I just bought my first piece of maternity clothing! Until now I’ve been making due with what I have. I was lucky enough to borrow some bigger size dress pants from a friend to hold me over in that department! But Jeans… forget it, don’t fit at all! I already missed one jeans day at work and don’t want to miss another (plus the proceeds for this jeans fee go towards breast and colon cancer research so I just have to participate!) So I shopped online to find prices ranges at certain stores first, and then scoured the mall. This is going to be more difficult than I thought, because I’m so short! I have to buy petites and you just can’t find them everywhere when they don’t have a big maternity section (guess I’ll have to shop online going forward for a bigger selection). But I found a pair, at a decent price, at Motherhood Maternity. It’s kind of a small store in the mall closest to me, but these are kind of perfect. The band at the top is actually kind of comfortable with the maternal it’s made of- more comfortable than the first pair I tried on. I don’t know about you, but this was the first time I ever tried on maternity clothes! It was kind of weird! LOL. and of course, being the photography freak that I am!, I had to have my husband take a pic of my first maternity purchase! The first is the band folded down (which can actually be folded a little lower, I didn’t realize I has it up so high!) and then the alternate view is pulled up to go over the baby bump
Whenever I wear anything new, I don’t get to do anything fun. I have come to the conclusion that I must do a test run with new outfits as to not be disappointed when I’m looking forward to doing something. The first example I can think of was last month. It was a work bbq on the beach on a Saturday. I wore this shirt i’ve had for a while but never wore, and this was the perfect time to wear it. It was a tube top type shirt which is why i never wore it yet, i lived in MI, there are not many chances to wear it. Now that I’m in FL it’s nicer a lot more often. I didn’t want to wear a bathing suit to the work thing, so a tube top seemed the perfect choice to get some sun… long story short I got ready and all dressed up and then we never made it…I just happen to have a picture however, because I was doing a “self portrait challenge” that month and had to take a pic every day for the month. So I have a pic from before i left…I’ll share it now so i can share my outfit I missed out on, even though its only part of the shirt and not the full effect but you can see how my necklace perfectly ties in, and of course the new shades I had bought… not the mention the fact it was perfect I took a pic With the glasses on because I dont have any pictures of me posted on here, so it kinda works out perfect to still “camouflage” my identity. haha.
Which brings me to my second event…Yesterday, I decided to wear this shirt, again never wore before but had for a while. Not as long as the other shirt, but I’ve had it since March. I decided I didn’t need a “special occasion” to wear this shirt, I would just wear it when I was meeting my friend for lunch and to hang out for the day. Again, got all dressed up and ready to go and then she cancels on me last minute! So I “wasted” another good outfit. Here is that one…isn’t it a cute shirt??? lol
And then to top it off… twice in one weekend i get disappointed! Sunday rolls around. My hubby and I were going to go play tennis, but we couldn’t get moving early enough because we were too tired. So then it got too hot to play tennis. So we decided to go play mini golf. Oh, I should have mentioned, since I didn’t get to hang out with my friend yesterday I went shopping by myself just to get out and do something. I bought a few articles of clothing. What I decided to wear today was a whole new outfit! Nothing fancy, but I got these cute shorts, I believe the style is called Bermuda. They’re really long, like to the knee. I’m into the capris now, which i never thought would happen because I’m so short they look kinda funny on me, like long pants. But its FL and I don’t like short shorts anymore, getting too old to show off the legs HAHA. So these seemed kind of appealing. I remember when I realized I should get shorts like that. I saw a girl walking down the street, a younger girl, with her family. She looked so cute in the shorts, I think they were pretty similar to the ones i found actually. And they just jumped right out at me at the store so I went ahead of bought them! They fit great. And then I got a plain black tank but its a scoop neck that gathers you know… its kinds of hard to explain and you can’t really see it in the picture, so I hope you know what I mean…but anyway… mini golfing… we start driving along and we’re about half way there when it starts to rain! well it’s Florida, it could stop in two minutes, or maybe its not even raining over there. So we keep going. We get off the expressway (yeah the closest one we could find is like 25 mins away) and it starts Pouring and lightning… yeah, guess we can cancel those plans. So we turn around… and there goes another outfit!
I kinda feel like I look like an old lady LOL but I like them, so shut up! haha.
So thanks for letting me finally share my outfits I so dearly missed going “out on the town” with.
Green Green Green… everything I see green i’m instantly attracted to! I already have a few things planned out to shoot for this week LOL. But the fabric/clothes one… well I can’t decide if its easy or hard… I have hardly any clothes green, I found that out at St Patricks day when I had a hard time finding something work appropriate, but I do have a green bathrobe I wear almost every day, when I’m not using my yellow one. So I guess it was pretty easy since it hangs in my bathroom most days. Its actually too bright of a green for me, but it was a Christmas gift from my mom, I didn’t pick it. Although she did a good job with all my other specifications. I did ask for a new bathrobe, and it had to be short and the sleeves could not be long. Perfect, everything I asked for. Thanks Mom:)
well 2 more after this post! Today is the clothing/fabric category and the subject is Blue Jeans!
It’s Friday, it’s Jeans Day, what could be a better combination? Jeans Day comes once a month. You have to pay, but hey, why not? It’s not often we get to wear jeans and it comes more frequently with our new boss. So Yea For Jeans Day!
“I’m sorry mama, I never meant to hurt you, I
never meant to make you cry, but tonight i’m cleanin’ out my closet…
I got some skeletons in my closet and I don’t know if no one knows it, so before they thrown me inside my coffin and close it, i’ma expose it…”
There’s some Eminem to start out my topic for ya. Get where I’m goin with this one? haha
Well Today it was RAINING…


So it was the perfect time to CLEAN! Not to mention Curt’s parents are coming into town tomorrow, that was the reason for the cleaning. But at least it made me want to clean since there was really nothing to do outside. So instead of sunning myself as I did yesterday… you guessed it, I cleaned out my closet!

I’m happy because it made a bit more room in there! There are so many clothes I don’t wear anymore. I always think that one day I’ll wear it or one day it will come back in style, so I’ll keep it. A lot of the stuff doesn’t even really fit me anymore, but again I say, One Day I will fit into it again. HaHa. There are always a million reasons to keep something, but always a good one to just Clean Out Your Closet…
Pictures Taken Feb 24 2008- Day 4









