Neon Styling for Summer

If you love the neon trend but need some inspiration on how to put looks together this summer, stay tuned on here because you'll get styling tips for every occasion or event you want to dress up for. This style/mood board is for a casual style; a look you'll want to wear to a backyard or garden party, a summer wedding; indoor or outdoor or even to any party or blogger's event. For this look, I started with a neon blouse and you can use the set above for inspiration and use any neon blouse or top that you like. If you are interested in this particular high neck satin blouse, check it out here. I paired the blouse with a brown color ruffle, asymmetrical skirt and then completed the outfit with beautiful summer accessories; a basket bag, snake print high heel sandals and strawberry statement earrings. Happy viewing, happy styling

Pleated Skirt Sale at Asos

My love for pleated skirt just cannot be explained in a few words. Pleat Skirts are sophisticated and glamorous and edgy and classy at the same time. It is also a style of skirt that can be worn by any lady irrespective of her size or age. This style of skirt can be dressed up or down and can be styled for just about any occasion. Asos is my favorite brand (store) at the moment because it recently released lots of beautiful pleated pieces in beautiful colors and styles. This skirt style has become a classic over the recent years so it is a trend that is around every season. If you are interested in snagging a few pieces for your closet, check out some of my favorite selections on sale at Asos right now and they are selling out fast. If you want to see the previous post where I styled this blue number, check it out here. See you in the next post.

Floral Sequin blouse + Black midi pencil Skirt

I know it is Tuesday and not the end of the week yet but I really needed to do this throwback post to this sequin floral blouse I wore sometime last month. The weather is all dreary around here and all I have been wearing are sweaters and long coats as you can see from my previous posts on the blog but this post here is just to add a fun look to the blog and really, believe me when I tell you that this outfit was fun to style and wear. It's a look I wore to Church weeks ago and though there was so much snow around in the background, the weather was bearable and I also had on a long black coat which I did not include in the pictures. The floral sequin blouse is a thrifted piece I blogged about here a few weeks ago. I paired it with a black midi pencil skirt, a recent purchase from Target and completed the look with an Asos belt and black suede pumps.

What to do with old trendy pieces in your Closet

Hi Friends, happy Thursday 😀 I'm sharing an old look from my blog folder for this post on a throwback Thursday. (These pics were in my folder for about a year and were not blogged before now mostly because of the quality but I I tried to edit the pictures with the Snapseed App a bit and decided to blog them anyway). This pineapple prints skirt from Ann Taylor  is an old piece from my closet and I have styled it several times on the blog before in this post here and here.  It was so popular two summers ago because of the beautiful unusual pineapple print and there were about three pieces in the collection as it is usual with some of these trendy summer prints; there were dresses, skirts and shorts. For this look, I paired the skirt with a chambray shirt and block heel sandals and a "big-hair-don't-care" attitude 😁 I have worn this outfit a couple of times (since) after the day these pics were taken, mostly to church. And this brings me to the main idea behind this post; what do you do with very old trendy pieces in your closet?

How to look glam in ten minutes for New Year's Party

So, just a quick post here; happy new year everyone 😙 While we are all getting ready for the new year and spending time with our loved ones, we shouldn't forget that it's easy to get carried away and start to splurge on new clothing and accessories that become big regrets later. This blog is all about saving money and this post is on how to get ready quickly for that new year dinner by re-styling and wearing clothes that are already in our closet.


For this look, I wore my sequin dress that I got as a gift from hubby a couple of years ago and re-styled it as a top for my pencil midi skirt. The dress would have been too short to wear on its own anyway and I remember I had worn tights underneath with thigh high boots for a different holiday party a couple of years ago. I added my sparkly drop earrings from Jcrew, a sparkly clutch from TJ Maxx, a pair black of stockings from Loft and a pair

Pink and taupe colors

Hi Everyone 😃 Happy new week. This is just a quick post here. I have been digging into my closet and getting out all my old pieces to wear again whether they are in style or not. I looked into my closet some weeks back and was like; what! so many clothes, I have no idea how they got there...*hehehe* 😜 Well, I've got to do something about my closet pretty soon. I have been exploring the option of selling online too with one of those apps.

One Skirt; three Seasons

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Happy Friday Friends; woot!! tgif!!! (thank God it's Friday) The post for today showcases how I transition  one of my midi skirt from one season to the next. The midi skirt pictured here is one of my favorites because of the beautiful unique prints and I have worn it with boots, pumps and

Eshakti Landscape Print Skirt

Happy Thanksgiving Eve Friends; just a quick Post to say hi to you. I know most people are busy at this time with domestic issues and might not have time to sit down and relax to browse their favorite blogs but I just wanted to put up this Post to say "Thank-you" to anyone and everyone who stops by here today. There will be a "Thanksgiving Outfit Inspiration Post" tomorrow on the blog and Friday's Post would be a tip or two on Black Friday shopping. Most of my blog posts are prescheduled on my archives so, they are not going to get in the way of me enjoying the holiday and spending time with my family and Friends. I restyled this landscape print  midi skirt previously blogged about HERE in this post today. I love you for stopping by here.

Skirt: Eshakti (sold-out) /  similar (Dress) style HERE  / another Dress version HERE / Sweater: Ann Taylor (sold-out) Boots: Steve Madden

 

 

 

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Polka dot Skirt

It's Friday; 'yay!!!" This is a quick look at this fun outfit I wore a few weeks ago and it can be a fun outfit for the weekend for anyone; a mix of formal and casual. The formal being the dress up shirt and the casual being the polka-dots high-low skirt and block heels. You can wear this outfit with slight modifications to work on Friday for casual Friday and to after hours shenanigans. Polka dots skirts are always fun to wear and you can certainly twirl in a full midi skirt like this one. Happy Friday...:-)

 

Shirt: Victorias Secret (sold-out) / Skirt: Several options HERE / Heels: Steve Madden

 

 

 

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Stripes and Green Midi Skirt

I wore this outfit sometime in the spring and just I'm going to make the post short because the combination of "stripes and anything" does not need any elaboration. Stripes always have a way of elevating an outfit especially when it is black and white stripes in my opinion. I combined the striped long sleeve tee with my green  midi chicwish and green and it seemed like a match made in heaven.

Longsleeved tee: Loft (old) /Skirt: Chicwish /Necklace: Avon /Pumps: VS Shoes

What do you think of stripes? Do you wear the combination of "stripes plus anything?"





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Let's go to London

Happy Sunday Friends; yes, I have been bitten by the midi skirt bug. I am so happy for this trend, in previous years, wearing midi skirts was regarded matronly and highly conservative and young ladies never wanted to be seen in them but look at us now, we are all wearing midi skirts like it's nothing. Midi skirts are so youthful and fun.

This outfit is what I wore to church today. I got this skirt from Chicwish recently and I really like the fun art printed on it; it's a pic of the red London double decker buses and telephone booths; again so, so fun. I blogged about it in this outfit collage here. This skirt sold out quickly on the Chicwish website but there are other beautiful midi skirts and pieces on the site. I just love Chicwish for reintroducing fashion for women. I forgot to put on my sunglasses today and squinted continuously while I was outdoors. Did they say squinting and frowning causes early wrinkles or was it laughing and smiling a lot that causes it or all of the above? Well, I don't care much about that...hehehe...:-). but I'll definitely remember to have my sunglasses on hand next time.

Blouse: old
Skirt: Chicwish : Here  -Similar
Pumps: Asos
Necklace: Walmart

This is just a quick post to say hi. I'll be back again to talk some more sometime soon; all of God's blessings in the new week friends.



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Holy Chic on Denim Midi

This graphic tee is one of my favorites because I fell in love with it the first time I saw it online. I like how catchy and bold the "graphics" is and I used it in my Polyvore collages here and here. Some say it is a play on words and that it refers to a bad phrase "Holy $h_t!"but to me it is just the literal and simple meaning of the phrase. However, I am not saying I am super holy or perfect but I am getting there...hehehe..:-).

I paired the tee with this denim midi skirt I purchased recently  from T. J Maxx and it must have sold out quickly because I got this from the sales rack and it was the only one available (in that location probably). There is another option on Chicwish here. This outfit was meant to combat the heat we experienced in Minneapolis today and I am planning on dealing with the summer heat this year in more graphic muscle tees. I am currently eyeing this cute piece here and here. This tee reminds me that I am still working on my "holiness;" (spirituality). christianity is a continuous process and so long as we stay on the course everything will be okay. Love also is the greatest ingredient for the Christian life because Jesus said the greatest gift of all is love.

Graphic tee: Sold out- Forever 21
Midi Skirt: Calvin Klein via T. J. Maxx
Pumps: Asos-blogged about here

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1 Corinthians 13 New Living Translation (NLT)

Love Is the Greatest

13 If I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels, but didn’t love others, I would only be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I had the gift of prophecy, and if I understood all of God’s secret plans and possessed all knowledge, and if I had such faith that I could move mountains, but didn’t love others, I would be nothing. 3 If I gave everything I have to the poor and even sacrificed my body, I could boast about it;[a] but if I didn’t love others, I would have gained nothing.

4 Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud 5 or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged. 6 It does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out. 7 Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.

8 Prophecy and speaking in unknown languages[b] and special knowledge will become useless. But love will last forever! 9 Now our knowledge is partial and incomplete, and even the gift of prophecy reveals only part of the whole picture! 10 But when the time of perfection comes, these partial things will become useless.

11 When I was a child, I spoke and thought and reasoned as a child. But when I grew up, I put away childish things. 12 Now we see things imperfectly, like puzzling reflections in a mirror, but then we will see everything with perfect clarity.[c] All that I know now is partial and incomplete, but then I will know everything completely, just as God now knows me completely.

¹³ Three things will last forever—faith, hope, and love—and the greatest of these is love.

Brush Strokes..

Happy Sunday Friends; the summer heat is here. It was so hot today that I was so puzzled on what to wear to beat the heat. I finally picked this white plain tee but the fabric was so light and sheer and my undergarments were showing so I had to layer a tank top underneath. I paired it with this multi color midi skirt that has such a beautiful print of a landscape. Yes, "Artsy Print" is the print that is really trending right now. On this skirt you can see all the beautiful brush strokes of a carefully painted landscape; how awesome. If you remember, this skirt was on my Eshakti list a while ago when I hosted my Giveaway.

I fell in love with the skirt when I saw it on the Eshakti website but it was not part of the free selection for bloggers review so I could not pick it at the time. I had to purchase it on my own later along with another gorgeous red lace dress. I paired the skirt with my blue cobalt pumps and this multicolor necklace I got from Walmart last year. I was able to beat the heat in this outfit and I know I will be recycling this skirt again this summer.

Tee: Victorias Secret
Skirt: Eshakti sold out similar
Shoes: sold out
Necklace: Walmart

I hope you have got your summer wardrobe ready if you are reading this post; tees and light skirts are a must-have for the summer heat. This is one way I would wear a tee without looking too casual.  I wish everyone a great week.



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My Coral Midi Skirt

Hi friends, I hope we all had a great weekend. We're having very beautiful weather today although it was cold the last couple of days. I decided to wear my coral color midi skirt that I purchased last summer today.  I have been loving the color "coral" lately and white is always my first color to pair coral with. It was also my first time today of wearing this pink and black statement necklace I purchased recently from Walmart for 10 dollars. I got to know of this super affordable necklace from other blogs  and I decided to check them out when I went in there for my kids' school supplies. They were of such high quality and there were so many beautiful colors and designs that I left the store with a couple. I'll do a post on my jewelry haul next time.

                   
                                                                        Shirt: J.C. Penny
                                                                        Skirt: Talbots (old) similar here.
                                                                        Shoes: Louboutins
                                                                        Purse: Prada Milano
                                                                        Necklace: Walmart here
                                                                        Bracelet: Loft

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