InVEST in Ruffles

I purchased this vest on a whim a few weeks ago. I saw it and couldn't resist-- lace AND ruffles, not to mention it's a neutral color! I wasn't sure what I would wear it with, but it ended up pairing well with this puffy-shoulder blouse and matching, ruffly ankle boots. Since I like cream and antique-rose, I had more than enough accessories to go. In fact, I was tossed up between the necklace you shown below and another. I ended up wearing this cream and pink rose statement necklace. It goes will with this blouse since it's a deep V-neck. Additionally, I wore a pink flower ring and a cream rose ring along with cream and antique-rose bangles. Lastly, I wore these cream, lace-patterned earrings, which go PERFECTLY with the vest!!!For makeup: antique-rose and cream eye-shadows and a mure pink lipstick. 

Vest: Charmed & Dangerous boutique, $24

Blouse: Express, 50% off sale, $24?

Pants: NY&Co., 50% off sale, $25

Boots: The Shoe Dept., $30

Necklace and Earrings: Warehouse sale, $5, $2

Rings: Charlotte Russe, clearance, $5

Asstd. Bangles: some purchased ar Rue 21, some given to me in a set

Makeup: Ulta

Boston Strong

I had planned this outfit a long time ago, for Marathon Monday. However, I was off work, so reserved it for a day later. The colors aren't quite on point as they have been in previous years (colbalt and bright yellow), but marigold and navy will do the trick. I wore this blue printed skirt, navy tights and a navy tank with a marigold cardigan and marigold heels. For makeup: marigold and navy eyeshadows with navy liner. For jewelry, I decided to wear this necklace with white accents. The necklace has sparkly gems (and some leave-shaped patterns), so I wore sparkly gem costume earrings along with a white leave-shape patterned bracelet (earrings are also leave-shape patterned). Since the latter only had white details, I added sparkly bangles to go together with the necklace. All jewelery was received/purchased on different occasions but tend to go well together, even with the antique gold tones.

Cardigan and skirt: hand-me-downs from Godmother

Heels: NY & Co., sale, $25-30

Jewelry:

• Earrings: Anne Taylor, Secret Snowflake gift a few years ago
• Necklace: birthday gift, Amazon
• White leave-shape bracelet: used to be my grandmothers
• Bangles: came with assorted bangle sets

Makeup: 

• Eyeliner: given to me from mother
• Shadows:
• Marigold: Tarte, Holiday gift
• Navy: Avon
• Lipstick: The Body Shop

It's not the Holidays, but it's always season for Christmas Carols... Silverrrr and gooold

Still wearing items that haven't been worn enough this winter. This time, it was this beige lace and tasseled  pullover shawl with high-waist, pleated pants and ankle boots. For jewelry, I first went with some chandelier earrings that matched the antique theme of the shawl; from there, I added a multi-strand, multi-tone necklace. The earrings are, too, multi-strand and multi-tone (with pearls). For bracelets, I put on assorted silver, gold and pearl bangles. For makeup: camel and black shadows with a bright lipstick for some color. 

Shawl: Amazon, coupon, $13

Pants: Guess, clearance, $18

Boots: NY&Co, $29.99

Earrings: Charlotte Russe, clearance, $3?

Necklace: warehouse sale, $5

Asstd. bracelets: Ordered or received as gifts over the years♭

Makeup: shadows:Ulta; Lipstick: The Body Shop

Mimi Boebeck

I can't believe I was still wearing such a thick sweater last week! It's still not quite the warmer spring weather we're looking for. Again, I decided to take advantage of the long-drawn out winter weather and re-wear some winter clothes that I don't think got enough attention this past season. 

This outfit entails a teal blue, ruffly sweater with high-waist, pleated dress pants and black ankle boots. For jewelry, I wore a teal blue gem cocktail ring and bracelet and teal dangly gem earrings. For makeup: teal shadow and neutral lipstick (because, remember, I don't want to look like a clown or Mimi from the Drew Carey show). I wore my hair in a high pony, likely because I didn't have time to do anything else with it, but it shows off the earrings instead of coverig them. 

Sweater: Nordstrom Rack, $19.99?

Pants: Guess, clearance, $18

Jewelry: all: warehouse sale, earrings: $2, ring: $1, bracelet: $3

Makeup: shadow: Tarte, Christmas gift years ago; lipstick: Ulta

Black and White day 3

I wore a lot of black and white last week. On this day, we had a special event, so I wore this high-low white blazer with black lapels with a black pencil skirt and black ankle boots. For jewelry, I stuck with silver tones since the buttons on the jacket are silver. The necklace and earring set are chains mixed in with faux pearls and rhinestones.For makeup, black shadow. 

Blazer: Venus, sale, $35? 

Necklace/earrings set: Christmas gift years ago, Vera Wang for Kohl's

More...black and white

I ordered this pair of black and white postal pants in the fall and hadn't worn them yet! Last week, I wore them (finally!) with black ankle boots and a white button down. But, since I was still working through re-wearing winter items, I decided to add on this white, ruffle cutout sweater. For jewelry, I wore a silver-toned black and white beaded necklace with silver wavy hoops and a silver wavy bracelet. For makeup, I wore black shadow. 

Pants: J.C. Penney, clearance, $8

Button down: Express, 50% off sale, $18?

Sweater: Express, 50% off sale, $20

Necklace, bracelet and earrings: all given to me from Aunt

Makeup: Ulta

Making waves

These black and white plaid pants were (also) given to me by my Godmother and I have still been wearing one-more-time winter stuff. So, here we have black and white skinny pants, which I was shocked to fit into, let alone comfortably, and a white sweater with a black ruffle. I wore black ankle boots and a wavy silver bracemet and wavy silver earrings to go with the ruffles. For makeup, black shadow. 

Pants: hand-me-down

Sweater: Nordstrom Rack, clearance, $14

Boots: The Shoe Dept., $20-25?

Earrings and bracelet: given to me from (a different) Aunt

Makeup: Ulta

Dirty Martini with extra Olives

My Godmother recently gave me this olive green parka recently and, at the same time, I had this marigold turtle neck out to be worn one last time for the season. It, then, occurred to me that these beaded, dangly earrings are a perfect match!! (olive green and marigold beads!). With the two tops, I wore a black pencil skirt and tights and marigold heels. For makeup- olive green and marigold shadows and a burgundy lip gloss to go with the other tones in the earrings. Also worn was an olive green and gem ring, antique gold tones to match the earrings. 

Parka: hand-me-down

Turtle necck: NY&Co., 50% off sale, $18

Shoes: NY&Co., $38?

Earrings: a Christmas gift years ago

Ring: warehouse sale, $1

Short and Sweet

Last week, I was trying to get through some winter clothes I hadn't worn yet, this year. With this camel and black plaid skirt, I wore a thick, black turtleneck sweater and black over-the-knee boots. It was like naughty and nice mixed together. For makeup, I wore camel and black etye shadows and for jewelry, just black threaded earrings. 

Skirt: NY&Co., 50% off sale, $20-25?

Sweater: have had for a few years

Boots: NY&Co. or The Shoe Dept??, $39

Earrings: 3/pk, Amazon, $6

 

Phantom

You may have seen this bodysuit worn recently, but with pink. This time, I wore it soley as black and white (and gold accents). We went to go see The Phantom of the Opera and I thought this was very fitting. So, here you have my black and white cookie bodysuit 🙂 with satin-banded, high-waist ankle pants. I wore black ankle boots and used my black and white handbag, which has gold accents. For jewelry, I kept with the gold and wore a double 'v' necklace, which worked very well with my v-neck. (Full of puns today.)  I wore a black and white beaded bracelet that also has gold accents, along with black and gold tassel earrings. For makeup, gold and black shadows and a bright lipstick for a color pop. 

Bodysuit: NY&Co., 50% sale, $20
Pants: NY&Co., 50% sale, $35
Handbag: Charming Charlie, clearance, $15
Ankle boots: Rue 21, sale, $15
Scarf: NY&Co, last winter, $25-30
Earrings: NY&Co, clearance, $5-8
Makeup: Gold shadow: NYC from CVS, Black shadow and lip stick: Ulta

Clowns are scary

Teal is (one of) my favorite color(s). Again, there are some items that needed to come out of the closet before the spring weather really hits, including this charcoal and teal scarf. With it, I wore this ruffly, teal blouse and a charcoal pencil skirt, tights and ankle boots. For jewelry: a teal rose ring and dangly and sparkly teal earrings. For makeup: teal (no surprise there!) eye shadow and liner and a muted lipstick so I didn't look like a clown

Scarf: hand-me-down from co-worker

Earrings: warehouse sale, $2

Ring: warehouse sale (a year later), $1(!!!!)

Blouse: Express, last year, sale, approx. $24

Skirt: H&M, a few years ago, $14

Ankle boots: The Shoe Dept., $19.99?

Makeup: shadow: Tarte, Chirstmas gift years ago; all other: Ulta

      

Using up the rest of winter

There were three-to-four weeks this winter in which I wore nothing but pajamas, thus not wearing as many clothes as I would have liked. So, I'm trying to wear the rest of the winter items that haven't come out yet, before the warm weather comes (which should be within two days based on where we live). 🤣

This outfit was planned around the boots, which are brown and checkered (more fall colors- burnt orange, brown, black and cream, but still HAD to wear them). Since the boots have so many colors, I tried to pull them all into the outfit-- I wore a dark brown cardigan with matching tights and a black skirt and tee. To pull the black and brown together, I added a dark brown belt and, then, a cream scarf. The last step was which earrings to wear. As you can see below, there were three pairs that matched really well, so I made my husband help me choose. We ended up going with these antique gold danglies that have brown, black and rust colored beads. For makeup, I wore dark brown shadow and orange lipstick. 

Cardigan: hand-me-down from Godmother

Fur-lined boots: a warehouse shoe store, Dr. Scholl's, $14, purchased a few years ago

Belt: came with a blazer many moons ago (no longer have the blazer)

Scarf: have had for years now

Earrings: hand-me-down from a co-worker

Makeup: Ulta and The Body Shop