Spring into Fall

I know that everyone sees this alot, but I just wanted to point out how easy it is to gets lots of wear out of a great spring/summer dress year round.  See below for what I am wearing and my tips for how to come up with your own fun combo!

 

(please excuse my messy home office in the background!)

 

Starting with this basic dress from Target (black background, green and blue dot print)

Adding a sweater, tights and boots

 

Now for the pictures NOT taken with an iPhone ;)

 

Added a scarf and accessories......so easy to go from one season to the next without buying additional clothes. I love doing this!

 

 

What I am wearing:

Dress: Mossimo via Target here (last season) similar here

Sweater: I.N.C. via Macy's (several seasons ago) similar here

Scarf: Handmade from Etsy here

Boots: Madden Girl (several seasons ago)

Bag: Steve Madden via TJ Maxx (this season) similar here

 Stella & Dot Renegade necklace and F21 mini bead chain necklace (current)

 Gorjana "Brinkley" bracelet via Rue La La

 Stella & Dot Pippa Stone earrings

 

 

The dress I am wearing I wore a ton in the summer months - super easy to wear, comfortable, cute, forgiving and cool in the hot temps. I have paired it with and without a wide belt. Worn it with sandals and with pumps. Out for a day of running errands, to dinner and worn it to the office. 

Now that the temps are cooler I have topped it with a sweater, pulled on some tights and boots and even added a scarf. I still love it just as much in the fall and cooler months as I did in the warmer months and it is so easy to do!

I'll bet you have several dresses or skirts in your closet that you could carry over from season to season. 

Some rules of thumb if you are going to try this out:

• Make sure that the fabric is heavy enough (or looks heavy enough) to cross over into cooler temps. The dress I am wearing is actually a very light material, but it is lined with a heavier weight material that makes it a perfect dress to "cross-over".
• Prints are fine. Florals are even fine in the cooler months as long as they aren't to "tropical". It is hard to make a hawiian flower look right with a sweater and boots in the winter.
• Brights and pastels are certainly in right now even for the fall and winter months so don't shy away from those completely.
• Maxi dress and skirts work great in the cooler months, but do NOT wear pumps with them!  Wear flats, sandals or flat boots. A small wedge may work if you are very short, but be cautious.
• Pair your floral skirt/dress with an edgy leather jacket and boots or put a boxy oversized sweater over a maxi dress and flats. A fitted sweater looks great with a full skirted dress, too! Have fun and play around with different combos. You might be surprised what you come up with!

 

 

I wanted to get a pic of the inside of this bag becuase I just love the mini chevron print in there!

Well that is all I have for now. I hope you enjoyed this post!

XO

Jessy

30% off Sweaters at F21

Now thru November 21, 2012 you can get 30% off a huge selection of Forever 21's most popular sweaters!  A couple of my favs are currently on sale, too!

(Check them out here and here)

And, as always, FREE SHIPPING on orders of $50 or more.

Don't miss this sale - winter is just around the corner!

Follow this Link for Forever 21 sweater sale and enjoy your new sweaters, ladies :)

XO

Jessy

Stone Mountain, Georgia - family time!

Okay so I am not sure how fashionable one can be expected to be when on vacation with 4 children and having ridden in a car ALL day before arriving at Stone Mountain, GA, but this is what I came up with:

Yeah, I know.......not exciting, but I thought I would post anyway. My hair is dried out (2 days of traveling in the car will do that :(, my make-up is almost non existent, etc., but that is just the way it goes. What I do love about this outfit is the sweater, actually. It may not be super exciting in these pics, but I was complimented on it while checking out at a shop in Stone Mountain park (girl said, "I love your sweater. You are a hot mommy" - she was quite a bit younger than me -LOL!;)  Seriously, who doesn't love to get a compliment like that and how much better is it when you are feeling less than pretty?? 

Okay, back to the sweater; it is super comfy and though I wore it with skinnies it would go just as well with leggings. The length is perfect, loved the weight and in person the color is very pretty (oatmeal w/ coral specks in it). 

Sweater: Forever 21(sold out, but they have similar ones and there is a 30% promotion until 11/21/12!)

Skinny Jeans: a.n.a via JC Penney

Boots: "Jessii" - old (Madden Girl)

Vest: Three Hearts via Marshall's

On top of Stone Mountain.....you could see the downtown Atlanta skyline from here. It was beautiful (and slightly scary!)

Me and my precious baby girl getting some much needed time to stretch our legs in the "Play barn" at Stone Mountain. She loved to be out of her car seat for a few hours!

I did want to throw in a few photos from Stone Mountain.....it really was a very cool place.  We had never been as a family (although both my husband and I have been told that we went as very young children). It was definitely a great place for a young family and we all enjoyed it - even our 8 month old.

Yes, we had to take that to get to the top.....I was not excited about this part.

I took this from the Sky Lift ride....it was incredible!

My precious family! See the city in the distance? So cool!

Okay, back to planning more fun things to do on our trip!  We will be arriving at Disney in Orlando in a few hours :)

XO

Jessy

Mommy Style

So this morning was very busy!  All 3 boys were off school today and we had parent teacher conferences followed by our school's annual "skating party" at the local Rollerina.

As I mentioned in a previous post, I am the Yearbook "person" so I have to attend events and take pictures to make sure I will have photos to put in the book! I actually really enjoy taking pictures and I usually have a partner in crime (my co-chair), but she was out of town today so I was on my own for this event. My husband did come with me so that made it a bit easier to wrangle 4 children (one of them 8 months old!) and all the activities.   To accomplish all of this I pulled together a very casual and comfortable outfit complete with my favorite ballet flats to navigate the wood skating floor so I could help my 6 year old on skates AND manage to get a few pictures of the other students as they skated by!

Cardigan(old): Target

Polka Dot Blouse: Forever 21

Skinny Jeans: a.n.a. (find here)

Flats: Coach (find here and here)

Scarf: hand made from Etsy store

Watch: Michael Kors (find here) & Bracelet (on left arm): super cheap turq bangle - can't remember where I got it!

Tiffany & Co. bracelet on right arm

Stella & Dot ring on right hand

Earrings: (can't even see them in pic so see above!) Stella & Dot (here)

Handbag: Michael Kors - found at TJ Maxx for almost half the price they are selling for on MK's website! It was the only one in that style and lonely so I had to take it home (plus I had been craving it for a while! Imagine how excited I was to see it hanging there before my eyes one glorious day this past week!! ;)

Find it here

Momma on the go! :) 
I am also toting my Oi Oi Diaper bag (find here) - LOVE! And check out this  Quinny stroller (the only full size stroller that will fit my daughter's car seat by Maxi Cosi and folds up small enough to fit behind the third row seat when it is in the fully upright position!) Super easy to push and operate - worth the investment! We bought this one at a discount at Buy Buy Baby as they had accidentally "assembled too many of them" and didn't have room to keep them all on the floor. It was my lucky day!  Saved us $150!!! :)

Okay, now typically I wouldn't have both bags at the same time. But for the sake of getting a shot of them both and the size comparison, I wanted you to see them together. The MK bag is big, bug fairly light weight compared to the diaper bag and MUCH more organized on it's interior. I HATE digging in my purse and this bag has a pocket and compartment for everything. In love..... 
No worries - I will NOT be using the MK for a diaper tote ;)

Thanks for visiting today!

XO

Jessy