Some days you have to create your own sunshine

 What I wore Saturday to the neighborhood holiday party... 

Combining by black friday sweater purchase from this year and the coat from last year's black friday shopping spree....

Sweater- Gap

Pants, booties - Amazon Fashion

Coat - J Crew

Necklaces - Baublebar

Full Glitz

 What I wore to our school board Holiday Party…

I loved this all sparkle top… Added the velvet pants I scored during black Friday and the velvet heels again I ordered during black Friday and just arrived that afternoon. Perfect timing...

Love these shoes. I have been wanting a velvet pair and saw the Nine West ad in the magazine for these and fell in love. Definitely helped having the 30% off sale as well...

Top - H&M

Pants - Gap

Heels - Nine West

Earrings - Forever 21

Tonight you're perfect

 My outfit for Christmas Eve…

My daughter and I bought this bright pink tinsel tree today at big lots clearance for $10. I really wanted a white but they were all out. I love the pink tree….

My friend from shybiker blog has sent me this gorgeous purple heel ornament as a xmas gift this year. Since we didn't have a tree up there was no place to put it until we bought the pink tree tonight. It totally belongs on this tree…..

Jacket, Dress, Heels & Headband - Forever 21

Necklace - Mom brought this from Turkey

Earrings - Cookie Lee

CHRISTMAS EVE:
We spent the day today running a few errands and grocery shopping which was an absolute zoo but we got lucky with a great front of the store parking spot. We even fitted in a quick haircut for my son before the holiday which was great.
Then we came home and wrapped a few more later arrival gifts and got everyone showered and dressed for Christmas Eve at my mom and step dad's house.

They had a great table and feast set-up and invited our friends over too so my daughter had a friend.
We stayed until kids' bed time then came home. My daughter fell a sleep but my son wouldn't miss putting out the treats for Santa. We like to be different and put out something juicy and citrusy to off set all the cookies he gets. Tonight we put a peeled halo orange and a ginger snap cookie and some OJ. For the reindeers some celery….

 Got this headband for her at the hair cut place today. It matches her dress perfectly and so cute and unique...

They never stopped talking during dinner….

The fashion show started right after dinner….

My dad was with us part of the night as well but he was in too much pain to last the night so he is sleeping at our house gaining energy for tomorrow….

READY FOR SANTA!

Lace in Shadows

This was my outfit Saturday night to our friend's dinner party!

The inspiration was from this very old magazine clipping:

 I liked this idea of jet black tights under a stark white lace dress...

Added simple black rhinestone hoop earrings:

Lace Dress - Vintage

Tights, Earrings - Forever 21

Booties - Michael Antonia

Velvet Jacket - Bebe

SATURDAY NIGHT:
Had such a fun night with our old old friends. We thought about it and realized we have known each other since 1996 and started this dinner party tradition sometime in 1997! That is so long ago. Before we each kids, before some of us had married and before some of us had divorced! There is something to be said about friendships that go that far back. You just know each other so well and have been through so much and have so many crazy memories together. That level of comfort is hard to come by.
And here are some of the kiddos having dinner at their own table:

Later in the night and after the kids had a big slumber party sleep over (except ours who were spending the night at grandma's) and after many bottles of WINE:

And after 3 rounds of the 'catch phrase' game...
We started playing dance on Wii to Michel Jackson edition. After the ladies kicked butt we had the guys take a turn!

Priceless!