Baby Owl Goes to the Gift Exchange

Worn on Tuesday 21 Dec 2010

I haven’t worn this dress since October, but I’ve been wanting to try it out during the winter.  It definitely looks more like a skirt with the cardigan buttoned up over it.  I just tucked in the shoulder bow ribbons and tied the waist ribbon over the cardigan.  

I wore this to work and then to the holiday party I was most looking forward to this year with my friends from high school, middle school, grade school, kindergarten, and pre-school.  Okay, I only went to pre-school with one of them but we’ve all been friends for a long time!  Our 2010 family photo, silly edition:

And yes, my friends are still making whoo whooooo noises at me, despite the fact that those really are quail feathers!  

Merry Christmas, everyone, happy holidays, I wish you good company and a good night!  

J.Crew cardigan, Leifsdottir dress, Assets tights, Frye boots.  

Sink into the Earth

3.17.2010

No green today, although so-dark-it’s-almost-black green is one of my favorite colors.  I just don’t own very much green.  I feel as if pale green is a more common color for clothing and it’s not very good against my skin tone.  I’m sure at least half of my friends are already wasted, but I have no plans for tonight.  I’m sure I could still make some so I might… after yoga.  I’m doing hatha tonight which I haven’t done in years.  So slow.  But I’m hoping it’s rehabilitative because my knee has been giving me a lot of pain lately. 

The ground is still so spongy and soft from all the rain!  I was on my toes for all of these photos, just the slightest pressure on the heels and I sunk more than an inch!  I hope it firms up a little, very uncomfortable to walk on the toes! 

My new stockings have a huge run in them!  It appeared at work today sometime during the morning and for no apparent reason.  It was in the front over the left knee but I switched it around to the back in the bathroom.  Very sad, considering these were more than $7 and supposed to be a little better than the L’eggs I keep putting my hand through.  I think I’ll spring for Assets at $16 because at least I know they’ll last.  Assets are made by the same woman who created Spanx and are a really decent (if not appreciably less expensive) alternative.  My sheer black Assets stockings have help up really well over the past… three months?  Two months?  That’s much better than all my other (cheaper) stockings that ended up with holes after only one or two times of wearing them! 

unknown designer from Francesca’s Collections shirt, Odille (Anthropologie) skirt, Hanes stockings, Deena and Ozzy (Urban Outfitters) shoes.