Layer Up Week! Tones of Reds and Oranges

Welcome to Layer Up Week! This is going to be a fun one! I spent about an hour yesterday putting together outfits for the week. 

Unfortunately, it's supposed to snow all week, but we'll see how that goes. I might be wearing snow pants to work and changing there! I'm also still in the midst of destruction/construction (today, they sawed a hole through the drywall in my office supply room), so I might have to do a mid-week adjustment.

Anyway, enough of my blathering, let's get on with the layers! Here's today's outfit:

My inspiration is the 70s! I remember that in the early to mid 70s, wearing a short-sleeved sweater over a blouse was a big trend. I actually quite like how this turned out.

I usually wear this little red sweater as a layering piece under jackets or on its own. That's my favourite paramecium blouse underneath (ha! I wore it in the last challenge!).

This is the second wear of my orange suede skirt. I really liked all the tones of orange and red together - apparently orange is a big "in" colour right now. Ooh, look at me, hanging with the cool kids...

My outerwear:

All ready for a blizzard, should one appear. This coat is my lifesaver when it's really chilly out.

The stuff:

I do love a heeled loafer! And check out the micro-square cutouts on the centre panel of the skirt.

I did all vintage jewelry:

The touches of blue popped really nicely off the orange and red.

Oops, forgot to take a picture of the ring:

That's one of Grandma J's.

Don't forget to pop over to Patti's for Visible Monday!

Sweater (Reitman's, thrifted), blouse (Liz Claiborne), skirt (Co & Eddy, thrifted), shoes (Hilary Radley, thrifted), jewelry (vintage 50s/60s, earrings: Renoir, pin: no name, ring: Grandma J's).

Vizzini is almost all better - right back at leaping up onto counters, and climbing to the very top of the scratching post. I caught him settled inside my bag on the weekend:

"I'm a cat in a bag."

He always has that slightly pyscho look to him. He never blinks.