Honorary Blogiversary + Favorite Outfits of 2012
Now, although I’ve been blogging for over five years, when I made the switch from WordPress.com to my self-hosted WordPress.org site as you see now, I somehow lost all my previous archives. This blog only has about four years or so on it… (I did not know what I was doing back then. At all. Heck, I still barely know what I’m doing). So, I’m making today my honorary blogiversary. I just know it was sometime in 2007 that this thing was born.
Anyway. I’ve come a long way in five+ years of blogging. This blog has seen me through good times and bad times. Job losses and job gains. Moves. Marriage. The whole works. And I like that. If I want this blog to be a true representation of me, then I want it to represent ALL of me. And I’ve changed over time. So, naturally, my blog has changed, too.
But, I never would have, in a million years, thought it’d become what it’s become. And I love it. I love sharing my life, my faith, my successes, my struggles, and my attempts at fashion with you guys. And I love that you guys come back day after day and read it. It seriously means the absolute world to me.
I mean, look at this – my FIRST outfit post photo compared to my last outfit I posted yesterday:
Ironically, or coincidentally, that first outfit photo was taken in an Old Navy dressing room. The outfit photos from yesterday were taken in the parking lot BEHIND Old Navy. Total coincidence. Not planned, yet still rather comical.
Anywho. I’m rambling, per usual.
I thought, since we’re nearing the end of the year, and since today is my honorary blogiversary, and a lot of you readers may be newer readers and haven’t been around here for a while, I thought I might as well share some of my favorite looks from 2012! You can see all of my outfits on my outfits page.
FAVORITE OUTFITS OF 2012
What was your favorite look of 2012? When is your blogiversary? Any trends you loved / hated / wanted to try this year?
Happy Thursday!
I can’t pick a favorite but anytime that you wear your pink boots it makes me smile 🙂 Happy New Year beautiful friend! xo
you are the best. thank you so much, marissa!
I’ve absolutely loved watching your style evolve since I found your blog early this year! Happy blogiversary!
thank you so much, jamie! <3
Congratulations on your “Anniversary”! 🙂 Wow, 5 years is awesome! I just love all of these looks…so much great colour and style! Cheers to another year of fashion and blogging!
xo Jenny
http://www.crazystylelove.com
jenny you are the best! thank you so much, girl
Congrats on your blog anniversary! Wow cannot believe you’ve been blogging for 4 years! I’ve been blogging regularly for about a year now 🙂 Here’s to many more!
KatiesBliss.com
thank you so much, katie!
Great looks! I love the chevron dress. Glad I found your blog. Can’t wait to see what’s in store for 2013 😉
~Whitney
thank you so much, whitney!
You have been blogging for FIVE years!!!!! Wowwzers!!! You go girl. You know you are one of my faves!!! I adore you and your fab style!! Cheers to many more!!
thank you so much, shanna. you are seriously the best, girl.
Happy honorary blogiversary! When I look back and see some of my early posts I have the same reaction as yours to your bubble wrap post. And that is really funny that you happened to be behind an Old Navy after being in the Old Navy for your first one! How fun! Do you like being on WordPress? I’m thinking about switching from blogger to wordpress but am afraid of losing lots.
thank you so much, meghan!! hahaha i’m so glad i’m not the only one that looks at old posts and goes, “WHAT?!”
Happy Blogiversary! I love all of your favorite outfits-especially the more recent one with the lace dress and leather accents… and the older gold shorts. Who wouldn’t want a pair of shorts like that!
thank you so much, jenn!
So happy I stumbled across your blog, its so cute! Happy blog birthday! I cant wait to follow along!
xo Rach
Enter the Alex and Ani Giveaway!
thank you so much, rach <3
Old Navy is just a great place to be!! 🙂
My favorite outfit of yours is the chambray top with the lace skirt. Gorgeous!
hahah right?! my thoughts exactly. thank you so much, ashley!
girl! you have such great style! i need your fashionista ways! haha. i get so lost in this area! also, if you EVER need photos taken of your super cool style for some of your posts, i would LOVE to! just lemme know! 🙂 and if i had to pick a favorite dress, it’d be the lace with the leather jacket! LOVE IT! 🙂
thank you so much, ashley!! and are you serious? are you ever in North Carolina? that would be awesome. right now it’s just me and my trusty tripod!! lol!!
yes! where in north carolina are you? i have some family in durham, a friend near wake forest, and other family in greensboro. just lemme know! 🙂 it would be so much fun! 🙂
that’s awesome! i live in hillsborough which is RIGHT NEXT to durham!! girl, you let me know when you’re down this way and we’ll totally set up a date. that would seriously be awesome.
I really love the looks you’ve been rocking with the leather jacket lately! But a great year in fashion overall too 🙂
Sea and Swank
thank you so much, susie!
I like all your outfits, but the outfit I could see myself wearing would be the jeans and red cowboy boots.
The blogiversary of my current blog is 2/27/2012. I started blogging 6/15/2008. But that blog was not public the whole time and I didn’t really write it for an audience. I’m not really writing this one for an audience, either, but I am more aware that my story can touch others’ stories so it is public. I enjoy blogging, though I’ve not built a large community it’s been fun to get to know a couple people through blogging. Like you, lady.
thank you so much, anne!! yeah i know what you mean – i don’t even count my LiveJournal. LOL!! oh my LiveJournal.
HAPPY BLOGIVERSARY! Wow, you’ve been at it awhile… I love that you’ve really used this blog as an opportunity to reflect yourself… not just how you want to be seen. Quite honestly, it’s allowed me to learn more about you as my friend, too! 🙂 You are amazing!
PS – of those you posted, I like the outfit with the black bubble necklace and black biker-esque jacket the most…but it’s honestly hard to choose!!
thank you so much, em. <3 you!
Happy Blogiversary!! I’m glad it’s your blogiversary because that means you have tons of posts for me to look through that I have missed out on, since I just fell into the blogging world a couple of months ago!! I love the last look with the leather jacket and chevron shirt. It’s probably my favorite, followed by the lace skirt outfit and the belted blazer outfit. SO SO cute! All of them 🙂 Thanks for blogging, yours is my favorite!
you are so sweet, rebecca! thank you for always being such an encouraging word every single day!!! 🙂
Happy honorary blogsaversary!!! Your favorite outfit posts are all amazing, and they’re some of mine too! It’s so fun to see your first post, and your first outfit post compared with yesterday’s (and a riot that they were both in or outside Old Navy)!
thank you so much, niki! you are always so encouraging and awesome. thank yoU!!
I LOVE that belted tweed jacket! but also love the lace and flannel! too many cute outfits to pick a favorite!
thank you so much, katie!
Such an amazing round up of outfits Molly!
thank you so much, tara!
Wahoo happy blogiversary!!! You’ve created such a fabulous site!! XOXO
http://cchicc3.wordpress.com
thank you so much, chelsea 🙂 <3 LIOB!
SO many beautiful outfits from 2012!!!!! Lots of inspiration 🙂 I LOVE that you took your first outfit photo in old navy and took your most previous one in the parking lot of old navy, hilarious!
haha, i know, right? i realized it as i was putting those images together. so weird. thank you so much for your sweet comments, Rachel! you are the bomb.
I loved seeing your looks from all the years – it’s been great knowing you through the blogging world – happy blogivesary dear 😉
XO
Pearls & Paws
thank you so much, heather!! 🙂 YOU are so wonderful!
ohh congrats on blogging for 4 years! that’s a long time, and it deserves some celebration! Hope you had a great christmas and may many many more years of blogging come for you!
thank you so much!! <3 <3
Wow! 5 years?! Go you!
I love seeing bloggers’ styles evolve and change over the course of following them – it’s so fun. I love your adorable, effortless style and look forward to your posts in 2013! 🙂
thank you so much, Megan!! 🙂 you are SO fabulous and I love reading your blog, too!! i’m so glad we’ve become blog buddies!
My proud mama feelings are starting to swell up again….. Your style had evolved so much and I absolutely love it….. The last one is my favorite!!
Brooke @ what2wear
Love you <3 so much!
Happy blogiversary! I didn’t realize you’ve been blogging for so long! My favorite look of yours was the one with the sequin shorts 🙂
-Sharon
The Tiny Heart
thank you SO much, Sharon! You are always so so sweet. Thank you <3
Wow, five years! That takes a lot of dedication and how cool that you have all of those posts to look back on, it’s like a digital scrapbook. (Which I guess is sort of the point!) That’s really exciting, congratulations! 🙂 It’s really fun to take a quick look back through in your post here, that chambray shirt and lace skirt is still one of my favorite outfits of yours!
it’s definitely been a labor of love at times, but honestly, i love it. it’s such a fun creative outlet for me!! thanks, Katie for always being so encouraging!
I’m actually not sure when my original blogiversary is because somewhere along the line, I lost all of my archives too… I do know that my earliest entries dated November 1997, so I consider that my blogiversary month. Interestingly, I discovered that yesterday (December 26) was my six year Twitter anniversary.
yeah – if i count my LiveJournal (ohhhh LiveJournal) who knows how far i’d go back!! haha. good times!!! congrats on the Twitterversary!! 🙂