenciling"?

Sephora Makeover

So I got an email about a free event at Sephora for a makeup application and there were free gifts. Who doesn't like a free gift?

Hoping to learn a little, and maybe find some products to fill a few voids I've been searching for, I went with tiny hopes that *maybe* it would go ok.

Last time I had my makeup done, I thought it looked ridiculous.

This time, I look pasable, but still ridiculous in my own mind. This is why I refuse to get my makeup done for my wedding in June. I won't look like me and I'll hate it. Sigh. Here's the before and after

 On the left, naked face. On the right, I feel like I look like about ten years older with that god awful liner under my eyes. Overall, it seems ok, but the photo is making it look better than it is. The foundation has zero coverage, or at least for the amount that was used. My healing chin zit actually looks MORE red after the makeup went on it.

The liner. The liner is just so bad. (Am I right? Or am I crazy?)  I do like the colors of the shadows. They aren't showing up well in the pics, but they are nice shimmer pinkish bronzey colors (which I am searching for)

The lady went a little overboard with the blush and bronzer on my cheeks. I complained about the last time I had makeup done and my blush went all the way up onto my temples and how stupid it was, and she said oh yes, much too high. She proceded to swipe bronzer up ONTO my ears saying, it really does need to go all the way back though, oh yes.  On no, lady. At least not with that heavy of a hand.

I also do LOVE the lipstick crayon color. I might buy this as a splurge to wear on my wedding day. I will look for a dupe first, because dayumn, 19$ for a lipstick? Sigh.

Here's the product breakdown:
 All Buxom products:
Foundation: Show me someshin weightless foundation
Eyeshadow: Lid- Collie    Browbone Cockerspaniel
Lipstick crayon in Havana

Didn't bother asking about the blush or bronzer, I wasn't a fan.

She sent me away with a sample of the foundation and a free lipgloss in Sophia. (Though the box says it tingles and there's nothing I hate more than tingley lip products. Oh well.


So, what do you think?

Wedding Style

I wore this outfit for a wedding back in September, and forgot about it until now. I do love a good reason to dress up though and wear heels!

 

Heels: Payless (Comfort Plus) Super comfy!

Dress: Modcloth- "Windy City"

 

Cardigan Obsessed

I'm not wonder woman, and I'm realizing that it's ok if I can't do it all. It's ok if I'm tired after a long day at work and just want to relax when I get home. So, I haven't been photographing outfits, I haven't really been posting. But you know, sometimes life just gets in the way!

Here's an old outfit  from the end of summer- I wrote up the post but forgot about it:

Flats: Payless
Dress: Old Navy
Cardigan: Charlotte Russe

The best part about a cardigan is it makes your outfit summer and inside a/c friendly. My new job has a/c in the building, and unfortunately it blows directly down on me! Brrr! Cardigans are great because I just throw one on and make an outfit like this not only more work appropriate, but a little more comfortable while the a/c is blowing.

Brain dump

Confession. I'm in a slump. A funk. I don't know what. Everything has been a whirlwind and I feel like my life is completely unproductive lately. I got engaged. I moved. I started a new job. I'm planning a wedding. I've been in my new apartment for three months.. THREE. And my stupid pictures are still sitting in boxes on my living room floor. To me, this is completely aggravating.

I'm not comfortable here yet. Not in my new place, not in my new job, not in my new town. I complain in my head about minor things, like the post office not being conveniently a mile away. The groceries are more expensive and I can't deal and get over it so I shop at walmart instead, but I kind of hate walmart, and it is seriously the ONLY walmart anywhere that does not have the same (or even flip flopped) layout. It's layout is completely stupid. ( see where I'm going with this..the list goes on and on) I complain in my head alot. But this also makes me mad, because I have a lot to be thankful for. I finally got a job in the burbs like I had been wanting. Yes, my apartment is pretty dang nice and I really do like it. I am engaged! (The best one of them all) Yet I keep complaining in my head about life's little annoyances.

The start of the school year is so grueling because yes, I DO enjoy my free time in the summer and I'm just damn exhausted after 8 hours on my feet with kiddos in the art room. I can't get anything done at home because I'm tired. 

And, well, I'm sucked into wedding planing 12,000%, NO JOKE. 

Gone are the days of the comfort of three years at the same job, four years in the same town, same apartment, same daily life. I had my routine, I had it down pat, and yes I was exhausted but I had...time. I had hobbies, I had my friends.  I was posting on my blog here basically every day. I thought I couldn't wait to get out of there(this is NOT my forever town/home/job, I would tell myself), but I was comfortable and happy, and, well.... starting over is damn hard. I need to get it together over here.

If you read all that or skipped over it, here's an old outfit from warmer days earlier this fall.

Flats: Payless
Pants: Burlington Coat Factory
Top: H&M