Petite Panoply

Happy Thursday everyone! I figured I should show you my birthday outfit since that was on Tuesday and therefore still relevant. I didn't really have a plan for a birthday outfit this year but I knew I wanted to wear one of my handmade items. This mushroom print dress hadn't been styled with tights yet so that's what I ended up throwing on. I enjoy the interesting mix of the olive green dress and red tights. It didn't feel like Christmas because of the addition of oranges and yellows in the print and the fact that it's a mushroom print. Mushrooms don't tend to convey images of holiday times. But anyway, this turned out to be a very "me" look. It should be since it was my birthday! I wore a pair of cool red 80s earrings and my comfy bronze sandals since they apparently look good with everything I own. What do you think of my birthday look? dress: handmade | tights: kmart | shoes: korks - shoe carnival | earrings: mom's My birthday pas...

Happy Wednesday everyone! Today is the day for me to share some tales of last week's Las Vegas trip with you. I'll have a separate post featuring some of the outfits I wore, but today I'll focus on what we did and some photos I took. This post is pretty picture heavy so you'll need to click through at some point to see the rest of it! (That is, if you're reading from the main page!) Our main purpose of heading out to Las Vegas was for my sister, Jeanie's, 21st birthday. We flew out the afternoon before her birthday and checked into the Flamingo that evening. It was a family affair with my parents, aunt, & cousin, plus Jeanie's friend and Matt. After changing into some more Vegas appropriate clothes we found an awesome restaurant/bar called Taphouse that had about 100 different beers on tap. I had a delicious flight of Belgian beers. The food was super tasty too. (So tasty we went back and ate there our last night!) We wandered around the new additio...

I always like to wear a completely new piece of clothing on my birthday each year. It feels good to save the first time I wear a dress for a special day! This dress was thrifted in July when we were visiting Illinois so it has been waiting in my closet for its debut for a while. When I tried it on, I couldn't leave it because it fit like it was made for me. Plus I love a good 80s dress. I seriously should have been my age in the 80s. I love the big hair and the fun, often garish clothing style. This dress isn't too 80s-tastic for normal wear which is another reason why I love it so much. It also has pockets which makes it extra perfect. Sure, the shoulder pads are definitely 80s, but it's not too much. Plus I modernized the styling a little bit by adding another print and swapping out the matching belt. It was a great birthday outfit and 100% me. dress: vintage 80s - savers | tights: kmart | heels: daisy fuentes | belt: thrifted | earrings: hand-me-downs from Mom | l...

It was in the 70's here the past couple days, so I've had to pick light outfits that also look like I belong in the month of December. It gets difficult sometimes. A good go-to for warm December weather is to put on pair of shorts with tights and then throw a cardigan on top. I hadn't worn my green lace tights for a while, so it was time to bring them out! shorts: levi's - thrifted | cardigan, tights, flower hair clip: forever 21 | top, scarf: thrifted | shoes: xhileration - target | earrings: great grandma collection Today is George's 11th birthday and I'm sad I don't get to see him. Mom took this picture of him with his birthday crown on though. I'm pretty sure his slumber had been disturbed, but that's easy when you sleep 20 hours per day. Happy birthday George! Happy Wednesday!

Well I've now completed 22 full years of being alive. Quite the accomplishment, isn't it? It's been a unique birthday, to say the least. The best part was definitely having my family (and Matt) here to eat dinner and cake. It's what we do for pretty much every birthday, but I like it. Last night was downtown party times. It was special. I'll leave it at that. I had a caramel apple martini before going out and it was delicious, but I think I'll be refraining from the alcohols for a little while. My parents came into town this afternoon and we ended up trying to eat at the old people time of 3:30. The place was closed for another hour, so we went next door to the Taco Bell and ate a classy appetizer of nachos. We then proceeded to wander around some new fresh market grocery store place that just opened.  After dinner at a tasty hibachi place, we came back to my place and almost fell asleep while watching Beyond Scared Straight and letting our dinn...

It's Jeanie's 19th birthday today which means I'm featuring her birthday outfit here! She's wearing her green-ish colored lace dress from Modcloth with her new boots from Forever 21. I think it was a fantastic birthday outfit choice! We're both pretty pumped about the delicious dinner we'll be eating tonight. When it's one of our birthdays around here we get to choose whichever restaurant we want so it's usually something particularly tasty. We'll be going to a local place in downtown Lawrenceville, Georgia. I think I'm rambling about dinner right now because I'm starving, so I'll stop. dress: modcloth.com | shoes: forever 21  We went outside to take these pictures and my lens fogged right up. It's that disgustingly humid outside. It's okay though because it's a birthday day and also because we don't really have to be outside today. Hooray for Jeanie's birthday!

Ah the days before I had a blog. These are from exactly a year ago, but it's almost as if these pictures are brand new because they haven't been shared here yet! dress: california concepts; thrifted jacket: ralph lauren; thrifted tights: l'eggs; mall? shoes: forever 21 belt: found on the ground headband: forever 21 I used this as my facebook profile picture for a while. I call this my church lady dress because of the epic 90's church lady nature of it. I like it best with a jacket of some sort. Maybe because of the sleeves? I'm not quite sure because they don't really look that bad to me and I've worn it without a jacket too. I'm going to have to wear this dress again sometime soon. Today is my dad's birthday. He's da bomb so I wish we could've celebrated his 50th on the actual day. Jeanie and I couldn't go home to visit because we have so much band to do until Saturday night. We're having an epic ...

Wooo! Birthday post #2 is here! I'm kind of sad that most pictures everyone took from that night turned out blurry or didn't turn out at all. Here's a few that did, though. Nutella-tini at dinner. Beer bottle birthday cake from Mom My going out outfit. Check out the sparkly heels. They're pretty much my favorite thing ever. Dancing time. An all 90's music bar. I'll definitely be going back there. That was my day in a nutshell.

It's my birthday! Wooooo! I can't believe I finally made it to 21. This is my daytime outfit. skirt: forever 21 top: forever 21 shoes: xhileration; target bow: h&m earrings: vintage 80's from Mom I felt it was completely appropriate to wear this tulle skirt to class. It's my birthday and I get to wear whatever I want and I don't care who thinks I'm too dressed up! I can't believe I didn't get a good picture of my earrings. They're the same ones I wore for my birthday last year. Perhaps I'll leave them in for going out. We'll see. I'm just waiting for friends and family to arrive in Athens so I can begin my festivities. A nap might be in order so I can stay out late! Happy Friday everyone!

My sister turned 18 today! (Technically yesterday according to the time, but this is my post for the 6th.) We had a nice, relaxing day which included dinner at an awesome new restaraunt called The Local Republic. Afterward Jeanie had a bunch of friends over and we had cake and cookies. While driving home from dinner we noticed there was a dinosaur friend planted in our front yard. A plethora of pictures followed that discovery. (check for more pictures with Jeanie's birthday dino after the break) Homemade mocha cake with pudding filling and whipped cream frosting. More?

If you look at the date on this post, it will say it's Jeanie's 18th birthday. However, this is not her official birthday time post! (I'm sure she'll accept Happy Birthday greetings here though!) This would be her outfit from August 5th. We did some last minute going-back-to-college shopping as we'll be leaving for The University of Georgia on Sunday. Both of us! She's 18! (According to the date in this post.) This pose is now known as the "thunder thor thrust". dress: urban outfitters shoes: target belt: thrifted sunglasses: 5 below While out shopping, we got hungry and decided we needed to stop for McDonalds Happy Meals. They were pretty tasty and we all got smurf toys. I'm also pretty pumped about my tiny George Foreman grill I got today. I'll be making lots of tasty things in it, I'm sure. Stay tuned for a Jeanie birthday post tomorrow. I'm sure there'll be pictures of tasty cakes and...