Savers, Oh How I Love Thee So!

So, this summer, I have been inspired to thrift more (thank you random blogs!). I have always liked Savers, (my friend and I have Savers dates frequently, haha) but I have never bought much from there. I would get a couple things here and there, but I mostly would just walk around in disgust. A few weeks ago, though, I went to Savers determined to increase my thrifted wardrobe. Normally I would just get an armload of things to try on, but this trip, my cart was overflowing! Granted, of the large number of things I tried on, I only got a few. But they are all peices that I fell in love with. The thing about stores like Savers is you never know what you might find. In my opinion, if it looks like it would fit, and you think it has potential, try it on. You might be surprised!

Here are the things I got a few weeks ago. (Did you know that Mondays at Savers are customer appreciation day, so everything is 25% off?!? I found this out recently!)

I decided to jump on the chambray bandwagon. Only cost me $3!

I instantly fell in love with this blazer. It came as a set with a skirt, which was too small, but I liked the blazer so much I was willing to pay the $10 I thought it was going to be. It ended up being $6, so I really didn't care the skirt didn't fit!



I really needed a new LBD (since I cut up my old one to make a skirt, remember?) so I grabbed this on a whim. It is so adorable and flatttering! I don't know how I survived without it! Only $6!



 Today, I decided to hit up Savers again, hoping to have similar luck. And I had even BETTER luck than last time! Even though my cart wasn't as full as last time, I ended up buying more and still loving every single thing!

Is it sad that I have a skirt identical to this but in pink? Haha, the difference is, I made the pink one out of an old short dress, and I bought this one already as a skirt. For $6 its ok to have multiples, right?

This tunic is really cute! I love the lace detail on top and how you can take off the tie and add a fun colored belt instead! Great for $6!

These pants are pink, not red, I promise! And they were $3! Now I have colored jeans in all three of my favorite colors! (Purple, pink, and turquoise!)

I loved the colors of this top. And I normally hate animal print, but this isn't a stereotypical animal print, so it's ok! And for $4.50, I didn't even care that it had a small hole in the side. That's why I sew!

Glitter, bows, peep-toe, black flats that I can wear not only to work, but pretty much anywhere? What could be better? Oh, maybe the fact that there were $4!

I sorta have a big-ring fetish. And I have a necklace tht matches this perfectly! Definitely worth $1.50!

I love pearls (especially for $0.75!), so this necklace, that can double as bracelets, was a must!

A thin metalic belt for $1 was definitely a good buy!

I think I have fallen in love with Savers. :) I can't wait to show you some cuper cute outfits I have already started putting together!

Do you thrift? If you do, what have been some of your favorite finds? Leave me a comment or e-mail me a picture! Kaileighbow@gmail.com



Catching Up

Since it's been a while since my last outfit post, you get to see TWO outfits today! :) I have been busy in Utah this week. My brother had a cross country camp up at BYU, and my mom, other brother, and I stayed with my aunt and did all sorts of fun things! I also got to see into the dorm room I will be living in. And can I just say, there is NO way all my clothes can fit into that tiny closet. Oh boy....


Well here is the first outfit of the day!

I wore this to church a couple weeks ago. At church I help teach and play with the nursery kids (18 months to 3 years old). I was hesitant to actually take on this calling because I really wanted to stay in the Young Women program (12 to 18 year old girls). My plan was to stay in Young Women until I left for school. But being in nursery is definitely second best! Since I'm with kids, crawling on the floor, picking up toys, chasing kids around, I have to be able to move around. This skirt is perfect for that because it is stretchy and comfy. I found the fabric for it on clearance at JoAnn's and fell in love. I was thinking of making a maxi skirt (since they are so in style and every one claims they are so comfortable), but I absolutely HATE them. I don't care how comfortable they are, I think they are unflattering on everyone. So I made this Hi-low, which I love! All the comfort of a maxi skirt without the hideousness! Perfect!




So, here's the next outfit.

I wore this today in Utah. I must say, I don't care that it is cooler in Utah than Arizona, it was flipping HOT this week! But none of the shorts I brought matched any of my un-worn shirts, so I just rolled up these purple pants. (Which are one of my favorite pairs of pants!) I don't know why, but I really like this outfit. But then again, there are very few outfits I wear that I dont like. I think its because it is so simple, but looks more put together than a t-shirt and jeans. Although, I didn't bring any necklaces with me that work with this shirt (because of the tie on it), so I felt slightly under dressed. But it was great for just running around Utah.

What I'm Wearing 1

Shirt: Forever 21

Skirt: Made by me

Shoes: Hand-me-down from aunt

Necklace: Forever 21

What I'm Wearing 2

Shirt: Store my friend had in her house (Originally from Target)

Pants: Savers (Originally from Target)

Shoes: Khol's

Ring: Charlotte Russe

I am SO Weird....

Well, I haven't really taken any outfit pictures this week because my camera ran out of batteries. And I'm too lazy to put them in the charger. Haha. So, sorry for the lack of outfit pictures this week. But I am going to post some pretty awesome pictures of some pretty crazy outfits I have worn throughout highschool! So, woohoo, it's your lucky day! I will explain the outfits, because they definitely need explanation... :) A lot of these pictures were taken on my phone. so they are awful quality.

My school colors were teal and black. Basically awesome. this was my first "Hawk Pride" outfit of my senior year. The giant bow on my head is actually from my parents wedding and I found it at my grandma's house. And the QT cup is holding Cherry Dr. Pepper. This was before I discovered Circle K. Now that's the only gas station I get my drinks from.

This was one day I wanted to watch Harry Potter, so I dressed up for it. Because I'm cool like that.

This was my Halloween costume this year. I wore it to school. Halloween happed to coincide with when my orchestra got to work with a famous violin/rock/performace group called Barrage. And I happen to have a HUGE crush on one of them. Was I embarrassed? Not one bit. :)

Yes, this is me. Yes, I look like a boy. It was a project for my Fashion class at school. I did a report on Christian Siriano.

My friends had an 80s birthday party. I wore this. I out dressed to hostesses. I rule!

This was a spirit day at school. It was moustache and barret day. (We do spirit weeks at school the weeks of dances. I won most spirited this week and won free tickets to Winter Formal. Because I'm cool.)



This dress is made of duct tape. It was for Duct Tape day my junior year. Only one other girl at the school made a whole dress. But I was told by many people that mine was better.

I'm pretty sure this was my first "Hawk Pride" day with my teal wig. Best $6 I've ever spent.

This flapper dress has gotten me through a surprise party, a Halloween, a "decades" spirit day, and a second Halloween. I'm thinking of wearing it again this year. Thats how much I LOVE this. And its just a dress slip with fringe sewn on it. Too bad I cant find my headband. :(

This was for Super Hero spirit day my freshman year. The bat part is actually a swimsuit from my synchronized swimming years. Thank goodness I had that swimsiut, or I would have had nothing to wear.

This was for Toga day. I didn't actually get to wear it to school because I had a field trip, but I took the picture to get extra credit in one of my classes.

  

I hate this. It's not an outfit, but it was crazy hair day. All I did was brush out my hair and attack it with hairspray. This is why I sometimes hate curly hair. (By the way, there is a paper airplane stuck in my hair.)

So, this was the LAST "Hawk Pride" day of my High School career. I am giving this the title of "Fifty Shades of Teal".

So I hope you enjoyed some of my crazy awesome outfits! I certainly enjoyed wearing them! These are only the ones I have pictures of, there are a ton more. Am I insane? Yeah, kinda. Haha!  And I hope you know that I normally wear normal clothes. :P And I'm not crazy, my mother had me tested. (<----- If you can tell me what that quote is from, you rock.) Well, I need to go pack for my trip to Utah! See ya later!

Easy Dress to Skirt Tutorial

Do you remember this skirt from a couple posts ago?

Well this skirt was originally a dress! It was very cute, but pretty short. I got it on a huge after-Christmas clearance sale in 2010 for about $12. I knew it was a little short so I couldn't wear it to church, but with tights, I could wear it to other semi-formal/Sunday best things. I wore it for two New Year's parties and other things like that. The moment I found out I was going to BYU, I planned to turn this into a skirt. (So it would be long enough, and I would get a lot more use from it.) It was a very simple process, and it would be good for beginners. (Just make sure you are comfortable with a zig-zag stitch.) This wourks best with stretchy dresses with no zipper.

Materials:

One dress. (Stretchy with no zipper works the best)

1 yd (about, it depends on your waist size) 2" thick black elastic

Black thread (Or color of elasic if you use a different color)

Sewing Machine

Step 1: Pin along the dress where you want the waist band of the skirt to be. (If you are trying for length, I would pin right under the armpit, otherwise, a few inches above the waist line of the dress works.)

Best "before" pic of the dress that I have.

Close up to show where I pinned.

Step 2: Cut right above the pins marked.

Step 3: Try on the bottom part of the dress to see where it fits best and where it hits the desired length.

Step 4: Measure the elastic around where the top of the skirt hits your waist. (Make sure the elastic  is snug, but not too tight). Pin the elastic and sew it into a circle using a zig-zag stitch.

Step 5: Pin the skirt to the elastic witht the front of the skirt touching the back of the elastic. (If the skirt is bigger than the elastic, or vice versa, it's ok, just make sure the sides and middle line up.)

Step 6: Sew the skirt onto the elastic using a zig-zag stitch. If the elastic is smaller than the skirt, pull on it so it stretches as you sew, and vice versa for if the skirt is smaller.  Cut any extra fabric off.

Step 7: Try on the skirt to make sure it looks fine and adjust anything funky or wrong/ (I had to unpick my entire skirt because it was so horrible. And I dont unpick ANYTHING. This is a very important step, because what would happen if you skipped this and tried to wear it one night and saw that it looked horrible?? That would suck worse than unpicking and fixing it now.)

Step 8: Wear your new skirt proudly and shock people when you say you made it! (I think that even though you didn't make it from scratch, it's still ok to say you made it.)

So how was my first tutorial? I hope you can understand it! Feel free to let me know anything that would make this better! And I would LOVE to see what you create if you use this tutorial! Thanks! :)













It's Raining Men! (I wish....)

Well, today, I knew I wasn't going to be doing much until work tonight. So I decided to just dress comfy. And I'm sure glad I did. In the middle of the day, it started storming. And in case you dont remember from my first post, I don't mix well with storms. So I holed myself in my room and blasted Pandora, and waited out the storm. It's finally quieted down, but I'm worried that it will start storming again while I'm at work. (Quick story about the last time it really stormed while I was at work: I saw the lightning and heard the thunder and had some sort or panic attack. I was pretty much useless. I sat on the couch hyperventilating. My co-worker was really worried and offered to drive me home, but I didn't want to leave my car. So he drove right behind me the enitre way home. All the way up to my driveway. Mind you, I was driving like 20 mph so whats usually a ten minute drive ended up being like twenty. This co-worker is on his mission now, so he won't be able to drive behind me if it starts storming at work again.)

Boo storms! But yay comfy, but cute outfit! Too bad I have to change for work pretty soon.

(Don't you love the lines on my wrist from where I normally wear a hairtie?) 

I know you can't see them very well, but I got my shoes Thursday! I have been wanting them for MONTHS but didn't want to spend $20 on them. They were ten dollars on Thursday! Yay!

My shirt is something I refashioned this week. I took the plain old t-shirts and made three cute color-block shirts. I hadn't planned on making this one, but I just threw the remaining parts of the shirts together to make this. It's more of a crop top, which I don't normally like, but I like it with this skirt. (Which was originally either a very long shirt or an almost illegal dress...) These bright colors made this stormy day just a little bit better. :)

So, what are your opinions on crop tops? Love them or hate them?

What I'm Wearing

Top: Made myself

Skirt: Refashioned from a top from Wet Seal

Shoes: Charlotte Russe

Necklace: Gift (from Forever 21)

Bracelet: Gift

Just my Luck

So today (well technically yesterday...), among other things, I went to Carl's Jr with my family for lunch since it was National Frech Fry Day. They didn't give us free fries or anything, but it was my mom's excuse to eat out. I also made a new skirt. And I looked so trendy in my new striped hi-low (or mullet or whatever you call it) skirt and floral print top. At 7:00, my friend called me from work and said one of our co-workers didn't show up and asked if I could come cover for her! Of course, I said yes, since I'm only going to have a job for about another month. Here's the thing: I work as an usher at a theater (like musicals and plays, not movies), and the show starts at 7:30, so we normally clock in at 6:40-ish to get set up. They needed me to come before the show started. So here I am, in my super cute outfit, but I needed to change into black bottoms and a white top. Luckily I just refashioned a dress into a black skirt with an elastic waist band, so I could throw that on easily. But then I couldn't find any of my white shirts. So I dug through my "to get rid of" pile and grabbed out an old white tee. We also have to wear black flats, so I grabbed our a pair. But I only had one shoe of the pair I wanted. so I grabbed out my worn out sparkly flats. Thank you Friday the Thirteenth. I threw on a headband and some jewelry and drove as fast as traffic would allow me to work. So today you get some crappy pictures of my thrown together work outfit. (By the way, at work we wear the world's most horrible vests ever. If I ever find my cord that connect my phone to the computer, you will get to see it.)

Yup. Lovely pics, I know. I love my red-eyes. (I get them in every picture ever....) And my minimal make-up face.  

I'm going to re-wear my cute outfit tomorrow, so maybe you will get to see it! If not, I'm sure you will see it in the future sometime. :)

Oh, and just so you know, I made myself a black tulle skirt when I started working at the Theater. I got so many compliments on it! I would also wear super fun heels and colorful shoes. But then one day, there was an usher meeting and BAM no more tulle skirt or colorful heels. Black flats. :( Good thing I own a crazy insane amount of jewelry so I can still spice up my work look!

What I'm Wearing

Shirt: Kohl's (way old)

Skirt: Refashioned from a dress from Romy

Shoes: Wet Seal

Head Band: Left over fabric from the skirt I made today

Necklace: Gift

Bracelet: From Grandma from Isreal

Hope you all had a great National French Fry Day and a lucky Friday the Thirteenth (unlike me)! :)

My First Fashion Post

Can we all say "awwww" to my very first fashion post? :) What a huge moment for me. Ok, not really. :P

As long as I can remember, I have loved clothing. My mom says when I was young I could tell you where I got every piece of clothing (most of which were hand-me-downs from friends), and I would always want to wear certain pieces. This love continued into my teenage years. My sense of style started off, well... wacky. And not the good kind of wacky. I look back just a couple of years and think, "What was I on when I decided to wear that??" (And I'm sure many people still feel this way about my style). What I have learned from watching hours of What Not To Wear and Project Runway is that, what is "in style" and "fashionable" might not always be what's in YOUR style. I have learned to wear what I love, what I feel good in, and what lifts me up. I don't necessarily follow all trends. Some I hate (like maxi dresses and body con). And some I love (bright colors, peplums). I also hoard clothing. I literally have stuff I've had for 6 years, and stuff I bought today. This is because, as soon as I decide to get rid of something, I always think of an outfit that would look great with it. Therefore, I don't get rid of clothes. So, without further ado, here is my fist outfit I am posting about on this blog.

Ok, so first, sorry the pictures are kind of pose-y and one is in black and white. These are some of my senior pictures, but I loved this outfit! Second, can I just say, isn't teal and purple the BEST color combo ever?? I love it! This shirt is amazing. It is teal, it has pink and purple flowers on it. It also has some lighter teal polka-dots in the background and some black bows printed on it. Pretty much sums me up in a shirt. (Plus, doesn't the teal make my eyes look amazing?) And this purple pencil skirt? Goodness, its amazing! (It has since been slightly altered to add length to make sure its completely appropriate for my college dress standards.)

Top: Heavenly Couture

Skirt: Romy

Shoes: Charlotte Russe

Necklace: Gift

Hair Flower: Gift

Ring: Charlotte Russe