Daily Outfit: Feels Just Like We're Dancing in the Wind

Let's play a game... it's called how many different places can I find to take pictures by the water? I love water. Can you tell?

So this little silver ring, that looks like a wedding ring. Is a wedding ring actually. But not MINE obviously. It belonged to a relative on my mom's side. For someone reason my relatives like to give me their wedding bands. I think I have two. Both are silver bands. And I love them dearly. I am a ridiculously sentimental person and while I knew neither of the women that the wedding bands once belonged to, just knowing that they were special to someone in my family makes them very dear to me.







Dress: BB Dakota, via ModCloth
Cardigan: 525 America, via Piperlime (similar)
Shoes: Simply Vera, via Kohls
Scarf: LOFT (here)
Ring: Vintage, via family member

And then there's this....



Previously Styled, BB Dakota Dress:

Daily Outfit: Take a Look Around & Tell Me What You See

I got this French Connection dress for like $27 on clearance at Belk. I was really excited as I don't have anything like it. I love that it's so neutral and the shape is so perfect. I'm not really a fan of long sleeves, but this one doesn't bother me because they are not constricting and the fabric is so soft. So be prepared to see this dress a lot this fall and winter, all layered up! Weeee!

And I appologize in advance but you might see nothing but Hanson lyrics as my titles for the next few weeks.. I'm just so damn excited to be going to my first Hanson show. I've been a fan since I was 10 and this is the first time I get to see them. It's taken 15 years, but its finally happening for me! Eeep! And I get to meet them too, which is just icing on the cake. A LOT OF ICING. Double eep!







Dress: French Connection, via Belk
Belt: Unknown
Shoes: Apt 9, via Kohls
Scarf: LOFT (here)
Ring: Made by me

Daily Outfit: You've Been Acting Like You're Overloaded

This is yet another reason why I love cooler weather. All the awesome photo locations clear out and I get to take pictures in beautiful places again without boats and people and questions. Awesome. And I get to really enjoy taking my photos too because people aren't constantly walking by. It is awesome. Plus I don't sweat like I have a fur coat. That's always nice too.

Things are about to get insane at work... not that they haven't been crazy since August, but I've had a little respite. Now it's going to get crazy, not to mention my niece's birthday is coming up and then MEETING HANSON, and then my friend's wedding and thennnnn Suze and Joe are visiting. So yes, madness for the next month! I'm excited about it... except the part where I have to clean my filthy apartment between all this.









Top: Gianni Bini
Capris: LOFT
Jacket: via Belk
Shoes: Simply Vera, via Kohls
Scarf: Target (similar)
Bracelet: Vintage, via Eagle's Wings Antiques (Buchanan, VA)
Ring: Jewelmint*

*Disclosure: If you join Jewelmint via the above link and purchase something in the future I earn a credit point towards free jewelry.

Daily Outfit: No Breeze Today

Now I remember why I only ever wear this dress with tights. Thank god there wasn't a breeze because one swift kick of the wind and this would have made for an ugly ugly situation.

By the way, I am ridiculously clumsy. Sunday i was running from one room to the next (a weird habit that I am now calling into question...) and I slipped on my jersey which was on the floor and my feet went out from under me and I smashed the inside of my left knee on the door frame. It was pain like I have never felt and apparently I almost passed out. My vision got all spotty, my hearing was muffled, and I was short of breath. It was bad. I've been in a knee brace since. It's feeling much better, but I have a feeling I bruised something really badly.









Top: Target
Dress: Olsenboye, via Giveaway from The Clothes Horse
Shoes: Restricted (similar)
Belt: Thrifted, via Goodwill
Necklace: Express
Watch: Vintage, Gucci, via Mom's Jewelry Box
Sunglasses: Ray Ban

Daily Outfit: The Outfit I Didn't Mean to Photograph

This was an outfit that I didn't actually intend to photograph. Then i went to the allergist and got THREE compliments in the ten minutes I was there. Seriously? I was confused. I seriously just threw this on to go to the allergist. It didn't feel put together at all and I put zero thought into it. So apparently this means I have style weather I try to or not? I was also surprised how these two prints came together. There is a little purple in this dress, which I think really helped.

So as excited as I was about this weekends NFL games... i was totally let down by my Titans. It was just an ugly mess. Started with a sack on our quarterback and ended in our quarterback throwing and interception. And my fantasy football team isn't fairing very well either. I need a big night tonight in Monday Night Football to pull out a win this week. I mean seriously, my fantasy football kicker was injured on the opening kick off and didn't return to the game. Better luck next week? Let's hope so....







Dress: Thrifted, via Goodwill
Scarf: Forever21, won from Cheer Giveaway
Shoes: Gianni Bini
Twistband (here)

Daily Outfit: So Easy to Forget the Bitter Taste the Morning Left

Some days when I'm taking photos I get a little silly... other times when I'm editing I get bored. This day both of these things happened... so you get the above. And this ridiculousness is truly warranted. I had a meeting yesterday and when I walked it two people went "whoa! Jenni, you're all dolled up!" Yeah... they've probably seen me with make-up twice and I've had this job for more than two years. It's not that I don't like make-up, I'm just really lazy about it.

Also. I'm IN LOVE with this outfit. This is pattern magic, in my humble opinion. MAGIC!









Top: GAP Factory Outlet
Skirt: Ann Taylor Factory Outlet
Shoes: Calvin Klein
Twistband (here)

Daily Outfit: Cooler Weather Means Boots!

I don't know what's up with my stank faces in my pictures lately. Honestly. So anyways... all the rain blew in some nice cooler weather. I love it. So clearly I took this opportunity to bust out the boots and thigh high socks. I am so ready for fall it's not ever funny. It rained most of the day so sadly I had to opt for balcony pictures, which I hate to do, but otherwise I wouldn't have gotten to photograph this outfit, and since I really liked it I wanted to show it off.





Dress: Tucker for Target
Socks: Sock Dreams (here)
Boots: Seychelles
Necklace: Jewelmint*
Headband: Unknown

*Disclosure: If you join Jewelmint via the above link and purchase something in the future I earn a credit point towards free jewelry.

July/August Reads

This photo has nothing to do with the books I read, but I did just receive my set of the British children's editions of the Harry Potter books. They're so pretty that I had to share!

July/August Reads

Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows - J.K. Rowling
I love this book. I mean seriously love it. It was bitter sweet to finish rereading all seven book just in time for the final movie. It was the first time I'd read them all back to back and I have to say that you get something special out of them when you read them that way. Catching little details that you maybe didn't see the first time or didn't catch when reading them independent of each other. Even if this book consists mostly of camping as this pie chart suggests. hehe.

The Help - Kathryn Stockett
I was pleasantly surprised with this book. I have told everyone that I've seen reading it or everyone who asks if it is worth reading that this is the first book that I can honestly say in my opinion is deserving of the hype that it has been given. I loved it. I laughed, I cried, I gasped. Good stuff, I promise you. I love the different perspectives on the lives of the characters and I really just plain LOVED Minny.

The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
I picked this up wondering if it could possible live up to my ridiculously high expectations of Dumas after reading the Count of Monte Cristo. Well it may not have been as mind blowing for me as Monte Cristo, but it was definitely in the same league. I just can't say enough about Dumas' ability to spin an intriguing tale and endear you to his characters. I'm excited to continue on with the D'Artangan romances... I'm already enjoying Twenty Years After.

Lord of the Flies - William Golding
Eh. That's what I have to say about this. It was ridiculously disturbing to me and while I kept having flashbacks to LOST I just didn't care about this book. I felt like I needed to read it for the sake of reading it, but I wouldn't recommend it. I got the point of it, but I didn't like the book.

Currently Reading

Sister Carrie - Theodore Dreiser (page 211 of 752)
Twenty Years After - Alexandre Dumas (page 232 of 678)

What what you're favorite summer read? And if you've ready The Help, I'd love to hear your thoughts!

Daily Outfit: Statement Jewelry

I did a bad job of photographing my statement jewelry. Before I got around to that part of outfit photographing a creepy guy in an SUV drove by super super slowly and then pulled into the parking lot, staring at me the whole time, parked about twenty feet away and just sat in his car staring. Needless to say I packed up pretty quickly. I don't mind questions about what I'm doing, but that is creepy and I don't really know who thinks that kind of behavior is acceptable. And once I packed up he sat there a few minutes and then drove off. CREEPY!

But anyways. This lovely little seahorse was a gift from my friend Niki. It's so cute and I love how long it is... perfect for so many outfits. The bracelets I actually bought on Saturday at my favorite store for vintage things. I'm going to have to take out a few links in both to make them fit properly, but I love the possibilities I see with them. And the watch you have now see so much you're probably sick of it, but I can't get enough of the colored bezels and it's versatility. Just don't ask me what time it is because you might age two years while I'm trying to read it. I've never been very good at reading clocks and watches.









Top: Lilly Pulitzer
Button Down Top: LOFT
Shorts: Gap
Belt: American Eagle
Shoes: Steve Madden
Scarf: H&M
Bracelets: Vintage, Nostalgia
Watch: Vintage, Gucci, via mom

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