Before we begin today's post, take a moment to view this post from last year. Done? Perfect!

As you can see below, I have the sweater featured in my Dream Outfit for Christmas Tree picking!!! I scored it at The Outnet during their clearance sale for the slightly less insane, but still expensive, price of $229 (regular price $1075.) I had been in love with it since I saw it on Net-a-Porter last year and am so glad I took the plunge and splurged a bit on it.  Thankfully, it will never go out of style, who doesn't love a cute polar bear print sweater for the holiday season?

So, here's what I wore the day after Thanksgiving to pick out our family Christmas tree at Jones Family Farms! YAY! This is one of my favorite traditions each year, its so fun to hunt through the mountain of trees to find "the one."  I would have liked to buy a tree for my house, but they are too much work so I'm settling for a fake tree from Target. It still gets the job done and I can enjoy a real tree at my parents house, which is only 2 minutes away.

Sweater: Stella McCartney (The Outnet), Leggings: H&M, Boots: Grandma's, Sunglasses: : Ray Ban 'Emma' (Marshalls),  Watch: Skagen (Rue La La), Rings: vintage & Mom's


And some views:

It's the time of year to start thinking about Holiday gifts! With a little help from Marshalls I got an early start on my gifting.  Everything you see below I bought at Marshalls!  I fell in love with the blanket I got at Marshalls a couple months ago so I decided it was the perfect gift for Lydia and Christine.  The blankets were already wrapped making them super easy to give.  I also wanted to give them a couple little trinkets as well so I picked up these fun wrapped chocolate bars and adorable ornaments (a moose and giraffe!)

Marshalls is the perfect place to shop for your gifts, they have everything you could need. Clothes, shoes, accessories as well as a wide selection of home goods.  Have someone that loves wine? They have unique wine glasses and more. They even have a selection of books and journals for the writers and readers in your life.  And the best part? Everything is below retail price - you'll never pay full price for fabulous gifts!

* Disclosure: I have received free products or value from Marshalls or The TJX Companies, Inc. in connection with my affiliation with Marshalls Project FAB.

Here is my Thanksgiving outfit! Thankfully (haha) I had a very short trip to my Thanksgiving festivities this day. I walked over this bridge, took a left and arrived at my Grandmother's house. It is so nice living near family, definitely one of the things I am thankful for each year.  Grandma is next door and my parents are a mile away.

Dress: London Times (from Lydia), Sweater: Everlane,  Belt: Kenneth Cole Reaction (Marshalls), Necklace: Geoclassics, Booties: Alexander Wang (The Outnet), Watch: Skagen (Rue La La), Rings: vintage & Mom's



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The Net-a-Porter End of Season Sale started on Friday and I already made my first purchase/splurge, these Burberry Prorsum loafers! Normally I try to wait for further reductions on the sale before buying anything but they were selling out quick and I had to pounce.  Below are a bunch of other pieces from the sale that I would love to add to my closet, if only I had the money.




Clothing items: (scroll through to view them all!) The numbers in the slideshow are full price, click through for sale price

I do love short work weeks! Why can' all weeks be 3 days of work and 4 days of weekend? I think that would make the world a much happier place. That way we'd be working to live and not living to work.  I hope everyone in the US had a great Thanksgiving yesterday! Mine was full of Turkey and television.  Today we're headed to the Christmas Tree Farm to get our tree! YAY!!!

I ended up only going into the office on Tuesday this week. I won't go into all the details but Monday was out of my control and Wednesday my boss kindly let me stay home to avoid the holiday traffic.  So I'll share Tuesday's outfit in next week's this week in fashion

And now a couple extras from my date night post and other Lydia outfit shoots.

P.S. If you could vote for me in this Foot Petals contest (Megan B.) I would greatly appreciate it! You can vote once a day and enter to win a Foot Petals gift set!

P.P.S. The Outnet is having some special deals for the holiday weekend!

• Friday (Black Friday): Extra 30% off Weekend Shop In
• Saturday – Monday: Free Shipping with $250 purchase with codeFREESHIPWKND

P.P.P.S. Net-a-Porter's End of Season Sale started!!! YAY! I already bought these, normally I wait a while but I couldn't resist.