15x15~Day One

Welcome to day one of the.....

.....the updates on my last post? I'm not alone in thinking cami's don't count (yeah!) and I admitted my hatred of deadlines to myself and chose to swap out the patterned skirt knowing that I would put off fixing it and only have three bottoms for the challenge! Then I chickened out and swapped the heels for a pair of flats almost the same color..... I want to wear heels for everyday wear, but can't imagine chasing kids around in heels! =P

I'm wearing three of my 15 items today. The striped shirt from Kohls, the shorts from Goodwill and the brown flats from Target.

Bracelet: Shop-Ko, Earrings: Hallmark, Necklace: Fred Meyer (Owl added by me)

~Pinterest has been acting funny, but I've still managed to pin a few things even with the site being jerky! =P
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My 15x15 Items.....

.....and a short explanation as to why I'm bending the rules! =P

First off, here are my fifteen items!

~One dress

 Apt 9 via eBay

~Six shirts

Green, yellow and striped: Kohl's 

Blue and white: Church rummage sale

Coral and sky blue: Shop-Ko  

~One cardigan

JcPenny

~One pair of shorts and three skirts

(The patterned skirt may get swapped out if the alterations don't turn out as planned!)

Jean shorts: Venezia brand via Goodwill

Pink Maxi and royal blue knit skirt: JcPenny

Paris print: Cj Banks via Mom

 ~Three pairs of shoes

Black flats: Payless kids section

Flip flops: Fred Meyer

Heels: Payless

Now, onto my rule bending (AKA knowingly cheating).....I have seen some other girls include camis in their 15 items, and I have chosen to not to, even though I wear one 90% of the time and don't plan on not wearing them during the next 15 days. I personally place camis in the undergarments category, and if this challenge includes undergarments, I think I'm going to have to back out! ;-) 

Se y'all tomorrow! =)

15x15 Remixing Challenge

I'm taking the plunge and joining up!! I'm to much of a chicken to do the 30x30 challenge since remixing is NOT my strong suit, so this baby 15x15 seems more doable! We shall see how this goes.....

.....luckily it ends before my b~day so I don't have to cheat with a special outfit.....not that I would.....who am I kidding? I'd wear whatever I wanted, challenge or no challenge! What can I say? I'm a sucker for new outfits on special occasions! ;-)

A Non-sponsored Post.....

.....in which I wear clothes mostly bought at one particular store.....not that ANY of my posts are sponsored.....though I am open to getting free stuff and showcasing it here.....just lettin' everybody know.....

I wore this last week, of course on a day it rained, and we went to the library, so walked around downtown quite a bit, this skirt seems destined to have a soggy hem! 

 Cardigan, Cami and Skirt: JcPenny

Earrings: Dress Barn, Necklace: JcPenny

.....These are super tasty and easy! Especially if you forget you only boiled enough eggs for a third of a batch and only remember that AFTER you've added the cheese, mustard and bacon for a full batch.....

 

~Just watched the Once Upon a Time finale last night and these two finding each other again made me so HAPPY! Then he had to go and be a power hungry baddy again..... *sigh*

It's a Beautiful Night.....

Oh.....my.....word.....

.... hands.....down.....best.... proposal.....EVER!!

Take notes, dear future husband, take notes! ;-)


(On a side note, how amazing is everything about the girl in the red dress? And Amy's hair and sweater? Adorable!)

Awkward and Awesome

~AWKWARD~

~Three of my new favorite shows got canceled *sniff*sniff* (R.I.P, Pan Am, Terra Nova and A Gifted Man) It's also season finale time and that means I have to WAIT to find out what happens between Castle and Beckett.....how on earth did Sherlock fake his own death and last but not least.....did Grimm and Hawaii 5-0 really just end with the same wide eyed stare and a gasp of "Mom?" Yep, they totally did, weird.....

~The following picture was taken this morning.....no joke here peeps.....just half an inch of slushy rainy snow....in May..... Tennessee keeps looking better and better.....

~Does the summer movie season seem to be over run with R rated movies, or is it just me???

~ AWESOME ~


~The chocolate old fashioned doughnuts from Starbucks.....so amazingly tasty..... I may or may not get one every Thursday morning....hey, most Wednesday nights I've Zumba-ed my butt off.....I figure it all comes out even in the end.....or ON the end as it where..... ;-)

~For all you fellow Doctor fans.....this HAS to happen, or the world might end....just sayin'.....

~I can pretty much already say, beyond a shadow of a doubt, this movie holds my very favorite version of Santa Clause EVER!!!! 

Ovo Means "egg"' in Portuguese.....

Why on earth am I sharing such a random factoid, you may be wondering.....
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.....well, wonder no longer! My family had the opportunity to go and see Ovo this past weekend, before they take the show to Australia! 

We packed up early Sunday morning (copious amounts of barf receptacles included, for those of us who get car sick.... travel is so fun with a house full of car sick pron people! Ginger pills have literally changed my life folks, try them for nausea and motion sickness, they really do work!) and headed to Portland. Drove through a half marathon, saw a giant metal elephant..... 

.....and dropped of crazy Becca at Powell's (as she didn't want to go to the show....hence the crazy bit) one of the worlds biggest used book stores and the rest of us headed here.....

.....our first surprise was that the show was actually in a  tent, we thought it was inside the Expo center, but nope! The amazingly talented folks at Cirque Du Soleil (Which I've been told means circus of the sun) have invented the Tardis tent, far bigger on the inside then it looks on the outside!

....and unless you Google the show that's all the pictures you're going to get, they start yelling at you about cameras as soon as you walk in the gates...oh well!

 Lack of pictures aside, it was an AMAZING experience and if you ever have a chance to go to a Cirque Du Soleil show, you should grab it and not look back! The costumes, music, the special effects, the set, everything was amazing and they 2 1/2 hours literally flew by (except for the half hour intermission, but I had brought along a book to take care of the boring bit!)

Some pics of our drive around downtown Portland, I would't want to live there, but I do love to visit! 

Where ivy has grown and then died on an underpass, I love the patterns the ivy had made!

China Town

Cool details

I love how colorful the buildings are, (though the people all seemed to be wearing black and brown....)

We went to the Old Spaghetti factory for dinner, I love it there! They have the neatest building and the food is really good! They have this special cheese,

.....small batch.....

.....made by little Italian grandmothers.....

.....can't get it anywhere else.....

 .....sheep's milk..... 

( I know, me eating sheep's milk, but I had already eaten it at this point, so I went with it!) and I'm not kidding you here people it tastes almost exactly like this.....

....which I love, since that kind of cheese was my favorite as a kid! I know those little Italian Grandmothers are shaking their fists at me and muttering about this dumb Americans unsophisticated pallet, but what can I say? It has a bit more depth of flavor, but for the most part a Kraft clone it is! ;-)

They have a small arcade upstairs, the silly crane machine ate my 50 cents!

Crazy big chair that just screams photo op!

TaDa!

Bonus outfit photo! My lovely Mom bought this skirt for me the day before, I'd put it back at JcPenny as it was out of budget, but she went back and picked it up for me! Not the best choice to wear to a city where it rains most of the time.....the hem was a wee bit filthy by the end of the day! I love how it moves and being from the petite section, the hem is just touching the ground instead of being 4-5 inches to long!

Shirt: eBay, Skirt: JcPenny, Purse: Dillards, Cowboy Botts: Wal-Mart

I was so sad, this little guy was SUPPOSED to be here in time for the trip, but he came the day after, so he didn't get to come with us. There is always next time though!