A Little Glitter

Tank: Old Navy found here and here
Jeans: Old from Costco
Belt: Land's End Canvas
Glasses: Land's End Canvas
Shoes: Old

Today is my first official day of summer vacation. The occasion called for sequins.

Patio Night

Tank: J Crew
Jeans: Talbots
Shoes: Karen Scott from The Bay

Dress Envy

Dress: Sears

Shoes: Banana Republic

When my teacher friend (Team J, woot, woot), told me she bought a new dress to wear for prom chaperoning, I immediately felt dress envy. I, too, wanted a new dress. So the day before prom, I set off on my lunch break to find a dress. I only had a few rules; no spaghetti straps, no big price tags and no polyester.

I hit up Sears. I haven't shopped there for years but I figured I could find something well-priced there. My memory failed to remind me that Sears clothing is 95% polyester. There were racks and rack and racks of cheap polyester dresses. Yuck!

I did, however, stumble upon this dress buried in the clearance rack. It is polyester but it doesn't look cheap (at least not to me). Regular $120, it was marked down to $69.99 plus another 25% off. It was still a little bit more than I want to pay though. What can I say, I am cheap! Then I remember my Sears points.

We racked up quite a few Sears points a few years ago, buying a washer, dryer, bed, couches, and a kitchen table. I spent a lot of the points but I thought there might be a few left. I had the cashier check for me and indeed, I had $60 in points saved up.

My dress came to $59.36. Yeah for free dresses!

Beachy

Dress: J Crew Collection via EBay
Necklace: J Crew
Flipflops: Simply Vera from Kohl's
Hat: H&M
Dog: Fletcher (in-laws' dog)

A Little Bit of Silly

Every blog needs a little bit of duck face.

And some kind of one legged hop.

Dress: Old Navy
Sweater: J Crew
Shoes: Old

Summer Living

Date night treats (We're living large here people)
Luna moths arrive for the short yearly visit
Kitty relaxing out of the porch
Magic lime
Pool all set for warm weather
Martini nights
Fedora time
Treat yo'self with Costco tulips
Ruby living it up

Sideways

Dress: Old Navy

Sweater: J Crew

Shoes: Super Old

A new dress for the blog today. I found this at Old Navy last week. It fit most of my requirements for an easy summer dress: straps wide enough to conceal a bra, not embarrassingly short or see-through and a decent price (I snagged it for $17). The waist is a bit off for me, but a lot of dresses are. I'm 5'10" and most of that height is in my torso. It's hard to find dresses that have a waist where my waist is. Usually, it's much too high, resulting in the "is she or isn't she pregnant?" look. But, altogether, it should be a great throw on and go summer dress.

Hard Headed Woman

Sweater: J Crew

Tank: J Crew

Skirt: Jessica from Sears

Shoes: Naturalizer

Necklace: J Crew ripoff via EBay

Yesterday I was discovered.

 A teacher friend, who loves clothes just as much as I do,  was using Google Images to look at dress pictures and found pictures of me.

She messaged me at school saying, ;'I was looking for dress pictures, instead I found KDot pictures."

Awkward.

So I guess I have a new reader. Thereby a new nickname shall be added to the blog rooster. Teacher friend, you shall now be known as Team J: woot, woot.

Team J: woot, woot has sworn to secrecy. She now knows my dirty little secret. Yes, I have superficial side of me that likes to post 100s of pictures of myself on the interwebs.

I am a hard headed woman.

Or maybe RDog is playing his new Cat Stevens record much too loud.

To add to this delightful random post; is my sweater neon enough? It better be; it's going in Everybody, Everywear's collection.

Team neon; woot, woot!

Bun Head

Sweater: J Crew
T-shirt: J Crew
Skirt: J Crew
Shoes: Naturalizer

Whirl and Swirl

Sweater: J Crew
T-shirt: J Crew
Skirt: Talbots
Shoes: Naturalizer

Julep Review

Last month, I joined Julep. It's like the makeup boxes that have been making their way around the blogging world, only this one is for nail polish.

Today, my second box arrived. It was so pretty, I just had to share.

Everything was packaged so prettily. Yes, those are Pixie Stix - yum!

Every month, you can pick different "styles" and get a package based on that style. This month, I picked the "It Girl" package because it had three polishes while the other options only had 2 (they included a bottle of sunscreen instead).  I received the colors Sasha, Sandra and Morgan. As a bonus, a lip balm with SPF and a coupon for a free polish next month ere tucked in the box.

You may have noticed that there are no up close shots of my hands on this blog. It's because I'm a nail chewer so my pretty new colors will not make an appearance on my hands. I do, however, paint my toes and can't wait to give these polishes a try.

Last month in my box, I received two polishes; one was a hit, a beautiful gray color that went on smoothly. The other was a yellow that was a chunky monkey. It just didn't go on as nicely as my standard OPI polishes. This month's order will determine whether or not I stay with the service. At $20 a month, it seems silly to keep with it as I am not a huge user of nail polish.

What about you? Have you tried Julep? What's your favorite beauty subscription service?

Pinterest Inspires

Sweater: J Crew
Tank: J Crew Factory
Skirt: J Crew Factory
Shoes: Naturalizer


Today's outfit was inspired by Pinterest, more specifically this picture.

Source: frommygreydeskblog.com via KDot on Pinterest

I loved this mixture of pink and peach but I did it my way, aka super girly.

On Pinterest? You can find me here.