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So here we are at our final challenge! The Anything Goes Challenge was a chance to show off our go-to fall outfits. Here are a couple that we came up with:

I resuscitated these super comfortable, and booty-shaping 3-year-old jeans by replacing some missing buttons and trimming off the scraggly threads from stepping on the back of the cuff (you know you have a pair like this!) I paired it with my favorite button-down top, flats and threw on a belt to cinch the waist. Everything in this picture is at least a year old.

I am wearing the same jeans and flats in these photos, but paired with a favorite 3/4 sleeve striped sweater and my go-to scarf. (Noticed my hair tie on my right wrist? That’s an everyday go-to look for me!) The envelope clutch in the photo is one of our AquaSeventy6 creations. Check our Facebook page for more information.

Since this is our last challenge, we hope you participate! We want to see how you recreate these looks! You have until Sunday to post a link to your photograph in the comments section of this post or email us the photo using the subject line ANYTHING GOES. We will feature our favorites on Monday. If you need a reminder of the rules or details, click here.

Click here to see where this and our other projects are linked!

As much as I love my children, I don’t love their mess everywhere. I have struggled with allowing all things child into my home. I like to keep my house a certain way and the piles of Matchbox cars and mounds of dinosaurs don’t fit into my idea of a cute little home.But I am letting go…and I am learning to blend.

Finding ways to bring their things into common areas – and not just their room – makes me happy and them proud. It saddens me that I have been so uptight about my house in the past.

I let them put their mini pumpkin on my vintage scale, and let them weigh cars on it too.Giving in to the things that use to make me crack has freed up our home (and my mind) to be a more creative and fun place.