A short super model lives in my house

Busy day so far, last week I won a contest through my local Goodwill, for answering a question about what I thought the purpose of Goodwill was.  I won $25 in Goodwill gift certificates, perfect for me huh?!  Today was the day I picked them up, I already had a mini plan for the certificates, Laylah clothes.  For those of you who don't know, Laylah is my 6 year old daughter.  I hadn't tried to style my kids from thrift shops yet, so that was the mission of the day.

This is me happily pickng up my certificates, sorry about the weird smile, I was excited!  The outfit I am wearing is appropriately, ENTIRELY thrifted!  You can't see my shoes, but they are my favorite brown platform wedge sandals, and I am also wearing a brown belt.  The whole look, including the purse and jewelry costed me $18! 

Now onto the fun stuff, I took my prize to one of my favorite Goodwills in town, which happens price all clothing at $1 for each piece!  If you are squinting and rubbing your eyes making sure you read that right, stop it, yes all clothing is priced at $1.  I believe shoes are $1.99.  Because of the awesome prices, you often have to dig a bit more due to a lot of the great stuff having been already snapped up by other savvy shoppers.  Here is a little hint when shopping for clothes at a thrift store for your kiddo, take the kid.  I can't tell you how many times I have bought things in size 6 thinking they would fit, and they are way too big or too small.  I know that it's only a few dollars lost, but the point of this is to be thrifty, not lose money right? 

So we shopped and shopped and tried on clothing, did a little crying (the kids not me) though I sure did feel like I needed to!  In the end, I got Laylah:

2 Sweaters, 2 pairs of leggings, 2 collared dresses, 4 pairs of jeans, 2 pairs of cropped slacks, a blouse with peter pan collar, a purple tank top, a striped sweater dress, green crop jeans, high waisted corduroy shorts, a winter jacket, hello kitty boots, and a belt.

I had to use up the certificates so I also got myself a purple blazer, a fancy wind breaker, and a beaded wristlet.  All of that came to $25.97, thank you local Goodwill!

Now, you don't think I would just list the clothing I got for my girl without showing you some examples of looks I put together with it, did you?  I could just not possibly be that mean.  Here you are!

Every thing in the pictures was from our haul today except Laylahs white shoes.  Aren't I blessed to have a miniature super model living in my house?  She even has the face down, and is great at taking directions.  The last outfit is one I reached on, I love all those little hipster kid outfits. Why should things have to match, put some black glasses on that kid and have them tell people they mismatched their clothes before it was cool;)