In Living Colour

I hope you had a great weekend! Here's what I wore this Saturday. Another pair of colourful tights and another little black dress. And my new shoes!

Blazer thrifted Strenesse, scarf H&M, tights H&M, shoes Donna Girl from DNA Shoes, dress H&M, lace top worn underneath from clothes swap, earrings Swarowski.

Also, welcome all new followers!

Peace, love and weekend

White sweater from the clothes swap (see yesterdays post), blue tank Aeropostale, jean leggins H&M, earrings Gina Tricot, blazer thrifted Strenesse, scarf Old Navy and suede ballerinas Gap.

I am leaving home til tomorrow for a kid free hotel stay with my mother and my sister (mother of a six month old). We are gonna eat out and just enjoy each others company. I hope you all have a great weekend!!!

And remember, with our actions we can change the world. While staying fashionable of course! ;) Dream on! Peace out!

Outfit of the day! And other rules I broke......

Yep, that's right. Outfit of the day. This blogging thing is an interesting journey. It seems to me like it is a lot like raising your children. You start out with a lot of principles, ideals and rules. Along the way, well something just happens. :) I think it might be called "life". So, I was totally NOT going to post outfit of the day pictures. I have abandoned that idea. And in my early teens I claimed I was totally NOT a skirt and dress type of girl. Yeah, right!  So here comes the outfit I wore today!

(Psst, you can click on the images to make them larger)

Blazer thrifted Strenesse, wool sweater Mango, dress HM, scarf used to be my moms in the seventies, tights Åhléns and cuff Forever 21.

Thrifted shoes. It was actually spring this morning when I got dressed, can you imagine?! Then I went shopping with one of my girlfriends, helped my little brother move into his new place and went to my sister-in-laws birthday party and BOOM! It started snowing and suddenly it's winter all over again.

No, I am NOT in desperate need of a visit to the ladies room. My husband wanted me to hunch so he could get all of me in the picture. This was taken on our front porch and he didn't want to step into the snow. Maybe we need to practice this photography thing...

I just wanted to show you the earrings I wore. The double C:s come from a pair of thrifted clips. They broke and I added a pearl and some earring hooks.

And here's the skirt I bought at today's shopping trip.

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My spring wardrobe staples (some of them at least!)

I have a feeling this is going to be a staple in my spring wardrobe. This is one of my many thrift store finds. It is a Strenesse camel hair blazer, I guess it was produced sometimes in the nineties from the look of it.  I like to roll up the sleeves and wear it with skinny jeans and high heels. Hardly used it was a real catch at only $10 or 75 sek.

And here are my babies! Well, my shoe babies anyway... Bought them this summer at DSW. They're leather JS by Jessica Simpson. And they ARE comfy! While I was trying them on, totally enamored, my husband asked me: "Will you be able to walk in those?" Stupefied I looked at him thinking: "What does that have to do with anything?" I must say, when it comes to shoes I'm stupid enough to buy shoes that might keep me seated all through the party. Once at a wedding I wore a pair of beautiful vintage fifties pumps, they were SO uncomfortable! I wore them at the wedding ceremony, but even I was wise enough to bring flats for the party. Only, by the time I gave in to the flats, my feet were so swollen I had to have a male friend help me put my shoes on. I like to think I looked like Cinderella when he aided me but honestly, with my swollen feet and face twisted from the pain I probably looked like one of the stepsisters....

And one GREAT birthday present! Thanks grandad! Well, he paid and I chose.... These leather riding boots come from swedish page La Redoute . They are versatile, you can dress them up or down.

And one GREAT christmas gift! These are Disney Couture goldplated earrings. I am an avid Disney fan and on the leaves it says "Believe" on one side and "xoxo Tink" on the other. Best believe in fairies!!! I am becoming quite the earring collector. My husband has been giving me some nice ones.

He has given me a lot of beautiful jewellry through the years. My absolute favorites are my wedding band, my engagement ring, a gold anklet he gave me the morning after our wedding and these Judith Ripka earrings he gave me this summer on our fifth wedding anniversary. I LOVE Judith Ripka! These are silver earrings with amethyst. They will be dangling a lot from my earlobes this spring!