Gone Style: Tee Time (Sponsored & Giveaway)

the following post has been brought to you by Stylemint.com. Thanks, Stylemint!

That's right. We're still talking about postpartum fashion! Because I'm still... postpartum! Anyway. Here we are again, with another exciting post about comfort + style in the fourth trimester... which lasts nine months a year indefinitely I've decided.

A few weeks back I hand picked three comf + cute tees to incorporate into my daily wardrobe. Stylemint.com is Jewelmint's sibling site which means it's ALSO subscription based (all featured monthly tees are $29.99) for those of us looking to update our wardrobes with wearable essentials without fitting room angst. It's also backed by fashion's favorite twins: Mary Kate and Ashley who I once went as for Halloween. I love them. I also love taking fashion quizzes. (RIP Seventeen Magazine) and wearing things that fit me because, hi.

Here are three outfits I wore this past week that made me feel... enthusiastic about leaving the house. (See photo above for proof.)

Tee: c/o Stylemint

Harem Pants: Fluxus

Shoes: Nicole

Glasses: Oliver Peoples

cardi (below): Zara

If it isn't harem pants it's leggings. And if it isn't leggings its denim. I'm still a good three waist-sizes away from my pre-pregnancy weight and have refused to purchase jeans to wear in my fourth trimester. Until my mom bought me a pair this Christmas because I was annoying her with my lack of pants. (Leggings aren't pants! They are too! They are not! They are so! They are SO not!) So here is what I wore yesterday, paired with the necklace Archer made me earlier that morning. (Thanks, Archer!)

tee: c/o stylemint

jeans: BDG (Urban Outfitters)

boots: FRYE

assorted necklaces: gifts from Archer & my aunt

scarf: sidewalk sale/bin thing

My favorite of the three shirts is probably this next little number which I wore with leggings last week. Yes, leggings. And leggings are PANTS. They are PANTS PANTS PANTS!

tee: c/o stylemint

necklace: jewelmint & gift from mom

card: Fluxus

beanie: Forever 21

lipstick: MAC

leggings: AA

boots: thrifted

Wanna win a Stylemint tee of your choice? Just tell me which tee is your fave and how you'd style it and I'll choose one winner via random.org next week, January 5th. In the meantime, you can shop with discount code GIRL for 15% off your first tee purchase. Happy tee-ing!

GGC

Updated: congrats to commenter #82: My Bottle's Up for winning a stylemint tee (wheee!) and thanks to all of you for participating with your stylish comments! xo!

Liner Notes 12/27

Boheme and Reverie's first Christmas has come and gone and tonight is the last night of Hanukkah. We celebrate both holidays, always have, and between Hanukkah dinners and gingerbread house decorating parties, this last week has been one giant celebration of friends and family and babies everywhere. I don't think either baby has NOT donned a pair of arms since we've been here, both of them being passed around like peace pipes. (Reverie anyway. Bo clings to me like a... clinging baby. There isn't a single recent picture of me without her in my arms)

Bo wears Fable's first Christmas dress with a new pair of kicks c/o Gooey

One of the hardest parts of having twins (for me) has been an inability to divide my time equally between both babies. Going through the last week of photos, Bo is always in my arms and Rev, the community baby, always finds her way into the arms of someone new. She's equal opportunity when it comes to love and attention which is wonderfully helpful but I can't help but feel guilty that my attention is usually elsewhere. (Not that Revi seems to mind, but...)

... Meanwhile, hello.

Some of my favorite pictures from the last week have been of my grandparents:

My Nana with Revi:

My Grandpa reading books with Archer and Fable:

My Grandma lol'ing with my mom and sibs:

They personify the joy that years of living can bring and watching them play and read and laugh with my children brings joy in spades. Their good health is our happiness.

Both babies have been sleeping through the night since we arrived, going to sleep between nine and midnight and sleeping until 5:30, sometimes as late as nine. They sleep in a pack n play down here so I think when we return to LA tomorrow, I'll bust out ours and see if that's the trick. Or maybe, at three plus months, we finally turned a corner. Amazing if that's the case.

Baby in reeeeeeeed... is sitting with me. Cheeks and cheeks:

She wore a mushroom shaped beret. The kind you find as a hand-me-down from your big sistttteeeer...

We leave tomorrow, back to the grind of reality with a few exciting perks: a family getaway in Santa Barbara, tickets to see Woody Allen's New Orleans Jazz Band play Thursday night (a Christmas/Hanukkah gift from Hal) which is going to be so amazing and I cannot WAIT.

feeding ducks

holding babies

watching cars

decorating cities

playing princesses

drying nails

being happy

For Christmas Fable got this beautiful dress from my parents and the wings and dress-up clothes from Santa. These pictures were taken Christmas morning after she opened her gifts and promptly ditched her pajamas for something fancier:

For Archer it was all about Tomica:

my gifts:

Hope everyone had a wonderful holiday!

Now let's keep dancing.

GGC