On the 12th Day of Christmas...

On the 12th Day of Christmas...

My True Love Gave to Me...

Twelve Drummers Drumming!






So hey here is another musical thing. I can't play drums! These are Kevin's drums (well actually Vasille's, our friend), and I am not good. hahaha! Oh and welcome to my basement, mwahahaha!





Today I wanted to be a Sailor. So here it is. I was wearing a navy fedora earlier but the hat has been off for sometime. I am so nautical that I have two striped shirts on! And I grabbed a pair of my Gpa's WWII Navy pants to finish it, which was awesome cause I woke up to snow on the ground, and it didn't stop all day! I still need to let out the hem in the pants because I guess my Gpa's legs were shorter than mine (or it was the style... we'll never know!) My fish necklace finishes the outfit, don't know how "drummer-like" the outfit is but I loved it! And my hair was wonderful today too!!!





When I got off work I went to Target and Kohls to spend my gift cards! It's like Christmas again! I got a new purse, a new winter jacket, tights and socks, two pair of flats, a necklace, and a daily planner! After I met up with Kevin and his friend Dave for an appetizer. After that I ran over to Best Buy to pick up my Christmas present from my dad... a samsung blu-ray player with internet and netflix! It was on super sale and my dad got it for me!! Right now Kevin and I have already watched a movie and now I'm chilling watching some Psych... Aha! so funny!



And I've been talking about it... Here it is! My Christmas Present!



A BANJO!



I'm so excited! I've wanted one for awhile and when I was in Alaska I got to go to jam sessions with my aunt who plays mandolin, and I loved it when someone brought a banjo. I love the sound of them, and kinda been obsessed with banjo and bluegrass since highschool.





Ah!!! Too excited. I already have the music for dueling banjos so Kevin can play hi acoustic guitar with me. yay!! I've never been able to play guitar because the strumming motion felt un-natural to me. But I've played piano and flute for most of my life and felt that the picking motion for banjos would resemble it. And I think my finger memory is helping because it feels natural... The only thing I need to work on is holding strings down, haha. It's hard to hold 5 strings! Oh well when I get better I will show you video :)



Anyway the twelve days are over (sorry I missed one)! Tomorrow I'm going out for a drink to celebrate the Twelfth Night! Thanks for watching!

12 Days of Christmas
December 26th, a Partridge in a Pear Tree
December 27th, Two Turtle Doves
December 28th, Three French Hens
December 29th, Four Calling Birds
December 30th, Five Gold Rings
December 31st, Six geese a laying
January 1st, Seven swans a swimming
January 2nd, Eight maids a milking
January 3rd, Nine ladies dancing
January 4th, Ten lords a leaping
January 5th, Eleven pipers piping
January 6th, Twelve drummers drumming

} Materials Used
  Sweater } UO, on sale
  Shirt } AE, thrifted
  Necklace } F21
  Pants } Vintage, Gpa's WWII Navy
  Shoes } UO, on sale
  Banjo } Gift, from Kevin

Huggles,
Lauren

Sorry for the photo heavy post!!!!

Cat's Last Drummer Drumming!

On the 11th Day of Christmas...

On the 11th Day of Christmas...

My True Love Gave to Me...

Eleven Pipers Piping!

Here is one of my hidden talents. I play flute. Or I used to play flute a lot. Like I competed. Wasn't the best, but I was mediocre. So there you go. In these pictures I am playing an F. Hahaha. Oh and the dog is totally afraid of the flute.

I actually wore something different to work today cause I was tired and couldn't come up with an outfit this morning. As I thought at work this popped into my head. I feel like the scarf around the neck is very band camp like, and the shirt I'm wearing is the Penguin Camp shirt, so it's perfect!! I got these pants on super sale as well as the shoes, but I'm not sure about their place in my closet yet. I may return them.

And speaking of pants I went through all of mine today and separated the fat pants (the ones I wear now) from the skinny pants. I stored away my skinny pants only to be taken out maybe in April. We will see. I've begun working out again after a hiatus of a few months... I feel very schlumpy. I don't really want to loose a ton of weight but I would like to get back into my more muscular body, especially for the wedding. Who knows if I'll ever get out those skinny pants.

Oh I also have to share with you my Christmas present... oh soon, soon.

12 Days of Christmas
December 26th, a Partridge in a Pear Tree
December 27th, Two Turtle Doves
December 28th, Three French Hens
December 29th, Four Calling Birds
December 30th, Five Gold Rings
December 31st, Six geese a laying
January 1st, Seven swans a swimming
January 2nd, Eight maids a milking
January 3rd, Nine ladies dancing
January 4th, Ten lords a leaping
January 5th, Eleven pipers piping
January 6th, Twelve drummers drumming

} Materials Used
  Scarf } Vintage, mom's from France's Centennial
  Blouse } Original Penguin
  Pants } Anthro
  Shoes } Anthro
  Flute } Selmer

Huggles,
Lauren

Another Piper!!

Cat Bird } Midwest Mayhem

On the 10th Day of Christmas...

On the 10th Day of Christmas...

My True Love Gave to Me...

Ten Lords Leaping!

Again, why would I want leaping lords, and how can I dress like one. With vests! Haha, that was my idea, so I put on two! Really nothing special about this. I love wearing pants again though, but any of you girls with bigger thighs where do you shop? My biggest pet peeve are pants not being able to move but hen I hate how pants with elasticity become baggy after thirty minutes. Uggg. It's so aggravating, what's even more annoying is that I am young but I have a booty... I can't fit into juniors sizing, but it's hard to find the cuts I want in adult sizing, and then European cuts to pants... Where are all these women's thighs! Seriously. What's more annoying is that a lot of stores and brands are changing there sizing, like Levi's size change over the past summer. It's aggravating. I just want pants to fit me ALL day. Ok, ok... End rant.

I take that back... Why is it so hard to take leaping pictures? Really cameras! Well Kevin was using a point and shoot... I still haven't mastered the timed jump yet with the Nikon... oh well.

12 Days of Christmas
December 26th, a Partridge in a Pear Tree
December 27th, Two Turtle Doves
December 28th, Three French Hens
December 29th, Four Calling Birds
December 30th, Five Gold Rings
December 31st, Six geese a laying
January 1st, Seven swans a swimming
January 2nd, Eight maids a milking
January 3rd, Nine ladies dancing
January 4th, Ten lords a leaping
January 5th, Eleven pipers piping
January 6th, Twelve drummers drumming

} Materials Used
  Vest #1 } UO
  Vest #2 } Not sure
  Blouse } Heritage 1981
  Sweater } Not sure
  Jeans } Pacsun
  Scarf } Vintage, my mom's from France's Centennial
  Boots } Frye

Huggles,
Lauren

Other Leaping Lords!

Cat Bird } Midwest Mayhem

On the 9th Day of Christmas...

On the 9th Day of Christmas...

My True Love Gave to Me...

Nine Ladies Dancing!

Ok, so don't judge, I really don't know how to do ballet well. I pretend to know :) These pointe shoes I grabbed from my mom's when I was down home, they were a semi broken in pair of hers from when she was my age. My mom is a ballerina! I'm sure she will disagree but she is uber graceful and I mean come on, she did pointe. I'm really wanting to look for another ballet class near by, the last class I took was so far away.

So instead of doing something really girlie I wore a very plain outfit of black :) Complete with a black cropped sweatshirt with a wide neck. Felt kinda flash-dancey.

12 Days of Christmas
December 26th, a Partridge in a Pear Tree
December 27th, Two Turtle Doves
December 28th, Three French Hens
December 29th, Four Calling Birds
December 30th, Five Gold Rings
December 31st, Six geese a laying
January 1st, Seven swans a swimming
January 2nd, Eight maids a milking
January 3rd, Nine ladies dancing
January 4th, Ten lords a leaping
January 5th, Eleven pipers piping
January 6th, Twelve drummers drumming

} Materials Used
  Sweatshirt } Not Sure
  Leotard } American Apperal
  Skirt } UO, sale
  Tights } UO
  Boots } Candies via Kohls
  Jacket } Vintage, from my Mom

Huggles,
Lauren

Other Ladies Dancing...

Cat Bird } Midwest Mayhem

On the 8th Day of Christmas...

On the 8th Day of Christmas...

My True Love Gave to Me...

Eight Maids Milking.

Ok first. Who gives someone milking maids? And Second. What are they milking?

Ok, ok. Well this outfit is actually from December 23rd. I didn't get dressed really today so here you are getting a picture that hasn't been on the blog yet, and is quite fitting for milking maids. haha!

So there you have it!

12 Days of Christmas
December 26th, a Partridge in a Pear Tree
December 27th, Two Turtle Doves
December 28th, Three French Hens
December 29th, Four Calling Birds
December 30th, Five Gold Rings
December 31st, Six geese a laying
January 1st, Seven swans a swimming
January 2nd, Eight maids a milking
January 3rd, Nine ladies dancing
January 4th, Ten lords a leaping
January 5th, Eleven pipers piping
January 6th, Twelve drummers drumming

} Materials Used
  Dirndl } Vintage, remade
  Blouse } UO, sale
  Belt } F21
  Necklace } F21
  Tights } Kohls
  Boots } Frye

Huggles,
Lauren

Another Milking Maid!

Cat Bird } Midwest Mayhem

On the 7th Day of Christmas

On the 7th Day of Christmas

My True Love Gave to Me...

Seven Swans Swimming!

Sorry Sorry Sorry... I've been sick and that whole Dressember taking a picture almost everyday was a first for me. And I kinda skipped Geese a laying... oops.

Well here are seven swans... well me and two swans. This was taken at a house in my hometown outside of Dayton that has their own personal Swans... I know. I wish I was rich enough to have my own swans. They have some black swans too but they weren't out. And my pose is what I think a swan looks like.... haha.

I lived in this skirt all weekend, and I totally forgot about this sweater, so you will be sure to see it in rotation.

12 Days of Christmas
December 26th, a Partridge in a Pear Tree
December 27th, Two Turtle Doves
December 28th, Three French Hens
December 29th, Four Calling Birds
December 30th, Five Gold Rings
December 31st, Six geese a laying
January 1s, Seven swans a swimming
January 2nd, Eight maids a milking
January 3rd, Nine ladies dancing
January 4th, Ten lords a leaping
January 5th, Eleven pipers piping
January 6th, Twelve drummers drumming

} Materials Used
  Sweater } Target, 3 years ago
  Skirt } Anthropologie, sale
  Boots } Frye
  Scarf } Gift, from Argentina

Huggles,
Lauren

Other Swans Swimming!

Cat Bird } Midwest Mayhem

On the 5th Day of Christmas...

On the 5th Day of Christmas...

My True Love Gave to Me...

Five Gold Rings!

Well I'm still sick, so I'm kinda lagging on these posts. But here is my five gold rings... well not all gold, hehe. I wore my gold waitress dress as a blouse and a new amazing skirt from Anthropologie that I purchased with a gift card from my sis. I love it! I wore this to Kevin's cousin's new house warming party, but we didn't stay long because I am sick. And oh don't you love the booties I got? I bought them with xmas money and UO's super sale.

I still have one present that is awesome that I need to share with you guys!!

And as you can see there is construction equipment in the background. They tore down another house on my block. Now it's three that have been torn down in the past two years. Eventually the entire block will be condos and they've been tearing down the houses as they fall apart instead of putting money into them to fix them. It's sad, I really feel like we need to get out of this neighborhood before something happens to our house that the landlords (slumlords) won't fix. Anyway... I still love our neighborhood, it's filled with great friends, and I don't want to leave just yet.




12 Days of Christmas
December 26th, a Partridge in a Pear Tree
December 27th, Two Turtle Doves
December 28th, Three French Hens
December 29th, Four Calling Birds
December 30th, Five Gold Rings
December 31st, Six geese a laying
January 1s, Seven swans a swimming
January 2nd, Eight maids a milking
January 3rd, Nine ladies dancing
January 4th, Ten lords a leaping
January 5th, Eleven pipers piping
January 6th, Twelve drummers drumming

} Materials Used
  Dress as a Shirt } Vintage
  Skirt } Anthropologie
  Belt } Mom's
  Booties } UO

Cat's 5 Gold Rings!


Huggles,
Lauren