Dudes, my life has been taken over by Gilmore Girls. Not really, but almost. ;) Also, the view from where I sit has been rather gray, lately. Mostly due to just a handful of things not really going the way I had hoped. Oh well, though, that's life. Sometimes we've just got to be cut down a few times before we get the picture and start to grow the way the Lord would have us grow. Sorry to get all spiritual on you guys, but it was on my mind. Anyway, life's a mystery I s'pose. Also, I'm pretty excited that hot chocolate season is upon us because I'm pretty excited to start guzzling cups of white hot chocolate! It's my favorite! Also, pumpkin pie, you guys!!!!!!!!!!! I want to eat a slice for breakfast, lunch, and dinner from now until Christmas! Aaaaand!!! This Friday Anberlin will be in town for their farewell tour and I'm probably about a minute away from dying of excitement!! I'm mentally preparing for the insanity that will be that concert, though, so that I'm fully prepared to be moshed into oblivion!
You see this lovely little sweater? This lovely little sweater has been worn about a thousand times since it's arrival. I am obsessed with it that much. I'm just so in love with it's adorable pastel purple color and that deep v in the back! It's my favorite and I've seriously gotten a compliment on it every single time I've worn it! I think that's a sure sign that you all need one too because that obviously means it's imbued with magical properties that make it's wearer look like she's been hit over the head with a pretty stick! ;) Also, what goes better with a chunky sweater than 90s acid wash distressed jeans? Nothin' I tell ya! It's the perfect Sandra Bullock "While You Were Sleeping" combo!
I'm so, so, so excited for today's post! Aerie recently sent me a pair of their new printed leggings to style and since printed leggings are so huge this season I decided I'd show you guys three different ways to style them! For my first look I wanted to go for something a little "dressed up casual". Or in other words, something you could wear to meet up with friends and get into nightly shenanigans like we youngins like to do. ;) The key to this look was keeping the leggings fun without looking like I was just too lazy to put on pants. Nothing says "put-together-cool" like a biker jacket so I knew I wanted to go with my Betsey Johnson moto jacket. To keep the leather from being too intense with the pattern of the leggings I added a little neutral texture with my denim top and finished off the look with some fun pops of color with my hot pink beanie and gold sneaks!
We all have those days when it seems like we have a hug laundry list of errands to run and not enough time to do them. It's for those days that leggings are perfect! They're so easy to just throw on, look cute, and be comfy. Especially these aerie leggings, the pattern makes them a cute "no fuss" closet item and they're super duper stretchy! Not to mention that all you have to do to complete a lazy day look with these babies is throw on a cozy sweater and you're ready to be out the door because that fun pattern will do all the work! Now, the key to this look was keeping everything simple. Understated stacked rings, simple cross body bag, messy braid, and a pair of cute reader glasses because, um, we all know fake glasses are a requirement for a cute lazy day look! ;)
For my last look I decided to do a styled Yoga look, because that's sort of what leggings were made for in the first place right? This was probably the most fun of the looks to shoot just because doing some the yoga poses I've been working on was such a blast! It's also such a help to see the photos and see how I need to work on pointing my toes more and fully extending on my shoulder stand! Yoga is all about years long practice, though, so with work I will get there! Anyway, for this look I wanted to keep it soft and layered so I went for this soft pink henley tee that I've had for ages and this light as a feather shawl thingy! Also, I have to say practicing Yoga in these leggings was such a breeze! They allowed me to really move and weren't restrictive in anyway! I highly suggest you all get yourselves a pair especially since aerie is having a BOGO for $10 sale right now! I hope you enjoyed the three different looks! Hopefully it gives you a little inspiration on how to style printed leggings and a big thank you to aerie for sponsoring this post!
So, today I'm going to share a thought that I had this morning that will thoroughly convince you all of my oddness. I was on my run, getting pumped, enjoying this PERFECT Fall weather, loving the burning sensation in my lungs and legs and yet totally hating that I'm pretty much a suck butt runner now due to my back pain from the car accident I was in at the beginning of Summer, when I passed a farm-ish area complete with horses. And you all know what comes along with horses. Poop. Horse poop. That's what comes along with horses. And you know what comes along with horse poop? Stink. Now here comes the funny part. As I took a deep inhale of horse poop stench my initial thought was, "Ugh. Yeck." BUT, then I told myself, "No, Brain, you can't think that. Horse poop smell is the smell of nature. It's freshness. Breath it in. Enjoy it." Freaky right? I tried to CONVINCE myself that horse poop smell is a good smell. I tried to convince myself to like it. See, I told ya I was weird. ;) Also, I have a Gilmore Girls induced headache. I. Must. Stop. It's too hard, though, Rory and Dean (MmmmMmmm, Dean;) are deeply in love and Jess has just showed up to screw it all up. It's very intense. Very.
I think I've already mentioned, oh, about a thousand times, my love for maxi's in the Fall! For this look I was goin' for a more boho vibe so instead of wearing my maxi at my waist I wore it on my hips to give it a longer more casual feel. I also paired it with this yellow sweater which has now become my favorite sweater EVER! Seriously, I've been wearing it almost everyday! You all need a yellow sweater in your lives! I'll link some cute options down below! Also, blue and yellow is such a fun combo for Fall! It's unexpected and fun! Also, I'm in LOVE with these photos by Roxana! Seriously, she is amazing and you all need to book her for photos! Not to mention she has the cutest baby boy who I was making goofy faces at almost the entire time we were shooting so I'm very surprised that we managed to get any good photos!
You guys ever have that thing happen to you where your eye liner smears onto your eyelid for some freak reason? Yeah, well, this has been happening to me like EVERYDAY for the last couple of weeks and I can't figure it out. At first I thought it was just the type of pencil liner I was using, so I switched over to my cream eyeliner but it still kept happening so I switched over to my liquid liner thinking THAT would do the trick but NOPE, the smearing persists. I'm at my wits end and I'm about to just throw in the towel and quit on eyeliner again!! Unless, any of you have suggestions for me, eh? Eh? Anyway, now that that riveting discussion on liner has ended lets talk weekends. How were all of yours? Mine was pretty fantabulous! I binge watched Gilmore Girls so long Netflix felt the need to ask me if I was still there. Not even kidding. That is an actual thing. Netflix paused my episode and full on asked me, "are you still there?" Thank you for your concern Netflix, but yes I am very much still here watching Gilmore Girls. ;) Also, HAPPY CANADIAN THANKSGIVING!! I got the chance to celebrate the event with Lauren and a small group of other fun peeps. All in all, I think Canadian Thanksgiving is a fun old holiday! Also, in other news apparently "bollocks" is a bad word. Like, what the what? How can "bollocks" be a bad word? That doesn't even sound remotely bad! That's like making "puppies" or "fishies" bad words. It's completely nonsensical. You can't make something that sounds inherently cute a cuss word. It's just ridiculous. I normally love the Brits but boy, did they drop the ball on that one. ;)
coat: c/o SheInside
dress: ASOS
boots: F21 (sold out)
sunnies: Aldo
photos: Roxana B
I have been DYING to share this coat with you guys ever since it arrived in the mail! I thought it's color was PERFECT for the Fall season not to mention it's cute little bow on the side! Plus it's like as soft as a babies bottom! It's also warm without being too stuffy, know what I mean? Pretty much, it' perfect. Also, I bought these over the knee boots at Forever21 about a thousand years ago and they're still one of my favorite purchases ever. Although, I'm thinking I'm going to be needing new ones before long because of how much I've worn them. In other news, I did a guest post on Gentri's blog yesterday so you should all go check it out. Ya know, since you all love me so much. ;) Anyway, yeah...
