I'm Getting Old

How I know I'm getting old...

I was browsing Luisa Via Roma and saw these Casadei Blade Heel pumps and my first thought was "Damn those look uncomfortable!"

I mean at my size and 110 mm these would be totally unrealistic for me but I shouldn't be thinking that, right???

Sigh!

Ensemble du Jour

I realized that I have been sadly lacking on talking about any thing I've been wearing lately. I can't believe I've let such an oversight happen!

Frankly, I've just been swamped with work and outside activities - beekeeping classes, town stuff, bringing work home, taking days off to lobby at the state capitol, planning for new members of the family and looking into all kinds of trips around the globe. Plus trying to plan out more meals and I have at least three books I'm in the middle of.

Frankly I'm spent.

So to be totally slack, here is sample of outfits I've worn over the past few weeks. Each links back to the Polyvore page with details. And I have a ton more photos on Flickr.


1-12-09 - by Princess Poochie on Polyvore.com


1-13-09 - by Princess Poochie on Polyvore.com


1-14-09 - by Princess Poochie on Polyvore.com


1-15-09 - by Princess Poochie on Polyvore.com


1-16-09 - by Princess Poochie on Polyvore.com


1-23-09 - by Princess Poochie on Polyvore.com


1-22-09 - by Princess Poochie on Polyvore.com


1-26-09 - by Princess Poochie on Polyvore.com

Some of these are representative pieces, so let me know if there is an item you have a question about. As you can see this sort of gets me through January. Maybe I'll catch up more over the weekend.

By the way, I'm on Twitter all of the time. If you want to catch up with me there, I hope you send me a tweet!

Ensemble du Jour

The Outfit

I'm doing the transitional thing again. Trying to work in some of the clothes from summer that I haven't had a chance to wear as well as putting together color combinations that I like the look of.

On Wednesday, I decided to wear this bright pink patterned silky wrap dress from JCrew with the much more substantial dark brown corduroy blazer from Target. One of my favorite elements of the dress (and the reason I bought the same style in three fabrics - on sale!) is the ruffle collar. What's fun with it, is when you wear the dress under a blazer, the ruffle gets pushed up and creates this sort of ornate neckline that really frames your face.

The two colors are very strong and contrast each other well. I walked in the door to work and got all sorts of compliments which I directly contribute to the colors working off of each other.



In keeping with the simple/ornate look I wore one of my new Paraphernalia pieces - a "P for Poochie" Petit Nom Initial Necklace. If you have not found a Paraphernalia piece that you like, you just can't be looking. I think I have about ten pieces and I love them all - from girly to a bit goth.

You're going to be seeing a lot more pieces of hers because I just received a bunch and I'm so excited I'm wearing them almost every day.



For shoes, I wore these Casadei dark brown suede mary janes. I love the shape of these when they're on and the color and material are an equal weight to the blazer - they help to ground the dress.



Plus they have giant pom-poms!



The Focal Point

It was all about the dress and the great color and pattern. I am a sucker for a great saturated pink. I really cannot resist, even when I should.



I think this weekend might be the right time to do the seasonal switch for the closets and pulling out the sweaters. But I'm going to have to keep this transitional idea in mind and not bury anything too deeply that I might want to layer with.

Ensemble du Jour

The Outfit
Yes, I'm wearing layers and dark brown tights and warm stuff because it's cold and wet and rainy. I'd rather be wearing my Bettye Muller Coast sunny, pretty, floral-y slingbacks.

But no, it's raining again today and it's predicted to rain into next week. Yuck!

But we need the rain, so no complaining I guess. I'm wearing a dark brown cardigan, burgundy camisole and navy pencil skirt, all from Target. Some dark brown tights and my copper bubble necklace from Etsy.



The necklace also has these lovely faceted garnets on either side of the pendant.



The Focal Point
Being warm in my brown tights as well as tonal wearing my dark brown suede Casadei pom-pom mary jane heels.



The pom-poms are made of suede too and are in dark brown and a deep brick red.



Because of my arch I had to do a little shoe surgery on these - I ended up cutting the straps and then re-sewing them together so they didn't press as hard on the top of my foot. Now they are totally comfortable.



Sometimes you have to do a bit of cobbling to get your pieces to adapt to you. Not the other way around.