fashion – Page 5

I know it’s late! Who blogs at 10 p.m.??? Ummm, I do!!

I spent the day doing some back-to-school shopping with the kiddos, thanks to a nice gift card my wonderful mother-in-law sent them. Then I did one of my ALL TIME favorite things….I went thrifting!

I didn’t exactly MEAN to buy anything. I just walked into the shop to browse and kill time, and then I saw it. The sign. It said “All clothing $1.” Say WHAAATTTT?

I decided just to peek in the woman’s section. The first thing I found was a pair of gray Liz Claiborne dress slacks, in my size. Right next to it a pair of taupe NY & Co dress slacks (also in my size!) I found a couple of pencil skirts, a GORGEOUS button down black midi skirt, a beautiful navy Isaac Mizrahi dress, and a Simply Vera Wang top.

I was about to walk to the register when I saw a rolling rack with some newly placed items. I found my daughter 3 cardigans, two from Gap and one from J. Crew. My biggest find?? A pair of LIKE NEW Banana Republic jeans in hubby’s size. Keep in mind, these are $1 each! ONE DOLLAR! My grand total?? $14…CHA-CHING! That was less than what I spent on ONE long-sleeve hoodie for my son at Kohls!

I don’t have any pics of my score to share with you tonight. Half of the items are in the wash, and the other half are in a bag to go to the cleaners, but I will post some as soon as I can.

I’m not going to leave you with out any pics, though. Here is one of 6 aprons I made for my friend who’s hosting a mustachio baby shower.

Enjoy!

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Happy Sunday! Last week I went fabric shopping for the first time in months. I came across this gorgeous fabric by Alexander Henry:

Zikat

I was lucky enough to find it NOT on sale. (Why it is lucky to find something at regular price? Fabric stores tend to mark their items at around 30% off, and then publish coupons for 40% or 50% off that you can only use on regular priced items. For example, it’s currently on sale at Joann for $10.99/yd (less than 16% off), but with my 40% off coupon, I was able to snag it at $7.79/yd.)

When I got home, I knew I wanted to make this print into a maxi skirt (for me!) but then I remembered that I had only bought 1.25 yards of fabric of each of the 6 prints I had picked out. (When I spend forever and a day waiting at the cutting counter, I tend to do the math in my head and get scared to blow my entire budget just on fabrics, so sometimes I don’t buy enough, especially on designer prints. Blah!)

I still attempted to make myself a maxi skirt, but my hips protested. They insisted that I needed at least another ~~half~~ quarter yard to make it a maxi skirt and not an elongated pencil skirt!

No problem! I cut off a few inches of elastic at the waistband and trimmed some inches off of the length, and voila! A perfect “Zikat” maxi skirt for my mini-me in a cast.

Not only does she rock this look out, she balances extremely well on one foot so that mommy can get a good pic!

She wanted the same Katniss braid I had done for her when we saw The Hunger Games a couple of weeks ago. Love it!

And, here we are together. (Excuse the grip I had on her arm, her leg was getting tired from standing so long and she thought she might fall!) Of course, I had on ZERO accessories. Isn’t there a saying about the cobbler’s son going barefoot? In my case the cobbler is barefoot.

So what do you think about my daughter’s $8 fashion statement?? Tell me in the comments!

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