an odd bird

     Tee with fat stripes + skirt with almost invisible vertical stripes + stepladder = blog post.

Stripedshirt.com tee, won in giveaway from Hayley of The Weekend File

skirt, Banana Republic (old)

sparkly hoop earrings, Old Navy

  
     I feel like this outfit is missing something, but I'm not sure what. The wider stripes of this shirt don't seem to play well with a necklace. I would usually add a belt, but the button tabs at the waist prevent that. Maybe this shirt would look better with my trusty pencil skirt?
  

Left: OK; right: odd

     Today I read the kindergartners and first-graders "Tacky the Penguin" by Helen Lester. If you haven't met Tacky yet, you should. The kids laughed out loud at Tacky, who is repeatedly called "an odd bird" in the story. Not to mention, it's so much fun to voice Tacky (who sings a song called "How Many Toes Does a Fish Have?") as well as the growly, mean hunters. Any day that allows me to sing a silly song as part of my job is a good day in my books.
    While Tacky wears a bright yellow aloha shirt, and I'm wearing stripes, I feel like I'm channeling him in the right photo above ...
    Happy Thursday! I hope you work a little silliness into your day. :)