White Day, White Night, White Out.

When I first read the "homework assignment" for this week, I groaned inwardly.  I whined to the computer screen, "But I haven't got my sunkissed glow yyyeeeeeeeeeeeeeetttttttttt."  With that preface, I suggest you grab some shades before viewing my pictures.  They may be cornea searing ;)

 I recently read an article by a fellow blogger, in which she expressed her feelings about reading fashion blogs.  In one comment, a blogger specifically mentioned the "Bloggers Do It Better" series, claiming that such initiatives were the cause of blogs without original content; there were also other comments (I feel rather cynical and unfriendly) criticizing this thing called "community."  I'm new to blogging, and this is actually the first challenge I have participated in.  I took that comment about this as a challenge (another commenter mentioned changing our outlook or how we percieve things.)  I thought, I want to participate in this.  Not because I can't come up with my own original content.  Not because I need more traffic, more followers. In fact, I have to admit to that ever-so-slight twinge of envy that I hadn't thought of it first, lol!  Feeling challenged  by this article and some of its commenters, I thought about what I could do with this post to make it dinstinctive, to make it my own.  Yes, I'm wearing white (and hoping that my skin tone doesn't count, lol!)  When I thought of this outfit, there were so many choices between shoes, handbags, belts.....the options were limitless!  I narrowed it down to two, meant to take this outfit from day to evening with the simple change of shoes and handbag (and maybe a bit more eye makeup for added drama.)  The first two pictures above are what I might wear to the store, running errands, etc.  Down below (I know, the obviously bright and sunny afternoon pictures may confuse you as these are the "evening" outfits, but hey, my husband's not a real photographer, and I'm not a genious with photoshop, so......):

{pants, top, cardi, belt JCrew shoes Candies/Daisy Fuentes hanbag Gianni Bernini/F21}

Wow.  I didn't realize my entire outfit was from JCrew until I just listed it!  Is that good or bad?

One other complaint point that was made in that article - no one wants to see 20 pictures of me in one post.  If you don't want to see any more pictures, I suggest you stop here.  The photos below are just two that I actually really liked, but don't really feel are helpful in highlighting my outfit/style.

I liked this one - it seemed to capture the sense of daytime casual.  If I were to photoship this, I would remove the fan blades seemingly coming out of my head (though I could claim it was a really cool hat inspired by the Royal Wedding last week!)  I should also have remembered to close the armoire :)

I loved the way the clutch was reflected off my countertops!  I took this shot and for one tiny moment, I knew this must be what it feels like when real photographers get a really cool shot!