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

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.

Fun times~

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.  

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.  :)