Ten Days Of Pearls

Bee ~ Atlantic-Pacific fashion blog
http://www.atlantic-pacific.blogspot.com/

What I have grown to love about the Blog'o'Sphere is all of the ideas and inspirations from fantastic cooking, to the most creative DIY projects I've ever seen, to the link parties that feature fashion of women from around the entire world.  It's just amazing.  Inspiring.  Real Life, Daily Impacting, as I find myself creating and putting together things I've now been exposed to via the Blog'Sphere that I never would have done or created without the nudge of seeing it done by girls just like you and me and realizing that I can do it too.  

Last night I was doing some late night blog hopping and found myself on the fashion blog Atlantic-Pacific featuring Bee.  Oh my word.  I about died with fascination.  Her style and color combinations are just incredible.  I clicked page by page through her entire 2011 picture collection, and then went to her very first post back in 2010 and scrolled page by page up the entirety of her 2010 picture collection.  Wow.  

Now that I'm IN MY THIRTIES, 3.1 to be exact, I have been thinking it's about time I evolve my style, add a little sophistication, and god forbid, maybe some color. I was inspired by these photo's not to necessarily emulate, but to be brave and take a chance with fun crazy color pairings, and see how fab a nude shoe can be made with so many different looks, and how adding a wrist of  bangles adds amazing, completing detail to an outfit. As I scanned her photo's I was especially drawn to this big gorgeous glowing pearl necklace..

and she paired it with sooo many different looks!

look at those pink nails!

I just adore the sailor striped dress with the pearls!

 http://www.atlantic-pacific.blogspot.com/

seriously.
orange blazer with textured mustard sweater, blue pants, leopard flats, and big ol pearls.
who would have thought??  She did!  I'm just enthralled.

via http://www.atlantic-pacific.blogspot.com/

I was sitting there browsing picture to picture to picture and kept seeing and being drawn to those pearls and I thought gosh, I actually have a pearl necklace I got years ago at Banana Republic kinda like that... I've worn it just a hand full of times because I'm never quite sure what to pair it with [as if there is a "correct" way to pair it, cause after all the ways I just saw her do it, Pearls can be rocked any dang way you want to rock it] and then I just happened to scan her tags on what came from where and I seriously squealed ~ "Necklace: Banana Republic (old)" ~  O.M.GoodLord! I dashed to my bedroom to my jewelry frame to prove it annddd...

HER pearls are MY pearls!!! 

See!?!

[top left corner]

holy mother of pearls

And so begins, with virtual kisses and hugs to Bee of Atlantic-Pacific:

M's 10 days of Pearls.  

I WILL wear my Pearls and 

I WILL wear them 10 ways, over 10 days

with combinations I would have never dared try. 

Thank you for the inspiration Bee!

-m-