Valentine's Gift

Every year for Valentine's Day my dad gets me and my three sisters a gift. He used to always get us candy, and then a few years ago he started getting us gift cards! He realized how much his girls like to shop! In the past he's gotten me a Target card and a Hobby Lobby card. This year he got me one to Charming Charlie! I was really excited to spend this card...in fact, I used it the first day I had it!! Jesse and I went on a date on Valentine's Day, and I convinced him to take me shopping. I had $15 on my card, and I wanted to use the whole thing without going over very much. We walked around the store like 3 times, and finally I decided on a bracelet. I was going to get two of them so I could stack them, and this would take up my whole card. Well, we got to the register and it was buy 1 get 1 free!! So...I've still got some money on my card.

 

 

I LOVE my bracelets!! My wrist is really tiny, so I always have trouble finding bracelets that will fit, but these are perfect. I also love that they are rose gold. I have some rose gold earrings that my mom gave me and a necklace from my mother-in-law, so I am glad to have bracelets to match now. Dad fixed me up good this year!



Casual Phone Pics...And a Pop of Red for Valentine's Day!

So that was probably the longest post title ever.  But whatever.  I felt like I had to do something for Valentine's Day; you know?

I'm sharing today just a few pictures of outfits that I wore out and about running errands and to some casual events.  Typically I share what I wore to church on Sundays, or my nicer dresses or outfits, so I thought it would be kind of fun and different to show you what I wear when I'm dressing down a little more (and a few of these are casual but a few are dressy casual).

First, my outfit that I wore on Wednesday night to church - typically I do the same thing that Julie does (HERE) and I wear some type of pink and red combo in honor of Valentine's Day, but this year I went away from that and just did a pop of red. 

 Outfit Details: Cardigan: Hand me down (originally Target);

Scarf: Hand me down (original unknown);

White Tshirt: Hand me down (original Old Navy - LOVE this Tshirt!);

Skinny Jeans: Walmart: Booties: Payless; Ring: Body Central

 

For an afternoon out getting my taxes filed and lunch with my family I wore this sweater and my new old navy jeans...

 

Outfit Details:  Sweater: Hand me down (original unknown);

White long sleeve Tshirt: Hand me down (original Target);

Jeans: Old Navy; Black  booties: Hand me down (original Target)

Purse: Nine West - borrowed from my daughter

 

Please ignore the unmade bed in the background.  I had a "talking to" with my daughter about her dirty room after taking these pictures.  Maybe I should have talked to her before; IDK...

 

I wore this one night to a music production that my children were a part of...

 

Outfit Details:  Ruffle Cardigan: Hand me down (original unknown);

White Tshirt: Hand me down (original Target);

Black Skinny Leggings: Old Navy; Heels: Payless; Necklace: Body Central

 

I absolutely LOVE these heels and had to get a close up pic for you!

 



 

On the second night of the music show I wore this, and realized later that it looked a lot like what I wore the first night.  Oh well...

 

Outfit Details: Cardigan: Hand me down (original Target);

White Tshirt: Hand me down (original Old Navy); Jeans: Old Navy;

Booties: Payless; Handbag: Gianni Binni (Plato's Closet);

Watch:Sears; Necklace: Body Central

 

 Ignore what looks to be duck lips in these photos.  I can't do duck lips even when I try, so I don't know how I end up looking like I have them in these pictures.  And then I look really mad in the second picture, probably because of what I'm going to say next...

 

Can we talk about my daughter's bed again?  Clearly our "talking to" didn't take.  So now we have a chore chart up with punishments listed if chores are not completed.  Sigh.  All because of me taking outfit pictures.

 

I absolutely love the cardigan pictured above.  You can't tell from the lighting in the pictures, but it is a wine colored cardigan, which I really love that color.  It's a nice color and goes really well with gold, which I'm also loving right now.

 

Last picture, I promise!  For a quick lunch date (that actually turned into a two hour lunch date!) with a friend this week I wore this casual outfit...

 

Outfit details:  Shirt: JC Peneny;

Skinny ankle jeans: Hand me down (original Old Navy);

Booties: Payless

 

Clearly I'm super excited about getting out of the house in this picture; right? 

 

Whew!  I hope that wasn't outfit overload!!  Tell me if it is and I won't do it again!

Happy Friday and more importantly, Happy Valentine's Day!!!!

 

Valentine's Attire

I don't know about you but I LOVE Valentine's Day, I love dressing for Valentine's Day & I love Valentine's Day decorations. For the last week I have been dressing my family in Valentine's colors, Daniel included! Here are two outfits I have worn in the last week preparing for Valentine's Day.

This Old Navy heart sweater is so comfortable! It was a hand me down from a friend. My pants are dark jeans from Ross.

My favorite colors together are red & pink! I wore this to church on Sunday & a woman commented "This is such a Julie Taylor outfit"!!! I told her I had been wearing these colors since I was 15 every Valentine's Day! The dress I have had since I was like 15 & I have no idea where it is from. The cardigan is from Gap.

Have a LOVE filled Valentine's Day!