Daily MelWear: Outfit 11/30, A Princess Story and Go RED!

 So let me tell you guys a little story.

Once upon a time, there was a beautiful young (let's say hypothetically, about three years old) princess who was normally the sweetest girl in the land. One day, the princess decided that she was going to be whiny and grumpy. The queen asked the princess if she needed a nap. Whining yet again, the princess declared NO NAP! 

Fast forward a few minutes and the princess comes to the queen asking permission to close her bedroom door so that she can put herself to bed. 10 minutes later, the princess has successfully put herself down for a nap three hours ahead of schedule. 

Hence the reason I'm blogging now.

The end. 

PS - This afternoon should be interesting now...

 

Today's outfit:

Skinny jeans: Kohl's

Red Blouse: Wal-Mart (Go RED For Women in February!)

Black Cardigan: Ross?

Black Belt: Charlotte Russe

Leopard Flats: Target

Necklace: Can't remember. Geez.

Ring: Charlotte Russe

Daily MelWear: Outfits 4, 5 & 6/30

Originally my plan for this weekend was to get caught up on reading blogs, organize my jewelry a little, search for the online owner's manual for my dad's camera that I've been using and just rest. This is my daughter's weekend with her dad so I wanted to keep my time occupied and stay distracted from missing her. 

Then we decided to do a family day at SeaWorld on Friday and another one at Disney on Saturday. So YAY! 

Friday at SeaWorld was really warm, close to 80, and I didn't pick many short-sleeved pieces in my 30. Plus it was Go Red For Women, so I needed something red as well. I think I pulled it off pretty well. 

Saturday at Disney was warm too for part of the day, but it was also rainy and gloomy and by the end of the day, I was extremely grateful for my leggings and scarf!

Today my daughter is with her dad at a Renaissance Fair, so I did some grocery shopping this morning and I've gotta be honest: now that my pictures are done for today, I'm about to just throw on some sweats. I really want to spend the rest of the day catching up on your blogs and resting.

Don't forget - tomorrow is the first installment of Fabulous in February: A Month of Positivity! Remember to include {at least} three (3) positive comments about yourself in your posts tomorrow (or leave them as a comment here if you don't have a blog!) and then come back and link up on either my post or Hope's.These should be comments that are positive about WHO you are and WHAT you are, not about what you have (it's awesome to be grateful for your job or your family, but we want to hear what makes YOU awesome because we know that you ARE awesome!).

Hope you're all having a great weekend! Can't wait to read your positive thoughts about yourselves tomorrow!

Daily MelWear: Monday, Monday

Wow. I had a post all written out, ready to go, and Blogger just ate it. I'm annoyed. I don't have a whole lot of time to re-write everything, so I'm just going to recap as much as I can.

I had a great weekend with my daughter. We saw Tangled, went to dinner with friends, played at the mall, had ice cream and just spent lots of fun time together.

"They" keep saying it'll get easier, but it's still just as hard to say good-bye to her as it was the first time. And I still cry.

Sorry for not posting on Thursday (although I'm sure my absence wasn't all that noticeable!). I had an emergency come up and wasn't in the mood for taking outfit photos. The emergency also brought me to the conclusion that while I do really need a new laptop soon and a camera, I'm not going to be able to afford either one of those for a while. So I wait. And once I buy a card reader, I can hopefully borrow my dad's camera for the time being.

Our boss sent us a text last evening to let us know that we can wear jeans today if we don't have any errands to run at the main medical plaza.  Our errands will wait. :)

I only watched the first few minutes of the Golden Globes last night before I had to go to bed (I was exhausted!) so I missed most of it.

Tell me what your favorite joke/quote/comment was! And tell me about your weekend!!!

Today's outfit:

Skinny Jeans: Kohl's

Purple Tee: Target

Black Sweater: Plato's Closet

Gold Belt: Charlotte Russe

Leopard Flats: Target

Flower Ring: Forever 21

Turtle Earrings: Gift from my mother-in-law

Daily MelWear: To Be Cold and Rainy

So yesterday was warm and rainy, now today is cold and rainy. Isn't this supposed to be the Sunshine State?

Thank you all so much for the jokes and comments yesterday! Some of them really did make me laugh out loud (or at least smirk!). I tried to reply to those of you that have an email attached to your sign-in but if Blogger showed a "no-reply" address, I couldn't. I just want to let you know how much I appreciate it and if you have any more jokes, or even just funny stories, spill 'em!

Some of you have been asking about my new job. I LOVE it. Sure, there are some things that aren't fantastic but for the most part, I am SO much happier and I'm enjoying the work and the environment and I'm excited. So yay!

I just wanted to ask for you all to please remember to keep Jamie's family and friends in prayer. They are having another service for her and the interment in her hometown in Alabama tomorrow.

Today is Jeans Day at work. On Thursdays, we get to wear jeans for $1. We take the money at the end of the year and either buy things for charities or donate the money itself. I love that idea.

And now I feel like I'm just looking for something to write about so instead of babbling and taking more time out of your day, I'll just say that I hope you have a great day!

Today's outfit:
Skinny Jeans: Kohl's
Purple Tee: Target
Brown Sweater: Plato's Closet
Leopard Flats: Target
Necklace: Gift from ML

Daily MelWear: Jeans At Work!

Did I mention that in my new position, we're allowed to wear jeans on Thursdays if we put $1 towards the charity that's been chosen for the year?  Well yeah. That's cool. :)

Today I can wear jeans because it's MOVING DAY! This post has to be quick because I'm not sure when the movers are coming.

And with that being said, I'm not sure how much I'll be able to post in the next couple of weeks, starting my new job and everything.  Maybe I'll try to start posting at night and see how that goes. We'll see.

I chose my skinny jeans for today so that I could wear flats, and this top is one of the new ones from Ross. Actually I only bought two tops over the weekend and now I've worn both of them. I love the flower detail on the neckline of this one.  It's going to be a great top for fall/winter in Florida, with the long sleeves but lightweight material.

That's about it for me today! I want to get this post up in case the movers come in the next few minutes!

Have a great day everyone!

Today's outfit:

Skinny Jeans: Kohl's

Purple Top: Ross

Black Belt: Ross (came with a dress)

Leopard Flats: Target

Necklace: Gift from a co-worker

Daily MelWear: BBCA Days 8b, 9 and 10

Oh, Sunday night.  I should be enjoying this last bit of weekend but instead, I'm dreading the work week. Does anyone particularly look forward to their work weeks? 

This post is going to be a little bit photo heavy since I need to recap three outfits. Sorry! I just didn't want to get behind. I'm also exhausted and too lazy to figure out outfit details so I'm skipping that for this post. I hope that's okay. 

I blogged on Friday with the outfit during the day, but then we took The Princess to Mickey's Not So Scary Halloween (it is GOOD to have friends in high places!) that night! It was SO much fun. We dressed her up as Snow White, didn't tell her where we were going and just drove to Disney. Magic. Seriously, tons of fun. 

Even though I'd already blogged one outfit for the day, I still stuck with the challenge and kept my pink on. I took some pictures at Disney of that outfit to share with you. I'd just bought that pink belt at the Salvation Army store, it's the same one as the red belt that I have that I also bought at the Salvation Army store. Perfection!

Then there is Saturday's outfit (we ran some errands and saw The Social Network, then took The Princess to Oktoberfest at Celebration where we stupid Floridians go to see paper leaves piped out into the street because otherwise, we never see autumn leaves. Pity us.). That was the second dress I bought at Ross last weekend.  It's long enough for work but I'll have to layer another shirt on top...even then I'm not sure it's entirely work appropriate because of the butterflies and stuff. It's a little too juvenile for work, maybe.

Sunday I took my girl to church and then we met up with The Beast at Islands of Adventure to finally catch a glimpse of The Wizarding World of Harry Potter! It was crazy crowded so we didn't get to wander around as much as I would have liked. We didn't get to ride the Forbidden Journey either but we're shooting for that next week. What we DID do was try Pumpkin Juice and Butterbeer and we ate at the Three Broomsticks! Oh yay. :) My pink in this outfit is the shoes and the floral statement necklace.

That's all for me, guys! I need to head to bed so I'm functional enough to work out in the morning! Hope you all had a great weekend!!!

{PS - I'm strongly considering taking my friend's advice and just marking all of my unread posts as read and starting fresh, because there is no way I'm going to catch up on 900 blog posts at this point. Do you guys ever find yourself this behind in reading and commenting? What do you do? How do you catch up? I can't even guarantee that with everything going on right now I'd even be able to stay caught up. There's more tumult and transition happening in the next few weeks, then more stuff in November and then we're full swing into the Caroling season when I'll *hopefully* have gigs most weekends. Ugh. I'm tired. /End rant.}

Daily MelWear: Black and Gray

Well.  I don't have much to say.

First I want to mention the October Challenge: Blogging for Breast Cancer aWEARness. If you're only able to do a week instead of the entire month, that's absolutely fine. If you aren't sure whether a certain shade of pink is acceptable, I leave that entirely up to your discretion. I don't have very many pink items either, but I'm going to try to wear things that would "go" with it so that I can just add pops of pink in my earrings or something like that. I'm going to post a list of participants as soon as I'm able (hopefully this week, since it starts on Friday, October 1st) so let me know if you're in.

Now let's talk about the reasons I picked this outfit.

1. This top is from the goody bag from Marilou! I love the ruffles at the top. This is a great skirt to dress up jeans (if I could wear those to work).
2. This bracelet is from Marilou too! Would you believe that I didn't even own a single bracelet? I had my watch, but that's about it. I love this bracelet! Especially the clasp detail.

3. We're doing a walk-through today at work of our new building. We're set to move in November.  Our instructions were to wear long pants and flat shoes.  This pair of pants is the only one I own that I can wear with flats. That didn't leave me much choice.

4. My plan is to wear the blazer all day, but when I got to work the air was broken and it was hot, so I took the blazer off. Now it seems to be cooling down so I can put the blazer back on which is great, because without it, this outfit seems a little too "night out" and less "office."

5. This color palette works for my mood today.  I have a cold, but can't stay home from work. I received some news that, to me, is earth-shattering and I'm still trying to process everything.

So yeah. Black and gray works. Now here are some pictures for you.

Today's outfit:

Gray Ruffled Shell: Gift from Marilou

Black Skinny Pants: From my mother-in-law

Black Blazer: Goodwill Boutique

Black Flats: Target

Pearl Bracelet: Gift from Marilou

Daily MelWear: Last Weekend (Labor Day Weekend)

Hey everyone! Are you as happy as I am that today's Friday? 

I love Fridays.  For so many reasons.  

Okay so a few weeks ago someone asked me on Formspring about why I don't normally post casual outfits.  The answer is really quite boring: I can't wear casual outfits to work and I don't normally have much time to blog on the weekends (family takes priority!).  I have tried to post some outfits on Fridays but those are few and far between.  

I figured I would take some shots of what I wore over Labor Day weekend and stick them in a Friday post. 

Disclaimer: These outfits are NOT exciting.

First up: Saturday. Um...yeah. I didn't even shower that morning.  We got up, needed to go grocery shopping, found out that our favorite bake shop had Guinness cupcakes as their flavor of the day so off we went without a second thought. I think we may have done something that night but I honestly can't even remember now.  I swear, I have the world's worse memory. It's awful. 

Saturday's outfit:

Jeans: Ross

Top: Plato's Closet

Flats: Target

Yellow Flower Hairband: Won in a giveaway by Fashion Momma from Twenty-Five Design! I love it, check out her etsy if you haven't yet!

Next up: Sunday. My husband and I were scheduled to sing on praise team at our church that morning, so I wanted to look decent. I'm not entirely sure I accomplished that feat. I had the vision in my head of wearing the blue plaid shirt open with a belt, with the white skinnies.  I like yellow with that blue so I wore the yellow tank underneath.  When I put it all together, I was NOT happy.  The shirt flared out a little too much under the belt and made me look really wide.  I literally stood in my closet for about 20 minutes trying to come up with something else to wear (I really wanted those white skinnies) but couldn't come up with anything else. Something made me decide to throw on the black cardigan and once I did, I figured the outfit wasn't too awful. So I went with it. Definitely not my favorite, though. 

Sunday's outfit:

White Skinnies: Kohl's 

Black Cardigan: Ross

Blue Plaid Top and Belt: Kohl's

Yellow Tank: Plato's Closet

Black Pumps: Wal-Mart

And finally: Monday, Labor Day. Oh, I look awful in the Monday pictures. We'd just gotten out of the pool at my father-in-law's house, my hair was wet, no make-up...ick. We just went to Olive Garden for lunch and then drove back to our house. Not real exciting.  I wore the skirt only because I apparently can't wear it to work anymore and I like it, so I grabbed it for the weekend. 

Monday's outfit:

White Skirt: Plato's Closet

Purple Tank: Plato's Closet

Floral Flats: Target

Flower in my hair: picked by my daughter, who insisted that I put it in my hair. :) 

So there you have it! Truly nothing exciting. And in case you're wondering, I'm wearing a denim ruffled skirt and black tank top right now for my Friday at home with my girl. Who, by the grace of God, is still in her bed at the moment, rolling around and singing to herself.  I wonder how long that'll last...

Have a splendiferous Friday, everyone! 

PS - That didn't last long.  She's calling for me now. :) I love that little girl.

Daily MelWear: Thief

{EDIT - I added more pictures and now the layout is all wonky.  None of my paragraphs are new paragraphs, everything is running together and I don't know how to fix that.  Grrr.  Hopefully my husband can sit down with me sometime to show me some actual HTML to make it look right. In the meantime - I'm sorry!}

I'll admit it: this is a blatant copy of someone else's outfit. 

The bigger problem here is that I can't remember WHO the person is! I have a horrible memory.  Seriously, when I hit my "Golden Years," it ain't gonna be pretty.  "Wait, who am I again?"

Oy.

So anyway, I saw someone else wear the skinny pant with the striped top and black blazer.  I thought it looked really great on her and that I would try it. 

She looked better. 

(By the way, if you're her {and I hope you'd know if you've recently worn pretty much this exact outfit}, please let me know so I can give credit and link to you!)

Everybody dance! Points to whomever can guess what movie that's from!

This morning was a little hectic and rushed.  I had to leave early because we had a meeting at work.  My mom called (today is her birthday - happy birthday, Mom!!!) because her car wouldn't start so she couldn't come get the baby and we had to get the baby up so my husband could bring her to my mom's house. Then when I was putting our laundry into the washer, something fell out of the clothes onto my arm - that ended up being a ROACH. 

Oh, ew.

So since I think this other mystery blogger looked so much better, I would have changed into something different if I'd had more time, but I didn't.  Soooo I didn't.  Oh well - I still like the concept of it. 

I did button the jacket once I got to work, I think that helped to define my waist a little which was my biggest issue with the ensemble, but I didn't take any pictures here so you'll have to envision that.

(While you're envisioning, could you also envision that I'm holding a HUGE cup of coffee with Coffee-Mate Amaretto Creamer that I can no longer find anywhere in my state?  I could really use some more caffeine right now and I miss my creamer. K, thanks.)

{EDIT - I ended up taking some pictures with it buttoned because...well...I decided to make time to do that.  I like this outfit MUCH better now!}

Have a great day, everyone!!!

Today's outfit:

Black Pants: The Limited (from my mother-in-law)

Black/White Striped Shirt: Macy's

Black Blazer: JC Penney

Red/Black Pumps: Payless (from my mom)

Black Necklace: Wal-Mart

Daily MelWear: Skinny Cat

The title of today's post is simply referring to the fact that I'm finally wearing a different silhouette in slacks today!  Almost every pair of pants that I wear to work are the same style and they're all wide-legged.  I love wide-legged pants...but I've really wanted to find some that aren't quite so huge.

Enter my mother-in-law this weekend - she'd bought these for her mother but they didn't fit.  I tried them on and VOILA! Perfection. Yay for new pants! Without even entering a store!

I originally paired the pants with a magenta tee that had some floral embellishments, but the tee is now a little too big and looked kind of ridiculous.  Then I tried my leopard metallic tank and it was nice, but something was still off.  It looked too "party on a Saturday night" instead of office-appropriate.  I ditched my silver stilettos, added the jacket...and it works. 

I also tried belting it but with the blousy-ness of the tank, that didn't work out too well.

We had yesterday off from work in observance of Independence Day; I didn't even shower, hence the reason for no post.  It was great to have such a long weekend! 

What did you all do to celebrate the Fourth of July? Did you get a long weekend or did you have to work on Monday?

Today's Outfit:

Black Ankle Pants: The Limited (via my MIL)

Leopard Metallic Tank: Plato's Closet

Black Jacket: Charlotte Russe

Black/Gray Pumps: Target (Isaac Mizrahi)

Daily MelWear: Leopard in the Jungle (A Skirt as a Shirt!)

So here you have it: my jungle skirt, reincarnated!

The skirt is so long that when I wore it last week to work, I had to hike it pretty high up to make it look okay.  When I did that, I hiked it all the way up over the girls to see how it would look as a strapless top and VOILA! A new shirt!

I wore it this way during the day's activities (to the mall with my husband and daughter, the grocery store, etc.). For date night, my intention was to wear it by itself as a mini-dress with some heels.  However...I walked outside and it was a little windy.  So I ended up putting my white skinnies back on but rolled down to the ankle and kept the heels. Unfortunately I didn't get pictures of my date night look.

Maybe one day I'll wear it as a dress...but not yet.

I think this is the first time I've really done anything really creative with a piece in my wardrobe, and I'm quite proud of myself! I like it a lot! 

The outfit: 

Shirt (Skirt): Target

White Skinnies: Kohl's

Leopard Sandals: Kohl's

Pink Necklace and Earrings: Beya

Daily MelWear: It's Doctor Day!

Today is my daughter's 3 year check up with her doctor. In addition to that, my cousin and grandmother are here from Texas and my aunt is visiting too.  Today's agenda is doctor appointment, lunch, naptime, play and then dinner. 

Not exactly thrilling, huh?  

Since I've worn skirts the past couple of days, I decided to pull out my white skinnies.  At first I was going to wear them as is but at the last minute, I decided to roll the cuffs up a little. I like it.

I still feel like I have a head cold and I'm feeling icky, so I'm going to not write as much and end this post right about here.  Have a great weekend!

Today's outfit:

White Skinny Jeans: Kohl's

Blue Plaid Shirt and Belt: Kohl's (junior's clearance)

Black Flats: Target (clearance)

Yellow Necklace: Wal-Mart