Inspiration Monday - Momiform

Happy Monday friends!  Today I'm participating in two birds' Inspiration Monday because as soon as I saw their choice for the week from Kristen Stewart here, I knew I could easily do this one.  Because let's face it, this is kind of a good example of a "Mom uniform" or "Momiform" as I've decided to call it. 

Flannel, sweater and jeans?  Check, check, check.  Easy peasy.  This is probably even more than I'd normally even do on a weekend, some weekends I never make it out of my yoga pants and sweatshirt, let's face it.  But I had a good reason to get dressed on Saturday, we decided to take Oliver to an indoor playground and out to lunch, so I figured more of an effort was probably a good thing.

And of course I took these pictures rather quickly on my cell phone again.  I am so not happy with the quality it's producing lately.  It's really time to look at that.  But anyway, you get the general idea I think! I was warm and cozy to go to the indoor playground and that's what mattered!

Sweater - Mossimo (Target), Flannel - thrifted

Jeans - American Eagle (thrifted), Shoes - from mom 

Once we got to the playground I realized I was dressed up more than just about any of the other moms - and I don't even consider this dressed up!  Let's just say I could have stayed in those yoga pants and been in good company.  No judgement here though!  I get it.  But hey, at least I was dressed cute for lunch!
For more Inspiration Monday outfits (and probably better pictures than mine) head over to two birds over here.

Inspiration Monday - Hedgehog Heaven

Happy Monday!  Another weekend gone by too fast, amiright?  To get back in the swing of the week I'm participating in two birds Inspiration Monday today.  Today's look is a fun casual outfit from Victoria Justice (who dat?  I'm not up on these things lately).

My look here is from Friday - I shared on Instagram and received a bunch of sweet compliments, so I decided that this look worked as an inspired look for today!  Fun animal themed graphic t-shirt?  Check!  Instead of boots I wore some fun heels with my jeans though - it was warm on Friday!

So right now, Kohls has a bunch of these slub t-shirts with fun animal prints on them and my mom was sweet enough to grab this one for me when she picked up that floral jacket I wore last week.  Hedgehogs are delightful aren't they? I have this cute pinecone hedgehog family that sits on the half wall in the entry way of my house - one hedgehog has actually gone missing though.  I am betting the thief has four paws and black fur and answers to the name Pippin.  I'm guessing if I look under the couch I'll find the missing hedgehog.

Anyway, I love that there are different patterns on each of these guys on this shirt.  I think I could dress up this shirt too with a nice pair of pants and a blazer.  There's another one in this set that has foxes on it - I think I may have to go back and get that one.  Cause you know me and foxes.  (Where did I even get that addiction anyway?)

Shirt - Sonoma (Kohls), Jeans - Old Navy

Shoes - Steve Madden (consignment), Bag - Merona (Target)

Bracelet - Stella and Dot, Necklace - clothing swap

Anyway, me and my fun outfit didn't do much of anything exciting on Friday besides work and dinner at my parents followed by a movie at home with Nate, but I still loved wearing it all day!  The rest of our weekend was pretty good too - we played disc golf and got to go apple picking at a local orchard - more to come on those things this week in separate posts!  For now this post is long enough, so I shall end by telling you to check out the two birds blog for other Inspiration Monday outfits!

Inspiration Monday - Weekend smiles

Hey everyone!  Back at it after a lovely three day weekend.  I wish all weekends were three days, no joke!  Anyway, I am playing along with two birds Inspiration Monday once again - I saw this very casual get up from Gwen Stefani and I was like - that's a mom weekend uniform if I ever saw one! (Side note, I want her bag!! And also, where are her son's shoes?)

This was a perfect look for a lazy Sunday with my boys - well ok we weren't that lazy, we went to the zoo for what I think is Oliver's fourth time now.  It's so nice having it so close and it's a nice place to walk around a bit.  It wasn't even that crowded this time so we had a pretty easy time getting close to the animals and such.

Of course we ended up there right around Ollie's naptime, so he ended up sleeping through part of it again.  This time he mostly slept through the Conservatory where all the plants are though.  We grabbed lunch outside after that since it was still pretty nice out.  It was supposed to rain yesterday but fortunately it held off until the evening!

Sweater - Arizona Jean Co (JCPenney), Tank top - Maurices

Boyfriend jeans - Old Navy, Necklace - Zulily, Sandals - Target 

The rest of the weekend was pretty darn good too I must say - I scored some good deals for Oliver at the Just Between Friends sale on Friday (more on this later this week), Saturday I got to enjoy a quick coffee date with the awesome Lori while she was in town and then in the evening Nate and I enjoyed a fun summer party at a friends house.  Overall it was just one of those weekends that left me smiling at the end - which I must say has been a common occurrence this summer!  

For more Inspiration Monday outfits, visit two birds over here.

Inspiration Monday - Spilling the beans

Hey everyone!  Sorry for my radio silence on Friday and through the weekend.  It was a lot of work running the garage sale!  I'm actually happy to be back to work and kind of back to normal today!  I know you're all on pins and needles to hear what I'm having - but let's start with Inspiration Monday because I'm evil like that.

Here's gorgeous Anne Hathaway in a nice casual ensemble.  Band t-shirt, skinny jeans and flats - definite weekend look!  I was happy to copy this for my Sunday - my one day to recover after all the garage sale madness.

 I have yet to find any cute skinny maternity jeans, but I wore my current favorite pair of regular maternity jeans!  This is also one of my favorite concert t-shirts ever.  It's from 2010's Rock the Garden at the Walker Art Center.  We haven't gone now for a couple of years and I miss it, it's a great summer event here in Minneapolis.  2010 had a really fun line up, but I also love how trippy and fun this t-shirt is.  I have a close up in another picture I'll show you.  The best thing about this shirt is it currently fits over the bump too!

Shirt - 89.3 The Current's Rock the Garden 2010

Jeans - Gap Maternity, thrifted

Hat and shoes - Target

Necklace - Charming Charlie 

Here's a close up of the print of the shirt - you can see my fun owl necklace too.  I just love all the colors in this shirt!  It's one of those tried and true shirts I'm sure I'll wear until it completely falls apart.

So let's see, what else can I talk about?  The cold weather we had this weekend?  The fact that we closed up the garage sale early on Saturday due to rain?  Oh that's right - you want to hear my big news!  All right, our families know now, so without further ado, the baby is....

Yes he most definitely is a BOY.  We had no question at all at the ultrasound!  We're very excited - I know every mom says she just wants a healthy baby and yes, that is definitely true in this case, but we're super happy it's a boy.  And I have been finding that boy clothes are just as adorable as girl clothes, so I can't wait to dress this little man up!  He's going to be one stylish dude!

 Tank top - Motherhood, thrifted

Sweater - F21

Pants - Liz Lange, thrifted

Our families are just as excited as we are and now I feel like I can finally start shopping and planning his room now that I know what I'm working with!  We have a couple of name ideas but whatever we decide on will be secret until the birth.  Gotta leave one element of surprise!

Now I need to dive back into the grind, lots to catch up on after another almost week's worth of vacation. Doesn't feel much like a vacation after working that sale though, that is for sure!

Make sure to stop by two birds over here for more Inspiration Monday outfits!

Flowers for Friday

Happy Friday and Happy March my friends!  Given that March means spring is just around the corner, I decided to wear my floral pants in celebration today!  Clearly it's still winter all around me, but there is light at the end of the tunnel.  

Hopefully I don't appear too awkward in these photos - there was a car driving down my street honking it's horn and I wasn't sure if it was at me or someone else.  Since they went past my house I'm guessing it wasn't meant for me, but man, that threw me off guard just a bit!

Sweater - H&M, thrifted

Denim shirt - Talbots, consigment 

Pants and boots - Mossimo, Target

Necklace - DIY by me

Bag - Jenna Lou Designs

I have been missing my Jenna Lou bag.  I still feel it is one of the most versatile purse I own, but I didn't want to pull it out in the dead of winter and risk ruining it in the harsh winter conditions.  Since it's been a bit nicer out, I decided to pull her out again.  Not to mention, she matches my fun Nine West coat that I've been wearing again now that it's a bit warmer (coat can be seen here).

I'm quite relieved that my boss returns on Monday from her long vacation.  Normally I don't mind her being out of the office now and then, but it just seemed like everyone had problems they needed her for these last few weeks and I was ill prepared to handle said problems.  So it's going to be nice to have her back and basically dump all those issues in her lap!

Have a great weekend everyone!

Crazy Cat Lady

Hello friends! I've been making the most of my time away from work and haven't been on the computer much, but I promise I'm here! I'm still trying to get around to all of your blogs!

So you may remember in this post I said I had my eye on a cute sweater from ModCloth for Christmas that had kitties on it.  Well Santa, err, the Pants Monkey, decided I was a good girl this year and decided to give it to me for Christmas!

Sweater - ModCloth

T-shirt - Ninkybink

Jeans - Gap, thrifted

Shoes - Thrifted

I love how comfy it is, it's not overly thick and warm for a sweater, but it works well for layering.  It was very comfy under a jacket when I went on my thrifting adventure yesterday.  Oh and did I ever score - Coach purse with the tags still on it for $14.99, H&M sweater, Nine West coat, Levi jeans.  I may have spent all of the money I got from the Pants Monkey's grandmother, but oh well.  That's sort of what it's for.

And appropriately enough, Pippin decided to photo bomb me while I was doing this pictures.  Let's drive the crazy cat lady thing home!

I love this big girl.  I haven't gotten Taylor on the blog in awhile, I'll have to fix that one of these days!!

This is gonna be a good life

Happy Friday! I'm off from work today as I mentioned that I would be yesterday.  The Pants Monkey and I are going on a beer cruise tonight on Lake Minnetonka (huge MN lake south of Minneapolis) and needed to be there kind of close to when we both get off work, so we thought, let's take one more day off and enjoy some lazy time before we go boating!  We're going to go run some errands though, so I am not being super lazy, I'm dressed for the day. 

This shirt was in my box of goodies from Lynne.  It's very similar to the Michael Kors shirt from earlier this week but it's a little more casual.  I thought it would be a fun shirt to wear on the boat and all I need to do is add a jacket and I'm good to go!  I did add a camisole under this one as it is a little lower cut than the other one, to the disappointment of Mr. Monkey, but I'd rather not risk overexposure or as far as that goes, totally catching a chill on the boat!

The rest of my weekend is going to be crazy awesome as well.  Tomorrow I'm singing at a wedding - yay extra money - and then there's a MN Blogger get together at the fabulous Megan Bird's house!  I am beyond excited to see some of the bloggers I've already had the pleasure to meet and to finally meet some of my other favorites!  It's going to be a good time.  Sunday we have blissfully free, so we'll probably sleep in and go out for breakfast.  Yes, it's going to be a good weekend!

I think I'm going to add this hat for the boat tonight too.  Just in case it is windy.  I totally caught a chill on a boat ride we did up in Itasca on our vacation last month, so I'm being extra cautious, don't need that happening again!

I hope you all have wonderful weekends as well!

Outfit rundown:

Shirt - handed down from Lynne

Pants - Gap, thrifted

Hat - Target

Necklace - thrifted

Bracelet - Charming Charlie

Worker bee

So yesterday and today have been a little crazy at work as I mentioned yesterday.  I was able to dress down both days, but I can't just do that and not be a little stylish still.  So here are my "worker bee" outfits.

It doesn't help that it's getting super hot outside again.  Today is going into the mid-90's.  Tomorrow I hear we could hit 102.  Ugh.  I want Autumn darn it!!  Oh well. I  should be able to at least tough out the heat back in a sundress tomorrow.

While doing the "grunt" work both days, I switched out of sandals and into tennis shoes.  Cause I don't want my pretty feet to get hurt!  I'm getting a good workout, I know that much is true!

Later today I'm finally posting my Vlog!  It's done and edited and ready to go.  Big thanks to my Pants Monkey for helping me solve some syncing issues I was having.  So anyway, stay tuned later today for that!

Outfit one:

Tank tops - Old Navy

Necklace and bracelet - S&D

Jeans - Maurices

Sandals - Xhiliaration, Target

Outfit two:

Tank top - Hill Valley Vintage

Capris - Dockers, thrifted

Sandals - Merona, Target

Jewelry - S&D, F21

Inspiration Monday - More about me

Well friends it's Monday again.  For a three day weekend I sure feel like I didn't really have one!  It was a busy one between the Fair on Friday, some stuff with our music group and then having some relatives in town of the Pants Monkey's.  Last night we crashed with a bunch of shows and I totally zoned out and it was wonderful.

But it is Monday and Inspiration Monday at that!  Today we have Jessica Alba, she is a pretty stylish lady!  I didn't opt for a jacket like she has on, because it's gotten a bit warm again!

Instead, I went for the overall color scheme.  I really liked how this turned out, kind of a shame I really didn't get to wear it anywhere fun.  It gave me a chance to play with some of my new jewelry - I promise a Vlog is still coming.  I was having some syncing issues with my laptop camera.  Mr. Monkey is going to help me fix it, so I will still be sharing my goodies soon!  I can pretty much tell you I'm in love with everything.

Speaking of love, I'm feeling the love this morning, the fantastic Megan of the Fashionable Bureaucrat has gifted me the Liebster Award - very sweet of her.  I am going to answer her questions because I am a survey junkie!  It always helps you all get to know me better too right?  And these are pretty unique!

1. Where would you bury hidden treasure if you had it?  I suppose my backyard, but that seems too obvious, so maybe in one of my favorite places in Northern MN.  But why would I tell you?  It's MY treasure.  Mine.
2. Do you currently have all your organs? Sure do!  I am an organ donor should something ever happen to me (God forbid) but I even have all my non-essential organs like my appendix.
3. For a pet, would you rather have a crow, a fringed lizard, or a taxidermized wolf? How about a fringed lizard.  That just sounds fun.  And kind of fancy.
4. Slips - yes or no? Yes. Though I don't use them much, I find they do help a lot in the winter months with static and long skirts/dresses.
5. If you could hire one of the following for one year which would you hire? House cleaner, personal chef, massage therapist? I can only pick one???  Aw man!  Well, The Pants Monkey is a really good cook, so I don't think I'll choose the chef.  I don't mind cleaning that much actually.  So I think I'll say massage therapist.  My back would be happy all the time.
6. Fruit pie, cream pie or cheesecake? Ooh they are all yummy, but I will say fruit pie.  I love apple pie and peach pie the best.
7. If you were on Jeopardy and got the Daily Double, would make it a true daily double? Depends on how far behind everyone else I was!  I probably would.
8. Did you ever wear braces? If yes, are your teeth still straight? Yes I did.  And no they aren't.  I'm pretty ashamed of it actually.  I should have gone for the permanent bottom retainer, because those are the teeth that shifted the worst.
9. Favourite decade - 1970s, 1980s, or 2000s? 1980's - I was a kid in the 80's and everything was better then!  Awesome television, cartoons, toys.  Fun stuff.
10. Do you prefer routine or variety? I am such a creature of habit.  I prefer to stick to a routine.  But I like variety when it comes to things like meals I eat, clothes I wear, places to visit.  I guess for a daily schedule I like routine but for various activities variety is fun.
11. Do you sleep with your bedroom door open or closed? Closed.  I love them kittens, but they do not know how to let us sleep at night!

There you have it.  I'm just going to tag everyone who is reading because I love you all and would be interested in anyone's answers to the very same questions!  Thank you again Megan!  And thank you all for coming here and sharing in my life, it means the world to me.

Please go visit the two birds blog to see other Inspiration Monday outfits!

Outfit rundown:

T-shirt and sweater - Mossimo, Target

Jeans - Old Navy

Shoes - Mossimo, Target

Necklace and bracelets - Stella and Dot