The 30 for 30 Challenge seemed to take forever while it was happening, but now that it's complete, I kind of want to start again! Getting ready for work each day was super easy. All I had to do was throw something together from a minimum amount of items. This challenge has really encouraged me to limit my closet and my shopping to only items I really need and will wear A LOT. All of my skirts and dresses from the challenge I still really love, but now it's already summer in Memphis so we are moving to non-wool skirts! Here's all the outfits:
Total Wears:
Jeans - 8. I wore jeans a lot more than normal. On the weekends plus a whole week of training at work.
Turquoise dress - 1 (Surprising because I really like this dress)
Plaid dress: 2
Black dress - 2
Red dress - 2
Pink sweater - 4
White ruffle top - 1 (Unbelievable)
Bow skirt - 3. This is definitely my favorite skirt. It is the first skirt i made with a lining so it has a little sentimental value as well as being super cute.
Lavender skirt - 2. Not sure if I love this one. The ruffle is a little odd. I might try and re-make it a little next winter.
Blazer - 3. Actually liked the blazer more than I thought I would.
Dark grey cardigan - 3
Pink cardigan - 2
Grey flower cardigan - 4
Black tank - 4
Blue suede shoes - 4
Black calf height boots - 9. I should have included a more casual pair of shoes for the weekends. I had to wear these and wasn't very happy.
Lavender pumps - 6
Tall black boots - 11. I'm very happy with this purchase. I love these boots and think I will definitely be able to wear them for a couple years.
Plaid skirt
Teal top - 2
Tweed skirt - 2
Purple turtleneck - 2. Looking at the pictures I think I need to wear this color more often.
Flannel - 1. I wore this a lot in the fall before 30 for 30 so think I got all the wear out of it. Plus, I only had dressier shoes to go with it.
Teal ruffle top - 3
White cardigan - 5
White button down - 2. Still hate button downs.
White t shirt - 1
Black cardigan - 1
Coral skirt - 2
Purple skirt - 2
Overall I think the 30 for 30 is a fun challenge. I think I could have gone longer without repeating outfits but it was nice to get back to all my other clothes, especially shoes. In the next challenge I would definitely think about the weekends a little more but the work clothes were pretty perfect. I might start a challenge for the summer in a couple weeks. Hopefully I will get back into the habit of posting every day or so!
This little surprise is what we found today in my rhododendron! A couple weeks ago I remember a very aggressive mama cardinal around when I was weeding my fenced garden, well now I know why. She was protecting her daughters!
Here we are on Easter morning. Not a great photo of any of us but you get the idea. Daddy wore his skinny suit thats a little big now with his egg tie, thats always a hit! I made my black skirt with the Kwick Sew pattern on the left. Love the pattern, really well written but I made to big. I'm going to make another one smaller maybe I'll wear it for the retirement party. I bought a really nice piece of dark jean fabric and a medium kinda robin egg linen, that I want to make skirts out of. Oh and my top was an estate sale find from Memphis.
Emma looks sad without family around!
I planted leaf and arugala lettuce and some onion sets. I think these are red onions.
At the top of the garden I planted a thin row of sweet onions, look hard you can kinda see them.
Daddy and me colored our eggs this morning and miss our little girls. I hate to complain but its just not the same without you both. At least you should know your both truly missed here. I miss your over dyed artistic approach to egg coloring!
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