It's All About the Shades

 What I wore Wednesday to the vintage themed end of year pool party at my friends house to mark the last day of school!

The Theme was vintage scarf and sunglasses for pool side chicness...

I added a hair extension as a ponytail tied a scarf and adding the vintage pearl cat eye sunglasses my mom had bought me with the pearl earrings made it perfect!

Bikini - Seafolly

Cover Up - From Turkey

Purse - Juicy Couture

Sunglasses, Scarf - Vintage

Earrings - H&M

WEDNESDAY:

I worked from home that day so I can put in the maximum time before I have to leave to pick up the kids and run to this party...

Of course takes extreme amount of coordination as the party was only the beginning of activities on our doc! I had to pack my son's uniform and sports bag and coordinate so Coach can pick him up from the pool party location to take him to practice. Then I had to pack my daughter's ice skating clothes and bag as well as we went direct from the party to her classes on the rink!

Darling get on the floor

 What I wore to the big birthday party and Turkish night at my parents' house Saturday night...

Inspiration was from a very recent magazine about mixing leather with summer tops...

 I had these sandals for years but have hardly worn them... It was a perfect compliment to this outfit and the low wedges were perfect for a night of standing on grass and cobblestones...

Top, Skirt, Choker - Forever 21

Sandals - Victoria's Secret (very old)

SATURDAY:
AFter a crazy busy day of being solo with the kids, dropping off my car for repairs, breakfast on the beach, ubering home as the car was going to take a few hours, getting a ride back from my mom, ice skating, cooking, new neighbor pool party, coming back home and going to my parents' party....

The party was to celebrate my step dad's and our family friend's July birthdays and in honor of my grandpa we had a Turkish themed party where everyone tried the traditional 'Raki' drink and even had a belly dancer come and put on a show...
Of course all the Turkish girls had to get up and belly dance too as we grew up doing that within the family...

And one of our guests turned out to be a professional hula dancer so there was a lot of diverse dancing going on...

Glitter and Glow

Here is my New Year's Eve outfit inspired by a look from a very old Sept 2011 issue of Vogue:

This sequin dress is actually a skirt and a top set. I wore the skirt portion as part of my prom dress from high school graduation. It was a very high quality set so I kept it all these years….

Top & Bottom - From Turkey

Trench - Andrew Marc

Scarf - TJ Maxx

Necklace - Baublebar

Boots - J Crew

New Year's Eve 2014:
We had yet another fun night spending with our good friends at their house for the 4th year in a row. The kids look forward to the big sleep over the entire year….