something borrowed, something blue and something mustard!

yellow flower: handmade by me

necklaces: borrowed from my sister (vintage locket from Grammie)

blue denim tunic: borrowed from my sister

striped sweater: borrowed from my sister

belt: thrifted, borrowed from my sister

skinny pants: Old Navy $15

leather Brazilian booties: $2

vintage ring: thrifted $6

The last 3 days, Saturday, Sunday and now today I've been borrowing my sister's clothes. It's been fun :)  She has a nice collection of clothes and quite a collection of jewelery. Like myself she has several pieces from my grandmother.  

Today I didn't do much.  Life has been crazy and difficult recently. Maybe I'll post more about it later.  

Lord willing I will be going up to Mass. at the end of the week with my brother.  We won't be there long. I hope this is how it works out. That we'll drive up or Greyhound it up on Friday than come back Monday.  I am toying with the idea of staying longer since I don't until Thursday of next week.  I will work Thursday of this week though.

I need to work on my sisters invitations tonight. :)

If you are a person of faith, please pray for my family and for my extended family.  Thank you.

in the red

So silly me. I came home from work last Friday night and changed my clothes, put some make up on and added a braid to my ponytail. Actually it was relaxing.  And it was nice to dress up a bit.  I was in my own little world.  

It was late and I got the impetus to take pics of my outfit, (which I thought was cute.) Even my dad complimented me on it ;)  I and my brother took a lot. It's hard to get good indoor shots.  A lot were kinda dark, or awkward. I did quit a bit of editing even to the ones I posted.  A friend complimented me on my outfit (the top pic) on my FB page so it made me decide to go ahead and post this outfit on my blog.

Like I've said I wear rather serviceable clothes to work.  Usually jeans a long sleeve shirt with a cardigan or zip up sweatshirt and a scarf.  The sweater and scarf to pull on and off if I'm gettin' to warm or chilly.  I don't really put much of an outfit together for work.

My sister and I worked on the guest list yesterday.  We made 3 lists.  One long list of everyone she'll send invites to, and she can add to that list.  The "probable" list, everyone that will probably come. And then the "Intimate" list.  If, worst case scenario, she had to have a small wedding.  It was fun.  

Tomorrow we're going with my dad at 9:00am to a local church to scope it out.  The problem is that the church only holds 100 people. But the plus side is since my dad knows the pastor we'd only have to give a donation to use it. We might look for a meadow around here and do an outside wedding then use the reception hall for the reception.  We live in cow country, rolling hills and meadows and mountains. A meadow wedding would be beautiful! See the picture?!!!  (We might have to look out for cow patties though!!)

We need to decide on a venue and a date SOON!  I know a number of you ladies in the blogging world are also doing wedding planning.  God bless us all!! ;)

boots: thrifted $1 or $2

leggings: ? (have had them for a long time/

don't remember where I got 'em)

socks: Gabriel brothers $2?

skort: thrifted $2?

long sleeve thermal: free

short sleeve cardi: Walmart/Kmart $3

scarf: $5 Walmart

belt: vintage thrifted $1

locket: from my Grammie

earrings: Gabriel brothers $3

guestimated total: $18

 

thank you, Daddy O'!

I took these pics on Friday.  I did get "blog burnout".  I am an extremist at times, also I have tendencies toward perfectionist and over achiever. If I'm into something I can put hours into it at a time. Balance and moderation are a bit healthier. :)  

I had this look in my head, I wanted to use my dad's flannel shirt with skinnies.  I found this one, and liked it because of the bright red.  Definitely a POP of color!  ( I actually forgot how to spell color for a second!)  

skinny jeans: Ross $15

flannel shirt: from my Daddy O's closet

sweater: department store sale

socks: Gabriel brothers

boots: Salvation Army, $1

Old navy leather belt, men's: yard sale $1

vintage locket: with pics of my grammie and grampy when they were young, from my Grammie

I could have also called this blog something about a Lumberjack. This is definitely a lumberjack's shirt. Like stereotypically Lumberjack.  "Man of the woods, and cutter of trees!" Yeah that's me ;)  I did learn how to make a fire today in our wood stove!  I'm keeping it alive too!! (does that mean I have a red thumb?)

My parents are going to TX for my sister's graduation from Bible school on Wed. My dad wanted me to learn how to build a fire. Keeping the furnace on costs a lot of money.  We are thrifty country folk!

I went and filled out an application at a nursing home here in the country and left my resume. I'm willing to start part time. The owner said they'd call me! Hope so!!!

Ohh, last night I finally got the "groove" on to decorate the Christmas tree. Mom and Dad helped a little bit. I'm the family  "decorator." If it wasn't for me, who knows when it would have gotten done. (Maybe when my sister moves back home.)  I even put evergreen branches on the piano with our nativity scene with red glass balls and pine cones.  Maybe just maybe I'll posts some pics sometime.   

It's official, Christmas has come to our house.