I'm itchy!

Hmm... being on Vicodin at work makes me loopy! Which is fine, I'm sure the kids didn't notice other than I was a little sillier than usual (which is pretty silly anyway). Have I mentioned lately how much I LOVE my job? Anyway, I decided to finally wear this skirt I made out of a dress a while ago. I found this horrible dress at a thrift store for $2-3. It was either Jones NY or Liz Claiborne. It had a mock turtleneck and dolman batwing sleeves... ickers! So, six months later, this skirt was born. Click to enlarge and appreciate it's cumberbun (cummerbund? what's the proper word? I never know!) waistline and draped skirt. Woo! 

Cardigan - thrifted at Fake Target

Blouse - thrifted vintage

Skirt - dress altered by me

Shoes - Michael Kors

NEWS! I'm gonna have a new series of little posts coming up, called "Spring Inspirations, Vicodin style." I'm all hopped up on elbow-relievers and everything is too painful to do except look at style.com! Let's ignore all this Fall hoo-ha and focus on the stuff that came down the runway for this spring! I'll only put up the designers whose collections I like and are my style (sorry Ann Demeulemeester and Comme des Garçons - I just can't pull you off... few can.) I'll try to get to as many designers as I can, and will even style some outfits for myself based on the designers overall look for Spring '09! Get excited! I'm itchy! (due to the Vicodin)

another week?!?!

Have I ever linked to my flickr here? Well, there it is. Let's be friends. I love it. There are so many nice people there (and some pervs, but whatevs, I block/ignore them.) I am trying out this blogging from flickr thing, cause I like how you can put notes on things. So if you're interested in finding out what all this crap by my front door is, click the pic and look away! (well, assuming I kinda know what I'm doing and this works...)

Ok, so I went to the Dr and now I have to wait a week to find out what is going on with the elbow. Boo. However, this time I did not resist her efforts to put me on Vicodin. I'm done with the pain, time for the loopy drugs. I feel much better about it already.

In much more exciting news, I... now... own... PRADA! I'll post about it ASAP, and it's nothing too epic, but hey, I got myself $700 worth of Prada for FREE! Really, you are all going to be disappointed when you see it, but whatevs, I'm pretty pumped. That same day I also got these Michael Kors two strap mary-janes on clearance at DSW for $30!

Score! I am not a fan of going to the Mall of America, but I went with some friends on Saturday. We went to a few stores, had a few drinks at some terrible theme restaurants, it wasn't bad for being the MOA on a weekend. Will resume wearing clothes tomorrow. I was too grouchy and pain-filled to bother taking a picture this morning. Who knows, this Vicodin thing may put me in the mood to dress nuts again!

the mad hatter (you know, mad like hats make me ANGRY)

So here is how I wore the newly spruced up jacket today:

Jacket - it was cheap on etsy, I won't mention the store because I was not a fan. Yeah, it was cheap, but when I got it the inside is all torn up from where they pulled out the shoulder pads. Hmm... should you maybe mention to potential buyers that there are gaping holes in the lining??? I think so.
White tank - little boys Fruit of the Loom
Pants - thrifted The Limited
Shoes - Doc Marten's (inherited from sister about 10 years ago)

Now that that's out of the way, something unexpected happened today... I've always thought that girls who wear hats are CRAZY (I don't know why, but whenever I see a girl wearing a hat, I always assume they are a headcase. I just don't enjoy a hat. Well, maybe the fox fur busby, but that's a whole nother thing... I just don't wear hats indoors, maybe that's it. And there was that unfortunate kooky Blossom hat phase in 7th grade... okay, I'm getting off topic here-- the topic is "Christine does not wear hats.") So, I've thrifted some great fascinator style hats lately like these two floral numbers I sold on my etsy (seriously these fascinators sold in like 5 seconds. These babies are HOT right now!)

I found two more for a couple bucks each. I was totally planning on selling them. I was going to put them on my etsy right now, since I'm still dealing with the mutant elbow and can't try on a million things to photograph for the store. BUT!!! I want to keep this one. It's navy blue and looks like it's made of licorice ropes! I want to keep it. I want to wear it. Like this. (Oh, and the bling on it is a clip-on earring I threw on it, not part of the hat.) 

Hat - thrifted (with thrifted clip-on earring attached)
Cardigan - Target
T-shirt - Target
Heart necklace - Claire's (it was from when I was Little Orphan Annie for Halloween two years ago)
Long necklace - inherited from Mom
Pants - thrifted The Limited
Shoes - thrifted Anne Taylor LOFT

For some reason, this outfit makes me feel like Rooster's girlfriend in Annie. Anyone?