Oxblood

 Today, participating in the 

Bloggers Do It Better

Oxblood Event

by

Pretty Shiny Sparkly Blog

For this I picked the 'paige' top from my Kika Paprika collection in the perfect shade for this competition. We call it 'Bordeaux' but it is the perfect shade of 'oxblood' especially on this fabric.

The inspiration was from the August 2012 issue of Lucky Magazine:

I love the combination of oxblood with teal and the unusual combination of the red heels. I also duplicated the white collar and rhinestone bracelets which I think create a nice contrast against the deep hue of the top...

'Paige' top in 'bordeaux' by Kika Paprika

Jeweled collar - H&M

Rhinestone necklace - Forever 21

Shorts - Ann Taylor

Heels - From Turkey

Bracelets - Cookie Lee

Ring - From Turkey

To see all the other great Oxblood posts for the BDIB event, 

click HERE!

Also Joining 

MONDAY MINGLE

hosted this week by

Glamamom

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TODAY:
Had a nice breakfast out with family (my in-laws) although I wasn't too keen on waking up so early but we have to given that our kids get up by 6:30 AM and are always starving. After a short walk past breakfast we said our good-bye's and I headed off to Turkish School with the kids.
With only an hour break in between we then went to our friend's house to see their new home and have dinner together. It was a nice relaxing night with good friends... If weren't so lazy and into enjoying our night I would have taken some great photos of the kids playing together. The girls dressed in princess clothes giving each other princess check-ups and the 4 boys doing a break-dance dance off.

Young Dancers

This was today's outfit. 

Something is happening with my i-photo cause two days in a row now and entire 'event' disappears from my photos. Thank Goodness it keeps a list of uploaded photos and I was able to recover these but not my inspiration photo... Oh well...

I like the simplicity of these thin understated bracelets. The tiger eye stone has an add-on clover charm. The cross has rhinestones over a stretch black.

Striped tank dress (worn as a skirt) - Marshall's

Blush Top - H&M

Coral Belt - Forever 21

Sandals - Asos

Aviator Sunglasses - Betsey Johnson (from Marshall's)

Bracelets - Cookie Lee

TODAY:
Did the usual pre-school with my daughter followed by lunch at home then some finger painting (!)
My parents paid us a surprise visit to take her to the beach for a little bit until I picked up my son.
Then my in-laws arrived and we all went to my son's school's welcome picnic!
It is a such a social stress for my son to be in these situations but thankfully by the end of the night he had hooked up with his friend and was playing and happy.  My daughter on the other hand is opposite of shy taking walks by herself and at the end dancing with all the big girls. Standing on sidelines and watching a huge group of elementary school kids dance (I mean really dance) I felt old and also melancholy that our kids are growing fast and this is just flash forward of how they will be begging to go to parties and dance for hours. When it was time to go and I kept telling my daughter she was tired her response to me was 'I am not tired, I love the music' and ran back to the floor and cont'd dancing.
Oh, we have our work cut out for us.

 This frock was a hand me down from either me, or my cousin or sister. It provides the perfect coverage. Love it.

Peace, Love and Rock N Roll

 My outfit today, came together better than I thought it would.  

The inspiration was from an older issue of Elle Magazine:

I was not feeling like shorts today so switched to white skinny jeans instead. It could get hot so wore a graphic tee inside the denim shirt. I love how crisp the belt and shoes look against the white tee and top.
And this denim shirt from F21 is amazingly good quality and has the perfect dose os distress.

Denim Shirt, Tee, Jeans, Scarf - Forever 21

Belt - Ann Taylor Loft

Flats - Steve Madden

TODAY:
Our day started early with an 8:30 AM check-up appt for my son and flu shots for both kids, then dropping him off at school late, then meeting a friend for coffee who is moving away, then taking my daughter to ballet class followed by lunch and playtime at indoor play area. Then going the drug store to get my TB test results so I can volunteer at my son's school which took forever so had to ask my mom to make it to my son's school for pick-up. I tried to get all the bills paid before had to take my son to soccer practice. My husband brought him back and my friend came over with dinner thank goodness.
It was a crazy day...