WHAT I WORE YESTERDAY

I wanted to show you how I styled this shirt.

I love my Pimkie Leopard flats...

Sorry for the crappy quality of pictures. -.-

When I get back to the States hopefully I can get someone else to take the pictures! haha

Shirt: Union Bay

Pants: American Eagle

Belt & Earrings: JW

Shoes: Pimkie (French brand... popular in Europe, I got these in Germany. I know there's a USA website.)

THE EMBELLISHED T-SHIRT

I have gone through many phases of what style shirt I prefer. I can't stand living in dresses/skirts, so I love to wear a cute top and jeans. My hubby's thinks a t-shirt and jeans are really next-door-girl-sexy-cute (like the pix below), so at least we agree that I don't have to dress up all the time!

I did my hair today...

and here's the basic t-shirt.

so, this is just a close up, but it was from last night...

I do, however, get bored with plain t-shirts, so I've found the perfect solution!

EMBELLISHED SHIRTS ARE A GREAT WAY TO KEEP THINGS CASUAL, BUT STILL BREAK UP THE MONOTONY

ALL THESE SHIRTS KEEP A BASIC SILLOHUETTE, BUT EACH HAS SOMETHING THAT GIVES IT A LITTLE POLISH.

I don't like to wear jewelry/scarves alot, so when I saw this, I fell in love:

Another way to embellish is RUFFLES.

I LOVE RUFFLES! hahaa

This is the back, I love the little keyhole detail...

A close-up (taken last night, hence the icky look of hair and face haha)

A cute date night ensemble! I love how easy it is to style...

And a well placed bit of trim can do wonders for a basic scoop-neck like this...

(sorry for the tag...oops!)

The white brings the eyes up to the face and gives this navy blue shirt a slight nautical feel :)

especially with the two buttons on the bottom! ^

You can dress all these shirts up or down with jeans, skirts, cardigans, vests, necklaces, or pins! Above all, I love the versatility of each item!

Black scarf shirt: Union Bay

All the other shirts: JW, military brand

Skirt: Forever 21

Necklace: JW, military brand

General Update

So the last time I wrote I was still sick. I haven't been writing/doing anything interesting because of 2 things; I was recovering from sickness, and, my hubbby has been in Graffenwohr, GE for training and came home for a "spring break" for 4 days. I was going to do a post about my favorite style of shirts, but Im so irritated right now with everything, especially how my pictures turned out, I decided I'd wait til tomorrow. Then I'll really dress up and I wont have a forced smile on my face.

So, tomorrow I will post about embellished t-shirts. I freakin love t-shirts!!

sorry things have seen uninteresting right now.

New Makeup!!

I just wanted to share my new makeup with everyone! I wanted to do a tutorial, but I'm really sick right now and have hardly any voice right now. :(

I will do that asap!

HERE IS MY FRESHLY SCRUBBED FACE/TWEEZED EYEBROWS:

AND HERE IS ME WITH MY NEWLY ACQUIRED MAKEUP ON!

I have experimented with a lot of different brands of makeup. There isn't any particular brand that I love more than the other, I just love specific products from certain brands.

LIQUID FOUNDATION: Wet'N'Wild Ultimate MAtch SPF 15 Foundation in Ivory

POWDER: Maybeline New York Shine Free Loose powder in Translucent

BLUSH: Maybeline New York Expertwear Blush in Dusty Rose [it goes on very sheer so I use it as a "bronzer"]

Cover Girl Cheekers Blush in Natural Rose

EYESHADOW: Rimmel London Colour Rush Eyeshadow quad in Urban Flower [it consists of a shimmery green, and dark and medium browns and a light champagne pink. I only used the medium brown and champagne colors]

EYELINER: NYC automatic Lip Pencil in Bare Brown [oops! I thought it was an eyeliner the whole time! hahaha]

MASCARA: [b] basic in Brown [European brand]

Because I have heavy lids, I like to keep my eyeshadow light/shimmery. I like a medium color all over the lid, with a lighter color on the brow bone, and have dark lashes with a dark eyeliner. I think this works better with ladies who have deep set eyes. I will post more on that later, when I'm better. :)

GLASSES

I love seeing girls trying on their boyfriend's or hubby's glasses! They look so cute and geek chic.

Unfortunately, my husband's glasses don't look as nice as Keiko Lynns' boyfriend's.

Anyway, I thought I would try Derrick's BCGs on. [military reference - "birth control glasses" ]

seen here:

Normally I wear contacts, but I wanted to show off my new glasses. :)

Burg Rheinstein

Burg Rheinstein is a castle right on the edge of the Rhine river, an hour northwest of Baumholder, Germany. This was the second castle we have ever visited and won't be our last. Before we move, we are going ona 10 day road trip around Germany/Luxembourg/Belgium/France areas. This might seem like a lot of countries in only 10 days, but really its only a few hours drive to each of them. Lucky us.

I also wanted to say why I've chosen a German title for this blog. My great grandma wa German(so, therefore my Grandma was German, but she knew very little German, had no accent, etc,), and Derricks Grandma is German. So we naturally love pretty much all things German (except the food, I don't like the food lol)

Anyway, I thought I'd show you some pictures of the castle :)

First post, A Little About Me

Hola! My name is Michelle. I'm 22 and have been married almost three years, to the most wonderful man, Derrick. I am currently sick right now, and I really want to clean my house (which is pretty unusual), but I am too weak to do so. Hahaha... So here I am. I've been thinking of setting up a blog for a while now, and decided to do so today instead of watching t.v. Even after taking four Excedrin extra strengths my head still hurts a litle, so forgive my non-creative writing.
I don't have any particular schedule idea for my posts (i.e. Monday-Thursdays are for fashion blogs, Fridays for home decorating, etc.), because I'm in the middle of getting ready to ETS (End Term of Service) and move back to the States. My hubby's in the Army, and we were stationed in a shitty little town called Baumholder, Germany. We are going back to our home town Tucson, Az in a couple months. I'll be leaving at the beginning of June with our cat, Bandit, to find us a house. Derrick will come back with our dogs, Persius and Diamynd, at the end of June.
I would like to introduce you to my hubby and I:




Our darling pets:

Diamynd



Persius



Bandit