2 things i love tonight

Happy Easter & Spring!!

Just thought I'd share our Easter pic with y'all.    Also, I'm wearing a dress! I know y'all can't really tell but it's legit, it's a dress.  Picked it up at Target for $25, a lovely navy dress with small petals in turq/pink/lavender/coral.  I threw on a thin camel colores belt, my taupe suede peep toes, a turquoise cardi (for church), and my pearls!  I even wore a slip. Ya, fancy. This is my effort to get out of pants and jeans, my uniform. I want to wear one a week, so we'll see how it goes.  We attended a wedding the following Saturday, and I ran back into Target to grab another dress, same cut, but color blocked - navy bottom, lavender top. I paired it with nude, patent closed toe heels and a turquoise belt.  Wore some gold hoops, gold bangles and a simple necklace.  I picked the necklace up at Private Gallery, one of my very favorite places for accessories here in Jax, for leas than $13! It was a triple strand but I knew it would be all tangled in about 2 min.  So my creative juices kicked in, I got out my jewelry making tool, and removed 2 of the 3 strands. Perfection! Even got a complement on the simplicity of it. (Just what I was going for!)  Added bonus: my husband wore navy pants & a lite lavender shirt with a navy & purple Nautica tie. Baby, let me upgrade you! (Beyonce shout out!)
Are you trying any new dresses or looks for spring?

It's been a while...

Since my last post.  I figured I better get on the ball here.  I even have a little memo somewhere w/some of the topics in which I'd like to "blog" about.  Go figure... I'll get back on this pony and share some interest w/y'all. I hope all is well in your worlds! 

new post coming up!

Sale away... Garage sale, that is

This past weekend our neighborhood posted signs for a community garage sale, and much to my surprise, my husband asked me if I wanted to go look around Saturday a.m.  Whaaaat?  Of course I would!  I was so shocked that he would actually want to do that, I almost choked!  So we got up, got ready and went out late (had to wait for the bank to open so he could get some $1's), around 9:45'ish, to check out the goods.  My facebook status said that, "...this could be pinteresting," and I was excited!  What could I find to make shabby chic, which is my unofficial decorating style.  Well, I found a very retro table w/6 chairs for $75!  I loved it, but only 65%, so I passed on it.  However, I did find one house that did all shabby chic & got her email address.  She told me that she's going to do this out of her garage maybe once a month - which is great, b/c it's literally on the next corner from my house.  I passed on her items, just b/c I don't have the space for it. 

I did find some lovely things a few streets over.  A girl was selling an entire set of dishes (service for 8), tea/coffee cups w/the saucers, fruit salad plates, bowls, gravy boats, sugar/creamer dishes, 2 large vegetable bowls, large platter... you get it.  The set! It has little pink roses on the rim, w/a gold lip.  I passed on it, but was thinking, omg - pinterest and all the other things I've seen for shabby chic pieces like these show I can use it for everyday!  Like cotton balls, jewelry trays, make up trays, whatever.  We walked around the block and I went back.  For $8 I snagged a sugar bowl, gravy bowl w/a saucer & a fruit salad plate.  So cute!  $8!  (My one day baby girl will have a shabby chic room, I've already decided!) 

After we went home to drop these things off, we got in the car and drove to the back of the neighborhood, where I picked up a brand new, cobalt blue le creuset 6qt stock pot w/the pasta/steamer insert!  I just looked it up online and the stock pot is $55, and I got it for $5.  We also picked up a little freezer for the garage & a cooler for $55 total - a killer steal on the cooler, btw, and some chains for Don's boat.  All in all, it was a good day!  Pics below. 

What fun things have you found at local garage sales? 

Trash To Couture: XL Mens Tee Sewn Into Dolman. Directions + Video

I came across this site while looking on pinterest, and I've got to try this one.  her site has a lot of different things to redesign.  Oh to actually sit down and do these things.  Am I the only one that spends more time "pinning" things to my boards on pinterest, rather than actually doing the crafts/ideas?  I know I can't be... right? 



Trash To Couture: XL Mens Tee Sewn Into Dolman. Directions + Video: Supplies: XL mens tee Rit dye (grey) I had a dingy old tee so I dyed it grey. Cut neckline, cut arms (as shown).  Gather the bottom he...

Friday's fave

Friday's fave by lhejtmanek featuring a tahitian pearl necklace

Has this ever happened to you (or something like it)?

Interesting thing happened to yours truly today whilst shopping at my local drugstore today…  

As most know, Don & I are trying for a baby, and I had purchased an ovulation kit to try to help us find our window.  Since we missed it last time, I wanted to pick up another kit.  So I went to do so, and on the aisle, it was listed as $19.99 (7day pack, store brand).  On the end of the aisle, they were listed at $17.99.  I stood there and wondered if I should swap the one I got down the aisle for one out there, even though it was the same brand.  I thought, “nah, surely they’ll ring up at $17.99.”  It was listed that way on 3 rows, so it wasn’t misplacement.  I walked away w/that little voice of doubt thinking the worst.  As I went to the register, a line was slowly forming behind me as I put my parcels on the counter.  The cashier started to ring things up, and I asked him if “it” (I pointed to the kit in the bag, rather than saying it out loud) rang up as $17.99.  It didn’t.  He would have to do a price check.  I suggested we cancel the order, and I could go to the register in cosmetics to do the price check, b/c of the line that was getting slightly longer.  Nope, he had already called on the phone for a price check.  The line was now about 6 or 7 deep, and the manager popped up at the very end of it (about 10-15 ft away), and asked what we needed.  Rather than hollering out “the ovulation kit” he kindly held up the box.  Well, what would you do if the manager standing behind you, asks the cashier, in front of you, what they needed to check?  You would look, right?  Of course!!  So they all did, and 2 ladies’ eyes got as big as could be, and I just turned red.  The man behind me just looked and I, acting as a lady would, just said, laughing, “Well, I’m trying for a baby! Oh my goodness…”  So the manager then walks over to where they were, and I turned to the cashier and said, “at least you didn’t yell it out, but they all looked anyway!”  I think he was embarrassed, or just not all there…  The manager found the aisle, and from 20 ft away, hollers out, “is it the 1 step test?”  I just was turning as red as a tomato.  (Yes, just bring it, omg!!!)  He walks back to the front, knowing it was embarrassing, and kindly said, “this lady’s trying to have a baby, let’s get her on her way.  Ring it up and key it in at $17.99.  The entertainment’s free!”  Talk about a random thing to happen!  Let’s hope Don & I get that window right, so I can waltz into that drugstore and say, “price check on stretch mark cream!”