Made With Love

 Dress: Made by my mom | Shoes: Levity | Necklace: Lane Bryant | Bracelets: Five and Two, J.Crew 

 When my two sisters and I were younger, my mom sewed all of our clothes. I'm not exaggerating, for a good portion of our lives she made over 50% of our clothes. She made dresses, rompers, and tops, bottoms, and everything in between. She would even take leftover fabric from whatever item she was sewing to make matching bows and purses. We also spent countless numbers inside Hancock Fabrics and Hobby Lobby, looking through pattern books and scurrying to pull them from the file cabinets. That being said, I can rightfully blame my mom for my obsession with clothing, shoes, and accessories. If any little girl spends a good amount of time looking at a book filled with clothes and has a mom who can sew for days, she just might develop an addiction like mine. I'm ecstatic that my mom is getting back into sewing, she loves it and we love getting custom made clothing. After a few hours in Hancock Fabrics, we found the perfect pattern and this lovely fabric. She started making this dress at night and it was ready to wear by the morning. How awesome is that? It was like free express shipping.

And how awesome is this necklace I found in Lane Bryant? I find baubles everywhere.

--LaRonda 

Pink Lady

I can't remember when I wore this, I just know it was weeks ago.  This was just an average day at work, not much back-story here.  I got this pink shirt from F21 when I ventured there to make an exchange.  The bright color caught my eye and the sheer fabric sealed the deal, the slight dip hem in the back didn't hurt either.  It was only $13 or so, not bad for such a lovely color.  The skirt I'm wearing is the infamous black skirt that I got from Urban, you know the one I probably wear too much, the one I wear almost once a week.  Whatever, sue me, I love this skirt.  It's comfortable, sleek, and black, and those are three of the best things a piece of clothing can be.  My shoes are the spicy little babies that I got in Atlanta last summer, I can never say enough great things about these shoes.  Okay, not much to be said here, I was walking around the office looking like a Barbie as per usual.

Excuse my bra strap, I don't know what I was thinking, maybe I was attempting to be "wild"

--LaRondezvous

The Lilac Bag

This is another one of those double-duty outfits,

Last Saturday was very long and exhausting, had my first professional dance audition, did some shopping, and went out for a bit with some friends.  By the time I got home I was pooped and I think I fell asleep before even finding something to wear to church and work.  I even woke up late on Sunday so I needed something easy and cute.  This was the first dress that I thought of, it only took a few seconds to throw on and I picked some sassy shoes and I was good to go.  I bet you can't guess where I got the dress, of course it was Target, I got it for $15.00 after I stalked it for a while, it was originally $30.00 if I'm not mistaken.  Now the shoes, the shoes are some of my favorites in my entire collection.  I got them last summer in Atlanta when I went with my friend Deveneny for a few days.  I'd actually bought way too much stuff the entire trip and was almost out of money, and by "almost out of money" I mean I was saving the rest for our trip to the outlet mall in Alabama on the way home.  I am unbelievalbly blessed, Deveney's mom, a fellow shopaholic, saw how much I loved the shoes and bought them for me, they weren't cheap.  Of course that makes these shoes even more special to me, they're Levity and I got them from DSW.  But this bag, this bag is my new favorite, I got it from Aldo last week on a random trip with Audrey, I was really looking for black pumps and a black bag but I saw this lovely lady and couldn't help myself, it was originally $50.00 and I got it for $20.00, I was a very happy camper.  I can't stop carrying it, the color is perfect, the size is perfect, I'm in love.  My jewels are some lovely chunky bracelets from an Etsy shop called FIVEANDTWO, check them out. I got these bracelets for $22.00 with a coupon code, so worth it.

Excuse the exhausted look, I'd been wrangling babies all morning.

--LaRondezvous