Put an owl on it!

For Christmas our awesome friends Allie & Josh got me this totally sweet scarf. Its got owls and its mustard yellow, I'm pretty sure it was made with me in mind! I decided that mixing it with darker colors and having it pop a bit was the way to go, although to be honest, you might see me wearing this with jorts and a tank this summer I love it so much!



Today was a bit crazy. My computer and the office printer did not speak all afternoon when I had a huge mailing to print. So while I love my little booties, wearing them on a day when I was running back and forth from cubical to printer wasn't the best. Man, was I excited to see my slippers when I got home!

In exciting and not painful news, I registered for the Texas Style Council in March! I am ridiculously excited to spend a weekend networking and hanging out with other awesome fashionable ladies, its going to be a blast!!


Scarf: Gift
Cardi: Target
Top: Banana Republic Outlet
Skirt: Ruche
Tights: Spanx via Rue La La
Booties: Target

New Year, New Dress

Happy New Year! Now that the craziness of the holidays is over, I'm back to blogging and in fact have made it a goal of mine to be proactive on this blog this year, I get dressed every day so there is no reason I shouldn't have my husband photograph it!

Today was my first day back in the office after the holidays and I felt this called for a new dress. I love so many things about this dress, from its awesomely longhorn friendly color to the pattern, which is actually little feathers, when I saw it, I knew it needed to be my Christmas gift to myself.




I also love that I can pair any number of my belts, cardis, or boots with this dress. It makes it a super versatile piece which is nice, since you wouldn't normally think of burnt orange as "versatile."


It was very cold this morning, but thankfully, I had a lovely coat to wear once outfit photo time was over. Also, the scarf is from another very talented crafter in my family, my awesome sauce Granny Annie.

Dress: Ruche
Cardi: Target
Tights: Spanx via Rue La La
Boots: Steve Madden
Coat: Modcloth from a million years ago
Scarf: Granny Annie

Pop!

I love a good pop of color, which is why I decided to rock the mustard tights today with the subdued tones of this lovely striped dress. I also did my fav stripes and leopard. The dress has some great 3/4 sleeves with smaller stripes, someday when its not freezing out, I'll show them to you. It was a busy day at the office, so simple and comfy is all I wanted, this seemed to fit the bill perfectly!



I felt very Joan from MadMen in this dress, it was tight but not too tight, and made my curves look great. I know you can't really tell from this particular styling, but its a great little dress and its warm, so I'm sure it will be back again soon.


Cardi: Target
Scarf: Target
Dress: Target
Tights: Target
Boots: Steve Madden (I've been living in these and I'm not ashamed!)

Nothing like a little wool

It continues to be cold here in the Lone Star State, which is just fine with me! Cold means I can finally wear all the awesome winter things I got on insane super sale this summer. I know it was a little crazy to buy a wool skirt in July, but I did it and 5 months later it was perfect and super cute!




You see that infinity scarf? My Mama made it for me last Christmas. I found it today when I pulled out the wool coat and my goodness was I happy to see it! Not only is it super warm and an awesome color, its like getting a hug from my mom all day long and nothing is better than that.

My joyful face when I got to put my coat on!

Coat: Old Navy (last Fall)
Cardi: Target
Scarf: My Mama
Top: Old Navy
Skirt: Lands' End Canvas
Tights: Spanx
Boots: Steve Madden

Chopped!

This weekend, I went and chopped about six inches off my hair and had it died this awesome red brown shade of wonderful. I also got my bangs back, which makes me so darn happy. It took me 45 minutes this morning to figure out how to do my hair, but I think I settled on something pretty great. I got rave reviews at work, complete with my boss telling me it made me look grown up. Woo finally a grown up at 26!



It was COLD today in Austin, like legitimately cold, so that means sweater, tights, and boots, it was cute and kept me toasty warm all day. Plus I couldn't get too crazy, the focus needed to be on the 'do!

For reference, Petunia isn't the only cute furry animal around here.
Clark is quite the handsome boy!


Sweater: Target
Skirt: Target
Tights: Spanx via Rue La La
Boots: Steve Madden


PS I made that wreath and I am likely far too proud of that accomplishment!

A Rainy day in Austin town

What is this falling from the sky? Its rain!
We haven't gotten hardly any rain around these parts this year, so today was strange and awesome. I never look out my windows in the morning before getting dressed, but today I did and goodness was I glad! Today called for faux patent leather flats, not nice velvet ones. Add a comfy tee, a cardi, and a good scarf and you've got an outfit made in rainy Friday heaven.



I'm signing in the rain, just singing and taking style blog photos in the rain!


Scarf: Target
Cardi: Target
Shirt: Banana Republic Outlet
Jeans: Old Navy
Shoes: Target

Good things come to those who wait

 

It took me a long time to get dressed this morning. I finally settled on this outfit and I'm pretty glad I did. I knew I wanted to work around my new shoes and that I didn't want to wear a pencil skirt, which lead to my rocking the maxi, which in turn made me feel like I was in jammies all day, and that's awesome!

 

 So remember all that Massoni nonsense back in August? Well I went to Target on the first day, at noon, and EVERYTHING was gone, except some knee socks. All I had really wanted were the flats, so I went home sad. Well about 3 weeks ago I was looking at the sale shoes in Target and what did I find? The awesome sauce flats I'd wanted, in my size, and on sale!! There were little Target angles looking down on me that day, woowoo!!

Jacket: Target 

Top: Old Navy 

Skirt: Old Navy 

Shoes: Massoni for Target