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Cream Kimono & Floral Tee: What A Difference A Day Makes

04.20.2015

In Thursday’s post I talked about how as much as I love my job, sometimes it is thoroughly emotionally exhausting. On the flip side, Friday reminded me of why exactly I do what I do. My principal’s mom owns an absolutely beautiful Samoyed named Rosie who happens to be a therapy dog. She had asked me if perhaps I would like Rosie to come visit my class…of course I jumped on that! It’s not like my love of all members of the canine persuasion is any secret.

Rosie came to visit on Friday. The kids all got to pet and talk with her, see a few tricks and learn about how to appropriately interact with dogs. I do not have the words to fully explain to you the utter joy my kids got from spending time with her. When Rosie walked in the “ooh’s” and “aahs” sounded like we were watching a fireworks display. They were completely delighted with everything she did. There were so many times while watching them with Rosie that I teared up. Hell, I’m tearing up while writing this. When I can give them something that they will truly learn from and remember, something that makes even a small difference in their worlds, that’s when I’m reminded of how worth it my job really is.

This cream kimono is such a perfect example of floaty ethereal awesomeness, is it not? It was one of my very first Poshmark purchases. I’ve been waiting for the weather to cooperate with me so that I could wear it; below zero weather doesn’t exactly go hand in hand with “floaty ethereal awesomeness”. Since Spring has officially sprung, I thought it would be fabulous over my floral tee, and the boyfriend jeans kept all the girliness grounded. And to make it even better, my first Rocksbox arrived and the delicious delicate gold Gorjana bangle I found inside was perfect with the kimono.

Originally I wasn’t sure about collaborating with Rocksbox because I’ve seen them all over Instagram and it was predominantly younger bloggers. I did some investigating and decided that it’s a pretty cool concept for girls of any age. It’s a subscription service and for $19.99 a month you get a box with three pieces of jewelry chosen based on your profile. You can send them back and trade them in for different pieces as many times as you’d like with free shipping both ways. And if there is something you truly love, you can buy it…pretty sweet! All three pieces that came in my first box were right on the money; I would have chosen each of the pieces myself. If you’d like to give it a try with no commitment, it’s your lucky day. Enter “fashionfairydustxoxo” at checkout and try it out for free for one month. If you aren’t totally diggin’ it, you can cancel at any time.

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Kimono: Poshmark; Tee: Old Navy (In-store purchase); Jeans: GAP via Poshmark; Shoes: Windsor (Old); Necklace: Headline Boutique; Gold Bangle Bracelet: Rocksbox

Striped Dress & Converse: A Sweet Collaboration

04.14.2015

A few weeks back I was approached by Sulay, the owner of a cute little Etsy shop called Never Lose Hope Stand Up. She was kind enough to offer me a credit to her shop so that I could try out a few pairs of her adorable earrings. I honestly had a difficult time choosing because you all know I have a thing for floral print and well, she has a ton of delicately detailed flower studs to choose from. I ended up choosing two pairs of the florals as well as a pair of druzy drop earrings. She was kind enough to also send an additional pair of crystal studs. I wore the red roses with today’s outfit and I can’t wait to wear the druzy drops because they are truly gorgeous…super sparkly which I love (ya, I’m kinda like a magpie when it comes to shiny stuff).

The weather was outrageously beautiful today (hello 70 degrees!), but it was also outrageously windy so it was tough to get a good shot of the earrings considering my hair was wrapped around my face. They were perfect with my striped dress and plaid button down though because the bright red tied right in with the red stripes and plaid. And the Converses? Well, Converses pretty much work with everything. What are your thoughts on sneaks with dresses and skirts…do you or don’t you?

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Dress: Old Navy (Old); Blouse: JCPenney (Old); Converse: Nordstrom; Earrings: NeverLoseHopeStandUp

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Pink Wedge Sandals & Baseball Tee: Get Well Soon

04.13.2015

Today my friends, I have for you another little peek into the strange little backwoods world that I call home. Sunday I took a cruise to the nearby small town to run some errands. I took a couple of different back roads (as if there’s any other kind of road around here) to get there and on two entirely different roads I happened upon road kill with a “Get Well Soon” mylar balloon attached to it. No, I’m not making this up. The first one made me go, “Ewww!” The second one made me wonder if perhaps someone had too much time on their hands. On the way home, I took a completely different road; like on the other side of town. And yep, you guessed it. Another dead animal, another mylar balloon. W.T.H?? Not only does someone have waayy… too much time on their hands, I also believe they may have an undiagnosed mental condition. Think about it. Someone took the time and money to go out and buy “Get Well” balloons and then drove around the countryside looking for animals who had made unfortunate road crossing decisions to which they attached these balloons. Wow. Just wow.

Scroll down and take a peep at my feet. What’s that? Sandals? Um, yes…hooray for sandal weather! I recently stumbled across these pink wedge sandals at Old Navy. Since the wedge was just the right height to give some lift while not making my feet scream in agony I also picked up a nude pair. They were super crazy on sale so I got both pairs for about $30. I’m loving them because the color is so vivid and they really are comfortable. Although they did require some shoe inserts because Old Navy shoes are often hard to size because they often only come in whole sizes. These were a hair loose, but the insert fixed that right up. The warmer weather also called for the return of my tissue weight baseball tees. I picked this one up at Express about a year ago and it works just as well with skirts as it does with jeans (check it out here). The sandals and the neon necklace took a basic jeans and tee look to a different level; had I worn my Chucks and a more delicate necklace the outfit would have had an entirely different feel. That just goes to show you what a difference the extras make in an outfit.

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Sandals: Old Navy (Currently out of stock); Tee: Express (Old); Jeans: GAP via Poshmark; Jacket: JCPenney (Old)

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Yellow Cardigan, Cobalt Blouse & Joggers: You Had One Job

03.26.2015

As you all know, I live in a small town; as in backwoods small. Civilization is within driving distance, but that doesn’t change the banjo vibe of it. Like in most small towns we have our own water company. As such, they have one job; provide me with water. Let me clarify that statement by saying that I mean provide me with water I can actually, you know, drink. Last Friday night around 10:30 there’s a pounding on our door. I open it to find a small, bearded, flannel wearing (and not flannel wearing as in fashionable, flannel wearing as in the aforementioned banjo vibe) dude who shoves a paper in my hand. He says, “Don’t drink the water until further notice. Don’t drink it, don’t cook with it. All you can do with it is take a bath and do laundry.” Um, what?

I go inside and read the paper. Indeed, the water is so jacked up it’s not even drinkable if you boil it. The paper also says if you do ingest it you run the risk of nausea, vomiting, diarrhea (never thought you’d see those words on a fashion blog, did ya?) and a plethora of other unpleasant things. Ladies and gentlemen, by that point in the day I had already pounded down several glasses of water, two pots of coffee and made dinner with water. Needless to say, I had a rather difficult weekend. The best part is, I come to find out the yahoos knew about the water issue Friday morning…ya, thanks for telling me twelve hours after the fact. The news just said that the soonest we can expect to have safe water again is maybe this Friday. In the meantime I totally feel like a post-apocalyptic prepper; the back of my jeep is dragging on the ground due to the three thousand gallon jugs of water I’m hauling around. You had one job water company…one job.

On a brighter note, how about all of these colors? I feel like an elementary school color wheel lesson, but I like it. It doesn’t get much cheerier than bright yellow, cobalt and red now does it? I got the inspiration for the bright yellow/cobalt combo from last month’s Lucky magazine. The pop of red was my idea. Because, well, the yellow cardigan and cobalt blouse just weren’t quite bright enough on their own. Not really. I was just trying to figure out what accessories to pair with it and while perusing my necklace wall, (Don’t judge. Yes, I have a wall of necklaces.) my eyes settled on the red one and I thought “Yes! And my red pumps too!” And there you have it, color basics 101.

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Cardigan: It was my mom’s; Blouse: Old Navy (Old); Joggers: Nordstrom (Old); Pumps: Macy’s (Old)