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{My Little Heart} Sorry for my blogging absence but I had to scramble and get everything packed on Friday and try and figure out how to move up my flight home from Wednesday to Saturday all the while, making sure that I had all of my Christmas shopping done. I flew to Ottawa on Saturday, then had to drive 5 hours to where my extended family live, and then drove back on Monday night! Phewww, I'm exhausted! Today I managed to coerce my sister to take some outfit pictures while Quinn was resting with Grandma, or Mamie is what she'd rather be called. I picked up this dress the day before leaving, as H&M is having  crazy good sale right now! I just couldn't resist even though I promise myself not to buy anything for me during the Holidays. But this dress was $10. Really! I think I'm going to go through with my "Buy Nothing New" challenge in the New year. I'll elaborate on all of my rules in another post closer to the year end but it'll basically involve...

                   I know that bloggers (especially us "fashion" bloggers) can get alot of flack for being a little on the narcissistic side, well i'm not going to help the situation by making this next statement: my outfit rocks. Ok, maybe not rocks but can I just say how much I love how it all came together? The girly, peach ruffly blouse, clashing with the black skirt and lace tights? I'm loving this combination. At first I thought that the double ruffles (blouse + peplum skirt) might be a little much and feel free to let me know your thoughts on this, but once I tried it on, it didn't seem to be bad at all. I first saw this blouse on Beatrice from Dear Beatrice and instantly fell in love with it (she wore it here ). Well, as soon as I found out that it was H&M, I booked it over there and instantly made the purchase. I couldn't help it. This blouse was destined to be in my wardrobe. I guess...