Bracelets: the usual plus my Balenciaga Silver Giant Triple Tour Braceletin Rose Bruyere from HGBags Online (similar here)
Not a fan of my outfit today. Too much black and my pants wouldn't stay in the ankle boots - as you can see in the photos! I need to remember to wear dresses and skirts with these boots, or cropped pants. These are one of those sets of outfit photos I'd rather not post... I want to post all of my daily outfits though, so you get to see my mistake :) Check a full length mirror before you leave the house to avoid this kind of thing! ;)
I had the crazy idea of putting all this together last night while working late as I had to do a presentation today. We are usually very casual at work on Fridays. I wanted to look dressed up enough so that I'd fit in if others were wearing standard work clothes, but not stick out too much if others were doing casual Friday. It was funny, I got to the meeting room early to setup and one of the ladies there was wearing identical pants - so I think I got the outfit right, except the boots. I spent most of the day wishing I'd worn flats instead and trying to subtly push my pants legs back into my boots :P
Also received my giveaway prizes today! Margs from La Petite Mademoiselle had a blog giveaway and I won!
Bonus video showing what I wore as someone requested I show them the different ways you can carry the Rebecca Minkoff mini MAB.
Another surprisingly warm winter day on Sunday! DH and I stopped by a car show with my father in law in the morning. It was such a lovely day to be outside. The good vibes continued when we got home and found out that we won the video competition at Church Online with our re-enactment of the Lion King scene with Cooper as Simba!
It's playing all week at http://live.lifechurch.tv/ if you want to see him being a little star! The times of each session are available here. Instead of a normal church service, we are watching movies, so click on over and check it out. It's all free of course, and everyone is invited.
Would love to know what you thought of Cooper's video, and the movie :)
Bit of red for a Monday! Just picked the colours for what I was wearing out of this dress that I haven't worn in a while. It's such a lovely print. Have had this dress at the back of my mind to wear for a bit, and the red seemed cheerful for Monday.
Linking up with Sunday Style at Plane Pretty, Style Elixir, My Style Monday, Trend Spin and A lovely blog hop today.
Leona Edmiston have a 75% off sale on now, so I bought some new dresses from there for work :)
I couldn't believe it when I saw the name of this skirt featured in Shop Till You Drop magazine - I had to buy it, as I share its name! I really like it, and a good price too.
Just like last month, I managed to avoid the sales and stores most of the time. The continuing heatwaves meant playdates at home in the aircon and so there was no shopping temptations from meeting up in Westfield. Unsubscribing from emails from online stores has helped keep temptation at bay as well.
The biggest help in avoiding shopping has been the boys though! Their naps have gone from sometimes lining up to never lining up so it's extremely difficult to waste time online 'just browsing' shopping sites. That has been the major factor to make this month another easy month for avoiding shopping. I feel it's made me a bad blogger too as it's so hard to read other blogs but baby routines change so much, it's only temporary.
Two years ago I did a wardrobe inventory. I wanted to do one last year but never seemed to find the time. I'd like to make it an annual thing. In 2015, I had 101 accessories and 266 items of clothing.
Since then I have had many more declutter sessions, a wardrobe detox with a personal stylist and another pregnancy. I was interested to see how the count would have changed this year. The totals below doesn't include things like pieces I only wear for layering, pyjamas and loungewear.
My wardrobe had 367 items in 2015 so 294 is a step in the right direction! I do try to share my wardrobe edits on the blog when I've given something its last wear and it is leaving my wardrobe. Sometimes I never give pieces a final wear and I don't like them when I try them on or I remember I didn't like them last time I wore them and so I donate or sell them.
It's wonderful that I've managed to reduce the number of bags and scarves but I'm surprised I've increased the number of shoes I own! I'm disappointed I have so many dresses, after I got rid of a few at the end of the Frocktober challenge. It's good to see I've halved the number of grey tees though.
How Many Outfits?
Since I'm attempting the #30Wears challenge this year I thought it would be interesting to calculate how many outfits I'd have in my wardrobe if I tried to get 30 wears from everything. Keeping it simple as maths isn't my strong point, just looking at tops and dresses and not outfit combinations:
30 wears from 41 dresses is 1,230 outfits. Almost 3 and a half years of outfits.
30 wears from 97 tops is 2,910 outfits. Almost 8 years of outfits.
And I frequently think I have nothing to wear, wow...😮
If I was to just focus on getting 30 wears out of everything I currently own, I wouldn't need to buy any new clothes for around 11 years. Somehow 6 months without shopping seems like a very short time. You can be sure I'll be looking back at these numbers when I'm tempted to buy something, to help me stick to my no-shopping challenge for the next 4 months.
I really liked looking at how my wardrobe has changed in 2 years and if you enjoyed seeing it too I'll attempt another inventory next year. If you've done a similar count please leave a link to your post in the comments, I'd love to read it. Linking up with Fashion Files, Budgeting Bloggers, Fun Fashion, Fabulous Friday.
Bracelets: the usual trio Top: Just Jeans ribbed button detail singlet Shorts: Jeanswest black denim cuff shorts Shoes: Cotton On 'Tom' thongs in black Bag: Mimco Cocoon bag in metallic silver lambskin
Just quick instagram pictures in place of a proper outfit picture today. Apologies for those who have already seen these in my instagram feed.
I got dressed to go out to the doctors today and then as I have been the last two days, I spent the rest of the day relaxing and lying on the sofa with Cooper. Still not feeling or looking great, so didn't take any proper outfit pictures.
The top was last worn here, shoes here and bag here. This is the first time I've worn these shorts on the blog.
