Create 28 and Hair Challenge Week 25

Hello Foxy Fashion Friends! Today we're back at it with another week of Create 28. Go check out this weeks recap on The Blended Blog, everyone did such a fabulous job this week!

This week I actually styled two looks! I know I can't believe it either. I was just feeling inspired! First up is Sunglasses Styled. Funny enough I rarely wear sunglasses. I am definitely not one of those people that needs to wear them as soon as I step outside. But I was just recently looking through my scrapbooking closet (and when I say that, I mean I can't find anything because it's so full), and found these pair of sunglasses Mr. and I had bought back in the after Christmas sales at Express. So here is the outfit I styled...

Without the sunglasses (man it was bright outside, all the pictures I took I was squinting...I guess I really did need the sunglasses).

These jean shorts, the most comfortable shorts EVER! I bought it when I was out shopping with some of The Blended Blog ladies, seriously, worth every penny!

And the hair...I actually wore this outfit on Saturday to Baby Fox's half birthday party...I knew it was going to be hot, so I wanted it all up, perfect excuse for this Knotted Mohawk style. I didn't feel like I had enough hair at the end to complete it how she did, I'm fairly certain she has extensions in, so I just left it in a ponytail which I think works just as great.

My second look is the Pinned It and Did It look. I have lots of outfits pinned, but I had been wanting to try a  to cut an off the shoulder t-shirt with one of my t-shirts. After getting my Chico's T-shirt from the blogging conference, and I knew I probably wouldn't wear it as is, I thought, this is the perfect t-shirt to try this with. So I followed her youtube tutorial and I think it turned out pretty good. I wish the t-shirt was a little bigger, but I think it still worked.

For the hair I did a twisted half do, and added some extra twists to cover up the rubber band. I think that it turned out great, I'm really into doing twists right now, not sure why, but I think they are just so pretty.

Onto my hair for the week...

Last Wednesday I did this simple braid...can you guess...it was day 3 hair, so a braid is necessary.

I fully admit I watch stupid TV, it's mindless and I like it...but I was watching Young and Hungry and Gabby had something similiar I was trying to copy, but it didn't quite work out like hers, but I went with it.

Back with more twists on Monday, it was 107° here, so fancy pony tail for me.

I wanted to do some twists again, but decided to do a braid instead, this wasn't exactly the look I was going for, but hey it will do :) It was still easy to wear and comfy all day long.

Random fact: See that white background behind me? If you see it, it means I'm at work, toasting my bread for breakfast... The toaster is in a corner of the building right by a window where no one walks unless they are using the toaster...perfect spot for a selfie.

This is our last week of Create 28, I can't believe it's coming to an end so soon! No fear we have something else planned for the summer months, plus something really fun for Fall. So stay tuned for details once we've hashed it all out. In the mean time, don't forget to hop on over to The Blended Blog for a full recap of all of the this weeks outfits. The prompts for our final week.

Link up one of this weeks prompts or any outfit post, hop around and meet some new people! Thanks for joining in on the fun!

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Where Will You Be In 10 Years?

Hi Foxy Friends. The ladies at The Blended Blog were reading What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty and thought, where do we think we'll be in 10 years. So every third Tuesday of the month, we're hopping 10 years into the future and trying to predict where we will be. Guess who's first? That's right, ME! So hop on over to The Blended Blog to see how old I'll be, where I think I'll be living and what I think the kids will be doing.

Where do you think you'll be in 10 years?

 

Feel free to use this graphic if you want to participate, just link back to my blog or The Blended Blog for credit. Thanks!

 

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$10 Target Haul: June Edition

Back linking up with Becky, Beth, Courtney. Elizabeth, Rachel, Stephanie, Tif  and Whitney to show what we got for just $10 at Target.

I was all set to get up early, go to Target by myself...as I'm sneaking out of my bedroom, I hear a familiar *Thump*, sigh...Baby Fox is awake and has heard me sneaking out. He cracks his door and I see a big smile..."want to come with me?"   YES!

Here's our $10 stash.

So we were at Target, and of course stopped by the $1 section first. Baby Fox found these Legos, so we bought one for him and one for his sister, we didn't currently have any girl Legos, she's obsessed with them.

Then I found some magnets, you can never have enough cute magnets for the fridge, and then I FINALLY found those pens everyone has been talking about. I do admit they are really nice to write with and for $3, can't be beat. Baby Fox had his half birthday party this past weekend and I know those beach balls would come in handy. Although blowing them up...man that was hard! Usually those things aren't that hard, but you had to hold it a certain way, upside down and standing on one foot to get it to work, seriously, not even exaggerating one bit...

And now for the price...I did have a giftcard for $10, so I could have technically bought something for $20, but I decided to use the gift card another time, so the total was...$8.51. As I was paying, I thought, dang, I over estimated the tax...I could have bought one more $1...darn. Oh well, better luck next time!

 

 

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Friday Favorites #74

Happy Friday Foxy Friends! I'm off today and prepping for Baby Fox's Half Birthday! It's a pool party and it's suppose to be 90°! After having several weeks of 70's, I'm not sure if I'm happy it's going to be hot, or dreading it...at least I know everyone will have fun, at least I hope so!

Monday: Let It Go Summer Fun - How to have a summer the kids will remember
Tuesday: How to go 3-5 Days Between Washing Your Hair
Wednesday: Create 28 - A Swing Dress
Thursday: I give you 5 tips on what to do after you buy a house

 This weekend we're hosting Baby Fox's half birthday, So excited to set everything up. Baby Fox is so excited to help me decorate. This is the invitation I made, I think it came out pretty good.

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 This week, Mr. came home with this...what's better than Chocolate Malted Crunch? He said when he got there, there was a wall of Rocky Road and no Chocolate Malted Crunch in site, but he kept looking and found this one in the back behind all of that Rocky Road, phew!

Baby Fox was complaining about his books, so the moment has arrived, I thought he was ready to start reading Harry Potter. We've been reading about one chapter a night and he's loving it...He started on top of the covers....

And eventually worked his way under the covers and hunkered down for a good read...

In other news, we're getting rid of that pacifier in her mouth...today! We're giving them to a baby we know...she's passing them on, I hope it works! Party on Saturday with a kid with no binky's...we might be in trouble! But no weekend is a good weekend right? Fingers crossed for us please. We've been prepping her for this for months...

 Some random pictures from the week...

I got one workout in, because....

 

Mini Fox started ISR (Infant Self Rescue) swim lessons. We need to get her water safe this summer. Coach C says that she's doing great, and that she's doing stuff with her that he normally does weeks later...and it's her third day. I hope it works! I snuck this picture, we aren't supposed to take pictures...not sure why but what can you say I'm a rule breaker....

 

Dinner with my parents, it had been a couple of weeks since we had dinner. We needed to order all of the food for Baby Fox's party, so we figured, order food, get dinner...win. They still had their Cinco Dey Mayo stuff out.

Oh and after that work out I did up there...we went to In and Out, yep I was still in my workout clothes...haha.

Hope you have a great weekend! See you on Monday with my $10 Target Haul!


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5 Tips To Do After You Buy a House

Hi Foxy Friends! Last month I did a post on how to buy a house, so I'm back with some more advice...on what to do AFTER you've bought your house! Let's assume that you've signed the papers, the inspection went great and you now have the keys in hand,yay! Congrats, welcome to home ownership!

ONE

Make a list of everything that you want to do to your house and prioritize. Rome wasn't built in a day, and either is doing everything you want in your house.  So make a list and try and figure out how much things are going to cost. We knew we wanted to change the color of our house, STAT. See that graphic up there...yep that was the color of our house...and that makes it look nicer than it was. So first thing we did, literally we got the keys and the told the painter GO! If you want more details on  what we renovated, click here.

Much better right? See all those boxes in the window? Yep that was our "blinds" for a good 6 months...haha! Our neighbor across the streets bedroom window faces this window and he could see our tv...so yep those boxes stayed there for a while.

TWO

Be patient, you have a budget, stick to it. I know you want to buy drapes and blinds for every window and decorate and fill every room with house, but most likely you have way more room than furniture...take your time, find the pieces that fit you instead of going all out and getting everything at once. We waited a YEAR before we got drapes in our room. We saved up and then bought our drapes...boy was it nice to have a dark room to sleep in.

Best day ever when he came to install our drapes.

THREE

If you can do it yourself, go for it, if you know it's above your knowledge hire it out...we know our time is valuable so we hired most of our renovations out, the only thing we did do was paint...and man did we paint. We went through 23 gallons for primer and 20 gallons of paint. We painted every wall, every ceiling, every baseboard and doorway. We did not paint the doors...that seemed to intimidating to me! We didn't get cable for the first 5 months we lived there, I knew if we had cable we would watch tv instead of paint...so we painted from the time we got home till dark. Great motivator to get stuff done!

If I never saw another paint brush it would be too soon. That being said, I know how to cut in between the wall and ceiling like no ones business, if you need tips just ask, throw that blue tape out, there is an easier way to do it!

FOUR

We took the Dave Ramsey Classes, read about that here and here, that being said we like to budget for everything, I can't remember where Mr. read it, perhaps it was in the Dave Ramsey class, but we were told that you need to save $1 for every square foot of house each year for maintenance. We've been in our house for nearly 7 years and this is very true for us. And even if you don't use it all in that year, you're going to eventually need to get a new roof, water heater breaks, etc. It's nice to have that little bit of savings that you know you can use and not have to worry of something major happening. When Mini Fox was 4 weeks old we got a slab leak, so we decided to replace our plumbing, which totally sucked, but you know what financially we had already prepared for it, so it wasn't a big deal money wise. That's always nice to know that. If you want to see what our house looked like getting re-plumbed...click here...it's scary, you might want to click away, hehe.


FIVE

Just remember that you don't need everything all at once. We really wanted to get our backyard redone, but figured while we save up the money to get it done, we would use it to see how we really were going to be using the space. Turns out what where we thought we wanted the table was not where it ended up because it was in the direct sunlight all the time. But had we done the backyard right away and not lived with it for a couple of summers, we wouldn't have know how we wanted it. Same goes for the house, use the space a little, it may surprise you how you end up using things!

OH and one last tip, buy small plants! They are cheaper and just let them grow! We bought the smallest ones we could, and it took a year, but it was worth saving hundreds of dollars to go the cheaper route, and what's a year when you're in your "forever" home? And space out the plants, they grow more than you think, ask the people where you buy the plants how far away you should space it, we totally would have bought too much had we not asked!

So there you have it, 5 tips of what to do after you buy a house! Hope these were helpful! And congrats on getting your house!

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Create 28: A Swing Dress and Hair Challenge Week 24

We're back to week 2 of the Create 28! Head on over to The Blended Blog to see a recap on how each prompt was styled.

This week I didn't do much, I wish I had something with fringe, perhaps that is my new goal, find something cool with fringe, I'm thinking summer sandals or a purse. Or maybe some fun fringe sleeves...hmmm...anyway, I got a new dress from Old Navy.....actually just after I bought it Whitney styled the same exact dress...great minds think alike!

Apparently I don't like the iron, oops! Sorry about that. I am just loving the swing dress style this season. Mr....not so much, but what does he know? He think everything just looks big, lol...he has a point, but it's so comfy, you can't NOT wear it!

I went simple with the accessories, just added a simple necklace, I find when I wear earrings, Mini Fox finds them super fascinating and either asks to get her ears pierced (over Mr.'s cold dead body, he says at least 12, I'm pushing for 8...well see who wins that battle), or tries to steal them out of my ears.

I saw this hair style and immediately wanted to try it. I think I've decided that my favorite looks are the ones where my hair is half up, gets my hair out of my face and at the same time I get to feel girly with my hair down.

Now onto the hair challenge, this week I just did a couple, it's hard to do my hair during work...

Seriously I am messy bun challenged...no matter how hard I try...I JUST CAN'T DO IT!

One day...one day...

Off to dinner and Mini Fox asks me...where Mama Make-Up? I said I'm not wearing any...she said...make-up Mama...uh oh, I'm creating some sort of monster that won't go out of the house without it...so I complied and quickly did my hair and make-up in 10ish minutes...okay more like 15, caught.

Mr. and I have waited patiently for Game of Thrones to start up, and then we let 7 episodes stack up before we watched, so we had been binge watching them all week...so I took this style from the Mother of Dragons...she has way more hair...but ya know I had 10 minutes.

Sunday we went to a birthday party, this might look familiar from above...yep, I took that outfit picture after naptime. This was before we went to the party.

Did you read my post from yesterday? It was all about how to go 3-5 days between washing your hair...for the record this is day 3 hair.

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