This outfit is a prime example of Spring prep for Summer number. Once the weather turns warmer you can easily ditch this jacket, sub the soft cashmere sweater for an airy T-shirt, and cuff those flowered pants and add sandals. BOOM! Summer ready in a breeze!

Tonal outfits are fun because instead of playing one color off of another you can simply try to add as much punch with a single color palate. Try it sometime. Head into your closet, or open up your drawers and pull out everything you have in ONE color. It doesn’t have to be blue. Make it green to impress the grass, or sunny yellow to accent with those warm rays! You’ll do best if it’s a color you really love. Add textures, prints, variants of your color, or layers. Any of those are embellishments that add some pizazz to your ensemble.

Blue on blue. I hope you are having a beautiful day!

XX, Megan

Jacket: J.Crew (on sale!), Sweater: J.Crew, Pants: Gap (similar, similar, similar for the tiny fashionista), Shoes: J.Crew (similar), Bag: J.Crew (similar), Sunglasses: Ray-Ban Wayfarer Lips: Buxom White Russian

This outfit really got me going! May be one of my all-time favorites. It was all sorts of fun to wear and to photograph. I definitely had some pep in my step as we shot these pictures. Shoulder shruggin’, feet hoppin’. That’s how I’d like every outfit to make me feel!

Peppy, jazzed up, just right! In the case of this rig I’m pretty sure it has something to do with the polka dots. Playful, dressed up, and casual all in one look. I’m loving it. What gets you going on a Tuesday? Maybe it’s not what you wear, but a favorite song you have on repeat, or a funny conversation you’ve had with one of your kids. Maybe it’s a play you saw last night, or a movie that really moved you.

Cheers to Tuesday!

XX, Megan

Blouses: Equipment (save, save), Pants: J.Crew (old, similar and similar), Clutch: Vintage, Shoes: Birkenstock (or here), Sunglasses: Karen Walker ‘Super Duper’, Ring: Vintage, Lips: Stila Beso

Support your local library. Go and take pictures outside of it! I shouldn’t kid about this as I am serious about supporting the library by physically going inside and checking out materials. Bring home the books, friends! My only qualm about checking out library books is my propensity to forget to return them on time.

I remember an exchange with a store clerk who asked how I wanted the cash back I’d requested. “Could you break it into 1 dollar bills?” I asked. “I have to pay a library fine,” I explained.

“Library fine??” She asked, looking equally completely perplexed. “I didn’t know people even went to the library anymore.”

Now it was my turn to look perplexed.

Support your local library!!! 🙂

XX, Megan

Shirt: J.Crew (similar, on sale!), Shorts: American Eagle, Shoes: Clarks (similar), Sunglasses: Karen Walker ‘Super Duper’, Necklace: No brand (similar), Cuff: J.Crew (similar), Earrings: Madewell (similar), Lips: Buxom White Russian

Breathtaking view, if I do say so myself.

Many who know me personally know about my long-standing love for all things wool. If I were more agrarian and less inept with my hands, I’d take to spinning the stuff myself. Take that love of wool, twine it just a l little more softly a little more loftily and you’ve got cashmere. Am I right?

If you think this sweater is comfortable to look at, you should get a load of the feel against your skin. Perfect for this blue bird day that looked ever so inviting, but still held that rush of chill air as evidenced by those rippling clouds above! Do you have any favorite sweaters? Any pieces of clothing that are elevated enough to wear on the daily yet comfortable enough you might consider cuddling up in them with a good book on the couch?

I hope your day is as bright, and blue, and refreshing as can be!

XX, Megan

Sweater: J.Crew, Pants: J.Crew (similar), Shoes: J.Crew (similar), Bag: J.Crew (similar), Sunglasses: Karen Walker ‘Super Duper’, Lips: Stila Beso