Like a ray of sunshine

Although I like this combo I am not that excited about it cause I wore this last year, just either never blogged about it or never took a photo.  I like the all black with the huge pop of color from the yellow scarf and touch of interest with the animal print ballet flats. I added more glam with the big vintage looking earings and the sparkly cuff bracelet.

Black tee - Target

Skinny cut jeans - Rock Republic

Black Cardigan - Guess

Yellow Scarf - Mom's

Animal print ballet flats - Paola

Cuff bracelet and earings - Forever 21

Today's Activities: Yeay, it is the weekend and my husband is here. We went to a pretty early b-day party at a park at 10 AM. Had fun since a lot of friends were there and kids enjoyed the huge park and playing in the sand with their friends. Came home for naps and now 3 days in a row my son did not nap. God, I think he is dropping the nap and it is scary I just hope I can continue the quiet time possibly for at least until my daughter no longer naps. In the afternoon we had my parents and mom's cousins stop by to see the house. Then I took the kids to Sea World by myself for trick or treating and gave my husband a break. My son insisted he wears his thick dino costume. He looked so cute. My sister joined us later and we watched the elmo show and the seal halloween show. Had dinner there and came home just in time for bed time.

Here I am with the kids at the B-day party, fighting to get all the frosting off of the plastic animals they got from the cake...

Collegiate

I am loving my outfit today. Can't you see how happy I am when the weather is cooporating and staying somewhat cool enough at least for me to wear my 'fall' outfits. I put this together when I bought the cardigan from Forever 21 ($13.50!!!). I immediately thought it would look perfect with this blue striped button down. My sister wasn't a beleiver till she saw it all together. I just got these oxford's online. See, before I became a blogger I would have paired the cardi with a black shirt and woudl have worn red or black shoes to match. Now just all you other bloggers out there I look and crave contrasts and unusual combinations. So, these white/grey oxfords were perfect picking the light part of the button down. They have a slight gold glitter on them which allowed me to play that up with this vintage looking broche. Everyone kept asking if it was a hand me down from family. I don't remember where I got it but it was inexpensive. I had bought this way back when pins were in style. Collected about 4 of them and glad they can be worn again. I love adding the pin instead of any other jewelry. It gives the outfit just the right amount of feminine quality.  Oh, never talked about the hat. Found this the other day when I was reaching for some old evening shoes to try out. I love this hat. It is soft and comfy and you can fold it flat and it just gets its shape back. I wore this casual or dressy for years than kind of forgot about it. Today had that light annoying rain so it was perfect to cover up at least part of my hair.

Black striped dark red cardigan - Forever 21 (new)

Blue and white striped button down shirt - From Turkey

Skinny dark grey jeans - Closet (old)

Broche - don't remember where I got it (old)

Hat - Donney & Burke (old)

Oxfords - Forever 21 online (new)

Tortoise and gold watch - Michael Kors

Today's Activities: Since we missed Wednesday's preschool class we went to make up one today. My daughter was driving me crazy getting into everything more than usual. She was covered with markers from head to toe. Came home to another daughter napping, son not so much kind of day. At least he did stay in his room and read books. We then ran errands of costco shopping, coming back to put everything in fridge/freezer followed by dry cleaners and finally ending up at my mom and step dad's house for dinner. My mom's cousins are in town so it was fun having a big family dinner.

Here are some shots where kids are getting involved... ;)

Unusual color combination

So, I was very happy with today's outfit. Except I feel it looked so much better in real life than in these photos so hopefully my instintcts were right. I was inspired to bring these colors together by the photo below:

The main thing that attracted me to this look was the velvelt purple jacket and the fact that I had one hanging in my closet from years ago. I fell in love with this jacket right away and so muc that I bought it even though it was too big and they didn't have it in a smaller size. Yet, I always had a tough time wearing it. I love the idea of pairing these unusual colors of teal, army green, purple and pink! You would never think these would work together but somehow they do. Amazing that this teal simple v-neck from Target has been worn so much as a great layering piece. Another great thing about this look is that except for the scarf everything is stuff I had in my closet for a while. The scarf is a new purchase from TJ Maxx. It is double layered and made out of soft t-shirt material. I love the colors of rusty red, teal, turqoise and touches of lavendar and pink and anchored with black and ivory. What is cooler is it has gold studs scattered all over the scarf. It is long enough to do a double wrap which I did at first but I needed to keep it long to off set the crop jacket.

My main pink item for the October challange though is my pink flat pointy toe shoes. They have colorful stiching all over. Oh, lastly the vintage looking earings go perfect with the vintage cut jacket I thought.

 

 

Purple velvelt crop jacket - Forever 21 Vintage (very old)

Teal Tee- Target (old)

Green cargo pants - Bebe (old)

Pink pointy toe flats - they have a brand name but I can't read it... (old)

Cotton scarf - Ed Hardy (new from TJ Maxx)

Earings - Forever 21 (new)

Today's Activities: My husband worked from home today so we could hang out with him all morning. Kids are all over him as they missed him so much. We went to swim class then had lunch at a Mc Donalds with a big slide play area with a friend so they could get some fresh air in this overcast day. After naps (only daughter napped) all of us including my husband went to the music class together. I had already arranged with my other mommy friends to invite their husband and one did. After the class we went to a kid friendly pizza house all together. It was chaotic as usual but fun.