F21

Dress: F21 --- Belt: Thrifted --- Shoes: Payless

So, this is the dress that I got from F21 with my gift card. Actually, this is the 2nd dress I got with that gift card. The first had to be returned because I ordered a Large and I was basically swimming in it. I really just do not understand Forever21 sizing... I have a long sleeve top from them that is pretty much skin tight and is a Large, yet I can get a Large dress and it feels 3 sizes too big? Anyhow, I learned my lesson (the lesson being that F21 is ridiculous) and got a Medium this time around and it fits much better.

I really like it, though. Hands down the nicest article of clothing I've ever got from F21. A lady at church said it looked like J. Crew. That's one compliment I can really appreciate. :)

Anyways, I've got some super happy fun-time news for you!

I'm going to college! 

Everything happened very last-minute, but long story short: I applied mid-August, and was accepted Sept. 7th, went to Orientation Sept. 8th, and am now in the process of looking for a place to live. I'm very excited, and very nervous, about starting school, but I think it'll be fun. Wish me luck!

Reminisce

Scarf: Bosnia --- Top and Skirt: Thrifted --- Seychelles Heels: Amazon --- Earrings: Handmade

Well hello there, wind. Thank you for coming an making my hair look epic.

I really love this outfit because it combines several of my current favorite wardrobe pieces (mustard Seychelles, black lace tank, scarf from Mostar). I made it a point on my trip to Bosnia not to buy any 'keepsake souvenirs' like little figurines and things that sit on your shelf and collect dust (or more often end up in a box under the bed), but instead to get things that I can wear and be reminded of my trip that way instead. I got myself this scarf and some jewelry, and I'm not sad at all that I passed on the miniature Stari Most statues.
The street where I got my scarf:

Gosh oh golly do I miss that town...

And real quick before I go, I have an opinion question. If you happened to have a $25 Forever21 gift card in your possession and were trying to decide what to buy with it, would you get this dress or this bag?

This isn't related, but aren't those shoes the model is wearing awful with the dress? Completely wrong style.

Maxi to the Max Part 2

Top and Necklace: Forever21 --- Skirt, Belt, and Purse: Thrifted --- Shoes: Target --- Rings: Handmade

Today I'm wearing 3 things I picked up on my birthday thrifting trip (I used my birthday as a good excuse to spend lots of money this year). Thankfully these items didn't cost much, though! The purse, which I did a little gasp for when I first saw it, was only $6, the maxi skirt was $3, and the belt was $2. Score, score, and score. *Curtsy*

I don't know how you guys feel about maxi skirts and dresses, but if you don't have any, go buy some ASAP because they're awesome. You can dress them up or down pretty easily, and they're just so comfortable to wear. Love.

Anyways, I had a fairly busy weekend, starting on Saturday night when the exchange student Gabe talked me into going and playing Capture the Flag at my old high school at 9pm. Long story short, he's probably never going to ask me to do that again, which may or may not have anything to do with the large amount of complaining I did the whole time we were there. Sorry, Gabe.

And of course, yesterday was Mother's Day, which meant family coming over for a steak lunch (including my cousin Stephanie, who is still hosting a giveaway on her blog to win 2 rings from my shop. Go enter!). A lot of you guys posted some really sweet blogs about your mom yesterday, which I enjoyed reading. I didn't do a whole post for it, but rest assured I think my mom is pretty fabulous. :)

Cupcakes, Anyone?

Top, Purse, Necklace, Owl Ring: Forever21 --- Belt: Thrifted --- Skirt: Etsy/pegasusvintage --- Shoes: Kohls --- Wire Rings: Handmade

I just realized that this will be my 3rd post with the word cupcake in the title. Does that make me obsessed?
The first post with the word cupcake in the title was just about me feeling like a cupcake in that particular skirt.
The second post with the word cupcake in the title was about how I was eating a cupcake when I heard that Osama bin Laden was dead and that I will remember that cupcake forever.
And today I have the word cupcake in the title because today is baby shower day at work, and that can only mean one thing:

Yeah, cupcakes.

Plain Jane

Top: Target --- Necklace: Forever21 --- Belt and Skirt: Thrifted --- Tights: Kohls --- Oxfords: UrbanOg --- Vintage Purse: Etsy/58bluebirds

Well friends, I had to get my tights out again today. It's raining. Hard. On April 29th. I am near tears. The dull weather carried over to my outfit today, I think, because looking at this picture now I'm not sure why I thought this was an interesting outfit when I originally picked it out. But alas, I carry on.

I got this purse from 58bluebirds on Etsy. It's super cute and in nice condition. She's got a few other purses I'm eyeballing... if I make some sales soon I may just have to snap them up!

I'm going to be applying some changes to my blog today, so if you are here and everything looks funky, I promise it's only temporary! Well, at least I hope it will be temporary. I have a feeling I will probably screw something up, so keep your fingers crossed that that's not the case.

Outfit: Rosey Posey

Top, Necklace, & Purse: Forever21 --- Belt: Thrifted --- Skirt: Handmade --- Tights: Kohls --- Shoes: Payless

Coat: ModCloth

 I'm back in my white tights today... gone is the sunny weather of the past two days, replaced by darkness my old friend (oh man, I totally should not even have made that reference at all).

I woke up this morning with my first sickness of 2011. It's just a cold thankfully and not the flu or anything ultra-nasty like that, but it does make it quite a lot worse that I have to work whilst having my cold. Is this what being an adult is like? Working when sick? I don't want to grow up! I want to be a Toys 'R Us kid!

Wow, another dumb reference. This cold is really messing with my head today.

Yesterday was my day off and I made a trip out to the fabric store to pick up some stuff to make myself some new skirts. I only got around to making one yesterday (the one I'm wearing right now), but I've got two more on the way. The original plan was to just get mustard yellow fabric, but I ended up spying two other prints I knew would make adorable skirts. Can't wait to see how the orange one turns out!

Outfit: Skippy Doo, Caribou

I saw this belt at St. Vincent dePaul and I said, "I must have that belt". The fact that it is far too big for my waist is a minor technicality. I just pulled it through the loop and tucked the end behind. Looks a little weird, but it's cool to look weird nowadays, right?

Jewelry made with white magnesite and caribou antler.

Outfits: Dressing Up

March 15-

If I ever try the 30/30 Challenge, this dress is definitely going in the line-up. It is hands down my favorite item in my closet and I am so happy that my mom talked me into it (when I first tried it on I was on the fence; she was the one that made me decide on it) for my graduation. I am tired of having to layer over and under it, though. Mr. Sun, please come back to me soon!

March 16-

This was my second vintage dress that I bought on Etsy, but for reasons unknown, I've never worn it before. It's super cute and breezy and I can't wait to wear it more this summer.

My wild woman hair is kind of getting out of control. I desperately need a haircut before I turn into Cousin It. That would be no bueno.

Outfits: My Favorite Skirts

March 9-

Favorite Skirt #1 also qualifies as my favorite thrift store find ever. Seriously, I love it. A lot. You can't really see it that well in the pictures, but it is pleated all the way around and has a great motion when I walk. So glad I found this guy.

This top was another Vera Wang item I picked up at Kohl's. It was on the clearance rack for a gazillion dollars off so I couldn't resist. I love how it ties at the neck.

March 10-

Favorite Skirt #2 is one that I bought a long time ago and didn't wear it for months because I thought is was really unflattering. I eventually figured out that if I got it to sit at my waist instead of my hips, though, it looks much better. I just use the waist sash to tie keep it in place. And now it's my best friend and I wish I could wear it every day. 

Side note: this is one of my new ModCloth coats! I love the color, and the buttons are super killer. And don't even get me started on the pink lining... pure gorgeousness...

The other coat I got is pretty cool, too. Not quite as fabulous as this one, but still good. The skirt, on the other hand, was awful. On the ModCloth site is said that it ran large so I should order a size down. So I did. And it's too small. Thanks for nothing, ModCloth. At least it was only $15... I can't imagine who would have paid the original $50 for it. The darn thing wasn't even lined.

Reasons Why Today Is/Will Be Awesome

This isn't part of the blog, but just wanted to say thanks to one of my readers, Miss Monica, who linked up my Here Not There features on nevershoppedout.com. Thank you, Monica, I appreciate it! (I would have written you an email but I didn't see one on your profile).

Tuesday, the 8th of March, 2011, also known as today, should be a pretty spectacular day. Why is that? Let me tell you:

1) My ModCloth purchase is supposed to come today! I just checked on the UPS tracking site and it's out for delivery! Huzzah!

2) I am wearing the most adorable dress ever from dirtybettyvintage. Does that make me a Dirty Betty? I don't know. I've had it for a few weeks now and haven't worn it before because it needed a little hemming since it was way past my knees. I finally got around to it last night and took about 4 inches off the bottom, and ended up taking the sleeves up a few inches as well. I did a pretty dandy job, I think.

3) I am wearing my new wedges I got at Kohl's the other day. This is awesome because I found them on Clearance for only $9.99 (and I had the 15% off coupon). I actually had tried these on and almost bought them a few weeks back, but didn't want to spend $35 on them. Patience pays off, my friends.

4) I get to see my dearest bestest friend Janell today. She left me this year to go to college (the nerve!) so I don't get to see her much anymore. Fun fact: my dearest bestest friend has the exact same birthday as me. Same day, same year. I think she's got a few hours on me.
My dearest bestest friend:

Isn't she the cutest thing ever? I don't know how to give photo credit here because I'm not sure if the photographer has a website or not, but the pics were taken by Kristin.

4) The most important reason I am excited for today, though, is what Janell and I are going to be doing. We are going to go here:

It's the new basketball court at the University of Oregon. But we aren't going to see any boring basketball game, we are going to see an exhibition match between the two current tennis gods. That's right, I'm going to see Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer.

Oh, and I guess Maria Sharapova and some other shrieking girl will be there, too, but who cares about them?

I am so excited! Can it please be 3 o'clock now?

Outfits: The Lost Look, the White Dress, and the Petri Dish

March 5-
I may have accidentally deleted the picture of this day's outfit, as I can't find it anywhere on my computer. Perhaps I'll come across it in a few days on some deep, dark corner of my pictures folder. I was able to find the picture I took of my new necklace that I made for myself, though, so not all is lost. I used some sweet Amethyst nuggets that I've had kicking around my bead box forever and a day. It's simple, but I really like it.

March 6-

Love love love love love love love love love love love love love love this dress I traded for with ModernMode. Meg (the shop owner) is so sweet and I love doing trades with her. She gets awesome jewelry and I get awesome dresses. Happiness all around!

I'm really looking forward to wearing this one without the cardigan and tights. It'll still probably be another few weeks before the weather allows for that, though.

Just noticed I forgot to list the belt! It was $6.29 at Urban Outfitters.

March 7-

So I finally got around to going to Kohl's yesterday to get myself some new gray tights, since both my dark and light gray pairs had huge holes in them and were no longer wearable. Naturally I found two other pairs I liked, but they were a good price and I had a 15% off coupon so I let myself splurge and get 4 pairs total (2 gray, 1 ivory, and the lavender ones I'm wearing right now).

I also scoped out some sweet Vera Wang tank tops that were only $15 each, and after the additional discount I thought they were a pretty good price so I got two (the other one has a different print). I like this one a lot even though I think it looks like a petri dish.

And I never thought this would happen to me or that I would ever be willing to admit it on the internet, but I fell in love with a pair of Lauren Conrad shoes. I'm not really sure who Lauren Conrad is except that she was on some dumb TV show a while back (maybe she still is? I don't know...) so I automatically want to hate everything she designs. But there was no way I could make myself hate these shoes. So stinking cute. They were also $45, though, and no matter how much I wanted to get them I couldn't make myself spend that much on them. I found them on the Kohl's website and now have them bookmarked, so if they go on sale I will be ready. Check them out HERE and tell me if I'm crazy for loving them or not.

Outfits: Pink and Frilly

March 3-

In yesterday's "Save Money" post, I said you should never skip the sale section just because you think it's gross stuff that a store is trying to get rid of. I think Target was really trying to get rid of this shirt because it was on $3.74 and it was the last one, but I'm not going to complain. I didn't have any light pink shirts like this so I thought it would be good to have at least one in my collection. So yay for cheap, new clothes!

March 4-

I realized I hadn't worn any of the loot I got from my trip to the first ever Oregon H&M yet, so I broke out my frilly cardigan today. I was originally going to wear some heels, but when I put them on and looked in the mirror I just looked so... girly. So out came the flats and, of course, my favorite gray jacket, which both helped to tone down the fancy-pants-ness of it.

Outfits: Cheapy Cheapy

I'm switching to every other day outfit posts, just FYI. I felt bad for junking up everyone's blog rolls. :)

March 1st-

Uhm, super cheap outfit, am I right? When was the last time you saw an 8 piece ensemble for only $20.25? Granted, the dress didn't cost me anything because my mom made it for me, and the jewelry didn't cost me either (well, other than supply costs) because I made it myself, but STILL.

March 2nd-  

I love this skirt I found at St. Vincent's on my last trip there (which was oh so long ago... the first thing I'm going to do when I stop working 6 days a week is dedicate an entire day to thrift shopping). It's kind of like a faux-leather. It is perhaps a little longer than I'd like, but I can deal with it since it's not the type of material that your just hem up in 5 minutes.

Outfits: From the farm straight to your monitor

True story about this outfit:
I wore this same top and skirt combo (styled differently, of course) to church a few weeks ago. I teach 4th and 5th grade Sunday School for girls, and usually they go gaga over what I wear. OK, so not really gaga, but I'm pretty much the fashion icon of 5th graders at my church.
Well, when I walked into class wearing this shirt, one of the girls looked me up and down a few times and said, "Wow, Leanna, it looks like you just came from the farm." Uhm, okay. "Is that a good thing?" I asked her. "Yeah, I like it," she said. The moral of my tale: If you are ever going to talk to a group of 5th grade girls, try going for a farmer-chic look and they will love you.

That said, I don't think I look like I came from the farm. Unless the farm was one that it would be acceptable to wear heels to.

Outfit: What the HECK, Oregon?!?

Dear Oregon, it is almost March. Please stop this nonsense. Thanks. -Leanna

So this is what I woke up to this morning. That, and all my still-in-high-school buddies crying up a storm on facebook because school wasn't canceled. Waa waa. I still had to go to work, quit your blubbering. 

My dear puppy Pippin loves the snow. Don't ask me why, because I would think it was make him cold and uncomfortable to run around and cover himself with snow balls (seriously, I had to blow dry him when he came in this morning because he was covered and it sets into his hair). To torture him, I asked him if he wanted to play ball with me, and promptly starting throwing snow balls for him to chase.

Poop little guy (ETA: I have been informed of the typo, but shall leave it for comedic purposes. Thanks, Allison!). He would run   around trying to find where it had gone, and if he did manage to find it it just fell apart when he tried to pick it up. Also, I'm amazed my lame microphone picked up my dopey dog-voice from all the way across the yard. I don't normally talk like that, I swear. :)

Anyways, this is not what I was planning on wearing at all today, but I hadn't planned on a freaking blizzard rolling through Oregon (not really a blizzard, but annoying nonetheless) so I had to make some last minute adjustments.

Question: Does it look weird to wear a necklace and cowl at the same time? I keep on going back and forth and it and I can't make up my mind. So what say you?

Outfit & A Rant About Facebook

Last night I did myself the biggest favor ever and picked out my outfits for the rest of the week. There was nothing interesting on TV so I just decided to go play dress up for a while so I could save myself some time the rest of the evenings this week. So now I have 4 more outfits all picked out and hanging, in order, in my closet. If only other aspects of my life were so organized...

But anyways.
I was going to take a moment to rant about the number of people on facebook doing the stupid 60 Day Photo Challenge (if you don't know what I'm talking about, be glad), but then I remembered that I did a 30 Day Blogging challenge and a lot of people probably thought that was stupid too so maybe I won't complain.

Nah, I'll complain anyways.

Seriously, almost half of my news feed is pictures for this challenge. I have to sift through all these random pictures that I don't care about (i.e. A picture that makes you smile. A picture of your dream car. A picture of your favorite sport... and the list goes on and on) to find actual status updates that I might care about. Because if I can't keep up with who's dating who and who just broke up then I will die! Die, people! This is serious!

OK, so maybe it's not such a big deal, but the end of this stupid challenge cannot come quickly enough. If you want to post pictures of all of your favorite things, get a blog. Facebook is for dumb status updates, blogs are for pointless pictures. The end.