Gifts and Changes

When I get bored or overwhelmed with life, I like to change things that I can control. There are things in my life that I can't control or at least I am not able to change easily. My hair, is not one of those things.

Now I need to get a dye job. Any suggestions?























I would like to introduce you to my new best friend (right behind my sister!)

This is one of my Christmas presents.

I have named it Guessie.

Here is my Guess purse making it's debut on my blog.

Thrift store finds

Boy did I hit it good at Goodwill today. I needed to shop and Goodwill fulfills the need. Never really cheap for me but I get a lot and I don't go all that often. I have the patience for the hunt.



I enjoy the thrill of the find at a thrift store or marshall's more than the mall. Not that the mall doesn't have it's own time and place, because it does.



I guess I will get back to it. (I am sitting in the garage at a friend's house "helping" fix my atv. I will admit, I am fashionable but not really mechanical. We all has our callings and our talents.


These are my shoes that I found today. The rest of my haul was sweaters for my freezing office!
Stay tuned for those when I am not sitting in the garage.

Passionate Fashion - Black and Pink in the Sunset

I know, I know. These
are the best pictures ever! Maybe not the best pictures ever, but my husband got some excellent pictures of me and the sunset. The sunset threw such gorgeous colors onto me, my outfit, and the house. Plus the sunset accessorized with my outfit. Matching my pink tank top and adding some needed color to my black outfit.

I am so proud of the fact that I dressed up for New Years Eve Day. Unfortunately the heat was out on my end of the office building (I was the only one ON that end said day) The thermostat read a high of 57 most of the day. Not HORRIBLE when the cold air wasn't blowing on me. BRRR!!! Not the correct day for a skirt. Luckily, I was warm enough with my tall boots and socks. No one in the office saw my outfit because I never took off my jacket. GRRR!!! This cold weather is doing two things. 1. Teaching me to layer better. 2. Making me dream of dressing for WARM WEATHER!


Black Suit Jacket - via Herbergers
Black Ruched Tuxedo Shirt - Santa
Pink Tank - Old Navy
Skirt/Belt - Studio Y via Maurices
Tights - White Stag via ShopKo
Gray Socks - via Target
Black Boots - Softt via DSW
Wings Necklace - via Target
Glasses - Fossil via Herbergers

Guests to Passion4Fashion - All in the Family

As you can see, I am a slacker when it comes to weekends and holidays. I wear sweatshirts and jeans (Not often sweatpants). If I have no plans I get lazy.

My excuse's are numerous:
1. It is easier to walk the dog in MN winters without having to change or freeze each time I want to go out.
2. My husband and I tend to run errands or hang out doing stuff not conducive to cute outfits.
3. I don't like to use my work clothes for weekends when it seems like a waste that no one sees or chancing them getting wrecked, etc...
4. When I visit home, I don't bring much more than jeans and sweatshirts because I don't end up wearing anything other than that unless we are going out. (Not often.)


Me, my sis (good dresser, I know!), my niece... (best dressed award)

If you ask J, my niece, where she got her clothes she will tell you, " from da trift tore." with that know it all 3 year old tone. She knows!!!!

Passionate Fashion - Stripes on the Stairs

Layers, layers, that's the name of this new game I am attempting to play. I have played a lot of sports and learned the strategies of each. That seems easy compared to this new strategy of layering in this game I like to call Fashion... or at least my sorry attempt at fashion.

Have you ever helped someone with a different body type than your own pick out clothes? I like to think of it as dressing a doll. My own life size Barbie at whatever the person's everyday proportions.

I love to help other people pick out clothes. I love to see my fashion ideas work for someone else. More often it is more fun to dress someone else because we don't worry about the hangups that we have when we are dressing our perceived bodies and our perceived "style".

Striped Cardigan - Gap Outlet
Blue Tie Shirt - George via Walmart
Black Tank - Old Navy
Black Boots - Softt


Note of depression - Found a GORGEOUS pair of Softt Boots at Nordstrom's Rack in my size, in an awesome color.... pulled them on and felt the glorious Softt softness (goodness?). Slide the zipper up, up, up... snag.... pull... slip a little... pulllllllll.... I got those boots zipped and adored them in the mirror. Then I cried when I unzipped them and hung them back up. THOSE BUGGERS WERE TIGHT! I was afraid to contract my calf muscles (MOVE) due to the constraints of the circumfrence of the boots. Yep... it happened. Too narrow in the calves made me put those gorgeous, comfortable, perfect boots back. (Tear)

Passionate Fashion - Green on Green

I am finding it hard to get dressed in the winter. I don't have enough long sleeve warm clothes for work. I have been trying to do more layering instead of wearing on heavy layer.
It is hard to layer without layering items!

I must admit that I have always loved sleek and chic. Less pieces, less clutter, cleaner. Lately the pictures that inspire me are more layering and floaty and flowing.

Uh oh... change in inspiration means.. wardrobe updates. BAD!

Also Winter, I miss my heels. It is hard to wear them in your snow. I don't want to fall and hurt my ankle again!

Hope you like seeing lots of my boots! Snow makes them necessary.
(PS... a trip to Nordstroms Rack = a new pair of boots and a want to go back for more shoes, without husband to tell me, "You have more than enough shoes."

Men do NOT understand. I NEED options.


Green w/White Striped Shirt - Foxcroft (thrifted)
Navy Blue Argyle Cardigan - Mossimo via Target
Black Pants- Worthington
Brown Cowboy Boots - Aldo

HIGH Fashion LOW

This is HIGH fashion. My husband insisted that we make Christmas cookies so we did. This was my Sunday Christmas cooking outfit.
The joke "other than my fashion" is that I HATE cooking or baking. GRRR!!!!!

Bear with me. I should have some "fashionable" pictures in the near future.
I couldn't find my camera cord so I couldn't share pictures.


Soon you will be seeing CHRISTMAS PRESENTS!

I can't wait to share at least some of what I got.










Jeans - Lee
Sweatshirt - Champion w/ex work logo
Hat - Target