Art in the Park with Momma

Today, my momma and I drove ALL the way out to Boulder City, a small little town right around the Hoover Dam, to attend the Art In The Park festival. Art In The Park is a yearly event where artisans and artists and hobbyists alike set up booths to display and sell their creations. There, you'll find everything from potpourri and scented salts to great Christmas ornaments and hand made fashions. My mom and I love crafty types of nick nack things, so we loved it!!! These types of things also always have really good food, so of course we indulged.

Here you can see that we ate a whole plate of deep fried potatoes that were so good and so oily and so unhealthy but no cares were given on this day. Aren't we twins?! I love my mom, she's my best friend and I had such a lovely day with her. 

We passed by one of the booths and a piece of artwork really caught my eye and spoke to me. Lucky for me, they had a smaller print of it! Mom bought it for me as a Christmas gift (which means I don't get it until Christmas >:| ) but I love it and can't wait to display it in my bedroom!

Here's me with it!

Here's a closer photo (I posted this in my snap story hence the caption lol) It so is me. I love shoes!!

Alright alright, I'll get to my outfit. 

Outfit Details:

Blue Floral Kimono: Nasty Gal

Black Muscle Tank Dress: H&M

Necklace: Charlotte Russe

Skinny Belt: H&M

Zeal Sunnies: Zappos

Bag (that you can't really see but its the same in all posts): Gypsy Warrior

Shoes: Charlotte Russe

I have to take a moment really quick to appreciate and admire this awesome Kimono. It has the most lovely print on it!

Such a great year round piece to have in my wardrobe. I think it's only like $27 right now at Nasty Gal, go get one!! Totally recommended. 

xoxo

Fran's Classy Baby Shower!!

I was very excited to join my friend and coworker, Fran, in celebrating the bundle of joy she is about to bring into the world tonight!! She will be having a baby girl in the next few months. She had her baby shower at Scullery downtown and it was hella classy. Here's a photo of (almost) the whole Stitch Factory team supporting our lovely coworker!!

Fran is on the far right, next to me, in black. (: I'm so excited for her and her husband to become parents because I know that little girl is going to grow up in a home full of love! Congratulations to the new family.

Something funny that happened actually was that Jillian and Jen (the two blondes in the above photo) pointed out that Rachel, Haley and I were all matching, wearing various forms of black and white stripes! 

So of COURSE we had to take an "Omg we're accidentally matching!!" photo. Before leaving, I had the hardest time picking out an outfit though. I laid two out on my bed and sent a photo of the options to 3 friends to figure out what I should wear. Here were the options:

In the end, the outfit on the right won, but I don't have a well endowed chest to be able to hold that strapless dress up because it's so loose at the top! So I ended up wearing the stripe dress (clearly haha). 

Outfit details:

Striped Dress: Styles for Less

Pendant Necklace: Hand-Me-Down from my sister Nikki

Steve Madden electric blue shoes: Platos Closet

2014 VMA's- Red Carpet

The VMA's are home to the scandalous celebs-- and their even more scandalous outfits!

Let's do a quick review of some red carpet looks that sang songs of angels-- and others that fell flat.

Let's start with my favorite looks of the night-

Beyoncé in a Nicolas Jebran black beaded gown. She slays at all red carpet shows. Do you think she woke up this flawless or is her stylist and makeup team to credit for her killer red carpet look? Iggy Azalea wears a beautiful Versace gown that shows off her best ass-ets (lol) and makes her way to the top of my best dressed list.

The "Booty" singer retains her title of fabulousness in a Charbel Zoe gown. I don't even know how old she is but it doesn't matter because she slays all award show red carpets. I'm just surprised she isn't wearing Versace- in the most recent episode of House of Style (hosted by Iggy Azalea) she showed the "Black Widow" rapper around the Versace location on Rodeo drive that was all staged with the famous JLo outfits including the green low V getup she wore back in the 2000's and her costume for Jenny From The Block for her tours. 

Two celebs shocked me on the red carpet this year- Kesha and Rita Ora. Kesha showed up looking beautiful and classically elegant in her Johanna Johnson gown despite her hair is dyed rainbow shades. Kesha is really maturing and I'm digging the style she had last night. I don't really follow Rita, but now I know I'm going to have to. All the outfits she wore last night were beautiful and she looks like a fox in this red Donna Karan Atelier gown. That high slit makes her legs look endless and her makeup and hair match the look perfectly. 

Lets move to the "what the f?!" outfits on the red carpet:

Taylor Swift: What even is this. Yes, your legs look fabulous, but this Mary Katrantzou romper was NOT made for you. I also am not digging the heel pairing with this romper, I would have stayed with something more neutral since the outfit itself is so loud. 

Charlie XCX showed up in a Moschino head-to-toe tiger striped jumpsuit. While loud prints and jumpsuits are totally in at the moment, I thought this look totally flopped. She should have stayed in a more safe ensemble for being a breakout artist. 

Amber Rose: It's kind of like she forgot she was supposed to wear clothes to an awards show. While this is fabulous and daring, I'm just not digging it. I think it's not appropriate for this particular award show. She wears a Laurel DeWitt dress-- or should I say embellished bra?

These are some other outfits that I thought were beautiful as well: 

And we can't forget about this legendary remake courtesy of Katy Perry and RiFF RAFF:

Katy and RiFF RAFF wear their denim duds made by Versace. Apparently, Britney challenged Katy to do her best Spears impression. I think she nailed it and then some!! 

What did you guys think of all these red carpet looks? All of the preformances were fabulous as well- the Beyonce one was iconic. 

Interact with me! Let me know how you feel about these outfits! What was your favorite VMA Red Carpet Look?

Images courtesy of Vulture.com