The 50s

Dress - London Times // Belt - American Living // Shoes - Payless // Gloves - Thrifted // Necklace - Walmart // Glasses - Forever21

I've mentioned my backlog of pictures before and these are from, well, several months ago. I had the opportunity to help out with a "through the decades" fashion show for Mother's Day! I also was able to be in the show myself and, of course, I chose to represent the 50s. I'll have to check with the other participants to see which photos I can use on my blog, but until then here's some really grainy shots of my outfit after the show!

I really wanted the show to be as historically accurate as possible. So most of the outfits were vintage, reproduction, or modern with a vintage look. I had a small budget, but I worked with what I had and I think everything turned out nicely! (although I'm a bit frustrated that one of my pin curls didn't really turn out right...so sad) For my outfit I even did a half moon manicure and tried to match the polish as best I could to my lipstick. The half moon manicure's not something I want to do all the time, but now I do pay attention to how my nails are shaped!

Good Friday

Dress & Belt - American Living (JCPenney) // Cardigan - Express (Thrifted) // Shoes - Payless

Not the best picture, yesterday was a bit crazy and I didn't get back 'til after dark. Anyways, I don't want to detract from how important of a day yesterday was. I went home for the weekend and was able to go to church with my family for the Good Friday service there. It was a wonderful service with very worshipful songs! I hope y'all enjoy your Easter weekend :)

Bewitching

Dress & Belt - American Living // Jacket - Unknown // Shoes - Hotcakes

So while I was, again, working on poster designs today I watched a bunch of Bewitched episodes. I don't know about you, but I just love old tv shows. It's weird 'cause I remember liking this show as a kid, but now for some reason it was almost irritating. The costumes and makeup were really cool, but the interactions between Darrin and Samantha were really weird! I get that they love each other, but Darrin's really controlling and doesn't handle change well while Samantha is just so easily offended! Ah, stereotypes. And It's like every episode's plot is dependent on some ridiculous miscommunication... There really isn't much they have in common either. Obviously, since it's a tv show, it's not based in reality. But I still doubt their marriage would work in real life! Anyways, those are my random thoughts :p

Daisies

Dress - American Living // Cardigan - New York and Company (Thifted) // Belt - Thrifted // Socks - Marc's // Shoes - Faded Glory // Headband - Claire's
Photos by Laura

It's like I blinked and there were leaves everywhere!! It's pretty amazing. Well, except for the cold? Umm...why is it 45 degrees in May? It's supposed to be back up in the 70s by Wednesday though. It's deceptively cold because in the pictures it looks really warm and it's really sunny! Anyways, I tend to like darker/softer colors better, but I really love this outfit and the color combination just made me think of daisies for some reason. I guess green would have looked more daisy-like than blue, but I guess the blue reminds me of the sky.

Well, I already wrote a little yesterday about how awesome my mom is. In short--she's a super mom. Anyways, we went to Eddie's Grill in Geneva-on-the-Lake like we do every year for Mother's Day...even though it was pretty cold! We would have gone mini golfing as well, but it was too windy and cold so we decided to just put it off 'til another day. We then went to Baskin Robbins for some ice cream :) Later we had to go to my brother's soccer game. Why someone scheduled a soccer game on Mother's Day I'll never know.... Anyways, they won the game!

I hope you'll be reading next week 'cause I will be taking a trip to California! I went a few years ago and actually kept a blog about it. Funny thing is though that's what made me never want to blog again--and I never ever thought I would start another blog. Anyways if you want to read about my first trip, you can here starting at the end of the page. Both trips were due to my dad attending a conference. And this time he's actually speaking at the conference!! He's supposed to send me the link so I can show y'all exactly what conference he's speaking at...oh well he'll get it to me eventually. Anyways, it's so awesome that my dad gets to speak at this conference!!! The last trip he just took me with him, but this time Laura gets to come as well. I'm leaving next Monday (I think? At least that's what I heard last...) so make sure to stop by then to get some updates of the trip!

Anyways...thanks for reading and I hope y'all have a wonderful day!

"I Don't Care if the Sun Don't Shine"

I love this picture except that my sister's dog is in the background... 

This is what happened when I tried to get the dogs to move! They followed me right back to the waterfall--that's their favorite place to sit!

Dress - American Living // Cardigan - Liz & Co. (Thrifted) // Tights - JCPenney // Shoes - American Eagle (Thrifted) // Earrings - Thrifted
Photos by Laura

So this is the outfit that I wore on Easter Sunday. It was also my last day of spring break. I had a wonderful break spending time with my family, but I'm ready to go back to school. Ha! Just kidding! I'm totally ready to for summer and to be done with the semester! I'm so glad that break was so late in the semester because now I have only a few weeks left! And, this Sunday I'm actually going to take another break and go with my family to Massanutten Resort!!! I'm so excited not only because it's really nice, but I know there will be some really awesome places to take pictures! I just have to make it a few more days in school. Not to mention my least favorite class was canceled this week...YEAH!! So I'd say it's been a pretty awesome week! Oh yeah, and I'm wearing more dresses..and it's warmish! So yeah, I'm happy!

Back to Easter Sunday...I thought my family looked pretty spiffy this Sunday and I took pictures of my mom and my sister, Laura, to show off their cute outfits :)

Laura's Dress - JCPenney

Mom's Dress - Merona

Don't they look fantastic :) Hope you have a great day! Oh yeah, and what do you think of my lipstick? I haven't worn real lipstick in a long time! And this is pretty bright!

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