Top/Blazer: Custom (Similar) // Skirt: Similar Plus Size, Similar, Similar, Similar // Shoes: Calvin Klein (here and here) // Clutch: Similar, Similar, Similar, Similar, Similar // Watch: Similar

Happy Friday!!!  You guys, I just have to start this post with a praise report!!  God has been so good to me, especially this week!  This has been an awesome week for the Queen of Sleeves blog!  I think God has been placing the right people in my path as I go along this journey.  Like I mentioned in my last post, I was invited to a small event to meet Claire Sulmers of Fashion Bomb Daily, and she selected me for a feature as the bombshell of the day on Monday on her blog (here)!  That was all God.  My blogger friend had an extra ticket and invited me the same day as the event, and it was such a good opportunity that I made myself available.  I think God ordered my steps to be there.  Btw, thanks so much to all of you who voted for me as a bombshell, who commented, and who liked the post on Instagram.  I felt so much love and support.  I really appreciate all of you guys!!  My family/friends/readers are the bomb dot com!

So, continuing with this praise report, a few days later I met with some other Houston bloggers to discuss a group trip to New York Fashion Week (NYFW)!!  Isn’t that exciting?? I’m going to NYFW this year!  I can’t wait.  I think it’ll be quite an experience!  It sounds like a lot of fun…runways, shows, events, parties, networking!  It’s actually somewhat fitting that the first picture in this post looks like I’m strutting down a runway!  I have a lot to do before NYFW, and I have so much to learn. I need to get business cards and do all types of other things, like create a media kit, whatever that is….

Then finally, just yesterday I was approved to join Rewardstyle/LIKEtoKNOW.it!!  Some of you may not know what that is.  It’s an affiliate marketing company and monetization platform for bloggers. But it’s also a benefit to you because it makes it possible to shop my posts directly from Instagram!  If you are on Instagram and follow some bloggers, I’m sure you’ve seen posts that say, “screenshot or like this pic to shop the product details from the new LIKEtoKNOW.it app available now from the app store!” or other similar captions.   Now I’m part of that (or I will be once I figure out how to use it. lol)!!  If you have an iPhone (*rolls eyes* it doesn’t appear they have an app for android yet, which is wiggity wack), you can download the app and like or screenshot my Instagram posts and the shopping details will be at your fingertips in the app!!!   Also, if you sign up here, you’ll receive emails with shoppable links when you “like” my Instagram photos with the LIKEtoKNOW.it hashtags/links.  I’m super excited because apparently Rewardstyle/LIKEtoKNOW.it is for the cool kids of blogging.  You have to apply and get accepted in order to use these tools. And I got accepted!! Yay me! Man, I thank God for His favor. No joke, when I sent off my application, I prayed over it and the Lord answered!  God is good!! Look out for LIKEtoKNOW.it on my Instagram!

Ok, well, I guess I should talk about the outfit in this post now.  I don’t even have that much to say.  Haha.  I had this top/jacket made by my tailor when I was in Austin.  I was inspired by something I had seen on Instagram or Pinterest…I don’t even remember which.  I love this skirt…I got it from Forever 21 awhile back (you’ve seen it before here), but of course, I’ve linked to similar skirts at the beginning of this post and below!  The clutch I’m carrying is my go-to clutch for when I go out.  I love the gold accents, and it has a chain, so it’s a perfect crossbody.   This look is something I would wear in a slightly more conservative way to work (different bag, different shoes, and maybe even a belt), then switch out the bag/shoes and glam it up a little bit for happy hour!

I hope you had as great of a week as I did!  If not, I pray your weekend and next week will be amazing!  God bless you all, and thanks so much for reading!!!

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Photographer: Jerren Willis Photography