Category: outfit

{heavy materials, layers underneath, tights, flannel heels}

Layer your dress: A heavy-duty red material, layered with a chambray shirt makes sure this ensemble stays cozy. 

{Merino cardigan, heavy dress, merino tights, Hunter boots}

Layer with Merino Wool: Layer over it with a merino wool sweater and merino wool tights. 

{Velvet skirt, layered top, Bootights, Shearling-lined boots}

Discover Bootights: LOVE these tights with a sock attached. They are made in USA, high-quality, durable, and have a sock attached. 

Scarves and hats are your best friends. {turtleneck, hat, scarf, summer-weight dress, sweater, heavy tights, shorts underneath}

Choose Appropriate Dress Materials: Heavy vintage silk, velvet, and wool are all great choices. If you are wearing a lighter-weight dress, be sure the colors say “winter.”

Utilize vests: {camisole, Merino heavy-knit sweater, vest, midweight skirt, leggings, Hunter boots}

Turtlenecks don’t have to be dowdy! {heavy J.Crew turtleneck, lightweight skirt, leggings, high boots}

You can even do fancy in the winter without being freezing! These tights are a great find (Target, of course!) and pair perfectly with a heavy silk vintage dress ($10 from the ‘needs work’ bin at my favorite vintage store…and I’m happy to work on pretty vintage dresses!). Then I wore my bright red wool coat.

{Dress, merino wool sweater, sweater tights, suede pumps}

I hope this gives you some ideas as we face these last dregs of winter! 

Be well and be warm!

(PS. You can see even more tips on my First Edition, even though the pictures are absolutely terrible, it remains one of my most popular posts!)

Casual weekend duds.

Neutrals with a pop of color in the form of hot pink jeans and hot pink earrings.

I’m in love with these stretchy, no-snag hairbands that also look great on your wrist when not in use. I am always getting comments because I wear an ugly hair band around my wrist at all times. Funny story: In my brother’s wedding, I had one on my wrist in ALL of the bridesmaid pictures, and into the wedding. When I looked down during the prayer and noticed it was there, I took it off and threw it into the grass while everyone had their heads bowed. 

If only I’d had a cute one!!

Have a great week!

Some days, you have to get up, get dressed, and go make something happen.

Or, at the very least, get a cup of coffee in a hot pink cup that really makes you smile.

And by “get dressed” I mean…borrow clothes from my mom. Let’s not discuss how much I want to “permanently borrow” this gingham shirt of hers.

I have to say, I had a really great day while wearing this outfit, and while I didn’t necessarily “go get” anything super awesome today, at least I tried. Points, right? 

So this is sort of my “Halloween costume”. I’m not really a huge fan of Halloween, but I wore this outfit today, and I put it together inspired by Princess Kate. As soon as I spotted this dress in the thrift store, I knew it had to be mine. Lucky for me, it happens to be a London brand! Kate is bringing sheer hose back in style, but the only ones I had have flowers up the sides, hehe. An older lady who saw me went crazy over these hose and insisted I show them off in the pictures, so I did:

Kate has some very similar Stewart Weitzman cork wedge heels, so I wore my patent and rattan wedges. She often wears belts, too, and the hat is so similar to her brown one from the Canadian tour! I wore my best pearl studs, and tried my hardest to curl my hair. 

Her hair is so utterly enviable! Gah! My hair hardly holds a curl. Here’s how it looked at the beginning, the best it looked after all of my 30 minutes of effort: 

Here are a few of the dresses/outfits that inspired me: 

I feel like Kate wore a dress even more similar to mine at some point, but I couldn’t find a picture of it. 

Anyway, I adore, adore, adore this outfit, and can’t wait to wear the dress again! 

Have fun but be safe and smart tonight, friends! 

These days, it’s a daily struggle to keep all of my heart here. To keep it present. 

Half of it is still living a small-town-happy past life, and the other half is living a city-struggling-memories life.

Also, I have only unpacked about 20% of my closet, and I haven’t figured out this “why my hair looks so terrible here most days” thing yet, so I’m really limping along here with style posts. Good thing this blog isn’t just about fashion 🙂 

PS> I had to wear this leopard coat because it was snowing. Again.

Have a great week! 

I was looking through old photographs last night. 

Feeling really wonderfully nostalgic. The good kind of nostalgia. The happy-it-happened, weren’t-we-cute, wasn’t-the-world-lighter-then sort of nostalgia. The best kind.

I got excited to make more memories. I felt inspired: THIS is my one life. These days will soon be the memories. So I’d better snatch every beautiful thing I can!

God is still at work in my life, refining me little by little, sloughing off the rough edges and making me more like Him. But in the meantime, isn’t it a good feeling to be mostly content with where you’ve come from, and excited to see what’s around the next corner? I hope you feel that way, too, dears, I really do. I’m excited to see what God has planned.

xo!

Sometimes I wonder: Is this too much?  

I wonder that with a lot of things. Flourishes in my handwriting, exclamation points in my typing, vintage-ness in my outfits?

I think:

 Oh, goodness, well, maybe I’m doing things wrong. Maybe it’s all just too much.

Maybe I need to get rid of flourishes, exclamation points, and vintage-ness. 

Or, maybe, just maybe,

The real questions are:

Do I have enough love in my heart? 

Light in my eyes?

Happiness in the morning?

And when the answer to those questions are YES, the answers to the other questions are NO, because the flourishes/exclamation points/vintage-ness are outpourings of the love/light/happiness. 

I think that’s a beautiful thing. 

xo!

I got these orange jeans and was’t quite sure how to style them until I saw this picture. I just had to recreate this outfit as soon as possible! I’m so glad I did because this is one of my favorite outfits. It just felt really, really great to wear, and perfect for spring. You know those kinds of outfits? They really make the whole day seem better, don’t you think? Now I hardly want to take these orange jeans off. I’ve worn them twice so far, and just threw ’em in the wash, so I can’t wait to wear them again. I never would have thought in a million years that orange jeans would become my new favorite!

Sunnies: Target

Tee: Gap

Linen Motorcycle Jacket: Charlotte Russe

Necklace: American Eagle

Jeans: Thrifted

Bracelets: J.Crew

Heels: Thrifted


Have a great day!