It’s Friday! It’s back! You know what i’m talking about. 
So it gets cold where I live and yet I hate giving up my dresses for 6 months every year so this year I’ve been extending their shelf life by layering on a sweater. With short skirts pair w/ leggings as I have below and w/ a long, flowy maxi add some flats.
close up of my charms.
What Was I Wearing: sweater- Merona, dress- maurices, leggings- Charolette Russe, boots- Qupid, belt- ???
i lost motivation. see, most would think that if you love something enough, you’ll want to do it. but every time i sat down at my computer and opened this page i was struck by complete lack of desire. even though i have dozens of things i want(ed) to write about, the words just wouldn’t come. but i’m ready to come back, and while it may be slow going at first, i love this blog. Thank you for those of you who have encouraged me in this endeavor, your words have meant so much.
So here’s a little of what I’ve been up to for the past few months:
I went to the studio for our holiday photo shoot.
the set.
mmm... catering.
me w/ one of the models- showing off our arm candy.
One of my dearest friends got married!
me and my favorite girl
My husband & I w/ the happy couple
Um- Halloween!!!! My FAVORITE holdiay!
Skeleton
I traveled to New York for market.
me in Times Square
Stella McCartney window display
$700 handmade stuffed animals for your baby @ ABC Carpet
this is what a $400 dinner bill looks like (and there were only 3 of us!)
Many(all seven) of you may have been saddened last Friday when you logged onto my blog only to find there was no post for ‘In The Bathroom At Work’. I was saddened too not to be able to write one. When I launched blueeyedgirl, I set up a meeting w/ my company’s HR to make sure that what i was about to write wouldn’t violate my contract in any way. The only push back given was that I had to stop taking pictures in the bathroom. Apparently we keep trade secrets in there. lol. So that’s okay except I haven’t found another full length mirror that I like yet so I can start snapping pics again. So until I do, I’ll just have to verbally describe to you what I’m wearing. Ha! Ya right.
(See previous post ‘Reading Rules!‘)
My favorite thing(s) about Vogue: the ads. This wasn’t always so. About 5 years ago I signed up for a 1 year subscription thinking “i’m in fashion, i must read Vogue.” only to be sorely disappointed when it started arriving and there was nothing in it i cared to read. So i canceled, but then i got an offer of 1 year for $7 so i started back up again. What i learned the second time around: Vogue is about the ads. Really, that’s all that’s in there. Dozens and dozens of pages aimed at selling you not just stuff, but a story. I begin to love trying to find key trends among the different brands and put together what themes were emerging throughout the magazine.
Vogue’s September issue is the largest they put out every year. They even made a documentary film about it.
When you look at the above picture, what do you think? My guess is that you’re thinking what she’s wearing doesn’t match. And in my opinion, you’re right. I would never tell you to try and pull this outfit off. What i see when i look at this picture: prints. This picture is telling me that wearing prints is important, and it’s telling me that not just one kind of print, but all kinds are acceptable. From her jacquard sleeve to the bold geometric pattern in her skirt, snake skin boots, and if you look closely, you can see the stripes on her socks.
My least favorite thing about Vogue: the articles. All of the articles are about some random designer- most that i’ve never heard off- or some random gala. If i worked for a designer label maybe i would pay more attention to this sort of information but as my customer doesn’t care who these people are, i don’t really care either.
A few weeks ago I wrote a quick post about a cool bag I spotted on maurices’s website. Well I finally got it about a week ago & thought I’d share a few pics.
It’s a lazy Sunday afternoon and I’m hanging at home w/ the family.
What Was I Wearing: sweater- maurices, jeans- Vigoss, boots- Qupid
So apparently ankle strap heels are on they way in right now. Which is fine, i like them. But then I read an article about them and this was the featured shoe:
Am I the only one who thinks that looks like an ankle monitor? I guess even a lady on parole needs to look classy. lol
Sorry all- no posts. I’m traveling for work right now and thought I’d have time to squeeze a post in on the road but alas, it’s midnight and I just finished getting caught up on all the emails from the day and we hit the road again tomorrow at 8am sharp. I hope to be home for dinner tomorrow so i’ll try to get something out by tomorrow night.
Sorry it’s so late everyone. I swear, these days I’m just so scatterbrained and haven’t been managing my time well. I know you’re all breathing a sigh of relief, I am too. I mean, what’s a Friday w/out an edition of In The Bathroom At Work!!!!!
Isn’t this just a great outfit to wear to the office? I have a hard time putting on dress pants. Not because I don’t like them, but because I struggle w/ what to wear w/ them. You’d think it’d be an easy pair up; dress slacks+ dressy top= wear to work success, but for me, it isn’t. I have no problem dressing up my jeans but I think that I struggle on how to dress-down dress pants.
You can’t see it in this picture but something really neat about this shirt is that along the neckline there are these little “petal” cutouts that flutter when you move.
And of course nothing is complete these days w/out a little “arm candy”. I kept it clean and classy w/ some pearls.
What Was I Wearing: top- maurices, slacks- Mossimo for Target®, heels- maurices, fresh water pearl necklace & bracelets- gifts & Grandmas’, shell bangles- American Eagle
Especially when what I’m reading is an article in one of the six- yes six- fashion magazines I subscribe to. When I started working in the fashion industry I signed up for subscriptions to ‘Lucky’ and ‘Glamour’. Reading fashion magazines is like homework for my job. Fun homework. I started getting offers for other fashion magazines for only $7 a year and that’s how I ended up w/ nine subscriptions last year. WAY more than even I need. So I started “weeding” out the magazines that I felt didn’t provide anything relevant to my target customer-you- and I’ll continue to let my subscriptions run out on a few more. I think I’ll get down to four.
Here are the six I currently read (“read” meaning “look at the pretty pictures”). In the upcoming weeks I’ll dissect what I like-or don’t- about each.
I’m feeling quite uninspired to write so this may be brief.
Plaid seems to be a pattern that just never goes away. Specifically in woven tops. Even though it’s available year round, I tend to only wear my plaids in the fall. There’s just something about a plaid shirt- especially if it’s flannel- that screams “fall” to me.
I didn’t feel like brushing my hair, but you’d have never known that.
What Was I Wear: plaid shirt- maurices, jeans- Hydraulic, key necklace- craft fair find
