Red Pants Bandwagon

Yep, I jumped on the bandwagon and bought red pants. No regrets here, I love them and would love to collect jeans in every color possible now. 
Since I bought these red pants a week or so ago, I have been wearing them as much as I possibly can. They are so fun. They make me feel like such a punk for wearing that bright red. 

Cardigan: American Eagle

Tank: Aeropostale

Jeans: Younkers

Boots: Born

I do find the red pants a little hard to style sometimes, but I think its more me being distracted by the brightness of red. They can be as easy to style as regular jeans, right? This outfit was a comfy Sunday outfit. Easy to curl up on the couch and do homework (blah) or take a walk with my husband and my puppy.

If any of you out there in U.P. Land shy away from the bright color, don't! It's so fun and...dare I say it, powerful feeling to wear color, especially with those boots. Boots always make me feel confident and with red pants! One can never go wrong. Try it, do it, call it blogger pressure, I dare you to be a splash of color against the white snowbanks that will soon rim every horizon.

Fleeting, inadequate things

Today, I attend a funeral. A co-worker I, unfortunately, only knew for a little while. Yet half the horizon has disappeared with her.


There is just silence, a yawning silence. When something like this happens I want to say something to make everything better. But my mouth stops, my tongue remains still and I probably come off cold, unfeeling. Words are fleeting inadequate things used to describe the world around us. The problem with this world is that parts of it remain hidden from us, unexplainable and those tools, words, just fail so miserably. Nothing can describe death, nothing can describe the yawning blackness hidden in the depths of the gut. Those feelings belong in a wordless place, a nameless place, a place removed from the common sense of language. An Other place, beneath the veneer of civilization, hidden in the depths of a wordless cry, a scream, a sob.


I bid you a sweet sleep, a deep rest, a good-bye. You will be missed.

Is it Never too Late for a Floral Skirt?

Winter often comes quickly, and hard, in the U.P. particularly if you are close to the beautiful but often punishing Lake Superior. And I was spoiled last year by the more mild winter of the lower peninsula. So when the wind, which I dislike so much, starts blowing it takes me by surprise. Suddenly I am piling on sweaters and jackets and gloves and I can't quite get my bones to warm up.

And spying the flowered skirts in my closet, which hadn't seen the light of day since the hot heat of middle summer, I had to wear them. They were a siren calling my name, "wear me, wear me, you know you want to..." Whelp, I did, to work and by the end of my shift I was actually shivering. Does this mean I must put away my pretty flowered skirts? Let them gather dust until the long winter melts away to the warm, muddy touch of spring?

Here are two outfits one worn last week and the other worn the week before, but since they are similar and flowery, I decided to put them together.

Cardigan: American Eagle

Belt: Kohls

Tank: Maurices

Skirt: Old Navy

Boots: Born

Pockets, who doesn't love pockets on a skirt? Not that I actually put anything in them. I dressed this outfit up more for work with heels and nylons. Can you tell these pictures were taken right before the weather turned?

Sweater: Maurices

Tank: Burlington Coat Factory

Skirt: Old Navy

Tights: Kohls...Maybe?

Okay...so these pictures are more of a photo shoot with my puppy. Isn't he so photogenic? and pretty? I'm such a proud mama. 

Actually the reason I was in bed was because we didn't have any heat! They were changing the heating system at the exact moment the weather turned horrible. So we huddled on the bed for a couple of days.

Yay or nay on the flowered skirts as we near the cold death of winter?

Flannel, Cash it at the Bank

That is right, I got to wear flannel to work and no I am not a lumberjack. If you follow, I work at a bank and must dress up nice. Well, as the temperature has severely dropped up here in the great north, I have been freezing at work. Shivering, actually. I wanted to be warm and what's more warm than a flannel shirt? However, a flannel shirt isn't usually office wear. Then as I was browsing Pinterest (I told you I could get addicted. It's a great place for inspiration) I saw a picture of a pretty sweater with a nice blue button-up peaking out from under it. Well, I don't have a pretty blue button-up but I do have a flannel!

The sun was in my eyes, I swear.

Pretty sweet frog painted on the bridge.

Cardigan: Target

Flannel: Forever 21

Skirt: Charlotte Russe

Belt: Kohls

Tights: Kohls

Shoes: Payless

Necklaces: Gift via my sister

Necklace worn as bracelet: Claires, years ago

Did I do a good job dressing up flannel or is it something better left for my grandpa to wear? I would love your input.

The bridge I am strolling along is the old bridge over the Dead River, probably just a half mile down the road from my apartment. Right above and to the left of this bridge is the newer one and by far the more boring of the two (you can see it in the background on the last picture). Don't you wish we still drove over bridges like this?

I do have a little something to admit to you all... I wasn't actually strolling around like this, all cute in a cardigan and heels; these pictures are a bit staged. What! I know, it's the U.P. and the weather here is a bit more harsh than other places. Since this is a blog originating out of the Yoop, I have to show you a little bit of what the weather is like.

Here is what I actually looked like:

Yes, it was that cold. And if I hadn't been out there specifically for pictures the skirt would be gone replaced by some under armor. Under armor, my savior.

P-interesting and Pink Nails

Sigh, a gray outfit for a gray day...
Fall is in full swing in the Yoop. It's cold, it's blustery, its rainy. I mind not the rain, nor the cold, it's the wind that chills down to the bone and one cannot retain any heat and shivers and shivers and shivers...


But this was some photos taken right before all this weather. See all the leaves still on the tree? The wind hasn't arrived yet. And see my bare arms? Last time you all get to see those as winter arrives. I freeze if I wear short sleeves. 


Geez, I sound all...blah. I don't mean to be. Actually I just joined Pinterest, and what fun. I could see myself getting addicted to it. I only have a few things pinned right now, but if you want to check it out: www.pinterest.com/PeninsulaDetail.

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Dress worn as a shirt: Forever 21

Skirt: Maurices

Belt: Forever 21

Necklace worn as a bracelet: Claires, maybe?

Tights: Kohls

Boots: Born

Socks: Target

Hot pink nail polish: Walgreens

Yep, another work outfit here. I love this shade of gray. Then the pop of pink on the nails? Love it. Nail polish is so much fun, glad I started wearing it after years of either avoiding it or wearing clear.

This little area of foliage is right off the bike path that is right off of my apartment. I love having little photo backgrounds so close to home. But then I wonder what I am going to do in the winter? Hmm...