Create 28 Maxi Dress and Hair Challenge Week 23

Last week was the last week for our Style Perspectives, in case you missed it you can see the last 16 weeks here. Don't worry The Blended Blog ladies have something else in store for you! We are doing a Create 28, created by our very own Whitney and Carrie.

I didn't have time to do all of the looks, but my day was day 5, how to dress for a Warm Weather Wedding. I even gave you several options for great summer wedding dresses and how I would style one of them.  Here's a preview of what I'm wearing to a wedding I'm going to at the end of this month:

I also decided to style a Maxi Dress, I just love maxi dresses in the summer, super easy to wear, you can dress them up or down and they just make you feel a little more put together.

I'm loving that I can take the dress I wore for our family pictures and dress it down by simply adding a vest.

For the hair, I don't know about you, but I know I like having my hair up. There are a bunch of up ponytails that I want to try out come summer. But I really like this one. Pretty easy to do, and it looks fancy right?

Up close, I wish I could have changed the bottom topsy tail, next time.

Now onto the hair challenge, week 23 yikes! Where did the time go? I decided to change up my top knot and add a tiny French braid to it. I think it turned out pretty cute.

Saturday I decided to do the triple French Braid again. It's hard to see it in the pictures, but it did turn out better than the first I think.

Sunday to go home I just needed my hair out of my face, so I turned to my favorite side braid, super easy to do and quick but makes it look like I tried.

Go over to The Blended Blog to check out a recap of our last Style Perspectives: A Summer dress by the lovely Andrea from Living On Cloud Nine. I think everyone smashed it out of the park.

Now for next weeks prompts for Create 28. I hope you decide to style one of these next week and link up with us next Wednesday!

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What In My...Bag

Hello Foxy Friends! The Blended Blog ladies and I are starting a new series/link up called What's in My...fill in the blank the first Tuesday of each Month. This month it's What's In My Handbag....We all want to know the real story of what's in your bag, not the pretty bags that you see on IG...I know for me my bag NEVER looks like that!

So head on over to The Blended Blog to see what is in the prompt leaders bags, Lisa, Alison, Nicole and Whitney.

Let's get started, I'm going to show you the real deal. I took out some napkins from my purse and that's it...everything else you see is how I pulled it out of my purse.

 

Let's start with the bag, this is my bag, Mr. got me from a Kate Spade flash sale. He did good. 

Let's first take a peek inside my bag.

 

 

I know, so much stuff in there right? It weight a ton...not even exaggerating.

 

 

Lets use some labels....cause who doesn't love labels? So much stuff right? So let's break it down by category.

 

 

Let's start with the kids stuff...too much kid stuff. I had no idea there was this much kid stuff in my purse. Apparently my kids like to stash things in my purse.

 

 

These bags, have no real rhyme or reason other than I stick random things in it apparently. But it works for me, so I kept it that way.

 

The silver bag has some medical stuff in it...

 

 

And the pink bag...let's just call that a make-up'ish bag that I found all sorts of other things in there too, like stamps? What were those doing in there?

 

 

 

Yes I really do carry around both of these planners with me, the one on the left is our family planner and the one on the right is my blogger planner. I can't believe I went this long without a blogger planner, makes my life so much easier when doing blog posts on the weekend.

 

Yep I have a bag just for my gum...cause why not?

 

 

And that's everything in my bag...and I have to thank this prompt because it made me clean out my purse and it's so much lighter...so thank you!

 

I realized as I was adding the text to the pictures that I forgot to put my phone in there. I usually keep my phone in that little pocket sewn into the side of the purse. I keep that and my blog cards in there, cause there have been so many times I want to give someone my blog card and don't have any on me, so I keep a few in those pockets and a few in my purse.

 

I hope that you join in on the fun!

 

Linking up here and here

May In Numbers

Today I'm linking up with Deena for my month in numbers. If you want to see my previous months, click here.

3 - The number of birthday parties we went to this month

2 - Playdates with friends, one I haven't ever met, just online. Hi Meg! The other an old college friend that I haven't seen since college, it was great to see/meet them. And of course I took no pictures of either thing...did it even happen if I didn't?

2 - Trips to Disneyland for me
3 - Trips to Disneyland for Baby Fox

1 - Pirate show...

Baby Fox is one of those kids up there on the boat!!! I was so proud of him for going up there and not freaking out.

23 - The number of hours that my MIL was in town visiting.

1 - Concert...Pentatonix! Recap here.

4 - The number of allergy shots I got...woo hoo! It used to be 32...a month, yes 32 shots a month.

12 - The number of selfies I took, I feel a little bummed, so low...I need to up my game next month. I realized while putting together the selfie collage, I just didn't take many pictures in general in May, strange.

5 - The number of Mother's Days I've celebrated.

1 - The number of times I got to see my brother...but I had just seen him a couple weeks prior to this, so it was cool to see him twice in two weeks time.

18 - The number of selfies Baby Fox took in 1 minute.

I think I'm all numbered out for the month. Hope you are having a great Monday....going to be a long week for me, I only worked 2 days last week...this week 5...ugh!

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Create 28: A Summer Wedding Style

Welcome to day 5 of Create 28. In case you are new here, Create 28 was created by The Blended Blog's very own Carrie and Whitney, they've let us take over and we're going to do our best to make them proud.

If you missed some days, fear not, we are recapping each week every Wednesday on The Blended Blog with a link up. Feel free to join in on this weeks prompts, pick what you want and link up! Go check out Sheila's Nautical look from yesterday!

Okay now that introductions are out of the way, let gets to my prompt, Warm Weather Weddings. I can tell you that I have been to my fair share of weddings, heck I've been a bridesmaid in 7 weddings! There was a time when we were going to 4-5 weddings a year. Most of the weddings that I have been to are on the fancier side, so I tend to go somewhat fancier in my attired. But I always feel it's better to be over dressed than under dressed. My go to wedding look and still is a favorite is a strapless A line dress, and usually I pair it with some sort of colored shawl. Most times though the weddings I go to are inside so a shawl isn't needed, but I like to have one with me, just in case.

And one with pockets...even better...

First time away from Baby Fox when he was 6 months old...

We actually have a wedding coming up on June 25th, and I'm going outside my norm and wearing this cute skirt and lace top (which I bought back in December, knowing I had this wedding to go to).  I think it's just perfect for a warm summer wedding. You can see other ways to style this skirt by Grace, here and here.

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Here are some other dresses I would pick for a warm weather wedding. Any one of these could be styled up with some heels, cute accessories and a clutch. I tried to give you a variety of choices, solid colors, textured and floral. Hopefully you find something in here that you like!

Row 1   Dress 1 // Dress 2 // Dress 3 // Dress 4
Row 2   Dress 1 // Dress 2 // Dress 3 // Dress 4
Row 3   Dress 1 // Dress 2 // Dress 3 // Dress 4

If I could pick any of the above dresses, I would pick this one. If I didn't already have the outfit for the wedding I'm going to I would snatch this up in a second. I think it's just so feminine and perfect for a warm summer wedding with the lace sleeves.

Dress // Shoes // Bracelet // Clutch // Earrings // Nail Polish (Color - Lovie Dovie)