I wore a sweater from Hollister, a tank from The Limited, Victoria’s Secret Most Loved Yoga Pants, and my Pink and Pepper riding boots. Not Pictured Alex & Ani October Birthstone Bracelet. I did say I’d do an outfit where I made these pants acceptable for public. This is one of them. The only issue was my sweater kept riding up and that was irritating because even though it was long enough, it didn’t look long enough.

On My Face: Nars Sheer Glow in Siberia, Nars blush in Deep Throat, Nars Radiant Creamy Concealer in Vanilla, Benefit Watts up, Benefit They’re Real Mascara, Various Lancome Shadows. Hair pulled back in a very messy bun using an Emi-Jay hair tie.

Howl was a bit apprehensive about a carnival in the fall. He’s in good company though.

Howl wore his Worthy Dog Harness. I think he was just happy to be out and about.

A big reason why I like going to this festival is because it reminds of one of my favorite Ray Bradbury books Something Wicked This Way Comes. I know book reviews usually go up on Wednesdays, I really do recommend either this book or the movie for fall. It’s about a carnival that comes to Green Town in mid-October called Cooger & Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Show. Mr. Dark being the true owner of the carnival is also the Carnival’s illustrated man bearing a tattoo for each person bound to the Carnival. The Novel focuses on 14 year old boys (12 in the movie) Will Halloway and Jim Nightshade and Will’s Father Charles. The boys are excited for the Carnival that comes so late in the year but Charles Halloway is apprehensive about what it could mean.

I adore this book, and have for years. As I mentioned before it’s a bit hard for me to be unbiased when it comes to Ray Bradbury’s writing because I’ve loved his books since I was a child, and The Halloween Tree is one of the very first books I remember reading. It’s also the first movie I remember watching. I do recommend it though. Ray Bradbury is a famous Author for a very good reason and if you’ve never read his work before then this is a good place to start.

He’s fine, it’s just a from when his vet took his blood on Thursday. Because they typically like to draw blood from the jugular,  and can’t put a pressure bandage around his neck it cause some swelling and bruising since he was still weak from everything else that has happened to him. It looks more terrifying than it really is, because Howl is behaving as if absolutely nothing is wrong. Which is wonderful.

This is a feature that I love doing every week, here. It’s always one of my favorite posts to write, and I’m always sorry to miss it. But Howl comes first. I could just take a photo of what I’m wearing right now, but there is nothing stylish about my husbands H&M t-shirt, Gilly Hicks sweatpants and Under Armour socks. I’m still absolutely shattered after yesterday. All I want to do is lay down next to Howl and sleep.

However Howl did get groomed before all this happened and he is looking quite dapper if I do say so myself, so I’ll leave you with some pictures of him.

I’m wearing a Utility Jacket from H&M, Hollister Sweater, Gray Tank from H&M, Gap Legging Jeans, and Pink and Pepper Boots.

Even though it’s from Hollister and I’m not actually a fan of the Abercrombie company and it’s policies, I actually really love this sweater, and would totally buy more sweaters from them. This one is really soft and comfortable and washes well, even though it says dry clean only.
The jacket I bought from H&M last spring, and it’s absolutely awesome. I last wore it here. I adore this jacket, it’s comfortable and it’s perfect to layer with a sweater on extra chilly days.

These boots from Pink and Pepper I bought last year and I adore them. Despite the one inch heel they are incredibly comfortable and are my absolute favorite riding boots I’ve ever owned.

There’s no good close up of it this week, but I’m wearing the Pen Necklace Miss Cannady bought me last year for my birthday. I am obsessed. It’s probably my most worn necklace.

I am completely in love with my makeup from these photos too. I’m wearing Lancome’s Tient Visionaire foundation and concealer, Nars Deep Throat Blush, Lancome Eyeshadows, YSL Baby Doll Mascara, Lancome Rouge In Love Lipstick in Madam Tulip, and Makeup Forever HD Setting Powder.

Of course here’s Howl’s close up. If you’re wondering why his front leg has been shaved, that was from his time in the hospital. He is doing so so so much better, but he’s still on medication and constant surveillance.

How did your Friday the 13th go?

This outfit was really fun for me. I was trying to walk the line between summer and fall. It was a bit chilly yesterday, because of recent storms, so I wanted to be comfortable but still bright and colorful.

I wore a stripey Top from Loft, Jeans that I don’t know where I got and I don’t know where my shoes are from either, but I they totally don’t get worn enough.

See aren’t they adorable? They’re wedges with gold embroidery and sequines on them. Plus they lace up. Normally you’re meant to cross the lace in the front to back but I turned it around and wrapped them to shorten it so I wouldn’t be walking on the bow.

I also really love this pen necklace and have been wearing it to death lately. My favorite thing about it is that it actually works.

This was a Gift from Miss Cannady, and frankly she always gives the best gifts, because seriously sometimes it’s like we’re the same person with some extra added in to make us different.

Okay so this is a better picture of my hair than my makeup, but seriously my makeup was just the usual: Lancome Tient Vissionaire, Nars concealer, Nars Blush, Benefit Badgal Lash, Benefit Sunbeam and Rosebud Salve on my lips. My bangs were being weird yesterday so I twisted them back in that style I was obsessed with when I was growing them out. I kinda still love it.

And OMG I knit Howl a sweater, how cute is he in it? He didn’t wear it long, because it’s still a bit to warm for it, but still I made that. It’s a bit short on him but that’s cool I have extra yarn I can lengthen it some. I’ve already started him another one in red. It seriously knit up so quick.

So cute.

Okay so those photos are not from today. They’re from yesterday. However they’re going up late because I had something I really wanted to do today, that I actually thought was next week. Thank goodness for Twitter.  Today was Sarahbelle93′s Rush Into Lily Event at the Kenwood Towne Center. So when I saw her tweet about it, I kinda just rushed out of the house, since I had the wrong day.

Here we are at her meetup:

She was so sweet, and super easy to talk to. I’m so glad I met her. Then after, I as I was shopping around I noticed Nordstrom had Emi-Jay hairties in some super cute patterns and since I was buying them for myself I picked her up some too, and then super awkwardly went back to the meetup to give them to her. I did some other shopping, so there will be a haul up from that very soon.

First do you like the way I’ve changed my titles? Making the Or a subtitle rather than part of the main title. Do you like it or should I go back to the way I was doing it before?

Secondly this outfit is what I wore to my Sister-In-Law/Bestie/Sister/One third of the best group of friends that ever existed T’s house when she and her man C grilled out and had some super dangerous fireworks. Seriously, the phrase “At least no one got burned this year” was uttered several times. I’m teasing, it was a beautiful show and I’m looking forward to next year.

I wore:

Boyfriend Button down from Madewell tied in a knot at the last button, GAP Skimmer Jeans in yellow Polka Dot and Blue Leather Ballet Flats also from GAP.

My Hair is tossed up in the laziest messy bun I’ve ever done with my bangs pinned back. I was having a very rare bad hair day.
On My Face: Chanel Vitalumiere Aqua, Nars Concealer, Nars Deep Throat, Benefit Girl Meets Pearl, Chanel Mascara Sample, YSL Volupte Sheer Candy in #4 Succulent Pomegranate.

Close up of the accessories; H&M Necklace worn as a bracelet, ColourMe.com necklace with the chain shortened using a safety pin and a close up of my shoes, which I absolutely adore.

I was actually really surprised by this outfit, it’s much more colorful than I would normally wear. Usually I’d just do one statement piece in an outfit and that would be it, but I recently saw this post by Hanna Lei who is a blogger I’m absolutely obsessed with right now, and was inspired by her pairing of printed colored jeans with a graphic tee. Obviously the two outfits are very different, but that just shows you can take inspiration from anywhere.

It was really comfortable to wear and I felt great in it. It helped that this shirt is one of my husbands favorite shirts on me. He likes it enough that he remembers where we bought it, and if I say I don’t know what to wear his answer is immediately wear that Madewell shirt. He’s also the one that picked it out. I don’t know if he just randomly spotted it, or if was bored and flipping through the racks, but I’m really happy he found it, because it was on sale, during one of their extra percent off of sale items sales and I think we only paid $6 for it. The jeans were really comfortable, but the best part was the shoes. They were comfortable right from the first wear, no breaking in time which is amazing.

Bonus Note: I’m doing the 30 day ab challenge with Amanda of Living In Another Language

I’m wearing an Sevenly Tee, which you will be hearing more about in a later post, and H&M Shorts

My necklace is the Lovers Locket in Rose Gold from Jewelmint

My hat is also from H&M, and I just left my hair down.
On my face: Chanel Vitalumiere Aqua in B10, Nars Radiance Concealer in Vanilla, Nars Deep Throat, Benefit’s Bad Gal Lash, Makeup Forever HD Powder in Translucent, and Benefits Girl Meets Pearl Highlighter.

My Shoes are from the brand Wanted via DSW

This was another really comfortable and easy summer outfit. However my husband said that both the shoes and the hat look like something an old man would wear. I’m perfectly fine with that, but it is a little hilarious, I now have old man shoes and hat, and old lady pants.

Here’s howl looking adorable as always. He was trying to run up and chew the camera so he was tugging pretty hard at his leash.

Everything I’m wearing is actually from H&M except for my Jewelry. The Pink Tee and Floral Shoes are from last year.

I’m a bit sad that I didn’t get a good shot of my bracelet, but it’s a Tiffany’s Return To Tiffany’s Heart Toggle Bracelet that T gave me for my 23 or 24th Birthday. The Key necklace was a present from O that same year.

I really loved both my hair and my makeup here. It was just an all around good day.

On My Nails: Nails Inc Notting Hill Gate.
On My Face: Chanel Vitalumiere Aqua B10, Nars Creamy Concealer, Makeup Forever Setting Powder, Nars Deep Throat Blush, Benefit Girl Meets Pearl, Benefit Bad Gal Lash YSL Sheer Volupte Candy Succulent Pomegrante, Tarina Tarintino Broken Doll Eyeliner
My Hair: Blown out with a Round Brush using Orifluido’s Beauty Elixer.

Howl was also having a particularly great hair day, and he got a new harness recently, so here’s some puppy overload.

We didn’t really do much of anything this day, it was pretty lazy. I think at most I might have run to the store, and I’m pretty sure we had takeout for dinner, but I couldn’t tell you what it was. I do remember feeling great and it just generally being a really nice day that day.

But there is always the possibility of bumps and lumps a long the way, so please bear with us while we’re under construction. If you’d like to be notified when the new blog is live and everything is working smoothly then you can like me on Facebook and I’ll post as soon as it’s live. Until then I will be posting as usual, so tomorrow’s Stylish Sundays will be up by Monday, because we all know I clearly don’t know the days of the week.

  I wore a my sheer Oatmeal Colored Tee from H&M, Turquoise American Rag Shorts that I cut off and distressed myself, my Olsenboye Satchel, A Floral Headband I made myself (a picture tutorial here), and my Green Hunteress Hunter Rainboots.

Here’s a close up of the Headband:

And my necklace which is from the now defunct Colorme.com.  On my nails are Lancôme’s Noir Caviar and Deborah Lippmann’s Across The Universe.

 

I went to pride with my friend Ryan, who I’ve known for 10 years and he actually used to be my Boss. Since he’s kinda spent the last several years moving all over the country, and has at least visited everywhere from Alaska to Amsterdam and a lot of places in between.

Here we are in the car on the way there looking awesome:

We actually didn’t get to spend much time at Pride because I had a Panic Attack that turned into an Asthma Attack, and we ended up having to head home to get my emergency inhaler. Once that was taken care of we decided not to let that get us down and went to go see The Heat, which was awesome. Seriously go see it. On our way home one of the small towns we passed through was having a fireworks display so we pulled over and watched the fireworks. It was awesome, because what could have turned out to be a horrible day actually ended up being amazing.

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In this first outfit I’m wearing the Aerie Summer Love Tank in Hibiscus, Aerie Slim Gym Yoga Skinny Crop Pant in True Black,

a Danskin sports Bra, Emi-Jay Hair Tie,

 Under Armour Running Socks, Nike Duel Fusion St 2′s.

This was a an incredibly comfortable outfit, I wore it to work out in. Well sort of work out, currently we’ve been taking Howl to our local running trail and we half run, half walk around the trail with him. He absolutely loves it, and it wears everybody out.

The Second Outfit I’m kinda wearing the exact same thing, just different colors. No, seriously look, I’m wearing a Aerie Summer Love Tank in Dark Heather Grey, a pink Danskin Sports Bra, Aerie Slim Gym Yoga Skinny Crop Pant in Silver, and not shown but I promise are there Under Armour Running Socks.

I bet your wondering why I’m just casually lounging on my couch in yoga pants with fabulous blown out hair. Well that’s because that picture was taken today. Yep, and I’m having a lazy pampering day today. So I blew out my hair this morning, and I’ll be trying out my Korres Sleeping Facial tonight, and at some point I’ll probably be repainting my nails. Bonus you’re getting a sneak peak of an upcoming post in this picture.

 

About why I bought two of just about the same outfit. When I find something that works, I beat it to death, and baby this WORKS. I want more from Aerie, I adore how comfortable everything is. I’ve been obsessed with Under Armour Socks for a while now, and Emi-Jay Hair Ties are honestly the only ones I willingly use. I’ll use something else if I have to, but I flat out prefer the Emi-Jay ones. They’re cute, they don’t damage my hair and Emi-Jay supports things like Operation Smile, Project Knapsack and Step Up Women’s Network, and they’re supporting it with 20% of their proceeds. Plus if they get stretched out just toss them in a small Laundry bag and throw them in the dryer and they’re good as new. The only things I don’t 100% love are my shoes. I bought these because I needed them and they were available, but I plan to replace them with either these or these Asics very soon.

Now you see why I didn’t bother with a Haul or 2 seperate posts. It seemed kinda wasteful to be posting 2 OOTD’s with the exact same outfit, or if not wasteful then redundant.

I’m definitely planning on getting more workout gear, especially from Aerie. Actually to warn everyone who’ll be shopping for me for my birthday this year (I’ll be 27) expect to see workout gear on my list. I hope to loose 20 lbs before I turn 30. Since I’ve managed to only not gain anymore weight for the last 2 years, I  honestly don’t know if I’ll be able to do it.

Also, I really want/need a Jawbone Up. I live a pretty sedentary life, with poor sleep, and this is the perfect solution. It alerts you when you’ve been idle for too long, it tracks your sleep, your eating and how much you’ve moved and how many calories you’ve burned doing it. And you don’t have to take it off to shower or snowball fight according to the site. I’m kinda in love and think this is something I’ll be saving for (and adding to my birthday list!)

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