Indie Chic Outfit of the Day

Hey friends!

I have thought about where to go with my blog and what to post about. It seems I have been posting in spirts these days and not been posting regularly  I want to give you all regular posts. So I have decided Outfit of the days are one of the easiest posts for me to put together. I enjoy being creative with my dress and strive to glorify God through it. So you will be seeing more outfit posts on here. With school I have not been creating as much in the sewing department or reenacting as much as I would like. I am excited to churn out outfits from the clothing I already have in my closet. I enjoy reading other blog that focus on fashion. So here it goes, I will try to be a semi fashion blogger. :)

I have been loving my leggings this winter. I wear them with dresses, skirts, and even under jeans to keep warm. So you will be seeing these a lot! 

I bought the fushia beanie from the etsy store called Sennursasa. I wear it almost daily in the cold winter months. Its a fun color and so warm and comfy! Be sure to check out her etsy store for beautiful knitted items.

I found the denim jacket with the fur collar at a consignment store when i was shopping with a friend and I love it! My sister Bethany says its not her favorite, but I think it adds some casual charm to any outfit worn the right way. It can look frumpy with long skirts or jeans, so I wear it with more feminine dresses/skirts and it works.

Indie style dress- thrifted
Fushia beanie- Etsy
lavender scarf- Texas
black braided belt- Goodwill
black cardigan- Goodwill
leggings- BJ's
black flats- Payless Shoe Source

Have a lovely rest of your Monday God bless you! Oh and a big thank you to my sister Bethany for taking the pictures. Isn't she a great photographer! She knows how to make me smile. :) What are you all up to today? I practiced piano for 2 hours this morning for exams and then went to lunch with my sister and another friend at Panera Bread. Now we took pictures and I am getting ready to drink a cup of tea and sing my heart out for a few hours to study for exams. I am learning The Music of the Night from the Phantom of the Opera and its so fun to sing!

Rebecca

Outfit of the Day with a kanga skirt

Hi everyone! I thought I would post a quick outfit of the day with my kanga skirt from Grammie, which my sister sewed up for me. You can buy african kangas from Jennie at here ebay store here.

God bless!
Rebecca

Today I was a country french girl.

Sorry for the way too long hiatus friends! I am back and I will be posting more regularly now that Christmas is over. Today my sister managed to snap some photos of my outfit so we decided I looked french. The beret was a spur of the moment idea because I could not find my pink hat that I wanted to wear. I am glad it ended up going so well with the outfit.

 Beret- thrifted
peacoat-thrifted
scarf- geekiana etsy shop
earrings- gift
skirt- 1950s circle skirt made by me
boots- Shoe Ocean amazon store
gloves- J C Penny
cardigan- thrifted
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It has been cold enough to snow here on the East coast and we are supposed to get more tonight. My sister and I walked to the grocery to stalk up on onions as we eat those a lot. We are making french onion soup for dinner tonight.

My earrings are something I have had forever, but hardly ever wear. Today I decided I better wear them again.

To think I almost gave away this skirt because I had no idea how to wear it. Now I know it gives a french country look when paired with a beret and boots. LOVE!

 Look for me every few days with OOTD and videos. I plan to do a makeup haul as well as my christmas gifts in a haul too.

In Christ,
Rebecca

Vintage Style Weekend Part 2

Hi Ya'll!

My family and I recently went to Pennsylvania to the Strasburg Railroad and Train Museum. We had a grand time riding the train and walking through the museum. It also happened to be the same day as thier annual World War 2 reenactment called the Trains and Troops event. I was ex-tactic when I found this out!!!! :) Apparently this event is held every year the first weekend in November. I definitely plan on attending again next year decked out in 40's attire. I did not bring my homemade 40's swing dress to wear, but I was wearing an 80's dress that mimicked the 40's silhouette  So that was good and exciting to look a little bit the part. :)

Troops and civilians alike walked around the museum and rode on the trains in real authentic steam engine locomotives. 

Inside the museum there were various reenacting groups set up with different jeeps and period weapons/40's everyday items like radio's and wearing authentic uniforms and civilian attire. 

One of the many steam engines in the museum.

Women talking about different scarves,masks, and hats made for te troops during the war. 

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I really loved this picture of a woman doing her bit for the war effort to support the troops even though she is back in the USA.

They even had this period radio above playing swing music! It made me want to start dancing with my imaginary guy friends. ;)

All of the period gloves, hat, masks, and scarves ladies made during the war. 

I loved all the antique luggage. It makes me happy for some reason! :)

 I did not even notice the guy standing there behind the door of this jeep when I took this. ;) That is funny.

They had uniforms, weapons, and other memorabilia for different wars, such as Vietnam, Korea, and Desert Shield Desert Storm, and World War 2.

Above you can see a uniform display for Desert Shield Desert Storm, which was occurring the year I was born and my Daddy was doing his duty overseas in that war. He was able to come home and be with my Mom when I was born, but then he had to go back right away. I am thankful for his service to his country and to the many men and women who have done the same. They all have a special place in my heart and life and I will always have the utmost respect for the military.

A Veteran above is telling these children about his service during the war. I guess I should have gone up to him and asked him about his table. I was very glad he was there telling the next generation about his life though.

There were World war 2 and even Civil War reenactors inside the museum telling about the different wars. It was fascinating to be on the other side of things as a spectator and not a reenactor. :) I loved it! But I miss being on the other side of the fence as a reenactor, next month I will be reenacting again. I can't wait!

We were able to walk on the walkway above the museum and see everything from up top. It was a cool perspective for pictures.

I talked with one of these lovely ladies from the Paper Dolls Womens Unit. I am excited to contact them and maybe start doing ladies world war 2 events. I am so so excited! I still can't believe it was by providence we happened to be in town the same weekend of the World War 2 event. I squealed with glee when I found out! :)

Last but not least, a group came to the event with a tractor trailer that they have turned into a woman's 1940's city apartment on wheels. So they had a little kitchen, bed room, bath room, and parlor all set up like in the 40's. It was pretty amazing! I loved meeting the women from the group and talking with them as well. I met Elisabeth below after she stopped me and introduced herself in the museum. She said she has been a reader for a while and recognized me from my blog. It made my day for sure! :) A shout out to you Elisabeth for being brave and starting the conversation. I definitely wanted to talk to you and your friends and I am so glad I got to. :)

Elisabeth showing her new Edwardian/pre hobble skirt she had just gotten from a friend. She was dressed in 40's attired for the reenactment though. I love her fur collared blue coat and awesome shoes!

God bless and have a lovely Sunday everyone!
Rebecca Ann

Oh and a side note, fine if you don't like me anymore or don't want to read my blog because of this picture, but hey I like it. :)

Sunny yellow sweaters and posy skirts

Hey readers!

I thought since you all seemed to enjoy my outfits from the doctor who blog party i would post a real everyday outfit I wore this week. I absolutely love color and the day I wore this outfit I was in a sunny mood midst all the storms in my area on the east coat. I am praying for everyone who is involved with the storm and who may have lost loved ones, homes, and power. I praise God my family only lost power for a short time and got it back quickly.

Earrings- Avon gift from my Mom

Black necklace- forever 21

Yellow tank- Kohls

Black top- Gap brand via local consignment boutique

Yellow sweater- J.C. Penny

Posy skirt- made by my sister Bethany

Black belt- local thrift store

When I was taking these pictures I was so excited that my camera was taking alright pictures I could not help smiling. :) Usually self timer photos can be ackward, but I had fun this time around.

Definitely let me know if you all like picture stills compared to vlog/OOTD videos. I enjoy doing both for you all, but I find I myself enjoy vlogs/videos better.

I also was just amazed at how God has been orchestrating my life and in awe of His blessings. He is so so good even in hard times.

God bless!
Rebecca

Doctor/Martha Inspired OOTD

I realized that my outfit of the day inspiration for the black peacoat/trench was from the actor Matt Smith from his real life wardrobe. :) Oh well! I really like his sense of style and the coat is pretty awesome. It reminds me of something Sherlock would wear. :) Anybody out there like Sherlock? I love that show too.

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I feel stupid and silly thinking Martha wears ethnic clothing! ;) Maybe she does in one episode where I believe they are in India. I just could not find any pictures or screen shots of the outfit I was remembering in my head. Oh well! I still wanted to share this outfit because I love it and it was fun to wear. I hope the blog party is fun and all the whovians are getting their fill of doctorness. ;)

Blessings,
Rebecca Ann

Finished Cotton Swing Dress and update

 So I know I have not been doing any proper blog posts for the past 2 months really, but I had a great excuse! ;) I had been studying really hard for my piano playing exam which was today and I feel like I did really well! I also played a worship concert with my mom for a friends womens ministry event, and we had another reenactment and I have been getting ready for another exam friday which is my vocal examination. I also had a music theory exam 2 weeks ago and I am getting ready to do the Sue Gregg Cookbook booth at the local homeschool again. I have also been sewing a lot and crocheting granny squares for a friends project to send afgans to the needy in Romania. But I must admit I have also been fretting, I have been worrying, I have been giving into Satans temptation to wallow in self pity and sin.

 The past few weeks I have gone from joyful in the Lord one day to the next day fretting like it says not to do in Psalm 37, because fretting tends only to evil! But the Lord has helped me through this and I have felt closer to him the past two months through the feelings of lonliness and pain. Praise the Lord He can use trials for our good right?! I say yes Amen! He has drawn me even closer to Him and in this time I have been memorizing the WORD and loving Him more and more through the not so great days. Praise the Lord!

 For my 21st birthday last month I went to see my sister while she was studying with the midwife she assists and there is a picture above of the two of us that day. She also took my two friends and I to see October Baby the movie for my birthday and made a great feast and a cake. She is so good to me! The movie was so amazing we all were balling in our seats one minute and laughing the next!  I would highly recommend it to anyone male or female, single or married who is over 13 years old with their parents permission. If you have not seen it yet go support this great christian film!

 For my 21st birthday my parents blessed me with a new yamaha arius keyboard from the guitar center! I still cannot believe I am so blessed with this great instrument in my room. I can practice when I need to and when I have song inspiration I can go pick it on the keyboard even in the middle of the night since it has headphones. In the picture above we were putting those great plastic stilts I guess you would call them under my bedframe legs to raise it up for more storage under my bed. It was a funny experience. ;) I thought the picture was too funny not to put up. :) I sort of got stuck and had to wriggle out of behind there very gracefully. lol

 At the end of April I was able to finish my second 1940s style swing dress which I have made before using Jennie Chancey's Swing dress pattern. You can see the two posts I posted last summer of my experience making my first black with pink flowers swing dress here and here.

 This dress was not a breeze to make either, my first swing dress took forever it seemed as my sewing skills were very basic, but this time around it took less time once I got the notion to pursue the end product. We had a "sewing weekend" as we call it in April where a whole bunch of our friends came over and sewed projects for the weekend and helped each other with sewing projects for reenacting and daily life. I was the 2nd person making a "modern" garment, the rest were making civil war garments. It was a lot of fun and helped me to get it done as I was motivated by all the help and inspired by everyone else working on projects as well.

 I used cotton fabric as opposed to polyester, rayon, or wool which the pattern called for as I wanted a cool summer frock. It turned out well even though cotton was not recommended and I know was not used much in the 40's, I needed a practical dress for the summer in 2012; so this lavender small dot printed cotton worked well. Believe it or not I bought this fabric over 4 years ago and it sat for a while and finally this past fall I cut it out and finally got around to finishing it in April. I wore it today for the 3rd time for my piano exam and going out to lunch with my dear mother to celebrate finishing my exam well. It was a lot of fun and nice to go out with just my mom and I. We had not done that in what seemed forever!

 I felt like while wearing it I was not happy with the fit of the bodice, but looking in pictures the small flaws make it unique and show that I can improve in the 3rd dress I am currently making using this pattern. You all probably don't notice the mistakes right?! ;) I think the fabric only cost me around $12.00 for the 3 years at the most, probably way less even. It was from walmart in West VA when we went for vacation. Our walmart unfortunately does not have fabric anymore. Wish they would bring it back! I also got the lace from our stash in the sewing room and thought hey I like it although I think it gives it more of a prarie feel, but I like it a lot. I think my hair and the lace makes it seem more 30s, but hey I love it!

 In this last photo I am holding my new favorite pair of shoes. I had not gotten a new pair of shoes in a long time and decided 2 weeks ago to take the plunge in looking for a pair of dressy summer shoes. These are from the website called TOMS and their shoes are so cute and comfy and you give a new pair of shoes to a child in need when you buy a pair of shoes. To see more about what they do go here. This pair of shoes is really cute and comfy! I have another pair of jean slate grey toms on the way too. Can't wait till they arrive!

Are any of you buying new summer sandals/shoes or contemplating doing so? What styles do you like? I also bought a new pair of sandals and will have to post pictures soon from my local shoe store. I will try and post pictures of my progress on the 3rd swing dress I am currently sewing tomorrow. I plan to have it done by Saturday for a friends wedding to wear to. I am helping with the gift and guest book table, so hopefully I can get this new dress done for the occasion!

Oh and do check out the video I posted in the previous post to see how I did my hair. I love this style and its stayed in all day! I will be putting my hair up more often I think! Its so nice and cool compared to having it down especially since summer is almost here. Thank you Casey over at
Elegant Musings for the great tutorial! It was a breeze! So easy!!
God bless,
Rebecca