fashion remix challenge!

i love challenges.  for some reason attaching the word challenge to something makes me NEED to stick to it.  i'm in the middle of a fitness/health challenge, but that is totally separate from my latest obsession.  thanks to pinterest i'm all about pinning fashion inspiration and outfit ideas.  i'm not short on clothes, i have always loved to clothing shop, but i do get stuck in a rut of wearing the same things every.single.day.


the blog kendi everyday has lots of inspiration and she has a similar style to mine.  she wrote about a 30 day fashion remix here.  it sounded like fun to me.  i decided to start on march 1st thinking i would have enough time to get everything together...well of course that didn't happen.  i am doing it more haphazardly than i'm sure it is supposed to be done, but if i didn't give myself a deadline it just would have lingered on.


the rules.
some of these are from kendi's blog, some i just made up. 
- pick 30 items from your closet (shoes and clothes, accessories and jewelry are not included) and remix them over 30 days, trying to come up with different outfits.
- workout clothes and sneakers do not count.  i workout 5-6 days/week and at that rate my workout clothes would have taken up my 30 item limit quickly.  i don't wear sneakers for anything other than exercising, so i am not getting a bonus item in that way.  i did include 1 pair of yoga pants in my 30 items since i usually wear those on the weekends when i'm home or at night.
- no shopping.  well, no clothes or shoe shopping for 30 days....i think this may be my hardest to stick to :)


i would love to have some sort of beginning picture of all of my items, but that hasn't happened yet.  the closest i can come to is the shoes i picked out.  

shoes: tory burch/aiden tall boots; jessica simpson patent nude heels; toms/giselle flats; tory burch/sally wedges; jcrew glitter flip-flops; toms burlap cap toe flats.

i did go through and start with some of the basics that i KNEW i'd need in there.  and i'm trying to work with that right now and slowly add in the rest of the items as i go.  but basically if i wear it one day, then its stuck in there so i am trying to carefully plan out my outfits instead of just throwing something on.

amazing wedges/anthropologie

she also recommends a wild card item...something you don't wear all that much.  i bought these gorgeous red wedges from anthropologie several years ago and they hurt horribly to wear (and for me that means my feet were pretty much bleeding since i go through a lot for the right pair of shoes) so they got stuck into the back of the closet.  i found them as i was cleaning out and trying to pick my items and i thought they were the perfect addition.  a wonderful bonus is that for whatever reason, they don't hurt to wear anymore.


the outfits.

day ONE: flats/toms, tissue tee/jcrew, seven for all mankind/original fit

day TWO: red wedges/anthropologie, shirt/madewell, pixie pant/jcrew (these are quite possibly the most comfortable pants around), not pictured was a grey wool blazer from jcrew

day THREE: slacker saturday...i did not even leave the house.  dakota slippers/uggs (i'm up in the air about putting these as an item..i'm not really counting though since i'd never wear out of the house), t-shirt/local boutique, hoodie/jcrew, hatha workout pants/lucy

day FOUR: giselle flats/toms, skinny cargoes/jessica simpson, 3/4 sleeve sweatshirt/anthropologie, tree of life necklace/lovefeasttable (i can't even say how much i love this necklace...but you will see it a lot over the next 4 weeks)