Dirty Pink Cardigan: Houndstooth

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Saturday, October 22, 2011

One... Two... Three

At this point, adrenaline is not just running through my veins, it has fully replaced my blood. I've been working like a mad woman on actualizing a passion project these past few weeks so I thought I would take a nice vacation. Ahhhhh... wouldn't that be fantastic if I had time for that? In the meantime, I've decided to try an emulate relaxation mode by sporting this dress I picked up in Bali. A nice breezy light cotton dress makes for a good pretend mental vacay.

PS - I'm all island out - my bracelet is from Boracay, Philippines.

Oh yeah, it's a true vacay outfit now, homies.

Bracelet, from Boracay, Philippines

Dress, from Bali, Indonesia

Shoes, GoMax via Ambiance

Friday, October, 21st, 2011

Date night with the hubby - sexy time, oh yeah! Ew, TMI, Marie. TMI. For a split second I wanted to get all dolled up and go to the gorgeous Meritage at the Claremont in Oakland. A couple of hours beforehand, I realized I wasn't in the mood to play dress up. All I wanted to do was be with Mikie and talk, laugh and just hang at a casual romantic restaurant. And that's exactly what we did, my friends. It had been too long since we had a solid block of time, and so we exchanged stories, food and kisses.

I love that man so much.

Romance is alive and kickin.

Necklace, VerreEncore
Jacket, F21 (the most awesomest buy ever!)
Tank, H&M
Jeans, thrifted Levi's original sample
Shoes, MIA

Thursday, October 20th, 2011

Event hopping calls for layers.

This is where all my Man Repeller stalking comes in handy - Leandra is a layerin whiz! Of course, my layering skills are much more conservative and tamer that hers, at least this time around.

Walking around in the cold going from place to place, I started soff fully loaded (uh, not that kind of loaded - that comes later in the evening ;) ). Layers are all ON. I always view my outfit in its layered stages since once I'm at the events, and consume a couple glasses of Proseco, I slowly peel off each layer. Cue stripper music. Not!

Jacket not pictured. D'oh.

Ya know my long kimono hot pink vintage jacket? Imagine that over le outfit.

Now, good job using your imagination, kiddies :)

Headband, F21
Bracelets, variety
Sweater, Bluefly (can't remember brand - bad Marie!)
Tank, H&M
Pants, Madewell
Shoes, Sam Edelman

Thursday, October 6, 2011

Day to Night: the LBD Edition.

The LBD Day to Night Recipe:

First start with yer basic ole LBD.

For daytime, I added a fun bright turquoise scarf, houndstooth short sleeve jacket, black ankle booties and pushed hair back with a braided bronze headband.

This fine evening...

I headed out to the most excellent John Varvatos event in San Francisco featuring the up and coming rockstar Gary Clark jr. and had only minutes to switch it up from mommy mode to party gal. I figured I should just work around what I already had on - duh!

Although to be completely honest with you, I did try on my floor length sequins skirt for a split second before throwing back on what I had worn earlier. And yeah, it most definitely was NOT the eighteen thousand dollar Balmain skirt that I was eyeing, but a lovely vintage piece that I'll have to share with y'all sooner than later :)

So with just a few moments I worked up some style magic and traded the bright scarf for a printed black and white silk scarf with a dash of turquoise.

Painted le pout le red and let the hair down - oh yeah!

Added le homemade bracelet cuff - courtesy of le crap laying around in le drawer.

And as y'all know, I'm currently obsessed with my leopard print Sam Edelman's - so BAM! - there they are.

The final touch - a le line on le nude stockings adds for a nice little zesty surprise!

PS - Sorry for the self-shooting love! My photographer (aka Mikie my husband) is uber busy and so I do with what I have ladies. Still trying to share the Dirty Pink Cardigan style shenanigans in whatever form I can. :)

First Outfit:

Headband, H&M

Dress, H&M

Boots, H&M

---um, is this an H&M campaign or what?--

Jacket, F21

Second Outfit:

Dress, H&M

Jacket, F21

Scarf, vintage from my grandmother

Bracelet, homemade

Stockings, a gift from a friend

Shoes, Sam Edelman

Saturday, September 24, 2011

iShoot with iPhone.

*This outfit is from last night's show.*

Last night we checked out The Minks, an all girl Kinks tribute band at Berkeley's Starry Plough.

First of all these girls are crazy balls talented and have such a great vibe.

Secondly, Holy Gorgeousness, Batman!

Yeah, they were smokin' hot.

It's true, my husband was drooling, but then again so was I. ;)

We danced, we sang, we drooled.

Twas a good night.

Twas a good night indeed.

Here are a few glimpses into the giggin attire:

PS - Pardon the toilet!

Coat, F21
Romper, Modcloth
Belt, vintage from my grandmother
Bracelets, variety (F21, vintage from my husband, and from India)
Shoes, custom Converse

Monday, August 22, 2011

Mixmatched.

Ever since I got my custom chucks I've been wanting to find different ways to wear 'em. But honestly, I keep forgetting because they're always tucked away in some random place in the car, in an overnight bag, behind my laundry basket, or deep in my closet. #)@*@#!

So fiiiiiiinally, I found them and decided today was going to be the day that they're going to throw it back to you. By now you should've somehow realized what you outta do. I don't believe that anybody feels the way I do, about you nooooowwww...

Okay, enough of my awesomest singing voice in the whole world and onto my white and red polka-dot, zebra tongued fabulous shoes!

Mixmatched said fabu shoes with a houndstooth short sleeve peacoat, short lil black dress with a peekaboo lace detail, and highlighted all that with a hot pink tank underneath.

Sometimes rule breaking can feel so good!