Dressed Up Striped Maxi

Outfit details: 

Maxi: Kohl's (similar, similar)

Cardigan: Charlotte Russe (similar, similar)

Belt: (similar)

Flats: Target (similar, similar)

Necklace: Kohl's (similar, similar)

Bracelet: Hobby Lobby (similar

Happy Monday! I hope that your weekend was great! Before we get started today, would you please go comment on my post from Saturday? I had some questions that I would like you to answer! Thanks so much! I love hearing from y'all! 

Anyway, we have had some warmer weather lately so I have not had to wear as many layers! I am so excited that Spring is coming! At least for me, (apologies to those who still have snow!).

This outfit came about when I was planning my outfit for Sunday morning church and realized that I had not worn/styled this dress for Winter like I had hoped to at the beginning of Fall. I had also wanted to wear this jewelry because I had not worn it in a while. Thus became the Dressed Up Striped Maxi outfit.

I love it because it is so comfy, but still looks put together. You guys don't know me if you don't know that my favorite outfits are those that are stylish and comfortable!

This maxi is interesting enough that it doesn't need lots more colors, or patterns to make it look attractive and beautiful. Knowing that, I kept the colors of the accessories and completer pieces neutral which allows the dress to shine. And, it also lets the sparkly jewelry do their thang. :)

On another note, do not forget to hop on over here on Thursday for the next My Favorite.... blank installment! It is going to be about my favorite completer pieces! You'll want to check it out!

Commenting System

Hi! Just popping in really quickly to ask you guys a question. I have been contemplating changing my comment system. I have the standard Blogger commenting system, but have been thinking about switching to Disqus. Which commenting system do you like best from a blogger perspective and a reader perspective?

I haven't had any problems with the Blogger commenting system (that I know of), but I have used Disqus on other blogs and really liked it. Would you stop reading if I changed the commenting system?

Thanks! I really appreciate your feedback!

High Five for Friday

Happy Friday, everyone! How has your week been? I hope that it has been filled with blessings! Check out the five high points of my week:

1. I cannot believe it is already Friday! This week has flown by! It seems like I was just writing last week's H54F post!

2. We have had the best weather ever this week! On Wednesday it was in the high seventies! Crazy, right? All I know is that I don't care if it's crazy, I just want Spring weather!

3. Alright. I'm just going to say it. I have been struggling. Struggling with faith. I have been finding it so hard to trust. But, having said all of that, I am thankful that God is still working on me, and I am getting better! I wrote a post this week about something that really encouraged me, and I encourage you to read it. You can find it here.

4. On a happier note, I finally got a MUCH needed haircut. It had been since November since I had last gotten one. I forgot to tell my stylist not to cut too much off the bottom, and the picture that I showed her was shorter than what I wanted, so let's just say that my hair is as short as it has ever been before! Oops! I'm not really worried about it though because my hair grows fast, and it actually is a pretty cute style!

5. I don't have much planned for the weekend, but I'm hoping to get some fun stuff done like sewing, blogging, painting my nails, etc. Of course, I do have cleaning to do, but that shouldn't take too long.

Linking up at Bright on a Budget, Coffee With Caitlin, Cup of Tea, Della Devoted

Favorite.... Jewelry

one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen

For today's Favorite.... blank, I decided to compile some of my favorite different types of jewelry. My favorite types are statement and simple. You can find a variety of different kinds (meaning necklaces, bracelets, rings, earrings, etc.) of statement and simple jewelry.

Simple:

As you can probably tell from the picture, I love gold jewelry! I am so drawn to simple jewelry, but even more drawn to GOLD simple jewelry. I don't know what it is, but there is just something about delicate simple jewelry. 

I love to wear simple jewelry because it adds just a little touch of interest or sparkle without taking over the whole outfit. Delicate jewelry allows you to wear your statement clothes pieces.

Statement:

Statement jewelry is probably my favorite out of these two types. I own more statement jewelry than I do simple. I love it because it adds so much interest to an outfit. Statement jewelry usually is very colorful, and that is what makes it so special. Because it has lots of colors and is pretty bold, you can wear more of your simple, classic clothes with them.

I would tell you which piece of simple and which piece of statement that is my favorite, but I LOVE them all! I will definitely have to buy some of these for Spring!

What is your favorite type of jewelry? Which piece of jewelry is your favorite?

Take the Leap

Outfit details:

Top: Target (similar, similar)

Sweater: (similar, similar)

Button Down: Target (similar, similar)

Jeans: Old Navy (exact, similar)

Purse: Target (similar, similar)

Boots: (similar, similar)

When I first thought up this outfit (cause, ya know, I think of outfits when I'm bored), I didn't actually wear it for another month or two later. I didn't wear it because I was so unsure of how it would look. I think that it took me so long to actually wear it because I was so focused on what it might look like that I never tried it to see what it would look like.

I ended up taking a leap of faith partly because God had recently been telling me to take the leap in other areas, and because it was frigidly cold and I was desperate.

As you can see, it turned out great. I ended up wearing a really cute, comfortable, and warm outfit. Plus, I got a compliment on it! Bonus points there! :)

I am encouraging YOU to take the leap. Whether that is an outfit that you aren't sure about, or whether you need to trust somebody/something more. Because you never know if you don't try, right?

Here is something that has been very encouraging lately and has helped me to get over myself and take more leaps of faith:

 This is why the fulfillment of God’s promise depends entirely on trusting God and his way, and then simply embracing him and what he does. God’s promise arrives as pure gift. That’s the only way everyone can be sure to get in on it, those who keep the religious traditions and those who have never heard of them. For Abraham is father of us all. He is not our racial father—that’s reading the story backward. He is our faith father.

We call Abraham “father” not because he got God’s attention by living like a saint, but because God made something out of Abraham when he was a nobody. Isn’t that what we’ve always read in Scripture, God saying to Abraham, “I set you up as father of many peoples”? Abraham was first named “father” and then became a father because he dared to trust God to do what only God could do: raise the dead to life, with a word make something out of nothing. When everything was hopeless, Abraham believed anyway, deciding to live not on the basis of what he saw he couldn’t do but on what God said he would do. And so he was made father of a multitude of peoples. God himself said to him, “You’re going to have a big family, Abraham!”

 Abraham didn’t focus on his own impotence and say, “It’s hopeless. This hundred-year-old body could never father a child.” Nor did he survey Sarah’s decades of infertility and give up. He didn’t tiptoe around God’s promise asking cautiously skeptical questions. He plunged into the promise and came up strong, ready for God, sure that God would make good on what he had said. That’s why it is said, “Abraham was declared fit before God by trusting God to set him right.” But it’s not just Abraham; it’s also us! The same thing gets said about us when we embrace and believe the One who brought Jesus to life when the conditions were equally hopeless. The sacrificed Jesus made us fit for God, set us right with God.

Romans 4:16-25 The Message

Would you wear an outfit that you were unsure about?

Liebster Award

I was nominated by Ashley over at Peaceful Simple Life for a Liebster Award. I had actually never heard of it before, but was excited to participate. A Liebster Award is an "award" given to bloggers from other bloggers. It is a way to get to know other bloggers and to help readers discover other blogs.

The rules are...

-You must answer the ten questions asked of you by the blogger who nominated you. 

-You must nominate eight more bloggers and ask ten new questions of them. (it is best to pick bloggers who are new, or who don't have many followers). This is to keep the chain going.

Here are my answers:

1. What is your blog about? (put a link to a great post that you have made)

My blog is mainly about fashion. I have a great many hobbies, so it is difficult for me to keep my blog centralized around one thing. It is also a lifestyle, beauty, and DIY blog. I am still working on more beauty and DIY posts because I have little to no posts on those topics. I say this because my blog was originally meant to be a fashion, lifestyle, beauty, and DIY blog. In the future I may expand to encompass more beauty and DIY posts, or may transform it to only fashion and lifestyle. We shall see. :) And this is probably my favorite post: My Favorite.... Purses. It is so because purses are probably my most favorite accessories!

2. What craft or recipe do you excel in making?

I would say that I excel in making pouches. I enjoy sewing, and although I am not very experienced, I have tried a few projects. I have made some fun cell phone pouches with a cute button clasp. I have also made a pleated make-up pouch for the toiletries in my purse. You may see a post of one of these soon, so keep an eye out!

3. What is your favorite fashion accessory?

Like I said above in number one, I LOVE purses, but I also LOVE shoes and jewelry. I accessorize with all three pretty regularly, so I don't know which one I would pick. Well, I guess it is a three-way tie then!

4. What is your favorite TV show?

Just like number three, I don't have only one. There are just too many good shows out there for me to just pick one, so I will pick two. My two favorite shows are 19 Kids and Counting and Girl Meets World. And If I could pick a TV show that no longer airs, I would pick What Not To Wear.

5. What is one place in the world that you would love to travel to?

Wow! This one will be difficult too because I love to travel and long to see many places. I do have a contender, though. I would love to visit Paris, France. I just love every thing French!

6. What person has had a major influence on your life? Why?

The person that has had the biggest influence on my life- this is going to sound cliche, but I don't care because it's true- would be my mom. The reason  why is because she is such an amazing woman of God who gave up her life for all of her children. She is a stay at home mom and has homeschooled all of us! She is so remarkable and is a great example of the Proverbs 31 woman!

7. What movie do you think everyone should watch?

I think that everyone should watch Mom's Night Out because, even though it was made with moms in mind, it has a great message for all. In this post I expounded more on it's message. If you haven't already, you really should watch it!

8. If you had the chance to travel to space, would you do it?

This question is a bit of a toughie. I guess I would say no. I would say no because even though it would be so awe-inspiring, I don't know that I could handle it. I don't think of myself as weak, but I am most definitely not cut out for space travel! :)

9. Do you have any pets? Tell us about them if you do!

I do have a pet! I have a cute little Yorkshire Terrier named Riley. He is almost five years old and as ornery as ever. He is extremely rambunctious! Because of his dashing good looks, he is very spoiled! Sometimes you just can't so no to a face as cute as his! You can see his spoiled little self in a post here. PS: he needed a bath that day so beware of his messy fur!

10. Describe yourself using only one word.

Creative. 

Thanks Ashley for nominating me! I had so much fun!

I am nominating...

-Allie at Spreading My Joy

-Cynthia at Style Never Stops

-Tif at Bright on a Budget

-Caitlin at Coffee with Caitlin

-Katie at Cup of Tea

-Della at Della Devoted

-Kate at Classy Living

-Aimee at Aimlessly Elegant

My questions for amazing people that I nominated are...

1. What is your favorite color?

2. What is your favorite thing to wear?
3. Do you like to travel? If so, where is the best place that you have been to?
4. What is your favorite food?
5. Are you crafty? If so, what do you craft best? If not, what do you do instead?
6. What is the best beauty product you have ever used and why?
7. What is your favorite pattern?
8. Do you use social media? If so, which is your favorite?
9. Do you like music? If so, do you play anything (voice counts!), and what is your favorite genre?
10. What is your favorite flower?

Have fun! Thanks!

Monthly Round-Up: February 2015

Hi! Welcome to the Monthly Round-Up post for February! Every month I round-up all of the posts that had the most comments, page views, and shares.

1. Most Page Views
The post that had the most page views for the month of February was Valentine's Week Day 1: Classic Pink + 14 Days of Love- Day 2. It had 51 page views in just the month of February!

2. Most Comments
The post that had the most comments was the High Five for Friday! on February 27. It got four comments. Thanks for all who commented! I enjoy hearing from all of you!

3. Most Shares
Since my blog is fairly new, I did not have any shares this month. But, you can help change that so that next month I will have some shares.

 If you click on the title of a post that you want to share, and then click on one of the sharing options on the left side, you can share one of my posts. You will have to log-in the first time that you share something, but next time you won't!

Also, on each image in the upper left corner is a Pin It Button. If you roll your mouse over the image, it will appear.

Please share and comment so that next time I can have a more impressive monthly round-up for February. :)

Thanks to all of my readers! :)