Easter EGGStravaganza...

 

So it's Easter, and I decided to make an extra long Easter EGGStravaganza post. I didn't know what to wear for Easter at my Granny's, so I tried on a couple of outfits! Above was outfit choice #1. Btw, everything in this post was thrifted (except for the boots) and most items come from my most recent Goodwill run. The top is Banana Republic, and the skirt is Forever 21.

 

I'm not sure why, but I have been on a skirt-buying binge as of late. I usually don't wear skirts, but it is springtime now and I guess I am just pumped to show off my super-white legs!

 

 

Here is outfit choice #2! This skirt is also Forever 21, and the top is Ann Taylor. This skirt is totally adorable, maybe a bit too young for me but I look like I'm still sixteen. If I have to get carded, I might as well look the part. My mom says the skirt matches my shower curtain in my new apartment. It does! Haha.

Finally, outfit choice #3. Jokes on you because I knew I was going to end up wearing this choice from the beginning, I just wanted to do a House Hunters-type post. This babydoll dress is soooo cute! It is originally from Urban Outfitters and the brand is Kimchi Blue (one of my favorite brands!).

 



Here we have some other finds. Above on the right is the piece de resistance, the find of all finds, the most elusive brand of all. A wild Missoni for Target appears!! When it was in stores, it sold out within a matter of hours, they were impossible to get your hands on. Well, the Scott, LA Goodwill had one and I got it for $2.00. Boo-ya.

 

On the left is just a shirt I liked, I knew it would go well with blue jeans, and anything else really. White is all right.

 



 

Here are some work shirts, Mossimo on the left, New York & Co. on the right. You can never have too many work shirts!



Proof that I'm not just playing with you. This is actually a Missoni shirt. The sad thing is that the head of Missoni is missoning (missing). Bummer!

 

Finally, here are some thrifted shoes! I know what you are thinking, ew. Well, ew all you want, but the black patent ones are from Payless (Dexter), but the blue pointy heels and the brown round toe heels are from Ann Taylor and Nine West, respectively.

 

Happy Easter you guys! I hope yours was as full of love and laughter as mine!

 

trusty boots...

 

Outfits of the weekend post! I still have an Easter outfit to plan so I might also make a post concerning that outfit once I wear it, but let's not jump the gun here.

 

Ok, I cheated. Above was not an outfit I wore this weekend, I actually wore it a couple of weekends ago, but I wanted to share it. This is my Beatles shirt that I would wear if I ever went to a Beatles convention, but since that won't be happening I wear it on normal days. I got it from Goodwill a couple of months ago. Not sure if you can see it here but it is actually a greenish-gray color. I wore it with skinny blue jeans and my trusty boots!

 

Here we have one of my favorite T-shirts. I got it from some store in New Orleans, not sure which (sorry, store). I paired it with a thrifted blazer and red skinny jeans from Urban Outfitters (Ok, you guys know I enjoy thrifting, but if there is a store I like more than thrift stores it's Urban. Yes, Urban and I are on a first-name basis. I would buy everything in that store if I had an endless supply of $60.00. Seriously, everything in that store is at least $60.00). These red skinny jeans are exactly the same brand as the mint skinny jeans from my St. Patrick's Day post, only red!

 

Lo and behold, here are my trusty boots again! I'm sensing a trend (both in the statistical sense and the fashion sense).

 

This outfit would have looked much better if my hair had been dry when I took the picture. This is another one of my favorite T-shirts, I wear it as much as I can. I'm not sure the look quite works here. This was mostly a chill-out outfit, so I didn't take it too seriously. I wanted to wear my new gold skirt (from a previous post), and this shirt was the best option to go with it. I really just worked on my tan with this one :) .

 

No boots in this picture. Trend over.

 

 

Finally, we have one of my favorite dresses (Forever 21), which I really feel that I can wear in any situation. I can dress it up, as I show here, with tights and boots and go to dinner, or I can just wear it with sandals and attend an outdoor concert.

 

One time I wore it with a leather jacket and I felt like I looked especially great. Leather jackets are awesome. It's really too bad my kitty cat clawed mine. I'm still going to wear it though becase I'm tough like that. 

 

Boots once more! Trend returns.

golfer chic...

 

This outfit is what I like to call Payne Stewart chic (if you don't know who he was, Google is your friend). This is the same argyle sweater from the Goodwill post, and I paired it with some thrifted dark brown pants (not sure where they were from originally, I left them in BR and I am in Laf at the moment).

 

I LOVE this sweater, mostly because it fits perfectly, and a good fit is hard to find. I was so excited to find an good piece of argyle clothing, because usually with argyle I always feel like I skirt the line between cute and matronly.

 

The pants I am definitely iffy about. I wear them a lot because they match with lots of different clothes and as I have mentioned before finding good work pants is no easy feat. However, they are a tad highwatery. Today I fixed this problem by adding some height with brown mary-jane heels (Seychelles, store-bought, AWESOME brand, cute and super comfortable). Most of the time though I look like Charlie Chaplin when I wear these pants (except for today. Today was Payne). What I do like about them is that they are highwaisted and rather retro, and in my book retro is never a bad thing.

 

I added a brown headband because there was no brown in the sweater and I wanted to tie the brown pants into the outfit somehow. I am always looking for ways to use color to make a look come together. Not only is Google your friend, but color is too! And yes, you can mix argyle with houndstooth. Mixing prints is in, my friends.

 

hairy potter...

 

Short post today, I didn't prepare a Wednesday/Baton Rouge topic so I guess you guys will have to do without! Above is a completely thrifted outfit. Some of the items you may remember from my previous post, so I won't bore you with my 'getting nice clothes for cheap' enthusiasm.

 

I wasn't too sure about this outfit; I am not certain the skirt fits me like I want it to (and I always hesitate to wear red tights to work, but they are just so darn cute I couldn't resist). Usually I change once or twice in the morning because I just don't know if an outfit looks right, but lately I have been trying to go with my instincts, and that is what I did here. I think the end result turned out ok, and the colors look really nice together. The shirt I love, it has a scoop neck and I know it will go with lots of different clothes. The boots are hand-me-downs from Mom :) . Not sure where I got the scarf, either Mom or Forever 21. Pretty soon I will be calling it Forever 31 because I am getting OLD.

 

Although I didn't prepare a BR post, above are some kids playing Quidditch on the Parade Grounds (so I sort of did). Yes, those poles are supposed to be brooms. Ha! They could have used actual brooms. At work I am responsible for preparing surveys for publications (such as the Princeton Review and its ilk) and just today I had to revise a list of registered student organizations here at LSU. To my surprise the LSU Quidditch Club exists! Then, after work, I go outside and the same Quidditch Club appears before my eyes. Magic. I bet if I ever try to look for proof that this club exists again, I won't find it, because Magic. Good thing I included a picture here.

 

I must let you know that I am not a big Harry Potter fan in the least, but this is cute. I should start a Secret Garden club. There wouldn't be any members but me because it's a 'secret' garden club (and no one is as obsessed with that book as I was). Except I just told all of you. Whoops.

kashmir...

Super long post today, mostly because I skipped blogging this weekend and I went on a Goodwill run! Later in the post I'll show you all the goodies I found there.

 

Above, we have my outfit of the day for today. The top is a Mossimo cashmere sweater (yes, cashmere) that I got from Target YEARS ago (seriously, having a job makes you look at clothes you have had forever in different ways. I almost gave this sweater away SEVERAL times. So glad I didn't). I actually had this sweater in three colors at one point: gray, green, and purple. The purple one got a hole in it (bummer, it was a pretty spring-timey color) so I got rid of it. I still wear both the gray and the green on a regular basis. Cardigan-type sweaters are a MUST for the workplace, they are easy to wear and look professional at the same time. I need more of them, actually.

 

The skirt is a find from my recent Goodwill trip, originally from the Limited. The tags were still on it. I repeat, the tags were still on it. Would you like to know how much it was originally? Well, I will tell you anyway: $70.00. I paid $5.00 for a skirt that was originally $70.00 that still had tags on it which means it wasn't even worn. THRIFTING RULES.

 

That leads me to another topic: it took me a couple of times of shopping at Goodwill to get over the fact that someone else had worn the clothes. The more I shopped there, though, the more I saw that it didn't really matter, just get it cleaned and go on with your day :) .

 

Here are my mom's friend Debbie, my mom Patti, and I at the LeTriomphe golf tournament in Lafayette. I know, I know, Lafayette is not Baton Rouge. I am in Lafayette all the time, though, so, deal with it haha.

 

The sweater here is J.Crew (!) and I love it! I can't wait to wear this sweater with shorts, because i like how baggy sweaters look with shorts. Alas, the golf course was just too cold to wear shorts. The hat is my Kevin Federline hat. Don't you want your own K. Fed hat? It's ok to be jealous.

 

Below are all the great pieces I found at Goodwill on my recent excursion. Their original brands are in the captions.



Argyle sweater: New York and Company

Plaid shirt: American Eagle Outfitters

White striped shirt: Gap

Pink striped sweater: J. Crew

 



Black skirt: No idea. They tore out the tag. Jerks

White dot skirt: The Limited

Pink skirt: Forever 21

Gold skirt: Old Navy

Once again, thanks for reading! 

beanie babies...

What do you guys think of shirts with ties? I am OBSESSED. I have three, and I hope to attain more. I am sure you will see the others in future posts. I like them because they look really professional and you don't have to try too hard to achieve that when you wear them.

 

This shirt was pretty much made for me. It fits well, the color goes super well with my hair (most royal colors/jewel tones do) and yes, it was thrifted. I guess it wasn't really made for me as someone else used to own it, but I digress. The shirt was originally from Banana Republic, and the pants are gray plaid, also thrifted and originally from Express. The belt is a hand-me-down from my Mom! She gives me all of her good stuff!

 

I am sure I sound like a broken record with how many times I repeat the word "thrifted," but I cannot sing thrifting's praises enough. I plan on going tomorrow and getting some more good finds. Below, I added the same black shrug from a previous post, and, you guessed it, thrifted black kitten heels! These are Gianni Bini, just like my tan boots from that bonus outfit a few posts ago. The boots were not thrifted. You can't win 'em all :) .

 

Below are my beanie babies!! I mean, seriously, beans grow soooo fast! If I had known they grow so fast, I would have been planting them all along and enjoying delicious beans I grew myself! Now, the actual bean part hasn't grown yet, but at this rate we should be seeing some major beanage soon. I will keep you updated on their progress. I also planted squash, which are also growing fast, and carrots, which aren't growing all that much. I am now able to tell which plant is which. I am getting the hang of this farmer stuff.

 

"Why are you wearing a tux?" -Liz Lemon

 

"It's after 6, what am I, a farmer?" -Jack Donaghy

 

beaches...

 

Above is my outfit of the day! I am super glad I wore one of my nicer shirts (thrifted-originally from the Limited) with a blazer because today I got to attend a meeting to hear the new LSU President-elect speak. He is currently the president of Cal U - Long Beach. SIGN ME UP! I want to live in Long Beach not fair :( . Someday, I will live on a beach. Why you would leave Long Beach for Louisiana is beyond me but me saying that goes against the central theme of my blog (and the answer is $).

 

Speaking of beaches, what is the deal with (airline food) the weather?? I can't get well because the weather keeps changing. Plus, now that it is officially springtime, I want to go by the pool and be able to stay there without freezing to death and maybe wear a bikini. Is that too much to ask?

 

I know this post is a little ridiculous, but I am in a ridiculous mood. Anyway, I love the sweet color of this shirt, and it just screams spring to me (SPRING TO ME). Which is appropriate, considering the season we are in.