Accessory Tuesday: Elisa Gold Pendant Necklace
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My jewelry collection needs a little color, and there’s a lot to choose from with this necklace from Kendra Scott.
The stone comes in 23 (!) colors, so you’ll definitely be able to find your favorite. The adjustable length necklace (15″ to 17″) makes it perfect for layering with another delicate chain or wearing alone. It also works with almost any neckline.
This versatile necklace is perfect for work, weekends, and everywhere in between.
The Elisa Gold Pendant Necklace is $50 to $60 depending on the stone.
Sales of note for 9.10.24
(See all of the latest workwear sales at Corporette!)
- Ann Taylor – 30% off your purchase
- Banana Republic Factory – Up to 50% off everything + extra 20% off
- Boden – 15% off new styles
- Eloquii – $29 and up select styles; up to 50% off everything else
- J.Crew – Up to 50% off wear-to-work styles; extra 30% off sale styles
- J.Crew Factory – 40-60% off everything; extra 60% off clearance
- Lands’ End – 30% off full-price styles
- Loft – Extra 40% off sale styles
- Talbots – BOGO 50% everything, includes markdowns
- Target – Car-seat trade-in event through 9/28 — bring in an old car seat to get a 20% discount on other baby/toddler stuff.
- Zappos – 26,000+ women’s sale items! (check out these reader-favorite workwear brands on sale, and some of our favorite kids’ shoe brands on sale)
Kid/Family Sales
- Carter’s – Birthday sale, 40-50% off & extra 20% off select styles
- Hanna Andersson – Up to 50% off all baby; up to 40% off all Halloween
- J.Crew Crewcuts – Extra 30% off sale styles
- Old Navy – 40% off everything
- Target – BOGO 25% off select haircare, up to 25% off floor care items; up to 30% off indoor furniture up to 20% off TVs
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- The concept of “backup care” is so stupid…
- I need tips on managing employees in BigLaw who have to leave for daycare pickup…
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- How can I change my thinking to better recognize some of my husband’s contributions as important, like organizing the shed?
- What are your tips to having a good weekend with kids, especially with little kids? Do you have a set routine or plan?
The other day, I got so frustrated with my two year old getting out of his bed over and aber again at nap time, I said: „Go to sleep or the witch will come.“ (We talked about witches in connection with Halloween) and… he went straight to bed, put his head down and fell asleep.
Yesterday, same story. He doesn’t seem upset or anything about it. Am I traumatizing him with this?
I really need to up my jewelry game. I have arthritis in my hands and find clasps a bear, so need something long enough to pull over my head. I should just go to Anthropologie and buy 2 or 3, right?
My school board election is today, and I’m having a hard time. We have candidates who are running on an anti-DEI (dressed as CRT) and anti-science platform. They say outlandish, outrageous things and people seem to love it. We have had a pretty right leaning board – e.g. masks mandatory in elementary school but easy exemption process. My kids wear masks but I could live with the compromise, even though I didn’t love it. Now it is set to go even farther, and I’m worried about what comes next.
When will my 4.5 year old be able to wipe her bottom well? She always tries but I always check and it’s rarely clean the first time. Also, I bathe her and my 2.5 year old together. When can she shower on her own / is it weird to bathe with brother? She also can brush her teeth on her own, but I also try to help atleast once a day to make sure it’s done well..
Also, my husband thinks my 2.5 year old needs to be only drinking from open cups rather than straw/sippies and should be done with sleep sacks. I’m in no rush. Is he right?
DH just microwaved fish, for brunch, and now our entire kitchen reeks like a marooned fishing boat. Wishing I had gone to the office today, but have appointments keeping me at home.
does anyone else’s kids have night terrors? my 3.5 year old does and they are so scary. and disruptive to the entire household’s sleeping. any tips on how to deal with them?
My birthday is coming up soon, and everything on my wish list is either backordered or not feasible at the moment. My poor husband is frustrated and wants something he can give me to unwrap on my actual birthday. How can I convince him that it’s okay to wait for what I really want? I have suggested a nice takeout dinner, cake, and some family activities that would be a fun way to celebrate, but he wants a gift I can open too.
We haven’t seen dhs grandmother in two years and I’d like us to! This is on him! I finally laid out that kids are out of school week of thanksgiving, between Christmas and New Years, MLK, Presidents’ Day, spring break and Easter weekend. Last night he told me he finally got it worked out (based on MILs work schedule and we’ll visit Monday to Saturday of Presidents’ Day weekend. It’s not a cost thing.
I don’t know why I’m so annoyed – the kids are young and can miss school. I’m returning from maternity leave at the end of December so maybe I’m concerned about taking a week for Presidents’ Day and a week for spring break three weeks later? My job is totally in the office but has always been sort of an honor system on vacations of take how much you feel comfortable? We could also just not travel for spring break? I was just really seeing this as a long weekend with an extra day sort of thing.
Help me think through this. FWIW DH works insane hours and never takes vacation – I’m a bit confused how he plans to take a week off twice so close together…
In laws also haven’t made plans to fly down and meet newest grandkid even though she’s six weeks old and they’re an hour and a half flight away and don’t mind traveling during COVID. Maybe a blessing since I don’t want baby to get sick but they haven’t even tried – I think I’m just annoyed that I feel like I’m getting this almost ultimatum. And it’s disruptive. I want to re establish good will when I’m back at work.
Want to hear a funny story about how having a kid makes you lose your marbles from time to time?
So the background is that my sister and I were raised by a white lady version of a tiger mom. Academics were our number one priority, they came before everything, there was an immense amount of pressure, only a 4.0 was acceptable, we aced all our standardized tests, graduated from great colleges with honors, blah blah blah. We were both very burned out by this experience and have had many conversations where we have vowed to each other to never to put this amount of pressure on our kids.
Fast forward to the end of last week and I get a letter sent home in kiddo’s folder about standardized test scores. So I look at the two page print out of the results behind the letter and they are HORRIBLE. Like, shockingly horrible given everything we know about our child’s academic history. Out of the 18 things they measure, she got the worst possible score on 9 of them, the next to worst possible score on 7 of them, and a mediocre score on 2 of them. I go into a spiral. I blame myself for all the TV I let her watch during covid-times, I blame myself for not reading to her more. I wonder where I went wrong as a parent. I wonder if she has ADHD too (I have been thinking she does) and it’s suddenly gotten way worse. I wonder if my not as great math skills have paired with my husbands not as great verbal skills and we have somehow produced a child that has inherited the worst of each of our academic abilities. I start thinking that maybe my mom was right after all, and I need to get flash cards and a tutor. I text two of my teacher friends and get them to talk me down. I almost got my actual tiger mom friend to send me the name of her child’s tutor. [and yes, I absolutely knew in the moment that I was being a teensy tinesy bit over dramatic]
And then I look the scores print out again today and see that it has another kid’s name at the top. And then I see a message from the teacher in class dojo that her student teacher just saw the cover letter on the top and didn’t realize each individual student’s test scores were behind the letter and that each letter needed to go into a specific child’s folder, and she’s very sorry but could we all send back the test score letters so they can be distributed to the proper child.
So that was my fun absolutely pointless emotional roller coaster for the weekend. So I thought I should share so you could laugh with me at my absurd meltdown over nothing.
Working at home today and my husband and son are both out running errands. I’m freaking out slightly as I can hear very soft ‘shush’ type noises in the supposed to be empty house. I open the door to find the kitten, very very gently batting a leftover balloon from our Halloween party up and down the hallway. And then yes, I had to stop what I was working on to watch the kitten very sweetly play with a balloon that is quite literally larger than she is.
We’ve also learned after freaking out about ‘losing’ said kitten that she enjoys burrowing under the covers to nap (and is only 6 pounds, so she just looks like a lump on my kid’s badly made bed) AND is small enough to army crawl under all of the dressers and then pounce on the feet of the unsuspecting.
In short, cats are not good for your cardiac health…
I know it’s been discussed before, but favorite movies for a sensitive preschooler? So far we’ve watched Nemo (skipped the beginning) which she likes, Frozen which was ok (I don’t think she fully processed the part about the parents dying…my kid doesn’t seem to follow movie plots super well), Toy Story (deemed too boring but it was a while ago so maybe we should try again?) and Enchanted (the live action Amy Adams-Patrick Dempsey movie) which she didn’t fully follow but loved (the singing and dancing rats were a big hit).