Everybody's Working for the Weekend

Don't you love dressing up on a Friday for a meeting you end up having to cancel? It fills me with rage. The 28 Days Later kind of rage. I come home in a panic for jeans and a t-shirt. I feel sweaty even though I'm not hot. Again, this is why I take photos in the morning.

Sweater: Plato's Closet, $12
Necklace: Forever 21, $6
Dress: Anthropologie, $40 (It was new, but it was on sale.)
Shoes: Express via Plato's Closet, $10

Bag and Scarf: Mulberry for Target, $45 and Vintage via Lucky Exchange, $6

I really love this jacket. In general, as a rule, I love red, white, and blue, but it's not because I love America. It's because I love Britain.

Less Western Wear

Look what a happy camper I am before work. And how I am ready to face the world. You really don't want to see how this day ended, so I'll just show you the beginning.

Shirt: Levi's via Plato's Closet: $6
Sweater: Old Navy via Plato's Closet
Jeans: Paper, Denim, & Cloth via Loehmann's, $20
Boots: Fossil, $35, Thrifted
Great Attitude: Compliments of the morning

I could stare at this agate necklace all day. It makes it pretty difficult to actually wear.

Watch: Fossil, Gift from my Mom
Necklace: Stone & Honey via Young Blood, Gift from my fiance

I'M THE KING OF THE WORLD

Or at least Edgewood Avenue. Don't tell anyone I took these pictures in my new office. At least they are not really good pictures: you can tell I did them in like 5 minutes, maximum, during lunch.

Do you feel wistful when you are forced to work at work?

It's hot as hell in my office, this jacket was pleather (but necessary). Sitting on the vent worked out pretty well.

Necklace: Forever 21, $6
Blouse: Old Navy, $14
Jacket: Forever 21 via Cherry Picked Consignments, $7
Pants: Shop Ruche, $28 (They're teal and extremely comfy. The brand is "Hot and Delicious," which makes me feel like a Hot Pocket when I read the label.)
Belt: Express, $??
Booties/Shooties: Seychelles, $120 (Terribly weak Zappos moment. For shame.)

Monday Monday

Let me tell you how to get minimal work done on a Monday: heavy accessories. This sends your co-workers the message that you and your limbs are important enough to be laden with heavy and expensive jewels, but because you are so important and worthy, your watch adds so much weight to your wrist that it is going to be difficult for you to lift your arm to answer the phone. The necklace I am wearing today is pretty heavy as well. It is so heavy that periodically throughout the day I sometimes question if I can continue wearing it, but then I look it and convince myself that I can stand the neck pain. My heavy accessories were a strategic move, as today was moving day at my office. I felt very prepared.

Unfortunately, the bottoms of these shoes are not real wood. If they were, I would have an excuse as to why it is difficult to walk.

Necklace: Vera Wang for Kohl's: $3
Dress: Glam via Finder's Keepers: $26
Shoes: Charlotte Russe via Plato's Closet: $10


Another habit of highly ineffective people is carrying a huge bag. A good test of a great bag is to see if it is still heavy with nothing inside it. As you can see, my bag is extremely heavy. It was difficult to get out the door. Which is a good excuse for being late.

Why is everything so heavy!? It's not my fault!!!

Bag: Mulberry for Target, $45

As you can see, it is amazing I made it to my car this morning, much less to work. Monday's over!

Let's Get Some Shoes

Oh my god. Shoes.

Shoes: Faryl Robin vis Plato's Closet, $12

Aren't they wonderful? It would be well worth dropping some serious cash on a real camera to perfectly capture their glory. 

  
Scarf: Target, $3
Jean Jacket: Old Navy, $20
Dress: Ross, $8
Watch: Swiss Hunter @ Loehmann's, $20
Shoes: The Awesome Factory

Here is my casual brunch version. It is Sunday after all. Sometimes people aren't ready for red heels. The huge watch they're going to have to deal with. So I'll compromise and wear flat red shoes.

My dress is still only $8 and I am still pretty obsessed with staring at my new huge watch. It is actually a men's watch, in case you were wondering why it made my wrist look so small.

Lace Cardigan: MoaMoa via Finder's Keepers @ Avondale Estates, $12
Shoes: Tom's @ Abbadabba in L5P, $40
 
I can't believe tomorrow is Monday.

Lean Mean Clothes Machine

Today my friend Rorie and I gave her fiance Steve a mini-makeover. Before, Steve was always a class act in Timberland hiking shoes or "work shoes." Now, he's a lean mean clothes-wearing machine. We took Steve to Plato's Closet after Rorie and I exchanged lots of e-mails about our visions for Steve's style and some key pieces of clothing we were going to make sure he got. We didn't copy him on any of those e-mails. I was concerned that Rorie's and my shopping style, that is, impulsively pulling every piece of clothing we like off the racks and throwing it into huge piles to try on was overwhelming, but Steve took it like a real man and knew he looked awesome every step of the way. Along with an awesome new wardrobe, we may have also given Steve an insatiable need to buy new clothes. Mission accomplished. I love ya, Steve!

Before:

Bandpracticesteve

After:

ATLsteve

Eurosteve

Perfectsteve

We got all the clothes at Plato's Closet and no item cost more than $30. The Nikes (especially the Air Force Ones) are compliments of Rorie's extremely good taste in shoes.

That last picture is Steve pointedly explaining to Rorie how this makeover will change the dynamics of their relationship in that the female contingent may be on the hunt for some new Steve. Rorie is obviously pretty worried. Steve is a great sport for letting me dump clothes on him in a dressing room, then force him to put them on again while I took pictures. He looks "adorables," in the words of Rorie. Good thing she's with him for life!

Bright Red Jeans

This morning I used these jeans to wake up my whole neighborhood. I don't know if my poor photography displays how red they are. I was inspired by Kendi Everyday's "Hot Pants" outfit and wanted my own.

Top: Forever 21 via Plato's Closet, $6
Necklace: Forever 21, $6
Bracelets: Linea Pelle for Target, $15
RED Jeans: T.J. Maxx, $15
Shoes: MIA via Piperlime, $15 

Also, do you like the date on my couch? It came with that.

First or Second Chances

Today was successful for two reasons. I finally took a photo to put on this blog, and I didn't embarrass myself in front of a celebrity.

Cardigan: Old Navy, $15
Tanks: Mitzi & Romano, $30
Belt: Levi's via Lucky Exchange, $8
Jeans: Level 99 via Ross, $5
Shoes: Hive & Honey via Piperlime, $15
Weird Smile: Via too many photographs taken of me as child

I went to Richard Blais' new hot dog restaurant (I know, a hot dog restaurant! I am as excited as you are) and he literally came close enough to me on several occasions that I could have poked him. This gave me the urge to giggle uncontrollably and yell out things like "I LOVED YOU ON TV," but I didn't. And I didn't poke him. I did get pretty concerned when I realized that he was personally talking to each customer, and at some point he would talk to me. He asked me and my fiance how our food was, and I said "delicious," and he said "thanks for hanging out," which was cool and now I have officially hung out with Richard Blais for like 5 seconds where I acted like a normal person. The last two times I saw Richard Blais were celebrity-sighting catastrophes. I saw him in Publix, and thinking I was whispering to my fiance, screamed out, "THAT's Richard Blais!!!" and ran away when my fiance explained to me I was screaming. I basically ran headfirst into Richard Blais in the next aisle. And the aisle after that. And the checkout line. As I was trying to exit the store to just get out of there and stop embarrassing myself. A year before that I saw him at Atlanta's best pizza parlor, and did a weird sign-language show for my friends trying to demonstrate to them that Richard Blais was sitting just a few feet away and kept heavily eying them and then him. He probably thought I was trying to do matchmaking with my mind.

Anyways, let me show you my shoes up close. You were probably worrying you wouldn't be able to see them up close because my fiance took such a bad picture of me. It's not my fault for not being photogenic or being able to pose. I am not sure I am watching enough top model reruns.