An Outfit!!

Top: Thrifted, Skirt: Target, Watch: F21, Shoes: Grasshoppers

Sorry for the crappy quality of these photos, I just took them really quick. But you're welcome for an outfit post! I know it's been a while since one of these. I've noticed that a lot of people who start out with outfit/fashion blogs don't end up keeping them up. It is a little tiring to have to take pictures of an outfit every day. I mean, as people, we only have so many clothes and so many ideas in our heads and the pressure starts getting to you, and you worry that people will stop being impressed. Or, sometimes you get worried that people only care about the outfits and not the person in them, including yourself. But really, does it even matter...what people think? Not at all. So I will just blog for me and the rest of you can read it if you'd like. :)

Basically these pictures were taken on a whim, so I have no makeup on and now I'm just sitting in my bedroom pretty much doing nothing. It's all very exciting, I know ;) If I'm bored I always have something to do though. I'm rereading The Host on my ipod touch e-reader. It's a book by Stephenie Meyer, that in my opinion is way better than the Twilight series and written completely different. It's one of my favorite books so I would highly recommend it. Also, I'm going through my itunes library and making sure I still like all the songs on my ipod. So I'm listening alphabetically and if I don't like a song I can delete it or uncheck and I can actually see all the songs I have in here! Other stuff...I'm going to the Demi Lovato concert with Brianna on July 5th (SO stoked!), I painted my nails pinterest style (pictures soon), and I have been way better about writing in my journal almost every night--it really helps me get my thoughts out. Oh and I made this interesting face when I took this photo but I kinda like it so here it is. Good bye.

Sparkles with a Skirt

I might have worn this outfit back in December....oops. But I had to post it because it was such a fun outfit. I love my sparkly H&M sweater paired with this happy thrifted skirt (I took it in and made it shorter after buying it from DI). And boots. They're just fun too.

So I'm still going to keep posting on this blog for a while longer for certain reasons. I'm not sure when I will fully transfer everything to my other blog. But if you just want to follow one, I'll be posting these same posts on my other one as well plus more on that one, so I'd recommend following it if you want the most updates. This is my fashion-only blog :)

And it's Friday! Tomorrow night my roommates and I might be going to this thing on campus called the YBall. It's a formal attire event but free, which is super cool. If we do go, I'll be wearing a beautiful coral formal dress that I made so stay tuned!

It's that Time...

It's finals week..AH! It's all everyone can talk, facebook, and blog about. And since that's so...I don't really want to write about that. I just want to say how grateful I am for my life. It's really an amazing one. I'm in a place that I never thought I'd be at and I'm friends with people that I never could have planned on being friends with. My life is so wonderful and I'm really happy. There are some hard times, but I wouldn't trade those for anything, because they bring me the good.

And besides it being finals time, it's also the Christmas season. Yesterday I had a great chance to volunteer with one of my friends at Barnes & Noble to provide free gift-wrap and collect donations for charity. And then I watched the Glee Christmas show later and basically, it just really reminded me that Christmas is all about serving others. It's not about getting gifts and it's not even really about giving all the best gifts either. It is about giving, but it's about giving love and spreading joy. My goal this Christmas season is to serve someone who I wouldn't have normally served and someone who really needs it. It's not much, but it's something. I wanna challenge you to do it with me too! Find someone to help or someone to love. And if you do it, please email me your stories, I'd love to hear about it and maybe even share them on here. Also more than that, I want to give back and I want to serve all year round, because it's not like homeless people are only around on Christmas or people in third world countries only starve on Christmas. It happens all year round, and I hope to be able to help in some way for that.

Happy finals week, and merry Christmas in 12 days! Remember why we celebrate Christmas and remember how we should be celebrating it. That's the stuff that really matters :) This song they sang in Glee warms my heart and made me get all choked up while watching it...hope you like it too!

Nothing.

I really don't feel like writing anything today, so just make yourself laugh and watch these... :)

On Days of Birth

Blouse: Gap; Skirt: Target; Shoes: TJ Maxx

I wore this a while ago at home (parent's house) during Labor Day weekend I believe. That was the last time I went home and I'm going back this weekend! Yippee, I cannot wait. :) I'll be watching conference and also celebrating my birthday with my fam. Because guess what else: it's my birthday next week! I'm gonna be 20 years old in a week and it's freakin me out a little. To be honest, I'm a little scared for my birthday to come and here's why:

1. I don't want to have a sad birthday where no one remembers and it's just lame.
2. I'm not 20, nor do I want to be 20! I feel 19. I am 19. I will stay 19. I am NOT 20. My mom got married when she was 20 and I thought she was old. And now I will be 20. So as long as my birthday doesn't come I won't turn 20. (Too many 20s at one time, sorry, I will try to not burden you with that terrible number)
3. Once a birthday comes, it's over so fast and then you have to wait again until the next year. :( I like looking forward to it and looking forward to a happy day. And it's fun when it's here (unless it's not--see #1) but then it's gone and life is normal again.

But some good things about birthdays?

1. Well...I will be 20, which means people might consider me an adult. Might being the key word here. And being 20 means I will finally be the same age as all of the people in my grade, which will be nice.
2. Presents and cake and celebrations!
3. I really do love my birthday and it's such a happy day when it comes. A day that would have been completely normal becomes magical and special and a day of your own. I love the magic of birthdays and am grateful to live in a society that celebrates them.
4. My roommate (her birthday is the day after mine) and I will be throwing a Harry Potter party and it's gonna be the bomb. I mean it. :D

So..I'm torn. Either way though, it's going to come and I'll have to live with it, so I might as well be happy. :)

What's your favorite part about birthdays?

Also, thank you for the helpful comments about helping me feel better! I really appreciate them so much! I'm still a little sick (almost two weeks later!!) but am feeling almost all better. My voice just has a tiny bit of rasp to it but I can finally sing to the music in my car! I have to admit that not being able to sing at the top of my lungs was killing me. Goodness.

Soooooo...

You know what movie is hilarious? How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days. Soooooo funny. I watched it with my roommates last night. And also we had cazookies, which is ice cream on top of a big cookie just out of the oven. Soooooo good. I love doing stuff with my roommates. They're like my family. Soooooo fun. ;)

You know what's cool? Looking around on campus and everywhere and seeing how everyone dresses. People all dress so differently and they all have their own style. I feel like having a fashion blog helps me to be able to observe the world of clothes in a different and less judgmental way. It's great, because no one dresses better than anyone else, but everyone dresses differently. I mean, there are some people that dress sloppily. But there are some people that dress so crazy and you know that it just expresses their personality. I love fashion!!

Also, for some reason, I've been happier lately and I don't really know why. I think maybe it's because I've been more myself. All those quotes that say, "be yourself" and stuff really do know what they're talking about.  Because I feel kind of great. And just happy happy. That is all.

An Outfit A Day...
Cardigan? F21
Dress? Thrifted and refashioned
Belt? Thrifted
Shoes? Walmart

...Keeps the Fashion Police Away
Comfort? 9, I had to keep fixing the belt sometimes and the dress kept blowing outside cuz it was windy
Original? 7, because I've done this outfit before but the dress is definitely my own
Did I like it? 9, pretty much I loved it lots
Overall? 8.5

All I Know is that I'm Tired Right Now

As I'm writing this I'm falling asleep but I know it will only come back to bite me if I don't finish this post.

Ah! I'm sosoooo glad its Sunday! Finally a day of the week when I don't work. :D I've had work every day this week working for 5-8 hours a day and it being super busy. I walked into work yesterday and felt way too comfortable there and I felt like it was my second home or something. Yeah, that's when you know you've been at work too long ha. It's a good thing I like the place, because it's all that I really have scheduled daily this summer. I like it because I like what I do (help customers, fold clothes, change mannequins, etc.) and I love the benefits (free textbook rentals, 20% discount), but I think my favorite part is just all the people that work there. I've made tons of really great friends and I have a lot of fun at work. And it's cool because last year I was a lot shyer I think and now I've made more friends and I'm more talkative. It's just a lot of fun and I think bookstore employees are the BOMB. :)

While I was on campus today I couldn't help but notice how beautiful it was. A little cold, yes. (It's May and it still snows..and can you believe it's already May?!?!) But it was gorgeous! See for yourself and tell me that I don't live in a terrific world. You can't. The end.

An Outfit A Day...

Black Blouse? Walmart

Cardigan? Thrifted

Necklace? F21 (sidenote: AH this necklace drove me bonkers because it kept switching to the wrong side of the owl for no darn reason! Soooo annoying. Sorry just need to vent that.)

Skirt? Secondhand (and may I just comment and say that I can't believe that I haven't worn this skirt before! Cuz it is dang cute.)

Shoes? Thrifted (since I'm commenting on all my clothing items I thought I'd say that I finally looked up my shoe brand online to find them because people are always asking about them and they're extremely comfortable. Best shoes I've ever owned! So if you want some like them...go to Grasshoppers Shoes)

...Keeps the Fashion Police Away

Comfort? 9 (it was super comfy except for the fact that the stupid owl--see above--kept bugging me)

Original? 6

Did I like it? 10

Overall? 9

Hippie Thinking

Hey friends! How is your week going so far? Pretty much mine is going fabulously because I don't have school and I've just been working and playing lots. :D Summer (even if it doesn't completely feel like it weather-wise) is the BEST. And also, lots of new people moved into my ward, which means lots of new boys!!! Heaven, indeed. I already have my eye set on one haha. Expect an engagement post by next week ;) (I hope you know I'm kidding. I will date a boy for a while--a lot of months or year--before getting engaged!).

I guess though that even though life is pretty happy, there is still so much that I'm trying to work on, because I'm far from perfect and I've got lots of problems. I won't get into details but I just feel like I'm always working on something and always trying to be better. Sometimes I wish it would all just stop and the world and life's troubles would just pause. What I really want is just some peace (and love. the hippies were onto something I think...). Some peace of mind, peace with the world, and peace with myself. Have you ever realized how difficult it is to just feel peace? It's pretty dang hard. And it makes me cry many days.

Yesterday, though, I think I felt a little bit of peace. I went to the Carl Bloch exhibit in the BYU Museum of Art with my roommates and it was so wonderful. It was completely spiritual and peaceful. And I will admit that I did cry a little, but they were good tears. :) You may have heard of him before, but Carl Bloch was a painter and artist back a few hundred years ago who painted tons of beautiful pictures of scenes from Christ's life that are now reprinted and used in church buildings, church magazines, church books, etc. Even if you haven't heard of him, I have no doubt that you would be familiar with several of Carl Bloch's paintings if you saw them. Anyways, this exhibit has been at BYU for a while and very popular, because the original paintings are there. The exhibit ends next week so if you want to go, I'd highly recommend it. My favorite two paintings were these:

Healing at the Pool of Bethesda by Carl Bloch

Gethsemane by Carl Bloch

As I sat there sitting, staring at, and contemplating these paintings and the others, I felt a sense of peace. I realized how much He loves me. And I really am worth it. I honestly have no idea how much I mean to Him. Seeing that Gethsemane picture and seeing the depiction of that moment of suffering made me realize that if Christ can suffer for everyone's sins and go through that much pain, then I can overcome my trials. And the cool thing is that I have Him to help me through it. I will always have him. I think the only thing that truly gives me peace in life is my church. It's all I truly have and it's all I really need and it's all that matters. I love it. :)

I just wanted to share that. It's a good afternote for Easter. :)

An Outfit A Day...
Button-Up? Thrifted
Belt? Amazon.com
Capris? Aeropostale
Shoes? Thrifted
Bag? Target

...Keeps the Fashion Police Away
Comfort? 10
Original? 8
Did I like it? 9
Overall? 9

As the Sun Sets

I actually really like how these pictures turned out. I hurried and took them as I was coming home from a quick shopping excursion so they're a little darker but I love the sunset in the back. The pictures have a perfect feel for the outfit too.

Speaking of the outfit, I really liked it too! :) I just kind of threw it together on the basis that I knew I wanted to wear these shoes and a skirt. It's been super warm lately, like in the high 50s (that's warm for Utah) so I took the chance to finally wear sandals! I absolutely love these sandals. They have a little bit of a heel but not a ton so they still look classy but are doable to walk around campus in. I got them for free from a shoe giveaway from Dreams Footwear on facebook. Um, free shoes? Yes, thank you very much. I will take them any day. I like the relaxed look of the oversized button up yet classy and fun look of the straight green skirt. I just think this outfit came together really nicely. It's times like these when I can look at the pictures and proudly say that I must know something about fashion, because let's face it, I don't feel like that most of the time. Your comments are very reassuring though, thank you :)

Sorry about not posting over the weekend. I actually took a quick road trip with some of my roommates and a friend to Las Vegas for the NCAA mountain west championship game. Unfortunately, BYU lost :( but the trip was super fun! I've never actually taken a road trip with friends before, and I have to say that I thoroughly enjoyed it and I'm sure it will be happening again soon, I hope. I took a billion gazillion pictures (meaning 265) in that day and a half, so if you want to read more about it, go to this link. I have lots of pictures too as well as the whole shabang story. ;)

Also, just thought I'd say that I had my blood drawn yesterday for the first time I can remember! And I didn't die! I seriously cried every time I thought about it and tears were streaming down my face as it was being done, but it really was only a pinch. So all I have to say from this is that if I can get my blood drawn, then you can do anything. ANYTHING, I tell ya :) I hope that was uplifting for you! Have a wonderful Tuesday :D

An Outfit A Day...
Button-Up? Thrifted
Pink Tee? Down East Basics
Belt? Thrifted
Skirt? Target
Shoes? Dreams Footwear (FREE!)
Bag? Target

Keeps the Fashion Police Away...
Comfort? 9
Original? 8
Did I like it? 9.5
Overall? 8.5

The Day FINALLY Came!

Oh. My. Gosh. I did it! I completed the 30 for 30!!! Can you believe I did it? I'm not even sure I can haha. I wanted to end the 30 for 30 with a bang, but I have had 4 tests and a project to do in two days, so you should be able to understand when I just say I threw these on because they were there and I didn't want to try and match up more 30 for 30 items.\\

An Outfit A Day...
Cardigan? Thrifted
Blouse? Forever 21
Jeggings? Charlotte Russe
Shoes? Thrifted

Keeps the Fashion Police Away...
Comfort? 10
Original? 4
Did I Like It?  6
Overall? 6.5

So now...let's just do a little recapitulation of the challenge, shall we? Here's a collage of all my outfits (if you want to see all of the post, just click on the 30 for 30 label at the bottom of this post).

Wow, lots of outfits and only 30 items. That is AWESOME! Looking at them all together makes me look proud. To view the items that I chose and the rules and stuff, go to THIS POST.

Top 5 Favorite Outfits:

  -30 for 30 Keeps the Fashion Police Away

  -I Love You, Yellow and Blue

  -Photo Shoot

  -Ain't No Time Like This Time, Baby

  -What Love Is

Bottom 5 Outfits:
  -Woman in Black
  -Well...Hi
  -Cooking With Kiki
  -Picture Pooper
  -(I didn't post like two days which I will update someday, but I think one of those is on this list..there's just nothing to link it to.

Most Worn Item(s): I wore my yellow cardigan 5 times, these jeggings 7 times, and these boots 10 times

Least Worn Item(s): These red/purple boots, this denim skirt, this skirt, and this skirt were all worn once each

What I Learned:
  -The 30 for 30 is not impossible! If I can do it, you can do it too!

  -When you only have 30 items and you lose one (this gray cardigan), it's a big deal. Suddenly you have much less possibilities. After all, 30x30= 900, while 29x30=870. Not huge, but it does matter. I hope this doesn't sound bad at all, but it kind of helped me to realize how people who are poor or who don't have a lot of clothes feel. I love clothes, but they've kind of lost their value to me. If I lose one shirt, it's not a big deal because I have tons more, but when you only have a few shirts and you lose one, it stinks big time.

  -I have so many clothes and I am SO blessed. I never realized how many clothes I had until I only had 30. This challenge made me so grateful for the clothes I have and it makes me want to give back. Actually there's a clothing swap on BYU campus this Saturday so I'm going to take as many clothes as I can, because whatever doesn't get swapped will go to a refugee center which I think is great! If you're in the Provo/Utah county area, you should go too! The facebook event page is here for more info.

  -I'm glad I have a lot of clothes to make outfits and stuff. Otherwise I think I'd get really lazy like I started to get at the end of this.

  -Not shopping (mostly) for 30 days was hard but very healthy. And I saved money. And now I don't feel like I need to go shopping as much because I feel like I have so many clothes and stuff, so I can go shopping in my own closet!

-I love clothes and fashion. I knew that before and this challenge reaffirmed it. I don't know what it is, but I love fashion so much. Remixing is the best thing on the planet. For me anyways. Fashion is my passion. I live it and I LOVE it!