Pastel Florals with a Punch, and the April Capsule

It's officially spring in my world, now that I've swapped out my closet. That means crazy weather, many layers, sweaters and sandals, to bare or not to bare one's legs. 

I am ready for it all. Short dress, warm-ish jacket, floral fishnet tights.

• Blazer - Harve Bernard Collection, thrifted; last seen here in December 2015 to see "The Force Awakens" (loved it)
• Dress - H&M, consignment; last worn here (2nd outfit) in September 2015 for a Winesday at Marian's
• Shoes - Effortless Vivian, Fluevog; purchased here last month on our anniversary trip to Vancouver

This is the first outfit of my April capsule and I fully admit, I didn't have a capsule put together when I picked this, aside from a couple of things that I was thinking of. Ah well, I do like a challenge! 

The dress actually has quite a bit of red in the pattern - I liked how the red blazer looked with it. I wore the jacket as my outerwear with a cotton scarf and my new red hat. Smashing! But I was running late so no picture.

I wasn't too overheated in the outfit so I left the jacket on all day. I like it without very much and will probably do this combination again if we hit a warm day this month.

Don't the new shoes look fab?

The jacket's a very orange-y red. What's that? "Fiesta!" you say?

The stuff:

I have never been a huge fan of pastels, but I find this blue really appealing.

Blue bling!

I'm still thrilled that I only paid $2.00 apiece for the necklace and bracelet.

• Bracelet - Coro, vintage fair, vintage 60s
• Necklace - vintage fair, vintage 60s
• Earrings - local
• Fulvia Ring - Wendy Brandes

One of the reasons I was running late was that I had to find Vizzini to say goodbye.

"As soon as you leave, I'm breaking into your closet."

I zoomed in from across the living room - if I get too close, he'll hop down.

*ahem*

April Capsule!

This is the result of about an hour of poking around in my closet.

Lots of colour (tons of purple for Anne at SpyGirl!), lots of neutrals (I learned my lesson on that years ago - capsules need neutrals), and a variety of items for all occasions that might come up this month.

There are:

• 6 skirts
• 2 pants
• 4 blouses
• 4 jackets/blazers
• 4 dresses

I repeated one item (the pale turquoise ruffled blouse) from the Feb/March capsule. I love it too much!

Here are the sweaters and shoes for the month:

I picked a variety of thicknesses of sweaters for the changeable weather and included one cardigan. I didn't do a lot of pattern this month (only 6 out of 30 are patterned) - I plan to amp up my accessories game with scarves and jewelry.

We have:

• 4 sweaters 
• 6 shoes

I'm not sure if that will be enough shoes - I anticipate some swapping around in my future. I'm excited to start building outfits - this is the fun part.

I find it hard to limit shoes (I'm sure you hadn't noticed). I actually counted when I cleaned out the closet yesterday: I have 90 pairs of shoes! And that's after I removed 6 pairs!