as close to a little black dress as I'm gonna get

Here's a quickie...

Cardigan - Ralph Lauren

Dress - Free People

Sandals - Reaction by Kenneth Cole

Wow, none of this outfit is thrifted... how odd for me! I'm still spazzing out over my huge vintage sale tomorrow, I'm sure I won't get much sleep tonight, but hopefully it will all be worth it tomorrow! If you live in MPLS and want the info, last chance to convo me and I'll send it to you!

I've gotten a lot done, I just have a LOT more to do because well, I have a LOT of stuff. Sheesh! I'm excited, I think it will be fun. Since the boy is still on the east coast for a few more days, hopefully my friends Nate, Jeanette, and JRod will be coming by to hang out. I've bribed them all with promises of swimming in the pool when it's over, grilling and having some daytime cocktails (I'm planning to make some St. Germain/champagne cocktails. St. Germain is a liqueur made from Elderflowers and is crazy delicious and refreshing mixed with club soda and champagne.)

Bye kids, wish me luck! (I'm totally paranoid that only stingy haggling garage-salers will show up and be appalled that I'm charging $15 for a wool blazer... we'll see. I hung up a few signs about the sale around uptown in the record stores and on telephone poles full of local band signs... I'm nervous! Which explains the need for day cocktails.) Bye!

erm, suddenly I wear too much navy?

I love this little jacket I found at 50% off day at the Salvation Army on Monday. I'll find a better way to wear it, but here was how I wore it yesterday:

Blazer - thrifted

T-shirt - Bitten by SJP

Skirt - Betsy Johnson

Gold sandals - Target

Third day in a row wearing navy... what's going on there?

Necklace - Kohls clearance, years ago

T-shirt - Target

Dress - thrifted

Shoes - Unisa, DSW clearance

The bottom third of the dress looks like this:

$8 clearance sandals:

Oh yeah, and the vintage garage sale? Still sucking up all my free time. So much stuff. So many racks... here is just one of them, and there are SEVERAL more, plus shoes and belts and hats and purses and and and! Email me if you live in MPLS and want to come, I'll send you the details!

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Heyyyyyyy there kids, sorry I've been gone for a few days. Unfortunately, I may be gone for a few more, I'll try to do a few small posts this week though. My condo complex is having a huge garage sale on Saturday, I'm having a "Yes, it's in the garage, but it's not a garage sale, it's a vintage sale" sale. So basically my house is a huge avalanche of clothes (well, more that usual). Also, on Saturday, I went to sweep out my garage and to move all my stuff to the top shelf to get ready for the sale this weekend. After killing about 15 spiders and choking on all the blown around gravel, I was ready to head inside. So I grabbed my stepladder and the broom and paper towels and closed the door... with my keys still on the shelf in the garage. So I had to break into my own house, criminal style, through the window (good thing I had the stepladder with me!) I still can't get my screen back on... oh goodness, I'm such a ditz sometimes.

I found some great deals on 50% off day at the thrift stores on Monday. They were pretty crazy and crowded though. Otherwise I had a pretty chill weekend. The boy and a few of my friends are still out of town, but hung out with some other friends a few times and watched some baseball with the boys. Business as usual, but with a Monday off.

Here is what I wore Friday. I'm trying to get over my hatred of hats and I found this one at a thrift store last month for $3... cutest. hat. ever. Still don't know if I like it on me.

Everything I'm wearing - thrifted.

And here is what I wore today... I know, I'm not much of a sports t-shirt kind of girl but I love my 1987 Twins World Series Champs shirt (and sweatshirt from that year. I wore it today when I got cold. It says "There's no place like Dome." I love it.)

Again, everything is thrifted. 

The kids were perplexed by the shirt, one fifth grade girl even said, "Eww, what's that? I'm more stylish than you today." Which just goes to show, set the bar low and people will never be disappointed. Clearly my fashion bar is set too high.