April 7, 2013: Desert Rose!

The ideal outfit for taking a trek across the Painted Desert! I picked up this skirt on the last day of my internship during a massive clothes binge in the stores downstairs; love how it fuses the neon and ombré trends while still being low-key. Of course I was worrying about what I would actually pair it with, so grabbed this cami to accompany it. PayHalf has liberal amounts of epic $5 patterned camis, just sayin'.

Mama picked these boots up for me the week before my birthday when we were on a mall run together, and just couldn't contain herself to wait any longer than the time it took for her to walk back to me to give them to me. How fantastic are they! I looked up the price a couple of days ago and wigged out that she tossed down so much, but I'll be getting just as much use out of them as my two other trusty pairs, so well-spent!

I was puttering around the web on StumbleUpon one day when I found the most huggable dandelion poofy necklace ever. When it landed a bit outside of my bracket of what I'm willing to shell out for jewelry (not very high at all, as you're aware), I decided to whip up my own like a DIY boss. It was such a headache finding a baby bottle with a cork, but I ended up finding a trio of little glitters at Michaels, so three times the necklaces! Yay!

The inspiration...

...And my creation!

The hair thingy came from a little store on the Ocean City, NJ boardwalk I picked up over the summer. It bamboozled me as to how to actually insert it, since obviously a full ponytail would make it explode, so I went with the half-pony.

 

Outfit Pieces:
Cami - PayHalf, $5
Cardigan - PayHalf, $12
Skirt - PayHalf, $14
Boots - Nordstrom, $100
Necklace - Custom!
Earrings - Burlington Coat Factory, $1
Hair Dec - Ocean City, NJ, $8


Mazel tov to the end of my first week in the blogosphere!