1 Skirt 3 Days (Day 1)

I'm late putting this up, I know, but I have a very valid excuse.  We were hosting a benefit dinner and concert for the camp yesterday and I was busy preparing, setting up, hosting, and taking it all back down again from 9:00(AM) to almost midnight yesterday!  But the benefit was a success, so it was definitely worth a crazy day week.

I kind of cheated and wore two different outfits yesterday and I'm not wearing the skirt today.  It just worked better because I had to wear something to set up for the banquet in and a fancier outfit for the actual banquet.  Plus our youth group was doing physical plant work at the local Pregnancy Crisis Centre this morning, and a pencil skirt is not the most practical thing to do physical labour in! 

 Sorry I didn't get more pictures.  It was kind of a "Quick get some pictures while we have a second and before the boys figure out a way to get that boat motor inside and need us again!" photo-shoot.

I got this shirt from my best friend.  We didn't get a head-on picture, but it has this really cool zebra pattern over the top half which, depending on how you look at it, has three different zebra heads on it.

I chose a plain, navy blue pencil skirt to style because of it's basic colour and cut - you can do a lot with something simple.  It's a little harder to make a very flamboyant skirt look different in three different outfits.

What I'm wearing: green shirt(gift) // pencil skirt (thrift store $0.50) // hot pink rubber flip-flops (dollar store $1.25)

I found these shoes at the thrift store on Wednesday when we were getting vases and doilies for the banquet centrepieces.  I always wear through at least one pair of shoes in a summer, no matter the quality, so I've taken to getting summer shoes from the dollar store.  Three pair of dollar store shoes will last me longer than a $15 pair from Walmart, so I go with that.  These are all completely rubber, so I can wear them in the rain, through mud, whatever and they are super easy to clean!  They're not exactly what I would usually wear, but  they're ever so practical (and, I just realized, they are the exact same colour as my swimsuit)!  

What do you think?  Would I be better off to buy an expensive pair of shoes that should last a couple of years, or are dollar store shoes the way to go for camp?

In His Grace,

Laurel