Appreciative

 

Thanks for all your feedback regarding my post a few weeks ago about blog design. Unfortunately fate determined that I will continue to DIY my own layout for a little while longer instead of paying a professional to do it. Apparently I had forgotten all about having a car insurance payment coming up this month - and I completely detonated my phone earlier this week so I had to go slunking back to the Apple store (and by "detonated," I mean it now lives in a little baggy to keep all the wee pieces together. Yeah).

 

So life's not been a bunch of unicorns and fairies lately, but whose life is? So I gleaned an idea from one of IFB's recent posts and I want to give a shout out to all of you lovely ladies who stop by to visit my blog. 

Thank YOU.

Thank you for your endless stylish inspiration, your humor, your openness in sharing your personal anecdotes. Thank you for taking time from your busy days to visit here, read my rambles and provide me with your commentary and sound advice. Thank you for lifting me up when my spirit is down. Thank you for making me know it is OK for me to like the things that I do - that though fashion and style blogging may seem a bit frivolous, it doesn't make it any less valid a hobby and form of expression. Thank you for giving me the confidence to wear what I want and to put together pieces I would have never considered before. Thank you for sticking around and staying with me and getting to "know" me, as it were, on this little electronic platform.

Top: Old Navy lightweight patterned (worn here - sim, sim, as dress)
Dress: Saturday/Sunday via Anthropologie striped day (sim, more white, more colorful)
Earrings: Amrita Singh (worn here - sim, sim, pricey)
Bracelets: Target (sim), J.Crew (sim), Asos (sim)
Shoes: Vince Camuto kira (sim, sim, higher)