Outfit #8 - Black and Red Floral

Earrings - actually sandalwood seed pods.

Outfit:
Dress: Hot Options.  Brooch: gift.  Shoes: Hot Options.  Earrings: from Kuranda.

Shoes, with wedge and Bandaid details.

Yes, I like Hot Options.  I don't often go into Target, but when I do I nearly always find something to try on.  This dress was one of 4 (yes, 4!) that I bought all at once.  2 different styles, each in a different material.  I'm not totally sold on this dress design (a twin to the circle dress, found in outfit #5) - it feels a bit baggy around the middle and I suspect I need to fill it out more for it to look really good.

This is the other brooch I was given for Christmas, which goes so well with this dress.  Someone even asked me if it came with the dress.  All the music staff looked great today - house photos.  Which also meant I had a very messy day trying to teach all my kids when mostly they were being photographed.  Or, it turns out, their teacher was being photographed and so the class went AWOL.  Super.

Outfit #5

Dress: Hot Options. Shoes: Lipstick Design (op shop).

Shoe love

Shoe details

The dress... On the up-side, it's simple, and I don't need to coordinate much with it.  Curiously, it was some time after I bought it that I wore it.  Shoe dilemmas.  On the down side, it's all polyester.  Thankfully I have wonderful air-conditioning in my teaching room.

Now, this dress.  At the end of last year, another violin teacher and I put on a studio concert together.  I almost wore this dress, but decided at the last minute to wear something else.  The other violin teacher, though - she turned up in this dress.  It's a good thing then, that we don't teach there on the same days.

I felt so lucky when I found these shoes just before Christmas in an op shop (West End), and they are so lovely to wear.  When I showed my 3-yr-old niece my shoe collection, she loved these.  Absolute favourites.