quick outfit post

Well, finally got to wear my boot find today! Paired them  with a pair of black leggings from lane bryant and a basic black tee which i layered with a vintage shrugthing i got while thrifting--chris thought i had seriously lost it when he saw me come home with it but i knew it had potential......



how excited was i that these had this funky lining!




cant wait to pair these with some skinny jeans!



the perfect blazer

Wow. Its been awhile.Recently i had surgery on my leg to remove a rather disgusting looking varicose vein,while excited it is gone it left my leg bruised sore and nasty looking all around.AND.....required the wearing of compression tights. Yuck. Honestly the tights made me feel so uncomfortable and gross(i felt like two wiener sausages in casing it cut me off so bad at the waist if you must know) that all i wanted to do was put sweats on after i got off work. Today was my first day that i didn't have to keep them on after work(yay!) so i finally wore something cute. I usually HATE  all blazers they make me feel like a line backer but not this one its so girly that they was no way i was looking like a football player in it.i originally was going to pair it with the same shirt and a pair of super cute white trousers i scored for TWO DOLLARS at old navy but then i woulda felt the need for heels and while my leg feels better I'm not sure its ready for heels,no matter how god damn cute they are. Oh well....there will be other days....


i love how feminine the jacket is



couldnt decide whether or not to belt it....in the end i went without it.





scored this purse while thrifting loved the shape and pattern of it.



close up of the shirts pattern and a blatant boob shot.....my hubby is the photographer.this was supposed to be a up close of the belt.



ootd

have i mentioned how lucky i am?

You will never believe how many times i went out in search of the perfect pencil skirt to come back empty handed. In fact i almost threw down 50 dollars for one just the other day(.....and I'm a cheap skate. seriously.) that's how desperate i was. A few days ago i was doing a overhaul on my closet when i happened upon this skirt in my pants bin. Its been in there for over a year. I remember picking it up on 99cent day at value village hoping to fit into it at a later date because it was alittle snug on me at that point. Imagine my excitement when it did! Now I'm not kidding when i say this...every woman should have one of these from a 2 to a 24 they do something amazing for your figure unless you aren't into that whole madmen sex kitten type of a thing. (: Now i didn't intentionally mean to do this BUT everything I'm wearing was thrifted. Everything. Most of it for a dollar.



making use of the sweater guard



sassy pants



i have finally learned to like my legs.



sweater detail



cant believe i snagged this for less then 5 bucks.



ready for a date with the hubby



didnt get a close up but the top of the shirt is all lace.



OOTD-otherwise known as outfit of the day.




outfit for my date with my aunt patty

 



gotta fix the hawk





snagged these tights today trying to find the perfect pair of boots :(





getting my use outta that lane bryant belt!



scored this bad boy at nordstom rack!



yeah, im a bad ass

      skirt-torrid

      tights-lane bryant

      boots-dirty laundry

      sweater-tagless

      braclet-nordstrom rack

      belt-lane bryant

      shirt-paraphrase

goals

So, I've been thinking alot about goals lately and how we get ourselves to achieving them or sabotaging ourselves FROM achieving them.One year ago i made a pact with myself that i would stop living on borrowed time and start taking care of myself so began my journey into healthier living i started really thinking about what i put into my body and more importantly i started moving and lo and behold the weight started to drop away.

                                         holidays 2010 from my hubbys camera phone.

AND.....i wanted to do things,things that did not involve a couch or a movie or(gasp)food.That's when i started thinking "maybe i should make some goals here."my first goal was very straight forward.a 50 pound goal.I reached that one,but only for a day or two.the scale would be right back to 49 lost.Now i hate to sound alittle self-helpy here but i started thinking"am i intentionally sabotaging myself here?"I think what really happened was i lost sight of the big picture here.My original goal was never to lose weight,i knew it would happen regardless,but my beginning stemmed from a want to live my life to the fullest.There were certain things i knew i enjoyed doing at one point in my life that had become burdensome,take hiking,i loved to go hiking with my family but the trouble was i wasn't REALLY  hiking with them because i was always a good 200 yards behind huffing and puffing along.Back to the main point here my goal was to get healthier not skinnier.period.The thing that's bothering me is not the platue in weight loss but that i have gone back to bad behavior of  living a sedated lifestyle.dammit.Lets face it,I'm never gonna be a size six.BUT,that doesn't mean i cant be healthy(and sexy.) Ive heard people say"today is the first day of the rest of your life" I think what they were really saying was,don't let one moment be it a day a week a month hell even a decade define who you are.pick yourself up and move on.or in my case,get moving.

sweater guards

I like any other girl enjoy the silhouette a strapless dress gives. But,sometimes i just don't feel comfortable with the ladies" relying on the support that a strapless bra affords. A few weeks ago i was wearing what i like to call"the stepford wife" otherwise known as a sweater/strapless dress combo. Now since i was wearing a sweater and had no intention of removing it i thought there was no harm in wearing a bra WITH straps underneath. man was i wrong. All effing night i was pulling on that damn sweater to hide my bra straps. Well how excited was i to find out that low and behold there was a nifty little gadget invented to remedy my problem......a sweater guard. i swear i don't live under a rock...i will even admit to coming across quite a few while antiquing but had no idea what they were. So began my search on ebay where i found not one but TWO that i absolutely loved and for a very reasonable price(less than 10 dollars for both!) I cant wait to use the shit outta these babies during the dreary season(which,since i live in Washington can be translated to the next 9 months.) ANYWAY,onward to the photos.......

and so it begins......

skirt-forever 21
shirt-torrid
belt-lane bryant
shoes-splash
tights-spanx
pin-vintage(grammas!)

today i finally made myself do it.today would be the day to start a blog.i had been thinking about it as a perused all the other sites out there featuring fashion savvy plus size women who's wardrobes i have been drooling over for months.so i grabbed my hubby and had him take a quick(seriously quick,he had an important game of ping pong to get to) couple of photos of what i happened to be wearing.as you will probably be able to tell i have NEVER tried an accomplishment as momentous as a BLOG!holy hell what am i doing here?!I'm alittle shell shocked to be honest here....so i am just gonna go for it and do this first outfit of the day post and send it out into never land.......