Creating a little Christmas wishlist for myself today using some of my favorite pieces from ModCloth. I love the polka dots on the Staple of Your Style dress, and the nerdy bunny sweater, but I must say that I am absolutely in love with the mustard yellow oxfords. Maybe Santa will put them under the tree for me this year.
Any special ModCloth pieces on your list to Santa this year?
~julee~
I recently had an opportunity to review this gorgeous Grand National dress from Shabby Apple. I love Shabby Apple’s feminine vintage styles, so I paired this dress with a vintage silver choker and my favorite silver vintage clutch (passed down from my mom). I added a lovely handmade rose quartz bracelet from Robin Chard Jewelry, and black wedge heels to complete the outfit. A few different accessories and this dress would be perfect for this season’s holiday parties.
You can see my full review of Shabby Apple and this dress at Oh My Gosh Beck.
Do you dress up for holiday parties, or do they tend to be more casual affairs?
Happy holiday dressing and handmade accessorizing, DIY’ers!
~julee~
I was invited by Ross Dress for Less to check out their Fall Fashion Event going on this month. I am always excited to shop at Ross, but here is a confession: I wasn’t really in the mood to shop for fall clothes. I’ve been sort of in denial that cold weather is approaching, and while I am definitely a girl who loves her boots and cardi’s, I wasn’t quite ready to don them just yet.
So I went to Ross with this funky mood of not really knowing what I wanted to buy. New jeans? New boots? New jacket? A pretty new dress to wear to the office? They had all of those things and more.
And then something caught my eye. A rack. A rack of seemingly endless sweater dresses. Warm and gorgeous and perfect for leggings and boots, glorious sweater dresses. I grabbed a pair of black boots that was calling my name, carried eight sweater dresses into the dressing room, and I started to feel a bit giddy about dressing for fall and winter.
I ultimately selected two dresses to purchase because one just wasn’t going to be enough to get me through the winter. (Sadly, I had to say goodbye to those gorgeous black boots, but not without a few tears.)
One of my purchases was a cotton blend long top/tunic style dress. I loved the colored stripes and that the material was light enough to wear when the temps were just starting to dip but not yet cold enough for a hot sweater or coat. At Ross I tried the dress on with skinny dark denim and loved the look, but once home I paired it with black pants and my own black boots for work.
Are you a Ross Dress for Less shopper? Have you checked out their fall styles yet? If not, I highly encourage you do so. It’s a great place to shop for current trends, and the prices are incredible. Especially worth checking out if you are currently looking for fall boots, jeans, colored tights, dresses or jackets. I found all of these items on my recent trip! Currently Ross is holding The Great Dress Event in stores. Also, be sure to check out Ross Dress for Less Facebook page. You can keep up with their current promotions and they often post giveaways you can enter.
Happy fall shopping!
~julee~
*A gift card was provided by Ross to share my shopping experience. All opinions are 100% my own.
I can’t tell if I really like this dress or if I think it looks like some bad camo print. What do you think?
Anyway, it’s a been a busy week around here as I wrap up the last of my classes and prepare for graduation next month. Today I actually stepped out of my jeans and dressed up a bit to attend an honors ceremony at the university. My fashion stylist told me to accept my award in something floral and flirty. Not sure if camo falls under flirty, but this is what I wore.
I have the chance to take a big giant breather for the next couple of weeks. I can’t tell you how ecstatic that makes me. I have some sewing projects in mind I’d like to tackle…if Netflix doesn’t suck me in first.
Have an awesome week!
~julee~
Every time I wear these boots with a dress, I want to go two-stepping.
I don’t even know how to two-step.
But the denim jacket makes me look like I could rock the two-step, no?
This is my new dress from eShakti. I love it for a thousand reasons, not the least of which is because it has pockets. Also, because clothing from eShakti can be customized to fit your exact measurements. And you can choose dresses in your preferred length. And sleeve style. Seriously, with so many ways to customize their already fabulous selection, eShakti is a woman’s dream shop.
My dress fits me perfectly, the length hits me exactly where I like my dresses to hit, and the shipping was speedy quick. Plus, I’m stepping from my comfort zone and gleefully wearing flying critters. It’s an all around win-win.
Beaded ring from LindsayLou Jewelry.
Figs and Ginger Necklace
Almost Africa Earrings
I purposely selected a dress that I could transition from spring to summer, back to fall. With the length and sleeve customizations, many of eShakti’s dresses can transition from season to season, which I love.
If you’re interested in checking out eShakti’s clothing for yourself, you can use code DYLSVLLE for 20% off until 3/20/13.
Have you ever had a dress customized for yourself? How do you feel about wearing flying critters on your clothes?
~julee~
I post my outfits here to show off my thrifty and handmade wears. Plus, I like cute clothes. I link up each week with What I Wore Wednesday at The Pleated Poppy, Whatever Whenever Wednesday, Not Dead Yet Style, Real Girl Style, Dress for the Day, Lily Among Thorns and Casual Friday. If you're dropping in today, please say HI! in the comments – I would love to come check out your blog!
A sample product was gifted from eShakti. Opinions expressed here are my own.
Don’t look too close at these pictures or you’ll see my goose bumps and extra long arm hairs standing straight up. It was freezing, but I really wanted to show off this fabulous skeleton cameo necklace by Louisville jewelry artist Under Sixes and I thought you might be able to see it better if it wasn’t hiding beneath a parka and two infinity scarf layers.
I was inspired by Suzanne at Style Files to pull out some stripes this week after she shared them as one of her top 10 wardrobe essentials. I’m also thinking this Marion polish from Julep should be a wardrobe essential. What do you think?
(Are you a Julep maven? You can sign up today and use the code FREEBOX to get your first box free. )
I put the how-to for making this leather cuff on the blog last week, but just in case you’d rather win one than make one, I’m giving one away in my awesome sponsor giveaway. Which you should totally check out. And enter.
So, who’s ready for spring?
~julee~
I post my outfits here to show off my thrifty and handmade wears. Plus, I like cute clothes. I link up each week with What I Wore Wednesday at The Pleated Poppy, Whatever Whenever Wednesday, Not Dead Yet Style, Real Girl Style, Dress for the Day, Lily Among Thorns and Casual Friday. If you're dropping in today, please say HI! in the comments – I would love to come check out your blog!
The temps right now are somewhere between 20-degrees and freezing-to-death, so this blurry indoor shot of my shirt will have to suffice for the moment.
After making a simple freezer paper stencil heart shirt for my daughter this week, I thought I needed a more grown up version to wear myself. I have been loving all of the large heart shirts that seem to be in fashion right now, but thought a smaller heart with a nod to my upcoming spring trip to Paris would be a better fit for me.
I made the design in Word and used freezer paper to make the stencil, but I cheated and ran this image through my Silhouette cutter instead of cutting by hand. Dear Silhouette, Je t’aime.
Have you ever made freezer paper stencils? You can watch my video demonstrating the method on WDRB in the Morning HERE. Such a fun project!
~julee~
I post my outfits here to show off my thrifty and handmade wears. Plus, I like cute clothes. I link up each week with What I Wore Wednesday at The Pleated Poppy, Whatever Whenever Wednesday, Not Dead Yet Style, Real Girl Style and Casual Friday. If you're dropping in today, please say HI! in the comments – I would love to come check out your blog!
This is not so much an outfit post as it is a Hey! Look at the new hand-knit cowl I got for Christmas! post. Purchased by my friend Kim at a local art & craft show, but there was no tag or card so I can’t give credit to the artist. Sad. It adds the perfect amount of warmth without too much bulk which is really nice. Sometimes you just don’t want that suffocated feeling, you know? I’m always jealous of those that can knit or crochet. I’d love to have one of these bad boys in about 20 different colors.
My coat is old from Target and my earrings were also handmade, by Kiki(verde). Love.
I hope you guys are keeping warm this week. It’s currently spitting sleet and snow outside and my daughter is doing the Snow Day Dance as I type this. Perhaps I should join her; I wouldn’t mind a snow day myself.
~julee~
I post my outfits here to show off my thrifty and handmade wears. Plus, I like cute clothes. I link up each week with What I Wore Wednesday at The Pleated Poppy, Whatever Whenever Wednesday, Not Dead Yet Style, Real Girl Style and Casual Friday. If you're dropping in today, please say HI! in the comments – I would love to come check out your blog!
Anyone else hear What A Feeling playing in the background?
This was my first day of my last semester of school outfit. Man, does it feel good to say that. I know I keep bringing it up, but you guys, it’s a light at the end of a loooong tunnel that I sometimes seriously wondered if I’d ever see. Going back to school as an adult is just so different.
There was no internet my first go at college (I’m ancient, don’t mention it), but there is practically nothing that can’t be accomplished online today, including renting textbooks at Campus Book Rentals. Renting textbooks typically saves even more money than buying used, because you send them back at the end of the semester when you no longer need them. Campus Book Rentals can save you 40-90% off bookstore prices, has free shipping both ways, and donates to Operation Smile with each textbook rented. Awesome, right? One of my books this semester was over $100 at the bookstore, and Campus Books Rentals has it available to rent for less than $25. I’m talking serious cash savings. One of my biggest hesitations for renting textbooks was that I wouldn’t be able to highlight in them for studying, but at Campus Book Rentals highlighting is allowed. Bonus points! I’d recommend checking out their prices before you overspend at your campus bookstore.
I’m wearing a couple of my favorite handmade items today: Necklace made by Mandy of Love Squirrels; Wooden Ring made by Uncommon Handmade. Love these little pops of color!
Top: Forever 21; Tank: Target; Jeans: J Crew, thrifted; Boots: Polo, thrifted; Boot Socks: Target
Have a great week!
~julee~
I post my outfits here to show off my thrifty and handmade wears. Plus, I like cute clothes. I link up each week with What I Wore Wednesday at The Pleated Poppy, Whatever Whenever Wednesday, Not Dead Yet Style, Real Girl Style and Casual Friday. If you're dropping in today, please say HI! in the comments – I would love to come check out your blog!
This post contains content sponsored by Campus Book Rentals, all opinions 100% mine.
First snow day of the year seemed the perfect time to break out the $3 thrifted L.L. Bean duck boots and gigantic slouchy socks.
How has your weekend been? Gearing up for any special New Years Eve plans?
Happy thrifting, DIY’ers!
~julee~
Outfit: Target; Boots: Thrifted; Necklace: LindsayLou Jewelry; Earrings: Made by Me
I was shown on TV from the waist up for all of seven minutes last week, and yet I fretted over this outfit for…a longer time than I should probably admit. I am so loving orange/pumpkin/rust right now and this wool skirt from Target might be my favorite purchase all season. I’d wear this style of skirt every single day if I could find more that fit just like it.
The handmade portion of my outfit today comes from Louisville jewelry maker LindsayLou Jewelry. I don’t have very many gold necklaces, so I seem to pull this one out each time I’m not wearing silver. It’s such a sweet little piece and I love its pop of color.
I’m always looking to add more handmade accessories to my outfits. Any suggestions for online, etsy, or Louisville jewelry makers to check out?
~julee~
I post my outfits here to show off my thrifty and handmade wears. Plus, I like cute clothes. I link up each week with What I Wore Wednesday at The Pleated Poppy, Whatever Whenever Wednesday, Not Dead Yet Style, Real Girl Style and Casual Friday. If you're dropping in today, please say HI! in the comments – I would love to come check out your blog!
Outfit: Target; Necklace: LindsayLou Jewelry; Earrings: Made by Me
Is it winter, or fall? I don’t know and I’m all mixed up on what to wear. Perhaps that’s why I’m wearing Halloween colors today? Maybe. Actually, I asked my husband to pick a pair of tights from the pile so I could wear this dress already, and he chose these rust tights. What do you think? Do you like his color mixing choices? I feel a little witchy-ish.
~julee~
I post my outfits here to show off my thrifty and handmade wears. Plus, I like cute clothes. I link up each week with What I Wore Wednesday at The Pleated Poppy, Whatever Whenever Wednesday, Not Dead Yet Style, Real Girl Style and Casual Friday. If you're dropping in today, please say HI! in the comments – I would love to come check out your blog!
I’m hunkered down and focused over here as I wrap up this semester with final exams, term papers, and class projects. Which incidentally means not getting dressed and not getting out much. I’ve worn yoga pants and leggings for so many days now that my daughter asked if I wanted new sweatpants for Christmas. Pipe down kid, I’m asking Santa for something much more exciting.
Luckily, my friend Jilli of Mia Bella Photography has rescued you from seeing pictures of my lounging gear with this awesome blooper reel she put together of our photographic adventures from last month. You can see our complete sets of outfit posts HERE – HERE - HERE and HERE.
Yes, I am a goofball. Yes, I have E.T. fingers. Yes, Jilli was amazingly patient trying to get me to be serious. And yes, I plan on getting out of my yoga pants very soon. Until then, embrace your goofy side, DIY’ers!
~julee~
I post my outfits here to show off my thrifty and handmade wears. Plus, I like cute clothes. I link up each week with What I Wore Wednesday at The Pleated Poppy, Whatever Whenever Wednesday, Not Dead Yet Style, Real Girl Style and Casual Friday. If you're dropping in today, please say HI! in the comments – I would love to come check out your blog!
