Sunday Style - A Leopard of Many Colors

I love color!!  Usually I tend to go for one color at a time, but this dress has about every color of the rainbow in it!!

I picked it up for just $4 on an online garage sale.  I wasn't sure how short it was going to be until I tried it on.  I definitely needed to add leggings, the dress is more like a tunic on me!!

I added my gorgeous Rahab's Rope necklace (it's totally on crooked, but oh, well!!), thrifted leather jacket and hand-me-down boots.  My fleece lined leggings were a gift from my sis - love, love, love them!!

My total for this outfit from head to toe is around $35!!

Enjoy your Sunday!!!

Thrifted Style - Perfect Plaid

Plaid blanket scarves are everywhere, but I have a hard time paying over $30 on an accessory, unless it's shoes!!

I was ecstatic to to find this beautiful vintage plaid blanket scarf at my local Salvation Army for a whopping $2.49!!  

This scarf is HUGE!!  I love all the colors and it will go with so many of my items in my closets!  I paired it with my chambray tunic, mustard skinnies, and boots. I did have a hard time trying to figure how to get it to lay the way I wanted, but I think it works.  I am excited to try it with a few more things in my wardrobe including dresses and sweaters. 

This outfit comes in around $10!!  My scarf, tunic, and skinnies are from Salvation Army and my mom gave me her gorgeous brown Eddie Bauer leather boots that weren't working anymore!!

Be Thrifty!!

Thrifted Style - Boyfriend Jeans

NWT (New with Tags) GAP Boyfriend Jeans - $4.50 SAFT

Marc Jacobs Blazer - $5.99 Goodwill

Basic Navy T-shirt - $1.99 JcPenney's

NWT American Eagle Boots - $8.99 SAFT

necklace - made by me!!

Total - $21.47

I wore this outfit for our anniversary date last month.  My husband and I celebrated our 18th anniversary with Thai food and a movie!!  I love the feel and look of the boyfriend jeans.  I've wanted to distress a pair of jeans, but haven't had the chance to do so.  Now, I have the perfect pair!!

Sunday Style - It's Been Awhile

September and October have been insane!!  Between my husband and I, one of us has had event for seven weekends straight!!  We are ready for November and December to be a bit slower and then I'm really looking forward to January and February, where I like to hibernate!!

This outfit is simple and classy!!  I love to wear patterns and animal prints are trendy almost every fall and winter!!

When fall comes around, I can barely wait to pull out my boot collection!!  I have way too many and am always on the hunt for more!!

My Talbots sweater is from Salvation Army Family Thrift and I picked up this Ann Taylor skirt from Hillcrest Thrift this summer on one of my shopping sprees.  You can read what else I picked up here.  My boots are from Sears, I picked them up at the end of winter a few years ago.  My first pair of tall black boots finally wore out, so I was happy to replace them with these. My earrings were a Christmas gift from my husband.

I'm loving my short hair!!  I can do so much more to it short, then I could ever do long and in half the time.  I tried a little bit of a faux hawk and I don't think I did too bad!!

My outfit comes in at around $30 including my boots!!

Enjoy your Sunday!!

Thrifted Syle - Classic Fall

This outfit screams autumn to me!!  I could wear this outfit so many places - church, shopping, to the pumpkin patch, or on a date. I love this classic look.

Every item I am wearing is thrifted!  My boots were brand new from Salvation Army!!   My chambray tunic and mustard skinnies are also from Salvation Army.  My cardigan is from a garage sale and my best friend picked up my fun chicken bag!!  My necklace is from Rahab's Rope and my earrings are from Nickel and Suede.

I think next time I wear this outfit, I will roll my pant legs a couple of times to see if I like it any better.  Since I'm tall, the length of my pants are usually an issue for me. I've worn these pants with sandals and tucked them into tall boots, but never like this.

Tell me what you think of the length of my pants in comparison to the shaft of my boot.

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Vintage Skirt Revamp

I picked up this vintage skirt at a bag sale.  I think I paid $4 for the bag and I ended up with about a dozen items, so i paid less than .50 for this beauty!!

The length of this skirt was all wrong, but I'm a sucker for polka dots!!   I compared it to one of my favorite skirts and decided that I would shorten the hem to match.

At first, I was going to take the time to measure for a new hem, cut off the excess and try my hand at "nice" hem.  Then I realized that was way too much work!!  I simply fold up the existing hem twice, iron, pin, and hem.  Sooooooo much simpler!!

I am all for revamps and if they are as simple as this, I could do them all day long!!  Once I got started, this project took only 30 minutes!!

What a difference a hem line makes!!  I also quickly moved the button at the waist band as well, so I could breathe a bit easier!!

Craft Room Project #6- Shelving and A Little More Organization

One morning, my new neighbors had thrown out a pair of shutter doors with their trash.  I immediately knew I need them for some amazing shelves!!

My husband cut them in half and I cleaned them up and touched up the edges with white paint.  I ended up with four beautiful shelves.  Then, they just sat in the garage for about nine months with no place to go!!

After painting and arranging the larger pieces of furniture, we were ready to hang them up.  I asked a neighbor, who loves woodworking if he would make me some custom brackets for my shelves.  I had looked online to see if there were any options for my 15 inch deep shelves and the prices were ridiculous!!  Grandpa Sharp agreed to my request and we were able to use lots of our scrap wood to make the them.  Double win - free and free!!

Once the brackets were made, I simply painted a couple of coats of white paint and we were good to go.  Grandpa Sharp even pre-drilled holes for us to be able to hang them with ease!!

I love, love, love how they turned out!!  The shutters simply lay on top of the brackets and we used screws that are made to hold extra weight!!

Then it was time to fill them up with all my goodies!!  I put the two smaller shelves above my Cricut cart and filled them with scrapbooking tools, photo boxes, and trinkets.

Then on the opposite wall, we hung the two larger shelves with a couple of other storage options.  This spring, I found a vintage milk crate at a garage sale for a mere $4.  It was a perfect shade of blue and I thought it would be work for my fabric.  I also found metal crate for just $1 at an estate sale, that I would work for housing my gift bags.   My shutter shelves on this wall, hold my vinyl, chalkboard tools, and sewing machine.

I couldn't be happier with the end result.  I think I did a little happy dance when I was able to see everything in its place and easily accessible!!

My last entry will be about my finishing touches - stay tuned!!!

You can see my other Craft Room projects here, here, here, here, and here!!