Pushing the Limits-Inspired Outfit

Happy Monday!  It's my last week of school before Christmas break and I am SO looking forward to a few weeks off to celebrate with friends/family.

Today I'm showing off an outfit that I designed for Echo from Pushing the Limits.  This one was fun to design and I think I got pretty spot-on with it!  And I would TOTALLY wear this outfit, so that's an added bonus. 

Check it out:

Let's dig a little deeper:

• First, I chose a tunic with long sleeves.  Echo has scars on her arms so long sleeves is a must for her.  This tunic is stylish and Echo's former popularity status would ensure she would have stylish shirts in her wardrobe.  Plus green is the BEST color for redheads. 
• Skinny jeans.  They're on trend and go perfectly with tunics.
• Tan booties are a nice complementary color with the olive tunic.
• Echo wouldn't want to wear bracelets around her wrists (thus drawing attention to her hands/arms), so a headband wrap is a nice accessory that again draws attention to her red hair.
• Of course the leather jacket.  Noah loans his leather jacket to Echo, and I like the look of this one.  Kind of has that "tough guy" look to it.

 So what do you think?  I love this look--would YOU wear it?

Want to check out each individual piece of the outfit?  See all the details here!

My Stylish Week

What a busy, fun, change-filled week!  With our first full week of school, we got our family back into a routine this week and focused on a new year.  The boys adapted well (a little grumpy in the morning with the new wake-up time) and I was only slightly exhausted by Friday.

Take a look at what made my week stylish!

We had a really great food week in our house.  I spent extra care meal-planning because I wanted to make sure we were getting all the fuel we needed!  This above all came from The Pioneer Woman--it's her pan-fried pork chop, au gratin potatoes, and oven-roasted asparagus (pssst...don't tell my Crossfit trainers!).  

And this dinner was totally satisfying and perfect for next-day leftovers!  It's a sausage and roasted vegetables with penne--yum!

This is DEFINITELY going to be a staple lunch for us (I already made it again for this week!).  It's a tortellini salad with tomatoes, mozzarella, pesto, and olives.  Made enough for me and Luke to eat it twice for lunch!

This little guy started preschool this week.  The sign is hard to read--it says that he wants to be a fireman--but I just had to share this photo because he said this was his "fireman face."  He LOVED preschool and even got to feed the fish on Friday, which is what he was DYING to do.

I bought this LUSH tunic in two colors (white and olive) during the Nordstrom Anniversary sale.  A perfect purchase!  This tunic is long enough to cover my butt and a blank slate for easy styling.  Here I'm wearing the white with black skinny pants, the bomb.com leopard heels, and layered necklaces.

I wore the olive on Friday with jeans (we can wear jeans on Friday if we wear school colors and my school colors are green and gold) with my favorite $11 shoe purchase ever--tan sandal heels.

The shoes are amazing.

And speaking of fashion, one of my students wore this shirt this week and I loved it.  Nerdy cool, which is what I'm all about.  He said he got it from JC Penney (didn't find the exact shirt on their site).

After living in our house for 11 months and allowing the neighbors to watch us eat dinner every night (not to mention constantly fighting the setting sun), we FINALLY bought and installed new blinds.  I love them!

And we had this visitor this week!  Not sure if it's a moth, butterfly...male, female...but it stuck around for hours on our garage.

What made your week stylish?!