A Southwestern Christmas

Sweater: H&M, Leggings: Forever21, Shirt: Nordstrom Rack, Shoes: Urban Outfitters 2006

Its Beginning to Look A Lot Like Christmas

Today was a rather gloomy December day. I've been fighting a cold for a couple days now. The good news is that I'm starting to feel myself again. I have a suspicion that decorating for Christmas might have helped with that;)

I keep all of my Christmas stuff in a chest by the couch. It was so exciting to pull everything out again. Here are some of the little touches I made to our apartment. I can't wait to get our tree this weekend!

 Isn't this little tree adorable?

 I got it at a general store in St. James NY.

 These mercury glass candle holders were from my wedding. 

This is the perfect time of year for mercury glass.

 Found this white table cloth at  the Serrv shop in New Windsor for $5 on sale.

 I hung my mirror and put up a Christmas apron that "Mom" gave me. 

 I love this Normal Rockwell Advent calendar.

 More mercury glass. Can never have too many candles.

 

Grabbed some of my favorite Christmas movies. Can't wait to watch them with Paul.

 Hung some modern vintage lights in our "fun" room.

 Look, its our first ornament for our first Christmas as a married couple :)

Found some of my favorite Christmas records hiding in the cupboard.

Neutral Kind of Saturday

So it's about time I add something to our blog :) All of your outfits are adorable BTW!

Some days I am drawn to certain color palettes and today I seem to be into natural, neutral colors. The colors usually seem to fit the mood I'm in. Today I'm feeling a little under the weather, as well as tired from all the holiday fun I've been having. I also miss Danny who is away being manly and hunting in the middle of nowhere :( So I decided to put this outfit on today.  

My sweater is from 2nd Avenue. It is actually from Jcrew! SCORE! It was only $8.50! I've finally pulled out all my winter clothes and forgot I owned this hat. I used to wear it all the time. I got this a couple of years back at forever21. I just love the color gray. 

These cool boots are also from 2nd Avenue. Colleen found them a couple of weeks ago for me!

Of course I went to 2nd avenue today and found these adorable espresso cups for .60 cents.  I thought it was funny how the cups I bought were also part of my natural color palette that I've been attracted to today:) I think it's time I go make some espresso to wake me up! Then maybe I'll be into brighter colors when I'm finished! ;) 

Do you girls ever have certain color days? Or is this just a Meagism? 

We're On Our Way:)

                  (I feel so cozy lol)

       (I have my Swedish rain boots on)

(Paul's in his zone. Don't think we'll be chatting for awhile;) 

(Paul gave me four of these for our trip. I'm planning to eat one every 2 1/2 hours to make the trip go faster.)

It's a rather wet drive back to MD. It's great for napping though. I really want spaghetti right now. It will probably be awhile before we stop for food. Usually we only make one stop the entire trip. I've made it  9 hours before without a pitstop. It's rather nice being low maintenance. I ate a ton of pretzels before we started our journey so I wouldn't have to pee. I'm such a good wife lol;)

Godmother outfit

This Friday, Peter and I became godparents to two little boys Nicolas and Daniel. It was cool to have a double baptism we jokingly call them our godtwins, haha. This is what I wore... since it was a Friday evening, I didn't want to be too dressy. So I thought this pencil skirt (from Meag) would do the trick. And paired with these fun tights (from Col) and this cute polka dot sleeveless button down, I just felt so fun and the least bit frumpy.

Cardi: h&m, necklace: ebay, the rest: handmedowns  

This weekend was crazy because we had the baptism, then Peter had a retreat and working all day Saturday (mostly on his masters project) and then we had the DC retreat Sunday. I kind of remember that I used to love being busy, but now I just want to snuggle with a cozy blanket, drink tea and chat. Dream on momma... well after Peter finishes his project (yes, holding my breath until Dec 7th) I hope to have a little more of that. And we do have winter to look forward to! Including enjoying dairy!! Dairy party details tbd!

PS Peter had the computer all day yesterday to work on his project so I'm skipping my Tuesday tech fast this week... yes, I feel the need to justify, ha. See you girls on Thursday!

This the Season for Scarves

Today I was looking through all of my scarves.

 I love how scarves can really make an outfit pop.

 Plus they are super cozy. Here are some of my favorites:)

My Interpretation of Ally's Interpretation

 I just loved that outfit inspiration you posted. So I did one tooooo :) Haha. We're like twins now;)

 That's my kindergarten chair lol. I can still fit on it;)

Embracing the messy bun!

 Here is a better shot of my bun lol.