The Makings of a Good Day

Today has been a pretty awesome day, if I do say so myself. After 7 weeks of disgusting rats nest hair, I finally got myself a haircut from my favorite stylist Nicole at Amara Day Spa. I brought her my extensions that I haven't worn since my wedding day {I know, shame on me} so she could teach me how to take care of and what to do with them. She clipped them in my hair, curled me all up, and I felt like a Disney princess!

I made my way on over to Target to do a return and peruse the store {peruse aka what cute things do I feel like I need?} I used my Target & Starbucks gift cards that I won in an Instagram giveaway, and treated myself! I just love meandering Target just for the heck of it and getting stuff I don't need. Woot woot!

{Remixed: Purse, Necklace}

I brought home Caramel Apple Spices for Ryan & I, we did some home fix-ups and I put together my mom's birthday box {feelin' very productive.} And now we are planning on hitting up the pumpkin patch tonight and grabbing dinner! It feels SO nice to not have any major tests or projects hanging over my head after the chaos at school this past week. Plus I'm lookin' forward Halloween festivities, Ryan's birthday, and the Harvest Your Fashion at Francesca's blogger party! Yes, it's been a very good day :)

One Sweater, Three Ways

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If you asked me 2 months ago to wear a chartreuse colored sweater I probably would have spat on you.
One of my guy friends even called it "radioactive baby barf" a couple years back.
That pretty much cinched my hatred for the color.
Little did I know that on one seemingly normal shopping trip that I would be inspired to pick one up at a Jcrew sale...
Then let it sit on my clothing rack looking rather pitiful.

I decided one day that I'm going to try the dang thing out.
When we were heading down for a short weekend vacation, I decided that this sweater would be the item I plan my outfits around and voila!
This masterpiece!
Obviously I have a thing for the dress & sweater get-up, but I really was excited about the different color combinations I was able to come up with.
I'm glad that I stepped out of my comfort zone for this!

What color/trend have you stepped out of your comfort zone for and been excited? Or horrified??