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Sorry if you're sick of these home projects&amp;nbsp;updates of mine, friends, but I've just got to tell you: I'm always (yes, ALways) up for something free and thought maybe&amp;nbsp;one or two of you are, too.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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And pallet boards are free. Headboards, typically, are not.&lt;/div&gt;
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A &lt;a href="http://smartgirlstyle.blogspot.com/2013/01/bedroom-makeover-pallet-headboard.html" target="_blank"&gt;step-by-step tutorial&lt;/a&gt; for how to make one yourself. &lt;/div&gt;
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And truthfully? If I can do it, anyone can. Plus, hello, did I mention it's $free$? &lt;/div&gt;
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I did? Twice now? Oh. Okay.&lt;/div&gt;
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xox, &lt;/div&gt;
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Brittney&lt;/div&gt;
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Sorry, but I just can't help sharing these. I think they're fantastic...even if no one alive knows what the heck kind of animal that is.&lt;br /&gt;
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And &lt;a href="http://smartgirlstyle.blogspot.com/2013/01/diy-animal-bookends.html" target="_blank"&gt;you can make some&lt;/a&gt;, too! So so easily!&lt;/div&gt;
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Check out how, &lt;a href="http://smartgirlstyle.blogspot.com/2013/01/diy-animal-bookends.html" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/div&gt;
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xox&lt;br /&gt;
Brittney&lt;/div&gt;
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If you love ombre, and you love ruching, you just might love this little DIY project I did this month...either for yourself or the favorite little girls in your life.&lt;/div&gt;
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That's right. An ombred ruched duvet cover...out of a plain ol' cheap ol' Walmart flat sheet. I don't think it gets cuter than this. Really.&lt;br /&gt;
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Come on over and &lt;a href="http://smartgirlstyle.blogspot.com/2012/12/diy-ombre-ruched-duvet-cover.html" target="_blank"&gt;check it out&lt;/a&gt;!﻿&lt;/div&gt;
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A long time ago, some of you were interested in a house tour. Probably because you got sick of looking at that same white couch and blue-and-white rug every day.&lt;/div&gt;
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Well, the good news is: my &lt;a href="http://smartgirlstyle.blogspot.com/p/house-tour.html" target="_blank"&gt;house tour&lt;/a&gt;'s available. &lt;/div&gt;
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The bad news is: I haven't figured out how to serve cookies through the Internet for those of you who stop by.&lt;/div&gt;
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I can't guarantee it's worth it, then. Because I make a pretty mean snickerdoodle.&lt;/div&gt;
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But, if you want, here it is: &lt;a href="http://smartgirlstyle.blogspot.com/p/house-tour.html" target="_blank"&gt;My House Tour&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;
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xox&lt;/div&gt;
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Got kids?&lt;/div&gt;
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Got parents to get gifts for?&lt;/div&gt;
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Get this: Take an old photo frame and make a snack tray&amp;nbsp;out of it!&lt;/div&gt;
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Wrap it up, give it to your parents, and let your kids feel so proud when your parents open it up and LOVE it.&lt;/div&gt;
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Or just make one for yourself. Because it's pretty.&lt;/div&gt;
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Check out more about this tray &lt;a href="http://smartgirlstyle.blogspot.com/2012/11/master-bedroom-makeover-vanity.html" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;
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And have a lovely Thanksgiving!&lt;/div&gt;
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You guys, I'm a sucker for argyle. It's the inherent nerdiness in me -- I blame&amp;nbsp;genetics, you know. Just can't help it.&lt;/div&gt;
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The home-dec version of argyle, as far as I'm concerned, is harlequin diamonds. And I've been wanting to do something like this little DIY project forEVer:&lt;/div&gt;
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Fortunately for me, Forever arrived earlier this week.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;a href="http://smartgirlstyle.blogspot.com/2012/10/how-to-paint-harlequin-diamond.html" target="_blank"&gt;Come see&lt;/a&gt; how you can do one, too! Or just check out &lt;a href="http://smartgirlstyle.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"&gt;my house stuff in general&lt;/a&gt;. Just because it's fun.&lt;/div&gt;
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You guys... You all know me well enough by now that I don't mind you rolling your eyes at me. In fact, most of the time I'll beat you to it.&lt;/div&gt;
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But some seriously great stuff is happening in my brain lately. And it's called: Creative Juices Are Flowing.&lt;/div&gt;
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And, although they're not as good as Minute Maid 5-calorie Lemonade juices (that stuff is delicious), these creative juices are making me both happy AND productive. So.&lt;/div&gt;
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Red rover red rover, &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;a href="http://smartgirlstyle.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"&gt;just come on over&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;
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Ooo oooo! &lt;a href="http://smartgirlstyle.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Here&lt;/a&gt; I am! Over &lt;a href="http://smartgirlstyle.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;! Pick meeeee!!!&lt;/div&gt;
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xo, Brittney&lt;/div&gt;
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Happy today, &lt;br /&gt;
Brittney&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ADayInTheLifeToo/~4/dSFEguQNitE" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8026937722556557622/posts/default/2230878798550592220?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8026937722556557622/posts/default/2230878798550592220?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ADayInTheLifeToo/~3/dSFEguQNitE/oh-baby.html" title="oh baby" /><author><name>Brittney</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="19" height="32" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_hw-f62re09E/TRpczraTweI/AAAAAAAAB28/z-b33G7Lly8/S220/Too_button.JPG" /></author><feedburner:origLink>http://adayinlifetoo.blogspot.com/2012/04/oh-baby.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;DUAGSHk5eSp7ImA9WhVTGUU.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8026937722556557622.post-6847822125972922732</id><published>2012-03-05T08:39:00.011-07:00</published><updated>2012-03-05T15:48:49.721-07:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2012-03-05T15:48:49.721-07:00</app:edited><title>NOT just another manic Monday...</title><content type="html">It's time you all know the truth. Ready? Here goes: I'm kind of an imposter in the style-blogging sphere. &lt;br /&gt;
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Wait, you all knew that already? Oh. Makes this conversation a little, ah, awkward, doesn't it. And anticlimatic. &lt;br /&gt;
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But, you guys, here's the thing:&amp;nbsp;I love to write. I recognize that I'm not particularly good at it,&amp;nbsp;but I love to&amp;nbsp;anyway... which is why I started this little blog in the first place. I needed an outlet where perfect strangers could come, drink their beverage of choice while sitting comfortably at their laptops in their bathrobes, and read my words.&amp;nbsp;(Man, it sounds super&amp;nbsp;narcissistic when I put it that way... I certainly don't mean it to.) Basically,&amp;nbsp;I needed feedback on my writing, some kind of connection through the written word,&amp;nbsp;from people who didn't know me,&amp;nbsp;who hadn't heard my "real-life" voice, who really&amp;nbsp;had nothing to win or lose by hopping onto this blog. &lt;br /&gt;
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Many fine individuals figured my style--both writing- and clothing-wise--was not for them. Which was not surprising to me. What amazed me, though (and continues to amaze me) is that hundreds, even thousands, of you have kept coming back. I can't thank you enough, nor can I quite describe the boost this fact has given me to approach, at a snail's pace,&amp;nbsp;some other&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://onejoyaday.wordpress.com/" target="_blank"&gt;pursuits&lt;/a&gt;...&amp;nbsp;which coincidentally&amp;nbsp;may or may not include smooshing&amp;nbsp;large quantities&amp;nbsp;of peanut m&amp;amp;ms into my mouth at one time with minimal chocolate drool.&lt;br /&gt;
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Harder than it looks, people.&lt;br /&gt;
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What I'm trying to say is: this blog was a perfect creative fit for me&amp;nbsp;over the last year-plus. I've loved&amp;nbsp;reading your comments&amp;nbsp;and getting to know you and laughing with you. However,&amp;nbsp;ever since becoming pregnant with this&amp;nbsp;baby, things have changed for me. &lt;em&gt;(No kidding,&lt;/em&gt; you're thinking. &lt;em&gt;That's what gaining 30 pounds'll do to you...) &lt;/em&gt;There are more demands on my time, less motivation to blog about what I'm wearing, more reasons to do &lt;a href="http://onejoyaday.wordpress.com/" target="_blank"&gt;other things&lt;/a&gt;. For many reasons, my heart's just not in it anymore.&lt;br /&gt;
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So, for A Day in the Life Too..., this is goodbye. Probably one of the most long-winded, awkward goodbyes ever written, but goodbye nonetheless. It seems trite to even write this, but I just have to say: thank you&amp;nbsp;to you all, I appreciate you guys more than I can say, and I sincerely wish you well... in style, in blogging, in parenting, in life. &lt;br /&gt;
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[Editor's note: Visit me &lt;a href="http://onejoyaday.wordpress.com/" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; from here on out if you'd like.]&lt;br /&gt;
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I&amp;nbsp;leave you with some impeccable French: &lt;em&gt;aw-vwah.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;Because, as you know by now,&amp;nbsp;I'm just sophisticated like&amp;nbsp;that.&lt;br /&gt;
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xoxo, Brittney&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ADayInTheLifeToo/~4/lKH5cfLh8Uc" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8026937722556557622/posts/default/6847822125972922732?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8026937722556557622/posts/default/6847822125972922732?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ADayInTheLifeToo/~3/lKH5cfLh8Uc/not-just-another-manic-monday.html" title="NOT just another manic Monday..." /><author><name>Brittney</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="19" height="32" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_hw-f62re09E/TRpczraTweI/AAAAAAAAB28/z-b33G7Lly8/S220/Too_button.JPG" /></author><feedburner:origLink>http://adayinlifetoo.blogspot.com/2012/03/not-just-another-manic-monday.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;D0AEQX85fCp7ImA9WhVTF0w.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8026937722556557622.post-6690250964547790787</id><published>2012-03-02T12:15:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2012-03-02T12:15:00.124-07:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2012-03-02T12:15:00.124-07:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="turquoise jewelry accents" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="modest fashion" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="brown boots" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="wear what you own" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="stay at home mom style" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="maternity skinny jeans" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="casualwear" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="OOTD" /><title>post is not in 3D. you're welcs.</title><content type="html">&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ffhrEp55GOc/T06Hk9wt45I/AAAAAAAADM8/xqSwPXsSgJk/s1600/pink_simple.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ffhrEp55GOc/T06Hk9wt45I/AAAAAAAADM8/xqSwPXsSgJk/s400/pink_simple.JPG" uda="true" width="345" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-3eh5vEYq-Uc/T06HnFq6MfI/AAAAAAAADNE/5lbftkMWU3E/s1600/pink_simple2.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-3eh5vEYq-Uc/T06HnFq6MfI/AAAAAAAADNE/5lbftkMWU3E/s640/pink_simple2.JPG" uda="true" width="440" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;boots: target. jeans: old navy (on loan).﻿ sweater: motherhood maternity. earrings: gift from &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/Madryl" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;here&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Take a good look, friends. Or don't. But these items were banished to the laundry&amp;nbsp;room after my very sick little chickie of a toddler threw up all over me in the bathroom at InstaCare. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Pity me. Please. Then pity yourselves because you're seeing me in, yet again, the same 3 articles of clothing every time I do an outfit post. In fact, I've probably already&amp;nbsp;posted&amp;nbsp;this exact&amp;nbsp;get-up already. Awesome.&amp;nbsp;But here's the thing: my go-to outfits are not glamorous, they're not mind-bendingly inspiring, they're not particularly clever, they're probably not even be clean.&amp;nbsp;(Wanna still be friends? No? Understandable...)&amp;nbsp;Still,&amp;nbsp;they're my bread-and-butter as a comfort-seeking pregnant mom. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;(Mmmmm.&amp;nbsp;Butter...)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;I love wearing stuff that makes me feel pretty and feminine. But I also love wearing stuff that aids in, rather than competes with, the functions of my life. Like laundry and dishes and dusting (wait, that's a lie. I never dust.) and&amp;nbsp;the occasional throw-up of a little girl who, at the moment,&amp;nbsp;needs her mom's comfy lap and love more than her&amp;nbsp;wearing of pretty&amp;nbsp;heels and lace. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;So. What do we all learn from this? Wear stuff that's vomit-proof. The end.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Happy Friday.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ADayInTheLifeToo/~4/vcP6dtj9UYc" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8026937722556557622/posts/default/6690250964547790787?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8026937722556557622/posts/default/6690250964547790787?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ADayInTheLifeToo/~3/vcP6dtj9UYc/post-is-not-in-3d-youre-welcs.html" title="post is not in 3D. you're welcs." /><author><name>Brittney</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="19" height="32" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_hw-f62re09E/TRpczraTweI/AAAAAAAAB28/z-b33G7Lly8/S220/Too_button.JPG" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ffhrEp55GOc/T06Hk9wt45I/AAAAAAAADM8/xqSwPXsSgJk/s72-c/pink_simple.JPG" height="72" width="72" /><feedburner:origLink>http://adayinlifetoo.blogspot.com/2012/03/post-is-not-in-3d-youre-welcs.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;CkMMQXo7cSp7ImA9WhVTFk8.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8026937722556557622.post-2316161000398792001</id><published>2012-03-01T09:48:00.006-07:00</published><updated>2012-03-01T09:48:00.409-07:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2012-03-01T09:48:00.409-07:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="artwork" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="kids room decor" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="nursery decor" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="home design" /><title>HomeStyle: Kids Art &amp; Decorative Tape</title><content type="html">&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Random thought: Is there anything you'd rather hear LESS than someone saying, "Bless your heart"? Such a nice-sounding phrase...and yet, so potentially cutting to the core.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Ahem.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;If I'm being honest with you all, today's post is the antithesis of a must-read, so I'll be brief. Have you ever had a collection of random "artwork" (I use the term very loosely, as you'll soon see) that you feel like you need to display but can't quite justify the nail-holes required to hang all the frames? Plus you don't even have enough frames so you'd need to buy more but aren't even sure if you want to? So instead of solving the problem you go eat the last piece of chocolate cake with a big glass of milk?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Bingo. Totally me.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Fortunately, I've seen a new (to me) trend in the cyberwaves involving obvious taping-up of stuff, particularly in kids' spaces. I thought this the perfect solution to my dilemma. Got some cute turquoise tape from Michael's:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-IXCCv46XW4M/T0sLUJ9Zr4I/AAAAAAAADMY/3iWHIq2LFLk/s1600/turq_tape.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" lda="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-IXCCv46XW4M/T0sLUJ9Zr4I/AAAAAAAADMY/3iWHIq2LFLk/s400/turq_tape.JPG" width="371" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div align="center"&gt;(p.s. I'm dying at the Martha Stewart line lately at Michael's and, randomly, Home Depot, where I spied among other things a great&amp;nbsp;sunburst mirror, and for&amp;nbsp;just $35﻿! Can't find it online or I'd link it up.)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Anyway.&amp;nbsp;I'm trying to think of a way to make this "project" sound better than it actually is. Can't. I used the tape to put up a bunch of paper on the nursery wall. Like this cuteness from my 5-year-old Layla: &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-EEBQf26tbVY/T0sLXF39txI/AAAAAAAADMg/QhSBX0RDb7A/s1600/turq_tape4.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" lda="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-EEBQf26tbVY/T0sLXF39txI/AAAAAAAADMg/QhSBX0RDb7A/s400/turq_tape4.JPG" width="381" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div align="center"&gt;And a pretty ﻿watercolor we've had for a while:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-QxRfayeWMv8/T0sLZf0dBlI/AAAAAAAADMo/9NxiSOsUd-E/s1600/turq_tape3.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" lda="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-QxRfayeWMv8/T0sLZf0dBlI/AAAAAAAADMo/9NxiSOsUd-E/s400/turq_tape3.JPG" width="361" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div align="center"&gt;There's way too much stuff here right now (remember how I said I had a hard time editing when it comes to home decor? Bingo), but I just put it all up and will live with it for a while until I figure out where, exactly, I want to go with this wall. ﻿&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;﻿&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-asaTwPg4Smg/T0sLb9_MOgI/AAAAAAAADMw/Iaia67ErU94/s1600/turq_tape2.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" lda="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-asaTwPg4Smg/T0sLb9_MOgI/AAAAAAAADMw/Iaia67ErU94/s400/turq_tape2.JPG" width="385" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;I'm more of the do-stuff-then-figure-it-out decorator. Which sometimes gets me into trouble but sometimes results in&amp;nbsp;a major turquoise-tape-induced-adrenaline-rush. ﻿Regardless of the wall's obvious overcrowding, do you like the&amp;nbsp;tape idea, or are you more of a traditional frame girl?&amp;nbsp;Either way...bless your little heart.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Happy Thursday.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ADayInTheLifeToo/~4/MdkwrbZfBww" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8026937722556557622/posts/default/2316161000398792001?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8026937722556557622/posts/default/2316161000398792001?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ADayInTheLifeToo/~3/MdkwrbZfBww/homestyle-kids-art-decorative-tape.html" title="HomeStyle: Kids Art &amp; Decorative Tape" /><author><name>Brittney</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="19" height="32" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_hw-f62re09E/TRpczraTweI/AAAAAAAAB28/z-b33G7Lly8/S220/Too_button.JPG" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-IXCCv46XW4M/T0sLUJ9Zr4I/AAAAAAAADMY/3iWHIq2LFLk/s72-c/turq_tape.JPG" height="72" width="72" /><feedburner:origLink>http://adayinlifetoo.blogspot.com/2012/03/homestyle-kids-art-decorative-tape.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;A0YGQXkycSp7ImA9WhVTFU4.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8026937722556557622.post-8265082227471167613</id><published>2012-02-29T11:12:00.015-07:00</published><updated>2012-02-29T11:12:00.799-07:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2012-02-29T11:12:00.799-07:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="modest fashion" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="coral accents" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="stylish maternity" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="wear what you own" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="modest maternity dress" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="booties" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="pastel striped cardigan" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="jean skirt" /><title>denim: the great neutralizer</title><content type="html">&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-a9Fx_yf4xv4/T0sCqTgU-mI/AAAAAAAADMA/ZN3sqbEZ5CI/s1600/striped_cardigan3.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" lda="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-a9Fx_yf4xv4/T0sCqTgU-mI/AAAAAAAADMA/ZN3sqbEZ5CI/s400/striped_cardigan3.JPG" width="382" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;shoes: steve madden. skirt: vintage. shirt &amp;amp; cardigan: gap. necklace: gift.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-s6XH-kI8oUY/T0sCsq3pNmI/AAAAAAAADMI/_l32DOyf2u0/s1600/striped_cardigan2.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="378" lda="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-s6XH-kI8oUY/T0sCsq3pNmI/AAAAAAAADMI/_l32DOyf2u0/s400/striped_cardigan2.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-m8Vg4jrK1NM/T0sCuvieycI/AAAAAAAADMQ/3wm0HZB9M4g/s1600/striped_cardigan.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" lda="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-m8Vg4jrK1NM/T0sCuvieycI/AAAAAAAADMQ/3wm0HZB9M4g/s400/striped_cardigan.JPG" width="351" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Happy Leap Day! My friend's daughter turns "2" today (actually 8, but she's a Leap Day baby,&amp;nbsp;and I like to tell&amp;nbsp;jokes that never get old). Other than that little tidbit, though, it's just a regular day around here, full of muddy paw prints on the wood floor and justifications of chocolate cake for breakfast. Y'know, the usual.&lt;br /&gt;
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I realized after I got dressed here that nothing I'm wearing really matches. ﻿I mean, sure, the denim skirt is a gimme, as are the neutral bootie heels, but my top half is crazy-random. We've got some mustard, red, and blue in the shirt, some pastel lemonade-pink and mint-green in the cardigan, and a full-on salmony coral&amp;nbsp;necklace.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Here's one thing I've learned about meself in the past month: I'm pretty lazy about some things lately. Like&amp;nbsp;retyping the word "meself" into "myself" (nope).&amp;nbsp;Or doing my social duty and changing my clothes to, if not look great, at least make some sort of sense (uh-uh).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;So today there's just&amp;nbsp;meh-ness to&amp;nbsp;my madness. But it's still a good day because I got my highly recommended Poppy King (J.Crew) lipstick the other day, and I can't stop wearing it. It's like a fire-alarm wake-up-call to my face.&amp;nbsp;And, really, aren't we all going for that?...Guys?...&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;aren't we?&lt;/span&gt;...&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;ah crap&lt;/span&gt;...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Happy Leap-Day Wednesday.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;similar stuff (maternity &amp;amp; regular): &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;div style="background: white; border-bottom: #bfbfbf 1px solid; border-left: #bfbfbf 1px solid; border-right: #bfbfbf 1px solid; border-top: #bfbfbf 1px solid; display: block; position: relative; width: 424px;"&gt;&lt;iframe frameborder="0" height="244" scrolling="no" src="http://widget.shopstyle.com/widget?pid=uid6676-2041974-73&amp;amp;look=4798037&amp;amp;width=3&amp;amp;height=1&amp;amp;layouttype=0&amp;amp;border=0&amp;amp;footer=0" width="424"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div style="bottom: 2px; height: 18px; left: 0px; line-height: 12px; position: absolute; width: 100%;"&gt;&lt;div style="left: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 6px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 2px; position: absolute;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.shopstyle.com/browse/Steve-Madden?pid=uid6676-2041974-73" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; color: #606060; font: 11px verdana, sans-serif; text-decoration: underline;"&gt;More Steve Madden...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding-bottom: 3px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 3px; position: absolute; right: 0px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.shopstyle.com/?pid=uid6676-2041974-73" style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;img alt="ShopStyle" src="http://resources.shopstyle.com/im/widget/ShopStyleLogo_powered.png" style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ADayInTheLifeToo/~4/k0lugkjpyFk" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8026937722556557622/posts/default/8265082227471167613?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8026937722556557622/posts/default/8265082227471167613?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ADayInTheLifeToo/~3/k0lugkjpyFk/denim-great-neutralizer.html" title="denim: the great neutralizer" /><author><name>Brittney</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="19" height="32" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_hw-f62re09E/TRpczraTweI/AAAAAAAAB28/z-b33G7Lly8/S220/Too_button.JPG" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-a9Fx_yf4xv4/T0sCqTgU-mI/AAAAAAAADMA/ZN3sqbEZ5CI/s72-c/striped_cardigan3.JPG" height="72" width="72" /><feedburner:origLink>http://adayinlifetoo.blogspot.com/2012/02/denim-great-neutralizer.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;C0cAQXs7fCp7ImA9WhVTFEg.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8026937722556557622.post-7116804687946808975</id><published>2012-02-28T10:44:00.002-07:00</published><updated>2012-02-28T10:44:00.504-07:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2012-02-28T10:44:00.504-07:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="decorate on the cheap" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="home project" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="home design" /><title>HomeStyle: Fabric-backed Kitchen Cupboards</title><content type="html">&lt;div align="center"&gt;You guys, I have a sickness. And it's called "I can't stop doing stuff in my house." Now, this wouldn't be a problem if it was useful stuff, like laundry and vacuuming and cooking. However (and unfortunately for my family who happens to enjoy a delicious&amp;nbsp;dinner or two), it usually ﻿involves&amp;nbsp;messes spread over&amp;nbsp;all available surfaces and lots of paint.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;This project was on the smaller scale (much to everyone's relief) but it just might rank among my favorites thus far. Inspired by &lt;a href="http://www.prettyhandygirl.com/2012/02/fabric-backed-open-kitchen-cabinets-diy-on-a-dime-the-tutorial.html" target="_blank"&gt;this post&lt;/a&gt;, and because my one open cabinet was woefully dark and overstuffed and lame, annnnnnd because it's visible right when you walk into&amp;nbsp;the front door, I decided to amp up the style factor and tackle the fabric-backed cupboard for a fresh new look. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Y7nTVF--3HU/T0r-e-H8OHI/AAAAAAAADLg/4hKnXzgCP7U/s1600/cupboard.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="397" lda="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Y7nTVF--3HU/T0r-e-H8OHI/AAAAAAAADLg/4hKnXzgCP7U/s400/cupboard.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Actually, I had attempted face-lifting this particular cupboard recently&amp;nbsp;in the past, but I chose paint that was the total wrong color and I then filled the dang thing too full of random dishes so it looked, in a word, stupid. (You know it's serious when I use the "S-word," which is a pretty big no-no around here.)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;For $2.50, I bought a piece of foam board at WallyWorld, cut it to size, and pretty much followed the tutorial I linked to above. Fortunately, I had some fabric left over from &lt;a href="http://adayinlifetoo.blogspot.com/2012/02/homestyle-coffe-table-turned-padded.html" target="_blank"&gt;this project &lt;/a&gt;that would work in the kitchen, so I used that.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Then I edited my already meager collection of displayable dishware because I'm trying to embrace the adage "less is more."&amp;nbsp;(I&amp;nbsp;believe this in many instances, but it's&amp;nbsp;often hard for me to narrow things down. Which is why my posts, like this one, are wordier than necessary. Heh.)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-JT0AOD5Es-E/T0r-hOcTSxI/AAAAAAAADLo/9bJrbE-1eLc/s1600/cupboard2.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" lda="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-JT0AOD5Es-E/T0r-hOcTSxI/AAAAAAAADLo/9bJrbE-1eLc/s400/cupboard2.JPG" width="375" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ORVOGBKc2mw/T0r-jDtfhvI/AAAAAAAADLw/pjWXRDJQA0w/s1600/cupboard3.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="367" lda="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ORVOGBKc2mw/T0r-jDtfhvI/AAAAAAAADLw/pjWXRDJQA0w/s400/cupboard3.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;It's a work in progress (my whole house is, frankly, and I'm loving it!), but it's a start. And it took about 30 minutes to do &lt;em&gt;and&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;clean up. Which means there's room on the countertops to make dinner and chocolate cake, nearly half of which I may or may not have consumed already.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-B1cwIH__0hU/T0r-k6yuccI/AAAAAAAADL4/chuwplpZEHg/s1600/cupboard4.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="395" lda="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-B1cwIH__0hU/T0r-k6yuccI/AAAAAAAADL4/chuwplpZEHg/s400/cupboard4.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;My husband's reaction to the cupboard: "Wow. Fancy." No exclamation points (he's not one to become weepy over, say,&amp;nbsp;a photo of someone's beautiful interior like I am), but he likes it. Phew.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Happy Tuesday.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ADayInTheLifeToo/~4/rP1jxaal0ZQ" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8026937722556557622/posts/default/7116804687946808975?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8026937722556557622/posts/default/7116804687946808975?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ADayInTheLifeToo/~3/rP1jxaal0ZQ/homestyle-fabric-backed-kitchen.html" title="HomeStyle: Fabric-backed Kitchen Cupboards" /><author><name>Brittney</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="19" height="32" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_hw-f62re09E/TRpczraTweI/AAAAAAAAB28/z-b33G7Lly8/S220/Too_button.JPG" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Y7nTVF--3HU/T0r-e-H8OHI/AAAAAAAADLg/4hKnXzgCP7U/s72-c/cupboard.JPG" height="72" width="72" /><feedburner:origLink>http://adayinlifetoo.blogspot.com/2012/02/homestyle-fabric-backed-kitchen.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;A0AMQXs4fSp7ImA9WhVTE0g.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8026937722556557622.post-9099801968051004759</id><published>2012-02-27T09:23:00.002-07:00</published><updated>2012-02-27T09:23:00.535-07:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2012-02-27T09:23:00.535-07:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="decorate on the cheap" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="vintage" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="kids room decor" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="home project" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="nursery decor" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="home design" /><title>HomeStyle: Vintage Button Art</title><content type="html">&lt;div align="center"&gt;Inspired by &lt;a href="http://littlegreennotebook.blogspot.com/2011/05/heirloom-button-art.html" target="_blank"&gt;this post&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;(and every other post on her blog, let's be honest)&amp;nbsp;and having been given many vintage buttons from my mom (and&amp;nbsp;my MIL's having a fine collection&amp;nbsp;useful for&amp;nbsp;filling in the color gaps), I decided to make&amp;nbsp;a piece of vintage button art for the nursery.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;I had an old, ugly frame with an old, ugly rooster pic attached directly to it. Perfect. After a quick spray painting and light distressing of the frame, it was ready to go.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-vm1QP9HFS6I/T0r4W76HWPI/AAAAAAAADLA/I3Ak_w2GC18/s1600/buttons1.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" lda="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-vm1QP9HFS6I/T0r4W76HWPI/AAAAAAAADLA/I3Ak_w2GC18/s640/buttons1.JPG" width="478" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div align="center"&gt;My kids helped me pick out the buttons.﻿ Since it was going into the nursery, my girls thought the baby would most appreciate a rainbow formation. Easy enough. I spray-adhesed (awesome verb) some old burlappy&amp;nbsp;cotton&amp;nbsp;fabric over the ugly rooster art and, after spreading out all the buttons on the floor to get the layout right, I began gluing them to the framed fabric.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;To me, few things beat heirloom buttons. So much diversity and strangeness and awesomeness in the buttons' design and colors.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xiFXSVPlFX0/T0r4Xi8lOMI/AAAAAAAADLI/g1zjWIeAcnQ/s1600/buttons3.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="326" lda="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xiFXSVPlFX0/T0r4Xi8lOMI/AAAAAAAADLI/g1zjWIeAcnQ/s400/buttons3.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div align="center"&gt;I did add some contrasting thread to some of the simpler buttons, just for&amp;nbsp;interest... and because&amp;nbsp;I'm addicted to&amp;nbsp;pairing red with aqua&amp;nbsp;these days.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-sF8J18Pm9-k/T0r4ZvxpC1I/AAAAAAAADLQ/kz5y2o-ubsA/s1600/buttons4.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" lda="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-sF8J18Pm9-k/T0r4ZvxpC1I/AAAAAAAADLQ/kz5y2o-ubsA/s400/buttons4.JPG" width="333" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div align="center"&gt;I really like how it turned out. I can sit and study this thing for a long time, because the buttons themselves are so interesting individually and collectively. And I like the textural contrast&amp;nbsp;of the organic cotton fabric. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Overall, I think it's perfect art for a nursery corner where, let's face it, many hours upon hours are going to be spent.﻿ Plus, total cost: $free$. Sweetness.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-KrRLYLjZhBg/T0r4adN8AxI/AAAAAAAADLY/Fpz8ncfAUrk/s1600/buttons5.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" lda="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-KrRLYLjZhBg/T0r4adN8AxI/AAAAAAAADLY/Fpz8ncfAUrk/s400/buttons5.JPG" width="328" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Happy Monday!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ADayInTheLifeToo/~4/AkPPzASHZr8" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8026937722556557622/posts/default/9099801968051004759?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8026937722556557622/posts/default/9099801968051004759?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ADayInTheLifeToo/~3/AkPPzASHZr8/homestyle-vintage-button-art.html" title="HomeStyle: Vintage Button Art" /><author><name>Brittney</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="19" height="32" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_hw-f62re09E/TRpczraTweI/AAAAAAAAB28/z-b33G7Lly8/S220/Too_button.JPG" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-vm1QP9HFS6I/T0r4W76HWPI/AAAAAAAADLA/I3Ak_w2GC18/s72-c/buttons1.JPG" height="72" width="72" /><feedburner:origLink>http://adayinlifetoo.blogspot.com/2012/02/homestyle-vintage-button-art.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;A0ICQXY4fCp7ImA9WhVTEEQ.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8026937722556557622.post-1652731644181479902</id><published>2012-02-24T09:06:00.003-07:00</published><updated>2012-02-24T09:06:00.834-07:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2012-02-24T09:06:00.834-07:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="life with kids" /><title>Insights on Mommyhood</title><content type="html">&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-iWKWkR43ejg/T0atPE5iODI/AAAAAAAADKU/5l7FtuZ0O8A/s1600/Misc_1.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" lda="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-iWKWkR43ejg/T0atPE5iODI/AAAAAAAADKU/5l7FtuZ0O8A/s400/Misc_1.JPG" width="330" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;I don't have a post for today. But what I do have, for your reading enjoyment, are a few short&amp;nbsp;vignettes about being a mom that I've written for another site. Here are the URLs if you're so inclined:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.bubblews.com/news/581-insight-of-mommyhood-1" target="_blank"&gt;Insight on Mommyhood #1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.bubblews.com/news/588-insight-of-mommyhood-2" target="_blank"&gt;Insight on Mommyhood #2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.bubblews.com/news/612-peanut-butter-fingerprints-insights-on-mommyhood-3" target="_blank"&gt;Insight on Mommyhood #3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.bubblews.com/news/691-peanut-butter-fingerprints-insights-on-mommyhood-4" target="_blank"&gt;Insight on Mommyhood #4&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Because I'm an English-degree-toting nerd and thrive on this type of thing, I'd love your feedback (positive or &lt;strike&gt;negative&lt;/strike&gt; constructive) on any or all of the articles. Edit, baby, edit.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Happy happy Friday!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ADayInTheLifeToo/~4/D_RPODzQrbk" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8026937722556557622/posts/default/1652731644181479902?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8026937722556557622/posts/default/1652731644181479902?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ADayInTheLifeToo/~3/D_RPODzQrbk/insights-on-mommyhood.html" title="Insights on Mommyhood" /><author><name>Brittney</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="19" height="32" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_hw-f62re09E/TRpczraTweI/AAAAAAAAB28/z-b33G7Lly8/S220/Too_button.JPG" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-iWKWkR43ejg/T0atPE5iODI/AAAAAAAADKU/5l7FtuZ0O8A/s72-c/Misc_1.JPG" height="72" width="72" /><feedburner:origLink>http://adayinlifetoo.blogspot.com/2012/02/insights-on-mommyhood.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;C0YMQnk9fip7ImA9WhVTEE4.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8026937722556557622.post-3856660211637994951</id><published>2012-02-23T14:06:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2012-02-23T14:06:23.766-07:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2012-02-23T14:06:23.766-07:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="comfy yet chic" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="modest fashion" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="stylish maternity" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Stripes" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="wear what you own" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="puffy vest" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="metallic flats" /><title>quietitude</title><content type="html">&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Tr1ZsI_DMRg/T0ai9xSw85I/AAAAAAAADJ8/zE7Y4Ssrdtg/s1600/puffy_vest.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" lda="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Tr1ZsI_DMRg/T0ai9xSw85I/AAAAAAAADJ8/zE7Y4Ssrdtg/s640/puffy_vest.JPG" width="427" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;shoes: american eagle outfitters. jeans&amp;nbsp;&amp;amp; puffy vest: gap. shirt: old navy. watch: target.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Rq4ZGqRtwH0/T0ajBcLIPvI/AAAAAAAADKE/VW4GpTvvNhU/s1600/puffy_vest2.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" lda="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Rq4ZGqRtwH0/T0ajBcLIPvI/AAAAAAAADKE/VW4GpTvvNhU/s400/puffy_vest2.JPG" width="347" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Pic above is Scary Exhibit A of smiling-with-one's-mouth-but-not-one's-eyes. Let's make this a learning moment for all of us, shall we?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-P7tEswMnuyw/T0ajDP-nd5I/AAAAAAAADKM/_Le3kKIjsgw/s1600/puffy_vest3.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" lda="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-P7tEswMnuyw/T0ajDP-nd5I/AAAAAAAADKM/_Le3kKIjsgw/s400/puffy_vest3.JPG" width="337" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;So, I've been feeling a little down lately. (I know, I know, cue the violin music and toss me a psychiatrist's couch.) My life is so blessed, I have nothing real to complain about...and yet I still find stuff. Go figure.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Anyways, as a result, I'm in a rather quiet mood. Which doesn't happen often around here here, so let's enjoy it.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;I'll just make this short and sweet, then. I'm glad that this little blessing I'm carrying around with me is so active--it makes&amp;nbsp;a few bruised internal organs worth it. I smiled that my cute 3- and 5-year-old daughters&amp;nbsp;changed into&amp;nbsp;striped shirts and puffy vests of their own at lunch today so we could all be "twinners." I love that my son ran out of his classroom at school when I was volunteering this morning to give me an enormous hug. I'm grateful that my intuitive husband tucked me into bed early last night so I could get some extra sleep.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;I appreciate all of you who read this little blog, and I hope that life treats you well today.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Happy Thursday.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;similar stuff (maternity &amp;amp; regular):&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;div style="background: white; border-bottom: #bfbfbf 1px solid; border-left: #bfbfbf 1px solid; border-right: #bfbfbf 1px solid; border-top: #bfbfbf 1px solid; display: block; position: relative; width: 424px;"&gt;&lt;iframe frameborder="0" height="244" scrolling="no" src="http://widget.shopstyle.com/widget?pid=uid6676-2041974-73&amp;amp;look=4775639&amp;amp;width=3&amp;amp;height=1&amp;amp;layouttype=0&amp;amp;border=0&amp;amp;footer=0" width="424"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div style="bottom: 2px; height: 18px; left: 0px; line-height: 12px; position: absolute; width: 100%;"&gt;&lt;div style="left: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 6px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 2px; position: absolute;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.shopstyle.com/browse/Splendid?pid=uid6676-2041974-73" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; color: #606060; font: 11px verdana, sans-serif; text-decoration: underline;"&gt;More Splendid...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding-bottom: 3px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 3px; position: absolute; right: 0px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.shopstyle.com/?pid=uid6676-2041974-73" style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;img alt="ShopStyle" src="http://resources.shopstyle.com/im/widget/ShopStyleLogo_powered.png" style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ADayInTheLifeToo/~4/nBZxgTK4t5I" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8026937722556557622/posts/default/3856660211637994951?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8026937722556557622/posts/default/3856660211637994951?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ADayInTheLifeToo/~3/nBZxgTK4t5I/quietitude.html" title="quietitude" /><author><name>Brittney</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="19" height="32" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_hw-f62re09E/TRpczraTweI/AAAAAAAAB28/z-b33G7Lly8/S220/Too_button.JPG" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Tr1ZsI_DMRg/T0ai9xSw85I/AAAAAAAADJ8/zE7Y4Ssrdtg/s72-c/puffy_vest.JPG" height="72" width="72" /><feedburner:origLink>http://adayinlifetoo.blogspot.com/2012/02/quietitude.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;DkAFQXgyfSp7ImA9WhRaGUk.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8026937722556557622.post-3078643493507585913</id><published>2012-02-22T14:05:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2012-02-22T14:05:10.695-07:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2012-02-22T14:05:10.695-07:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="modest fashion" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="brown boots" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="zigzag" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="stylish maternity" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="wear what you own" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="stay at home mom style" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="maternity skinny jeans" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="OOTD" /><title>a zigzag scarf and a brush with death...or at least some squooshy mud</title><content type="html">&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6W2wOWrxfJ8/T0VQOy4NSrI/AAAAAAAADJk/NiplEms9vkY/s1600/zigzag_scarf2.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="322" lda="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6W2wOWrxfJ8/T0VQOy4NSrI/AAAAAAAADJk/NiplEms9vkY/s400/zigzag_scarf2.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;boots: target. jeans: old navy. shirt: duo maternity. scarf: forever 21. earrings: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/Madryl" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;etsy&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-xREz55q4Tug/T0VQQT0amRI/AAAAAAAADJs/liSUCSWWR_w/s1600/zigzag_scarf.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" lda="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-xREz55q4Tug/T0VQQT0amRI/AAAAAAAADJs/liSUCSWWR_w/s640/zigzag_scarf.JPG" width="440" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;I know, I know...the boots-and-knee-high-socks thing has been done to death. But it's comfy and warm and covers up some of my water-retaining legs. So we'll just have to agree to agree-but-let-the-pregnant-lady-have-her-way for another month or two, mmmmkay? Thanks a mil.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-MqHqsWOWtPk/T0VQSLMoWII/AAAAAAAADJ0/qje8u1tG6h4/s1600/zigzag_scarf3.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" lda="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-MqHqsWOWtPk/T0VQSLMoWII/AAAAAAAADJ0/qje8u1tG6h4/s400/zigzag_scarf3.JPG" width="298" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;I took my 3-year-old daughter for a walk this morning. She's adorable but has a stubborn streak that comes to a very vocal head when she's asked to do something&amp;nbsp;outlandish. Like walk.﻿ So she rode in the stroller.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Our route led us up a small hill and then back down. Wanting to change things up on the way home, at the bottom of the hill I took a scenic route (read: death-defying brush with nature) along the canal. It was muddy, snowy, slushy, puddley (yep. real word. maybe.), slippery, bumpy and all things "-y" that would potentially cause one well-meaning but off-balanced soul wearing zero-traction boots to careen into the nearby waterway. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;You'll all breathe an enormous sigh of relief, as I did, when our squeal-worthy rugged-terrain journey ended with zero fatalities and only one really muddy boot. Which, frankly, is a happy albeit fairly anticlimatic ending to this tale. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;I know what you're all&amp;nbsp;thinking: &lt;em&gt;Why would&amp;nbsp;she share such a pointless&amp;nbsp;Story of Meh? What a waste of my time. Doesn't she know Nate Berkus is almost on?&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;Fair enough, but in my defense,&amp;nbsp;the alternative was a&amp;nbsp;riveting story about how I chewed&amp;nbsp;a hangnail on my super-dry thumb until it bled and now the bandaid keeps coming off. So.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;You're welcome, and I accept your apology.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Happy Tuesday.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;similar stuff (maternity &amp;amp; regular):&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;div style="background: white; border-bottom: #bfbfbf 1px solid; border-left: #bfbfbf 1px solid; border-right: #bfbfbf 1px solid; border-top: #bfbfbf 1px solid; display: block; position: relative; width: 424px;"&gt;&lt;iframe frameborder="0" height="244" scrolling="no" src="http://widget.shopstyle.com/widget?pid=uid6676-2041974-73&amp;amp;look=4768587&amp;amp;width=3&amp;amp;height=1&amp;amp;layouttype=0&amp;amp;border=0&amp;amp;footer=0" width="424"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div style="bottom: 2px; height: 18px; left: 0px; line-height: 12px; position: absolute; width: 100%;"&gt;&lt;div style="left: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 6px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 2px; position: absolute;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.shopstyle.com/browse/Missoni?pid=uid6676-2041974-73" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; color: #606060; font: 11px verdana, sans-serif; text-decoration: underline;"&gt;More Missoni...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding-bottom: 3px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 3px; position: absolute; right: 0px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.shopstyle.com/?pid=uid6676-2041974-73" style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;img alt="ShopStyle" src="http://resources.shopstyle.com/im/widget/ShopStyleLogo_powered.png" style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ADayInTheLifeToo/~4/YYvwh-sVqM4" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8026937722556557622/posts/default/3078643493507585913?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8026937722556557622/posts/default/3078643493507585913?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ADayInTheLifeToo/~3/YYvwh-sVqM4/zigzag-scarf-and-brush-with-deathor-at.html" title="a zigzag scarf and a brush with death...or at least some squooshy mud" /><author><name>Brittney</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="19" height="32" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_hw-f62re09E/TRpczraTweI/AAAAAAAAB28/z-b33G7Lly8/S220/Too_button.JPG" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6W2wOWrxfJ8/T0VQOy4NSrI/AAAAAAAADJk/NiplEms9vkY/s72-c/zigzag_scarf2.JPG" height="72" width="72" /><feedburner:origLink>http://adayinlifetoo.blogspot.com/2012/02/zigzag-scarf-and-brush-with-deathor-at.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;AkcFRn8-fSp7ImA9WhRaGEs.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8026937722556557622.post-5972418947197113810</id><published>2012-02-21T16:46:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2012-02-21T16:46:57.155-07:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2012-02-21T16:46:57.155-07:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="maternity khakis" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="style in comfort" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="modest fashion" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="converse shoes" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="stylish maternity" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="wear what you own" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="stay at home mom style" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="OOTD" /><title>I love shoes because they fit when nothing else does.</title><content type="html">&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;This is what I wore today, blah blah blah.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-d2zbvcLwZGo/T0QknBxOX3I/AAAAAAAADJc/m4lu02_0paI/s1600/converse.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" lda="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-d2zbvcLwZGo/T0QknBxOX3I/AAAAAAAADJc/m4lu02_0paI/s400/converse.JPG" width="331" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;shoes: converse. pants &amp;amp; hoodie: gap. shirt: duo maternity.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-125dE4Xx_ic/T0QkOVOM5wI/AAAAAAAADJU/-UgGsGCUYfM/s1600/converse2.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" lda="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-125dE4Xx_ic/T0QkOVOM5wI/AAAAAAAADJU/-UgGsGCUYfM/s400/converse2.JPG" width="358" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Anyone who uses the word "blah" in the first sentence of a style blog post (and then&amp;nbsp;repeats it twice more)﻿ probably shouldn't be writing a&amp;nbsp;post at all.&amp;nbsp;And yet, here I am. And here you are. For what reason is a mystery to me, but my grandmother always told me to seize opportunities, so I will. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;[Editor's note: Actually, she rarely told me that. Her words of wisdom were more like, "here's $20, why don't you go get us something yummy at KFC," and "you're my favorite grandchild." She was awesome. And KFC is, on occasion, delicious.]&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Ahem.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Despite the randomness of a hoodie and button-up combo (not to mention the chucks and khakis...shhh, there there),&amp;nbsp;may I still&amp;nbsp;brag about my tummy-toting self for a moment?&amp;nbsp;Today's lengthy to-do list is all but finished (and I didn't even cheat and&amp;nbsp;include stuff like "roll out of bed" and "put on deodorant" for once), I have a dinner idea and ingreds, and I finished the sudoku in today's paper even though my pencil was really dull and I couldn't find a sharpener. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;PLUS I didn't say something&amp;nbsp;snarky to the guy at the grocery store who s.t.a.r.e.d. at my belly during an awkward shopping cart approach-and-pass. Let's be proud.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Happy Tuesday.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;similar stuff (maternity &amp;amp; regular):&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;div style="background: white; border-bottom: #bfbfbf 1px solid; border-left: #bfbfbf 1px solid; border-right: #bfbfbf 1px solid; border-top: #bfbfbf 1px solid; display: block; position: relative; width: 424px;"&gt;&lt;iframe frameborder="0" height="244" scrolling="no" src="http://widget.shopstyle.com/widget?pid=uid6676-2041974-73&amp;amp;look=4762807&amp;amp;width=3&amp;amp;height=1&amp;amp;layouttype=0&amp;amp;border=0&amp;amp;footer=0" width="424"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div style="bottom: 2px; height: 18px; left: 0px; line-height: 12px; position: absolute; width: 100%;"&gt;&lt;div style="left: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 6px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 2px; position: absolute;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.shopstyle.com/browse/Converse?pid=uid6676-2041974-73" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; color: #606060; font: 11px verdana, sans-serif; text-decoration: underline;"&gt;More Converse...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding-bottom: 3px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 3px; position: absolute; right: 0px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.shopstyle.com/?pid=uid6676-2041974-73" style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;img alt="ShopStyle" src="http://resources.shopstyle.com/im/widget/ShopStyleLogo_powered.png" style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ADayInTheLifeToo/~4/EHUoj9hIAAU" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8026937722556557622/posts/default/5972418947197113810?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8026937722556557622/posts/default/5972418947197113810?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ADayInTheLifeToo/~3/EHUoj9hIAAU/i-love-shoes-because-they-fit-when.html" title="I love shoes because they fit when nothing else does." /><author><name>Brittney</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="19" height="32" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_hw-f62re09E/TRpczraTweI/AAAAAAAAB28/z-b33G7Lly8/S220/Too_button.JPG" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-d2zbvcLwZGo/T0QknBxOX3I/AAAAAAAADJc/m4lu02_0paI/s72-c/converse.JPG" height="72" width="72" /><feedburner:origLink>http://adayinlifetoo.blogspot.com/2012/02/i-love-shoes-because-they-fit-when.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;D0AAQXs5fSp7ImA9WhRaFU0.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8026937722556557622.post-9207571265797978498</id><published>2012-02-17T12:09:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2012-02-17T12:09:00.525-07:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2012-02-17T12:09:00.525-07:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="comfy yet chic" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="side ponytail" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="stylish maternity" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="flare jeans" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="wear what you own" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="OOTD" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="moss cardigan" /><title>i have (a) big belly &amp; i cannot lie. you other mothers can't deny...</title><content type="html">&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-nyBjPdqx2Ig/TzwtfUM4LTI/AAAAAAAADIs/lqSheN2N8Dw/s1600/moss_cardigan1.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-nyBjPdqx2Ig/TzwtfUM4LTI/AAAAAAAADIs/lqSheN2N8Dw/s400/moss_cardigan1.JPG" width="301" yda="true" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;shoes: american eagle outfitters. maternity flare jeans: gap. cardigan: j.crew. flower clip: downeast basics.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-QLA54B6lyhU/Tzwtg9mOcBI/AAAAAAAADI0/WtRFGiDZgJc/s1600/moss_cardigan2.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-QLA54B6lyhU/Tzwtg9mOcBI/AAAAAAAADI0/WtRFGiDZgJc/s400/moss_cardigan2.JPG" width="380" yda="true" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Nm4PhLeuzk0/TzwtiSNT_zI/AAAAAAAADI8/9cr6qgPRj9I/s1600/moss_cardigan3.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Nm4PhLeuzk0/TzwtiSNT_zI/AAAAAAAADI8/9cr6qgPRj9I/s400/moss_cardigan3.JPG" width="328" yda="true" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;You ﻿can't really tell in these photos, but&amp;nbsp;my shirt here is a light lavendar. Ish. Which I think is super pretty paired with a mossy olive green. It's like, in nature, when you find a rare light-lavendarish butterfly perched&amp;nbsp;atop a, um,&amp;nbsp;mossy olive green rock. It doesn't stop there. How about spying a light-lavendarish flower growing out of a patch of mossy olive green shrubbery? Bingo. Samesies.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;And if you're impressed with my command of the English language in description and titlage, well, what can I say. I kind of excel at that kind of thing. Like when I made mac &amp;amp; cheese for dinner one time but, in&amp;nbsp;a fit of genius,&amp;nbsp;proclaimed&amp;nbsp;it to be "cheesy pasta" so that my son (who doesn't love mac&amp;amp;cheese) would actually eat it. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Stick around, kids. You can't fake this kind of ingenuity.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Happy Friday.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;similar stuff (maternity &amp;amp; regular):&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;div style="background: white; border-bottom: #bfbfbf 1px solid; border-left: #bfbfbf 1px solid; border-right: #bfbfbf 1px solid; border-top: #bfbfbf 1px solid; display: block; position: relative; width: 424px;"&gt;&lt;iframe frameborder="0" height="244" scrolling="no" src="http://widget.shopstyle.com/widget?pid=uid6676-2041974-73&amp;amp;look=4725776&amp;amp;width=3&amp;amp;height=1&amp;amp;layouttype=0&amp;amp;border=0&amp;amp;footer=0" width="424"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div style="bottom: 2px; height: 18px; left: 0px; line-height: 12px; position: absolute; width: 100%;"&gt;&lt;div style="left: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 6px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 2px; position: absolute;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.shopstyle.com/browse/Gap?pid=uid6676-2041974-73" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; color: #606060; font: 11px verdana, sans-serif; text-decoration: underline;"&gt;More Gap...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding-bottom: 3px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 3px; position: absolute; right: 0px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.shopstyle.com/?pid=uid6676-2041974-73" style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;img alt="ShopStyle" src="http://resources.shopstyle.com/im/widget/ShopStyleLogo_powered.png" style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ADayInTheLifeToo/~4/-lu37TKeeGg" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8026937722556557622/posts/default/9207571265797978498?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8026937722556557622/posts/default/9207571265797978498?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ADayInTheLifeToo/~3/-lu37TKeeGg/i-have-big-belly-i-cannot-lie-you-other.html" title="i have (a) big belly &amp; i cannot lie. you other mothers can't deny..." /><author><name>Brittney</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="19" height="32" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_hw-f62re09E/TRpczraTweI/AAAAAAAAB28/z-b33G7Lly8/S220/Too_button.JPG" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-nyBjPdqx2Ig/TzwtfUM4LTI/AAAAAAAADIs/lqSheN2N8Dw/s72-c/moss_cardigan1.JPG" height="72" width="72" /><feedburner:origLink>http://adayinlifetoo.blogspot.com/2012/02/i-have-big-belly-i-cannot-lie-you-other.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;DkUMRX48fip7ImA9WhRaFEk.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8026937722556557622.post-3413735330300841955</id><published>2012-02-16T14:03:00.002-07:00</published><updated>2012-02-16T19:04:44.076-07:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2012-02-16T19:04:44.076-07:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="comfy yet chic" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="stylish maternity" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="casualwear" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="OOTD" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="clarks desert boots" /><title>*yawn*</title><content type="html">&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;The jumping-off point for today's outfit was&amp;nbsp;anything that would&amp;nbsp;cover up this lovely giraffe-head tattoo that my toddler positioned on and adhered to my forearm.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-BrgFVBR4lOY/TzwijASGkvI/AAAAAAAADIM/QPRXGUtYUTU/s1600/clarks_shoes4.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="352" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-BrgFVBR4lOY/TzwijASGkvI/AAAAAAAADIM/QPRXGUtYUTU/s400/clarks_shoes4.JPG" width="400" yda="true" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;I have a tree frog tattoo on the back of my hand, too, which is equally awesome. But I'm fresh out of fingerless gloves, so that'll have to just be visible to the world. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-xTXqGLHn8Tg/TzwilF1IHVI/AAAAAAAADIU/02eNOaMmroM/s1600/clarks_shoes3.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="395" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-xTXqGLHn8Tg/TzwilF1IHVI/AAAAAAAADIU/02eNOaMmroM/s400/clarks_shoes3.JPG" width="400" yda="true" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;And by "the world," I of course mean my toddler...who put the dang tatts there anyway.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-SH26zkxYcPQ/TzwimJR0H9I/AAAAAAAADIc/fPGUuR7dRzc/s1600/clarks_shoes1.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="340" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-SH26zkxYcPQ/TzwimJR0H9I/AAAAAAAADIc/fPGUuR7dRzc/s400/clarks_shoes1.JPG" width="400" yda="true" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;On an unrelated note, have I told you lately how much I love my Clarks shoes? I have? Redundantly and many times over? Oh. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;(*awkward pause*)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-htFPnBtXXyY/Tzwimw7hQoI/AAAAAAAADIk/gcDCzSwYqN8/s1600/clarks_shoes2.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-htFPnBtXXyY/Tzwimw7hQoI/AAAAAAAADIk/gcDCzSwYqN8/s640/clarks_shoes2.JPG" width="459" yda="true" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;shoes: clarks. maternity skinny jeans: old navy.﻿ long-sleeved maternity tee &amp;amp; hoodie: gap.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;For those of you style-savvy readers, this post is the yang to your yin. Meaning I prob couldn't have come up with a less-inspiring ensemble if I'd lain awake all night trying.&amp;nbsp;Which is a feat&amp;nbsp;deserving of&amp;nbsp;some kind of award. Or&amp;nbsp;respect.&amp;nbsp;How 'bout&amp;nbsp;a pitying half-smile...? &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;But some days are meant to be lived out contentedly in a hoodie and comfy jeans. My overworked washer and dryer couldn't agree more. Those guys only WISH they had a comfortable coral hoodie to fit over their square bods.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Wow. This post mirrors the outfit. Maybe I should start all over with an ensemble (and, thus, text) that highlights, rather than hides, the&amp;nbsp;tattoos. Just think where our lives would be then. I'd probably be wearing a bright floral dress and boarding a cruise ship to the Virgin Islands. You, though, would probably still be ready to click away from this blog. Dang.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Happy Thursday.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;similar stuff (maternity &amp;amp; regular):&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;div style="background: white; border-bottom: #bfbfbf 1px solid; border-left: #bfbfbf 1px solid; border-right: #bfbfbf 1px solid; border-top: #bfbfbf 1px solid; display: block; position: relative; width: 424px;"&gt;&lt;iframe frameborder="0" height="244" scrolling="no" src="http://widget.shopstyle.com/widget?pid=uid6676-2041974-73&amp;amp;look=4725521&amp;amp;width=3&amp;amp;height=1&amp;amp;layouttype=0&amp;amp;border=0&amp;amp;footer=0" width="424"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div style="bottom: 2px; height: 18px; left: 0px; line-height: 12px; position: absolute; width: 100%;"&gt;&lt;div style="left: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 6px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 2px; position: absolute;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.shopstyle.com/browse/A-Pea-in-the-Pod?pid=uid6676-2041974-73" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; color: #606060; font: 11px verdana, sans-serif; text-decoration: underline;"&gt;More A Pea in the Pod...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding-bottom: 3px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 3px; position: absolute; right: 0px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.shopstyle.com/?pid=uid6676-2041974-73" style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;img alt="ShopStyle" src="http://resources.shopstyle.com/im/widget/ShopStyleLogo_powered.png" style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ADayInTheLifeToo/~4/2r0s3KYcdqg" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8026937722556557622/posts/default/3413735330300841955?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8026937722556557622/posts/default/3413735330300841955?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ADayInTheLifeToo/~3/2r0s3KYcdqg/yawn.html" title="*yawn*" /><author><name>Brittney</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="19" height="32" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_hw-f62re09E/TRpczraTweI/AAAAAAAAB28/z-b33G7Lly8/S220/Too_button.JPG" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-BrgFVBR4lOY/TzwijASGkvI/AAAAAAAADIM/QPRXGUtYUTU/s72-c/clarks_shoes4.JPG" height="72" width="72" /><feedburner:origLink>http://adayinlifetoo.blogspot.com/2012/02/yawn.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;AkEMQX8_fip7ImA9WhRaE08.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8026937722556557622.post-3829808983877018160</id><published>2012-02-15T10:58:00.002-07:00</published><updated>2012-02-15T10:58:00.146-07:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2012-02-15T10:58:00.146-07:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="turquoise jewelry accents" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="black dress boots" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="style in comfort" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="linen dress" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="grey cardigan" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="stylish maternity" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="modest maternity dress" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="OOTD" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="knee-length" /><title>knee-length dress no matter where the belt's placed</title><content type="html">&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;I'm on the fence about wearing a belt&amp;nbsp;at this stage in the pregnancy game.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-KQyKti2YwN0/Tzl5k7ZXS2I/AAAAAAAADHo/2x5hKOuyQ5Y/s1600/linen_dress2.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" sda="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-KQyKti2YwN0/Tzl5k7ZXS2I/AAAAAAAADHo/2x5hKOuyQ5Y/s400/linen_dress2.JPG" width="322" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;I've long since jumped a different fence and have &lt;strike&gt;run&lt;/strike&gt; waddled a mile up&amp;nbsp;the nearby hill, though, about turquoise jewelry. Love it. Amen.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-EJcw6AodMS0/Tzl5niQL3GI/AAAAAAAADHw/yRbr_F14DFk/s1600/linen_dress3.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" sda="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-EJcw6AodMS0/Tzl5niQL3GI/AAAAAAAADHw/yRbr_F14DFk/s400/linen_dress3.JPG" width="353" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-3fVvKZCK2J0/Tzl5qFeH_0I/AAAAAAAADH4/DBlqvZicYsY/s1600/linen_dress1.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" sda="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-3fVvKZCK2J0/Tzl5qFeH_0I/AAAAAAAADH4/DBlqvZicYsY/s400/linen_dress1.JPG" width="350" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;boots: kohl's. slip: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/aslipshop" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;a slip shop&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;. linen dress: paris, france. cardigan: j.crew. belt &amp;amp; necklace: forever21.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;I know. My hair here is, like, 2 generational inches shy of beehivehood. All I can think about when I see these photos is that one Seinfeld episode where the lady physical therapist has "old-fashioned" hair, and everyone makes fun of it except Kramer, who totally encourages her to keep it that way. I think I might be that girl, 'cept without the medical training. Or Kramer.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;I learned that heeled shoes&amp;nbsp;aren't that fun to wear for 4 hours when one's body is off-balance. But what IS fun is hiding some snags in the knees of one's tights with an exposed slip. It's like a little game with the universe in which, at any given moment, you're totally winning.&amp;nbsp;Which, in turn, is&amp;nbsp;comparable to&amp;nbsp;eating the en.ti.re. box of chocolates in one sitting so that you won't be tempted by them later. Hah! Joke's on you, Cosmos.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Happy Wednesday.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;p.s. For those of you tired of and/or unable to relate to a maternity-centered style blog, I promise I will post soon about some projects I'm working on. In the meantime...belly's up.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;similar linen-ish stuff (maternity and regular):&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="background: white; border-bottom: #bfbfbf 1px solid; border-left: #bfbfbf 1px solid; border-right: #bfbfbf 1px solid; border-top: #bfbfbf 1px solid; display: block; position: relative; width: 424px;"&gt;&lt;iframe frameborder="0" height="244" scrolling="no" src="http://widget.shopstyle.com/widget?pid=uid6676-2041974-73&amp;amp;look=4713688&amp;amp;width=3&amp;amp;height=1&amp;amp;layouttype=0&amp;amp;border=0&amp;amp;footer=0" width="424"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div style="bottom: 2px; height: 18px; left: 0px; line-height: 12px; position: absolute; width: 100%;"&gt;&lt;div style="left: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 6px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 2px; position: absolute;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.shopstyle.com/browse/Gap?pid=uid6676-2041974-73" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; color: #606060; font: 11px verdana, sans-serif; text-decoration: underline;"&gt;More Gap...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding-bottom: 3px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 3px; position: absolute; right: 0px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.shopstyle.com/?pid=uid6676-2041974-73" style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;img alt="ShopStyle" src="http://resources.shopstyle.com/im/widget/ShopStyleLogo_powered.png" style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ADayInTheLifeToo/~4/-_HQ_RSfIP4" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8026937722556557622/posts/default/3829808983877018160?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8026937722556557622/posts/default/3829808983877018160?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ADayInTheLifeToo/~3/-_HQ_RSfIP4/knee-length-dress-no-matter-where-belts.html" title="knee-length dress no matter where the belt's placed" /><author><name>Brittney</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="19" height="32" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_hw-f62re09E/TRpczraTweI/AAAAAAAAB28/z-b33G7Lly8/S220/Too_button.JPG" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-KQyKti2YwN0/Tzl5k7ZXS2I/AAAAAAAADHo/2x5hKOuyQ5Y/s72-c/linen_dress2.JPG" height="72" width="72" /><feedburner:origLink>http://adayinlifetoo.blogspot.com/2012/02/knee-length-dress-no-matter-where-belts.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;CUIGQXYyfSp7ImA9WhRaEk4.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8026937722556557622.post-1862705697893589714</id><published>2012-02-14T08:32:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2012-02-14T08:32:00.895-07:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2012-02-14T08:32:00.895-07:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="red converse" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="unexpected and maybe awesome" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="color blocking" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="style in comfort" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="chunky jewelry" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="modest fashion" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="stylish maternity" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="wear what you own" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="stay at home mom style" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="tweed jacket" /><title>what's red &amp; pink &amp; tweed all over?</title><content type="html">&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;RED: check.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-d7EY0i2dB40/TzluHbBPCPI/AAAAAAAADHA/UHmLLKDflwI/s1600/v_day1.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="326" sda="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-d7EY0i2dB40/TzluHbBPCPI/AAAAAAAADHA/UHmLLKDflwI/s400/v_day1.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;PINK (about 12 shades): check check check.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LKEZLThEdFo/TzluJwJun3I/AAAAAAAADHI/Wra2WLLCwc4/s1600/v_day3.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" sda="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LKEZLThEdFo/TzluJwJun3I/AAAAAAAADHI/Wra2WLLCwc4/s400/v_day3.JPG" width="361" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;TWEED: check.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-UUECKJ6aNCI/TzluNrupbdI/AAAAAAAADHY/9HUYWC4mLGc/s1600/v_day4.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" sda="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-UUECKJ6aNCI/TzluNrupbdI/AAAAAAAADHY/9HUYWC4mLGc/s400/v_day4.JPG" width="347" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;or, for you overdo-the-pink-on-V-Day purists, TWEED: UNcheck.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-v0axjIBZwTk/TzluOkiu2OI/AAAAAAAADHg/eFv1_TwoOnw/s1600/v_day5.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" sda="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-v0axjIBZwTk/TzluOkiu2OI/AAAAAAAADHg/eFv1_TwoOnw/s400/v_day5.JPG" width="321" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;shoes: converse brand. tweed jacket: talbots. scarf: gift. bracelets: forever21 &amp;amp; gifts.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Hey guys, it's Red-and-Pink day at &lt;a href="http://www.everybodyeverywear.com/challenges/view/pink-red" target="_blank"&gt;Everybody, Everywear&lt;/a&gt;. Fitting for Valentine's Day, obv. I actually have a red maternity corduroy skirt that I contemplated wearing with this shirt, but I'm glad I didn't.&amp;nbsp;Seemed a little too bleeding-pepto-bismol for me. Not that that's a bad thing, of course. Oh, wait. Yes it is.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;You know what's weird? (Aside from the fact that my 3-year-old is developing an affinity for pickle juice. No lie. Ew.) I think pregnant bellies actually look better when you can see their real outline.&amp;nbsp;Which is the paradox of the universe, but there it is.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;If I had my way, I'd drape myself in a canvas tent and call it good for the next 2 months. But there are others to consider. Like my husband. And&amp;nbsp;the circus clowns who, frankly, need those tents to make a living. Speaking of...is it odd to wear red chucks with a tweed jacket? Probably.&amp;nbsp;I mean, are we college-professoring today or boarding at the skate park?&amp;nbsp;One just can't tell. Which, to me, makes the combination&amp;nbsp;a little Unexpected &amp;amp; Maybe Awesome.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Happy Valentine's Day.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.everybodyeverywear.com/blog/view/pink-red"&gt;&lt;img alt="Pink + Red | Everybody, Everywear" height="50" src="http://www.everybodyeverywear.com/photos/ipw8AAA.png" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
other cute red and pink stuff (maternity &amp;amp; regular):&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="background: white; border-bottom: #bfbfbf 1px solid; border-left: #bfbfbf 1px solid; border-right: #bfbfbf 1px solid; border-top: #bfbfbf 1px solid; display: block; position: relative; width: 424px;"&gt;&lt;iframe frameborder="0" height="244" scrolling="no" src="http://widget.shopstyle.com/widget?pid=uid6676-2041974-73&amp;amp;look=4713580&amp;amp;width=3&amp;amp;height=1&amp;amp;layouttype=0&amp;amp;border=0&amp;amp;footer=0" width="424"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div style="bottom: 2px; height: 18px; left: 0px; line-height: 12px; position: absolute; width: 100%;"&gt;&lt;div style="left: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 6px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 2px; position: absolute;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.shopstyle.com/browse/LOFT?pid=uid6676-2041974-73" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; color: #606060; font: 11px verdana, sans-serif; text-decoration: underline;"&gt;More LOFT...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding-bottom: 3px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 3px; position: absolute; right: 0px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.shopstyle.com/?pid=uid6676-2041974-73" style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;img alt="ShopStyle" src="http://resources.shopstyle.com/im/widget/ShopStyleLogo_powered.png" style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ADayInTheLifeToo/~4/pX9cSmmfOpU" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8026937722556557622/posts/default/1862705697893589714?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8026937722556557622/posts/default/1862705697893589714?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ADayInTheLifeToo/~3/pX9cSmmfOpU/whats-red-pink-tweed-all-over.html" title="what's red &amp; pink &amp; tweed all over?" /><author><name>Brittney</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="19" height="32" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_hw-f62re09E/TRpczraTweI/AAAAAAAAB28/z-b33G7Lly8/S220/Too_button.JPG" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-d7EY0i2dB40/TzluHbBPCPI/AAAAAAAADHA/UHmLLKDflwI/s72-c/v_day1.JPG" height="72" width="72" /><feedburner:origLink>http://adayinlifetoo.blogspot.com/2012/02/whats-red-pink-tweed-all-over.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;CEEBRnc7fSp7ImA9WhRaEUs.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8026937722556557622.post-965690589200146289</id><published>2012-02-13T09:32:00.002-07:00</published><updated>2012-02-13T12:50:57.905-07:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2012-02-13T12:50:57.905-07:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="boyfriend watch" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="stylish maternity" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="wear what you own" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="stay at home mom style" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="metallic flats" /><title>argyle sweater in green. life is good.</title><content type="html">&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Argyle in cardigan form.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-MyGh6IaDeyM/TzLgpjF7faI/AAAAAAAADFQ/MPP0CD3iTyo/s1600/argyle_cardigan3.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" sda="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-MyGh6IaDeyM/TzLgpjF7faI/AAAAAAAADFQ/MPP0CD3iTyo/s400/argyle_cardigan3.JPG" width="322" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;And a fake oversized&amp;nbsp;gold watch that may or may not reliably keep time.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/--45PmvZgTTQ/TzLgmTtpJ6I/AAAAAAAADFA/OqkSsy8LJPc/s1600/argyle_cardigan2.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" sda="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/--45PmvZgTTQ/TzLgmTtpJ6I/AAAAAAAADFA/OqkSsy8LJPc/s400/argyle_cardigan2.JPG" width="338" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div align="center"&gt;And some dark uber-flare jeans.﻿&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-HyBlxVQhc2Q/TzLgnc4u9fI/AAAAAAAADFI/tJWZDd1c9j4/s1600/argyle_cardigan1.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" sda="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-HyBlxVQhc2Q/TzLgnc4u9fI/AAAAAAAADFI/tJWZDd1c9j4/s400/argyle_cardigan1.JPG" width="306" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;(Basketball-for-belly is optional.)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;jeans &amp;amp; cardigan: gap. shoes: american eagle. watch: target. pink tee: vintage (translation: hand-me-down).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;What I've just given you, my friends, is a failproof recipe for&amp;nbsp;dressing like a free-spirited study-hall-frequenting prepster chick, sans nerd glasses and freshly woven daisy crown.&amp;nbsp;And, really, isn't that the look we're all going for?&lt;br /&gt;
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Answer: Yes, yes it is.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"&gt;Speaking of going for stuff, I could really go for a vacation to the Virgin Islands right now. Either that or a glimpse of the sun. One or the other, really, I'm not that picky. What, no sun in sight? I guess it's just you and me then, Expedia...us and the large glow-in-the-dark orb I carry at my belly these days. Y'know, for&amp;nbsp;emergencies.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"&gt;Happy Monday.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"&gt;related stuff (maternity&amp;nbsp;&amp;amp; regular):&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="background: white; border-bottom: #bfbfbf 1px solid; border-left: #bfbfbf 1px solid; border-right: #bfbfbf 1px solid; border-top: #bfbfbf 1px solid; display: block; position: relative; width: 424px;"&gt;&lt;iframe frameborder="0" height="244" scrolling="no" src="http://widget.shopstyle.com/widget?pid=uid6676-2041974-73&amp;amp;look=4685215&amp;amp;width=3&amp;amp;height=1&amp;amp;layouttype=0&amp;amp;border=0&amp;amp;footer=0" width="424"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div style="bottom: 2px; height: 18px; left: 0px; line-height: 12px; position: absolute; width: 100%;"&gt;&lt;div style="left: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 6px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 2px; position: absolute;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.shopstyle.com/browse/Gap?pid=uid6676-2041974-73" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; color: #606060; font: 11px verdana, sans-serif; text-decoration: underline;"&gt;More Gap...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding-bottom: 3px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 3px; position: absolute; right: 0px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.shopstyle.com/?pid=uid6676-2041974-73" style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;img alt="ShopStyle" src="http://resources.shopstyle.com/im/widget/ShopStyleLogo_powered.png" style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ADayInTheLifeToo/~4/R5qcNU0Ymb4" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8026937722556557622/posts/default/965690589200146289?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8026937722556557622/posts/default/965690589200146289?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ADayInTheLifeToo/~3/R5qcNU0Ymb4/argyle-sweater-in-green-yes-you-can.html" title="argyle sweater in green. life is good." /><author><name>Brittney</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="19" height="32" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_hw-f62re09E/TRpczraTweI/AAAAAAAAB28/z-b33G7Lly8/S220/Too_button.JPG" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-MyGh6IaDeyM/TzLgpjF7faI/AAAAAAAADFQ/MPP0CD3iTyo/s72-c/argyle_cardigan3.JPG" height="72" width="72" /><feedburner:origLink>http://adayinlifetoo.blogspot.com/2012/02/argyle-sweater-in-green-yes-you-can.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;CkUCSXk6fCp7ImA9WhRaEEw.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8026937722556557622.post-3126405854983026245</id><published>2012-02-11T18:31:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2012-02-11T18:31:08.714-07:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2012-02-11T18:31:08.714-07:00</app:edited><title>be Linkylicious.</title><content type="html">Hey friends,&lt;br /&gt;
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So, in a couple of weeks, Google Friend Connect will no longer be available to non-Blogger users. If you want to show me some love (you know you do) or stay in the know of this blog (you think you do) or just pass the time in this my little planet in cyberspace (you're not so sure you do), follow me&amp;nbsp;via the new Linky Followers near the top of the right-hand sidebar.&lt;br /&gt;
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Everybody's doing it, you know.&lt;br /&gt;
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I'll be your friend forever and call you Linkylicious as a pet name if you do. Or I'll swear that I'll never type the word "Linkylicious" again. Yeah, maybe that one's more motivating...&lt;br /&gt;
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Thanks. Hang ten. Be Linkylicious. And peace out.&lt;br /&gt;
Brittney&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ADayInTheLifeToo/~4/CLAXz1w0zpI" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8026937722556557622/posts/default/3126405854983026245?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8026937722556557622/posts/default/3126405854983026245?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ADayInTheLifeToo/~3/CLAXz1w0zpI/be-linkylicious.html" title="be Linkylicious." /><author><name>Brittney</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="19" height="32" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_hw-f62re09E/TRpczraTweI/AAAAAAAAB28/z-b33G7Lly8/S220/Too_button.JPG" /></author><feedburner:origLink>http://adayinlifetoo.blogspot.com/2012/02/be-linkylicious.html</feedburner:origLink></entry></feed>
