July has flown by. It's been an emotional month for me. I had to say goodbye to a place I loved the most in the world (family vacation home sold) and this week had to say goodbye to one of my dearest friends who is on her way across country to her new home.
One of my dearest friends is expecting a baby any moment. A few days ago I learned that my sister is pregnant with her first! This was wonderful news although it is hard not to tell everyone yet. My inlaws have just moved back to the states after 12 years in China and will be living 20 minutes away, which is wonderful. We are looking forward to quality time with them.
My mom is having a rough time with Leukemia but has traveled to MD Anderson and is getting very good care. I'm wrapped up in planning our homeschool year and very overwhelmed with everything at the moment. I have been trying and failing to potty train my 3 year old and the kids and I have been going a bit stir crazy with outdoor temps in the upper 90's.
Today I spent most of my day with an intense migraine and all the lovely extras that come with it like dry heaving and chills.
at this moment, I am lying on my couch, very very thankful to be on Prozac. Missing my friend, praying for my sister, listening for the phone call announcing a precious baby's arrival. Feeling very spent.

Here were my July goals:
1) WIW photos for each day (or at least 5 a week)
2) Practice adding a 3rd piece.
3) Recreate 10 summer outfits in stylebook using my inspirations from pinned outfits.
4) Make a list of ISO items so that shopping becomes less of a deal-hungry free-for-all.
5) Continue selling my items to free up money for the above "ISO" items.

1) WIW posts. I did more WIW posts than I ever have before but I certainly fell short of 5 per week. Still I am happy with what I wore most days and can certainly say that my style has improved from last summer. I enjoyed getting dressed for the most part. Much less closet angst.

2) Practice adding a third piece. I did well with this, I think, really focusing on jewelry. I found that a long statement necklace really improved some of my casual looks. I also bought more jewelry this month than I have in years so look forward to adding new looks between now and Fall (still far away in my neck of the woods)

3) recreate looks in stylebook. This was a fail. i think I successfully copied one pinterest outfit. I haven't been able to figure out how to sync stylebook from my ipad to my iphone. I tend to find autumn looks so much easier to recreate, so this was harder than i thought.

4) Make an ISO list. I haven't done great at writing this list down but I did consciously search for specific items and I did NOT buy many things I would have let myself buy a few months ago. I am looking at items more critically and I have been better about returning things (or just passing on them) if they are nice but not quite perfect.

5) Selling items. i have done well with this and even managed to complete a couple trades for items I would enjoy more. Most of my items are cool weather so i anticipate selling them in a month or two. But I have photographed and listed all on different FSOT sites, so that was an accomplishment.

I didn't mean for this to become such a huge post with so much sharing, but It's always nice to get some of it out on paper, er....ipad screen. Thanks to anyone who made it all the way through. Time for me to work on my goals for August!