Two days, too many necklaces

Friday... too many necklaces.

Monday... too many necklaces.

I swear, I only wore one necklace all weekend. I ought to get in the habit of photographing my weekend outfits, but I'm never home. I spend all weekend at the boy's and bartending and at Kai's watching football so I never take any outfit pictures. Anyway, last Christmas my grandma gave me a bunch of beautiful brooches that she inherited from her aunt who never had children and thus spent all her money on jewelry. I am too scared to wear them. Thus the brooches on my pearl necklaces are crappy thrifted costume jewelry. I need to photograph all the real brooches. They are just beautiful and so old but in perfect condition! I also need to get in the habit of photographing my outerwear sometimes. I have way too many coats and way too many scarves and way too many mittens and gloves (but no hats, they squish my hair, thus I only wear earmuffs, although my earmuffs were STOLEN from a bar last year by a drunk girl who tried to buy them from me and when I said no she stole them later, boo. I often like my outfit better with all the bundled layers and need to take pictures of it. Bottom line, more and more pictures). And don't steal people's earmuffs.

Stuff is neat

So the political party was so much fun! I may have drank one too many "Baracktails" but managed to function at work all day on Wednesday. So fun screaming on the porch, hugging strangers on the street, feeling ok with America for once.

So I try to run 4-5 miles on Mons, Weds, and Fris but yesterday I totally ditched cause I was playing DIY. I will never be as adorable as this girl from Copenhagen Street Styles but hey, that doesn't mean I can't copy her scarf thing.

 So I had a bunch of soft bright pink jersey left over from when I sewed a Goddess of Love costume for a play last year. Since it was the only fabric I had that was free, soft and seven feet long, it was perfect. Taaa-Daaa! I slapped on a crazy expensive French oxford shirt I inherited from my aunt, a black dress since I don't own a black skirt (well, I do have a big poofy tu-tu like one, but not a normal black skirt) and my brown Anne Klein boots. Bam, time for strange looks at work and all over downtown. Whatevs, I think I look pretty normal today. 

Oh, and here's my boring a little-hungover-from-Baracktails-and-staying-up-till-three-AM-to-see-if-Al-Franken-won-the-senate-race outfit from Wednesday.

Side note - Why do kids get so many bloody noses? Seriously, I have kids coming in every day and now that the air is getting drier, it's several times a day. Just gushing blood. From their face. In my office. On my chairs. On the floor. I have a feeling it's going to get worse before it gets better. Is it spring yet?

I love Halloween and voting!

So, here is the Frida Kahlo costume. Ugly? Yes. Still awesome? I think so. The joys of having a boyfriend, I can rock a unibrow and mustache. 

My parents were up this weekend but spent Friday and Saturday night at my sister's house. They know how passionate I am about Halloween (they were the ones who raised me thinking everyone started preparing for Halloween in August. We always made our own costumes, well my mom would with our help, and we also always had a huge party for all our friends in my parents huge spooky barn that was built in the late 1800s. There were games, food, candy galore and a haunted house in the attic of the barn. It was quite an undertaking every year.) Here's Monday's outfit (I know, one day late for Dia de los Muertos):

Calavera T-shirt - FutureLint (aka me!)

Skirt - thrifted Liz Claiborn

Shoes - BCBG

And today's VOTING OUTFIT!

Scarf - thrifted

T-Shirt - Fake Target

Dress - thrifted Divided

Boots - Seychelles

I feel so lucky that my precinct is well equipped for voter turn out. I went at 4pm when I was done with work and was in and out within 15 minutes! Whoo! Now I am off to Ryan's to get ready for tonight's "Political Party". All my friends are political nerds and several of them work in politics. We'll all be glued to the TV, watching the results roll in... again. Don't even get me started on the 2000 election, we gave up and went to bed when the sun came up. This year I'm making homemade soft pretzels which are awesome and my friends always want but I only make a few times a year cause they are a pain in the booty (or in the hands, dang does kneading suck) and they take forever to make. I'm also mixing up a few batches of blue cocktails, or "Baracktails". Har har. I'm off and will hopefully be yelling cheerful things at the TV and not naughty words! I'm pretty sure Obama's got it in the bag, but you never know and don't even get me started on that pesky Al Franken vs. Norm Coleman race. Laterz!