Almost Saturday

It's a beautiful day 80 degrees out today with low humidity.  I knew work was short today and it was casual friday so I ended up wearing my skinny jeans, my new Anthropologie sailor top, my new Ebay black wedges and old khaki ATL jacket.

I met up with J for lunch at an Indian restaurant up on barracks row, then headed to StitchDC, a small yarn and fabric store where we had taken a sewing class.  J is big in knitting for her daughter and she's made so many lovely things, so she bought some cotton based yarn to knit a sweater.

Afterwards, went to home to see my lovely hubby watching Ghana lose to Uruguay.

I need to pack but instead took pictures of my outfit above.

What can I post?

Not much. I got my hair cut short. Okay shorter.  It looks pretty darn good if I do say so myself.  Will I post?  Maybe. Maybe not.

2 more days before we're off the Florida.  It will be nice to get away from the city and do something different.  I'm taking half a day tomorrow from work, then run errands, get cash, clean house and pack.  I do hope I pack light.  My challenge will be to figure out what to wear in a warm and humid environment.  Makeup is out. SPF is totally in.

Current obsessions/looking for:  red shoes, brown belt, nude wedges, mod necklace.

OMG...

I think am in love.  With the jacket of course.

Jacket: Well Wisher Jacket by Anthropologie

Work has been so rough this week that I haven't had a chance to look at stuff on line.  This might be a good thing since I really can't afford as we will be on travel next week.   We are going to Orlando, Fla for old times sake for my mother.  I just hope that she won't be constantly think about dad (RIP my dear father).  Anyway, back to good thoughts: Florida has a lot of outlet malls.  Maybe I might get lucky.

TGIF!!!!!

My boss's words of the day: "TGIF: Today sounds like a 4 pm kick-off to the weekend day to me. If you have any objections please let me know."  Hah, hah, hah!!!  I OBJECT!!! Can we leave at 3:00 instead?

So the day has turned out to be busy but ended  quickly.  My morning did not start out in a good way because as usual I had no idea of what to wear and then ended up not wearing the outfit for casual friday.  Our office is business casual so we can get away with a lot on occasion so I decided on wearing my skinny jeans, red sandals, white tank top, and a grey sleeveless belted long cardigan. I thought I looked cute enough.  I am so looking for a high waisted full skirt that is not to short.  Plus it comes in hand when riding my bike to work.

My current obsessions are:

Anyway, that's it for now.  No stripes on the list yet, but lots of reds in the pictures.  What's up with that?

Less guilty today

I don't know if I feel any better returning my Anthropologie dress since I ended up buying one of my favorite dresses from Macy's. Of course it was way on sale at $44 (anthro dress was $128) and has an impeccable fit which is so flattering to my body.  I'll have to take a pic since I don't thinks it's up on their site anymore.

A and I  had gone power shopping today although I was very, very good.  I did return the dress but ended up buying a cute red and white skirt that I had seen earlier on someone when we had gone to Secondi (www.secondi.com) consignment shop.  It's one of the few places with designer items but I just could not find anything.

Anyway, I wanted to get home earlier but ended up getting home around 4:30 and was way tired to try on my outfits and put away some old stuff.  B was going to help me set up a pile of clothes to keep, for sale on ebay, and goodwill.  I don't  think that's going to happen tonight.

Here's another dress (Trina Turk's Algonquin dress) I have wanted for so long. I had originally seen it on "What Not To Wear", thenI saw it Nordstrom Rack, and now on Ebay.

  

 

It seem that I'm still into the beatnik look. I always like the clean lines or maybe it's my wishful thinking of want to be a poet, singer, songwriter, artist that I'm not.  I know I have some kind of talent, hence my photography, but I seem to never have enough time to take pictures or I have too many other hobbies, i.e. shopping, to make time.  Plus, it's just too eff-ing hot outside.  

By the way, even though I am no a size 4, how come I still feel huge when I take my own pictures?  I definitely need to make an effort of taking outdoor pics with natural light rather than pics in the evening. I guess I never learn.

BEATNIK LOOKS

Ahhh, Jean Seberg.  Still attempting to find the right black and white breton top.  This one is soooo coool!!! 

And good old Audrey!!

Sporadic ramblings

Sometimes I just feel like writing.  I finally got my anthro dress in a size 6p and B said it looked very vintage-y and looked good.  I guess he likes more of a modern woman.  Well yeah!!  Let me forget about that and consider all the things I ended up buying this past weekend, okay 2 weeks ago.  First my green seychelles shoes.  Yes, it is the wrong color so picture an olive green shoe and I finally got it at a steal from TJ Maxx:

Right now, I'm feeling a bit guilty about the 2 anthro dresses I bought and paid full price for them.  I have to figure out which one I like better but can't decide. Decisions. Decisions. Okay, so if I return one then I want to purchase this dress from ModCloth by Dahlia. It's definitely cheaper than the anthro dress:

Weekend rant....maybe.

I didn't do much this weekend but went to see mom and took care of her car and insurance stuff for bro.  F bought a old Honda Accord which will hopefully last him though the new year.  B came up too and we ended spending the night and eating way too much.  I blame mom.  Okay, I blame the USA vs. England game, and the nachos and cheese, plus the chili.  Needless to say, we weren't feeling so good later in the evening.

As for clothes, I told B how much I spent and he was very surprised, especially with our low financed. I know he hasn't asked me to try on the dress(es) yet and I know he won't like the anthro shirt dress with the bicycles.  I forgot to tell him about the dress that's coming in the mail.  

I'm so into retro 50's and early 60's right now....ok, I've always been into it, but am I getting ahead of myself at my age?  Ugh!!!

 

I got the best compliment yesterday from F's co-worker. She had no idea how old I was and she guessed 10 years younger.  Nice!!