Wooooo, child! The school year has started once again (this is year 6 for me!) and I don’t know how, but my summer did a fantastic job in allowing me to forget how mentally and physically demanding my role is! But I absolutely love it! It’s going to take a while to completely adjust, but I’m getting there. This post was originally meant for September 10, but life happens, you know? I’ll share my classroom with you soon because I really love how it looks this year. No theme, just very colorful!

This month’s Style Challenge is dedicated to black and white patterns! After my headwrap challenge, I figured this was a good place to start because I have a lot of patterned black and white pieces and I wanted to stretch the limits of my creativity. I selected five different black and white patterns—polka dots, stripes, abstract, geometric and tropical—and here’s how I rocked them: