Here is your outfit post for the week. So it's kinda a bitter sweet outfit post because 1. I don't get a lot of time to take pictures of myself and post them and 2. I start school on Monday which means I really wont have time to post outfit. But I'm going to give it my all to keep you guys informed on my outfits. Guess you  might get scrubs every once in awhile.

Here is my outfit, I'm wearing black jeggings which yes I do realize it's going to be 11 degrees today(yes i did say 11 degrees) but who care. I'm going to be indoor tonight and eating homemade Vietnamese food! Oh did you also notice that I'm wearing my new shoes i purchased at Nordstrom. I love them! They are perfect for the reason i purchased them, but not perfect for the snow i was standing on. They have absolutely no tread on them at all. Good thing i have a loving husband to hold my hand and make sure i don't fall.

OK everyone knows that after Christmas there are great deals, and hopefully everyone has read about New Years resolution and knows those two don't go together. But thankfully New Years resolutions don't take effect until New Years day!

2 days ago there was a cute little girl wearing a Triumph Motorcycle shirt. Well I asked her mom where she got that cute shirt. In the long run I found out that it was from the Lucky store and that they were having 40% off there sale items.

So I went and ventured off to the Lucky store down at the Gateway yesterday thinking I'd go buy a shirt for my hubby. I got down there and they didn't have any shirts his size (which always happens) so i wandered off to the women's section. Which my brain was telling me to put myself in park and reverse my steps right out the door. Of coarse i didn't listen because hello 40% of sale items! Well I found 2 great things! I found a denim jacket that is originally $100 and only cost me $18. Then I found my Triumph shirt for $11 which originally cost $50.

Yippee new clothes...for the last time in 2 months. I surely enjoyed it!

Happy New Years Eve!!

Nikki

OK today's How To post I thought was perfect for right after Christmas! I usually go through my closets right after Christmas to make room for my new clothes.

Here is a great link to Kendi Everyday with steps to help you decided what to keep and what to throw. I am finding it really helpful in my messy closets.

Kendi Everyday: Create a Working Closet, Part 1: Purge

Thanks Kendi!

Let me know how your purging goes!

Nikki

Wow Jeff and I had a great Christmas, we got completely spoiled by each other and our parents! I can't believe Christmas is already over I swear it was just yesterday that I was thinking dang I have a lot of things to look forward to in 2010. Guess now I can say man a lot of stuff happened in 2010 that was totally awesome!! Here is my list of totally awesome things that happened to Jeff &am I in 2010!

1. We celebrated our 4 year anniversary by staying with my aunt in San Diego! She took us to the zoo, La Jolla to go kayaking, and had the best time eating at all her favorite restaurants. Oh man I got the worst sunburn ever at the beach! We also went and visited my grandparents and had AMAZING Vietnamese cooking by Grandma! YUMM


2. I turned freakin 25 years old! I can't believe I turned a quarter of a century old. I do have to mention even though I still look like I'm 18 this was the hardest birthday for me to celebrate. Sorry no birthday picture I was busy working on #4. LOL
4. I finished my first year of nursing school and passed my LPN boards and got a promotion at work (lets not forget about the great pay increase that came along with that)

5. We had a fun little adventure and rode the train from SLC to San Fran. with Jeff's parents. It was definitely an experience I will never forget.


7. I found out that I was going to be starting my RN completion program in Jan and graduate in August! Oh my goodness I can't tell you what a relief it is to actually have a graduation date!

I think that's about it! I'm sure there are plenty of other great things that happened in 2010 that's not coming to mind but why would I want to make this post any longer. I hope that more great things come in 2011, guess time will tell!

Have a great New Years

Nikki

Nikki

I know I've been a slacker with showing you my skirts I made last week. Oops...I guess. It's Christmas time and wow everyone knows how crazy it can get. But today I finally have some pictures of the skirts I made. Now they still need to be hemmed, but one is complete and I wore the other day. Pictures here they come....

While I was out with my mother-in-law shopping I bought some clothes for myself. I got home and my husband just pulled the 'Do you realize how many clothing pieces you have bought in the past could of weeks? Half of them you haven't even worn yet..' Well honestly I hadn't noticed how many pieces I'd bought. I know I have a lot of clothes but it didn't really register in my head, I mean I have 4 closets full to be exact! With those 4 closets full I should be able to find an outfit without any problem. So from there I CAME UP WITH MY NEW YEARS RESOLUTION!!

My New Years Resolution will be to not buy more than 1 clothing piece every 2 months, with exception of my birthday and to truly enjoy the clothes I have.

HOLY COW this will be tough, don't get me wrong! I'm hoping that from this experience I will be able to see the clothing I have in a new creative way and also will be able to learn to save money better. I'm actually extremely nervous about this goal. I've never been more serious about a New Year resolution before, it's kind of exciting.

Let me know what your New Years resolution for 2011 is? And tell me why you chose it?


Nikki

OK I'm going to be completely honest here, I am not a huge fan of skirts! Actually I really despise wearing skirts. That never happened until I got married and started wearing new 'attire' (we'll just leave it at that). I guess I just have a hard time finding skirts that are long enough, that don't stick to my 'attire', and that I don't have to wear fifteen layers underneath. I miss the days where I could just pick a skirt out and not have to worry about the static and any thing sticking out or showing. So I came up some simple(I thought) solutions to this predicament.
       
           Solution #1
                   Buy every knee length skirt I found that I actually liked.
           Problem with solution #1
                  Ok bad solution! First off you can't find enough knee length skirts let alone them being super cute, so this solution led to a closet full of skirts that I ended up not really liking when it came down to actually wear them.
           
           Solution #2
                  Just deal with it and wear 4 layers. Layer 1=attire, layer 2=tights, layer 3=slip, and layer 4=actual skirt.
           Problem with solution #2
                  Man that got old and occasionally extremely warm. Oh not to mention I felt like a snowman with so many layers.

             Solution #3
                  Make my own skirt. I never would have thought I could actually do this by myself, so I enlisted my best friend Angelee to help me out. PS Angelee has her bachelors degree in costume design! OK I know it's not rocket science but why not have the best of the best to help me out...right?

Hubby and I had a fun little Saturday! We went to dinner with my family and some of my cousins and then went and saw the Ogden city Christmas lights. I had never been to those lights before although my mom said I had when I was younger but I don't remember. For dinner we went to Mcgraths Fish House, that was another first for me that night. I had a freakin way good salad with pasta and salmon on it. Wow let me just say one of the best salads I have ever had, I'm craving it right now as I type this! Jeff had the GF Alder Plank Salmon, it looked pretty good but not as good as mine! I forgot to plug in my camera so it was dead but I'm glad my mom brought hers. Here are some picture from the night.

Nikki

I was so excited to try out this new shirt I got in the mail the other day, I just love the bows and the shear fabric. One of my pet peeves is that I have a hard time wearing black and brown together. I think that's just because I grew up that way. I grew up learning you can't put black and brown together, black and blue together and can't mix fabric or patterns. So I'm trying to break those rules, slowly I'll over come the little voice in my head that says 'umm no no no I don't think so'. I think I just have to train my brain to see black as just another color and not as a 'base' color(does that even make sense?). Well in a small(and I mean VERY VERY small) way this outfit breaks one of my rules.

Anyway I'm up way earlier than I usually am because I had a meeting for work. Meeting was good found out that a one of my coworkers is pregnant, one of my coworkers daughters got Sterling Scholar, and that I won an award that came along with $50 in my next paycheck!! Can I get a woot woot! Totally made my morning especially since my hair wasn't liking me, my skin was being itchy, and I couldn't figure out what to wear. Thanks Marty for the nomination!

I have to say HAPPY BIRTHDAY to my sister-in-law Holly, her birthday is Sunday and she's just one of the greatest people i know. I probably don't tell her enough but she ALWAYS looks amazing in everything she wears. She has one of the best fashion sense out there! Love you Holly and hope you get your 'list' lol !

Have a great Friday and a great weekend!!

Nikki

alright all you fashionistas i need your help, tomorrow i have my brother in laws graduation. what do you wear? do i wear a dress, not a fancy one but like a sweater dress. do i wear slacks with a cardi? do i wear just jeans? im not down with the jeans so dont say that lol 

Well yesterday i pulled out my camera and took some pictures of my cousins for their Christmas card. Too bad the lighting was HORRIBLE and almost non-existent so i did what i could without my external flash(which decided to break on me!) I hope they don't hate them too much, i did offer to retake them! Oh well enjoy them!

Nikki