CURRENT CRAVINGS

CURRENT CRAVINGS by botrytisvin featuring aviator shades

COOTD TWINS?

I had to wake up especially early Friday morning.
My dear sister-cousin decided that she wanted me to help her curl her hair (the way that I do mine). I was in a very generous mood and agreed (it must have been due to the lack of sleep--I'm a crazy range of emotions lately... cranky, chipper, generous, energized... I'm definitely not preggo so I can't blame the emotions on the hormones induced by having buns in the oven... it's definitely the lack of sleep).

As I said, I woke up early, took my shower, then made sure the sister-cousin was awake so that we could get started. Surprisingly the whole process (showing her how to do it herself and explaining my technique) took under a half an hour.

As a payment of sorts I made her let me take blog photos--since she is usually my forced photographer it seemed fitting :)

She complied:

 

As you can see... she's not used to this whole 

"I'm going to take your picture now... and yes, it is going up on my blog" thing.

I think she gets it now :)

After going through the Droid-pics I came across this one, and all I could think was:

"WTF?! Twin laughing shots... LOL too cute."

After studying the pictures a little bit more I realized that we are even more "twin-y" that society should accept... Look at my outfit pics from the other night. All I can say is WTF? Has she been raiding my outfit ideas or what?.

 I have no clue what I was doing with my leg up... 

maybe I was trying to show you my black Minnetonkas... who knows.

Outfit Breakdowns:

Sister-Cousin-- Top: unknown, Tank: unknown, Jeans: Unknown, Boots: Delias (2 years ago, I believe)
COOTD-- Top: Target Plaid Button Down, T-Shirt: J. Crew Outlet, Jeans: Silver Sienna Skinnies, Boots: Minnetonka Tall (from Tobi.com last summer)

HOLIDAY OUTFIT

This Christmas I'll be splitting my time between my boyfriend's home in NJ and my home in MD. Christmas Eve we will be having dinner with his Aunt and family, and I am at a complete loss of what to wear.
I picked up this great black linen dress from Gap on eBay for $7 (original price tag $55). I was going to wear it, a pair of patterned tights, and my black suede boots for a friend's commission today, but since it got cancelled, I think I'm going to wear it for lunch/dinner at his aunt's place.
My only concern is that it's too much black. I've got my forest green long pea coat from Gap I picked up a few year ago to break up the black, and of course the gray tights will do that as well. I just hope my outfit doesn't come across as bla...

Here are a few pictures of the outfit pieces. (My camera is busted, or else I would take a pic of the outfit on and show you what I'm trying to pull off)



Unfortunately I don't have a picture of my coat (which I absolutely love!--it goes great with my skin tone and eyes and hair color--absolutely the best purchase I have ever made)...

I was thinking about wearing a colored scarf to break up the black, or maybe even my two tone AA scarf to make the tights 'pop' a little more...


But again, is it too much black? Oh I don't know! Ugh! Holiday outfits are entirely too stressful.

All I know is this: I really don't want to show up in jeans for a Holiday dinner (and a first meeting), I just want to look nice and appropriate...


Ugh. Holidays.