Little Nightingale

2011-10-31T18:35:00.000-07:00

Sweater: Forever 21
Necklace: Forever 21
Earrings: Kohl's $480
Skirt: Kohl's $3.60
Socks: Kohl's
Boots: Kohl's

No special outfit or costume for Halloween for me. Just started getting dark and I'm sure the trick or treating will start soon. Though we haven't gotten many trick-or-treaters the last few years. A lot of parents take their kids to little festival or carnival events around town. That just means more candy for me. ;)

Hope you all have a great Halloween!

Family Time

2011-10-30T16:54:00.000-07:00

This weekend was mostly spent with my family. My brother and his family came out with this weekend. Always fun having the baby around. She was adorable and actually behaved really well. She's a tiny little thing (like me!) but she is two years old already, even though she just barely started to fit into 18 month clothes.

They all left early this morning. Shame they can never really stay longer. We might not see them again until march! My brother is in the army. He's got some schooling he'll be doing in a month or so, all the way on the east coast. Didn't really get a chance to get pictures in the last two days because of their visit. I did manage to get some shots in today though.

Shirt: Forever 21 $5.80
Cami: Forever 21 $2.80
Pants: Kohl's $25.99
Boots: Kohl's $45.99
The boots, while way more than I'd normally spend on shoes didn't actually cost me that much in the end. I post the pre-discount prices of my items because I know not everyone always uses coupons when they shop. I just bought them recently. After a shopping trip to pick up some Christmas presents, I got earned a $10 coupon at kohl's (known as Kohl's cash). I used them toward the purchase of these boots, along with a 30% off coupon I had for using my kohls charge. It brought the price down closer to around $25 - a much more reasonable and budget friendly price.

A rumbly in my tumbly

2011-10-22T17:01:00.000-07:00

No new outfit posts yet. We've been struck at home with what seems to be the stomach flu... or well some kind of stomach bug. At first it was just my mother and I, then my dad got it. We've had it all week though and it still hasn't gone away.

So instead of an outfit (trust me, i wasn't very presentable looking all week anyways), you get a drawing I did for a friend of mine today. Just one of their characters.

From good times to hard times

2011-10-17T17:56:00.000-07:00

Top: (I don't remember)
Belt: Target
Skirt: small shop
Sandals: Kohl's $30

Belts.... are my downfall. I get so jealous seeing so many bloggers rocking cute little belts. If I get a belt I usually have to punch an extra whole or two in it... because I'm TOO small. Seriously- you'd think belts would be more aimed and designed for smaller people, since they'd have more trouble keeping things on but alas they are not. What's a girl to do?

Fun times~

2011-10-16T15:23:00.000-07:00

Top: Forever 21
Jeans: Kohl's
Boots: Kohl's
Necklace: Deaf Expo

The Top here is something I actually just recently acquired. I was "browsing" forever 21 when i stumbled across it. I'm usually pretty picky with my clothes I get there, since a lot of their stuff can be made rather poorly. My favorite part of this piece is the necklace and there is actually a little story behind how I got it.

Its been a while now, but some time ago I was taking sign language courses; one of the requirements in those classes is attending some kind of deaf event. Because of that I chose to go to the deaf expo. Its a big event with lots of different features and booths. I was browsing the booths with my mother (who happens to be hard of hearing) when I stumbled across this necklace. It was made by a Japanese couple who were deaf. It was really fun signing with them in ASL and talking about the Japanese language because at that same time I was just starting to take Japanese classes as well. It was definitely the highlight of the event, and the necklace has become one of my favorites. :)

Also just because I was out with the dog while taking pictures, here's a little up close picture of her. Her name is Kelly- though half the time we call her Kelly Bean- or "The Bean." She's all muscle and quite the little bully unfortunately. But She can be sweet when she wants to be.... usually with my dad only though, he's her favorite.

Work, work and more work.

2011-10-15T16:38:00.000-07:00

Blazer: Kohl's $12
Top: Kohl's $12
Pants: small shop- $10
Boots: Kohl's $25

Today was a work day for me- as was most of the week. However, unlike the rest of the week, this shift required me to dress up a bit. Most of the week I was working early in the morning- and by early I mean at 5am. some days at 6. Because of the earliness and the fact I was working truck some of those days, I ended up dressing like a slob. I didn't really come home to get pretty. Hence why there weren't any posts this week until today.
I hope you all had a good week and enjoy the weekend!

Sunday of Laziness

2011-10-09T16:04:00.000-07:00

Sweater: Kohl's $12
Dress: Kohl's $20
Shoes: Kohl's $25

While I may have dressed up, today was very much a lazy day. The boots, you've only seen before in a drawing, so I decided to try and get a picture for a better idea of how they look. Sadly that lovely red car behind me isn't mine- just my dad's company car. I myself drive a bug.

Its been hard lately because I have been wanting to go shopping, but I don't really have the funds to do so. However oddly enough i say that and ended up picking up two extra shifts at work. Hopefully they will help me with paying back my parent's for helping my get my car fixed. I'm so thankful they're always there to help me when I need it. I seem to have terrible luck with cars. However I don't owe them too much and I'm thankful I at least have a job however unsteady the hours can be.

Guess what?

2011-10-08T16:53:00.000-07:00

Dress: Stolen from mom's closet
Sweater: Kohl's $15
Tights: Kohl's $5
Shoes: Kohl's $27
Necklace: Target ... $7? I think.

So I finally found the camera. Apparently it had been in my room for one day, and mom got worried I'd lose it in there, so she took it back. Go figure. Life's been keeping me tied anyways, so it was probably best. Been sick the last couple days. I think its just some kind of stomach bug. Regardless, my stomach has not been happy.

To talk about my clothes a little, the dress belongs to my mother. I raided her closet almost a year ago and stole it from her. Its actually a size medium, so its slightly big on me, but not so much so that its extremely noticeable. It no longer fit my mom, so it was better off in my closet than hers.
Some of you might be thinking, isn't that a little much for those boots? And yes, I normally wouldn't pay that much for them. But you see, I have rather small feet, wearing only a size 6. Last year we had similar boots and I waited for them to go on sale cheaper, but by the time they did become $20 they no longer had my size and we stopped getting them in. I wasn't going to take that risk this year, so I bought them early. However, after all my discounts, I only ended up paying $20 for them, so I guess it wasn't so bad in the end.

I'm glad to have my camera back. I'll be sure not to lose it anymore.

Disappearance

2011-10-04T15:34:00.000-07:00

So some of you are probably wondering why I haven't posted the last few days... well it turns i misplaced the camera somewhere. If you were to see my room, which you more than likely never will, you would be able to understand how I lost it. Its not exactly the most... organized place.

Sadly I still have not found it, so i lack any photos for you, nor have i really been drawing much to even show you an outfit. I wouldn't have wanted to draw my outfits from this weekend because I wore some prints and well, they're not the easiest things to duplicate. I did however sneak a drawing in this weekend that I will post to show you guys. At least its something?

This is an original character of mine. I enjoy dressing my characters up in various outfits, however to keep the being recognized as a certain character I keep to a color scheme for their outfits. Haha, kinda like the old power ranger shows if that doesn't make sense to you.

2011-09-29T18:35:00.000-07:00

What i wore:
Top: Kohl's $12
Skirt: Forever 21 $8
Tights: Target $3.50
Shoes: Forever 21 $12 (Christmas gift)

Today was a work day. As I said before, I work over at Kohl's. Depending on what they have me there for I'll either dress up or dress down. Today I dressed up a bit. I actually had a blazer on as well, but i took it off when I got home. It was just much to warm inside. It was actually a fairly busy day today at work. The start of a new sale and coupon this week has brought plenty of people in. Oddly enough it was busier in the morning before noon than it was afterwards. Usually around 2 it starts dying down a bit, because people go pick up their kids from school. Oh well, what can you do. Tomorrow I won't be stuck at the registers, so I probably won't dress up as nicely, but we'll see. I still try to make myself look decent, but its hard to do so early in the morning.

When i got home I was originally going to try closing my eyes for a little bit, as I've still been pretty wiped out. However upon turning on my computer I saw an article about Bank of America planning to charge their customers $5 a month for using their debit card. I don't know about you guys, but I don't want to be charged for using my own money. For some time now I'd been wanting to switch to a credit union, but I kept losing track of things and not really having the motivation to do so. However upon reading the article I now had reason to leave. I plan to switch over ASAP. I actually already set up the account, just need to give work the routing and checking number for direct deposit. Because of all this though, I never did get a chance to close my eyes. Haha- oh well. I suppose it wasn't entirely necessary.

I hope everyone else had a good day though. :)

A wee bit tired

2011-09-28T11:33:00.000-07:00

Drawing of my outfit for today.
Cardigan: Target
Green Sweater: Kohl's $15
Scarf: G-Stage $5
Pants: Kohl's $15
Boots: Simply Vera Kohl's $25
Purse: Kohl's $12

lost of layers today. It just hasn't warmed up just yet, so I'm still cold. This small body of mine can't handle the heat... nor can it handle the cold. The orange part of my outfit is a cami. I don't show those because i get them from these little shops around town usually. That particular one I just got recently for $1.50.

I got out of the shower and decided today I would braid my hair. It's been so long i nearly forgot how to. Took me a while but I eventually got it right. Funny how we forget how to do simple things like that. Got class today as well, so I don't know if I'll be wearing those boots all day, for now though I will. Going to be heading out to lunch with my mom now though. Hope you all are having a good day! <3

Free Day

2011-09-27T18:55:00.000-07:00

Dress: thrifted and refashioned $2
tights: Target $3.50
Elephant Necklace: Christmas gift
Chain necklace: Kohl's $6

The weather here has been a little odd. Its been cool in the mornings and evenings, but during the day to was in the 90s. Not the funnest temperature, but thankfully its not real humid here. It also helped that I had the day to myself. I didn't have anywhere to go or anyone to see so I didn't get dressed right away, at least not until closer to 9 or 10 in the morning. For those of you wondering why I have no shoes on.... I was too lazy to put them back on. They were technically the same ones I wore yesterday, not that there is a real picture of that.

I'm still trying to get use to this whole take pictures thing. Haha... its awkward? I see other blogs that take like gorgeously natural pictures. Every time I'm thrown in front of the camera I get all awkward and the pictures definitely reflect that. Hopefully as I become more comfortable with this they'll look better, but until then everyone will have to just enjoy what I've got.

No photographs tomorrow again, school day. Hopefully I'll at least get a drawing up of my outfit. Until next time folks~ <3

Someday..

2011-09-26T10:22:00.000-07:00

No photograph today, got no one around to take the picture for me, so instead you get a highly inaccurate drawing of myself?
Cardigan: Target $15
t-shirt: Kohl's $4
Shoes: Kohl's $10

Nothing too exciting for today. Got a class where we're working with wood and such, so I try not to wear any dresses and such on these days... try. I sometimes wear one anyways.

So for today I'll just talk about plans for the future. I've really been wanting to try the 30 for 30 challenge. I keep telling myself, someday... someday. Well instead of saying that I should just jump into it. My hardest part is deciding what items to use.
Recently I worked on cleaning out my closet and was planning to get rid of some clothes I haven't worn in a while. However I might just turn around and decide to throw those into the challenge, force myself to try and make them work. But we'll see how it goes.

Officially started?

2011-09-25T17:41:00.000-07:00

Lets get this show on the road shall we? I'm completely new to this and have absolutely no idea what I'm doing, so I apologize if its not great or fantastic.

What i wore:

As I initially stated in my first post, I work at Kohl's so the majority of my clothes I get from there. Today it seems almost everything I am wearing is from Kohl's.

sheer poncho top: $16
jeans: $15
Boots: $32

These are the sale prices, before I whip out my coupons. I do have a kohl's charge, which gives me monthly savings up to 30% plus additionally whatever associate discount they might give us, as well as other coupons that might come in the mail. I've learned to try and stack on the savings as best I can.
Here is a not so great close up of me though, so you can see the earrings I am wearing as well. I don't quite remember how much i paid for them, but they were from Kohl's as well.

I haven't really spent my day doing too much- just working on a project for school, which is killing my hand:

The blog to be.

2011-09-24T16:32:00.000-07:00

Hello there~

First post on my blog- or well the first post since I've decided to refurbish it.

I've recently been enjoying looking through various fashion blogs and enjoying them immensely that I've been inspired to try one out myself. So within the next couple of days I plan to bring this baby back to life and post up some pictures. I also want to try to share the places and prices of the items I have, for what i remember anyways. Most of my clothes are either from kohl's or some little no name shops, but we'll see how it all turns out once I get started. <3