Outfit Post: Blitzed

I am a pretty busy person. Busier than I'd like to be sometimes. I have three part time jobs and a full time job (as a mom).  So even though I am social and love people, I don't get out very much.  I'd rather spend my free time with my husband and my daughter--I can tell how much I have changed because even 3 or 4 years ago, I would have been telling you how, in my ideal world, I would still have events to go to and my husband and I would have very separate lives and interests, but also overlapping ones, but...we're one of those couples.  We're in luuuuuuuuv.  And Aurora is awesome, and I hate missing any of the cool stuff she does.

So, okay, I confess, I am a suburban mom now. I am not ashamed.

But I still like to dress up and meet new people, and so, along with Katie, I stepped out of my homey comfort zone to attend the first blogger event I've attended in a long time(Blogger Blitz DC) .  And this is what I wore (trying  to momentarily hide/forget the fact that I am 30 and a mom, since most of the people at this event were under 25, living fabulous DC lives with shopping budgets and city apartments):

 Outfit details:  tank-Urban Outfitters, belt-vintage, 1950s full skirt-vintage via greatest friend on Etsy, shoes-Blowfish via 6pm.com, hair bow-vintage bowtie, necklace-30th bday gift from Katie, earrings-H&M

I have finally settled into my style. I know what I love, I know what looks good on me, I have a pretty regular hair and makeup regimen, and I have particular places I shop and hunt for inspiration.  I am (most of the time) comfortable in my own (tattooed) skin. 

 But let me be honest: I still felt like an outsider at this event, wearing "old" clothes, wondering what my two year old was doing at the moment (and trying not to text Q every 15 minutes), drinking an Allagash White instead of sipping a glass of wine...no, I'm not 20 anymore, and maybe I'm not really DC, but for a few hours, it was almost pretty to think so.

xo,
Amanda