Mommy Monday

Hello everyone!

My son started daycare this morning! I'm excited and terrified all at once.
How does this relate to style? You may be asking.

Well, it means that I'll have to wake up earlier in order to make myself look half decent in the morning because I will be dropping him off. I usually have my clothing planned out in my head the night before but now I may actually have to get it out/ironed/ready. Oy. I think I did alright considering I just threw this on last minute. I did not bother with 'Make it work' Monday because there was no room for error today!

How the HELL is it 'Make it work Monday' ALREADY?!!!?

I feel like my life is one loooooong series of Mondays all strung together. I hate Monday. I always will. Yesterday, I went thrifting with my fantabulous friend Amanda. It was hilarious and fun!....until:

We decided to eat at a Portuguese restaurant across from the Value Village. The food was fine. The waiter was bizarre. Once we finished the meal, we sat around talking and waited patiently for our bill to arrive. It never came. The staff kept walking by us as if we didn't exist. We decided that they did not deserve our money. After much deliberation, we calmly walked out. Once we got out Amanda proceeded to RUN FULL SPEED to her car like we had just shot somebody causing me to LAUGH HYSTERICALLY while trying to run after her in the rain and BAIL HEAD FIRST INTO THE CONCRETE, causing me to twist my ankle. Ha!

My ankle KILLS. It's not too swollen so I'm assuming it will heal. Lesson Learned. Do not Dine and Dash no matter how shitty the service. I have to say that even though I am in pain, it was TOTALLY WORTH IT. Hilarious.

Oh yeah, the clothes! I got some great things for very little dough. This shirt was fabulous and I had to have it but I was afraid that I could not style it without looking like Melanie Griffith in Working girl. It had so much potential that I couldn't pass it up. The neckline is so interesting and it is a nice bold leopard print.





I thought the glasses were a nice touch. I wanted to wear heels but my ankle is EFFED up. I wore brown over the knee suede boots. They looked fine. Whatever. Okay everyone stay Stylish! Bye!
P.S. Karma is a bitch.

Make it work Mondays!(The Tuesday Edition)

Hi. It's been a few days since I have had a chance to post anything. I feel like i've missed out on so much! It's crazy how fast things move on the 'interweb' I go away for a few days and I'm totally out of the loop. Fashion is fickle :) I went away for the weekend. I was at a birthday party(Wearing a pretty great outfit-hopefully pictures will follow)and yesterday I took the day off. Sooooo.....even though it's tuesday it FEELS like a Monday to me. I loooove the dress I'm wearing. It's vintage. Despite my passion, I was kind of afraid to wear it. It has become one of those pieces that sits in my closet like an art peice when it really is meant to be worn! Needless to say, it's a bit bright. Also, I wasn't sure that the cut would be flattering. I was also having trouble figuring out what shoes would work. I decided it would be perfect for 'make it work' Monday.









Loving it! it fits like a glove and is actually quite flattering. I added a black cardigan to tone things down which I didn't take a picture of. The shoes worked out great as well. They are a great blue which does not really translate in the pics. I'm putting this frock in heavy rotation!!!
Stay stylish!
Onika



Dress-Vintage(Goodwill)
Shoes-NIne West

Make it work Mondays!

Yay! It's Monday. I'm kidding. I had a lovely weekend filled with good Friends and great food and whatnot. Needless to say, I'm not too happy to be back at the office. The good thing is that it's 'make it work Monday.' That's where I take something that I would not normally wear and Work it out.

This Monday's installment features this crazy ass belt.

It's an amazing belt. I got it at a vintage clothing swap years ago. I have always felt like it was a bit 'silly' to get away with. This is kind of ridiculous coming from the girl who just a few days ago was wearing a t-shirt featuring an octopus wearing glasses and a moustache! Still, The belt felt a bit costume to me. Maybe it's the rhinestones. Anyway, I never wear it but today is the day! This is what I did:






I like it. I think the brown works nicely with the blue and gold. I encourage you all to 'Make it work' too! It's fun!

Stay Stylish,
Onika


Belt-Vintage(Swap)
T-shirt-Old Navy
Jeans-Thrifted(Goodwill)
Boots-Seyshelles(Winners)
Necklace-Stolen(Sister)
Earrings-H&M

Make it work Mondays!

Oh.My.God. I did NOT want to get out of bed this morning. I had a strange weekend. I was tired the whole time and nothing I put on looked right at all which threw off my whole mood. Whatever.

I thought it would be a worthwhile experiment to try to push myself on Monday mornings in order to coax my lazy ass to get out of bed. I'm calling it "Make it work Mondays" because I like alliteration and because every Monday I'm going to wear something that I probably wouldn't normally wear.

This Monday is a HUGE risk: DRESS OVER PANTS.





Pretty scary. What can I say? I like to live on the edge. Needless to say, I am generally quite opposed to a dress over jeans. It really is a look best left to 1992 while watching my so called life and reading Sassy magazine.It's a strange silhouette.






I love this dress that I am wearing today but it is quite short and fitted. I am not Erin Brockovich so I feel a bit weird wearing it to work. I figured if I was going to try to rock a dress over pants it had better be a niceshort and form fitting dress to try to balance out the proportions a bit. This works I think. Although all I can think about it how cute this would look with black tights(not leggings-ack) and knee high black suede boots. I kept everything else simple so as not to appear crazy. As a special bonus make it work I threw on these earrings that I haven't been able to make work since I bought them months ago. It's a bit matchy matchy with the grey earring and the dress but still....IT WORKS.

dress-H.I.P(Winners)
jeans-Guess(Gifted)
Earrings(Claire's)