What does it take to be (and stay) #1?

This was our theme song for most of the weekend. Gare and Santino came down Friday and got in relatively early. We went to Gare's traditional Friday night dinner at La Caretta and after dinner we all were pooped, so it was back home for us. Saturday we headed to campus about 10:30 and tailgated and whatnot until game time.  We had a good time at the game and LSU played extremely well. I really liked my outfit for the game because I felt it resembled the uniforms the team wore. I got lots of compliments, so that is always nice! I accomplished nothing yesterday so I'm just going to post some of the random pictures from the weekend.

Fridays outfit:

Jeans: Levi's
Shoes: Steve Madden
Jacket: Express
Scarf: Charlotte Russe


Saturday's Outfit:


Jeans: Marc Jacobs
Top: Random brand, found at TJ Maxx over the summer
Boots: Steve Madden

 Jackson doing his best Blue Dog impression

(un)Fashionable Friday!

Well, I'm in my typical Friday attire. Jeans and an LSU polo.... gotta love uber casual Fridays. So my outfit is nothing to get excited about. This weekend, I'll snap some pics of my outfits for going out/ the game. Thankfully (and thanks to Amy's suggestion) Jax is contributing to the outfit shots for today. 


My outfit:
Jeans: Banana Republic
Boots: Overstock
Top: College of Science (lol)
Jacket: LSU Football


Super creative today, huh?

 Jax's Outfit:
Sweater: Cream & Fall colors, PetCo

 His full-length "blog" pose...

Trying not to panic....

So my Tuesday is off to a somewhat stressful start; Jackson had a seed (type-thing) in his eye this morning that I was able to get out of his eye, thankfully, but not before it had irritated the eye and caused the bottom of his eye to swell. He was holding his eye shut even after I got the thing out, and began to open the eye a little before I left, so I'm hoping by the time I get home, everything will be back to normal. If it is even just the slightest bit not normal, I will be taking him to the vet this afternoon. My poor baby dog. 
So I leave the house worried about him (and running a tad late) and Perkins is a mess. Worse than usual. Turns out they are talking about it on the radio and I-10 East had been shut down and they were diverting traffic onto Seigen, which meant the easiest way to continue East was Perkins! People were everywhere, blocking lanes, the intersection at Seigen etc... A nightmare!
So I finally arrived at work and I'm darn near exhausted!! I just hope the day moves by quickly so I can deal with Jax when I get home. :)


Today I'm wearing:


Dress: AB Studio, JC Penny, $24 ( and the best thing? It's big! This used to be very form fitting!! Notice the picture below)
Bracelets: Forever 21 $5
Watch: MK
Earrings: Forever 21, came in a set of 3 for $4
Shoes: Franco Sarto, from TJ Maxx $35 (Amazing soft deep purple leather!)

 I've got about an inch of room on both sides! :)

 LOVE!

The Terrible Twos(-days)....

Hahaha! Get it? Terrible Tuesdays? Not that today is particularly terrible, it's just the day that I think makes the week feel the longest. I usually have catching-up to do of some sort on Mondays, so they seem to move by fairly quickly. Wednesdays signal the downward slope of the rest of the week, Thursday the weekend plans start rounding out, giving me things to look forward to and Fridays are, well, Fridays! Poor Tuesday is just that day kinda crammed in there. Seems like at my job Tuesdays are fairly slow, too. It's almost like no one wants to get anything done on Tuesdays! (Or maybe that's just me....) Not to mention the fact that today is always the hardest for me in terms of getting up in the morning. It's almost like Tuesday is when sleeping in on the weekend finally catches up to me. 
Regardless, I did my best to wear something cute to keep me going today... again, I laid this outfit out without trying it on.... had I not been running so late (Jackson's fault... he wanted so bad to play this morning so I had to indulge him a little) I probably would have changed this up a little, but time did not permit so I just went with it. What I'm not sure about.... 1. this skirt is very much an A-line skirt, which I'm thinking does not look quite right with this jacket because when combined with 2. the jacket's peplum hem, I'm thinking the ensemble may not be all that flattering. Regardless, I'm going with it for now and will make a mental note that the next time I wear this jacket, it needs to be with pants. I do really like this Banana Republic shirt that I picked up at the outlet. It's got a really nice sheen to it and I love the color. 

Skirt: Random store in Athens, TX  $9
Shirt: Banana Factory Store, $12
Jacket: NY & Co, Clearance, $20
Shoes: Max Studio
Necklace & Earrings Set: Love Culture, $10
Bracelets: Loft, Clearance $5
Watch: Croton

 It looks like I changed shirts! The Close-up of the necklace shot is more accurate as to the actual color of the shirt.

Ready for a long post? :)

So, I'm going to encompass my weekend along with my Monday post for the sake of efficiency. This weekend was the Kentucky game, which was at 11:20. I can't remember the last time we played that early and I hope we don't again any time soon! I did not anticipate traffic flow correctly and Amanda and I ended up parking at 11:05. Oops! We dressed casual for the game and the weather started very fall-like in the morning but warmed up quickly (hence my mistake wearing suede boots!!!) Oh well, what can you do?

 Can you see my cute Tiger-stripe cuff?

 Kickoff!

I ran errands Saturday afternoon, which was a nice change from the usual entire Saturday being taken up by football! Sunday, I took Jackson to the park I've mentioned before. What a nice place!! I was very pleasantly surprised and Jackson had a great time! Lots of walking paths and a small dog park. I'm really happy we went and we'll try to go as often as we can now. 

 Jackson and "Sprinkles" (no kidding) his new Schnauzer friend... notice J is doing his patented "leg kick"

 And this is J when we got back while I was doing laundry.....

 And J when I was putting the laundry away....

The rest of Sunday was spent napping and doing chores around the house. I got the pictures on the shoe boxes I missed during the big project and got a bunch of laundry done and put away. I also finally did some "craft-work" on a jacket I bought in August at Love Culture in the mall. It had an ugly fake hoodie sewn into the collar and I decided it would look much better without the hood... Red is so big for the fall and I like the look of a clean jacket and for 30 bucks, I wasn't going to let a stupid hood stand in my way!
With the stupid hoodie.... 

 And without... so much better :)

I'm loving that it is finally getting a little cooler so I can start wearing more jackets at work. Didn't plan one for today but will have at least 2 outfits this week with jackets I haven't worn yet. I decided to go for comfort on this Monday-day. This dress is comfy and cute! It looks like a crazy busy pattern in the first pictures, but you can see it's not all that loud in the closer-up picture. I have these earrings that ended up being perfect for this dress. Have had them for a while now and this is the first time I've worn them.

Dress: Bobbie Bee (???) From JC Penny...9.99 on sale
Earrings: Can't remember
Watch: MK
Shoes: Nine West

The Shoe-ventures of Allie

Wow! I really underestimated my shoe collection and the process of cataloging my shoes. I originally thought the project would be fun, and while I did enjoy looking at each pair individually, it was soooo time consuming! The project literally took 2 days. Here's what I did...


Step 1: Pull out each stack of shoes in the closet
Step 2: Take the left shoe out of each box
Step 3: Take an individual photo of each shoe (somehow I missed 2 pair, go figure)
Step 4: Put each shoe back in box and re-stack
Step 5: Take memory card to Walgreens to get photos developed
Step 6: Pick up photos
Step 7: Sort photos (major help that I kept the boxes in stacks)
Step 8: Trim photos to fit boxes (didn't anticipate this step, added significant time)
Step 9: Tape each photo to box
Step 10: Stand back and admire my work
Step 11: Re-organize the shoes by type of shoe
Step 12: Put new stacks back in closet


This was a huge project. I am so happy I did it though, because even though I knew exactly what shoes were in each box, it is amazing the difference it makes when you have a visual of the shoe and can simply skim for what you are looking for when you're working with an outfit plan.


And the confession of this post is this..... 171 pairs. That does not include flip flops, tennis shoes or boots. I got rid of 6 pair (not included in the 171 total) and pulled about 6 pair that need to go to the cobbler to get 1/2 soles to preserve their lives. Now you see why this took so long!!

 The stacks and stacks......

 Jackson getting in on the shoe-venture....

With pictures attached.....