Friday's Fancies- Tangerine Tango!

It's Friday!

Happy weekend everyone!

It's my first day back to work from my staycation and oddly enough, I'm ridiculously excited!!

I've missed seeing my friends there and running around dressed like a mismatched 12 year old and talking to puppets and carrying out very interesting conversations with 2 year olds.

Run on sentences can be fun.

Since it is indeed Friday and I already made a return to one of my other favorite link parties this week,

I decided to keep it up!

I'm back, Friday's Fancies!! 

Man oh man, did I miss putting together make believe outfits I wish I could afford.

{av} from {long distance loving} hosts this day of closet envy every week and I LOVE playing along. 

So confession-
I only added these shorts because I want them so bad!! They're from Anthropologie and I happen to think they look great in this outfit. PLUS- they have little honey combs on them!
I would also like to say "sorry/not sorry" for including yet ANOTHER Fossil bag. Whoops! How did that get in there?
Thank goodness tangerine is this years color! I LOVE LOVE LOVE it!!
A couple years back, I had a ton of things in my closet in this color.
How ahead of times was I?

Le sigh. That felt great! You know you want to play along and put together an outfit too... Go do it!

Wish me luck on my first day back at work! I hope I remember all my lines...

Friday's Fancies- Outfit Inspiration!

Another Friday!

Is it possible we're already more than halfway through the first month of 2012?

I know I say this a lot- but time is going in fast forward!! That's a fact now.

I mentioned in one of my last posts that the person's schedule has been crazy. Yup, that hasn't gotten any better what with the President stopping by our parts yesterday! That actually caused us to lose our one day off together for a while but I'm still hopeful that February will hold some quality time in there somewhere- what with it being Valentine's Day AND my birthday. :)

Fingers crossed! I miss that guy!

But! I am very grateful for our late night Netflix dates and morning coffee breaks. And until we have time for a real date again, I'll keep loving those things!

And since it's Friday, that means I'm linking up with {av} from {long distance loving} again for Friday's Fancies! This link up always inspires me to look fierce as often as possible so I loved the theme for this week. Anyone participating this week was urged to build an outfit based on some inspiration from pinterest or the blogosphere. I've really been meaning to implement all the awesomeness I find on pinterest into my every day life. This gave me a chance to work out that "outfit building" muscle... does that make any sense? I just mean this was really good practice! 

So let's start with my inspiring pin!

Source: reasonstobreathe.tumblr.com via Krystina on Pinterest

Now, when I first started putting my version together, I was literally just copying it piece for piece. Same colors and everything. I stopped and thought "Ummmmm! You are SO missing the point of this!" I took a step back, and decided to switch it up with some of my favorite things-

Chiefly, the color coral and poofy sleeves.

Perhaps my version is a little plain jane but I'm having a love affair with clean lines and color pops.

I need to keep collecting outfits I want to recreate and keep those in mind when I go shopping...

Now- go join in this link up so I can be inspired by your fashion savviness! Hoping everyone survived the week! If your weekend plans include Disney, wave to me!

Friday's Fancies- Color Crush!

Happy Friday, loves!!

My weekend went by far too quickly...

Although... I did get some shopping in. SQUEE! Mainly things I needed- make-up for work, some new running shoes** (they are so kick booty!! I'll talk about them in an upcoming post about my training for the princess half), the blender for my soon to be regular morning smoothies, and some fabric for some projects I have planned. 

This "weekend" also marked a big event in the life of Bentley bones. In the words of my person and I-

Shim got spootered!!!

Thats right... baby boy got snip snipped. 

He's doing very well though and only seemed to be in a little pain on Day 2. Other than that, he's eating and drinking normally and it is a challenge and a half to keep his activity to a minimum.

Now, since it is Friday, and I somehow managed to get my act together- I'm linking up to {av} over at {long distance loving} for another Friday's Fancies!!

This week's fun is themed "Color Crush!"

...I think I went a little over board.

For one thing, I couldn't pick just one color.

So I did a little coral and a little green.

It's like a melon!

Friday's Fancies Color Crush by kryssialma featuring leather handbags

Someday- hopefully sooner than later, my closet will actually reflect the sort of things I post in these Friday's Fancies boards...

Every time I put together these boards, I get so sad I can't wake up the next morning and find these things in my closet... Life should seriously work that way. 

"If you blog it, it will come."

...

No?

Ok then!

I hope everyone is looking forward to their weekend and has plans to relax and enjoy it with the ones you love! I'll be back at work- making sure everyone else's r and r time is filled with magic!

Till next time, loves!

Friday's Fancies- Holiday Party!

Hello loves!

Friday already?

Is it just me or is this holiday season going even faster than this year has gone?!?

I'm ALMOST done with all my Christmas shopping but I feel like something else always comes up... So truth be told, I never finish my holiday shopping. It's sort of like that old Toys 'R Us/ Nickelodeon thing where if you won you got to run through the store and keep throwing things in the cart till your time runs out. (Am I totally alone in this reference?) Point is, I'll keep shopping till I run out of time!

I should add- I'm randomly off from work today... 

After my random day off- I work 3 days then I have 10 days off in a row. 

What did she just say?! 

10 days off in a row. What the hell am I going to do with myself?! For half of it- I'll be in Wisconsin for a wedding (woot woot shout out to Angie and Robin!!) and other than that I'll be baking, wrapping, blogging, and probably just hanging out with my zoo and enjoying christmasy candles.
Half vacation, half stay-cation- literally the week leading into the craziness that is Christmas and New Years at Disney?! I think I need this. I could not be more excited about this if I tried!

Now- since it's Friday, I am linking up with {av} from over at {long distance loving} again for Friday's Fancies. I cannot express enough how much this link up is helping me find my creativity in fashion for the first time in a long time. At least for me, it has become so easy to just fall into a comfy routine. I put on whats easy, usually a tshirt and jeans, and Im done with it. Putting together these outfits on fridays are sort of a workout for that side of my creativity. Looking at how to accessorize and put things together? These are exercises I don't usually do. And I find it pays off in my day to day! Call me nuts but you feel better when you look better. 

Do I sound crazy putting so much weight on something so seemingly simple as putting together an outfit?

Meh!

Whatever it may be- Im loving participating in these link-ups!

This weeks theme was "Holiday Party!" I always think of holiday parties as a sort of old school tradition. I wish I could go to a holiday party back circa "MadMen" time. That, to me, is the epitome of what a holiday party should be about... (minus the "everyone cheating on their spouses"businesses that always goes on in that show!)

Maybe next year I'll start an annual/themed holiday party...

I let that image influence how I picked my outfit... That and my current obsession with bows... So- it's a Vintage/Bow inspired Holiday Party outfit!!

So... someone throw a party worthy of this sort of outfit! Thank you!

Happy Friday, everyone! I can't wait to go see all of your outfits and keep getting inspired...

A Mix and Match Friday's Fancies...

Hello my loves!!!

Once again, it's Friday for all of you and Monday for me. My week was a little crazy so I only had a one day weekend. I'm a little tired but after putting together the 1st draft of my Christmas shopping list (I sure am one of those people! Cool people make lists. Lots of times over. Don't be jealous.), it's a damn good thing I'm working a little extra. I pride myself on picking thoughtful gifts for my family so I usually start thinking early. Hopefully I can follow through with all my plans! Just bought the first round of crafty awesomeness for part of this years festivities but more on that later. If I blog about it- they'll know!

Since the calendar does in fact say it's Friday- it's time to link up with {long distance loving} again for Friday's Fancies. I had such a blast linking up last week with the golden outfit and I met so many new bloggers through it that I knew I had to keep playing along!

Before I get into that- if you're new around here and haven't checked out my Williams-Sonoma Hot Chocolate goodies Giveaway, do yourself a favor and go take a look! This time of year, I crave hot chocolate nonstop!! So I thought I'd share the love with the best stuff I could get my hands on.

So before I show you guys my outfit, I want to say that I was a little scared of this week! The theme was "Mix & Match" and for some reason that intimidated the crap out of me. That's a little out of my comfort zone so how am I supposed to put together a share-worthy outfit that follows that theme? So I took it as a challenge! Surprisingly enough, I had so much fun and once again, I wish I owned this outfit!! I hope I get gutsy enough to actually put together fun outfits like this in real life. But until then- At least I have my Friday's Fancies!

Friday's Fancies- Mix & Match by kryssialma featuring floral shorts

A lovely, however subtle, venture into mixing and matching. I dig it.

I also have a confession to make. I've been wanting so badly to put more effort into looking more like this on a daily basis that I've sort of gotten a little bitter toward girls that are put together. If I go to the grocery store and see a girl in a well accessorized and put together outfit, I immediately hate her. Well, I'm exaggerating just a little. But seriously, I don't like those people. I'm a terrible, terrible person.

Dear self,
Just because you chose to go to the grocery store in what could pass as a pajama doesn't mean people that actually got dressed this morning are evil. Stop being obnoxious and get it together.
Tough love always,
Your realist half

Can't wait to go see all of your outfits!! I promise I won't judge you... unless I see you in the cereal aisle. :)