Outfit of The Day: 8/23/11

Today's outfit: Light blue polo, chocolate-brown midi skirt, patterned scarf (belt), deep purple vintage-style hat. Barefoot! Hair: down, straight, and natural.

So I'm thinking I need to make Anna work on her camera angles. She was laughing at me as we were taking these photos because I always choose to stand in the same spot, but she always uses the same angles, so the pictures are kinda boring.

This skirt makes me happy. It's long, knee-length, and flowy, and it floats when I twirl or walk down the stairs. I got it last year at Goodwill when I first started working up the courage to wear skirts rather than skinny jeans, and it's become one of my favorite items in my closet. It matches every top I own, is very vintage, and makes me feel like a princess. On top of that, it's the color of chocolate. (Which, granted, makes me rather hungry sometimes, but who doesn't like to be a little hungry for chocolate occasionally?)

Hand-me-down belt. It came with a skirt (which I love) but I don't actually wear them together. I wore them as a matching set once, as an early experiment with mixing patterns that went pretty well (red-striped button-up, patterned skirt, matching patterned belt tied in a preppy little bow around my ponytail), but for the most part I prefer to keep them seperate. Maybe I'll wear the skirt to youth group tomorrow.

Maybe I'll just wear cut-offs and a tee. I haven't worn cut-offs in about two months.

And now we come to my favorite part of today's outfit -- this fabulous hat I picked up at Plato's Closet a few weeks ago.

Last night as I was putting together today's outfit, I felt rather disappointed with it. I had the polo, the skirt, the belt, and it was cute, but it just seemed rather sad. You've seen sad outfits before -- those boring, monochromatic ones people wear when they're feeling tired of life, want to be invisible, and slouch? (Not the monochromatic isn't cool -- it can be a really fun, unique, edgy style, when the person wearing it has a little spunk in their step, rather than some slouch in their shoulders.) Well, that's what this outfit felt like. Tired, sad, boring. So I grabbed this hat and plunked it down on top of the old retired lamp-stand that I use to hang up my outfits, and voila! the outfit changed. It stood up a little straighter, smiled a little brighter, and it's cheeks glowed.

And that's how I feel in this outfit: spunky, cheerful, blushingly beautiful. I feel like Caroline Dester from "Enchanted April".

Which is not a bad thing.

Easter :D

Yesterday, 2000 years ago, Jesus rose from the dead. Yup. Dead guy. Came back to life, saved the world. Pretty stinkin' awesome, right?

Now, there are probably about a million blogs all over the internet about the principles of Easter and such. Also, you probably went to church. You know why we honor this holiday, so I thought I'd write a blog about how I honored it.

Firstly, in dress. :D

Love love love love love my hat and dress. We got most of our clothing at Kohls. My gorgeous yellow-and-white polka-dot dress was $15, the hat was $13, and the cardigan was $17 dollars -- I don't know how much Anna's dress cost. What I love about all this is that everything I'm wearing in this picture I can (and WILL) wear again. Especially that wonderful hat. (Will load picture ASAP; my mom has it (; )

Also, of course, we went to church, and our worship/production team put on this AMAZING drama. Our church is really good at stage productions (you should have seen our Christmas special) and this one was no different. They don't water down the scary parts of the spiritual realm, and believe me, there was a part of this drama that was scary. (Hint: Screaming demons.) But then, this incredibly bright light shines, and "Jesus" walks forward, the demons bow, the devil hands over the keys to the Gates of Heaven, Jesus opens the gate, and the saints rise and enter into the Kingdom. I cried, and believe me, Jesus had a standing ovation. Also, my dad played the "Voice of God". And I didn't recognize him, because he usually doesn't talk like Christopher Lee.

Then my whole family commuted to my grandmother's house -- My Uncle Jimmy and Aunt Molly, their little boys, Josiah and Judah, my Uncle David, his girlfriend Alycia, and her mother. Add to that me, my sister Anna, my brother Teddy, my mom and dad, The Easter Bunny, and a WHOLE lot of food, and it was a pretty full house. I think I ate half my weight in bree (it was delicious) and chocolate (it was even more delicious) and we of course had the customary Easter egg hunt, in which me and Anna helped "The Easter Bunny" to hide the eggs from the little boys. I felt terribly sick yesterday (in a good "I really enjoyed all the bree and chocolate" way) but today I felt amazing. Despite having to clean the house. :)

Then we came home and I spent the next few hours lying on my bed at home watching "The Mighty Ducks" on my iPod. I know it's not exactly worshipful to God, but hey, Jesus loves Emilio Estevez way more than I do, so I don't think He minded.

Anyway, that was my Easter. Fun with the family, fun on my own, fun with delicious wheels of cheese, and fun worshipping my Jesus (who, by the way, is still alive and rockin', in case you didn't know). A really, really good day.