What I Wore Wednesday

It's been a while since I linked up with Lindsey at The Pleated Poppy.

Gosh...I think this might only be my second time actually.

I need to do it more beings that she started "WIWW"  to help us mommas and housewives get motivated to get out of our sweat pants and t-shirts and into "real" clothes each day.

I always feel kinda silly posing and taking pics of myself and stuff.

However, if you are on Instagram, there is a darling lady named Christina, (@littfashiondiary)  who has started a hashtag called #fashiondiaries.  My girls love it!

You can get some really great ideas from so many creative, talented women. 

Christina loves to encourage making amazing outfits by thrift shopping and she can rock wearing glasses better than anybody I've seen...gorgeous!!

She's got a blog if you'd like to check it out.

{Little Fashion Diary}

(She has some super cute free printables on there right now..cuz she's just sweet like that.)

So with no further adu...

Here are a couple of my outfits lately...

My favorite necklace made by my sis-n-law Heather. love.

My converse that I bought at, you guessed it..... Dirt Cheap.

A cardi from Old Navy.

I just read in a magazine where pointy toe heels are "in" and square toe heels are "out".

Well, whatever....I have several shoes with square toes that are my faves and they will continue to be worn. BUT hey....these heels I've been wearing for about 8 years now are "in" again! Woo hoo :)

My favorite part about this outfit besides the fact that it is entirely thrifted and yellow,

is the pom poms on my lace scarf ($2) and these earrings ($.75). 

They both were bought at Dirt Cheap. Holla.

And here's a little "hippy" shirt that I found at the thrift store the last time me and my girls were there. Lydia wasn't crazy about it, but for me it was love at first sight.

And paired with these $1 wooden and crochet earrings from the Beehive 

it couldn't get much better!

...Oh, but it does!

See this bracelet?

It was my Maw Maw Eleanor's.

It has all 12 of her grand kids on there.

 Each bootie has our name and birth date engraved on the bottom.

My Aunt recently passed it on to me...

(which I feel extremely blessed since 5 of the shoes on here belong to her kids)

 Anyway, I think she asked and none of them wanted it and I am so thankful!

 I love it! (thanks to any of you Berry's who might be reading this)

 All of us cousins and my two brothers who are on the bracelet are all grown now.  The oldest one, being my big bro, is pushing 50!  Yowza!  Funny thing is, I'm the only one out of the 12 who is a grandparent!  And I've got 8 little "booties" who are older than me on there.  craziness. 

I hope you're having a great middle of the week!

Now, I gotta go change out of these sweat pants :)

Stephanie :)

My White Evolution

Lately, I've been really digging the color white.

To those who know me well, that will probably come as a shock.
I'm usually all about color. 
In fact, this year on my birthday a friend gave me the most adorablest (yes, i make up words) funky polka dot cross for my front door.  When she was picking it out, she informed me she told them to give her the gaudiest, most colorful and loudest one. Was I insulted?  Absolutely not!  It's true...I'm drawn to sparkly colorful stuff.

But lately, the serenity of the color white is calling my name.  I don't know if I'm evolving or if this is just a season, but I'm in love with stuff like this...

I mean, who wouldn't love this! Right?

I know!

So here is my attempt to add a little more white to my life.

This is the start of my new collection. I hope to add 4 or 5 more funky candlesticks in different sizes and shapes.  But until then, we will start with these...

 One is a thrifted silver-plated candlestick and the other is a hand me down brass candle holder...

Transformed into these two classy ladies :)

Now these little darlings came out of my mom-n-law's shed.

Originally, I had envisioned them a lovely shade of yellow but then this white thing happened. So.....

 After a little spray and little time drying in the sunshine..

Violia'!!  Just what I needed  next to these canvases that were missing a little sumpn sumpn!

Well there have it...  the beginning of my white evolution.


Kind of represents my heart of late.


You see, even though the Lord has cleansed it white as snow, I've let it get all spotty.  Not colorful pops of color but ugly stains of sin.  Dirt like bitterness and apathy and pride have tried to settle in and make its homestead.  Yet,  I'm so thankful for the washing of His word that cleanses us and renews us.  Where there was once the chaos of the loud gaudiness of sin,  the Lord is now making into a calming place of pure white peace where He enjoys abiding.  Kinda like my brassy candlestick getting transformed into a "classy lady".

Reminds me of a hymn we sing with our granddaughters..

"......Oh precious is the flow,

That makes us white as snow..
No other fount I know,

Nothing but the blood of Jesus"

I'll keep you posted on this white evolution.

The one taking place in my home and the one taking place in my heart.

Stephanie :)

Weekend Bliss

What a jam-packed weekend we have had!
Here is a little slice of what has happened in my world...

Made my first rainbow cake for Julia Rose's birthday party..

Went shopping with Nick. (Doesn't he look absolutely thrilled? Lol)

Finally wore my super cute chandelier earrings from Christopher, Elizabeth, Rosalyn, and Jules

Got to hang out with my momma all weekend....LOVE.

Was blessed to drink coffee with Juju on a beautiful morning at the camphouse....(Loved that too!)

Was blessed to witness my daughter's super creativity for her daughter's first birthday....

She made these adorable letters that spelled out Julia Rose. (super cute...LOVE)

Love the cute colors she picked out for the theme.

Enjoyed hanging out with  two of our dearest friends whose son happened to fall in love with our daughter and then grow up and marry her.

Was SO blessed to see my grandson, Nate, making some serious progress in his momma's tummy!...LOVE

Celebrated a whole year of life with this cutie patootie!

Enjoyed a wonderful time of fellowship with my awesome church family  at a 4th of July picnic.

 Checked out some flea markets with Lydia and my momma.

Found, fell in love and brought home this way cute yellow ottoman.....LOVE!!

Well, now you know what I did this weekend. What did you do?  Whatever it was, I'm sure it was awesome!!

Stephanie :)

Branching out!

I'm trying my hand at making necklaces! One of my favorite accessories!!

Seems like everybody is crushin on yellow right now so I thought I would make something in the sunshine color.  Although, I've had a love affair with yellow for years now but we kinda parted ways for a while after I lived in a house that had every room painted the same light buttery yellow.  We're good now though and back together and I am loving everything yellow at the moment. 

                          

This was gonna be a gift but alas, I loved it
and now I gotta make another one. I'm gonna start making these in twos from now on:)

This is my  $2 dress!!   Not to mention my $2 necklace (i added the flower) and my $2 bracelet (i should have taken a close-up so you can see it in all its glory! Bling!)  My girls used to be so embarrassed when someone would compliment something I was wearing and after thanking them, I would then tell them how cheap I got it or that it came from a thrift store.  They would be like "MOMMA, can't you just say thank you?!!"  

Now, they are just as thrifty as I am and love a good thrift store beauty as much as I do.  Ahh....I've taught them well :)

(Thinking about creating a page with pics of my favorite thrift store outfits

...we'll see)

This post was a nice break in between dealing with auto insurance claims and making pickles.  Actually, Nick made the pickles. Can't wait to taste them!!!  ( He just passed by while I was posting this and saw my picture and said "Who is that lady? I haven't seen her around here lately".  Oops!!  I guess that means its time for me to take a shower, fix my hair and "put on my face"!!!  

Good thing we have church tonight!  lol)

Stephanie :)