Club Monaco Off The Shoulder Shirt // J. Brand Jeans {love these more!} // Banana Republic D’Orsay Heels {similar} // Valentino Purse {Sold out, but love this one – and  this one too…} // J.Crew Bracelet {similar} // Lancome Lipstick Lip Crayon in Oui, Monsieur

Oh hey there, it’s me! I know, it’s been awhile…

I wish I had a super solid reason to excuse my radio silence over here, but the truth is that I just needed a break to focus on other things happening in my life. That makes it sound like I was dealing with a bunch of drama, but really – I was pretty much having an awesome time all around. I spent time catching up with friends, visited family over the weekends, planned trips, went on cute dates, and did all that stuff that I’d been putting off to be responsible over the last few months. Turns out, sometimes you need a few weeks to be a little irresponsible too – especially when work seems to taking up a good chunk of that responsibility time 😉

But really, I’m going to try to get back in the game in the next few weeks! I have some exciting projects up my sleeve and I’m planning a trip to Austin with my friend Evalyn for later this month! And I’ve been spending the last few days with my friend Jen (someone I actually met years ago through blogging!) and her husband Pat – showing them around Chicago and trying to convince them to move from Vancouver to the U.S. because I selfishly don’t want to have to fly every time to visit them 😉 Hopefully after this weekend they’ll be applying for their green card – fingers crossed.   We can play a little more catch up later, but I wanted to share one of my new favorite tops I splurged on a few weeks ago. I’ve clearly been drinking the Kool-Aid when it comes to the off the shoulder trend, and when I spotted this flowy top while “window shopping” at Club Monaco a few weeks ago, I know I had to irrationally buy it.

Honestly, it was a completely silly thing to do for how much it cost (I tend to usually be a little frugal in the clothing buying department) – but I’ve been wearing it on repeat every day it’s over 60 degrees outside. While I’ve been trying to buy less clothes I’ve been trying to focus on quality pieces that fill gaps in my closet, and clearly I had to hop on the off the shoulder trend ASAP after being a little obsessed from everyone’s Instagram feeds this season. A special shoutout to all my much more fashionable blogger friends for feeding the obsession 😉  Okay, I promise to not abandon everyone for quite so long again – but now that the sun’s up I’m going to try to put a little more emphasis on fun, and a little less emphasis on stressing myself out/working myself dry (and I hope you do the same thing too!) I hope you’re all enjoying the sunnier weather, patio season, tacos + margaritas + fun times too, you deserve it friends!