The Ever Popular Bubble Necklace...and I'm ALMOST over it.

 Today I'm linking up again over at Our Fifth House for a winter challange.

 The goal for this particular challenge was to make something that you pinned.
 HELLO? Can you say right up my alley!
This is what I do every day here!  Accept I don't do a craft or a DIY challenge.   Instead, I take an outfit that I have pinned on Pinterest, and I recreate it with things out of my own closet (and I might go shopping here and there).
And since I have a guest post actually happening today, I found this post from last week!
So excited to show everybody what I do here!!!

But before I get to the outfit, there were a couple of "housekeeping items" on my post that I don't want to erase.  Feel free to skip over them if you would like!  ;)

First things first.
My Bachelor Episode 3 recap will go live Wednesday morning!
Click HERE for the first 3 weeks!

Okay, one more hing before today's outfit.

I want to give a shout out to Leanne!

Who is Leanne?

So glad you asked.

Leanne is the super cute, fun, and sweet girl who came up to me at J Crew at Northpark on Saturday afternoon and asked me if I was the girl from Pinterest Told Me To!
What?
I KNOW!

(She said the LOFT bag and the Fossil purse were kind of a dead giveaway.)
Leanne,  you know me so well.

Leanne was super sweet, and she and her friend were both darling!

THANK YOU SO MUCH for saying something to me!

It really makes me feel like somebody besides my mom is reading the blog. ;)

I do have to tell you that I felt a little ridiculous after saying good-bye.  I never told you my name!

So Leanne, my name is Sheaffer.

Nice to meet you.

And in the interest of full disclosure, I was soooo excited that I had been "recognized" that I was a bit flustered.  I walked right out of J Crew (with a goofy smile on my face I imagine) and turned and went the wrong way.  So, I did what any normal person would do.  I casually walked into Banana Republic (where I had just been like 5 minutes before) and picked up a shirt and acted like I was interested in it so Leanne wouldn't see me all scatter-brained and turning around in circles in the middle of the mall.
I'm totally cool like that.

And you might be interested in my Stella and Dot giveaway that ends this
Wednesday night (Jan 30th)  at 10:00 p.m.!
The new spring line from S & D is AMAZING, and my sweet friend Jenny is giving away one piece of jewelry (up to a $50 value).
All you have to do is click HERE to enter the contest.
You don't have to do anything but just leave a comment saying what you would like!

Also, if you want to shop, Jenny has opened a virtual catalog show for me!
All you have to do is.just click HERE and shop away!
There are several pieces that I am dying for!!!!
Those turquoise and navy earrings (#7) will be mine for sure!

awesome collage image found at www.myvintageromance.com

Okay....on to the outfit today.

I was seriously late to the bubble necklace trend and didn't buy one until a couple of months ago.

And I can tell I'm getting near to being over it already.  That'll teach  me.

There are a couple of more outfits I've seen on Pinterest with bubble necklaces that I want to re-create but then I think I might be done.

However, I knew the minute I saw this outfit that I wanted to recreate it.

This is another outfit from Lilly over at Lilly's style.
And let me tell ya, the girl has some SERIOUS style.
(Okay...at least I think it's Lilly.  Pinterest didn't route me back to the right image.)
I think this might be one of my favorite outfit recreations to date!
And the bubble necklace obviously MAKES the outfit.

Black Blazer|  Kenneth Cole, similar in collage
Bubble Necklace|  Altar'd State, found HERE
White Oxford|  GAP, in collage
Denim leggings| Swanky Boutique, similar in collage
Brown Boots|  Nordstrom, in collage

If you want to recreate this look for yourself, here are some similar pieces for you to consider.
The below the knee brown boots (bottom left) are mine exactly, and the tall ones (top right) are more like Lilly's...and I LOVE them.  I don't have any boots that are this tall, but I'm thinking I need some! If you click on either of the boots links below, it will take you to Nordstrom, and they are having a great sale on all of their boots!  Boots are anywhere from 30-50% off!  NOW is the time to buy an awesome pair of boots people. 
Also, I got my leggings at a boutique in downtown McKinney, but I think that the leggings on the right are VERY similar to mine.  Mine actually feel kinda of like leotard material (yes, I realize how crazy that sounds) than they do denim or even actual leggings.
Oh, and I just checked and the bubble necklace I featured is now sold out.
You can always click on the Altar'd State link above to find other bubble necklaces!

So, the "PIN IT, MAKE IT" challenge is complete!
Hope you all come back again to see what other outfits I pin and make!
(If you want to see some of my favorites, you can click HERE!)


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