Flowers & Lace

February 16th, 2012

Hello friends! How was your Valentine’s Day? We had a nice calm day here, started off with warm drinks straight out of bed, courtesy of Daddy. Ella was in shock over her hot chocolate and Poppy was well aware that she was missing out. Soon enough, PoppyLou, soon enough…

We gave the girls little buckets of Valentine goodies and I wrapped a special bag of cookies and M&Ms just for Ella to devour throughout the day as she pleased. Free reign of cookies? A hit!

We went to Storytime at the library and Ella took a bag of cookies for the teacher. She was so excited to give her those cookies and when she handed them over all bashful I almost melted! As she walked away, she turned around and said loudly, “Happy Vannentime’s Day!”

On our way home, we stopped at the girls’ cousins house and Ella and I ran up to the door to leave them little surprises. I love doing things like that and now that Ella’s big enough to help, it’s so much more fun!

We had lunch with my parents and the girls got cute little gifts from them – needless to say, Ella is a major fan of Valentine’s Day.

Anthony and I kept things easy and low-key this year. We picked up a pizza for dinner and cut it into a heart shape, and the gasp out of Ella when she saw it was so funny. (There we go with the little things again…) And after dinner there were of course…more cookies.

It was a great day shared with the people we love. Having two tiny Valentines to spoil and shower with extra love is so much fun.

Anthony and I are treating today as our own sort of Valentine’s Day. For Christmas my parents bought us tickets to see Wicked and the day has finally come! So many people we know have seen it and said it was amazing! We haven’t been to a show in a long time, and I’m so excited for the experience! I hear there’s a plan for dinner after too – I can’t wait!

About the outfit, I wore this dress one night when I took Anthony out on a date. It’s nice to turn the tables and be the planner sometimes. This outfit would have been quite fitting for Valentine’s Day too, I think. The lace is so dainty and feminine and I’m in love with the collar. (It’s just too bad my dress looks the same shade as that wall – eep.)

From my closet:

Dress // Forever 21
Tights // Target
Bangles // Alex & Ani
Wedges // Blowfish Shoes

Hope your Love Day was sweet! It’s almost the weekend, woot!!

xoxo

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On Keeping it Going…

January 20th, 2012

Hi there! I’m back with another outfit styling from way back when.

Well, I think it’s about time we fancy things up around here. Most of my outfit photos are snapped on our way out somewhere and it’s fastest just to go stand in front of our wall (or the neighbor’s, if I’m feeling like their beige paint compliments my outfit better – haha, jokinggg). But these bare walls have left me feeling really uncreative and honestly it’s the reason I haven’t posted outfit photos in a while.

So since I’ve been feeling bad about that lately, I decided it was time to spice things up a little. If you don’t like something, change it, right?

I’ve been having so much fun doodling on these photos! (And another plus, I can illustrate into the awkward spaces in some photos! Half the time I don’t even know what I’m doing with my arms and legs…see second photo above.)

The past few months of constant sewing and crafting in preparation for craft shows and Christmas have left me feeling uninspired creatively. But I feel this little practice is getting my creative juices flowing again. Hooray!

From my closet:

Blouse // H&M
Trousers // Gap
Wedges // Blowfish Shoes
Lips // Dare You by MAC

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I thought this was a party...LET’S DANCE!