When I was around twelve or thirteen, my sisters and I started noticing how horrendous we looked in all our Christmas morning pictures. Of course, we blamed it on bed head, whereas we obviously should have been blaming the fact that practically no one looks good at age twelve or thirteen. Every Christmas after that, we'd spend a few minutes brushing our hair and putting on a little mascara or lipgloss so we didn't look so absolutely terrible. Now that I'm an adult, I look even worse ... Read More about Raiding My Sister’s Closet: How to Look Decent on Christmas Morning
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Raiding My Sister’s Closet: Winter Coat Wishlist
The weather has turned cold here in the last week (you'd think it was November or something), and suddenly I'm thinking a lot about coats because I'm constantly freezing. I have several pretty good winter coats back at home, but since we were planning on spending the fall in Barcelona, I didn't pack them. Also, they take up a lot of room in a suitcase. . . . I keep going back and forth between buying a coat for our last month here or just wearing a shirt, a sweater, a jacket and scarf ... Read More about Raiding My Sister’s Closet: Winter Coat Wishlist
Raiding My Sister’s Closet: What to Wear When You’d Rather Stay in Pajamas
My mom is a serious believer in getting dressed every single day. Even when she's sick, she showers and puts on some semblance of real clothing. She always says something along the lines of, "Lying around in dirty pajamas is going to make me feel more sick, not less sick." I've definitely picked this up from her over the years - even if I'm deathly ill, I'll still shower and put on clean pajamas and brush my hair so I don't feel so gross. In fact, I can't remember a day in the last fifteen ... Read More about Raiding My Sister’s Closet: What to Wear When You’d Rather Stay in Pajamas
Raiding My Sister’s Closet: Dress It Up or Dress it Down
When I dress something up and down, I want it to require as few changes as possible to go from casual to dressy (this may have something to do with the fact that I have basically 10 things in my suitcase to last me the next 13 weeks). This week for Raiding My Sister's Closet, I went with a basic jersey dress and a denim jacket, which is endlessly adaptable for that in-between time of September when it's sometimes cool and sometimes roasting hot. (Actually, I had plans to do a different ... Read More about Raiding My Sister’s Closet: Dress It Up or Dress it Down
Raiding My Sister’s Closet: DIY Leopard Shoulder Dress
I bought my first pair of leopard anything in the form of shoes two and a half years ago, and I was immediately a fan. Now I want all the leopard things (I currently have one leopard thing (this scarf) and it's packed in a box in the garage in the house we no longer rent in North Carolina). So when we decided to each do something fun to this black Old Navy dress as part of Summer of No Pants, I knew right away I wanted something leopard. I'm so so happy with this dress - when I wore it ... Read More about Raiding My Sister’s Closet: DIY Leopard Shoulder Dress