Day Two (Monday)

dress - old navy

cardigan - old navy

tights - who knows! ;)

boots - shoe carnival

belt - target

necklace - belonged to my great grandmother

I LOVED this outfit. I have been reading a lot of fashion blogs for a few months now and I always see people wearing different prints together. Now first off I am not one who usually wears print. A few of my dresses have prints but most of the rest of my clothes are one plain solid color. So to put two different prints together was a little scary but I love how it turned out! My biggest issue with this outfit is that the cardigan is pink. Now don't get me wrong, pink is a nice color, but I don't like it. I have that cardigan and a pink and cream lace scarf that are the only things I own in that color. But I kinda like the pink and grey together like this :)

Day One (Sunday)

shirt - old navy

sweater - old navy

pants - new york learner

boots - shoe carnival 

button necklace - made by me

yellow watch - purchased in utah

Okay, so not the best picture but you get the idea :)

Day one was fairly easy to pick out. I was going to a friends to hang out and do homework and just wanted to be warm and comfortable.

30 for 30 Items

So this is what I have chosen for my 30 items: 


5 Short Sleeved Shirts:

(L to R) Target, Old Navy, Old Navy, Deilas, Old Navy


2 Long Sleeved Shirts:

(L to R) Old Navy, Kohals?


3 Sweaters:

(L to R) Old Navy, New York Learner, Old Navy


4 Cardigans and Jackets:

(L to R) Sams Club, Old Navy, Old Navy, Found Online (gift)

4 Dresses:

(L to R) Old Navy, Forever 21, Target, Delias

3 Skirts:

(L to R) Old Navy, Forever 21, Target

3 Pants:

(L to R) New York Learner, Old Navy, Old Navy

5 Shoes:

(L to R) Shoe Carnival?, Shoe Carnival, Shoe Carnival, Found Online (gift), Found Online

Now if you count this only adds up to 29. I might throw something else in as the month goes on :)

Enjoy!

Snowpocalypse!

I have bad news. My 30 for 30 will not be starting today. I have been snowed in to my friends house. I was planning on finishing picking my items and editing all the pictures to show you guys last night in a post but then after I figured out school was canceled today (at 8pm last night) so I decided to stay at my friends house.

This is my plan:

When school starts again (maybe tomorrow...maybe Thursday) I will start my 30 for 30. So I will just be extending mine a few days past everyone else.

Well here is a picture my friend Matt posted on his facebook of what it looks like outside:

I'm gonna go play more Super Nintendo with my friends and enjoy the rest of the day. Good luck with your first outfit if you are doing the 30 for 30!!

Enjoy!

Costume Design Class

Okay, so I'm really excited about this 30 for 30 thing even more than before. This is because my costume design class has now taken the 30 for 30 challenge as an assignment and we are all going to be doing it together! There are 9 students (including myself) and then the teacher and last week when I told my teacher about it she seemed interested. Today she asked me to share with the class what it was and now it's a class project!! :)

I think it will be really interesting to see how some of them handle not being able to go shopping. Also, some of them don't seem to have many clothes (at least not enough to come up with 30 items that will work together well) but I told them to just do the best they could and that was part of the challenge. 

At the end of the 30 days we are going to have to write a reflection about the experience. 

Yay! This will be so fun to have so many people around me doing this too!

Enjoy!

Some of my art work

I was in a 2 dimensional design class for this past semester and had some of my art work hung at the student showcase at the end of the semester. 

Thought I would share some pictures of my work!

I did this one of my great grandmother, Mable Holmes. The picture on the left is a cyanotype of a picture of her from when she was in her 20s along with three pieces of her jewelry that I now have. The picture on the left was probably from the 1990s. Not exactly sure how old she was there but she lived until her mid 90s. I was lucky enough to get to live with her for a few years and get to know her. She was a sweet lady and I miss her.

This picture is of a staircase (turn your head to the left) I was standing at the top on the corner and took the picture when the sun was at an angle to cast shadows to the left of some of the corners. There is concret slabs on the far left (if your head is still turned they are on the top ;) We had to pick four different  color schemes and repeat the picture. I was very pleased with it.

I sent it to my sister for a Christmas present!

Today was my first Monday at school. I worked most of the day and had my 3 dimensional design class then worked for 30 more minutes. I like my job because it is super easy and so far my classes are going great! Excited for the rest of the week :)

Enjoy!

My Beautiful Sister

I just want to write a quick post about my sister.

She is about four years older than me and when we were younger we never got along. 

After she moved to Utah for school we started talking a bit more and now we talk all the time.

She is very smart. I go to her with just about anything and she is always willing to help and talk me through things.

I don't know what I would do without her advice and guidance. 

I'm very proud of her for being so dedicated to working out and eating the right foods to lose weight and gain confidence.

She is an amazing mother and wife and has a beautiful family that she loves very much.

I'm proud of you, Monique. 

Love you.