CAN A SWEATSHIRT BE STYLISH

I am finally back in Virginia and I am still on the worn out side. It is so much fun to visit with family but it is so nice to crawl into your own bed at night. When I go home to visit I sleep in the upstairs sunroom which is 3 walls of windows. I love looking out over the town below (they live on a mountain) and seeing all the lights as I go to sleep. I love waking up and watching the sunrise in the mornings. Joe and I were talking one morning that the skies looked like cotton candy. You have to realize where we live deep down in the mountains you do not see the sun until it has already risen.I bet my poor mother and father were glad to see all of us leave. Lol! I am sure they like visiting with everyone but their house gets trashed in the flurry of activity. There were 7 children under the age of 16 in the house and 5 of them under the age of 8. It was wild!!! There were tea parties (water everywhere) watercolors (more water everywhere) and American Girls dolls everywhere. Not to mention the 4 dogs and 2 cats that kept running through the house. I bet mom and dad are glad the Christmas only comes once a year. HahahaI know that Christmas is already over but I wore this outfit earlier last week and I am just now getting it on the blog. You will have to use your imagination and picture a different scarf with this outfit. If it hadn’t been Christmas I would have worn something like the ones below.

These are the same magnetic bling bracelets that I have worn almost the entire month of December. They are so easy to put on plus I love the sparkle they give off. The black and red one are specials and I don’t know if they will be available in the upcoming catalogs or if they will retire them. The black one is the Ezra and the red one is the Kylie. The plain crystal one that goes with anything is the Hugo.The two silver bangles are a couple of my favorites and I think it is because of the inscriptions. The Abela says “Blessed” and the Raelynn which says “I Choose Happy” are easy on as well. The By The Book bracelet can be found at the Christian Books store and there are several different choices. This is a pretty decent picture of the charms on the bracelet. You can see the J which stand for John, the number 3, and the typewriter key in the number 16.This suede two-tone purse has sure been carried a lot this month. Some of you ask how often I change my purse and the truth is it just depends on my mood. I will carry a solid black or solid brown purse because they match everything AND because I hate doing the whole change-over routine. Occasionally I will take a picture with a purse I “mean” to carry that day and then decide I don’t have time to switch them out. I just grab the one that is already done and head out the door. But, I do try to keep items in wristlets inside my purse so it does make the transfers easier.One day I wore this outfit, which I did not like, and Dee commented that she thought I had on a sweatshirt at first. She said that she thought I had made even a sweatshirt look stylish. Well, the light bulb went off when I read that and guess what I have one today. Yep, a sweatshirt! I thought that most of us wear sweatshirts around the house and I wanted to show how easy it was to dress it up. It does help that this sweatshirt is a solid color and has no writing on the front. This sweatshirt is several years old and it is one that I got from Old Navy. Mine is long and does not have a band around the bottom. One of the shirts below is over 500.00! Can you guess which one? Hahaha

I put on these white jeans and Joe looked at me and said, “Are you supposed to wear white this late in the year?” Can you believe he questioned me? Lol! I told him we could wear white ANY time of the year. He simply shrugged his shoulders and said, “whatever.” I like the white with the black. I think this helped to dress the outfit up. It would have been fine with regular jeans, but the white made it look dressier. What do you think?

I hope to have the blog back to normal in the next day or two. I am busy working on a “resolutions” post. Whew! Those just make me want to throw my hands in the air. Do you gurls make resolutions? Do you stick with the resolutions? We will talk more on this on Saturday, so be thinking about it.

BTW, just be thankful that I went with Dee’s suggestion of the sweatshirt and not Mary’s comment about a bathrobe and curlers. Lol! You better be careful what you comment to me. Hahaha!

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