Yellow & Pink

yellow stripe shift dress, magenta suede block heel sandals, business casual outfit

yellow stripe shift dress, magenta suede block heel sandals, business casual outfit

yellow stripe shift dress, magenta suede block heel sandals, business casual outfit

yellow stripe shift dress, magenta suede block heel sandals, business casual outfit

yellow stripe shift dress, magenta suede block heel sandals, business casual outfit

yellow stripe shift dress, magenta suede block heel sandals, business casual outfit

I’m going to go out on a limb and say I have the best blog readers. I might not have the best blog, but the best readers for sure. For example, Nicole (who happens to have her own blog, Writes Like a Girl), apparently keeps stock of every piece of clothing I own and suggests new combinations to try. Creepy? Possibly. Helpful? Totally. When I debuted this dress, she suggested I wear it with my fuchsia heels. That girl has good instincts, because I absolutely love this brightly colored combo!

Now, let’s all repay Nicole by going to her blog and bombarding her with 1000 suggestions for what she should wear. She’ll love it.

Dress (on sale) // similar Bag (splurge) // similar Bag (under $40!) // Shoes // similar Necklace // similar Sunglasses

Maxi to the Max

maxi dress with blazer for work

maxi dress with blazer for work

maxi dress with blazer for work

maxi dress with blazer for work

I almost forgot I had these photos from last week’s trip to Florida! This was my last full day at the conference, which meant a couple sessions of learnin’ in the morning, followed by the grand finale event at Universal Studios in the evening. I didn’t want to plan and pack two totally separate outfits, so during the day I covered a maxi dress with a white blazer (that I wore 2 other times during the week), then swapped out the blazer for a cardigan and added a Panama hat and a stack of bracelets.

Voila. Business casual to just plain casual.

maxi dress with cardigan, Panama hat

maxi dress with cardigan, Panama hat

maxi dress with cardigan, Panama hat

maxi dress with cardigan, Panama hat

maxi dress with cardigan, Panama hat

A week ago, I thought I was going to be so excited to tell you that this was the outfit I wore when I went to the Wizarding World for the first time. And it was the outfit I wore when I went to the Wizarding World for the first time, but I have nothing else exciting to share about the experience. Epic disappointment would be the best way to put it. But it’s not you, Hogsmeade; it’s me. Everyone else seemed to have a great time. I don’t like rides or amusement parks in general (or anything else that normal people think is fun), but I’m such a big Harry Potter fan I thought I would love to go and see everything. The problem was that they didn’t let us into the park until 9:00, so by the time we walked back through all the other crap at Universal (which I think kind of takes away from the experience), it was completely dark so I could barely see anything. Taking pictures was pointless, and a lot of the non-ride experiences that you can do during normal hours weren’t open.

I was so bummed. It didn’t help that I was all peopled out at the end of a long week of peopling. So many people. I should have stayed home and read Harry Potter. But on the bright side, someone complimented my outfit.

similar Dress // Jacket // Hat // similar Shoes // Bag // similar Cardigan // Ring* (on sale) // similar Sunglasses (on sale)

*Ring purchased with gift card provided courtesy of Shopbop.