Hello there! Well, I did end up getting a snow day today. It hasn't snowed much here yet, and initially we only had a delayed opening, but they ended up changing it, so I was very surprised when they changed it. We're supposed to get a lot of snow on Tuesday, so if that pans out, I'll be off that day, too. We had almost no snow all winter, and now that spring is a week and a half away, we're getting hit!
Today I'm cleaning and doing laundry, working out, reading, and just relaxing and watching TV. I usually clean and do laundry on Saturday morning, but I'm glad I'm getting to do it today, because tomorrow I'll be out in PA all day with my mom. I'm leaving my place around 7:30 a.m. to meet her. My mom and I are really looking forward to going out there. I'm excited to see what cute Easter items are for sale at Stamm House, and also to go to an antique mall. I decorated my place for Easter last weekend, and will display my new items I buy, too. I posted a picture below of a few of my Stamm House Easter items that I have. Aren't they too cute? The woman who makes these items make them from very old German molds. So, they are used with antique molds, but she paints them.
In the pictures below I'm wearing my Heart of Haute cherry print dress that I got from Enz's at Viva Las Vegas two years ago. I love the background color of the dress, as well as the bright red cherry print. Speaking of Viva; we leave for it in a month! It seemed way too far away for so long, and now it's quite close. I just hope this coming month speeds up. I'm really looking forward to going away and relaxing. There's nothing I love more than going on vacation with Bob. We haven't been away for more than three days since July, and that feels forever ago, ha.
Dress: Heart of Haute
Necklace, brooch: Etsy (Luxulite)
Heels: BAIT Footwear
~Bye bye for now!
Hello there! Today is a gorgeous day outside. It's really sunny and around 60 degrees...but, it's supposed to snow tomorrow night into Friday, hooray. Only good thing about that, is hopefully I'll have a delayed opening at work on Friday, ha.
Tonight Bob and I are visiting some of my family, and tomorrow night after work Bob and I will be going to the bank to talk to them about mortgage options. Sounds like a blast, right? The meeting shouldn't be more than an hour, since the bank closes an hour after the meeting starts. Luckily, my husband knows a lot about buying/building a house, and he'll understand the info better than I will.
In the pictures below I'm wearing my newest Trashy Diva dress. This print is called Berry Chantilly, and this dress style is a 1940's. It's not too ofen that TD comes out with dresses with yellow backgrounds, and even though shade of yellow isn't my normal bright shade of sunshiney yellow, I still like this lighter shade. The fabric is soooo soft and smooth! There's 5% spandex in it too (it's 95% rayon), so there's some nice stretch. It's quite the comfortable dress. It does wrinkle easily though. I can easily zip the dress myself, which is a bonus. TD zippers can be really tricky and frustrating. I got my normal TD size, and it fits me well.
Since I am a sucker for food prints, I loveee this strawberry print! I also have a strawberry wicker purse, which I will definitely be wearing with the dress when I go out.
I had ordered this print in another style too: the Hopscotch style. I actually thought I'd like that one better, but nope, the 1940's worked better on me. I didn't have either style in my closet already, and that's why I wanted to order both styles, to see which one would work better on me.
Dress: Trashy Diva
Bangles: Etsy (BrighterBakelite)
Heels: BAIT Footwear
~Bye bye for now!
Hello there! Brr, it's cold out! This weekend has been freezing and windy, but it's going to warm up again tomorrow. When you've been having so many unseasonably warm days for awhile, it's even harder to go back to bitterly cold. Spring is two weeks from tomorrow!
Last night my parents came over, and after that Bob and I went to a bar for a couple of drinks. I wanted to go out to debut my new Trashy Diva liquor labels Day dress that I posted about in my last blog post. I was itching to wear it!
We're just hanging around at home today; Bob will be doing lots of cooking and baking like he always does on Sundays, and I'll be working out, reading, taking outfit pictures, and doing a lot of relaxing, ha. Just the way I like it. I might run into Target, too.
Next Saturday my mom and I are going out to PA together to go shopping for antiques and holiday decorations. It's a long car ride, and a long day. I'm meeting her at 8:00 a.m., and I usually get back to my place around 5:00 p.m. We go to the furthest stop first, which is about 2 hours and 15 minutes away from where I'm meeting my mom. There's a decent antique mall we go to while we're out there, and I've found a few small items there before, and for good prices, too.
In the pictures below I'm wearing my ice cream sundae print Bernie Dexter Kelly dress, which I recently got on clearance for a great price. I had it another style, but after I got this Kelly, I parted with the Jodi style I had. The Kelly is just easier for me to wear to work and family functions, than a dress with a lower, more open neckline. I've actually had this print in three different styles now, but this is definitely my favorite style for me, and I won't be parting with this one, ha! I love red and yellow together, and since there's so much of those colors in the dress, I had to wear my red and yellow Bakelite.
Dress: Bernie Dexter
Bangles: Etsy (BrighterBakelite)
Brooch: Etsy (Luxulite)
Heels: BAIT Footwear
~Bye bye for now!
Hello there! Well, this week isn't going too quickly yet, but I am really looking forward to 70 degree weather tomorrow, yay! I don't have too much going on this week, but I'm meeting some former co-workers at a bar/restaurant on Thursday after work, and Saturday night I'll be going out to a bar with Bob. Tomorrow night Bob is making my very favorite meal, and I can't wait! He makes it once a month for me. The meal is tomato tart, and is similar to pizza.
I'm going to watch the movie "Moonlight" On Demand tonight. I'm excited that they've been putting more of the Oscar nominees and winners On Demand recently. I watched two already: "Loving" and "Manchester By the Sea". "Moonlight" won best film of the year, in case you missed it, so I have very high expectations for it.
After getting my two biggest Trashy Diva unicorn prints last year, the next one on my list was any of the liquor label print dresses. Well, now I can scratch that unicorn off the list, too! I am wearing the liquor labels print Day dress in the pictures below. It's my third day dress. The day dress has a straight skirt; so that's pretty out of the ordinary for me. It's also two sizes bigger than what I normally wear in the Day dress, but I got the measurements before buying it, and it didn't seem too much bigger than my size, and it's not! This print must have ran a bit small. So, I do have a little extra room at the waist, but I'm used to that. I figured if it ended up being huge in the waist, my mom could take it in. But, with the belt on the roominess is no big deal.
Ugh, this print! I just adore it. I can't wait to wear it out on its maiden voyage this weekend! I had been planning it out in my head before receiving the dress to pair it with these blue Idas, and I'm so glad they match perfectly! I'm so happy I was able to find my unicorn, and I know I'll be wearing it a lot. I won't be wearing it to work though, as I don't think they'd find the print appropriate for a school, ha.
Dress: Facebook group (Trashy Diva)
Bangles: Etsy (BrighterBakelite)
Heels: BAIT Footwear
~Bye bye for now!
Hello there! Today Bob & I went to a local antique show, and then had some drinks at a restaurant/bar in town. The antique show had 45 dealers, and I had never been to this one before. I only bought one item: a bottle brush wreath. A couple of vendors recognized me from an antique show I went to in December, including the one I bought the wreath from today. It's my first bottle brush wreath, and I love it. It's in really good condition, too. I try to only buy antiques that are in good condition, and Bob is a stickler for that, too. We were only at the show for about 45 minutes, so that made Bob happy, ha.
After the show we went down the street to a brew pub that also has an outdoor bar, in case the outdoor bar was open, since it was so warm out. Unfortunately it wasn't open, and the bar inside was packed, so we went to a different restaurant/bar that's closer to home. We sat at the bar, and the bartender is actually a teacher at the school I work at. I already knew she worked there, but never had been waited on her there before.
It was crazy warm again today; got up to 70 degrees. We got a thunderstorm in the afternoon, which is very odd for winter. The cold front is coming back in, and it'll be much cooler tomorrow, unfortunately. I've been getting too used to this spring/summmery weather!
In the pictures below I'm wearing the outfit I wore today. I usually wear this retro kitchen Bernie Dexter Kelly when I go antiquing, because it's oh, so appropriate for it! It's one of my most worn dresses, period. I like to think it brings me good antiquing luck too, ha.
Dress: Bernie Dexter
Brooch: Deer Arrow
Heels: BAIT Footwear
~Bye bye for now!
Hello there! It's too darn gorgeous out today, and sadly, after Saturday it's going to drop significantly in termperature. I just wish the warm weather would be here to stay already! It's in the upper 60's right now, and sunny. It's supposed to rain on Saturday unfortunately, or else I'd be taking advantage of the warm weather, and going to New Hope for a day trip. Instead, we'll be going to an indoor antique show nearby. I don't have much else going on the rest of this week/weekend.
I'm really hoping for warm, sunny weather the following Saturday, so we can go to New Hope. I miss going there; I don't think we've been since around August. Two Saturdays from this one I'll be going out to PA with my mom to go antique shopping, and I can't wait for that!
In the pictures below I'm wearing my Lindy Bop cupcake shirt dress that I got a few months ago, and blogged about back then. It's really big on my waist unfortunately, and any smaller belt than this thick belt doesn't really define my waist enough, since there's so much extra fabric. Ugh, the struggle. Almost all of my dresses are large on my waist, and some are really large on my waist. Thank God for belts, I tell ya! Lindy Bops' sizing is quite wonky, and it does annoy me. But, they've been churning out some really prints, plus they're so cheaply priced!
Dress: Lindy Bop
Brooch: Erstwilder
Bangles: Splendette
Heels: BAIT Footwear
~Bye bye for now!
Hello there! It was really nice to see my aunt & cousin from Texas last night. I hadn't seen them in a year or so. My uncle couldn't end up coming. My cousin Franny is 15 now, and 5'11"! I'll see them again tonight when my family goes out to eat for dinner, and then they'll be flying home on Monday.
It's been so spring like this weekend, and it wasn't even cold when we left my parents' around 9:20 p.m. I just had on my light Trashy Diva coat, and I was fine. I hope winter is really gone, and they we won't have a lot of back and forth with temperatures. I looked at the 10 day forecast, and it's not supposed to get really cold again at all. In fact, Thursday will be the warmest: 68 degrees!
When the weather starts to turn like this, and it actually smells like spring outside (it did yesterday!), I start really thinking about and looking forward to all the things I want to do outside! It's hard being cooped up inside in the winter time, and boring. I can't wait to start going to visit the towns in PA that we like to go to, for day trips.
Next Saturday Bob and I are going to an antique show, about 15 minutes from where we live. We've never been to this one before, and I'm really looking forward to it. I think it's mainly going to be Easter items.
In the pictures below I'm wearing the outfit I wore last night to my parents' house. This Trashy Diva red Doris dress is a staple in my closet, just like my red TD Americana I posted about on Thursday. They both get a ton of use, and they're so versatile and flattering.
They are made of cotton poplin and are of decent thickness. I hope TD does more cotton poplins very soon!
Dress: Facebook group (Trashy Diva)
Necklace: Vintage (eBay)
Brooch: Etsy (Luxulite)
Heels: BAIT Footwear
~Bye bye for now!
