Old Navy Style Council's Cardi Party!!

WOW! We had so much fun yesterday! I am going to try to pack as much detail as possible into my blog post since I can't add that many details into my Crowdtap review on the website. To begin, I made sure to fully read over the letter and in-store guide that was mailed to me. LOTS of great info in the guide! I really appreciated it that the guide included some pictures of a few of the items to give us all an idea of what Old Navy was offering in-store. You can see an example of some of the cardigans that were shown on the front of the guide; very helpful!

I ended up bringing my best friend, my sister, and my Mom. My Mom and sister have had a VERY stressful past couple of weeks so I thought they would be perfect to bring along! Boy was everyone THRILLED with the invite. When they found out they would be able to shop for free, they were just bubbling over with anticipation! When we got to the store, the very first thing that we saw was 2 large shelving units filled with cardigans. None of them were on hangers, they were all folded. They had sooo many different colors to choose from. We spent a few minutes picking out our favorite colors/styles. It was hard to narrow it down because there were a lot of really cute ones. My favorites were the animal prints because they were just so fun and interesting! Here are 2 pictures of the displays so you can get an idea of what we saw when shopping:

My Mom was THRILLED when she saw the leopard cardigans. She said that she has looked everywhere for one and couldn't find one anywhere. She never thought to look at Old Navy. She actually ended up using the coupon to get a free leopard one and bought an additional red one. They looked great on her! The cardigan section was very organized and easy to shop in. They had a great selection of colors and sizes. Thankfully, our sizes were available in our favorite colors! Our shopping trip was off to a great start! We decided to move on to skirts next and actually had a tough time finding them. Our store didn't have quite as many skirts as I thought they would. There was a small rack with 2 different styles way in the back of the store. Near the front, they had a bunch but they were all very similar. SUPER cute skirts, don't get me wrong. We were just expecting to find some longer skirts, too, and only found 2. (on a side note, my Mom tried to redeem her coupon for one of the longer skirts and it wouldn't work; they must not have been included!) This is a picture of one of the skirts that we found that wouldn't work with the coupon. :(

My sister and best friend went wild over the fun colors and styles of the other styles of skirts, though! My sister chose blue, my friend chose red, I chose black, and my Mom got a denim one. :) Here are some pics of this section with a few of the skirts we looked at:

Overall, the skirt section was fun to shop in. I tried on a few of the slimmer pencil skirts and they weren't super flattering on me. I am petite and they kind of made me look like I had a Kardashian-type butt, LOL!!! I decided to pass on those. We all found something that we really liked and could pair with several different tops. Again, I was hoping that the longer skirts would be included but we were still MORE than happy with what we got. My Mom and sister actually ended up buying an extra skirt so I could definitely tell they loved them! Finally, we decided to shop for some scarves and boy did we get lost in Scarf Wonderland!!! There were soooo many colors and styles to choose from. I was VERY impressed!!!! They had purple, blue, crocheted patterns, black, leopard, striped, you name it!! All of us ended up buying an extra scarf because we simply could NOT choose just one. Here are the pics I took of the scarf section. Just look at all those wonderful styles!! :)

I think I went a little wild with the camera in the scarf section because we were just having so much fun trying them all on. There are so many ways you can use a scarf and the possibilities and looks are literally ENDLESS!! I got a blue scarf, my Mom got a really funky orange & black one (looked like a Halloween one), my sister also got a blue one, and my friend got a leopard one. They were just so much fun to try on and play around with! The employees were kind of gawking at us the whole time which made it a little awkward. There were like 3 of them in a group and they just kept watching us. Not sure what they thought we were going to do with them, LOL! Anyway, the shopping trip went VERY well overall! Our cashier was super sweet and was AMAZED at the deals that we got. Each of us ended up with around $65 worth of stuff for free. THANK YOU SO MUCH OLD NAVY AND CROWDTAP FOR MAKING THIS POSSIBLE. You made this group of ladies VERY, VERY happy! It was the perfect way to show off some awesome clothes and help cheer up 2 gals that have had a very stressful past few weeks. I can't thank you enough!!