Wardrobe Art: Winter Colors

So I am breaking one of the rules of outfit photos with this one; all the clutter! But honestly, Lila was occupied and it would have totally distracted her to clean up the room. So oh well, I hope it doesn't offend you too much!

 The necklace is authentic vintage: it used to be my Mom's! I actually used to have it in my "dress up" box when I was a kid. The shirt was thrifted, the skirt is very old from American Apparel. I actually wore this skirt a lot when I was pregnant because of the elastic waist.

 The tights are from We Love Colors and the boots are from Delia's. I love the combination of olive green, grey, mustard yellow, and brown for midwinter. 

While I was doing that, Lila was busy doing this:

In case you can't tell, she's sitting in the windowsill reading books!

:)

Birthday Girl!

Lila's birthday was weeks ago, but since she was sick and other stuff came up, I haven't had a chance to post anything about her birthday! So here are some photos celebrating my favorite one-year-old!

 With the family I nanny for we had a mini party where she opened presents, they sang to her, and I brought rainbow cupcakes!

 The girls were very excited to give her gift! They are such sweet kids!

 And two lovely handmade cards! I'm thinking about employing them to work for my shop, what do ya think?

I was so grateful to them for being willing to have a little celebration for her, because our house is just too small to do anything in. Plus I didn't want to throw a huge stressful party that she wouldn't even remember. So I'll save the stressful parties for when she is older!

(Actually, I love planning parties I just have to have my own place to do it in!)

We did have a little celebration at home too of course, just my parents and me and Lila.

Just in ase

 She was still sick on her actual birthday, she had just IV fluids the night before so she was feeling a lot better, and she even tried some cake!

 Lila got a xylophone from Grandma!

 And some bristle blocks from me!

She was a very sweet girl on her birthday. It was nice, relaxing, and memorable.

10 Things Making Me Smile

1) This awesome photo of Lila and my Dad:

2) Remembering summer and swings!

3) My Mom and Lila

4) Homemade french onion soup in my Mom's authentic vintage crock pot.

5) Lila dressed up as a fairy princess after we went to a "fairy princess party" at our church.

6) This adorable reminder from the dentist.

7) Lila pulling tissues out of the box and ripping them up.

 8) This friendly (and yummy) note from the car repair place!

 9) This silly photo shoot!

 10) My girl the musician!

10 Things Making Me Smile

1) A perfectly organized play corner:

and then...

2) A smoothie made with frozen berries, yogurt and apple juice!

3) Destructo-Baby

4) Candy Corn!

 5) The last goodies in the garden ~ Collard Greens and Swiss Chard!

6) My nails ~ I wish I could have gotten a better picture of them (can you tell they sort of fade to darker blue sparkles from bottom to top?)

7) Hangin' outside with Lila Rae!

8) Perfectly posing cats:

9) Lila's new shoes!

10) These pics of the butterflies I raised this summer from caterpillar eggs I found in my backyard!