You'll notice that I have a lot of black and white clothes and out fit ideas.

You can't go wrong with black and white.

This is one of my favorite couple of pieces of clothing:

1. Lace turtle neck

2. Pencil skirt with suspenders

3. Faux leather heeled booties

I was daring and I added fancy make-up with darling red lips and a cross bun.
 
I love red lips! I rarely get the courage to wear them though because I have large lips and color draws that much more attention to them. 

But what the hey! I decided to go for it today.

 I also tried out a new hair style today; the cross bun. I got the hairstyle from this blog.

My bun wasn't as tidy because my hair is short and layered but it still turned out pretty cute. It was really easy too.

All you need to do is make a low loop , by not pulling your pony completely through your hair tie. Make sure you leave out two pieces by your ears. Take those two pieces and wrap them over your pony and bobby pin in place. 

It is that EASY.
 
I love getting the excuse to dress up! 

Tonight I had an celebratory dinner for getting an award at work. Since there where only three of us that won this time we decided to splurge and treat ourselves to Tepanyaki Japanese Steakhouse. 

YUM! I melt thinking of the food...and I just finished eating it!

The chefs are awesome too; they cook in front of you. I almost caught the shrimp tossed at me, almost.

I was still feeling like jeans but wanted to dress it up so I went with my purple skinny jeans.

I paired with a black and white striped tank, white cardigan (another birthday purchase), and black heels. These are my favorite heels. They rock!
 
We had to go to UVU campus today to register Jake for classes starting the 24th...of June. We are slow.

Yay, Jake! He is making the leap of faith to go back to school after being out for 4 years! So proud of him!

Anyways, the outing gave me the chance to wear some non-professional clothing. What does that mean? JEANS! 

I could live in jeans.

I broke out my brand new birthday jeans (my birthday was the 5th) that I bought for $20.00 at Maurices. 

They are awesome. 

The are stretch to fit meaning, you buy them snug and they stretch to fit.

I know how this sounds and I was skeptical at first too but they are so comfy! AND in a pant size smaller than I have been wearing! Woot! Woot!
 
This is such a fun girly outfit! I'm married to a cowboy so of course he got me some nice Ariat boots. Yes, I'm spoiled.

I paired my sweet boots with my lace blouse, knit bolero, floral skirt, brown belt and bronze jewelry. As cheesy as it sounds, I just felt pretty and feminine. 
 
I was feeling "green" for work today. But seriously, I love green...and I love cardigans. I got this extra long one a couple years ago. 

Today I paired it with my black vest, zebra halter and grey slacks.

I used gold tones for my eye shadow and similar bronzer on my cheeks.

For my hair I formed a low messy bum on the right side of my head. Whenever I have an updo I try to take advantage and wear dangly earrings! Today I wore my gold chain ones.
 
I got out my Navy inspired jacket for work today!

Since I had gold buttons I decided to play up the warm tones by pairing it with a mustard blouse.

I also threw on my grey slacks and gold pointies.


 
This is a flash back to one of Bri (my best friend) and my first videos. We make music videos all the time just for fun. Its a blast!

I decided to post this picture because I'm wearing my favorite rocker accessory; my black moccasin boots.

I paired them with a black band tee, some cool jeans and lots of bangles.

I also had some much fun hair that summer as well. I bleached my hair line, forehead to nap of neck.  I looked even cooler pulled up. It was a lot of up-keep though!


 
For church today I decided to go a little retro. 

I bought this geometric patterned skirt at Forever 21 about a year ago. I am also wearing a second skirt underneath because it is not long enough for my liking.

I got a bonus because the brown belt came with the skirt. Woot! woot!

I got my jean shirt from Burlington Coat Factory for $10.00

My shoes I bought for $25. I should have bought more than one pair because I they go with everything!

I am wearing the poor suckers out.

Below are the earrings I wore; I picked them up traveling Italy.
 
Back to work again!

I felt like I had a mini vacation getting Tuesday & Wednesday off this week. 

I guess I've been getting overtime a little too long.

Today for work I still had a little "vacation brain" so I decided I needed to have an easy outfit day.

My favorite easy outfit? 
A cardigan and a patterned shirt

I also expanded my easy day to my makeup. I did my regular coverup, light blush with just a tad of mascara.

Best accessory?
A great smile.

Yes, yes I did just write that incredibly cheesy line.
But its true.