6 Items Challenge: Update & Further Challenge

We're about to depart for a long weekend at the Lake of the Ozarks and I'll be packing my entire wardrobe along...and having nothing truly appropriate to wear!  Typically, weekends like this entail a swimsuit and a pair of Mom jeans.  The swimsuit is okay by the rules of the challenge (sportwear is okay), but the jeans would not be.  Yikes--it ought to be interesting keeping the white skirt clean in this location.

On Tuesday this week, I wore this for a day of thrifting and I realized a problem with the reversible top.  It's not long enough to be tucked in properly and expect it to stay and  it's a bit too long for a true crop top.

The only thing new here would be the addition of a floral scarf for a belt and a better photo of the black espadrilles.  The scarf shall return in a couple of weeks, if all goes according to plan.

On Wednesday, although I was basically sending out mid-term reports to my students, I tried to tackle the problem of what I might wear if I needed to dress up for some occasion.  Given the current parameters of my wardrobe, below is the best I could do.

I don't really have a pair of heeled sandals that might have made this more dressy.  You've seen the Picasso scarf on Rags before, but I piled on the necklaces.  I think I have 4 here (the bracelet is one that was later draped around my neck).  Two of these necklaces were gifts from Reva, and two were thrifted.  One in particular is interesting to me as I think it looks like beads of cement.  The clerk at the thrift tried to suggest that it was something called blue coral.  Is blue coral a thing?  Or something the clerk invented?

Today, I have updated my classes waiting for my long hair to dry naturally.  My hair has a natural wave to it and though when I'm not working, I like it down, I've been experimenting with hairstyles during the challenge.  Above I have an off-center bun as big as a doorknob and below, I'm sporting the side-braid again.

The backpack is of a different woven material than the skirt.  The purple flip-flops were dug out of my closet from two years ago.  The neon scarf was thrifted and at my neckline, I have a brooch made of an item I found on the street--a neon colored dragonfly shape.  In the backpack will go all the accessories I'll need to look put together this weekend. 

And here is a photo of my dearly beloved wearing his stilts with his slender legs crossed.  He's been replacing the ceiling in one of our apartments in preparation for my mother moving in with us this fall sometime.

For the first time, we're really having to think through the health and medical needs of a "tenant" as we renovate and there are all sorts of considerations we've never pondered before.

What's on your agenda for the weekend?  I'll be back on Monday with bedraggled versions of my weekend looks.