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 #4

 Two things about today's outfit:

1 - I love this top.  It's cotton and so light, ruffled around the neckline, black.  But, more importantly, I haven't worn it for a few years.  It was in the 'I Wish' pile for a while until I had a very exciting try-on session recently.  Yay!

2 - I'm wearing a brooch.  This is a big thing for me.  I was given two for Christmas, this green fish and a red flower (stay tuned!), and this is the first time this year I've worn one out.  Apart from really liking having a little fish on my blouse, it really broke up the otherwise sombre colour of this outfit.

The pants are cotton/polyester so they feel nice and crisp but still cool and breathable.

I love green.  I love heels.  These shoes are great.  I have to choose outings appropriately though.  Today was not a day I was scheduled to track down kiddies all day (and no fire drill) so I could sit comfortably in my room, looking at my pretty shoes.

Yes, this is the lovely carpet I have in my teaching room at school.  Nice, huh.  Has that old office feel to it.

 The cute fish brooch.



Outfit details:

Blouse: Suite Boutique.  Pants: Portmans.  Shoes: Pinet.  Brooch: Erstwilder (gift).  Bracelet: gift.  Opal earrings: from Kuranda, FNQ.

This jewellery combination made me feel rather precious all day.  Pearl bracelet (a gift from an older brother and his wife).  Opal earrings I bought last September in Kuranda, in Far North Queensland.