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Outfit of the Day: prairie home city gal.

Wednesday, February 4th, 2009
Today is full of unlikely texture mixing, contrasting rich colors and bold ideas—city verses country, all mixed into one.
sweet home prairie city

sweet home prairie city

rich berry dress:  awesome Idom on Alberta Street.

charcoal textured tights and long sleeve navy blue tee: anywhere local and cool.

aqua thick knee high socks: sock dreams on Powell.

frye boots: Johnny Sole downtown.

I love how I look slightly done in this photo.  Maybe subconsciously I’m mad at myself for getting out of bed too early which was actually too late and I had to rush to work…eek…hate rushing.  The studio is all out of sorts right now as I’m attempting to upgrade my filing and shipping systems.  So…walking in to chaos didn’t really help either.  Despite the aforementioned, I actually feel really great today—it’s super sunny, I’ve stayed busy after the holidays,  and minus the three day old hair, I think I’m lookin’ pretty darn smashing.

Three day hair:

wild hairwild hair 2wild hair 3wild hair 4

I’m pushing the fluff with my hair today.  One step farther than my comfort zone.  Natural “product” adds texture and height.  I’m liking it the more and more I sit with it.

***Song of the Moment: To Go Home, by M. Ward***

Outfit of the Day: Embracing the Fluff.

Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009

Sunday I participated in the most ridiculous fashion event I’ve ever been to:  BARGAIN HUNTING 101 (a PDX local collective sale).  Though this time, I was on the shopping side of things —SHWEW!!  It was NASTY in there.  The moment I found a great little open pocket, a swarm of women with shopping bags instead of hands would crowd around me, salivating and grunting with a blatant Frankenstein stare– wanting the very shirt I held in my hands.  I would’ve been eaten alive with my sweet little handmades.  Luckily I held my own long enough to escape with some KILLER new finds which will be highlighted very soon in my upcoming OOTDs.

embracing fluff

embracing fluff

Before I set foot in that monster of a sale, I HAD to be armed with coffee.  I looked a little disheveled, similar to the picture above.  So…I set out with some top ladies over to Whole Foods and ran to the coffee counter.  There, I discovered a woman working behind the counter, who inspired me greatly.  She had short curly hair, much like the lady below, but even more curly and much more wily:

wily wily hair

wily wily hair

I asked her to disclose her wild curly secret.  She said the secret was that there was no secret.  She gave up years ago on her muddy dirty wiry kinky  journey for the perfect curl.  That’s precisely when she found bouncy bliss.  She does nothing.  So…today’s OOTD is in honor of her: embracing the fluff.  Check it:

sliding it out

sliding it out

racer jacket

racer jacket

Scarf purchased at bargain price from new favorite store/designer Idom…more from them to follow.  Yahooey!  The sexy jacket was purchased in Sweden; when I first bought it, I wore it everyday.  It was a little too small for me at the time—oops.

Obey Me Owl Tee

Obey Me Owl Tee

This sweet tweet shirt came from another new store (to me) called Adorn.  Yummy: another new local store to fall in love with.  In this photo, I swear I’m not trying to poke my heehaws out in a provocative way, I just want you to get a good look at the colorful hooter.  I really do like this shirt and it’s incredibly comfortable–highly recommend their stuffs.

Ode to the Hair:

FLUFF master

FLUFF master

Yeah.  I really like being careless with the hair–pushing it up and out ON PURPOSE is wildly liberating.  I felt like a nude hippy running through the flowery fields yesterday, alone.  It was magical.

Embrace the Fluff, people.  There is no better way for us kinky-haired folkadees.

***Song of the Moment: Mollie’s Curly Hair, by Jimmy Jackson***

Outfit of the Day: a mother’s little reflection.

Saturday, January 31st, 2009

mama's little reflection

mama's little reflection

Today, I remind myself of my mother.  It’s a beautiful, comforting  reminder full of breath and weight.

sexy mama

sexy mama

We love HANDMADE!  This cutesy cowl-neck sweater(ish) dress was handmade by my great friend Jen and given to me for Christmas 2007.  I have loved and used it ever since.  The sweet little expandable oldy goldy skin ‘n’ bones belt was snatched up at a ridiculously awesome RV-type estate sale (I know, such a perfect oxymoron) for 50 cents.  Can I just say:  Boo.  YAH.   I seriously wear that accessory belt with so many different outfits.  It spices them ALL up and makes me feel sleek and sexy.  Awesome jeans were made in LA by Freedom of Choice and purchased at a local store that I keep raving about, Pin Me Apparel.

boots boots boots

boots boots boots

Two words:  frye. boots.  I’ve told you before–I LIVE in these boots.  They’re so comfortable.  They’re so rough.  They’re so classic and feminine (by not being feminine at all).  I love them.  They were made in the USA and purchased at an awesome local store, Johnny Sole,  to boot.

most important ingredient: mama's scarf

most important ingredient: mama's scarf

Over the holidays I ran into an old friend, one that used to soothe me on dark days and amplify the bright ones:  mom’s old scarf drawer.  I am seriously addicted to mom’s old scarves.  And I have been, ever since I was old enough to appreciate true style.  My mom’s got it.  I LOVE it.  Wearing her old scarves is much much more than pure style.  It’s familial, it’s like holding an old baby blanket and still sucking my thumb, it’s looking through favorite books on a solo day, eating my favorite meal, smiles, admiration, a deep deep love and more than that, they smell like her—like home.

And so, on these days, I make sure home goes with me wherever I go.

***Song of the Moment: Sweet Heart Fever, by Scout Niblett***

Anti Outfit of the Day: Douglas Fir.

Friday, January 30th, 2009

The other day THIS outfit accompanied me to the gym:

best workout look EVER

best workout look EVER

WHAT!?! Possibly the worst color combination for an outfit—ever.  Deep rich brown (um, swimming trunks, no less) matched with an old bright green comfy collar shirt from Levi’s (and a perfect little stain on the back):  good for trees, bad for bodies.

workout king

workout king

After I wiped the tears from my eyes, I was actually extremely proud of this outfit.

We often get a kick out of the RIDICULOUS choices people make when searching their wardrobes for the perfect thing to wear to the gym.  (seriously, reread the last part of the last sentence.  I truly believe it should never even happen.)

workout king #2

workout king #2

really.  I mean, really really!?!!

really. I mean, really really!?!!

If the above two meet at the gym, GREAT!  But really, who wants to pick someone up at the gym???  Especially if they look like one of the two above pics?  Sweaty, possibly stinky, out of breath, red-faced, tennis shoes, all on machines and/or doing stupid movements with heavy things…ask yourself—is that the best way to get to know someone? Also, is that the best way to spend your good outfit money?

yeah, that’s what I thought.

I’ll take my sweaty tree over these “sexy” workout oufitters any day.

***Song of the Moment: Physical, by Olivia Newton John***