All Business

{target blazer & chambray | gap jeans (similar) | gifted sweater (sewn into vest) | aldo booties}

I've got a bone to pick with Mr. Groundhog.  He promised an early spring, but winter's still got us in its icy grip.  The rat straight up lied.  Even though we're now in March, we're still getting temperatures that are dipping below freezing.  At the rate this season's going, I'll be surprised if spring even starts on March 20.  In fact, taking these photos was one of the coldest moments I spent outside all season.  I could think of nothing but finishing and getting back inside.  With the temperature hovering around 25 degrees with lots of obnoxious wind, there was no time for messing around.  It was all business for those 4 1/2 minutes we spent shooting these.


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Meet Joyce

Hi everyone! I'm Joyce from Joyful Outfits and I am so excited to be guest blogging here today while Kym is on a road trip :) So this is what I would wear on a road trip. When I am traveling, I always like wearing comfy clothes and shoes.  ALWAYS.  Thus, the loose top, loose sweater vest, and the flat shoes.  And just to make this outfit a bit more fun, I decided to also wear the necklace.

7th Grade Boys

{sweater vest: diy hand-me-down  //  button up: jcp  //  tee: 5below  //  jeans: gap  //  boots: old navy  //  watch: sprout, via pure citizen}

 When I think back to the fashions of middle school, images of my locker neighbors wearing tee shirt-topped plaid button ups swirl in my mind.  (My locker neighbors were all boys).

So, thank you Jay, John, Glenn, & Mike for sporting the fashions that would inspire my outfit a mere 19 years later.

Today I'm linking to:

What I Wore Wednesday at Transatlantic Blonde

Whatever Whenever Wednesday at Rolled Up Pretty

What I Wednesday at Captivated by Grace

What I Wore at The Letter 4

Real Style  at Momma Go Round

What I Wore Wednesday at the Pleated Poppy

Fear & Loathing

{button up:  old navy  //  vest: hand-me-down (altered)  //  skirt, shoes: target  //  tights: payless}

The final of the 10 Day Challenge was to wear something I'm afraid of.  

There isn't much I'm afraid to wear, but I do have an unnatural fear of my sewing machine.

I've had it for about 12 years, but never learned much beyond how to thread the thing and change the stitch (it is as complicated as turning a dial; I am a genius for figuring that one out).  Not surprisingly, my sewing skills are beginner at best.

Yet, my extreme cheapness rational thriftiness compels me to have a go at mangling my clothing myself, rather than pay a tailor to do a perfectly professional job of it.

So yesterday I faced my fear.  I had received this sweater as a hand-me-down from a friend a while ago.  When I tried it on the sleeves were all wrong - too long, but not long enough.  I knew it had potential but my fear of destroying the entire thing resulted in this sweater sitting next to my sewing machine, haunting me, for months.

Last night I finally took the plunge.

Here is the result:

A perfectly nice sweater into a perfectly nerdy sweater vest.

 And since this sweater sat, neglected for such a long time, it also happily ties into the ABC's of Style challenge for today, too, which is Orphaned (as in forgotten, abandonded, and ignored).

Oh sweater vest, can you ever forgive me?