Can I get a heck yeah?

I won! I am a winner! Winner winner, chicken dinner, baby!!!!
Recently, April at Funky Vintage Lovely was giving away a $25 giftcard for Bonhomie Jewelry. And you're looking at the winner! I am pretty sure I want the 'sweetheart charm', but I need to look at all her stuff again.  Because I like a lot of the custom charm necklaces.  Decisions, decisions!!!!  I am also pretty certain I want a necklace from Funky Vintage Lovely.  I just need to decide -- a flower (grey mum? turquoise peony?) or a LaLaLovely necklace. Hrm.....




Today I had my style consult with, ahem, my stylist. Ok. So she's not mine. But she was mine for 90 minutes.  And I will certainly use her again!  She was won-der-ful. And very, very insightful.  With my permission, she purged the pieces that needed to go. And then she put together some outfits for me, honing in on spring/summer tops and how to layer them for this weather and also pieces I wasn't sure what to do with.  I now feel more confident about my wardrobe and I also feel like its much more versatile. I am so happy I did this!!!  Now I just need to replace a few things...nothing too pricey, thankfully.  Just some capris mostly and a pair of khakis.  And of course, there's the yearly replacement of the white tees and some of the ribbed tanks. Its all good.

Thoughts?

I am a natural blonde. Natural in the sense that when I was younger, my hair was a gorgeous shade of blonde. 

 {don't be jealous. you know you lurve the prairie style outfit, the orange shag... all of it.  70's man. 70's.}

And then somewhere, around age 18-20, it started turning an ugly dishwater color and I had to chemically enhance it to keep it looking its natural blonde.

I've swayed off course a few times.

I've been a light-auburnish

I've been caramel-y

A deeper shade of brown

and even darker...

And now I am blonde. And I've been blonde for awhile.

{i miss my long hair}

{my friends are fabulous}

I am thinking of going dark again. A bit of a change before my hair grows a tad longer. 

Thoughts?  Opinions?

Where do I go for inspiration?

Its funny. I was perusing the crafty blog-iverse and was hoping to come on some new and exciting ideas. One blog I read is The Stories of A to Z. I found this recent post...A small sampling of where she goes for inspiration. Low and behold...aside from 2 or 3 blogs, there was nothing new there to me. It appears everyone visits the same crafty blogs! Not that its a problem, but I'd like to see new faces, too!!! I am a big fan of a lot of what I see out there, but living where I do, in the type of home I live in, I am not a fan of the beachy stuff or stuff that is just too southern-y, ruffley, or burlapy (nothing warm and cozy about that!). So there ya go!