ModCloth Polyvore Challenge

I was contacted by a representative from ModCloth about their weekly challenge on Polyvore.  I was sent a picture of a dress, and asked to create a look using pieces sold on their website.

The item is called the Committee Celebration Dress.

Here's what I came up with!

Lady-like & Retro by rebeckann featuring a black dress

Black dress / Black pantyhose / BB Dakota black strap pumps / Wedding party jewelry / Bridal pearl necklace / Heart earrings

I knew this dress needed heels, and what better than a patent style Mary Jane shoe??  That neckline screams for a necklace, and when I saw this "Pearls Just Want to Have Fun" one on Polyvore, I knew it was the one!  So I searched for some other "pearl" accessories to go with it.  

Ladies need their "stockings," of course, so I chose this modern twist with the heart details.  To me this is very girly (or lady-like) and modern with a retro twist!

Thanks ModCloth for giving me the chance to participate in the challenge! :)

How would you style this adorable dress??

The Last Day of Skirtember

Although there is no official link-up today, I still wanted to share my last outfit for Skirtember.  I'll be honest, I had difficulty figuring out what to wear for the rest of the week since I didn't "have" to wear a skirt.  I'm really glad that I took on this challenge with Kristin & Chantal.  It was a lot of fun!

Day 30- Monday, September 30th

Dress & Tights: Old Navy // Boots: Target.com // Let's Dance Necklace: Penelope Ann

In case you missed any of my Skirtember Posts, feel free to click the links below:
Week 1
Week 2
Week 3
Week 4

Skirtember: Last Week!

The last week of Skirtember has arrived.  I want to thank Kristin and Chantal for hosting Skirtember for us!  I have had so much fun challenging myself to wear skirts and dresses this month.  To see what I've been wearing, you can review Week 1, Week 2, Week 3.

Technically, today is the last day of September, and I will be wearing a skirt today, too.  I'll share my very last Skirtember outfit either later this week or next Monday.  I haven't decided yet.

Here's what I wore this week:

Day 23- September 23rd

I didn't wear a skirt this day.  Scott and I were on our way home from the Pittsburgh Steelers/Chicago Bears game on Sunday night.

Day 24- September 24th

Shirt: Maurice's // Skirt & Leggings: Old Navy (the skirt is super old) // "Wrap Me Up in London" Scarf: Penelope Ann // Boots: Target.com

Day 25- September 25th

Entire outfit brought to you by Old Navy.com

Wednesday was school picture day.  Even as a teacher, I still tend to dread this day.  lol  I ordered this entire outfit from Old Navy.  I love their "Outfits We Love" section of the website.  I totally copied this and one other outfit from head-to-toe.  Totally makes life easier. :)

Day 26- September 26th

Camisole: Maurice's // Jacket & Shoes: Old Navy // Dress: Body Central (old) // Leggings: Khol's

Day 27- September 27th

Dress down day.  Jeans, jeans, jeans.  :)

Day 28- September 28th

We had a wedding on Saturday.  I don't have a picture because I literally wore my school picture day outfit again.  Glad I did laundry.  :)

Day 29- September 29th

Ok friends, after the wedding, I was out with friends to celebrate a birthday.  I'm lucky to even have gotten out of bed.  SO there was no skirt.

Overall, I think I've done really well! 

Stats:

• only 9 days without wearing a skirt or dress (mostly Fridays & Saturdays)
• repeated 2 outfits exactly
• wore 1 dress twice but in different ways
• A total of 18 different outfits

How did your Skirtember go?  Did you have as much fun as I did?? Link up with Kristin & Chantal to let us know! :)

Stay tuned tomorrow for a fun event announcement!!

Skirtember- Week 3

Can you believe how quickly September is flying by??  It's time for another week of Skirtember with my friends Kristin from Kristin's kNook and Chantal from Scattered Seashells!

If you missed my Week 1 or Week 2 posts, you can go back and take a peek at what I've been wearing this month.  I'm proud to say that I've only repeated an exact outfit once.  You'll see in this post that I'm repeating a dress, but in a totally different way than I wore it the first time.  :)

And I may also be a little obsessed with skirts and dresses now.  I have two dresses on their way from Old Navy as I type!  (They should be here tomorrow!!)

One last thing before I begin.  I apologize for how awful my bedroom looks.  I've got to find a different place for this mirror.....or clean.....

Day 16- September 16th

Dress & Tights: Avon- Mark collection // Camisole: Old Navy // Boots: Shoedazzle.com

I fell in love with this wrap dress from Mark last year.  So I bought it.  I wore it a couple of times, and then for some reason didn't like it.  I dragged it out again on Monday because I clearly needed a dress or skirt to wear, and I actually LOVED wearing it all day!  :)  It is purple and red, and my tights are purple, as well....you can't really tell from this picture, though.  Silly iPhone. 

Day 17- September 17th

Dress: Old Navy // Camisole: Maurice's // Belt: Avon- Mark collection // Boots: Target.com // Elvis Loves Me Bracelet: Penelope Ann

I have a love/hate relationship with this dress.  This picture is actually pretty flattering.  I think the thing that made the difference is the belt.  It's one of those dresses that sometimes makes me look bigger than I am.  But while on lunch duty with a fellow sixth grade teacher, he asked me if I'd been working out because I looked like I lost weight.  I now think I love this dress.

Day 18- September 18th

Sweater, Belt, Skirt, & Tights: Old Navy // Camisole: Maurice's // Booties: Shoedazzle.com

I'm really sad that you can't see my shoes very well.  I'm in love with them.  They're purple if you can't tell.  They are laced up the back.  The funniest thing about this outfit was that three or four of the boys in my class said to me, "You have to tie those in the back??"  They were fascinated.  I did have to explain that I didn't have to tie them because they have zippers on the inner side of the shoe.  lol  One of my girls asked me, "How do you walk in those?"  I told her, "Very carefully."

Day 19- September 19th

Sweater & Shoes: Old Navy // Dress: Maurice's // Tights: Avon- Mark collection // Celebrity Smiles Ring & Tower Tinsel Necklace- Penelope Ann 

I wore this dress on Day 1 of the challenge, but this is a whole new outfit, and I really loved it!  I threw on black tights, and these black shoes.  I really loved this outfit. 

Day 20- September 20th
Dress down day at work....jeans all the way!

Day 21- September 21st
Seriously.  I had nowhere to be.  It was cool and rainy, Scott was in Oregon at his niece's wedding, and I was lucky I got out of bed.

Day 22- September 22nd
I think this is the first Sunday I didn't put on a skirt or dress.  But there's a good reason for that....I went to my first live NFL football game!!  I'm a Steelers fan, and Scott is a Chicago Bears fan.  The Bears came to Pittsburgh, which doesn't happen very often, and so we just had to go!  The last time the Bears played the Steelers in Pittsburgh was before Scott and I started dating, and that was over 7 years ago!  So yes, wearing a skirt to an NFL game makes no sense whatsoever.

I'm looking forward to next week!  How are you doing with Skirtember??

Skirtember Week 2

Another week of the Skirtember challenge has gone by!  If you've been keeping up with me on Instagram or Twitter, I've been sharing some of my outfits for the week.  The picture I take depends on where my husband happens to be sleeping.  If he's upstairs, I use my regular camera downstairs.  If he's downstairs, I use my iPhone upstairs.  You just never know.

In case you missed it, here's how things went for me last week.

Here are my outfits for this week:

Day 9- September 9th

Jacket & Dress: Old Navy // Leggings: Kohl's // Scarf: Street vendor in NYC // Boots: Target.com // "Twist & Turn" Earrings: Penelope Ann

I've been dealing with extreme temperatures in my classroom.  I couldn't be totally sure what things would be like so I wore this short-sleeve dress with leggings, boots, and a jean jacket.  I figured if I was warm in my room I could lose the jacket.  I did wear it for the morning, but it really started to warm up by the afternoon.

Day 10- September 10th

Dress & Cardigan: Old Navy (Also wearing navy flip flops from ON)

On Tuesday, temperatures soared to the high 80's here in PA, and I was actually too warm in this outfit.  My classroom was stuffy and warm.  Unfortunately, I couldn't take off the cardigan because the straps, though wide, were not wide enough to be worn to school.

Day 11- September 11th

This outfit is old and some of the pieces were given to me by a friend, but I like it! :)

Day 12- September 12th

Cardigan: Old Navy (I think) // Dress: AVON- Mark Collection

Day 13- September 13th

I didn't wear a skirt or dress to school because it was Dress Down Day, BUT when I got home I got changed and Scott & I headed to the 80's Prom!!

So I did manage to squeeze in a skirt on Friday.  I'm rocking the leg warmers, too.  You get a peek of one there at the bottom of this photo. 

Here's a bonus shot:

Scott went for 80's prep.  :)

Day 14- September 14th

No skirt.  I was in my sweats all day.  Sorry I'm not sorry.  ;)

Day 15- September 15th

This it my first repeat of the month.  I wore it last week, and my picture didn't show the jean jacket.  It was chilly.  (After having temperatures in the high 80s earlier in the week, we've been in the 60s and very low 70s with cool air since Friday.  So everything seems much colder.)  Anyway, people at church hadn't seen this outfit yet, so I decided to wear it again. 

So there's my week 2 of Skirtember!  Looking forward to this week of the challenge! :)

Skirtember!

Happy Monday, Everyone!

So my friends Kristin from Kristin's kNook and Chantal from Scattered Seashells decided to host a Skirtember challenge.  The idea is to wear a skirt or dress every day in the month of September.  Today is the first link up.  So let me share my outfits from September 1st-September 8th.

Day 1- September 1st

The good news is that the first day of Skirtember was a Sunday.  It was easy to throw on a dress and head off to church.  :)

Dress: Maurice's // Belt: Old Navy // "Twist & Turn" Earrings & "Where is Elvis?" Bracelet: Penelope Ann // Shoes: Payless

Day 2- September 2nd

It was my birthday, and it was warm.  I was going to a Labor Day picnic/birthday celebration with my family.  So I opted for a comfy, casual look.

"Tami" Tank Tops & Skirt: Old Navy // "Let's Dance" Necklace & "Round the World" Earrings: Penelope Ann // Shoes: Shoedazzle.com

Day 3- September 3rd

Back to school again.  My classroom is super cold, and I decided to keep warm but still be somewhat summery.

Entire outfit: Old Navy (You can't see them, but there are green ON flip flops on my feet.)

Day 4- September 4th

I was STILL cold in the previous outfit, so I did something drastic:

Dress: Maurice's // Leggings: Old Navy // Boots: Target.com

I got out my leggings and my new boots.  I ended up throwing a jean jacket on with this.  It looked totally adorable.  :)  This was my second favorite outfit of the week!

Day 5- September 5th

I was at school ALL.  DAY.  It was our Open House on Thursday.  So I needed to look nice for parents.  Since I live about 30 minutes from work, I don't get to leave on days like this because our Open House is from 6-8 PM.  It wouldn't make sense for me to drive all the way home and come back.  PLUS, we had to stay after for an extra hour any way to analyze data.  So that would have been impossible anyway.  Luckily, we also do a meet and greet with the school board on this day, and so they fed us pizza.

ANYWAY, even though I used some Dr. Scholl's ball of foot insoles and my feet were STILL killing me by the end of the day, this was definitely my most favorite outfit so far!

Blazer & Dress: Maurice's // Boots: Shoedazzle.com // "Twist & Turn" Earrings & "Celebrity Smiles" Ring Penelope Ann 

Days 6 & 7 (September 6th & 7th)

Ok, people, I didn't wear a skirt or dress either of these days.  Here's why:  Fridays are dress down days at work.  I have to pay $5 for the privilege to wear jeans to work for the month.  I'm not giving that up. 

On Saturday, I went to a pig roast with some friends.  It really wasn't extremely warm, and I wasn't about to wear a dress or skirt to sit outside all day.  So it was jeans again.

Though I don't have pictures, I will, in my own defense, let you know that both of those outfits were pretty cute, too...thanks to Maurice's!

Day 8- September 8th

I didn't go to church on Sunday because I had so much to do since I was gone on Saturday.  I didn't want to skip another day, but I had a couple of problems: 1.  I had a TON of laundry and other things to get done around the house.  2. It was Steelers football day.  This is what I did:

I almost cut my head out of this because I'm wearing glasses, no make up, and my hair is a disaster.  I don't even remember where I found this Steelers shirt, and that skirt is so old, I can't even remember where I got it.  BUT it does have shorts underneath.  So technically, it is a "skort".  But you wouldn't have known that if I hadn't told you, so it totally counts because it looks like a skirt the whole way around.

So there you have it.  I think I'm doing pretty well so far.  I'm going to have to get creative for the coming week, though.  My classroom is still freezing, and I'm going to need to find ways besides boots and leggings to be warm. 

What I'm Wearing Wednesday

I just thought I'd steal this idea from Kristin since I wasn't sure what else I wanted to write about today.  :)

I went shopping.

I went to Maurice's.

I spent A LOT of money. 

BUT I got some great new things to wear for work.

And even though I'm not back to work yet, I couldn't resist trying out my new dress for church on Sunday.

Dress: Maurice's//Shoes: Shoedazzle.com//Necklace & Earrings: Penelope Ann

The picture is a little weird because I used the self timer on my camera instead of taking an even worse picture with my iPhone in the mirror.  Lucky for you, I cropped out the part where my husband's work clothes are piled on the living room floor.  :-p ;)