How I Wore It :: Anik Shorts {+Elements of Style love fest}

ATTENTION! Giveaway for a free piece from my spring line still happening down below. Three more days to enter and win!

So here is how my night went. Early morning, rather. Munchkin woke at 5am and after I fed her I went straight to pump. {For those of you who don't know what that means... minor detail... ignore... involves some suctioning and it's not cute so just disregard} The good thing about pumping is that I have 30 minutes to sit in peace and quiet and work, respond to emails, catch up on Sex and the City, eat chocolate almond butter, etc. When I finished pumping at 5:57am I had 6 emails, all reminders from myself for things I had to do today.

7:34am: Cut to breakfast in the kitchen with Biz and Big Squish. I sit down to check my iPhone and see the number in the little red email bubble that tells me how many new ones I have. I had to do a double take. 48?? Huh? Clearly iPhone is not thinking straight. Poor thing. I touch the mail icon to figure out what the deal is. ALL 42 new ones were from people leaving comments on here....I am immediately kind of scared and super excited as I have absolutely no idea what had happened in the last hour and a half to warrant this type of traffic.

Well! What happened was a one miss cutie cute Erin Gates posted about yours truly on her amazing beyond words blog that everyone and their mom and her mom has heard of {unless you are living under a neon green rock}, Elements of Style. I have been a looooong time fan of her always inspiring work, and to say it is an honor to have her give me such a rave review is the understatement of the century.

While all of this shock processed through my brain Biz was wondering why an entire 2 minutes had gone by without me speaking {that's never happened before}. I explained through tears of joy - I'll blame it on the postpartum hormones - and immediately went straight to Cloud 9. I now have 212 followers and counting!

Erin, THANK YOU for such a fabulously flattering piece, and Kyle, thank YOU for passing my line on to her in the first place. When you read Erin's post you will see that Kyle of the also crazy good blog Knight Moves told Miss E about me in the first place. LOVE!

Anywhizzle, I figured a What I Wore was in order for all of my spiffy new followers. My darling friend Justine presented me with a small request two days ago: that my What I Wore posts sometimes reflect clothes that are easy to come by rather than focus on those that are super high end. Deal! So here we go:

Biz tells me I need to pose like a model. Cue laughter.

Tank tops: J.Crew, Shorts: Sheridan French, Sandals: Cole Haan, Necklace: some oriental store in Dallas - can't recall the name, Bracelets: collected over years and years of travels, as well as scouring through my mom's jewelry box, Sunglasses: Target

Starts making fun of my less than par modeling skills. Thanks. Just zip it already and take the close up shots.

That leather cuff is actually from J.Crew kids. I ordered it for Squish because all 1 year olds adore leather cuffs, obviously, but for some reason he rejected its amazingness on the spot. I can't imagine why as there are skull and cross bones and lightning bolts all over it. I'm telling you the kid is crazy. Thankfully it fits me because I have mini wrists like the boys in the Lollipop Guild from the Wizard of Oz.

All of these items - except for the shorts, of course, have to buy the shorts - can be substituted with clothes from Target or Gap or any great store along those lines. Looking good does not need to take lots of money! Just be creative, put your own spin on it and everything will fall into place.

Thank you again to Erin, Kyle, Sarah, Daily Candy Dallas and all of my darling followers for your loveliness!

xoxo Sheridan

p.s. Erin you can be my BFF any time just stay out of the bus lane!