The Mishaps and Mayhem of a Solitary Life: Fall Challenge

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Wednesday, November 5, 2014

The FALL Challenge has come to an end!

The FALL Challenge with Alison at Get Your Pretty On has come to an end!
Even though I always seem to lose steam toward the end of each challenge, (as far as the outfits are concerned) I always get a lil sad as the final days approach. No emails to look forward to anymore, undoubtedly, the challenge group's page posts will begin to dwindle, and its back to figuring out what I'm gonna wear on my own! During the last few days, I only styled three of the outfits! The others you'll see in the near future! I know I've said this before, but I really enjoyed this challenge and thought it was the easiest to style. So these outfits will definitely continue to be in rotation!

Day 17 I kinda loved!! So super easy!

boyfriend cardigan/solid tee/black leggings/leopard scarf/neutral flats

The styled outfit in the email had the leather leggings styled. I didn't buy those, but I had these skinny moto pants, that I mentioned in my Pinspired post Monday!

Even though day 18 called for a puffer vest, I opted out! I'm going to save it! Maybe I'll wear it this weekend!

Day 19 was admittedly, not my fave! Not because I didn't like the pieces, just because I didn't like the sweater paired with it! I had forgotten about this sweater. I like it, but I guess it doesn't need anything under it!! I feel like I look odd and large! ugh!!

neutral sweater/plaid button down/black skinnies/leopard flats

Day 20 could not have been any easier!

dressy sweatshirt/dark skinnies/ riding boots

When I was wearing this, I felt that I had already worn this outfit during the challenge! Turns out I did wear a version of this, but it wasn't during the challenge! It was the week before while I was wearing THE BOOT!!

Super similar...go me!!

Another challenge in the books!! I always have so much fun during the challenges! I love the looks and enjoy interacting and linking up with fellow bloggers and challengers! Please go take a look at how these beautiful ladies styled the looks during the last few days!!

You can find links to all available clothing I mentioned above {here}. And see how I've styled all the looks during previous challenges {here}.

Have a great week...have FUN and LOOK FABULOUS!!
Katie

Linking up today with:

Alison at Get Your Pretty On

Lindsey at The Pleated Poppy

Because Shanna Said So

Sarah at Tucker up

Madeline at Cappuccino and Fashion

Wednesday, October 29, 2014

Fall Challenge Week 3

We're in the home stretch of the Fall Challenge with Alison at Get Your Pretty On. I didn't end up wearing every outfit, and it seems I styled lots stripes!! So in no particular order, here are the looks I attempted this week!

Day 11: It's still too warm in my neck of the woods to actually wear my puffer vest, it's pretty heavy, but I LOVE it. And I really LOVED this look. I will totally wear this often... later in the fall and into winter!!

Puffer vest/striped shirt/dark skinnies/riding boots/leopard scarf

While we're on the puffer vest, I'm gonna skip over to Day 13, which saw the puffer again! This time with a plaid shirt underneath. Loved this too!!

puffer vest/plaid button down/grey skinnies/riding boots/black purse

Sunday, Day 14 had challengers in stripes again, this time with the military jacket thrown in. Since I had yet to sport the military jacket (and just got it back from my friend), I threw this on, with a tassel necklace. I laughed when I got the Day 14 outfit on Saturday night, because it was kind of like what I wore Saturday out to dinner with friends!! (too warm for the day's actual outfit!) Rather then a striped shirt, I wore this new striped moto cardi/jacket from Piper Street.

military jacket/striped shirt/dark skinnies/leopard flats/tassel necklace (I added this to the look!)

These last two outfits I ended up wearing to work with black pants.

This was Day 10! Each night we get an email with the look Alison put together. This day, I basically flip flopped the colors of the items in the picture. Instead of the dark, fall colored cardi, I went for the neutral cardi and a darker long sleeved shirt. The plaid scarf was spot on for this day.

Day 15 called for the dressy sweatshirt, grey skinnies and ankle boots. I wore this dressy sweatshirt to work and because it was already grey, I went with black pants. This is the BEST. I got it last weekend when Loft was 50% off. Super cute with the shirttails hanging out and there is little hot pink dotty rosebuds on it! It also has a Peter Pan collar. Sorry you can't see it in the pic, but find the sweatshirt {here}. This is an updated version of my favorite sweatshirt from last year that I might have worn at least a hundred times with leggings and boots....

Not the best picture of the sweatshirt (I can't believe this is the only one I have with it on!), but hopefully you get the gist...and maybe had a good laugh! I just love this!! And the new version can also be worn with leggings. With the shirttails, your bum is covered!! They also have it in a plaid version, I am kind of regretting not getting when it was just 60% off during the flash sale....booooooo!!

Hopefully in these final days of the challenge, I'll do a little better and be more on target with my outfits! You can find links to all available clothing I mentioned above {here}. And see how I've styled all the looks during previous challenges {here}.

Have a great week...have FUN and LOOK FABULOUS!!
Katie

And don't forget to check out these ladies looks! I'm sure they did a much better job than me!! :)

Linking up today with:

Alison at Get Your Pretty On

Lindsey at The Pleated Poppy

Because Shanna Said So

Sarah at Tucker up

Madeline at Cappuccino and Fashion

Wednesday, October 22, 2014

Fall Challenge Post 2

I am loving the Fall Challenge with Alison at Get Your Pretty On!! I think this has been the easiest so far. I am not sure if it's because I love dressing for Fall, I had all of the pieces, or maybe I just love that it's really starting to feel like Fall. Last week's post centered on the first two challenge outfits, so I am so excited today to show you LOTS more looks in this post!! And a few of them may or may not have been me playing dress up after work! You'll notice I don't have THE BOOT on anymore, but for work I've been wearing sneakers, as the ankle is not yet 100%. So I played with making the outfits more challenge-y when I got home each day!

Days 3 and 4 of the Challenge:

I'm chunking Days 3 and 4 together because I didn't wear day 3's outfit. It was super simple though! A plaid shirt, dark skinnies, tassel necklace, and booties. On day 4, I kind of combined day three and four, and wore plaid under the dressy sweatshirt day 4 actually called for. For the picture, I put on my leopard flats...not 100% sure it went with the plaid but hey!! Maybe I should have worn the booties from day 3. Day four was just dressy sweatshirt, boyfriend jeans, and leopard flats.

Day 3:

plaid shirt/Old Navy

Tassel Necklace/Bauble Bar

Jeans/ AE

Booties/Blowfish (old)

Day 4:

plaid shirt and sweatshirt/ Piper Street

Jeans/Vigoss (similar)

Leopard flats/Target (similar)

Day 5 called for a long sleeve shirt (olive was recommended), Grey skinny jeans, neutral boyfriend cardigan, plaid scarf and the booties of your choice! I switched this one up a bit also, but it still worked! I've been an a Pink Fridays kick for October as a way to show my support for Breast Cancer Awareness Month, so I went with a pink top. It paired well with my plaid scarf. An olive shirt would have also, and I plan on wearing that soon! So I guess I got a bonus outfit out of the challenge!! :)

boyfriend cardi/Target

Scarf/Nordstrom (similar)

Shirt/Piper Street (no longer available)

Grey Skinny Jeans/AE

booties/Carlos Santana (similar)

Day 6 just might be my favorite so far...so super easy and I love wearing my riding boots!! I wasn't sure if the neutrals of the sweater and in the scarf were too off, but the ladies helped me realize it totally goes!! I love my sweater from Target with the contrast back! (so sad I couldn't find it online anymore to link to)

Sweater/Target

Scarf/Nordstrom (no longer available)

Jeans/AE

Boots (old)

Day 7 was another super easy outfit. Boyfriend cardi, striped shirt, grey skinnies, with leopard flats! I didn't have the fall colored boyfriend cardigan, but I had regular cardigans so I wore a longer striped top, with one of those. Truthfully I didn't spend much time in this one! Most Sunday afternoons are laundry and lesson planning for me, so to be comfy I put on my grey leggings, kept the striped shirt and threw my blardigan on for the rest of the day! I did like this outfit a lot though! I'll where it again.

Striped Shirt/Nordstrom

Cardigan/Piper Street

Grey Skinnies/AE

Leopard Flats/link above

I opted out of day 8. I thought it was super similar to day 3, with the exception being bf jeans and a military jacket! And I just came home from work that day, put on sweats, a t (come back Friday to read all about the t-shirt!! It's my new favorite!! I might be wearing it again as I type this...) and my blardigan!

Day 9 (Tuesday) was all about comfort. Leggings (or black skinny jeans), with a fancy sweatshirt and striped layering t-shirt underneath, and leopard flats. Might have been a little caus, but I wore it to work anyway with trouser pants and a necklace to jazz it up! When me ankle is better, I'll wear this with skinny ankle pants instead. When I got home I put on my leggings. I kinda liked this one!!

Sweatshirt/no longer available

(Lot of challengers had luck with fancy sweatshirts at LOFT)

Striped Shirt/ Nordstrom

Trouser Pants/Loft

Leggings/Nordstrom

Leopard Flats/Target (link above)

I feel like many of the pieces in the this challenge are repeating sooner and a lot more often than in past challenges but I'm still enjoying the challenge itself and the ease of the looks. And I don't know how or why but when there's plaid and stripes every other day, I make it work. Didn't realize how many striped shirts and different plaid button downs I had before this challenge! Glad I dug them out!

Now that you've seen how I've interpreted the looks each day, go check out how some of my favorite fellow challengers are stylin' pretty!! And link up your post with us here.

Unitl next week...have fun and look fabulous!!
Katie

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Linking up today with:

Alison at Get Your Pretty On

Lindsey at The Pleated Poppy

Because Shanna Said So

Sarah at Tucker up

Madeline at Cappuccino and Fashion

Wednesday, October 15, 2014

Fall Challenge Post 1

The Fall Style Challenge with Alison at Get Your Pretty On began on Monday and as I did in past challernges, I am documenting my take on the looks with fellow bloggers in the challenge! This time around 20 bloggers have joined us! And you can link up with all of us as well! Just head on over to Carrie's blog at A Lovely Little Wardrobe. This week's post will only showcase two of the outfits! And so far, so fun!!

Monday had challengers wearing a striped top, boyfriend jeans and booties, accessorized with a tassel necklace. I was off for the Columbus Day holiday, so I was excited to follow the challenge pretty closely and not have to make too many changes for work! The change I did make though, was swapping out the boyfriend jeans for skinny jeans. They were less bulky and fit better under the boot!

DAY ONE

Striped Top/ Skinny Jeans/booties

Day two was pretty simple! Long sleeved tee, black skinny jeans, plaid scarf, with military jacket and riding boots!! I was back at work, so naturally, I substituted my black leggings and because of this I went with a longer tunic sweater instead of the long sleeve tee (as the bum needed to be covered!!) And I went with my grey riding boots just because they went better with my BOOT!!

DAY TWO

Leggings/tunic (similar)/plaid and polka infinity scarf (nla)

I really wanted to have my act together enough to put the third outfit together, but it will have to wait until next week! So please come back! And don't forget to check out how some of my fellow challengers styled their looks for the first two days of the challenge!!

See you next week!!!

Katie

Linking up today:

Lindsey at The Pleated Poppy

Alison at Get Your Pretty On

Sarah at Tucker up

Because Shanna Said So

Madeline at Cappuccino and Fashion