I'm Back!

Hello ladies, I'm back from my vacation in the Caribbean. We had a great time and I will fill you in as soon as I'm finished sorting the pictures. I have something like 358 pictures to go through (I ended up with that many not because of the variety of things that we have seen and photographed but because my husband is a keeper, he would shoot 30 takes of the same picture and didn't delete any, even those that you can immediately see that are not worth it because, say, you closed your eyes or you missed completely your subject by a head).

So, in the meanwhile, I'm going to post two OOTD that I have worn just before leaving. I know, pretty boring compared to the Caribbean but I didn't want to leave you without something to comment on ;-).

I wore the following outfit on the Thursday afternoon before leaving. I had another "interview" for a nursery school (actually it was my daughter'r turn to be "interviewed" this time and it didn't go very well, unless not saying a single word during a playgroup were you're supposed to show your best self is a quality highly appreciated by the evaluators. At least she didn't cry). Anyway, again I had to be dressed for the occasion and I didn't fill like wearing pants this time (you know that in the winter I'm wearing pants 99% of the times).
First, I tried an outfit with my dusty blossom pencil skirt but I decided against it because it was a little bit too much "Upper East Side" cliche, so I broke out my Ravine dress that was just imploring me from the deeps of my closet to be taken out. It can be very elegant (actually, this is the reason why I hadn't worn it yet, after missing the occasion of a Xmas party) and I wanted to play it down, so I wore it with a tissue turtleneck and my Glenbrae boots (my inspiration for this outfit was DaniBP over at DaniBP Mop Philosopher, who always rocks the look "ladylike with boots"):

I really liked how this outfit came together and I felt good in it.

I wore the second outfit the morning after, to the hair salon. Now, as you probably have noticed in the pics were you can see more of my face I have A LOT of hear and my appointments with the hairdresser always last forever and are a real bore. Moreover, this time I was with my daughter (I couldn't go the day before when she was at school because my stylist had taken a day off and I haven't a regular daytime babysitter that I can call whenever I need some time by myself) and I can tell you that even if she was very well behaved and played with what she could find (which wasn't much even if the ladies at the salon tried very hard to entertain her), spending almost two and a half hours sitting while mommy is having her hair done is NOT FUN for a toddler and I had to give up on the cut after the color because she couldn't take a minute more of it.
Anyway, I wore this outfit:




The silk floral top wasn't the wisest choice to wear to a color appointment but once put it on I couldn't manage to take it off. I had already worn it with the same cardigan and another pair of cords in the fall, but with the navy toothpick it's almost perfection. I was in a hurry and I forgot to wear the hazelnut leather skinny belt over the cardigan, but I liked it anyway.

That's it for tonight. My husband is travelling all this week, so I plan to have a daily post or two if I can. Stay tuned for the Caribbean vacation post!