Pattern Perfect

Anthropologie has been hitting it out of the park lately with the patterns on their skirts! This "Getaway" printed skirt is one of several skirts I bought there this summer. In fact, I bought it at the same time that I purchased my sunbather skirt, which I featured a few days ago on my blog. If you look closely at this skirt, the pattern is a myriad of houses and buildings accented in red with just a touch of blue. As I was looking up the skirt online in order to write this post, I noticed that it also comes in several whimsical prints and now I have my eye on the zebra and fish versions of it! Maybe if they go on sale I'll get one...or maybe even two?

In case you were wondering where these pictures were taken, I'm standing on the bridge where my husband and I were married a number years ago. In fact, we just celebrated our anniversary this month! Although these pictures were taken a couple of weeks before our anniversary, we did have a very special dinner at the restaurant at the hotel here. (I guess it was sort of a pre-anniversary celebration!) We had another lovely dinner on the actual day of our anniversary, so as you can see we've been eating well this summer! Luckily, this skirt has an elastic band so you don't have to worry about indulging in a little extra risotto or dessert!

Skirt: Anthropologie "Getaway" printed skirt here
Shirt: Target here
Shoes: J. Crew similar yellow pumps
Bag: Clare V. Petite Alistair here and here
Earrings: J. Crew similar red earrings here
Sunglasses: Prada "Baroque" here

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Llama Love

One of my most popular posts from this summer featured a llama T-shirt. This just proved the point I was trying to make in the post, which was that llamas would be the hot animal for the year! (Llamas, they're so hot right now!) Well, I am back at it again with another llama themed article of clothing! This time, it's in the form of a llama sweater from J. Crew Factory. I actually happened upon this sweater by accident when I went in to the store to return something. On that weekend, the promo was offering all "Tippi" sweaters for $29.55. This was the last llama sweater left on the shelf and I fell in love with it! (I mean, it's a llama wearing a scarf!). Plus, it was my size, so I knew it was meant to be!

In this post, I am also wearing some of my Christmas presents for this year! Yes, I realize that it's not yet Christmas, but I got them early! The first early gift is this Mansur Gavriel circle bag. I really, really wanted a light pink bag, so this one is perfect! I also really, really wanted a pair of light pink sunglasses, which are surprisingly hard to find for some reason, so that's why I was delighted to find these pink ones from Alice and Olivia! As you can see, Santa's been really good to me already this Christmas!

One last note: these pictures were taken about 10-15 minutes before the huge gusts of the Santa Ana winds suddenly rose up last week in Los Angeles! Even before the winds truly commenced, it was hard to get good shots because it was starting to get rather gusty. This is why I'm holding my hair in most of the pictures! If we had shot the pictures any later, I think both my husband I would have been blown away! Luckily, we did not have any damage from the winds and, more importantly, none of the wild fires are too close, so there's a lot to be thankful for during this holiday season!

Sweater: J. Crew Factory Alpaca Tippi sweater
Skirt: J. Crew similar pleated skirt
Bag: Mansur Gavriel circle bag here
Shoes: Christian Louboutin
Sunglasses: Alice and Olivia "Frank" here