Showing posts with label Care Bears. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Care Bears. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 30, 2026

Cloud Coverage: The Sky's the Gimmick

Top: Wild Fable, Target; Dress: Madden Girl, Macy's

Bag: Universal Thread, Target; Charm: Madden Girl, Macy's

Sunglasses: A New Day, Target; Bow: SHEIN

Shoes: LC Lauren Conrad, Kohl's

Dress: ELLE, Kohl's; Bag: Kate Spade New York for Target; Shoes: New York & Company

Whimsycore décor. 

Bird clip: Etsy from very, very long ago.  Later I lost it, probably in a parking lot.  And yes, my family asked me if it "flew the coop."

My geode abode.

Dress: LC Lauren Conrad, Kohl's; Shoes: Mix No. 6, DSW

Rose and Rosita.

Bag: Strawberry Shortcake & Care Bears Collab for Dolls Kill

Sunglasses: Wild Fable, Target; Hair clips: SHEIN

I'd always wanted to learn how to make stickers from pics on my phone.  But, as with all new things, I was hesitant.  Then I was editing pics and decided to cram myself and the cotton-candy-cloud sky into the frame.  It was time.

It wasn't easy.  There was much gnashing of teeth and repeating the same steps with the same failures.  Then came the Google search and more trial and error until everything clicked into place.  I was as excited as any geriatric millennial who'd conquered a tech task and couldn't shut up about it.  Even when my sister good-naturedly said that her four-year-old makes stickers all the time.

Because that's what it's all about, right?  Learning and growing and touching the sky when it's easier to stay on the ground.  

Vanity's the best motivator. 

Monday, May 18, 2026

Kitschy 'til the Cows Come Home: Neon Trees and Jujubes

Top: Madden Girl, Kohl's; Skirt: Wild Fable, Target; Boots: Betsey Johnson, Zulily


Bag: Zulily

Clips: Marshalls

Hand cream: Cath Kidston, Kohl's

Top: ModCloth; Skirt: Trixxi, Kohl's; Bag: Dolls Kill; Shoes: Madden Girl, Amazon


Lipstick schtick.

Purple clip: Lisa Frank, Kitsch

Yellow: Always appealing.

 Skirt: So, Kohl's

Clips: Every '80s baby's Kitsch wish come true.

Bag: Amazon

Top: Care Bears, Dolls Kill

Just kidding.  There are no jujubes.  Just two candy-bright fits that I wore to work and one I wore in my yard.  Partly because I can't drive in those boots and partly because even I have my limits.  Still, my coastal-cowgirl-going-to-a-rave look holds a special place in my heart.  Maybe one day I'll get to wear it for real.

Stagecoach, here I come.

Saturday, January 3, 2026

Fit Flashback: The Circus Knows No Season

Props courtesy of Charlotte.

Tee: JCPenney

Skirt: ModCloth

Bag and charm: Madden Girl, Macy's

Skirt: Bubblegum, Macy's

A. C. Moore


Bag: Dolls Kill

Sweater: Madden Girl, Macy's

Shoes: Madden Girl, Kohl's

Top: New York & Company; Skirt (a dress!): Zulily

Brooch: West End Garage

Vase: Aritimi

Bag: Amerileather, Zulily

Top: New York & Company; Skirt: Tinseltown, Macy's

Bag: Marshalls

Top: Candie's, Kohl's; Skort: So, Kohl's; Shoes: INC, Macy's

Bag: Betsey Johnson, Amazon

Sunglasses: Amazon

A. C. Moore


Here at The Tote Trove, it's never not circus season.  That's why I'm flashing back to last summer's fits.  You know how it is; so many fits, so little time.  So why not post the unposted?  Because we all need color when it's cold and dreary.  

And clowns are less scary than Santa.

Saturday, June 28, 2025

Fun Finds Rewind: Subconsciously Stuck in the '80s

Jacket: Crayola for Kohl's

Top: Madden Girl, Macy's

Clearly Candy Necklace

Pink clip: Wild Fable, Target; Blue clip: Kate Spade New York for Target

Bag: Marshalls

Dress: LC Lauren Conrad, Kohl's

Bag: Dolls Kill


Shoes: Mix No. 6, DSW; Socks: Amazon

Sunglasses and bow: Wild Fable, Target

It might seem like no coincidence that I'm sporting a top with an 82 and a bag with the Care Bears and Strawberry Shortcake.  Because I was born in 1982, and '80s babies love the Bears and the Berries.  But I wore these fits weeks apart, then put them together based on their colors.  A pop culture coup it wasn't, just a byproduct of my subconscious.  A subconscious which is, admittedly, nostalgia-and-rainbow-soaked and all of the things.

So I guess it's true what they say after all.  There are no accidents.