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!

An outfit post...

It's Thursday already?!?

Holy cow! My weekend flew by. But I relaxed, and trained, and got a crafty project done!! 

Can't wait to share that later this week!

This is just going to be a short post to keep me accountable on my New Year's Resolution.

I mentioned I hardly ever take the time to put an outfit together and actually look cute so I really want to change that. I spend so much time perusing other blogs and pinterest and I'm constantly inspired by all of it!  So now it's time for me to step up and actually use that inspiration! 

Lucky for me, my person was home this morning so he ran outside with me a second ago to snap a couple quick pictures. 

Here's hoping this is just the start of me looking awesome much, much more often!

**Keep in mind: I never feel like I look cute if I don't have my hair straightened. In these pictures, I left my hair as is when I get out of the shower. EEeek! But in all actuality, I wear my hair like this most often. So it makes this whole "Outfit Post" thing more legitimate. So, try not to mock my lion-like mane!**

 Top- J. Crew

Bottom- Gap

Shoes- Tory Burch

Watch- La Mer Collections

Headband- Claire's (Keepin it classy!)

All other jewelry- Brighton

There it is! My casual but (hopefully) cute first outfit post! It was much easier than all my hemming and hawing would make it seem. Not sure why I get so lazy about it! We all do sometimes though, right? Please tell me I'm not alone in this!

Alright everyone! Power through the ends of your weeks as I get ready to start mine. Here's hoping everyone is doing well and putting in a little effort to get out of sweats and into actual outfits! Just me? Alright then, I got this!!

Wish! {out loud}

Happy Sunday, everybody!!

A post on Sunday?!?

That can only mean one thing...

The return of the Wish! {out loud} link up with the ever so lovely Ashley Marie from Chickadette and Robin from fly far. fly free. They were super on the ball and got posts up last week and I totally flaked out! :/ Sorry ladies!! But I'm very happy to report, I'm back in the game!!

SO!

Let's resume the wish making/granting, shall we?!

(If you're totally lost, check out the original intro post then head back over here to play along!)

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Just like the last weeks, here's what you gotta do!

1. Grab the button and attach it to your post

2. Get your wish post up on your own blog! If you've already played along, either introduce a new wish or let us know how this one is going. 

3. Go to any of the 3 hostesses blogs to link-up

(They're connected so you only have to add it on one!)

4. Start hopping around to the others participating and see how you can help!

This week, I'm going to sort of go off of the post I did last time I played along with Wish! {out loud}:

I wish I would make it a point to actually get put together with legitimate outfits more often...

You see, having jobs where I always put on costumes means I tend to wear sweats and work out clothes fairly often. My goal is to wear things easy to get in and out of to make changing before and after shows as easy as possible!

So, blog land, someone out there, make me accountable!! Remind me to play along with "What I Wore Wednesdays" and ask me every now and then to post a picture of what I wore today! Maybe that will force me to put a little more effort in!

My poor person, he more often than not sees me in pajamas or outfits that could easily pass for pajamas... Lucky for me, he tells me regularly how lucky he feels that I'm so gorgeous first thing in the morning.

What a sweet, sweet lie.

But I'll take it!

And keep him of course!

Now that thats out of the way- time to link up everyone! Can't wait to go snoop around and see what I can help you all out with!! Enjoy the rest of your weekends!

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!

Wish! {out loud}

Sunday, already?!

Hello loves! I hope your weekends were relaxing, however short lived they may have been.

I may have jumped the gun when I claimed I had 10 days off...

I picked up an extra day of shows.

Woot!

Considering what I do... I honestly don't mind! Not even a little.

Being Sunday, it's time for Wish! {out loud} !! 

Once again, Robin, Ashley, and I are hosting this fun link-up that encourages people to make a wish and to hop around seeing if there's anything you might be able to do to help grant them! 

Want to know more?

Check out the intro post from a few weeks back...

Just like the last weeks, here's what you gotta do!

1. Grab a button and attach it to your post

2. Get your wish post up on your own blog! If you've already played along, either introduce a new wish or let us know how this one is going. 

3. Go to any of the 3 hostesses blogs to link-up

(They're connected so you only have to add it on one!)

4. Start hopping around to the others participating and see how you can help!

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The last couple of weeks, I've expressed my wish to start a Central Florida Blogger meet-up. I've been so excited to get some amazing leads and I'm starting to meet some really incredible new bloggers! I've been finding that just putting this wish out into the universe, I started to come across so many bloggers talking about meet-ups and I'm already getting big ideas. Planning some big things and can't wait unveil some of it- but all in due time!

**This week-**
I wish I had a personal stylist!
Too much?

Alright, so obviously none of you are going to drop everything and come dress me on a daily basis! lol But! I'm sure there are ways some of you could help me out!
SOOOO many of you out there are so fashion savvy that I have no doubt I'm asking the right group of people-
Help me learn to dress myself!!

I'm not quite 5' tall and I have an hourglass shape- top business and curvy hips but a tiny waist.
I LOVE j. crew and anthropologie.

So who wants to play stylist?
I'm looking for anything from tips, to a list of staples I should have in my closet, or if you're totally bored- head to polyvore.com and REALLY pretend you're my personal stylist!
I welcome as much fun and creativity as you want to have with this.
AND- GO! I am officially your Barbie doll!

I feel like that was such a silly wish for this week... Just thought it would be fun!!  But for now, its time to go see who out there I can help out! Happy Sunday, everyone! Keep those wishes alive and pass along the happy thoughts!

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...