STRIPES FOR SPRING

Today’s outfit inspiration is Stripes for Spring.

I just got a message from some of the people who are in charge of planning the class reunion from my high school. I thought that they had sent it to the wrong person when I opened it up and it said something about a 40th reunion. That couldn’t have been meant for me since I only graduated like 10 years ago. Lol! Truly, that is how I feel. Do you gurls know what I mean? I don’t even feel like I am 40 much less that I have been out of high school for 40 years!
Here is another terrible thing about that message. It was saying that everyone needed to update their addresses so they could send out invitations. I saw several people had responded with their new addresses but guess what? I didn’t recognize many of the names of the people commenting. I can’t remember who I went to school with!!! I bet that most of you were like me and had a small amount of friends that you ran around with and half of them were in different graduating classes. There were about 15 people that I was close to in my class and maybe around 30 more that I was friends with. I would guess that I knew most of the others at that time but I can’t remember anything about them now. How can that be? How can you be so close to people and then be total strangers years later? I haven’t lived in Livingston for over 30 years so I never “run into” anyone and if it wasn’t for Facebook, I wouldn’t know what anyone looks like now. I am undecided if I will make the trip to go to the reunion. Have any of you had this happen to you and what did you do?

Do you know what deja vu means? According to Wikipedia, it is the feeling that the situation currently being experienced has already been experienced in the past. In this case, it would be the very recent past. Do you recognize this shirt? I am seriously having a crush on light blue this year. Blue is already the largest section in my closet and I have noticed that I am buying a lot of light blue this year. My sweater I had on yesterday was light blue also. The ruched sleeve top is by Halogen. I received the black top with silver metallic stripes in my Trunk Club shipment and then I exchanged it for this light blue one. I just want you to go back and forth from this post to the one here and see how color plays such a role in the way that we look.I am back in my pearls again. Today’s look is more of a “statement” look than any I have worn this week. This is BIG and BOLD and is meant to draw attention. The Natalie necklace looks heavier than it really is. The silver link chain must be hollow. Don’t get me wrong, this is heavy, but it is not near as heavy as you would imagine it to be. This necklace has matching earrings but I chose to wear the Mera earrings instead. They are a 1″ stud that is covered with seed pearls. You can barely see the matching bracelet to the Natalie necklace stick out from under these adorable sleeves. This bracelet is adjustable up to 11″. I haven’t mentioned my Kate Spade purse in a long time and that is because I haven’t been carrying it much this winter. I really love the deep dark blue color of this bag and I like that it has a lot of different sections. This was the very first Kate Spade purse that I ever bought and it was because I won a Nordstrom gift certificate from a Rodan + Fields challenge that a friend of mine was doing. I couldn’t decide whether to buy something practical or splurge and get something that I thought was outrageous. I settled on the outrageous thinking that I wouldn’t carry the purse very often because of the color. WRONG!!! I carried this so much at the end of summer and early fall that I am surprised it is not worn out. Lesson learned…….so for the outrageous every now and again.

Scroll quickly past this shot. I am linking to my white pumps. I am beyond excited to finally get my hand on a pair since I tried all last year and could not find them. The white pump is everywhere when you see pictures of the movie stars and it is going to be a staple for the spring and summer months coming up. Mine are from Nine West and I ordered my normal size. They were snug but after I wore them for a little while they stretched out to be the perfect fit. I am afraid if I had ordered a larger size that they might have ended up being too large. 

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