Gracie's Vintage Finds
A cool find and an Explanation
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So I’ve been gone from the blogsphere for quite awhile. Not that I haven’t been reading blogs, but the amount of insanity my life has contained these last few months is incomprehenable. But now I’m back (I mean it this time XD)
So back to the invention that prompted me to blog: Afterparty shoes from Redfoot. I saw these on the Fashion Police Blog, and it was love at first sight.
They’re ballet flats that fold up to fit in your bag, so when the killer heels you were crazy to wear in the first place start taking their tole, you have a comfy pair of shoes to toss on. I gotta say, I would have sold my soul for these at the Washington DECA Confrence. (Which was amazing, but I’ll touch on it later. My big pet peeve came up at it, which justifies a rant). The pair shown are the Nicole style, but they have a handful of cute designs (even sandals for the summer) But anyways, if you want to order a pair (they’re a little expensive by my standards, but I’m an eternal thrifter), check them out at Love those Shoes.
Now onto my rant from the DECA fall leadership conference. First, I have to say, I had the time of my life. The energy was amazing. The thing that bugged me was the sheer number of girls wearing the faux two piece dress (high waisted pencil skirt with a blouse or button down underneath). The reason it bugged me? I have been doing this for a long time now- I just dont feel the need to sew my shirts to my skirt. It leaves too little creative room. First thing out of my friends mouth when we get to they Meydenbour (spelling is off, I know)-”That chicks dress is almost identical to your outfit”. Then we look around, then we started counting. We got to about thirtyfive before I said screw it and quit. Then we went to macys during some down time. I found a dress literally identical to my outfit (a vintage skirt and blouse paired together),except the dress at macys showed more cleavage. It really stole my thunder. When I got home, I looked online and saw pretty much every major designer had some version of it. On one level, it was cool to see that I was ahead of the trend (I was doing this before fall fashion week, and apparently I didn’t pay any atention becuase I dont remember seeing them.) unconsciously, but on the other hand it irked me to no end. Does anyone else have that problem, and does it annoy you when you start seeing everyone joinng in?
I’m really sorry for the rant…It’s been building up for about a month and a half (I really do need to blog more).
Time for summer to move along
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As much as I love sunglasses and sunshine, I’m getting pretty sick of eighty degree weather. It limits my outfit options too 
Since today was a spirit day and so my outfit was incredibly boring, I’m posting an old outfit. Please excuse the fact that it looks like a thrift store threw up in my room xD (it really does, you don’t get the full experience from the picture though)
A big apology
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I’ve come to the conclusion blogging over the summer really didn’t work for me. However, second week into school, figuring out my routine, and actually putting outfits together on a regular basis has put me back into the blogging situation. Haven’t been doing much shopping lately (One shopping buddy (madre) is pretty much out of the picture doing her own thing, and the other is apparently banned from me by her mother (long story, don’t ask)), so I figure i’d post a couple things i’ve picked up in the last few weeks, minus the ones currently being altered.
Both of these are extremely comfortable (just to avoid weird questions, somewhere in my room I have the matches.)
Words cannot describe my love for this dress. Only bad thing is it’s a little big… and I have nowhere to wear it.
Shit picture, but it’s fun to wear. It looks like a dress, but as I found out trying it on, it’s a romper.
The color on this skirt is amazing. despite the bad pic.
Back for the win [For good this time]
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Wow, I kinda fell into a slump, then vacationed, came back and everything kind of fell apart. But now I’m back. I’m taking pictures of the last few thrifting trip’s finds in a little bit. I’m sure I have no readers now, but hopefully in a week or so I’ll have some again.
So I did my yearly trip to Coeur D’ Alene. I gotta say, I really wish the thrift stores here could compare. Especially the St. Vincent De Paul thrift store, they’re so organized and have so much selection. If anyone is over in the area, I’d definitely recommend it.
If anyone’s still checking up, how’ve you been?
Crazy times
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Wow, I’ve really been lagging in the ‘blog frequently’ goal. So I think a short summary of what’s been going on lately is in order. Me and the boyfriend saw Speed Racer and Indiana Jones =] They both were better than I expected (my hopes weren’t so high for speed racer, but it was really cute, I ended up going and seeing it again before my birthday get together. I knew Indiana Jones was going to be good, but Harrison Ford definitely beat my expectations of him for his age).
Long time no post
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Wow, I really haven’t posted in forever, partially because I’ve been busy, and partially because despite the busyness, not too many notable things have happened. Me and the boyfriend went to prom, which wasn’t too bad, and then for a birthday/aniversary present he took me to one of my new favorite bands (jet lag gemini) concert last night in Portland. It was a pretty small show but definitely worth the trip across the river. Hopefully I’ll be able to make some thrifting trips this weekend with the birthday money i’m getting tomorrow, and i’ll have some cool finds to post about. In other news I finaly got the hideous braces off this morning. It hurt, but it’s so nice having them off.
Finaly a thrifting trip
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After my orthodontist appt. yesterday morning, while killing time before the library opened I finaly got to check out value village. I found some not so vintage but still pretty cool items. A dress, and a jacket that made me think of a more wearable, and a style that i like better version of the bright yellow Ralph Lauren trenchcoat I fell in love with. I wish I had more time to look around, but sadly I had about 10 minutes.
Dress: Forever 21
Jacket: Split
Daily Outfit for the sickie
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Even though I’m home sick, and the chances of me leaving the house are slim to none, the discovery of some of my mom’s boots from the 90’s prompted me to put on some real clothes and take a picture. It really doesn’t do the outfit (or me) very much justice, but I don’t have the patience to take more. It’s not that great, but compared to laying around in sweats, i think it looks pretty snazzy.
Shirt: Stolen from mom’s goodwill bin
Jeans: Thrifted; Salvation Army
Boots (Even though they’re barely visible): Stolen from mom
Wow!
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13 views. This may not seem like much, but considering the average number of hits I get per day is around 2, 13 is pretty amazing. Stayed home sick today, but hopefully with my madre’s day off we’ll be able to go to salvation army. I really want to find more options for prom… and i haven’t been shopping in awhhile and am begining to get withdrawals. I’m also trying to finish The Beautiful Fall; a book on Yves Saint Laurent and Karl Lagerfeld in the 70’s, it’s been really good so far, and a good excuse to procrastinate on my book I’m supposed to be reading for english.
Cool site, and new projects
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I was tag surfing and ended up coming across this really cool sewing site. (I found it off of Eitchy’s blog)
It’s called Burdastyle, and it has free and cheap patterns, along with how-to’s. As soon as I get a chance to go get fabric, I’ll try one or two. I’m definitely digging the Michelle skirt and the Cate dress.
I’m definitely going to have my work cut out for me after i get fabric, I have probably 12-15 patterns i really want to make.
