First things first, I unveiled my camel hair jacket today and it's lovely an fantastic. It still had the dry cleaning tags on it so I just gave it a very gentle steaming to get the wrinkles out of the lining and I just love it. It makes me feel like a British horse-rider; that sounds odd but hopefully you catch my drift.
Not sure I'd I mentioned this on here but I know I said it on FB, I recently lost 13 lb and all my jeans and pants are too short. It's fairly clear to me that I haven't grown, as I'm 30. I measured myself Just to make sure I'm not a feak of nature, still 5'5.5". Regardless of why, it's rather annoying and costly. I took the cuffs out of the dress trousers that had them but I was left with zero jeans that don't illicit the "what, are you expecting a flood or something?" looks so I headed to Savers to find some longer lengths. I found a pair of juniors Dear Ab jeans that were perfect, and $5.99. I've been wearing them and another pair that I bought at the same time (that unfortunately get baggy in the butt after wearing for more than an hour - what a drag, didn't have time to alter those before our trip). Long story longer, I built my vacation wardrobe around my dear abbie jeans and decided to be reasonable and only bring 3 pairs of shoes and 1 pair of jeans. It's only a weekend trip and they were perfectly neutral, no obnoxious faded spots on the thighs or under the booty that make me feel like I'm trying to look 19, which I'm not, thank god.
So this morning I put on a different pair thinking that I should perhaps rethink trusting in 1 pair, but alas, they were long enough but too short waisted and I just couldn't wear them on a 3 hour flight, back to the DA jeans, put them on and BLAM, hole by the pocket in the bum area. NOOO! At this point Matt and u had already planned on stopping by Kohls to look for a jacket for him. Alright readers, I seriously tried on 18 pairs of jeans in 30 minutes and was dripping with sweat. Found some! Good old Levis, they're called skinny flare, and I ended up getting a size bigger than what I think of as my size but something that I've learned is to buy the size that feels good and F the mind game about the #. Do you hear me? Who gives a crap what size your jeans are? Apparently I did for a long time; how ridiculous! I'm becoming more and more reasonable everyday. By the way, the purchase of these jeans starts the ticker over for buying only second hand or clearance items. Bummer! I'll sell all my high waters on eBay when we get home from Boston to make up for it!
While we're on the subject of jeans, who can wear skinny jeans? Dear sweet fashionista gods, I look atrocious in them and am forced to hide my enormous feet with flares, or bootcut. Let me help you visualize: I look like a pedestal with and enormo bubble ass on top when I try skinny jeans on. Seriously, not good. I also don't particularly care if anyone thinks I'm stuck in the 90s with my flares, I got rid of my thermo-colors and silk button ups so I'm alright.
In other news I tried my hand at laminating my own fabric and it's difficult and will require cleaning my iron. My mistakes: I used a vintage polyester checked fabric I bought at a thrift store and the slight stretch made it difficult to laminate. Also, the first step in the iron on laminate is to peel the backing and then place on top and then iron. It was very difficult to get it in place so that the iron didn't get attacked by the plastic on the edges. Here's what I learned, laminate a bigger piece than you need and then cut your piece to size, do Not use fabric with any stretch, and perhaps it would be easier to just buy some oilcloth online for the project I wanted to make anyway.
Here's the good news everyone: I did end up getting a small salvageable piece that I made a sunglasses case out of, so my keys don't scratch up my favorite pair in my purse. Here's a photo, sorry the photo is black and white, I was in a hurry and bought more hipstamic films and lenses and well, the fabric really is black and white anyway, so I guess it doesn't matter anyway.
In more tech-savvy news, I've been learning some new things on excel, there's so much to learn! Check out ExcelisFun on YouTube, great tutorials.
Stay tuned for the AMAZING and super cute hair clips my mom is making and (she doesn't know it yet) but she will soon be selling them on Etsy!
Spray painted some more shoes, have more updates and tips when I return; some paint works better than others and soft leather is niche sehr gut for painted shoe projects, ruined a pair (maybe recoverable). We'll see!
Morals of the day from a more and more reasonable thirty something: #1: build your vacation wardrobe around your most comfortable shoes #2: earrings are my new favorite accessory, try them but pass them along if they're too heavy; who wants saggy earlobe? No one! #3: sell or donate all clothing that doesn't fit properly, this will leave room for your eyes to find your most beloved pieces #4: do not buy something trendy if it makes you look bizarre, makes you feel fat or makes you look like you're 19, or 12, or like you're trying too hard. #5: don't look at the size, buy what fits #6: protect what you love, regardless of how inexpensive it was (I.e.: my $2.99 sunglasses) #7: buy clothing from thrift and consignment shops out of season before it gets picked over!
Talk again soon my darlings!
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