Three's the charm

Sorry for my absence the last couple of days. On Wednesday I was crazy busy, and whilst I did look super cute in my completely thrifted outfit, I clean forgot to take photos. I'm hoping there are some photos of the big work event I went to with me in, so if I find some I'll post them. Otherwise I'll just re-use that outfit! Yesterday I was sick and so spent most of the day in pyjamas, I only got dressed to go to my Girl Scout meeting, and it was nothing worth taking a picture of! But now I am back and ready to rock. (Well, ready to administer a make up quiz and go to a seminar. Same thing, right?)

Today's nifty little number features:
Shirt: Converse via Goodwill
Vest (underneath, you can kind of see it): H&M via car boot sale
Jeans: White Stag via Goodwill
Shoes: Keds via Goodwill
Pink stripey socks: H&M
Beret: H&M

H&M, I miss you! See you in Bostonia for the holidays! Right, I'm away to the post office to send my family's advent gifts. My fear is that the postage will cost more than the gifts did... I suspect I am going to be sadly proved right about that.

--C.

Two Men Went to Mow

Day two of the Season of Goodwill! I'm enjoying it so far, although I sense that shoes are going to become a problem... I may bend the rules a little to allow myself shoes that aren't second hand. I'm going to have to at some points, because my running shoes aren't second hand (although my shorts and shirts mostly are) and most of the second hand shoes I have are my fancier high heels, and I can't wear those all the time for biking! So we'll see how long I last before I cave in and wear non-pre-owned shoes.

 Today's charming little number includes:
Dress: Old Navy via Goodwill
Shirt: Hanes via Goodwill
Tights: Target
Shoes: Walmart via Goodwill

and then I was wearing a white hoodie on and off for most of the rest of the day, which was thrifted Old Navy.

The lighting in these pictures is kind of weird but I didn't want to re-take them as there was some major neighbour drama going on today (involving one neighbour calling the cops on one of our other neighbours) and I didn't want to get in the way of all of it so I took my pictures and went back to work. Fun! Now I'm going to have a beer and start grading the quiz my students took tonight. Busy busy bees!

Season of Goodwill Day One

 Day one of the Season of Goodwill featured:

Skirt: Forever 21 via Goodwill
Cardigan: New Look via a car boot sale many moons ago
White shirt: Old Navy via Goodwill
Shoes: Charlotte Russe via Goodwill
Tights: Walmart
Necklace: birthday gift from my wonderful friend Darrel, bought from an art show we went to.

Day one was pretty easy. I hadn't worn this skirt or these shoes before but they both held up well throughout the day. The cardigan is one of my favorites, I wear it to death! I haven't worn the white shirt in a while as it's quite long, but it worked well tucked into this skirt. The necklace went really well with this get-up too; I almost never wear necklaces at work as we have to wear lanyards with our ID cards on but I felt like wearing it today. My friend Darrel went back and bought it as a birthday gift for me after I mentioned that I liked it at an art show we went to earlier this year, he's so thoughtful! Apparently each one is unique, which made me love it even more. I like to feel different!

I got told I looked hip by one of my friends at work today. I suppose that is a good thing? I'll take it as a win!

--C.

'Tis the Season of Goodwill

I know you must all have been on the edge of your seats since yesterday, waiting to hear about what my new style challenge/project is. I don't think there's any way that I could do 30 for 30, I'm just much too excited about wearing all my winter clothes at the minute. The clue to the project is in the post title - I thought it was appropriate with the holidays coming up! For the next fortnight (I wanted to do a month but that seems like such a long time!) I've committed to only wearing second-hand clothing. Hooray thrifting!

The Rules, should anyone else want to join in, are as follows:
- Clothing doesn't have to be from Goodwill (I would never hate on you, Salvation Army!) but it does have to be second hand. So stuff you got at thrift stores, garage sales, ebay, clothing swaps and hand-me-downs all count.
- I'm going to try and do top to toe, so second hand shoes as well. Tights and socks won't be second hand, because I don't have any pre-owned ones.
- Coats don't necessarily have to be thrifted, although I'm going to aim for that too. I'm only making this not a rule because my one really warm coat came from TkMaxx and I'm not prepared to freeze for this project!
- Accessories, anything goes.

I'll be posting my first day's outfit later on, when it's stopped raining long enough for me to take a photo. If you want to join in, please leave me a comment with a link so I can see how you style this challenge! I'm excited... and nervous!

Happy Monday, peeps : )

--C.

Lazy Sunday Afternoon

This is what happens when I'm grading in my fort in my pyjamas (yes, I built a fort in my living room this weekend, what of it?) and my friend calls and invites me to lunch in seven minutes. I somehow managed to get clean and dressed in that time, so I ended up just grabbing the clothes that were nearest to me after he called. I think it worked out okay! I also wore the trousers yesterday when we took my girl scout troop to the nature reserve to practice their photography and capture the fall colors (what little of them we have here, at least!). We had a lot of fun, and it was great weather for being outside with the girls. Fun times!

Today I'm wearing:

Shirt: Old Navy via Goodwill
Trousers: Banana Republic via Goodwill

Navy socks: Primark, years ago
Shoes: Gianni Bini via Goodwill

The rest of my day has consisted of napping and grading, but mainly grading. I just have the extra credit question to do and I'll be done! Then onto my own homework... ugh.

A lot of other style bloggers are participating in Kendi's 30 for 30 challenge, but I didn't think I could manage that. Not when I'm still so excited about bringing out all my warmer clothes for the first time this year. So I came up with a style challenge for myself. I'll be posting the details of it tomorrow, so stay tuned for that! I'm excited!

Speaking of other bloggers, how cute is Sydney's chic updo tutorial?! (and her whole blog in general, it's just adorable!). I wish my hair was a little longer so that I could try her tutorial out. Hmm, maybe I'll have to test a lower down version of it. Also, I don't think my bike helmet would fit over a bun that big and poofy, so it might have to be a weekend style for me.

I'm feeling the blogger love today! Right, I'm off to go and drink my honey tea and tackle grading this extra credit question. Dearest students, writing the words 'very fast' as an answer will not earn you 5 points for that question. Sigh.

I hope you've all had wonderful weekends!

Teresa Green

So this morning I was in a huge rush, and none of my photos came out very well. in fact there was only one that was half-way decent. I have realized that I look much neater when my hair is dry... and when I'm not brushing my teeth (yes, I was brushing my teeth in some of the photos, multi-tasking is a skill, leave me alone.)

Today I'm wearing:

Shirt: Old Navy via Goodwill
Dress: ana via Goodwill
Tights: Walmart
Shoes: Gianni Bini (no idea) via Goodwill

In truth, this combination looked better on the hanger than it did on me. Oh well, I'll try again tomorrow.

In the Navy

Eep! Today I have no less than four separate meetings (one down, three to go) plus an exam to invigilate! I wanted to be comfortable and temperature-appropriate, one of which I am not very good at. Seriously, I wore a jacket to work yesterday and I sweated SO MUCH biking home, it was ridiculous. And disgusting. Today is still pretty warm, but cool enough to make me want socks. Also, these socks are great enough that I always want to wear them. I might never look hip, but at least I am sort of color-coordinated. I'll call that a win.

 Today's jaunty ensemble includes:
Skull and cross-bones shirt: Self-esteem via Goodwill
Skirt: Walmart via Goodwill
Belt: Goodwill

Socks: Walmart
Shoes: Columbia via Ross

These shoes are ridiculously comfortable, which is how I justified wearing trainers (albeit trainers with a sweet diagonal strap) with a skirt and knee socks to myself. And in case you're wondering, no I don't know what happened in that second picture. I use a tripod and timer to take the photos and I didn't alter any of the settings... it's a mystery.

Feels like Fall

Today I was feeling autumnal. I thought I would dress like autumn, but I ended up looking like an upside down tree. Oh well. It looked better in my mind.

 Today I am wearing:
Dress: Ross

Vest (under dress): Forever 21 via Goodwill
Cardigan: Old Navy via Goodwill
Tights: New Look
Shoes: Goodwill

Sorry for the week-long hiatus. I went to Nashville to visit my friend Melissa with two of our other friends, and we had a wonderful time. I got back last night and have spent today getting caught up with meetings, emails, homeworks, research, and everything else. Yikes I'm busy! Sadly I don't have any pictures from Nashville as my camera is still broken. Boo monkeys!

I hope all of your weeks have started off well!

The Elusive Jeans Sighting

I have a case of the mid-week busies! Homework, grading, coding, meetings, helping at our department bake sale and then celebrating EmmaLe's birthday tonight (Happy Birthday, E!)... I'll need a nap after all that! I didn't have much time to get dressed today, so it's not all that interesting, but what can you do? At least I am clean and dressed.

 Today I'm modeling:

Jeans: Apt 9 via Goodwill

Shirt: Old Navy via Goodwill

Socks: Forever 21

Shoes: Ross

Bizarre hairstyle and tea drinking: my own lack of time in the mornings!

I hardly ever wear jeans, because while they're practical, I just don't think they really suit me. However, I bought this pair recently and I do like them, so maybe they'll be making a more regular appearance. I realized today how many stripey long sleeved shirts I have... I think you'll be seeing that a lot. This one has a cool gold emblem type thing on it, I'm not sure if you can see it in the photos. My shoes are pretty cool too, I'll have to take a close up of them another day. Right, back to being a responsibility champion! Toodles!

--C.

L-l-l-leopard?

My camera is still broken, so these babies are brought to you courtesy of my old camera, which has a broken screen. So I had no idea what any of these looked like until I put them onto the computer... which meant most of the shots I took were terrible. This was the only one that came out semi-decent. I decided that today I felt a bit jungle-y, so I brought out the leopard print. And what goes better with leopard print than more leopard print? Basically nothing, right?

Today's bizarreness features:

Cardigan: Select, Christmas gift from parents
Dress: H&M
Polo neck: H&M
Tights: Select, also Christmas gift from the familials (thanks!)
Shoes: H&M

Today's outfit is unusual in that none of it is thrifted. However, some of it is gifted, and I bought or received all the pieces while I lived in England... which is also quite unusual, given my Goodwill obsession.

Yes, my tights are pretty fantastic. I know. Thanks for them, Mum and Dad! You are super! On another entirely unrelated note, I hope everybody who was eligible to voted today! I didn't get to, because I'm not a US citizen, but I'll be watching the results with interest.

--C.

Boo monkeys :(

No outfit posts from me for a little while, as my camera fell off it's tripod when I was taking my picture on Thursday, and broke. I'm taking it to the camera shop this week, fingers crossed it's fixable!

I'm even more super sad that I didn't get a picture of what I wore yesterday, because it's a new dress and I got a lot of compliments on it. I'm hoping to root out my old camera in the meantime - so hopefully I'll be back before too long!

--C.