Hello there! It's a beautiful sunny day here, and going to be warm. Bob and I are going to a family dinner at my parent's house tonight. My mom's making turkey, stuffing, sweet potatoes, etc. So, it'll be like a mini Thanksgiving dinner, ha. She also baked a triple layer chocolate cake with chocolate icing for dessert; we're having it for my grandfather's birthday. She makes it for all the family birthdays, and it's everyone's favorite. It's extremly rich, as you may have been able to tell from the description. She even mailed a piece to my sister for her bday in January, ha!
In the pictures below I'm wearing my newest Bernie dress. I have three Bernies with paint palette prints, and I really love each of them. I think I can safely say this is my favorite of the three though. I wore it to work on Thursday, and wore it last night to meet my friend at Panera. I love pairing it with these bright blue BAIT Roni heels. The blue in these heels almost exactly matches the blue in the dress. I get a lot of compliments on these shoes.
They're so darn comfortable, too.
I almost always pair my Lillian Madison Designs paint palette brooch with my paint palette dresses, because there's nothing like a good theme, am I right?
Dress: Bernie Dexter
Bangles: Etsy (BrighterBakelite)
Brooch: Lillian Madison Designs
Heels: BAIT Footwear
~Bye bye for now!
Hello there! Well, my four day weekend is now upon me. It's the last time off until spring break in April, when I'll be away in Vegas for part of break. To make it even better, we are supposed to have a very warm Saturday-Monday, reaching a peak of 60 degrees on Sunday! It's not supposed to rain, either. So, I'm really going to get spring fever this weekend!
I haven't had much going on this week so far. I went to a board meeting last night, but it didn't go too long, and I got home around 6:45. I've still been watching "Call the Midwife" on Netflix, as there's five seasons on there. I'm on the beginning of season 4 now. The show isn't one of my all time favorites, but it's pretty good.
I'm seeing a friend tomorrow night, and Saturday and Sunday nights have family dinners to go to. We are celebrating my grandfather's birthday on Saturday at my parents' house, and we have family from Texas that will be here all weekend, and will be at both dinners (we're going out to eat at a restaurant on Sunday).
In the pictures below I'm wearing my Trashy Diva Americana dress that I won on eBay about two years ago. I get a lot of use out of it in the wintertime. It's pretty much the perfect shirt dress; it's simple, but flattering and comfortable, and looks like it could be vintage.
It also fits really well everywhere, which is not usually the case for me with dresses. I hope Trashy Diva starts making this stye again soon! I don't think they've made any new Americanas in the almost three years I've been buying from them.
Since the dress is just a solid red, I can pair it with so many different brooches, and any of my black shoes. You can't go wrong with a well made, flattering, red dress!
Dress: eBay (Trashy Diva)
Brooch: Etsy (Luxulite)
Heels: BAIT Footwear
~Bye bye for now!
Hello there! Bob and I are having a typical quiet Sunday today. He'll be doing a lot of cooking and baking for today and the upcoming week. I'll be working out, reading, and watching Netflix. I have a board meeting to go to on Wednesday at the school I work at, and then two family dinners this coming weekend. I may be meeting up with a friend, too.
In
the pictures below I'm wearing my Bernie Dexter tomato print Chelsea
dress that I got about three years ago. It was one of my first Bernies. I
had seen it online for a little while, and at first it wasn't something I
had to have, but it grew on me, that's for sure.
I'm so glad I snapped
up when I did (during a Black Friday sale), because it seemed to have
sold out online everywhere right after that. Tomatoes are my favorite
vegetables (or fruits, ha, I know it's debatable what they are). I can't
get enough of them! Whenever Bob is cooking with them (which is a lot),
I go in the kitchen and take pieces of tomatoes. Bob has started
gardening at his parents' house, and we'll have tomatoes around the end
of July/beginning of August! I can't wait to have our own house and
garden. Did you know New Jersey is one of the top producers of tomatoes in this country? We're not called the Garden State for nothing.
Dress: Bernie Dexter
Necklace, brooch: Etsy (Luxulite)
Bangles: Splendette
Heels: BAIT Footwear
~Bye bye for now!
Hello there! Last night after work I went out with some co-workers for drinks and appetizers, and then I just came home and watched TV & Netflix with Bob. I don't have much going on this weekend, but have some plans the next couple of weekends.
Next weekend Bob and I will be going to two family dinners, to celebrate my grandfather's birthday, and we're having two dinners in a row because my aunt, uncle, & cousin will be in town from Texas. I usually only see my aunt, uncle, & cousin once a year, in December, but they couldn't come back this past December.
I had a snow day on Thursday, and a delayed opening on Friday, which was great, ha. This coming week will be short too, because of President's Day weekend (I have off Friday-Monday).
In the pictures below I'm wearing my Bernie Dexter cherry blossoms print Lauren dress. I've posted about it once before, back in the beginning of December. This print is the perfect spring print. I just love cherry blossom trees! I just got the Erstwilder tulip brooch from a store called Kinks & Quirks. They have a brick and mortar shop in Virginia, and a website.
I had never ordered from them before. They had free shipping on Erstwilder, with no minimum. They sent me a cute pair of pineapple earrings as a gift, too! I love this tulip brooch. It has my favorite colors in it: pink & orange. Erstwilder had released a tulip brooch last year, but with purple & green coloring. I didn't get that one, as I wasn't too into that color scheme. There are some tulips in this dress, they're along the bottom of the dress, and right above my belt.
Maybe if I wear enough spring prints now, spring will hurry right along?
Dress: Bernie Dexter
Necklace: Etsy (Scrumptiousdoodle)
Brooch: Kinks & Quirks (Erstwilder)
Bangles: Etsy (BrighterBakelite)
Heels: BAIT Footwear
~Bye bye for now!
Hello there! Well, I finally got my wish: I have my very first snow day tomorrow! I haven't had a snow day since college, ha. We're predicted to get 6-10 inches of snow...and today it was 60 degrees!! But, that's New Jersey for ya! Oh gosh, it was such a nice day today. It was quite foggy in the early morning, but it soon broke, and was sunny the rest of the day. On my lunch break I drove and parked with my windows partially down. What a welcome respite from the cold and dreary days, but of course it's so fleeting! Spring is a month and twelve days away, and it needs to hurry on up.
Tomorrow will be our first real snowfall all winter. We've had an inch or less here and there, but that's been it. It's funny, because now that I work in a school, I HOPE for a snow day, and Bob hates snow days ha, because he has to work extra long and hard. Plowing is very physically tiring. So, I hope for them, and he dreads them, unfortunately.
In the pictures below I'm wearing my new Trashy Diva dogwood print Day dress. The lighting was bad, but I had to get pictures right away! My order got held up by USPS, and ended up arriving on Monday, when it was supposed to come last Friday. It was hard to wait.
I had ordered the L'amour in this print too, and was hoping I would only love one of them on me, so I could send back the other one. Well, luckily I did just love the Day dress. At first, I wasn't entirely sure about which one to keep, but the longer I had the Day dress on, the more I started to feel I liked it better than the L'amour. The Day dress skirt isn't a full skirt, which is unusual for me, but I do still love the style, and I have one other Day dress.
Bob actually liked the L'amour better on me, but it's my money ha, so it's up to me! The turquoise color is sooo dreamy, and that dogwood print is gorgeous. I love a good floral print.
I sized up one size from my normal TD size, in order to accomodate my chest. My other Day dress is also a size up, and fits my chest well, so I was hoping the same thing would happen with the dogwood Day dress, and it did. It fits my chest well, and isn't huge in the waist (just a little roomy), which is great!
I lreally ove the details of the dress: the buttons and the big collar, and I couldn't resist wearing it to work today, since it felt so much like spring outside!
Dress: Trashy Diva
Bangle: Etsy (BrighterBakelite)
Heels: BAIT Footwear
~Bye bye for now!
Hello there! I don't have much going on today, just staying home with Bob. He's doing a lot of cooking and baking, like he always does on Sundays, and I'm doing a lot of reading and Netflix, plus some outfit pictures, and working out, also as per usual, ha. I love our quiet Sundays.
In the pictures below I'm wearing a new Lindy Bop Gilda dress. I have one othe Gilda dress, and that one has a San Francisco print on it; I've done a post on it before. The Gilda is my favorite LB dress style. I find it has a better fit than other styles I've tried, and is more flattering. This print was first released in a different dress style, and while I love the print and colors in it, I passed on the other style. I'm glad I passed on it, and that they released the print in the Gilda. It was also on sale when I bought it, for only $25. I was disappointed when I received it though, because the zipper was broken. It had been sewn in incorrectly on on side of the dress, and made it impossible to zip all the way up. I contacted LB, and they refund half of what I spent, so I got $12.50 refunded. Bob fixed the zipper for me on the sewing machine, and now it zips!
But, the first time I tried it on with the functionining zipper, the the top two buttons popped right off. The dress came with one replacement button, which I sewed on. So, I'll be wearing it like I am in these pictures, with no top button on it. It's annoying that LB does not have the best quality. You get what you pay for, I suppose.
The almost neon/citrusy colors in the cocktail glasses in this print pair so well with my orange, yellow, & lime Bakelite.
Also in the pictures below is a picture of me wearing my new Trashy Diva ribbed rayon Fontaine coat that I scored for half off during their recent ribbed rayon sale, and a close up of the front of my hair last night. I lucked out with my hair! It's always random for me with my hair, ha, if I can get it to turn out decent or not when I'm styling it after it's been curled.
I LOVE my Fontaine coat. It's not very heavy, so it's not practical to wear when it's really cold out, but I think it's so gorgeous and flattering. Before getting the Fontaine, I had no vintage repro coats at all. I'm glad I now have one in my arsenal. It just buttons over my chest though, and when I first put it on, I wasn't sure if I'd be able to get it buttoned there.
Dress: Lindy Bop
Brooch: Etsy (Poisonofchoice)
Bangles: Etsy (BrighterBakelite)
Heels: BAIT Footwear
~Bye bye for now!
Hello there! Happy Saturday! I don't have much going on this weekend, but Bob and I are going out to eat for an early dinner tonight, at Friendly's. We haven't been to Friendly's in a quite awhile, probably close to a year. There's one right around the corner from us.
We're going tonight for an early Valentine's Day dinner. We don't like going out to eat when it's crazy busy, so the last few years we haven't gotten out to eat on an actual Valentine's Day weekend.
Neither of us are watching the Super Bowl tomorrow; we have no interest. Bob does like watching some football, but he can't stand the Patriots, and I can't stand football, period. So, I'm very glad he didn't ask me to go to a Super Bowl party this year.
In the pictures below I'm wearing my newest Bernie Dexter dress. This one is a brand new style she released, and it's called the Darlene. It's very similar to the Kelly dress, which is my favorite style of hers. I also really love this Darlene. I think the best parts of the dress are the Peter Pan collar and the waist area. I even think this one is more flattering on me than my Kellys. The dress originally came with a black tie around the neck, but I used a seam ripper immediately to take it off, as I wasn't crazy about it. I also like to wear it with the zipper not all the way up. I got the same size in this one as most of my Kellys are, and it does fit a little bit smaller, but that's good for me, because the waist on my Kellys are loose on me, and this one is a better fit, although I do still have some room in the waist on this. The bust is also tighter in this one, but not uncomfortably so. So, if you're in between sizes, I'd go with your larger size in this one, especially if you have a large bust.
Believe it or not, I have almost no dresses with a pink background on them! Pink is one of my favorite colors, so I had to snap this one up. Also, I can't resist a good kitty print, and I have this same print but with a red background in a Kelly dress.
Dress: Bernie Dexter
Brooch: Etsy (Sodasweethearts)
Bracelet: Etsy (Scrumptiousdoodle)
Heels: BAIT Footwear
~Bye bye for now!
