Accio Jencat: November 2014

Long time no blog! I've been so busy with my second full year of teaching. I've been trying to dedicate my time to my classroom/lessons or relaxing. Last year I was so stressed out that I had to go to a cardiologist for irregular heart palpitations and she said it was due to stress...

Anyways. I'm mainly stopping by for now to tell my StitchFix stylist exactly what I want :) There wasn't enough room in the little notes box, so I thought I'd leave it here since it is a little-traveled blog.

1. More Dresses that I can Wear with Leggings/Tights and Boots

I have one or two dresses that fall under this category. The first one is from a past Stitch Fix, my Market and Spruce Ohara Faux Wrap Tie-Waist Dress.

Market and Spruce Ohara Faux Wrap Tie-Waist Dress

For the longest time I didn't/couldn't wear this dress because the "wrap style" of it made it very low-cut. I tried wearing a cami under it, but I hated the line at my waist that the cami left. Finally i got around to purchasing a slip. I had to cut and sew the straps on the slip myself because my tiny shoulders made the straps appear WAY too long...but I cut like 5 inches off of the straps and sewed it back together, and now I have a white slip and a nude slip to wear under dresses, hooray! I can wear this dress without leggings too, but it's a good one to wear when it's chilly here because of the 3/4 sleeves and thin material (I get hot in thick materials really easily).

The other dress I have that I can wear with leggings and boots is very old. It's from target, and it's getting pretty shabby. I wore it in college to parties when it was cold out since it also has 3/4 sleeves and is made out of a thicker polyester material. It's harder to wear to school though due to it's semi-low cut neck. I have to wear it with a scarf if I want to wear it with leggings to school!

Target Dress

I also have to wear it with different boots than normal... black and brown make a frown, right?

The only other dress-like things I have to wear with leggings are the two long sweaters pictured below.

It gets shorter every time I wash it...

Comfy Casual

I think the grey is a little too casual for work, and the pink dress just doesn't seem quite appropriate either.

Examples of combinations that I love:

Love the black & white and polka dots :)

Pair w/ leggings!

From one of my favorite Bloggers :)

PS. I pinned all of these to my Pinterest board.

PPS. Long sweater dresses are ok too... see my board on Pinterest :)

2. Sweaters that aren't too think but aren't too thin

I own several sweaters, but they are all from Target and are basically the same style. What I like about them though is that they are a thin but warm (enough for Texas) material. Shown below is one of these sweaters, as well as the rest these Target sweaters that I own.

Thin Target Sweater + Scarf

The rest of my thin Target sweaters.

I love pairing these with a scarf, since the solid color lets them be pretty flexible. However, I would love some sweaters that are less bland, like with fun prints/colors. I get hot very easily though, so super chunky sweaters are not my best friend!

I also own a few more chunky sweaters. I love them, but regret it almost every time I wear them because I get so hot in them!

PS Wool makes me itchy!
3. Pants for Work That Will Fit into Boots

It's finally chilly here in Texas ("chilly" to anyone from up north.... the high is still in the 60s). I love wearing my (only 1 year old but still very worn down) riding boots or one of the other varieties that I have. It's very annoying that I only have a few pairs of pants that are suitable to wear to work (no jeans) that will go into these boots. I get away with colored denim, as pictured below, but those are really all I own that go into boots. I've seen how to change boot cut jeans to skinny jeans for boots, but I don't like that it's still loose and flapping around above where the boots are!

#unflattering #hugehips

I own these in 3 colors... oops

4. A Winter Party Dress :)
I've got my work/school (I teach) winter party with my fellow teachers, and I'd love a gorgeous wintery dress to wear to the party. I've also got my family's Christmas party to go to, and we usually dress pretty nice for it as well. Not ball-gown style of course, but something like the dress I wore last year (and may reuse I like it so much ;) )