30 for 30 Picks

Black leggings, Straight leg jeans, yellow tank

Skinny jeans, black pants

Casual black dress, floral skirt, greyish pencil skirt

Purpleish sweater, pink tee, white tunic, cream sweater

Blazer, blue tank

Grey dress

Purple sweater, grey sweater, yellow sweater, red ruffle shirt

tall brown boots, black clogs, brown booties,
tall black boots, grey flats (please ignore the dust)

So that gives me 24 items...I still need six more.  I'm thinking I'm going to add a blue and white stripe button down, a sheer floral top, a teal skirt, a black sweater, a black dress and something else.

P.S. I'm sorry for the terrible pictures.  I am by no means a photographer.  Hopefully you can kind of tell what these clothes look like.

30 for 30

I'm on a budget. A strict budget. An essentials only budget (I count a weekly latte at Starbucks essential).  Anyways I've been reading this blog, Kendi Everyday and she does thing every season where she challenges people to pick 30 items from your closet (including shoes) and you have to use only those 30 items to create outfits for 30 days.  I've never done this but I'm assuming it helps you extend your clothing budget by pairing items you wouldn't normally wear together.  I'm very excited to do this.  My goal is to choose my 30 items this weekend and take pictures and post them.  Then starting February 1st I will post a picture of my outfit everyday.

Feel free to join in!

2011

Ok, so I know that it's almost February but I wanted to do a recap of 2010 (because it was such a great year) and resolutions for 2011.

2010:
- 3 weddings of some of TJ's best friends (and now dear friends of mine)
- Our first Valentine's day together
- Lots of dinner dates and movie nights in the Attic
- A new job for TJ and a move to Denver
- Drove from Ohio to Colorado together
- The beginning of a long-distance relationship: Lots of learning, tears and becoming a stronger couple
- Getting Engaged!
- Planning a wedding
- 2 Notre Dame Football games
- Spending Thanksgiving and Christmas together
- Learning how to be in a relationship when one person is a carnivore (TJ) and one is a vegan (me)
- Getting our first apartment together

Resolutions for 2011:
- Pray more frequently together
- Get baptized together
- Abandon my deeply-rooted career goals and be more open to something completely different
- Drink less Mountain Dew and more water (this one's for TJ)
- Write Thank You notes (and send in a timely manner)
- Learn to sew (a little; were on a budget!)
- Read more
- Grow herbs
- Make more memories