Pin-spired #4: Wide Leg Jeans

It's my final look of my Pin-spired series and I think I saved the best for last. I've seen a ton of posts with wide leg or flare jeans lately and I want them all! One of my favorite people's style is Kelly Ripa. She's short (like me!) but always pulls off her looks seamlessly. I would take her wardrobe in a second. When I pinned this photo of her, I knew I wanted to recreate it.

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Wide leg jeans, colored top, blazer and some sort of wedge or platform shoes. Well I certainly have all of that in my closet! I decided to leave off the scarf because it was too warm so I threw on a fun necklace instead. The photo below looks much nicer than the ones I normally get my kids to take and that is because I had a lighting, a white background and a person who's taken a few more photos with a real camera than my girls. We had picture day at work for our new website so I chose this outfit for my full body shot. Yes they made us do full body shot photos for the site. 

Blazer: Kohls     T-shirt: Old Navy    Necklace: Noonday     Jeans: Gap     Wedges: Old Navy

First of all, I love this outfit. I will wear it again and again! Second, these jeans came from the Gap outlet and were on the clearance rack during a super clear out sale so I got them for $7.40! Yes you read that right, an AMAZING pair of jeans for under $8!! My only complaint is that they are high rise and I'm not used to wearing that style but they are quite slimming :) Here's the side-by-side comparison ...

So what do you think? Are you a wide leg jean fan for fall? 

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Pin-spired kick-off
Pin-spired: Black & White
Pin-spired: Casual with a Twist
Pin-spired: In the Navy

Pin-spired #3: In The Navy

I got a navy cardigan from work and I just haven't worn it as much as I thought I would. So I went searching for inspiration. I never even considered wearing my navy with other shades of blue! Here's the inspiration look.

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I wanted to wear this look during the week to work so I knew I couldn't wear jeans, but I do have purple pants. That's in the blue family right? Also, I knew I would be wearing my mint scarf with this outfit. Here's what I came up with ...

Cardigan: Private label from work     Tank: Marshalls     Scarf: Gift     Pants: Target     Bag: Charming Charlie

I sort of regret wearing the purple pants. I think my khaki capris would've looked better but I did like the mixing of mint scarf and navy cardigan. I'd wear the top half of this outfit again but would choose jeans or khakis next time. Here's the side-by-side comparison

So do you mix your blues? What do you think of this look?

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Pin-spired kick-off
Pin-spired: Black & White
Pin-spired: Casual with a Twist

Meal Plan Week #34

We're keeping things pretty easy this week. I think we are finally starting to develop an evening routine with homework and dinner and house cleaning. And meal planning is a huge part of that! Of course I'm deciding to complicate this by signing up the girls for swim lessons again starting in a couple weeks. 

MONDAY: Baked Potatoes
I got a 10lb bag of potatoes for $0.99 so I figured this was a perfect way to use up a couple!

TUESDAY: Daddy's Choice
I'm doing wine night with the girls from work so dinner is on Daddy tonight :) Yeah wine!

WEDNESDAY: Breakfast for Dinner
I love a good brinner :)

THURSDAY: Hot Dogs & Sausages with Fruit Salad 

FRIDAY: Order Pizza!
It's sleepover night since we are having our niece and nephew over for the night. Everybody likes pizza, right? 

What's for dinner at your house this week?