My 30 for 30 Picks to Remix

I picked a pretty poor time (in my opinion) to do this, as I live in MD, will be in Vegas next week, and have my very fashionable sister, son and her partner (his family too) coming for T-Day ... but really, I'm sure I would have issues regardless of when I took up this challenge.

So, lessons already learned:

• I have a ton of crap.  Seriously.  After sifting through the basement for my past life, and packing everything other than these 30 items back up, I now have 3 large packing boxes, 8 space bags and 6 trash bags full of clothes.  And a bin of shoes.  I don't have the energy to figure out what has to go ... I'll make that next month's challenge.
• I obviously subscribe to the philosophy of "if it looks good, buy it in every color they have."  I have the same sweater in 10 colors, same button down shirt in about 15-20 different colors (and multiples at that!), same cami/top in about 15 different colors ... and each of these 3 particular items (and their spawn) are from the same store - NY&Co - apparently I've been a little addicted to them ... they feature frequently in my remix too.
• I am going to have to do some serious shopping when I get back to my pre-pregnancy weight/size.  During my "fittest" time of life, I wore jeans, yoga pants, smart-ass t-shirts and cute little sweaters.  Everything was fitted, everything looked good ... and everything is probably now not appropriate for a 38-year-old mother of two.  Sigh.  Goodbye T-Shirt Hell ... it was a hell of a ride.  
• Clinton and Stacy would have hated me ... and it would have been mutual.

There's a whole lot more I've realized.  I'll just address my issues throughout the next 30 days :)

So, here are the pics of the Picks ... such as they are.  I used to be a pretty good photographer.  Before I had to rush photo ops in between chasing after the Destroyer and the Raptor. 


(I actually had to take a few minutes just after writing that sentence to remind the Destroyer that is not nice to knock her sister down.)


(and right after I wrote *that* sentence ... I had to stop even thinking about blogging this post.  don't know why I tried to do this prior to bedtime.)




5 pairs of shoes:

I have to get the brown boots re-heeled.  I've had them for close to 8 years.  I love them.

2 dresses:

The black one is a maternity dress.  I don't care.  I packed everything else maternity away though.

3 skirts:

The grey pinstripe on the left (*EDIT - Ooops - my OTHER left*) has to be re-hemmed.  At least I know how to do that now.  Bryan only sees this ability as a way for me to never throw anything away.  He's probably right.

4 pants:

The black slacks need to be re-hemmed.  See note above.

4 sweaters:

Yes, they're all the same style.  They're the only ones that fit well :(

4 cardigan/jacket/zipper-ups:

6 shirts/camis:

And 2 button-downs:

I'm not going to say I'm thrilled with my picks.  I worked with what I had ... and I guess that is part of the challenge.  

Good luck to all the remixers out there ... I look forward to seeing your journey while I navigate through mine.

**Edit - after reviewing my post and pics ... I noticed the tin betty boop "purse" my daughter claimed from my boop stash and left on the bed.  I think I may just have to use that this month ...