OOTD (Playing Dress-up)

Yesterday I took my daughter to a "princess tea party", organized by one of the moms in our class. The "dress code" said that party dresses and princess costumes were welcome. She is not much into princesses (we have two Disney princess costumes but she would wear her Minnie Mouse costume any time over the princesses), so we decided that she would wear her holiday party dress (by the way, I recently saw it in the clearance section at Gymboree and if you have a young girl, I highly reccomend to get it now for the next holiday season. It looks like a million bucks).

I wanted to play dress-up too and my version of dress-up is a pencil skirt and a feminine blouse (when I wear a pencil skirt I always feel like I am dressing up like a lady). I recently received the Timber pencil skirt from the lovely shopwithm but I had nothing to wear with it (my cobblestone cashmere cardigan, which is a perfect match for this skirt, is in the laundry bin), so I came up with an outfit with the Sunnie:

My daughter (who is peeking in her party dress behind me) said that I didn't look like a princess at all because I wasn't wearing a dress and princesses only wear dresses. She was right and besides, I didn't want to wear heels in case I had to chase her, so I changed into a more comfortable outfit, trading the pencil skirt for a pair of jeans. I really wanted to wear the Harlow blouse in sweet guava though (I also have the ivory version) so I kept everything but the pencil skirt (I think that it still looks lady-like, maybe it's the necklace):

Speaking of dressing up and stuff like that, I recently bought my daughter her first nail polish because she was giving herself manicures with markers, which are much harder to wipe off than regular nail polish. I came across Piggy Paint, a brand that sells non toxic nail polishes for kids, in fun colors that kids (but not only kids) love (they just came out with a adults line). Of course she picked a "mermaid green" instead of the more subdued pink that I was trying to sell her. She is obsessed with it and she did a good job in applying it herself:

It also peels off very easily, which in this case is a plus. They also have adorable gift sets that will be a hit at any girls party (you can also buy Piggy Paint on Amazon.com and BedBathandBeyond.com. BTW, I am not affiliated in any way with this brand, I just wanted to share a great find).

Happy Tuesday!