Normalcy

And just like that the holidays are over.  The last gifts unwrapped.  The decorations put away (well, ok, I'm only about halfway through that process).  And, back to a regular working schedule.  As long as we all stay healthy (knock on wood) I plan to take no time off in January to try to catch up from all the time I was off in December!

So today is the first day of a full work week and I'm sharing an outfit post today.  I do a lot of style challenges and you see that if you follow me on Instagram.  This month I'm keeping it simple and only doing one, the Pinned It Spinned It challenge.  I'm not going to push myself to necessarily do every single day, but I like the pins that the girls chose this time, so I figured if I can put something together, I will.  Here is what they found for today.

So I said, sure, I'll be a crazy lady and wear a skirt on what seems to be the coldest morning of the winter so far here in Minnesota.  Why not?  I have sweater tights at least, so that does seem to be helping keep me a little warmer!

The weather today is making me wish more and more I had a remote starter on my car, that is for sure!  I made sure that both Oliver and I were bundled up pretty good this morning!  I can't decide if it's easier now that he's older or if it was easier when he was a newborn and I could just stuff a bunch of blankets around him!

Sweater - vintage (b. a resale shop), Skirt - Target

Sweater tights - Old Navy, Boots - Target

Scarf - from Secret Santa swap 

So there you have it!  Now that the holidays are over I should be back to a fairly normal blogging schedule around here.  I have to say while I love the holiday season, there is something to be said for normalcy!!

Unofficial Thrift Style Thursday

Well I'm just a creature of habit.  Even though we're taking Thrift Style Thursday off this month as a group, I still wanted to share a thrifty outfit because A. it's cute and B. as I said, it's kind of habit at this point!

Truth be told this outfit isn't super thrifted - the skirt is actually a sweater dress that I got from Tandem Vintage - though I got a great deal because owner Amanda is a friend and a total sweetheart, but sometimes just because something is vintage doesn't mean it's going to be cheap!  I got lucky on this one!  I thought it would make a great skirt if I pull a sweater over it, and I really like the look, it really modernizes it quite a bit!

Sweater - St. John's Bay (JCPenney), Dress as Skirt - Tandem Vintage (formerly Salvaged Strawberry), Tights and boots - Old Navy, Necklace - Stella and Dot, Bag - Merona (Target) 

I'm dressed for kicking butt and taking names today - I had tried to go to the post office late in the day yesterday to get some blog Secret Santa packages mailed out and the line was out the door.  I should have known better honestly, but I was still a little surprised.  We moved two inches in 10 minutes and I had to go get Ollie, so I just said fine, I'll get there right when they open in the morning and just duck out of work for a few minutes.  So I did just that and I was the second person in line.  In, out, done.  Boom.  Sorry to my Secret Santa giftees that your gifts are coming one day later, but they're on their way now!  And that's pretty much my only story today!