blazer week link up | gray blazer

Blazer: Aeropostale $25

Pants: Gap (clearance) $10

Top: Le Tote [got my first month free]

Flats: Payless $20

Total Outfit Cost: $55

When I first pulled this blouse out of my Le Tote box I was kind of disappointed that they sent me a tank in the fall. I loved the tank though, so I had to find a way to wear it! I love the way it looks with my navy pants. Teal and navy might be a new favorite color combo.

Somehow this blazer has been so neglected in my closet and for no good reason! I'm going to make it a point to wear it more this fall and winter. So how should I style it next?

blazer week

Hey ladies! I know this is kind of last minute, but next week I am co-hosting blazer week with Andi from Just Another Smith. We'll be showing you a blazer outfit each day and we hope that you'll come by and link up your blazer outfits too! Here are some of my past favorite blazer outfits: 

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.