Hump Day!!

I am so excited we are already half way through this week!  I have had such a busy week so far and the fact that I have not been feeling good makes it even worse!

Today is the first day where I finally feel like myself again and we are adding new fun things to the store!  So double the fun!!

Some of the looks below are from our new line called Mikarose.  They are a great brand that I am so excited about carrying and their pieces are to DIE FOR!!!  If you have not bought any of their pieces I encourage you to do so becuase they will change your life...well maybe not your life, but at least your confidence for the day!

Wearing the Olivia Dress by Mikarose

Wearing the Charlotte Dress by Mikarose

Wearing the Lovelace Pencil Skirt with the Desert Rose Top

Wearing our Bailey Dress by Mikarose

I hope you all have a great rest of the week and a great weekend!!  Also please stop by our store for some new arrivals!  

love,

PipLey

Love Fall!!

Hey everyone,

I feel so refreshed after a little time away from the blog and I am coming back super excited that Fall fashion is right around the corner!!  I love living in the mid-west and getting to feel all 4 seasons!  It is so exciting when you start to feel the temperature dropping in the evening and noticing that it isn't reaching 90 degrees anymore during the day!  As much as I HATE Winter....I LOVE Fall!!!

I am so excited this year because I fell like the Fall trends are a little more edgy this year!  I love the look of all the moto jackets paired with floral dresses, or maxi dresses.  Probably my favorite trend right now is the camo trend.  I am not talking about looking like you are going hunting, but a little bit here and there is so fun.  I am loving all the colors for Fall this year too!

With Fall quickly approaching we are adding some new arrivals to the store as well!  I am sure you have all heard of the PIKO TOP CRAZE going on right now, well I am getting some for the store!  I am so excited about these tops and how amazingly soft they are!!!  I have also added a new line by Mikarose, they have beautiful vintage inspired clothing.

Charlotte Dress by Mikarose

Bailey Dress by Mikarose

Sabrina Black Peplum Dress by Mikarose

Desert Rose Blouse by Mikarose 

paired with

Lovelace Pencil skirt

Soon to be arriving Piko Tops!!

We are so happy to say we are growing very steadily as a small boutique and I could never do that without the love and support from all of you!  We reached a huge milestone today on our Facebook page and surpassed the 1,000 mile marker!!  We are quickly growing on Twitter and Instagram as well!

Thank you all so much,
Love,
PipLey

A Celebration!

I am so thankful to you all whether you follow this blog or one of our social media sites for all your kind words and prayers through a very difficult time.  My amazing grandmother went to meet our Heavenly Father on September 7, 2013.  As much as I miss her I am so happy that she no longer will be in pain and can now dance all she wants!

As I said in the title this post is about celebrating the 93 years she lived on this earth and more importantly the almost 30 years I got with her (she died 2 days before my 30th birthday).  As I could write a book on how amazing this woman was and how much I loved her, I decided to do more of a 10 things I love and remember about her!  She was an incredible artist, but her talent was only a little part of who she was.  She was incredibly strong, happy, loving, caring, soulful, faithful, loyal, and charismatic.  So here are the best 10 things about my Grandma Helen

1.  She could light up any room with her presence and laughter

2.  Her hands that she hated so much created the most beautiful things I have ever seen

3.  She had so much tenacity and fight in her

4.  She supported any idea or journey I wanted to go on (she was so excited when I opened our store, and thought it was so cool even if she didn't understand how you could shop online)  :)

5.  She was an avid Hoosier fan, but loved her some Peyton Manning

6.  She had 10 grandchildren that she loved more than anything.  I am lucky enough to be her #10

7.  Her and I share the same middle name "Dreatha"

8.  She hated all 5 of my tattoos until I got one in honor of her and she thought it was the most           beautiful thing she had ever seen!!  It is her handwriting on my arm.

9.  Every time I spent the night with her (my grandpa died when I was 3, so I was with her often) we would watch Golden Girls, stay up late, and eat Planters Cheese Curls (the ones in the can)!

10. I truly believe we are kindred spirits and after her death and reading her journal I am learning how much more alike we were than I thought!!

I could honestly go on and on about the woman that meant so much to me but I wont.  I am still trying to deal with the thought that I will no longer be able to hold her hand, or see her beautiful blue eyes.  I still catch myself when I think that I need to head to the nursing home for a few hours, or if the girls color something and catching myself before I tell them to save it and show GG.  She was such a huge part of mine and my girls lives that it seems surreal that she is no longer here. 

As we continue to go about our lives and running our store we will always know that she is looking down on us and guiding us in her own way.  I know that she is up there painting the most beautiful sunsets we have ever seen, and I know that she is once again united with her beloved husband and loved ones that went before her.  I am comforted to know that I will see her again one day and I can't imagine what that reunion will feel like!

Love,
PipLey

In Memory of Helen Dreatha Whetstone 1/15/1920 - 9/7/2013

 

Need a break...

Hello everyone,

I am so sorry I have not posted anything for a while.  If you follow some of our social media outlets then you know that I am dealing with the approaching loss of someone very dear to me.  My grandmother who is 93 will be leaving this earth shortly and rejoining our Heavenly Father, her husband, two of her kids, and many other loved ones in heaven.  I am so sad to not be able to hear her voice anymore, or call my kids sweethearts, but I know she will be so much better where she is going.



I love her so dearly and this will be a huge loss to our family.  As we deal with this in the coming weeks I will be MIA for a while as I grieve the loss of a beautiful and amazing woman.  I will also celebrate all that she has taught me and my children and everything she has given me.

Love,
PipLey

It's Not All Glamour!!

So as you know I have two crazy little girls that run my life for me and I just pretty much sit back and have a say every once in a while!  What you don't know is that I keep a journal for both of my girls, and reading back on some of the entries I noticed just how many times my kids have completley embarassed me!!  So I thought I would share these humilating stories every Friday just so you all can see that my life is not as glamorous and fashionable as my pictures on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter make it seem!

Most of my stories are about my oldest daughter Finley and that is mainly becuase Pippa just does and says whatever the ring leader  Finley does!!

My first and most horrific stories are when I take the girls into a public bathroom!!  You never really think about the mind of a 3-4 year old until you are in this situation!  My girls (especially Finley) are very much like their mother in that they have no filter when it comes to saying what they want or think!  With that said you can imagine where this is going.....as I have so many bathroom stories this one I will keep to when your child has to go #2!!

First of all I don't understand why public bathrooms have to echo!!!  I mean with a high pitched voice like my kid has...she can be heard for miles!  So when she has to poop while we are out I start sweating.  I always try and tell her that what we do in the bathroom is just for us to know and not everyone wants to know what is going on in the stall next to them, but it goes in one ear and out the other.  She imediatley announces that she has to poop and that "this might take a while" that is said as loud as she can muster!!  As I calmly tell her not so loud she starts grunting......yep....welcome to my life!  If that is not horrible enough she will give you a play by play of what is about to happen.  DISCLAIMER: If you have no sense of humor or kid friendly I would stop reading now!!!!!  So as we have been in there sometime I calmly ask her if she is finished.  As I was hoping for a simple yes or no what I got left me wanting to run and never return to this restaurant!!  She proceeds to tell me how it takes a while because she got the mommy out, but it takes a while to get the daddy one out.  As I start laughing (because lets face it, what else are you going to do) she tells me that she doesn't understand why the daddy never wants to come out easily and that she needs to push just a little bit harder!  I am completley humiliated but am comforted to know the lady in the stall next to us is having a really fun time listening to my little girl!

After about 20 minutes (but seemed like an hour) she finally announces that she is done.  As we are washing our hands and leaving the bathroom she calmly looks at me (with many others in the bathroom) and says "whew, that was a rough one mommy!!!"

I love being a mom, and these stories I will cherish forever!  I can't wait till she is older and I can tell these stories at her wedding and return the humiliation!!

Let me know some of your horror stories so that I know I am not the only mom out there that deals with this!!  Next Friday I will be discussing some more horror stories as there are many each day of my life!!

God Bless,
PipLey

showing off some sass!

she is my whole world

Tru Diva!!  Phone, purse, glasses

wearing one of my vintage scarves!

reading while going!!!

so much sass in one little body

loves those boots

she decided to do her own makeup

Acting crazy

working it in mommies shoes

crazy girls

Beautiful

she has her own fashion sense

Love ,

PipLey

Changes Changes.....

What an exciting and nerve racking week we had last week for PipLey!!  We have decided to drop our vintage line (as it was not selling well) and revamp the store with new styles and still keep the vintage feel! Vintage clothing will always be a huge part of my life and I did not want to lose that with the store.  As a store owner I realize how difficult it is to buy vintage online because the sizing was so different back then. With that said, you can still always ask me or send pictures of vintage pieces and I will always help you style them!!

Love hearing what our PipLey Ladies have to say!!

my little school girl!!

As we give our store an online face lift and embark with a new name I do not want to lose what the store stands for and who we are!  We are still PipLey only now we will be called PipLey's Boutique.  Same store owner (me) and same little girls (Fin and Pippa)!  It is always so scary when re-branding as I am so afraid we will lose some of our amazing followers!  We will still be bringing you adorable and affordable fashion that you can wear and feel good in!  I will be introducing some new lines to you all that I happened to run across at the latest fashion mart I attended!  I am so excited to show you these lines as they start shipping in October!

New Arrivals coming in October!!

New Fall Maxi dresses coming soon!!!

Shop this look now!!

I hope you all have a great week and be looking for more exciting things to come with our store!!

Love,

PipLey

New Chapter.....

Hey Everyone,

As much as I love running this store, being a mom comes first!  I have been pretty busy the last week doing just that!  My little Finley had a major milestone this week and with that comes a new chapter in my life as a mom.  As excited as I am about new chapters it is still bitter sweet to leave the old ones.  I am a firm believer in that our life is built of so many chapters and I feel like the older I get the faster these things pass by!!

What a big girl!!

My baby started school on Friday and boy was this momma a mix of emotions!  Gone are the days of snuggling in bed in the morning with both girls and not caring when we get out of bed.  Gone are the days of our lazy morning breakfasts and cartoon watching.  Gone are the mid-week trips to the zoo because there is hardly anyone there.....I could go on and on.

With that said though, here comes the days of her being so excited because she made a new friend, and blushing when I ask her if there were any cute boys in her class!!  I welcome the times she is so excited to see me come into her class so she can show her little friends who her mommy is and see such pride in showing me off!  I am so excited about her coming home and teaching her little sister things she learned that day at school, and watching her help her kids in the class that are special needs.  I am so excited to see her grow into the amazing little lady I know she will become!

As I said...I hate seeing old chapters leave, but I am so excited about this new chapter in Finley's life and mine as well!!

Love,
PipLey