30/30!

on day 30 I wore: 6 / 18 / 25 / homemade heart / F21 earrings

And then there was none! Oh my goodness. I'm amazed! Thanks for all the encouragement this round you guys-I needed a lot. And you delivered. Thank you thank you. From the the bottom of my glittered heart.

Now, I mentioned on last friday sensibles that I was excited for March 14th. Which bytheway, I noticed a few days later that I had posted that on a thursday. Clearly I was not feeling as better as I thought I was. Hah! Anyway. The day is extra wonderful because we will be on a big fat CRUISE! YES! Oh yes yes yes. We will be with family and sun and it will be perfect. I need your advice though. For those cruisers, what did you wish you had brought on your trip? Left behind? NOT ATE? Excursion not to miss? We have been on one a few years ago, but any advice you can send my way will bring you heaps of thank yous and good karma. I believe in that kind of thing you know.

29/30

on day 29 I wore: 4 / 9 / 19 / 29

I was a bobble head in a past life. True story.

This sweater's ruffle fluff is the softest most wonderful ruffle I have ever felt. I wish I could send it to all of you and you could have a good cuddle with it. There is something so perfect about it's texture.

So, are you ready for the finale? It'll be up in the mornin! Bring your OJ and oatmeal. Or whatever your favorite breakfast food is. What IS you favorite breakfast food anyway? I'm curious. Make me hungry!

28/30

day 28 I wore: 22 / 27 / 30 / 31 / ae necklace

I'm aliiiiiiiive! HOORAY! And to celebrate we took 500 lb machines in huge snow drifts this weekend with my in-laws. Wow. I've never snowmobiled before so after a few hours of sweet Husband hauling me on the back I was about done. But you guys it was so beautiful up there! I kind of wanted to just walk around, haha. Take it all in. It was so nice to be on top of mountains.

Also, no more wearing the ruffles or the LBB. I think I have officially used up all my tickets. :)

27/30

day 27 I wore: 13 / 18 / 27 / 30 / 31

YES I am getting so much milage out of the added ruffle tank. It could be my guilty conscience telling me I have to use it a ton to make it worth it, but boy am I listening. Also LBB and florals? Can't go wrong.

I've been tweaking the colors and design of the blog and I think it's finally in a place I love. Minty green and charcoal and pink and orange? Yep...it's me! Is the sidebar more manageable now? I'm such a control freak about design I gave up on all those wild link lists. Now I feel like I can breathe when I look at the blog anyway. :) Thoughts?

24, 25, 26!

day 24 I wore: 16 / 18 / 24 / old navy jacket / making memories necklace

day 25 I wore: 5 / 8 / 18 / 29
day 26 I wore: 7 / 18 / 25 / thrifted belt / vintage necklace

I'm gonna be straight with you. These were the I am sick and/or have NO time to get ready and take fabulous photos because I was sick photos. Right? Right. But I still did them because I refuse to give up on this challenge. And I posted them because I love you. Also, I squinty eye/winked at you in the second photo. I'm positive you looked hot on day 25 and deserve it.

19-23!

Let's play catch up! This was last weekend. Our play date of friends ended up a little smaller than expected but we still had a rockin time. Meg's homemade pizza dough was supppper good and finding out Amanda will most likely move back to Utah this year?! yes yes yes! These girls are my non-blood sisters and I miss them when they live in Germany.

We make it a goal to go to the temple once a month so saturday was the day! They'll be completely renovating the Ogden temple starting in April so we're trying to appreciate this version as much as we can. Right as our camera battery died a very very large group of teens came out so I counted the dead battery as lucky. No weird looks for outfit photos is always lucky.

The last photo is us ROLLER SKATING! Our insurance company throws a customer appreciation day a couple times a year so we got to skate up. Is that a term? Probably not. But we had fun. Husband can do anything so he was just gliding and spinning and doing all sorts of fancy things while I tried to stay vertical. It worked pretty well. ;)

I hear breakfast being made in the kitchen so I'm off! Happy Saturday! Do something adventurous, okay?

17/30 + 18/30

day 17 I wore: 4 / 6 / 23/ 27 / anthro floral tights

day 18 I wore: 4 / 18 / 29 / 31 / pin from Maria / homemade heart clip

So yesterday (day 18) I may have had a mid-30-for-30 crisis. But instead of going out and buying a car I strayed to the other side of the closet. Dangerous. So say hi to my ruffle tank! It was wear that tank top or say sayonara to this challenge. Life has been on fast track and not that it's been a bad busy, but you know. Some mornings are just not made for spending a half hour in front of the closet. This is where outfit planning would have come in handy...I'm learning!

Word is that learning a second language is the hardest one, then after that they come much easier. (I legitimately have no clue if that's true...I've heard though.) So the second 30-for-30 is the hardest, right? Cool runnings after that. I'm almost there and I am not giving up. But apparently that meant adding one more item. I'll take it if that keeps me sane.

Also say hi to my new snowboarding jacket! Not that I snowboard. But it fits! And it's mint blue! And I love it. We saw it a couple months ago at Sports Authority and I loved it then but didn't buy it. That's a big purchase even if I did need a new one. So when we went back to find boots for the Mr. and it was still waiting for me, we had to jump. It was a sign from the winter coat fairies that we were meant to be. It has more pockets than I'll ever know what to do with too and that excites me.

The party went amazingly last night thanks to a million willing, helpful hands. Super sweet surprise 16 was AWESOME. I'll show you pictures when I get them back from the photographer. (I just make things pretty) and tonight is dinner with four of my most amazing friends ever! I can. not. wait. Giggling, hugging, homemade pizzas, cute cute cute kidlets and husbands to boot. Just what the weekend called for.

16/30

today I wore: 1 / 16 / 17 / 25 / F21 necklace / blonde hair

Can I gush for a sec guys? Because I feel really spoiled this week. And it's only wednesday. My sweet man has not only cleaned our floors and bathroom, vacuumed the house, did laundry, massaged me, cuddled me, blessed me when I had a migrane, cooked dinners, did other things besides all this, but last night he took me out and bought me a new coat, snow pants and perfume. GOODNESS! Let's all virtually high five him okay? Because all this hugging and kissing I'm doing feels insanely inadequate. Perhaps a billboard?

How on earth did I get him. I am so lucky.

By the way, I'm blonde! That doesn't feel as significant as Mr. Awesome today though. However, I personally guarantee you I'm about to have a lot more fun!

Halfway there

Last round of 30 for 30 I didn't do a recap so I thought it would be fun to do at least halfway this time. And seriously good for me-how many times do I wear my jeans?! Someone wants to be MVP. Gotta get those skirts in the rotation more.

Any favorites? Combos you want to see? Here's to the second half!

15/30

today I wore: 6 / 18 / 24 / swiss scarf / handmade pin

Halfway! HOORAY! I'm sure taking my sweet time this round, eh? That's okay though, I'm having a great time. Like yesterday, when I accidentally dressed up like I just won the country fair. Gingham, boots and a yellow pin to boot. What do you think? Did I win my pin for my triple berry pie, hog tying, or rodeo queen?

Don't worry, I have had actual involvement in two out of three of those categories, I'm not making fun. You just get to figure out which isn't related to me.

Needing a big belt buckle aside, I really did like this outfit yesterday. So much that we went to the salon together and I got my hair done! YESS. It was a little jealous, the outfit, but I had just tailored the shirt saturday so it really shouldn't complain. It got gussied too.

Happy tuesday!

13/30 + 14/30

on day 13 I wore: 2 / 9 / 17 / 24 / target socks

on day 14 I wore: 4 / 15 / 18 / 25

I was teaching a scrapbooking class saturday and so slept in later than I should have. Thus, there was no outfit planning time. I threw the ruffles on top of ruffles and left without thinking twice about the double duty going on. And I like ended up liking it. So I should probably stop over thinking outfits.

After class husband and I took an epic trip around town. We went to TJMaxx and bought new towels! YAY. When we first bought our house last year we got crisp, white, beautiful towels. Being a new house though, we had no grass...just dirt. Then we worked outside, a lot. And the wind blew dirt inside, a lot. And suddenly our towels were not so white. And then last week a pen snuck into our white load and that pretty much settled it. Now we have lovely gray towels. Us: 1 Mother Nature: 1. We'll see who wins this summer.

And don't worry, we stopped in Sam's Club and went to sample heaven. There were yogurts, chickens, jerkies and more. This was after our delicious lunch too. I had smoked salmon tacos and he had tri-tip something or other. We are food champions.

12/30

today I wore: 2 / 9 / 17 / 24 / target socks

Something about this outfit made me feel thick. Like a milkshake you can hardly drink from a straw thick. Do you know what I mean? It's a weird feeling, this thickness. But you know, it's okay! Life still carried on even though all I wanted was to get off and go to the gym. Hah!

But one thing that made me happier last night editing these photos and remembering that feeling (I think I actually wore this thursday-I'm behind on my posts guys. Eek!) was looking up how to do a cross-process styled layer in Photoshop. Way easy and fun! Go play with it now.

11/30

today I wore: 13 / 18 / 29 / 30 / flower pin from Maria

Meet item number 30! It's my LBB. Which could stand for Little Black Dress, Kendi's Little Brown Blazer...or my Little Boy Blazer. Yep. The only reason I noticed was because the button's were on the wrong side. This is what happens when you thrift and unknowing workers kindly place blazers right where you'll find them. You smile at your good fortune and skip all the way to the register with LBB. And good news! It comes with a little pocket. What do you think little boys put in little pockets? Legos? Used lollipops? Spitwads?

Maybe I won't think about that anymore.

10/30

today I wore: 8 / 22 / 27 / target socks / F21 earrings / oh hello friend bobby pin

So this morning I thought I had lost our trip photos, right? Well Husband tried to recover but I had already overridden the card with todays outfit (uh whoops?) so he hopped on my computer to see if he could find them hiding somewhere on the harddrive. Turns out he didn't have to look very far.

They were in a cluster in the top top top corner just barely showing.

I may be blonde. But I'll take it because that means they aren't gone! HAH. So a big thank you for all that toe crossing-it worked! Just not how I expected it to.

It was hailing on my way home today even though it was 50 degrees. Time to put Back to December on repeat. Or just keep playing it because it already is.

9/30

today I wore: 5 / 13 / 18 / old navy flip flops / F21 coat

YOU GUYSS...I lost the photos from our trip. Ugh. I'm a little heartbroken. I'm going to leave the camera in my husbands capable hands and see if he can work some technological voo-doo and get them back. Everyone double cross your fingers for me. And toes? I did get a few somehow, so I'll show ya those. :)

So I forgot how St. George doesn't warm up until the afternoon...so just trust me that my 30 for 30 clothes are under the jacket. Because it's true and I was chilly. But this was at the St. George Art Museum where they had a Charles Becker Exhibit going. Dude is a crazy mix between Jean-Simeon Chardin and Salvador Dali. So much talent.

Also, meet husband! I've never shown him on the blog before. He got glasses last year and now we're an even nerdier couple.

Now meet Snow Canyon. Oh my. I could have spent the whole trip in that place with all it's sweeping rock formations and red hills. And there's not actually snow there...it's just white rocks and calcium deposits and geological things like that. Basically beautiful. I'm so glad my Grandparents love hiking too and take us to these amazing places. Pretty much awesome.

8/30

today I wore: 1 / 7 / 17 / 27 / thrifted belt / Downeast flower pin

Guess what we get to do this weekend?! Oh you guessed it. Good job. Yes, we're headed south for the winter. If you can call our 35 degrees of no snow winter...but it's going to rock. We have been promised good food, great company, hikes, and museums. Expect picture overload. Also expect a lace skirt tutorial soon...when I get the million photos I took organized. Then we can all be lace-tastic together.

7/30

today I wore: 3 / 18 / 28 / wal-mart tights / F21 necklace

Guys, I totally slept through my alarm. So I am out! But I want you to meet our new friend first.

This is our humidifier. Husband picked it out and when it arrived in the mail I nearly died I was so tickled. Penguins are my favorite. And even more him! But it needs a name. (we think it's a boy.) Ideas?

6/30 + Everybody, Everywear

today I wore: 10 / 12 / 22 / 27 / wal-mart tights / thrifted necklace

Today a dear co-worker told me these shoes made my legs look a mile tall. How awesome was that? It was extra nice because my frizz-tastic hair was making me feel just a little bit off today, but after that, I walked just a stitch taller. So the next time you look at someone and think of a compliment, do them a favor and say it. It can do wonders. And there's a 99.9% chance they won't think you're weird. Good odds, I'd say.

I'd like to give a shout out to MJ & Akon for getting me out of my posing rut today. I blasted tunes from the car as it warmed up and I shot pictures. Do you fashion bloggers ever have music going? Sure made it a lot more fun...and go by quite a bit quicker than usual. And bonus...now my neighbors will think I'm taping a cheesy music video instead of just taking pictures of myself. This will definently build street cred.

now go see how everyone else has been styling their blazers!
and see how I have styled this blazer before

5/30

today I wore: 5 / 13 / 19 / 24 / thrifted belt

I'm pretty sure this sweater wants to be my 30 for 30 MVP. It keeps calling to me, every day, no matter the outfit. It tells me how soft and warm it is, but still fabulous because it's color is just above and beyond any of the other 30 for 30 pieces. It wins a lot. Clothes are pretty good at convincing me of things.

Are you wearing your blazer today?! I am! You'll see it soon.