Florals & Pastels

Shirt: H&M | Jeans: H&M | Tank: H&M | Shoes: JCP

This outfit is amazingly completely by H&M ('cept the shoes but more on them another time). I'm super pleased with what I found there. I'm guessing the Freedom Day sales are still in effect because about half the front of the store had those $5 and $10 signs we all know and love. These lilac jeans were a bit of an impulse buy, and they had a sale on jeans, but what I'm really stoked about are these babies right down here..




H&M &Denim High-Waist Jeans X

Now if you know me you know I live for high-waisted stuff. It just fits me better and of course it also helps that it makes me look all curvy and things. So I have been on the quest for high-waist anything for the past couple years and let me tell you they don't make it easy. If you follow me then you know that I generally thrift for shorts and buy Know Style's pants (for whatever reason they have the comfiest and most affordable high waist pants I've seen). But what they do not have is denim. Simple thing you'd think, but the only place I've seen it is American Apparel and lets be real nobody got time to be shelling out $90 for jeans. So let me tell you when I found these jeans at H&M on sale for $15 the sound I made was probably inappropriate.




Sleeveless Dress X | Floral Button Down | Black Tank | High Waist Jeans X | Lilac Jeans | Earrings

That's not even accounting for all the other stuff I found. Now I'm new to this whole "having the money to buy the things you need" thing so I haven't let myself go into H&M to shop for a few years at least cause they always have these ridiculous sales and I'm weak. But I just started at a new job (another graphic design position guys!!) and as luck(?) would have it I blew out my tire and while it was being fixed I was stuck at the mall with my first pay check. Haha, so naturally.. Ahem. To be fair I did technically need the things I bought.. I swear! Shut up.

Mini Thrift Haul

Knit Sweater: $5, Belt: $3, Jeans: $7, Striped Sweater: $5

So I decided to make a spur of the moment trip to Goodwill with my sister and a friend of mine. I usually don't care much for Goodwill cause it's rather expensive for thrifting.. but this particular one always has great stuff. I'm really super excited with what I found. I've had plans for a while to buy some black high-waist jeans to make shorts so that was an epic win. They fit like a glove and are fabulously comfortable. I may stud them or something, but I also like the idea of having a plain set of black shorts. I just want to collect shorts really, and stud and bleach and dye and mix and match the with tights and knee socks and whatnot. I have pretty simple needs. The belt was a lucky find. My mom gave me a belt like this with the chains and I love it but it's a little too dressy, so I really like this nautical belt because it's pretty but just casual enough to wear with shorts and a t-shirt. And of course I always look for sweaters when I'm thrifting. I particularly like the striped one for it's collar, and the purple one has a beautiful knit pattern with the partial button down front. Neither of which I have in my sweater collection.

Needless to say I'm in love.