Thrift Style Thursday - Pastel-y

The theme this week for Thrift Style Thursday was chosen by Kristi of Delightfully Kristi - Pastels.  I have no problem with pastels, but I have found lately I don't actually own a lot of them.  I go for more bold and bright colors these days it seems.  I'm also very fair skinned, so I tend to avoid super light shades so I don't look too washed out.  Anyway, here is what I came up with, it's probably borderline pastel, but I did my best!

It's funny, while we were enjoying our anniversary dinner last night I mentioned to Nate that the theme for today was pastels and I wasn't sure what I was going to wear yet.  I kind of had this skirt in the back of my head though, because while it isn't super pale, the fabric reminds me of something pastel because of how light and linen like it is.  Nate said to me "how about something salmon?"  To which I said "well, that's not really pastel" but I still thought it was funny because I was totally thinking about this skirt!

Shirt - Xhilaration (Thrifted), Skirt - Banana Republic (ThredUp)

Sandals - Target, Necklace - Lia Sophia 

I was pretty excited about how well this cute top matches this skirt too.  I just found it at the thrift store the other day and didn't even have this skirt in mind to wear it with.  I actually thought I'd end up mostly wearing it with jeans or something, so this was a pleasant surprise!  I thought the lighter color blue also kind of felt pastel like too.

So there you have it!  I feel light and springy and I think that is what pastels are all about!  Be sure to check out the other Thrift Style Thursday ladies at their blogs below to see what they came up with for pastels this week!

Spring 2015 Wishlist

In my Currently post the other day I mentioned some items I'm putting on my wishlist for spring. Because I'm off of work today enjoying an extra day with my little Ollie, I decided to just give a simple Friday Five today and share some items I found that would fit the bill for the things I'd love to have. It's a pretty simple list!

Spring 2015 Wishlist by bethietheboo featuring petite pants

I'd love these floral pixie pants from Old Navy and I think I might try their white pants to see how I like those as well.  I'm considering giving these Mossimo boyfriend jeans a try since I've liked a lot of their other jeans so far.  This pretty pink skirt I think would be really cute with a white t-shirt and a denim jacket.  And finally, I've been looking for an emerald green sweater.  I have a lot of mint but no true green, so this one from JCPenney would be awesome to have.  It remains to be seen if I'll actually buy any of these items though or if I'll just keep them in my head when I go thrifting and see if I can get them for a good deal!
What's on your spring wishlist?  Have a wonderful Easter weekend!!

May showers

Off and on since late yesterday we've been having some nice gentle rain showers.  The kind we should have had in April that would be bringing the May flowers.  Instead we're getting May showers and I suppose then we'll have June flowers?  Who knows.  All I know is, it was too wet to take pictures outside this morning, which is too bad, I wanted to show off the colors in this sweater and it's just too hard for you to see it.  It's mint and peach.  And very open weave, so it'll be great for a lightweight pull over this summer.  This is another goodie from my very generous mom when we were trying to spend enough money at the consignment shop for her to use a coupon.  She got herself some nice stuff too, don't worry, she didn't spend it all on me!

 Sweater - Free People, consignment

T-shirt - Maurices, thrifted

Skirt - Old Navy

Shoes - Steve Madden, thrifted

Necklace - Stella and Dot

Speaking of my mom, my dad had a pretty epic idea for a gift for her for Mother's Day.  I'm very excited about it.  I know she doesn't read the blog so I could tell you all what it is, but I think I'll leave some suspense.  I'll give this clue: "an Apple a day keeps the doctor away".  What do you think it is?

Tropical

Today's outfit feels almost Hawaiian to me. I'm sure it's the floral print on this dress.  I realized I had been wanting to pair this shirt with this dress and hadn't done so yet, and figured, the closer we're getting to Fall, the less I want to wear these kind of bright, almost spring like colors, so now is the time.

Of course I'm still struggling with the lighting in the morning.  Might have to try the backyard tomorrow.  Although I heard there's a chance of rain tomorrow, so perhaps I'll be taking pictures inside anyway!  Hopefully it doesn't rain tomorrow since it's the first day of the MN State Fair, but we're not going until Friday, so I'd rather it rain tomorrow than on Friday!

You can see I'm back to my Gussy bag - I have to tell you though, this is the first time I've switched in over a month now!  Aside from being up north last week that is.  Otherwise, that Jenna Lou bag I bought in July?  I haven't stopped carrying it until today.  I'm turning over a new leaf!  And I pretty much went back to Gussy today because I love how it compliments this outfit and it's another item I don't see myself really using much into the Fall, so I figured I might want to give it another spin.

In other news I'm stalking UPS and anxiously waiting for the arrival of my Stella and Dot goodies.  I was finally able to close the party and get my order placed this past Monday.  I gotta say - happy way early birthday to me.  I will be rolling in new jewelry and shouldn't need anymore for quite awhile!  I'll be sure to share my goodies when they actually show up!

Outfit rundown:

Dress - vintage, Salvaged Strawberry

Shirt - vintage, Savers

Sandals - Marshalls (old)

Necklace - swap with CC

Bracelets - Bead for Life and thrifted

Bag - Gussy Sews

Who's in charge here?

TGIF man, amiright?  The end of the day yesterday was one of those days I wanted to just curl up in a corner and cry, but more on that in a minute.  First off, it's the last day of our This and That Summer Trend challenge week.  Today is pastel or neon.  I more or less went for pastel as I have virtually no neon in my closet.  I love what I've seen other bloggers do with the neon trend but I just haven't been able to get on board with it.  However, I chose my bright pink bag today, closest thing to neon I actually own and probably the closest thing I will own.  So this outfit is really more about the pastel!

So back to my day yesterday.  It was going along just fine and then my boss had to go to one of our clinic sites.  This isn't unusual as she is the director of facilities for several clinics in our organization.  We were expecting a delivery for the 2nd floor construction project in my building, but she said she knew I could handle it.  So I'm doing my thing and getting ready to shut down for the day and realize the delivery hadn't shown up yet and like magic, the front desk called to let me know that the delivery guy was here.  Better late than never I guess.  So I said, have him meet me up here and I will show him where to put it.  Now mind you it's a giant box and weighs about 300 pounds.  I go to the elevator to wait for the guy and it's taking FOREVER.  This is not a good sign.  He finally gets off the elevator.  Without the box.  It won't fit.  At all.  Crap.  So I called my boss - who always answers her cell phone, but apparently not when it's important - I could not reach her.  Now I'm officially on overtime at this point.  A half hour later I finally get in touch with my boss and we figure out a temporary solution after I spent the entire time flustered, looking like an idiot in front of patients and doing everything I can not to just break down and sob.  And let me just say the delivery guy was kind of a prick about the whole thing.  At least I get paid overtime.

After I got home I had a well deserved beer and relaxing bath and then everything was better.  But seriously.  There is a reason I am just an admin - I do not do crisis management very well at all!!

Anyway.  It's Friday and I'm much happier today!  You will want to make sure to check back here later today or possibly tomorrow - I will be posting my one year anniversary "favorite things" giveaway!  Yes you heard me right, it's Beth's Favorite Things, ala Oprah.  I can't wait to share the fun things I have for you!  And I also can't wait to share some thoughts on one year of blogging - man time flies!

Be sure to check out Megan Mae's blog to see the other This or That participants from this week and also make sure to check Keely's blog for a round up of each participants favorite look from the week!  I have to decide on which one is mine!

Outfit rundown:

T-shirt - Shlomo, thrifted

Jeans - Old Navy

Sandals - Marshalls

Bag - Lillians

Necklaces - Jerseymaids via Etsy/Stella and Dot

June is busting out all over

Happy Friday!  Happy June!  It is super gorgeous outside today, would be a good day to play hooky!  It's really my favorite weather outside today, not too hot, sunny, lovely.  Sigh.  Oh well, I'll just look out my window and dream!  If my whole summer ended up looking like this, I'd be one happy camper.  Although maybe not, because then I'd never want to work!

I'm loving this pastel vintage shirt I picked up on my recent thrift trip.  It's hard to see in the pictures, but it is multi colored stripes. The main color is peach, which drew me to the shirt because I'm loving peaches and oranges right now.  I'll admit, the seersucker fabric this shirt is made out of does remind me of something my grandmother would have worn, but that's ok.  The fit of the shirt is nice and I like channeling my grandma in a way!  The shirt also matches my sandals like perfectly, almost like they were made to go together!

First weekend of June ahead and it's a busy one for us, a sure sign summer is here.  We tend to get very busy in the summer and I am resolving this year that no matter how busy we get, we enjoy every moment of it.  Last summer was not the best, so I am going to make sure that this summer kicks last summer's behind!

I'm also pretty excited, since it's June, that means my first year blog anniversary is coming up.  Wow!  Can't believe it's almost been an entire year!  I think it will be cause for something fun and exciting, like my first ever giveaway.  Stay tuned for that!  I have a couple of fun posts in the works too for the coming days, working on another video blog review and also a "what's in my bag" type post.  And I hear Megan Mae and Keely have another fashion challenge in the works, so I'm excited for that.  At any rate, fun times to come around the ole blog for June!

Outfit rundown:

Shirt - thrifted vintage

Jeans - Maurices

Necklace - Minty Koala (from giveaway)

Sandals - Marshalls

Bracelet - Bead for Life

Better late than never

Ok, so when my thermostat said it was below 30 outside this morning I decided, I'm not taking outdoor pictures this morning, even if it is super sunny!  Too cold for me!  

This is totally not what I meant to wear today.  I was going to wear the pants no matter what, and I decided to wear this t-shirt, but I was going to wear a jacket instead of this little sweater (which yes, it's another cousin goodie, told you we weren't quite done with that!).  Then I opened the closet and saw this little sweater and decided I liked it better, so here you go!

I finally hemmed these pants too!  I won't be tripping over them any longer and now you can actually see the shoes I'm wearing!  I still adore these pants, they are hands down probably one of my most favorite items in my closet right now!

Below is Big Pippin, I had a really cute picture that she photo bombed this morning where she was actually climbing up on me and of course, it turned out fuzzy.  So I tried to recreate it and she was having none of that, so this was the result.

Pippin says "leave me alone mom!"

Silly kitty.  Also, I'm totally a day behind because yesterday I spaced on Everybody Everywhere - so I wore my pastels today and will add my link today.  Better late than never right?

Outfit rundown:

T-shirt - Decree, JCPenney

Sweater - Jones New York (from cousin)

Pants - Anthropologie (thrifted)

Shoes - Merona, Target (thrifted)

Necklace - F21