fashion friday--- best foot forward

Yo, homes.

Here's a picture of me in some newish stuff.

Swouse (sweatshirt/blouse combo)- GAP; Skinny Jeans- Miss Me; Boots- Nordstrom (b-day gift from the parental unit); Clutch- Ross; Watch- Fossil (gift from my in-law-parental unit)

This outfit is nothing glamorous or even that super stylish. But it's awesome for 2 & 1/2 reasons...

(1) The boots. They are awesome, and I love them.

(2 & 1/2) In this outfit I am both entirely confident and entirely comfortable.

I sincerely believe that good personal style is about 10% fashion and 90% confidence. And I want to show you an awesome example of this. Meredith from Yours, Mine & Ours is one of my absolute favorite fashion bloggers. It's not that she wears the "trendiest" stuff... In fact, the whole premise of her blog this year has been that you can look good and feel good without spending a ton (or barely anything, in her case) on clothing. The clothes make the man? No way, Jose. The Woman makes the clothes. (Literally and figuratively, in Meredith's case...) She is inspirational to me because she is witty and confident. Her posts are my favorite to read, and--although I don't share the same personal style-- I think she looks rad in everything she puts on.

Okay, and now for the slightly more manipulative reason for posting this outfit picture. I wanted to and am now actually going to show you a video (although I will probably regret this decision). It's for posterity, of course, so my children will know how weird totally awesome their mom was back in the day. But my face and hair in the video are a little ummm... disgusting. This is due to a strange disease known as Notshoweringfor2days. It's serious stuff. So while you are watching, picture the face from the picture above doing the awesome things from the videos below.

Enjoy.

In case you were wondering--- helium is sweet. The plastic balloon, however... not so much. Didn't stop me from appearing to eat it like a piece of chocolate fudge cake, though, did it?