chilly spring

Jacket: Old Navy (on sale) $25 [similar] Jeans: Old Navy, Christmas money Shirt: Gap (clearance) $3 Scarf: American Eagle (clearance) $6 Flats: Payless $20 Total Outfit Cost: $54
A couple weeks ago we had a chilly spring day. I thought it would be the last one, but nope! This past Saturday was kinda cool! This outfit was actually worn a couple weeks ago though. I'm ready for the weather to make up it's mind and just stay hot. I need my in-laws' pool to be warm enough to go swim! Know what I have been loving about the weather? The longer days. I love that the sun is out so much later. What I love to do is open all my blinds and curtains when I get home to let the natural light in. It just makes my heart smile! 

utility vest + polka dots

Vest: JCP (super clearance) $4 [here]

 Blouse: Delia's (super clearnace) $2.50

Jeans: Old Navy gift carded [here]

Flats: Payless Shoe Source $20

Necklace: giveaway [similar]

Total Outfit Cost: $24.50

Happy Monday! Hope you all had a lovely weekend. I sure did! Saturday I planned on going to a few garage sales, but I work up and just wasn't feeling it. Instead I cleaned the house from top to bottom! Call me crazy but I seriously love spending Saturdays cleaning my house. It just makes the rest of the week so much more relaxing, and not to mention a clean house = a happy home. Sunday Larry and I had brunch with his parents and then we went to church. After that it was a just plain lazy Sunday, just the way I like it.

I wore this outfit a couple weeks ago, and it's another one of my faking fall outfits. It may look like I'm layered up in this vest, but really the button up I have on underneath it is super thin. Every time I wear this vest I unintentionally style it with more girly pieces- today polka dots & a statement necklace. This vest isn't necessarily what I'd consider masculine, but I do think adding the feminine pieces make it more "me." I always love how Ginny styles hers. I swear she's the vest styling queen! We're supposed to have a cold front come through tonight yay! Hopefully tomorrow I won't have to fake fall :) 

wife fail

Blazer: Aeropostale $25 Tee: Old Navy (clearance) $4 Jeans: Old Navy (sale & super cash) $11.25  BCBG Generation Flats: Marshall's $25 Necklace: c/o Our World Boutique giveaway Total Outfit Cost: $65.25   Let me tell y'all what happened in this outfit last week. So, Larry stayed home from work sick with a sinus infection. I came home and decided to cook hamburger steak. One wedding gift we received was a very nice cast iron skillet. I decided this would be a good time to finally put it to use! Oh boy was I wrong. I turned the stove on medium high heat because that's what the recipe said to cook the hamburger steaks on (this was only my second time cooking them). When the skillet was hot, I poured some olive oil on, and that's where it all went wrong! It smoked up the entire house! I don't know if medium-high heat was too high or what, but it was bad. My poor sick husband already wasn't feeling well, and then there I go and smoke out the house! Wife fail indeed. It wasn't the first, and definitely won't be the last! And if you were wondering, I ended up cooking the hamburger steaks in my non-stick pan and they came out great! I suppose I will continue to let the cast iron skillet go unused as we approach 1 year of marriage...    Also, I realize now that I forgot to include this blazer in my april closet addictions! How could I forget my favorite purchase of the month? No idea! I guess I shall go update that!

aero blazer

Blazer: Aeropostale $25 Apt. 9 Blouse: Kohl's $16 (used Kohl's cash) Gap Jeans: Plato's Closet $12 Flats: Payless $20 Necklace: Garage Sale $1 Total Outfit Cost: $58
I saw this blazer on Lauren over at Exploring My Style and was in love. I quickly went over to Aeropostale.com and surely enough, it was on sale! I usually don't like to spend over $20 for something (other than shoes) but I definitely don't mind it for this because I know I'll be getting a ton of wear out of it just like my coral blazer! Speaking of Aeropostle, I haven't shopped there in forever and actually never really have, but my very first job ever was there! I was 16, and it was the summer before my senior year in high school. My friend Kaylee and I got the job there together as sale's associates for the summer. I only worked there for 2 months, and oh man it was an experience. Since I was a newbie the whole time I worked there I often had to work the dreaded dressing rooms. If you've ever worked retail, you understand and know that people shopping are just awful. I'll never forget this one lady brought her two boys with her, and she put them in a dressing room next to her while she tried on clothes... LOTS of clothes. Well. These two boys were cutting up the whole time, annoying the crap out of me. Then, I start smelling something gross. The boys were constantly farting in the dressing room! It was disgusting. I'll always say that everyone should work a day of retail to experience a sales associate/cashier's pain. 

a mexican easter and pastels

LC Blouse: Kohl's (clearance) $8 Jeans: Charlotte Russe, gifted Belt: Forever 21 $5 Charlotte Russe Flats: Goodwill $3.49 Total Outfit Cost: $16.49 Friday at work we had our Easter potluck. For Thanksgiving we went eat Chinese, and called it our Chinese Thanksgiving, so somehow we came up with having a Mexican Easter potluck! We had chips, queso, salsa, enchiladas, Mexican cornbread, I made a taco ring, and lots of other yummies. We all also wore pastel colors and played some games. We started off the day with a jelly bean flavor guessing game. It was awful. We each had 6 jelly bean flavors in our bag. When I tasted my brown jelly bean, I had to spit it out. It was possibly the worst thing I've ever tasted in my life. I wrote down 'burrito' for the flavor. Turns out, each of us had 1 different flavor than the rest of the gang in each of our bags. That brown jelly bean I ate was "earth worm" flavor. Others had mud flavor, black pepper flavor, etc. Supposedly these nasty jelly beans are Harry Potter jelly beans. Gross. Just gross. And for the record, I didn't even guess one flavor right. I had put down toothpaste for the rootbeer flavored one...

the blazer is back

LC Blazer: Kohl's $24 Lace Top: Forever 21 old Gap Jeans: Plato's Closet $12 Flats: Forever 21 old Necklace: Forever 21 Total Outfit Cost: $36   I wore this blazer so much last spring and summer, and you better believe that it's be back again this year! Unfortunately, there are two pieces here that are definitely needing replacements: my leopard flats and my lace blouse. I remember that I got these flats sometime in the fall of 2011, and they have definitely gotten their full use by now. The sole of them are slightly falling apart, and the fabric is ripping. There's nothing really wrong with the lace blouse, but I think that I want to replace it with one that's better quality and thicker. I've been looking for new flats, but I just haven't had any luck with finding any that I like as much as these! I've considered the loafer style too, but the ones I tried on at target weren't comfortable. Anyone have any suggestions?