A Little Obsessive

Since my fabulous shopping adventure (see last post),
I have been thinking about fashion NON STOP!
Something has been awakened in me!!
I have awakened the SHOPPING GENE!!!!

Now if only I could awaken the
NEVER ENDING FUNDS GENE.

They have those, don't they??

Anyway, I'm still waiting for my credit cards
to cool off so I can burn them up again.
In the meantime, I have been cyber window shopping.

I want this. It will go perfectly with the teal dress.


I got this. Dressed it up with black slacks,a drapey black sweater and a fab yellow enamel bangle.

This is the drapey sweater

I got this on sale!! It was $89, I paid......$18!! Gotta love Lord & Taylor coupons!

And I got these.....
Love them!!!!

My Very Own "What Not To Wear" Day

So, recently I have become obsessed with
What Not To Wear on TLC.

I DVR every episode and usually fast forward
to the mannequins and the shopping.
I'm not so bad off that I would be a candidate
for the show, but I've learned some valuable
things from Stacy and Clinton.

Well, I caught one episode with a "real" woman.
By "real", I mean she was not a size 2.
She was a size 14-16.

-Now for all you old boyfriends of mine who
read this blog faithfully.....I hate to break it
to you, but I am no longer a size 2.
Ok, ok, I was NEVER a size 2.-

Anyway, on the show, this "real" woman went
to a store called Lee Lees Valise.
I checked it out on line. It's for women, sizes 10-28.
Yes, I fall in there somewhere.
And the store is in Brooklyn.

Well, guess where I went yesterday........
BROOKLYN!
Perfect day!
No traffic!
Parking one block away!

The owner Lisa is amazing.
She treated me to my very own What Not To Wear afternoon.
She spent hours with me, creating outfits, introducing me to things I NEVER
would have looked at, like belts and teal.
(I never wear blue and I don't own a belt!).
I HAD THE BEST TIME!!!

So here is what I got:
Black jersey knit sleeveless dress.
No, that isn't me. The pic is from her web site.

This in brown and teal to wear with the black dress.

A belt - to give me a waist. I have no waist. I am a rectangle.

Hello??!! Love this!

More Love!

Teal.
I have to get up the guts to wear this.
Apparently, I look good in blue. Never knew it.


I did not actually bring all these goodies home with me.
I have some, the rest are on my Wish List.
I have to let the credit card cool off before I
bring the rest of the stuff home.

I also just picked up 3 pairs of slacks at
Nordstrom and these shoes, which I can wear
with my slacks and the dresses I just got.
(Mine are patent, not silk like the pic)

I CANNOT wait to wear all my new stuff and I
CANNOT wait to get back to Lee Lees Valise.
My new favorite store!!!

Dylan's Thoughts on Souffles

So, I told Dylan I was going to
make a chocolate souffle tonight.
(never made one before, update to follow)

He said,"Hope it doesn't fall."

Hmmm. "How do you know about souffles?"

He said:
"It's always on cartoons and
the big muscle-y guy is always secretly
taking cooking lessons and then he
has to do something for one of the
weak people during his cooking
lesson and says,"if you make
my souffle fall......""

Thank goodness for Cartoon Network!

New bra.

My Kitchen Friends

Dylan received a package of Inanimate Stickers
from Think Geek.com.
Very cool website, by the way.
Well, I thought he'd use these stickers to create
some school friends.
Instead, he created some kitchen friends for me.
Meet:
Mike the Salt Pot

Vern, the Utensil Guy

Cyril, my trusted, oily companion.

And last but no least, my personal favorite.....
Sammy the Toaster

Yeah, welcome to my world.

New Favorite Thing

My parents gave me this awesome sweater
for Christmas.
I must admit, when I first opened it, I thought,
"Oh......a big sweater. Oh."

HELLO????
LOVIN' IT!


I wore it all weekend with jeans, a t-shirt and a scarf
and of course my new Cole Haan bag (see below).

It's from JJill.
I think I may have to get this one too.

Help Me Spend My Money

Update:
I somehow managed to spend my Macy's gift cards (plus a little more)
on a FAB Cole Haan bag:

I needed a new everyday bag and this is perfect!!
I got it in black.
Love Cole Haan!



I have gift cards and I need to spend them.

Macys - $125
Bloomingdales - $50
Lord & Taylor - $55
Coach - $50

I'll add money where needed.
Help me out here!

Bragging

See that kid there??
That boy of mine???
Well, he was accepted, early decision, to a great high school.
Not only that......
HE WAS AWARDED A 4 YEAR MERIT SCHOLARSHIP!!
HELLO!!!???!!!!!
Based purely on MERIT.
MERIT people!
So proud!

My Favorites from 2009

Ok, so here are my favorite posts from 2009.
Enjoy!


Rough Couple of Weeks




Little League


Lady's Doctor


Tippi Hedren



The Gym

My Amazing Husband

My Amazing Husband took my broken MacBook
to the Apple store and had it fixed.
He loves me so much that he drove not to
the closest Apple store, which couldn't give him
an appointment until next week - He drove 30 minutes
away to another Apple store.
Not only did he drive 30 minutes away -
He left the computer there to be fixed
AND RETURNED LATER THAT DAY TO PICK IT UP.

This man loves me.
And I love him.

Just Not Feelin' It

So, I printed out 150 pics.
I went to 2 different scrapbooking stores.
Do I even have to tell you that I spent money at
those two stores??
I went to Michaels too and picked up an album
for my planned project.
I cleared off my work space.
I started working on my first layout in 2 years.
Sadly, I'm not as jazzed up as I would like to be.
I'm just not feelin' it.
I am so out of the scrapping loop.
I love my project idea; I'm making an album for
Dylan about last summer at camp. He had the best
time and made great friends and since I was camp
photographer - I have a TON of photos.
All good, right?
WHAT IS WRONG PEOPLE???
Send me some crafty vibes please.
Thank you.

A New Record!

Yes, I have set a new record.

Yesterday, I killed two -
TWO
computers.


After updating iTunes, my laptop just gave up and
said, "I've had it." All I get is a blinking "?" on the desktop.
NOT A GOOD SIGN in MACville.

So I moved on to my school computer.
A lovely 15'' Macbook.
Plug it in.
Wait.
Wait some more.
..................nuthin.
NOTHING!
I am screwed because all my photos for the
yearbook are on that computer.
(Hello, I'm the yearbook editor).

So here I am on Dylan's computer.
I really should get off of it, with my record and all.