What I Wore Sunday: Dublin green + leopard

Happy St. Patrick's Day! I'm on call this weekend, partly because none of the other medical students wanted it (I'm assuming they wanted to take part in some of the festivities in honor of today). I was fine taking it since Stephen is working, and we wouldn't have been partying anyways (although I wouldn't have minded a green beer). I'm counting my blessings since I was extremely lucky to not have any middle of the night calls (!) over the weekend. We did have a major surgery this morning (massive bleeding inside the abdomen) which scary enough to take away any small inkling I might have of being a general surgeon. 

St. Patrick's Day makes me think of Stephen's roots. His grandparents came here from Ireland, and one of the things on our bucket list is to travel there someday...

Top and scarf: J. Crew

Pants: J. Crew Factory

 The color of this shirt is called "Dublin green" so I thought it was appropriate to wear today. This is one of my absolute favorite blouses; I wear it with dress pants to work all the time, but it works just as well with jeans and boots for a night out. I also think it pairs perfectly with leopard (something about green + leopard print). And for anyone else who religiously watches the Bachelor, Sean's sister definitely wore this shirt on the finale in Thailand which makes me like her even more (you should definitely check out her blog which I'm pretty sure I found via Grace).

Linking up of course with What I Wore Sunday. Also joining Plane Pretty and the Woestmans.

What I Wore Sunday: Chunky knits + striped skirt

The weekend has gone by way too fast, as per usual, but I've enjoyed being off and not living in fear of my pager going off (that'll be next weekend). My crazy hours this past week affected my sleep schedule, and I was up at 6:30 this morning (actually 5:30, thank you dearly hated spring forward time change). But happily, Stephen and I really did get to have a date night last night (and yes, I wore the striped dress!) I also made it to Pilates today, which was pure torture but necessary. We'll be hitting up Sunday mass later tonight...

Today seemed like a cozy sweater and chunky scarf kind of day (we're bracing ourselves for 12 more inches of snow tonight). This skirt was an Old Navy find last year (similar here) and was well worth it, since it goes with pretty much anything and works any time of year (tights and boots for winter, sandals and a tee for summer). 

Linking up of course with Fine Linen and Purple for What I Wore Sunday. Also joining Plane Pretty and the Woestmans. 

Happy Sunday!

 Cowl: Etsy

Cable sweater (old, Gap)

Skirt (Old Navy, similar)

Boots (Madewell)

A striped dress...

Joining Kristina (doctor fashion blogger!) of Pretty, Shiny, Sparkly for Bloggers Do It Better: Black and White Stripes (more black and white stripes looks here, here and here)

I normally don't have much luck at T.J. Maxx. Everything either doesn't fit quite right, is too teeny-bopper, has holes or snags in weird places, or is hidden in some clothes rack of craziness and I never find it. This dress, however, was different. My sister and I went to T.J. Maxx last weekend and I tried it on for fun, fully expecting it to meet the aforementioned criteria, and was pleasantly surprised. I didn't exactly need it, so I tried to talk myself out of it unsuccessfully (I blame part of it on my sister, who gushed about its wonderfulness). I knew there was no turning back when I went home and tried it with boots, a belt, and my favorite scarf.

Despite the excitement over my stellar find, I have to give full disclosure that it is not what I wore today (or yesterday). What I did wear was OR scrubs, which make getting dressed at ungodly hours of the morning easier but are not really outfit post worthy. However, I'm super excited to wear this for Stephen and I's next date night, which is hopefully not too far in the distant future (not looking super promising right now since I'm on call for general surgery this weekend and Stephen works next weekend).

Dress: French Connection via TJ Maxx (similar)

Boots: Madewell

Belt: Madewell

Scarf: Etsy (old)