Fashion week day 7 last day! :( and Our new tent

Well on saturday it was the last day of fashion week and I am sad! But it was great fun and I was happy to be able to see all my fellow bloggers posting about their thrifted and used finds!

I wore this for half of sunday, saturday I was painting and doing other odd jobs with my family, so it was jeans and a t-shirt day. But here is my sunday outfit after church, I wore the same thing I wore friday for easter sunday.

Here is my outfit and the skirt was a thrift store find as well as the blouse, my tank top is from old navy. A fun and simple outfit!

And a birthday suprise! On saturday my sister and I scrubbed our used a-frame tent that is for civil war reenacting and we put it up all day saturday to dry after being cleaned. So that evening we watched persuasion and slept in our new tent! It was a great fun and it was my little birthday celebration, as my birthday is tomorrow. I am going to be 19!!!!!!! AHHHHH! Well since spring break is over we are swamped with school work and other tasks, so we cannot go to D.C. to see the museums like I wanted on my birthday, but we want to go friday instead.
So there is our home away from home, which will make its first debu at Bonnets and Bayonets in two weeks. There website is on my side bar in my favorite websites. Do check it out!

God bless and have a great week!

In Christ,
Rebecca

Second-hand Fashion Week Day 6

Hey everyone!

Todays outfit the sweater is thrifted from the Unique Thrift store and it was only $5.00!!! My sister found it in the sweater section and I was ecstatic because its my favorite clothing brand Ann Taylor Loft!!!!
The skirt is not thrifted, but it was from one of my favorite discount stores called Ross for only $10.00 last summer. Yes this is not the same boho skirt I wore on monday! :)I own two! I know it horrible! You can see the earrings a friend made for me above! I wear these earrings with everything! Even outfits with no purple in them!! They also are supposed to be for civil war reenacting, but I wear them with everything! thank you Emma W! Your talents are much appreciated! The necklace was a gift from my aunt and uncle and I love it! Purple is one of my favorite colors to wear! can you tell!?

So this is the winner outfit of the whole week I believe! I have not worn this sweater or skirt since last summer and fall! I love it! My hair also looks so much better after a wash! :) My brown shirt is from target and it was $12.00 and my shoes are from my favorite shoe warehouse, Off Broadway! I love them! You can see close ups of them here. The total for this outfit without my shoes would be $27.00, which I don't think is that bad considering how much I could have paid for Ann Taylor and the skirt at its original store! :)

I have posted about them when I did week in feminine dress over at Mrs. Chancey's forum. I love doing these fashion weeks! They are so much fun! I will have to think of my last outfit for tomorrow!! I can't believe its almost over!

God bless and have a great Good Friday remembering His mercy and sacrifice for us! Jesus Christ the Savior of the world!

In Christ,

Rebecca Ann

Second-hand fashion week Day 5

Hey everyone!

Sorry this was not posted yesterday! I got a lot of things accomplished yesterday! More than I had actually thought I would get done by God's strength! It was a great day of accomplishment and no disasters that I can think of. The only disaster was probably my outfit. I changed twice, as I could not decide on that perfect outfit. Yes I Rebecca Ann had one of those days where I did not feel like I wore that winning outfit!

Anyway here is the outfit I decided on after 2 trys.

But I realized that it should not be our looks or our own "self confidence"that spurs us on to be diligent with our time. I knew this already, but God reminded me of it! It should be Him we have confidence in! As today is Good Friday I am reminded of His sacrifice and I am excited to post my outfit that today is a "winner" in my eyes for the evening service. But it is Him I have confidence in! How could I not trust Him who died for me?!

My outfit is made up of a sweater that is from target that my sister passed to me. My white staple for my wardrobe t-shirt is from Kohls and was only $5.00 or so. My skirt is from New Creation apparel and I love it! I paid only $18.00 for this pretty skirt and I wear it hardly at all actually. So today I pulled out some peices that I don't usually reach for, but in the end I was happy. I love the embroidery on the skirt!

So only one hand-me-down item today! But the sweater makes the flowers on the skirt pop!

God bless and I will be doing another post soon for today's outfit!

Rebecca

Second-hand Fashion Week Day 4

Hey everyone!

Its been a long and prosperous day at the Stricker house hold. We have had lots of productivity in the morning, such as reading, piano and voice practicing, getting ready for graduation and details about that going on, I finished the movie "Our Mutual Friend", and we had a family friend over for supper and an evening of lots of ironing sharpening iron. It was a great day! God is good.

Today I added a silk ribbon to my normal hair style, I also tend to put half of it back with a clip, but today I decided to do something different. This silk was a remnant from the dress length I have for a silk dress for civil war reenacting. So in the somewhat distant future it will be a whole dress. I love the color! My outfit consists of a a-line skirt that is made out of a scarlet cotten fabric. I made this skirt as one of my first sewing projects a few years ago. I am guessing I paid $10.00 for the fabric. It was on sale of course at Joann. My blouse was thrifted at a local thrift shop called Penny Wise that is run by a church here in my hometown. I have not been there in over a year, but I used to frequent it more often a while ago. I paid only $2.50 I think for this brown three quarter sleeve blouse! Its one of my favorite tops. I love the bohemian feel of the style. Not the greatest the pictures today, as I did them all with the self timer. Oh well! Also I thought I would share with you all my finished children's/teen crocheted afghan I finished on tuesday. I love the colors and I am so glad to finally have finished this beauty. I used all remnants of yarn from past projects that I had left over. I love the random colors.

This photo below I thought would show you all the trim best. I used a pattern for the trim from a book I have called " 50 different crocheted afghan trims" and I love the variety of choices in it! I have only used it for 2 afghans so far. But its a great resource for ideas for trim!

Well God bless and I hope you all sleep well and have a great start to the new day tomorrow! I am so enjoying seeing everyone's outfits for the different days. I have not commented a lot as I have not had time today to comment as much. But great outfits ladies! Looking forward to tomorrow!

In Christ,

Rebecca

Second-hand Fashion Week Day 3

Today I wanted to dress in a spring-like manner, even though its freezing outside! :) I really want those days when its a little breezy and a nice 75 degree weather! Hopefully later this week it will be that way, but today its sunny, instead of rain and dreariness. that is something to be thankful for!!

My outfit for today consists of a purple sweater that I made myself from a long sleeve shirt my that my sister gave to me and I wanted a purple sweater. So last week I cut the sleeves down to half sleeves and cut down the front and sewed it up and added a button to make my new sweater. :) I was very happy with the result and I was inspired by a friend of mine who told me about her thrifted finds that she remade to her own taste. So it was fun to try it out with this shirt. My shoes are not thrifted, but they were on sale for a great price at OffBroadway Shoe Warehouse last september and I wear these jean flats often!
My white teired skirt was given to me by a friend who was moving and she could not take it with her unfortunately. I was happy to be able to use it! I love teired skirts and this white one is very full and definatley a staple in my spring wardrobe! :)
Lastly my grey shirt is not thrifted, but it was bought many years back from Old Navy for probably $10.00. So My skirt and sweater were free, but I paid for only my shoes and shirt. Now that is a deal for me! Have a great day everyone! God bless!
Ok my dear mother took pictures for me today, usually I take them myself with the self timer. But I was so happy to have her help today! So a big thank you to her for the pictures!

In Christ,
Rebecca

And if you all are wondering that is my mother and I's new to us piano! I love it! I am going to go and practice playing and singing with it right now! :)

Second-Hand Fashion Week Days 1 and 2

Hello everyone!

This week Amanda Beth over at Amanda Beth Online is hosting a fashion week that is all about using thrifted, frugal, and hand-me-down clothing for your wardrobe and being modest, beautiful, and feminine at the same time. Of course I said I want to do that! I already do that! So here is another outfit made out of mostly thrifted items that I found at local thrift stores and goodwill. My thrift is fushia and is from a small thrift store in Purcellville, VA. I only paid $5.00

My brown favorite skirt of all time!!! It was only $5.00 at the local thrift store here near Falls Church, VA called the Unique Thrift store. I also bought my 1930's/40's style shoes there for only $9.00!!! I was so happy to find both of these, which I had been wanting and had prayed to the Lord when I went into the store," Lord if it be your will help me find new brown 1930'sish shoes and a brown skirt that I can wear often." It happened! The Lord blesses us when he sees fit.

My hat is from Kohl's and though not thrifted it was only $15.00 on sale after christmas this past year!

The fitted jacket I am wearing in this last picture was also a thrift store find from the Unique Thrift store in Falls Church, VA. The Unique store was found out for our family from another family and it is even bigger than some goodwill I have been to! It can be dangerous! But this jacket is 100% merino wool and was brand new!! I only paid $10.00 for it! I love that it has the light blue thread going through the plaid pattern. I wear a light blue tank top under my pink shirt to tye in with the jacket and I love how the fushia pops that way! :)

Ok so I could get the whole outfit with the shirt, jacket, skirt, and heels for $29.00, but with the hat it totals about 45 dollars total. I love being frugal! I can't imagine paying more for this outfit at the mall with everything brand new and not on sale! eeeek!!

In short! I just love these peices and it was a blessing to find them last fall and they will be used for many years to come! I love dressing in a classic feminine manner.

This is today's outfit. We have had some companky for the weekend and today from out of town. We had a great time visiting and discussing many different things! So I put on one of my favorite new finds! A new to me jean skirt a friend of mine found and showed to me at a thrift store a few weeks ago! It was only $5.00 and I love all the material at the bottom how its such a full skirt! It reminds me of my civil war skirts since it so much fabric. :)

The white tank I used for layering is from wal-mart and it was a great price while not used. Only $3.00 I think. My button down blouse that reminds me of april cornell was sewn by my dear sister and the fabric used to make it is a light dusty blue floral and it was on sale as well! I don't remember how much the fabric cost, but the buttons were free from a friends stash.

So this outfit cost about a total of $18.00, if we say the fabric for the blouse was $10.00, under shirt $3.00, and the skirt was $5.00. Now that I can do! :)

So in the end, I just love thrifting and finding bargains that you can wear and still be feminine and modest! Have a great week everyone with your outfits being put together and seeing each others fashiony ideas.

Thank you to Amanda again for putting this great thing on!!

In Christ,

Rebecca