Some shopping aid!

The always lovely Iben of Despite Color left me a comment today on my previous post saying she had been looking for some decent leather pants for a while. Mine came from Forever21, and I have since not found them on their site, or in the one store of theirs I can find near me. Even then, they were originally in the price range of $20-$30, and were put on a sale rack, then their price was reduced further because a customer broke the front button off! So I kind of lucked out anyway.

I did some research, and while I can't find anything for as little as $20 (without looking through shady Chinese wholesale sellers on eBay), these other options seem to be of very good quality, starting at under $50.






Of course, if you do enough eBay searching, you can definitely find a decent pair!

37; Southwestern Hespera

Top: Urban Outfitters • Pants: Forever21 • Boots + belt: Etsy • Jewelery: everywhere

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New boots! They're awfully big in the ankles, something I didn't anticipate, but hey, they're pretty cool. I bought them fearing that my favourite Beatle boots were at their end, up until I ran across some Gorilla Glue at Target and had a smack-my-forehead moment. The one kind of glue I didn't try. It worked like a freaking charm, too!

Speaking of Target, Wednesday was pretty awesome -- we went out shopping and I restocked on some makeup and nail polish. (I even bought some hair spray, something I've been desperately lacking.) I'd been at the mall few months back going from shop to shop running in and asking, "Do you carry lip stain?" Each attempt ended in the employee(s) looking at me funny and giving me a reluctant "no" before trying to push another kind of product on me...where I finally caved at Bare Escentuals and bought some lipstick there. Lukily, I ended up in Target buying two shades of lipstain gloss. I'm waring 'My Papaya' by Cover Girl here, a colour Kathryn suggested would look good, so I nabbed it. The other shade I bought is probably called 'Burgundy', I can't really recall, but it's shockingly dark and purple and it's a little less muted than I was searching for. I intended to find a plum/berry colour but more grey and a little darkish, but to no avail. I swear I saw it on someone on Lookbook once, and it was gorgeous.

I also bought myself two Revlon shades of nail polish, 'Minted' (as you see in the photos above) and 'Steel-her Heart'. I wanted to find a turquoise shade, and I mean real turquoise. Like, the colour of the actual stone. I'll probably end up buying some online.


Also, guess who signed up for a portfolio on Models.com? I probably don't have a chance, but it would be a really amazing experience to be able to model for some companies or stores.

15; Oh man.

Friendly reminder: voting for the Maurices Main Street Model ends on Sunday~


I have been so terrible at blogging lately, haven't I? I've kind of been terrible at just being on the internet in general in the past week or so. I'm switching jobs at the moment, and don't feel really great at my current one, and I've only had one day of floor training at my new one, so I'm feeling anxious about that one too. It's also suddenly gone cold here again, meaning all of the lovely warm weather clothes I've accumulated have to stay in the closet while I sit and shiver in ugly thermal shirts under lumpy sweatshirts that make me feel like a hobo. This is pretty darn cold for April, even in New England. I'm not happy.

However, I am happy about the warm weather clothing I mentioned earlier. While it's a complete letdown that I can't even go near it for possibly another two or three weeks (come on, unexpected heat wave... ;___; ), I still have some really amazing newbies to my closet.

Firstly, I bought this from DisarmingDarling:

...Which I'll admit, I was a little nervous about it's length, as a dress. I've never worn something that short before in my life. However, I tried it on when it arrived and was embarrased to discover that the hem comes about an inch or two above my knees. :| I'm such a freaking drawf. At least this means I don't have to worry about looking incredibly indecent around Kathryn's parents...

(Fun fact: this dress came with the original tag, where it was valued at $158.00 back when it was new. This is officially the most expensive thing I own.)

Then, I won this velvet kimono in Madeline's ShockBotique giveaway:

I'm still kind of in denial that I won it, despite the fact that I laid in bed with it clutched to my chest when it arrived on Wednesday. I'm also shocked that it fit me. I suppose Madeline and I are roughly the same size, because every time I buy something, I look at the model wearing it and think, "okay, so imagine they're wearing that but two sizes larger...and that's what it'll look like on me." I tried it on, expecting the tassels to drag on the floor by like, two inches, and be subjected to Jasmine's terror, but it didn't! It's like a dream come true. ♥

(...How obnoxious would it look if I wore that dress and this kimono together? Too much velvet? Too much brown?)

I also got my Maurices wedges...and then I bought this tank top, as you know. Which, looking at the shorts the model is wearing, I'm really digging the black pleather with it. But me, in leather shorts? No. Some people can pull it off, but I'd feel weird. I have seen Madeline wear black wet look pants (...I make a lot of references to her, don't I? Is that bad?) and make them look really awesome, though. It makes me wonder if I can pull them off. (Or, more appropriately, put them on. *shot* I'm terrible, I know.)

Still, that's a pretty edgy piece of clothing for my kind of personality. I'd also have to justify the purchase with, "what else can I wear this with?" Then there's shopping for them...I can buy them online (if I can find an affordable pair) but then I can't try them on. It's all very confusing. I'll have to do a lot of researching and thinking about it. Still, I can't get the mental picture of that tank top with those wet look pants out of my head, and I love it so much.

I ordered an extra small, and I'm hoping what arrives will be an extra small. With the length of that tank, I'm worried it'll be too long to wear shorts with. Normally I'd think, "just tuck the shirt in then," but I worry that looks dumb when I do it. I do have some shorts that might go with the top (some black-faded-to-the-point-of-charcoal-grey cut offs) so hopefully all works out when it arrives. It says FedEx should deliver it on the 25th...but that in itself doesn't make sense, because it's only in Northboro ('departed from location' so possibly even closer), which is a short drive from here. Hell, it could reasonably get here today. WHY ARE YOU TRYING TO KEEP US APART, FEDEX? WHAT'S WITH YOU?

Next time on 'A Blog No One Reads,' I'll be making a post about ponchos, and bitch about how expensive they are. ♥

11; Errands turn into a date downtown ♥

So my fiancée Kathryn needed to go downtown today to the notary with her massage therapy application. She'd been wanting to get a ride down to the notary office, but today was such a nice day that she asked me if I felt like hiking down there on foot. Naturally, I said yes. (I need the exercise.) Again, being such a nice day, and with her being in such a good mood lately, she asked if I also wanted to get lunch at our favourite café afterward. Once again, I agreed.

So, I decided that I wanted to dress up. I've been loving the maxi dress I bought from Disarming Darling on her eBay store and wanted to wear it while the weather was cooperating. It's been getting warmer these days, and I've been all sorts of excited.

We went downtown, got the notary business done, hit the ATM, and I pulled out some cash because I realised that I missed our one local antique store and wanted to see how much it had changed in the year since I last visited.

Where we ate is the Wholesome café, one of the best little places I've ever eaten. They make everything with organic and/or locally grown ingredients, and many things are made from scratch. I had the super delicious California Wrap, made of spinach, sprouts, cucumber, goat cheese, carmellized onions, and pesto in a wheat wrap. I...can't remember what Kathryn got. It's called 'The Veggie' but to my understanding, it was basically the same (spinnach and sprouts) but with carrot and...other things. It was also on Ezekiel bread. We also got the best damned blueberry smoothie ever created.

After that, we hit the antique store, and I found a lovely purse for only five bucks!

Our vantage point at our current favourite table.

This is a blueberry smoothie done right. Made from scratch with almond milk and rice-based ice cream. It's pretty damn amazing.

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(Ugh, weird face.) The dress I bought from Disarming Darling. Had to hem up the bottom and the straps, so it fits a lot better now. You can't tell, but I'm also wearing that silver antique ear cuff that I was bidding on in that one post I made about ear cuffs. I really love this dress. ♥

The five dollar purse. Had to cut the strap down which made the leather a little funky there, but no big deal. It's a really cute bag. I worship upholstery-style floral print.

And this post is going to be a little short, because our internet is being really dumb tonight and is taking forever to do the simplest of tasks. God knows when I'll be able to update Lookbook or Chictopia.