Happy Thanksgiving!

Beautiful Roses from Ralphs Supermarket

Happy Thanksgiving to you!  Hope you are enjoying some delicious food today.  I am off to enjoy a good meal with my family.  We always have a potluck with all types of dishes like sushi rolls, tamales, veggie stew, guacamole and chips, fried chicken, macaroni salad, pickled cucumbers, pumpkin pie, green bean casserole, marshmallow sweet potatoes, turkey, ham, apple cider, and fried rice.

How about you? What is your favorite dish? My favorite dish is definitely dessert.  I love pumpkin pie:)

Inspired by Carmen Sandiego

Photography: Franz Swantko

Makeup: Liz Jones

Belt: Vintage
Pants: Honey Punch

Bag: Vintage

Shoes: Gucci

Blazer: Talbots

Hat: Retro Reload
Earrings: Retro Reload

Hello! I hope everyone had a fun weekend. Since we are nearing Halloween, I thought it would be fun to do a look inspired by the character Carmen Sandiego.  What do you think?  Who or what are you going to be for Halloween?

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Italian Vintage

Sweater: Missoni

Skirt: Missoni

Boots: Donald J. Pliner
Lipstick: Nars Audacious in Mona

Shirt: Vintage

Hair: Sarah Furey

Makeup:Nora Frislie

Photography: Franz Swantko

Hello and Happy New Year to You!  It has been awhile since my last post because I have been enjoying the holidays immensely. I put together an Italian Vintage look for today's outfit, hope you like it.  This is a rust colored vintage Missoni sweater combo I found a few months back for fall and I am completely in love with it.  It is more of a fall color, but can still be worn in winter because it is made with high-quality heavy wool.  It is so warm and goes perfectly with my new boots that I gifted myself recently.  I've been looking at these boots for about a year and finally decided to buy them because they had a holiday sale.  These boots are my favorite at the moment. They are embellished black suede stiletto boots from Donald J. Pliner and if you have been following me in previous posts, you know how much I love his shoes.  His shoes are like a work of art, handcrafted, and extremely well made at an affordable price point.  They also go great under skirts and dresses for the winter.  Additionally, I found this perfect matching rust/ brick colored lipstick from the Nars Audacious line in Mona.  It's a perfect everyday lipstick too.  

Hope you have a Wonderful Week!

XOXO Joanna

Fall Faux Fur Serenity

FAUX FUR SWEATER : ASHLEY
DRESS: MYSTIC
GLASSES: GUCCI

BOOTS: ROBERTO CAVALLI

PHOTOGRAPHY: FRANZ SWANTKO

EARRINGS: VINTAGE

Hello!  You may have already heard, but the pantone colors for the year 2016 have been released.  I am super excited about this because they have a lot of fantastic tones coming up for this year.  One of the colors is called "serenity" and is this shade of blue I am wearing in this lace dress.  I feel it has a really calming quality to it and I thought with the cooler weather coming in, it was perfect for this post.  What do you think of "serenity"?  Do you already have a lot of this color in your closet or will you be purchasing more items in this color?  I just bought a new Steve Madden bag in this color too!  It was too cute to pass up and was on sale.  Can't wait to bring it out and show you:)

My outfit for today is old, but this color is actually on trend, so I thought I would bring it out to show you a little bit of something more current.  I usually wear this dress around the fall season because it has the chocolate brown woven into this lace and goes great with brown fall boots.  These boots are a gift I bought as a present to myself many, many years ago when I was working literally six days a week!  I was a workaholic back then and so I thought I deserved it:)  This faux fur sweater goes perfect with just about anything you put under it.  It can be worn dressed down with jeans and a tank, or dressed up with a dress like I am wearing here.  These earrings were an awesome vintage find. They are made of iridescent crystals with an unusual geometric shape that I thought would pop this outfit.  I am a huge, huge fan of iridescent crystals because they have almost every color of the rainbow reflected in them.  

I hope everyone's week is going well.  I know I have been behind on my social media.  I do apologize.  I'm working on it this week:)  Hope you are taking some time for yourself to relax and are not letting the stress of the holiday season get to you.


XO Joanna

Pumpkin Spice Suit

Suit: Vintage

Shoes: Enzo Angiolini

Scarf: Tattered

Glasses: Gucci

Earrings: Vintage

Handbag: Anne Klein

Photography: Franz Swantko

Hair: Jennifer Ehrke @ Salon Pop

Makeup: Elizabeth Jones @ No Labels, Just Beauty

How do you feel about pumpkin spice?  And how many pumpkin spice coffees have you had since fall started?  I've had my share ha ha:) Pumpkin spice is one of my all time favorite flavors from coffee to pie.  So, going with the pumpkin flavor theme, I decided to wear my old vintage pumpkin colored suit for this post.  I have worn this suit before, and people always tell me it's so Jackie O.  What do you think?  The bottom of this wool jacket is also cut straight, so I thought it would look a bit more modern to add a belt with gold hardware.  The reason why I like belts so much is because it helps make clothes less boxy and adds more of a silhouette.  Do you have any pumpkin spice themed outfits?  How do you feel about wearing pumpkin this fall?

XO Joanna