Fashion Friday- Navy and White Gingham Blouse

I love this Navy and White Gingham blouse or checked shirt whichever you prefer to call it. It has been so versatile with so many colors and looks good with skirts or pants! I showed you another outfit using this blouse in my 5 Casual Outfits post awhile back.

I paired the blouse with my lemon yellow pencil skirt and added pops of red with my $5.00 Walmart necklace! Uh Huh..Remember my peach one? It is exactly the same one but I did not pay $5.00 for it when I bought it a few years ago in Texas!

I love to add pops of color to my outfits in case you haven't noticed ;)

Like my eyebrow pop? I look like Colonel Klink from Hogan's Hero's if any of you remember that show (totally dates me)

 Just picture a German accent. 

P.S. I don't know why the necklace looks orange in these pics...it is red.

HAHAHA by the way do any of you suffer from eyebrow lightening? Mine used to be black! My age spots are getting darker and my eyebrows are getting lighter! What's up with that?!!

The older I get the more I want to cover up my turkey neck and crows feet! Thank heavens for large sun glasses and button up blouses with fun necklaces.

I hope you enjoy your weekend! 

This is the next installment of my sisters family room makeover.If you missed the first part you can see it here where we started with Roman Shades.

This is what we started with.... The TV overwhelms the old window that is hanging above it so we took it down and moved it to the other side of the room which I will show you later..it looks so good!! The window treatment needed a little sumpin sumpin to bring in some color so we made some cornices using the same fabric we used to make the roman shades

On the other wall you can see some of her ceiling medallions and other wall art that were kind of spaced too far apart so we took them down too.

We started fresh. 

Because the ceilings in this room are really high we knew we needed something big to go over the TV.

First we tried hanging 6 frames (eventually with some sort of artwork in them) but Tiff really wanted something a bit more bold. So we got creative!

NOTE: See the cute window cornices?... I will be posting the DIY on how we made those later this week. 

Tiff had this ceiling medallion that was painted turquoise remember in the pic above? Well we decided to make a large sunburst. Tiff called her local Ace hardware store to see if we could get a bunch of paint sticks and they gave her 50 of them for FREE!! They are so nice!! We hot glued the sticks onto the back of the medallion. 

When you place the sticks on do not push or the glue will squish out all over just lightly place them onto the medallion so that they kind of angle out as you can see in the photo.

Then Tiff spray painted the whole piece in a light grey and we hung it up above the TV and we LOVED how it turned out!

Fashion Friday- Navy Jacket and a pop of orange

Don't mind my scrunched up face..I am just trying to walk the dog and take a selfie at the same time LOL!! We are dog sitting (probably permanently) our oldest daughters dog while she finishes getting her house ready to go on the market. 

Remember last week I told you I was going to mix it up and not wear a cardigan...well this is what I came up with. I am wearing a navy tweed type jacket with denim shirt tucked into my denim jeans with a belt (surprise! I don't normally tuck in my shirt because I am short waisted) I found this outfit (see below) on pinterest and decided to try to replicate it somewhat..I don't have a plaid scarf like the one in the photo nor do I have the cute plaid coat but ......

Madewell

But hey I do have the pop of orange shoes!! 

While visiting my sister last week we decided to give her family room/eating area a makeover using little to no money of course!

 I can't wait to show you all the fun things we did!!

We started with making Roman Shades