Bits of Floral, Bits of Blue

Sometimes I don't know what to say for myself in regards to fashion - or even that I should. Occasionally even my family/friends don't respond well to my own style, I believe the words 'overboard' and 'wacky' have been used - but that's ok! I just have to laugh about it. I don't have any inclination to one specific fashion style or trend I just wear what I want, what I like and more often than not it reflects how I'm feeling that day. Today I guess I felt floral. Hee. 

This outfit started with the shorts, then followed the tights (personal challenge:shorts w/o tights) and with floral on the mind I figured why not go all out? I'd been dying to wear this newly thrifted tank, floral, and my orange cosmos necklace. I know I probably lost everyone at the bag, earring, bracelet, ring combo but I think the only thing I would change is the shoes, not my favorite with this outfit and if I wore it to work I'd probably just wear tennies. My hamsa (protection symbol) ring really just needs to be worn on some days and this was one of them. I also thrifted this etched leather bag; my Mom has an amazing collection of etched leather, bags and belts and things, and I just couldn't pass up what a great deal this was. All in all, this outfit is giving me SMILES!

When is floral too much floral? And when is weird too weird? Seriously, is there a rule or something?!

Blue Hair, Blue Shorts

I think I have an obsession with blue shorts, but this was the very first blue pair I bought. I love these, I think it's the buttons.

I really do love the pattern of this shirt, Target! It's my, feeling fancy without getting too fancy, shirt.

Is it just me or do paisley and rhinestones look great together? It might just be me, I love rhinestones, I often have rhinestone overload.

Personal Style - What I Would Wear

I look at style the same way I look at art - unique, inspiring, awkward, strange, ugly, beautiful, creative, expressive but most of all, FUN! When I was a kid I dressed myself and had absolutely zero fear about it. Sure there were times when people, or even friends, would snicker and ask what in the world I was wearing but if I wanted to wear a velvet party dress over some sweatpants with fairy wings on my back I just went ahead and did it and had way too much fun doing so to care what people said but what can I say, dressing up was fun! IS fun. Or should be.

I realized one day (fairly recently), when I was putting on the same pair of jeans and 1 of 5 weekly cycled t-shirts under a sweatshirt I've been wearing for over a decade, that a good percentage of my wardrobe was things I'd hadn't worn in long time, if ever, in fact most things still had tags on them - that ladies and gentleman, is a funk. Ok fine, I said, no jeans for a week - challenge accepted! I did it and I lived. Moreover I felt excited again at the possibility of shaking up my wardrobe.

So, when the time came to pack up my apartment and put it in storage, I put away those jeans, those beloved tees and 'broken in' (aka ripped to shreds) sweatshirts. I then faced a strange challenge, packing for a month long camping road trip as well as packing for future indefinite plans. I didn't have an extravagant wardrobe to begin with and now that 2/3s of it is packed away, what has followed thus far has been a fun experiment of my own personal style and remixing ability with the ultimate goal of pushing my boundaries and testing my imagination, wearing what I want because I want to. Sometimes it's plain and boring and sometimes it'll jump out from behind a bush and be like "KaPlow!" - I can live with that.

I love these shorts! They do get a little crinkled by the end of the day but they are light and airy and BLUE! I love jewelry and usually have on a crazy jumble of non matching this' and thats' but this is definitely my signature necklace - on the road trip I lost the chain so I improvised by putting the charms on a necklace I already had. I love funky, hence the blue revolver owl earrings. 

Now that everything is in storage I'm constantly wishing I had __ or __ to add on. Over accessorizing?! Pshhh. No such thing. So here are some things that I shall forever drool over that I would love to wear with this outfit (1)(2)(3)(4).