More From Tasha's Fashion Challenge

Do you all remember my 31 days of hats?

Well here are some of my competitors including the creator of the challenge herself, Tasha.
Those of you who are finding yourselves in need of some fashion inspiration in these cold winter days of February, sit yourselves down and enjoy the show.

Oh and don't forget to vote in the end.

31 Days of Sweaters - how to make a free slideshow

After watching Tasha's 31 days of sweaters can you all see why I would want to follow in her fashion footsteps?
Is she not the cutest girl you have ever seen in a sweater?
She should win a prize too :) don't cha think? (Shh... don't worry I have it covered)

Kizoa slideshow: Days of Bling - Slideshow

And here is Reesha's "Days of Bling" show. I loved the scenic bling photos in between.
Whoever Reesha's friend Maria is, well she should get an award too.

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And then of course there was my 31 days of hats.

Another free slideshow design by Smilebox

An Honorary mention should go out to Miss Maria who competed with 31 days of sweaters. Her pictures got eaten off her I phone. Damn Technology! It's either our best friend or our worst enemy.

So my faithful readers who do you think should win Tasha's Fashion Challenge 2012?

My vote unlike a politician would go to Tasha :)

Tasha's Challenge

For the month of January I wore a hat everyday. Why, you ask? For Tasha's Fashion challenge of course. If you haven't heard of these before well then check out some of the others that I have done by following the label "tasha challenge" on the bottom of this blog, or to your right.

You have here the proof of 31 days of hats. The two slide shows exhibit my month of 30 hats. And the final photo on the bottom is my all time favorite hat. Not for how it looks, but for what it says, and for who gave it to me(Thanks Bean).

The above pic is of a really old hat that my Aunt Joan gave me and I Love it. I wanted to incorporate it with a really snazzy dress, but I have so many hats that I am embarrassed to say, some didn't even make it in this month. That beautiful antique was one that didn't make it in.

What can I say, some like shoes, others purses, for me it's all about the hat.

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Like I said before, not much of a challenge for me this time, because I love hats!
Still, to consciously wear one everyday for 31 days was I guess, somewhat of a challenge.
And one of the "3 cups of Awesome", pointed out that I might have actually lost some hair from it, so I should get extra points for that(BIG SMILE)

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It was really fun, and it forced me to get out of the rut of just wearing my favorite "go to" hats. It made me realize that I wear a lot of hats! You can take that literally and figuratively.

Thanks Tasha for making my life richer, fuller, and infinitely cooler :)

Hope you all enjoy this and remember no matter how many hats one might have to wear in life, there is only one YOU! Don't forget to show up as the original, one and only, star of your show :)


* Stay tuned for the other entries to this challenge.

Day 9

Today marks the 9th day of January.
I know it's BIG news like this that you check my blog for, I'm just here to help what can I say!
Ok now that we got that piece of earth shattering information out the way, let me move on to what I was really thinking.

I signed up for another Tasha Challenge, (if you don't know what that is see label below) and what I really wanted to share with you is that this time it kinda feels more like cheating than a challenge. I am to wear 31 days of hats. That's what I signed up for, but the part that feels like cheating is that I wear a hat almost everyday anyways.

In fact, this weekend when I was wearing a hat on Friday night my girlfriend, Shelene said "Cute hat, and I don't think I have ever seen you without a hat."
She's an observant one that Shelene. After she said this I immediately replied "I just don't like to do my hair." And it's true. I will spend countless minutes(I would have said hours but I am trying to be a bit less dramatic in my old age) on my makeup.

I love makeup.

Ask my mom.

Since I was too young to even be wearing make-up I have been having fun painting it up on my face.
But, doing my hair well that's another story. There was a time when I didn't have to choose one or the other, hair or make-up. But somewhere along the way a choice for time purposes had to be made and I chose make-up not hair.

So I started wearing hats.

I love hats.

The hats on this blog are just for fun and ones that I didn't actually purchase so don't go calling the "What Not To Wear Show". They were just hats I was trying on one year at a Bug O Rama show in Sacramento. I did however pick this one here on the bottom. It's cute don't cha think?

You might see it again in my 31 day challenge, minus the flowers and sunglasses.

Tasha if you are reading this doesn't mean that I am disqualified does it?

P.S. Do you think one can get wrinkles from a constant ducky lips look?

Tasha's Challenge

I love my friend Tasha Gardner.
If I were to describe her in a few short sentences this is what I would say;

She is beyond creative.
She loves her husband.

She is a good mom.
She raised and outstanding young man.

She loves VW's.
She introduced me to the world of scrap-booking.


She loves challenges.
She reinvents herself on a regular basis.

She is a good friend.
She is a faithful friend.

Those are just a few of the words I would use to best describe my friend Tasha.

I wanted you all to reacquaint yourselves with Tasha, and her challenges because she has come knocking on the challenge door again and this time I am more prepared and excited than ever!

If you want to you can join in on this fun challenge, here are the ground rules;
Pick a clothing item or genre and wear it for the month of January.
She (Tasha) is going to wear 31 sweaters in 31 days.
I am going to wear 31 different hats.
Emma is going to wear A SCARF for 31 days.

We will of course need documentation of your activity and there will be prizes.
To see some of her previous challenges years past follow the tag below that says ; tasha challenge


Hope this gives you enough time to prepare and join in on all the fun!!

My Shoe Entry For Tasha

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I have been blessed with incredible friends who happen to be very creative.
They make my life so much richer, fuller, and downright fun!
One of my most creative artistic friends would be a lady named Tasha Gardner.
You can see just a portion of her creative genius in the blog listed on the right, VW club.
Anyhew, she put out this shoe challenge in March.
30 days.
30 shoes.
I didn't quite succeed, but I tried my hardest to document the shoes I did wear in that time.
And here is my entry.

If you have been a long time reader of my blog you might remember some years back when Emma and I took her color challenge. Where we were asked to wear a different color everyday.
This really was a lot of fun so thank you once again Tasha for your constant pursuit of all things out of the ordinary :)

Hope you enjoy!

March- Fashion Challenge

The fashion challenge this month from friend Tasha G. was to wear a man's tie. I thought when she first emailed about this that it would be easy but turns out, not so much!!

I also have to admit that I was completely irritated with the stupid thing by the end of the day. It got in the way of everything. I suppose I could have worn one of those fancy pins for it but my honey doesn't own one and all the other pins I had to hold it down just weren't cutting it.

Also, what to wear it with was an issue for me. I had all these great ideas at first and then in the end I just wore Mo's shirt with it. If I didn't have the hat on I would have looked like a waitress. 

Anyway, I did it. It was fun and thankfully I work with people who don't mind if I walk around looking like a buffoon. Pretty much  3,4, and 5 year olds are very easily pleased when it comes to fashion :)

The New Fashion Challenge from my friend Tasha

your fashion mission for march - (SO EASY i think)

to incorporate a man's tie into your daily wear and take a photo. 

**Come on ladies you can do this with me if you want and she gave prizes last time so just a little FYI - they were good prizes.

if you want her email to send your pics i will give it to you and then you can check 

my vw friends for last months blog post that she put up.

This one is going to be fun but I can't decide to wear it the normal manly way or as a bow in my hair, hmm.....??

Day 5- Red

Sorry for the delay on this one. The week kinda caught up with me and I just didn't have time to get this done. But here it is. Whew!!

Check.

Day 4 - Yellow

One word that should win me a prize- Rainbow

Another two words that should give me extra points- Toe Socks!!

Day 3 - Blue

I am not sure how well we pulled off blue. It was certainly a little less subtle than our other colors. Still, this was not a hard one because we could have just worn blue jeans and called it good. Now, tomorrow- yellow- that's going to get interesting. 

Emma is totally getting into this Tasha and I think you need to think of another fashion challenge for us harder than colors.

We both agreed that we could have done the dress under a skirt statement so bring it on!!

Day 2 - Purple

I personally love Emma's outfit and think she should win a prize for being so incredibly cute!!

Day 1 - Fashion Challenge- Green

Green was not so hard to pull off since it is my new favorite color. Emma decided to join me and was up for the challenge being the little Diva that she is. 

I have to say that after taking this picture though it really motivated me to get back up on that treadmill. Can't really feel sorry for myself since it was self inflicted weight gain but still !!

My Mission this week(and could be yours too)

A friend sent this note to me via email last week.

 

"If you choose to except:

monday-friday incorporate these colors into your day's wardrobe documenting each day by photo. at weeks end , the participants will choose one fashionista who not only completed the task but did it beautifully. easy enough?"

monday- olive or lime green

tuesday-purple

wednesday-teal or baby blue

thursday- yellow

friday-red

My friend Tasha's blog where she will posting pics this week can be found at the link to the right ,  myvwfriend. 

Enjoy and join in if you are so inclined.