A Shopping Spree for Mom

Last Friday, my gracious Mom used her day off from school to take me on a shopping spree.  She offered this wonderful gift at my birthday (January), but seeing that I had spent the last two summers in maternity clothes, my summer wardrobe had taken a major hit, so I thought a spring trip would be more useful.

I don't really love to shop.  It normally seems overwhelming to me and more like work than fun.  But this year, thanks to Pinterest, I found this blog.  She presented fashion in a whole new light to me.  The biggest take-away was to create a wardrobe of inter-changeable clothes.  I spent a lot of time, reading about versatile clothing and color palettes.

My next step was to try on every.single.piece of clothing in my closet.  At the end, I had a large pile of give away clothes and found some of my own clothing that would work for an inter-changeable wardrobe.  

I then created a list of things that I wanted to look for when shopping.  The good thing was that the items were very broad - a striped shirt, a floral shirt, colored pants, bright skirt, etc.  I also decided on my own color palette.  I based this on the clothes that I already wore.  I really like purple on myself, and green is my favorite color, so that was easy.  I added orange as my accent color.

With all that work done, I was ready and excited to shop!  And boy, did we shop.  My sister thought I tried on an entire store.  I'm really happy with what I found and all the possible outfits I can create from them. 

I'm so excited that I committed to actually getting dressed up every day in April and to try to wear a different mix of outfits each day.  

So, without further ado, here is the past weeks clothing choices:

Now, I'm still no fashion expert, but this is a big improvement on my normal stay-at-home-mom attire.