D's chambray

This past weekend west coast FLAN found ourselves in the east coast, in New York and Jersey City with our east coast FLANs. My four days there flew by in a blur of food and drinks and before we knew it, it was time to go home. The flight home is always bittersweet after a great trip, and this was indeed, a great trip.

I wore my remix item on our last day in NYC. The morning was sunny, with possibility of showers, and anticipating a five hour flight home, I layered a chambray shirt over a long maxi dress. Maxi dresses are easily dressed up or down, and while sitting on a plane, feels amazingly like a soft blanket :)  I added a sock bun and my favorite elephant earrings, a few bangles and a brown beaded necklace (which has probably seen better times) to complete the look.

Hope you check back for the rest of my June Remix :)

Petite Fashion Challenge #16: Summer Wedding

Summer Wedding--Create an outfit for a summer wedding (the dress code is up to you). For bonus points (and this is what I'll be doing!) try to make your whole outfit, head to toe, come in under $100! (Or, exclude shoes and accessories to meet the $100 mark.)
Hosted by: Petite on a Penny

I event plan on the side, so when I saw the this Petite Fashion Challenge come out, I knew it'd be the perfect one for me to start on.  I'm also at the age where all my friends are getting married, so finding a unique outfit that comes under $100 for the events is a must.

For my high school friends' wedding.. CONGRATS, CHRISY & IRWIN!!... I had to find something functional and comfortable.  It had to be something I could set up and break down the wedding in, yet still look like a presentable guest.  With some effort and thought, I came up with this little number.

 

I like to think I'm an in-between petite, a little on the 'taller' side at 5'2", maybe I just have a longer bottom half?  After 28 years, I'm still trying to get to know my proportions, so bear with me.  This H&M dress would definitely fall at a nice length for shorter ladies, but I suppose that depends where you like the hem to fall, too.  I'd like for this dress to do double duty, but with the length just a tad bit short for the workplace, I'll just have to keep it for fancy occasions.

Dress: $23 H&M, bought with 35% off coupon (orig is $34.95)
Shoes: $20 Nine West via Nordstrom Rack
Clutch: $12 H&M (old)
Belt/Scarf: $5 Forever 21 (old)
Necklace: $8 Forever 21
Bracelets: $20 O.co, bought with 7% off coupon, $14 Asos, other one is gifted
Grand Total = $102

Ah! $2 over!! Well, if I only wore 2 of the 3 O.co bracelets, do I get to prorate the price? If I do then, I'm really at $96.  The challenge for me was keeping my accessories under, so I had to keep changing them.  It was difficult coming up with pieces that complemented the outfit, and didn't get lost or forgotten.  I also lucked out that I used coupons to buy some of these items, otherwise, I'd be way over budget.

I had a great time doing this challenge! Thank you, Lauren!!

See the rest of the stylish Petite Fashion Challenge entries over at Petite on a Penny:

Thanks for reading!!

<3 roe [a roesy life]

tee it up

Good morning, readers!

We've got a special treat for you today.  The lovely and stylish anhie from yoohooanhieboo has been so kind as to guest blog for us today.  I may be a little biased but anhie is the most thoughtful and stylish person I know.  I've known her for about 10 years now, and I'm glad she approached this lonely, pig-tailed, little, college freshman one day, while I was sitting on the quad wall.  I've learned so much from her about make up, style, shopping, but most importantly friendship.

Check out more of anhie on her blog.  I hope you all enjoy her white tee remix.

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the best part about a simple white tee is that you can dress it up or down! :) i paired mine with a sparkly H&M skirt and a denim shirt to turn this into more of an everyday outfit. :) add a little skull necklace and red lips for some fierceness, and voila! that's my rendition of the white tee! i'll admit, there's nothing i love more than throwing on a white v neck on the weekend with some jeans and calling it a day, but sometimes you just gotta bedazzle yourself a little bit right?? :D

thanks so much FLAN ladies for letting me be a guest blogger! hope i get the opportunity to do this again soon!!!

here's my strawberry remix!!!

keep up the good work FLAN! i love reading the blog!! <3

xoxo anhie

28 & growing

Good morning, readers!

First, I'd like to thank everyone who sent birthday wishes my way via twitter, fb, text, etc.  I'm so honored to be so loved!  Thought I'd share some snippets of a wonderful birthday celebration!

*Warning, picture heavy

never too old for balloons!

My sisters and me (missing the two older bros) lined up in age order from youngest to oldest

"Cheers to your face!!"

There was a pizza making party! (look at Taiko trying to catch some floor action)

my outfit for my actual birthday //blouse: j.crew // skirt: H&M // Shoes: Sam Edelman via Nordstrom Rack // Belt: from a F21 dress // clutch: ann taylor // necklace: F21 // arm candy: Kate Spade, Asos, Things Remembered, gifted

and can't wait to fly to NYC tomorrow evening!

Thank you so much for stopping by and reading!!

<3 roe

Readers: any suggestions or 'musts' while I'm in New York?

rolling with turkey meatloaf

Always on the go, I like cooking things that are fast and easy. When I know I will be having a busy week, I like to cook this turkey meatloaf because it'll feed me for several days. I did a little tweaking and added several veggies into this recipe. The original recipe can be found here.  I've also made this recipe with ground chicken before which was pretty good. You don't have to bake it in a muffin pan but I like putting my muffin pans to use. :)

Ingredients:

2 lbs ground turkey (or ground chicken)

3 egg whites

1/2 cup cooking oats

1/2 tsp ground cumin

1/2 tsp dried thyme

2 tsp yellow mustard

2 tsp pepper

2 tsp cayenne pepper

1 tsp salt

2 tbsp garlic powder

1 small onion

2 celery stalks

half medium size red pepper and orange pepper chopped

1/2 cup of shredded carrots chopped

Preheat oven to 375˚ F. Spray the muffin pans with canola or olive oil. Mix all seasoning and oats together in a large bowl and stir with a spoon. In another large bowl, add the veggies to the ground turkey and mix with your hands. After the veggies are fully mixed with the ground turkey, slowly add the seasoning and mix by hand. Next, roll the mixture into balls and place in the muffin pan. Bake for 40 minutes. Makes about 24 rolls.

turkey meatloaf rolls with steam veggies.

I hope you enjoy them! :)

<3, phu