What a Lovely Winter We're Having This Spring

{outfit 1}
dress | jacket | mirrored sunnies | bracelet 1, 2 | nail stickers

{outfit 2}
sweater | blazer | shorts | floral sunnies | bracelet | bag | nail stickers

Even though it is officially my birthday, and even though it is officially snowing on my birthday - in April - my mind is still lingering on last weekend when we had some seriously warm weather.  (On a side note, I've concluded that April is simply the month to be bipolar.  We've gone from a summery 80° to 34° & snowing in a matter of 3 days.  If I wasn't so bummed, I'd be impressed.).  

Eternal hopeful that I am, I literally believe the sun will come out tomorrow (or at the very least, two or three days after tomorrow), and that it one day will be warm(ish) again. When that day comes, my wish is to be wearing one of these outfits from Sheinside.  A gorgeous maxi and a badass vegan leather jacket, or festival denim shorts with a soft chunky sweater and structured blazer.  I'll happily don either.  I can't wait for the end of the lovely winter we're having this spring.

Come party with me!

Heart and Soul

{sweater | tights | sheinside skirt, c/o | similar booties | chicwish necklace, c/o}

I'm back from vacation and that means it's time to get back to reality.  {And by reality, I mean winter.} Spending a couple weeks in Florida was a great way to pretend that I don't live in NJ, but just to drive the point home that I do, it's been snowing every day since I returned.    It's almost as if the state herself took a personal offense to the fact that I was fantasizing about residing somewhere else on the east coast, and said, Oh really? Deal with this.  As you probably guessed, these photos were taken before my trip, back when it was still a reasonable 42 degrees outside.  

In other slightly vacation-related news, don't you just love the big pile of mail waiting for you when you come home?  I find that it really helps to soften the blow of coming back from two weeks of hanging around in the sun and eating whatever I damn well please.   This time around I was lucky enough to have multiple packages waiting for me, one of which included these new FDS portable cleansing cloth pouches.  I've used the FDS wash for years now, and am so addicted to it that I kind of freaked a little bit my first day of vacation when I realized that I forgot to pack my tiny travel bottle with me.  These wipes would have come in pretty handy then.  Each package comes with three pouches of ten wipes.  The pouches are so slim that they easily slip into my tiny, overstuffed purse, and are so cutely designed that nobody would ever know what they really are.  Ain't they adorable?

Sponsored by FDS.  I received samples as compensation, and all opinions are my own because I really, actually use FDS and stand behind it 100%.

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