In the market for affordable vintage-style swimwear? If you are searching for a modest one-piece, pop on over to yesterday’s post at Style Tribe. (And rejoice! In the comments, the stylish Ms. S declares modesty “in”.)
While most of us are still after tankini plus boardshorts, the fashion pendulum swings back towards one-pieces.
I can’t get this picture, taken by The Sartorialist recently in Milan, out of my mind.
More later.
Okay, I’m back. And I’ve been thinking navy blue all day. What I’m thinking is that we’re coming into a major cyan cycle; that is, a trend toward blues which are on the green side. (With the last big blue trend, I recall, we all wanted periwinkle.)
Wardrobe planning considerations:
Unfortunately, I have nothing like this outfit, which would have been perfect for this evening. Instead I wore a long crew neck t-shirt, never pictured, about this color, with my new jeans, pink 3/4 sleeve jacket and, of course, the wedges.
Sorry, no time for a picture.
Yes, this is still a fashion blog. I’ll tell you all about the outfit at the end of the post.
For quite some time now I have been looking for an excuse to blog the coolest thing I’ve discovered recently: this rice cooker. I shouldn’t need an excuse; my love for you should be reason enough.
In the time it takes me to cook brown rice, I can simultaneously cook meat and/or vegetables in the stainless steel tray. 5 minutes of prep (after the forethought of thawing the chicken), 40 minutes of cooking, stir in spices, and … voila! –we have dinner! I have NEVER had the rice burn, or even stick, although I see on Amazon’s reviews that others have.
My husband assures me he could eat this nearly every night. Next up: using it outside in the summer, to keep the kitchen cool.
So why am I dressed up as Betty Crocker?
I cleaned up after coffee.
I consider appliances servants. My rice cooker Works For Me.
This week’s Festival of Frugality, featuring my Watching Fashion Trends Is Frugal, is up at the very interesting blog freemoneyfinance. Check it out.
The host also has a later post entitled Save Money by Avoiding Stores and Malls. To which I would add: blog daily. Yes, keeping up on this blog has limited my time in the stores in the most pleasant way!
Yum! Sounds like breakfast!
A quote from Almost Girl:
For most people in the blogosphere the blogroll is pretty important. I must admit that I totally love seeing myself on the blogrolls of other people I respect …
(And the post goes on to say really nice things about ME. Thanks Julie!)
For those of you who weren’t around then, I’d like to indulge in a little nostalgia. I had been blogging for just 3 months (this was before Coutorture) when I wrote this post. A quote:
I confess that I’m mystified by blog-itics (the politics of getting noticed in the blogosphere). The notion that value is measured by the number of other bloggers linking to you puzzles me; does that mean that because my sister and my husband own the only blogs that link to mine, my content is of little value?
Both Julie and Danielle responded with very encouraging comments. Thank you both.
Unknowingly, Shannon from Rocks In My Dryer has also encouraged me in considering blogrolls, just by her straight-forward and gracious explanation of how her blogroll works. Thanks Shannon.
I’m still figuring out my own system. I’m no longer up-tight about who links to me and who doesn’t. And I’m very much looking forward to the day when I can actually read all my own linkages.
Jenn brings up a very good question:
I genetically have always had a little “pot” belly, even at my skiniest. After 2 kids, I think I look pretty good but do try to camoflague the belly
I always thought that when wearing a top you wanted it to end below the point that you were trying to de-empansize, but my mom said she saw a thing on TV that said you should actually bisect it to break up the line (in the case on tv they were talking about the butt I believe).
To be honest, I’ve spent so much of my life worrying about my thighs that I hadn’t really thought about this. Here’s what I found when I looked it up:
picture via JCPenney
To learn more techniques to camouflage or highlight particular body characteristics, you could buy the book. I’ve seen it here for as low as in the $30 - $40 range (or there’s always the library).
By the way, did I mention that Coutorture now has Channels and is broken down into Communities? I am thrilled to be included in the Advice Community.
Today I’m heading out to the park with the ladies. If anyone were so inclined, it would be a lovely day for personal color identification.
Here’s the project: Go outside and have a friend identify every color present in your personal coloring. Name them according to my mental color wheel (two variations of each hue: orange-red and purple-red, blue-green and yellow-green, and so on).
Here’s the application: My best post ever on the topic of color.
And the shoes:
Bear with me here, there is a connection …
The Biblical teaching on submission is a hard one in today’s feminist society. If you are not familiar with it, I invite you to scroll down and use the Bible Gateway search form to look it up. Sometimes what makes it hard is the media-driven idea that men are meanies. And some are. Mine’s not. Indeed, most aren’t.
But why is it hard to submit even when it’s for our own benefit? Consider the following, all too common, scenario:
She says, “I’ve been thinking about getting _________ (insert your choice of item both affordable and advantageous; such as a robot vacuum, a pair of Chacos, or hi-speed internet).”
He says, “That’s a good idea; why don’t you go ahead and do that?”
Yes, indeed, why don’t we? I know I’m not the only smart one who thinks I have to scrutinize every decision for myself; I’ve talked to too many frugal moms who won’t buy themselves a pair of shoes, even when their husband wants them to.
Today’s one word sermon: Submit!
Oh, and the connection? It’s about to speed up!
picture via Old Navy
I hear that groan! While I agree quality is not the best at Old Navy, for the price, these shirts work.
Earlier this week, when I was going through my drawers, I discovered, to my delight, that I own crew neck tee shirts in just about every color I wear. (Wait a minute — I knew that!)
A color run-down for you:
BTW, the color I’ve pictured here flatters most people. No guarantees though.
As I was putting together yesterday’s post, the term “works for me” sounded somehow familiar. You see, Shannon at Rocks In My Dryer hosts a weekly blog carnival with that title, dedicated to helpful hints (which I need LOTS of). So I entered! You can see the full list of entries here.
I also did something kinda crazy this week: I emailed a link to this post to a bunch of Real Life Friends. The conversation that prompted the idea originated at my previous post: Blogging Questions From ‘She Lives’.
So, whether you have been here from the beginning or just came for the first time: Welcome! If you are interested in what to wear, I hope you will stick around. My approach? Highly analytical, slightly entertaining (I know that because I hear snickering when my daughter is catching up on what I’ve written).
One other thing, and I don’t know if this fits here or not, but, although I LOVE blog carnivals, I don’t do memes. (Once I was tagged for one and, though I read the post, I didn’t learn until months later that I was the R. Sorry!) It’s nothing personal; but that’s just it, this blog is nothing personal. Well, sort of. I guess it’s a personal knowledge blog.
