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I slept in this morning. Like, really slept in. I got up after my radio alarm had been going off for about 45 minutes. This has been happening alot lately. So in order to get myself to work on time I have to take serious measures. One of the things that I've started doing is making up an outfit in my mind so that when I do finally get my butt out of bed I can reach for said pieces and get going. This morning I wanted to be comfortable, well, looking at the pictures I would say that I'm stating the obvious. For my little spin on it, I doubled up on my scarves. One printed, one solid, together I feel like they make this otherwise plain outfit stand out. Too bad the heat in our office is cranked and I'm down one scarf and no cardigan. I feel like each one of these pictures focuses on different parts of my wardrobe: 1/ scarves, 2/booties, 3/hair bun. I didn't plan it out like that but it sort of works. Only 1 1/2 more days until Atlantic city! This will be my first time goi

It's been raining non stop here for 2 days. I'm really hoping that we get some dry time tomorrow and Friday so that I can go back to my usual outdoor outfit pics. But for now, you'll have to make do with these. My outfit consists of a silk skirt that i've had for a while now but seldom wear because I find it a little fancy. I wanted something grey or neutral (not black) and could only find this so I tried to make it work. I downplayed it by adding a printed scarf around the waist then re-belting it with the original skinny belt it came with. Quite a bright idea if you ask me.Paired with a plain white tee (not the band,tee hee) and a denim jacket also makes this look alot more casual. Right? The braids are actually done using my clip-in extensions. I ended up going with the A.Wang side braid in the end but these were fun for the morning at least. Oh and finally a little detail shot of my fave accessories. The silver ring is from mimi & marge, sample sale, a few years

Mel's (that's me) life update : I've updated my little Etsy shop with two more items. I'm slowly working on a few other items that should be posted by next week. I joined flickr and have started posting my outfit pictures there as well. I'm going to add other pictures on there that don't make it to this blog. So watch for the update. I'll probably start with past trip pictures and so on. You'll get to see me outside of my blog element. A big thank you to Modcloth , Sari especially, for posting one of my pictures on the Modlife blog yesterday. You can check it out here . I'm heading out to Atlantic City on Saturday. Yes, I'm spending Halloween there which is why I've been working hard on my costume. You'll see pictures by Sunday or Monday, depending on how great I time I have. I'm terribly behind on responding to comments and reading all the lovely blogs I follow. So thank you for reading mine and popping by on the regular!(you know

Happy Monday everyone! haha, o.k, I know Mondays aren't usually happy but how else do I start a Monday post? For those of you wondering, the Haunted Ghost Walk I mentioned on Friday was excellent! My favorite part was hearing the erie stories and standing in front of the houses where it all happened. If you want to hear more go check out Nickie's new blog: Ghouls Night Out . She documented the walk and tells you more about the stories we heard. If you're into the paranormal you should become a follower too, she plans on having more stories and guest bloggers about the paranormal.You know, if you're into that sort of stuff. I'm wearing the black version of the tights I wore last Friday. They're definitely a direct chanel knockoff so I thought of going all out Coco and keeping to a neutral color palette today. After I took these pictures I added a black headband and cameo ring as accessories, which by this time I was already running late for work and could not tak

I was awarded this Beautiful Blogger award from Michelle at cookies+creme vintage , a wonderful vintage loving blogger and fellow Canadian! The deal is to write 7 interesting facts about you and then pass it along to 7 other bloggers for them to do the same. Although I'm not certain if these things are exactly "interesting" I will share them with you: 1. I used to let my mom & sister shop for me up until junior high. 2. I'm a really big dork. Really, I am. I say dorky things and people laugh. 3. I have a fear of getting locked in a public bathroom. 4. I was a total Gwenabe and had platinum hair with fuchsia tips at one point in my life (dork). 5. I've lived in 2 countries, 3 cities, and 14 houses/apt. in the last 10 years. 6. I'm terribly secretive. 7. Last night I beat Chris at Tetris 11 times out of 18. So now I will pass this award on to the following lovely bloggers for which their blogs I've recently discovered. Fancy Pants Natalia & the bones

For the record, i'm not wearing plain nude tights, they're actually printed but I couldn't pick up the print with my camera. After trying on 3 different outfits this morning I decided to keep it simple with this drapey jersey dress. The perfect friday lazy dress if you ask me. * I was also hoping that it wouldn't pick up the wrinkledness of the dress but looks like I was unlucky this morning. These are the tights I picked up in both black and nude! I'm heading out to a Haunted Walk tonight, 2 of them actually. I'm looking forward to it as this will be my first experience with these "paranormal" tours. Apparently New York is America's most haunted city so this is a perfect time to take advantage of  it, especially so close to Halloween! I'm going to try and take as many pictures as I can so I'll let you know how it goes! Check out the link if you're interested and would like to know more! Outfit: Dress}kensie Tights}F21 Boots}No brand

Title options for this post: Where's Winter? Summer in October Pajama Party Bye Bye Fall, Hello Summer I love Pants How Many Pictures is too Many? etc... Since I'm overwhelming you with pictures today I'm going to keep this short. In a continued effort to add more pants to my wardrobe I ventured into H&M yesterday and found this light weight chambray pants on sale for $15! Since the weather in NYC is expected to hit 72 degrees I thought I'd at least get one wear before stashing them away until Spring rolls around. Wait who am i kidding, I'm going to try and extend the wear out of these for as long as I can get away with. Thanks everyone for your opinions/advice on my last post about hair. I think I'm going to just keep it this medium brown for now, but my hairdresser had mentioned something about a "gloss" that would remove the reddish tint to it (that i'm not particularly fond of). Hopefully I'll get around to doing that in the next few we

Since today I don't have an outfit post for you, I've decided that it was time for one of those random inspiration posts. I don't do these often, I think this is my second one ever, since they seem to take alot of time to put together. I've gathered up all of my fave hair pictures that I've been saving for the last few months since I'm pretty much obsessed with hair maybe even more so than fashion.                                                   (This brown is so close to my natural color, makes me never want to cut my hair again, ever) (Cool messy hair look that I can never quite manage to achieve) (If I had any guts, I'd go short like Hannah from heartcityvintage) (Erin over @ calivintage just got her little gamine cut, quite jealous) (If I had a face like this I wouldn't even think twice) (A hair inspiration post wouldn't be complete without miss Zooey) Images were found @ hairlook (can't find the link!), heartcityvintage , calivintage I mys

Evertime I go to wear a scarf I go through the different ways that I could wear it and try to decide on which look is best. This morning I tried three different ways and took a picture of each. Recommendations? Likes? Dislikes? ( I do realize that this outfit does not have a tinge of pastel, nor am I wearing pants as my previous post mentions...) Also, there was no need for tights today as the weather report is claiming to reach highs of 65 today! I swear, this weather is insane. This outfit kind of reminds me of one I posted on chictopia a while back. probably because it includes three of the same items I'm wearing today. This is my second time ever of wearing this dress. Here's the first, also on chictopia. Oh the joys of having all of your outfits documented!                                  Outfit: Dress}H&M Boots}80%20 Scarf}Vintage Jacket}Request

I have a statement to make that will shock some of you: "I want to wear pants!". Yes, I want to wear high waisted trousers, paperbag waist pants, cropped pleated pants and maybe even throw in a pair of wide leg denim trousers everyday this fall/winter. All summer i've been on a pant boycott but I think this is where it ends! Oh if I had the money to just run to Zara/H&m/Anywhere that sells these things call pants I'd do it tonight. But alas I will have to slowly ease into it, one leg at a time. I'm also dreaming of pastels for Fall, yes, that's right pretty pinks , pale mint greens , and creamy ivory colored blouses, dresses, skirts...whatever I can find. I guess what I'm saying is that I want a wardrobe overhaul!!! Oh why is this happening? Does anyone else ever feel like this? Because its scaring me at how much I want to trade in my wardrobe for something truly different than what I have. Well I cam up with this outfit right before falling asleep. W

It's official, I'm a horrible Weekend Blogger. You see I'm so diligent in taking pictures Monday through Friday (no pictures this past friday as they did not turn out right) that once the weekend hits, my weekly routine is shot and outfit pictures are only remembered once its too late . Hopefully nobody missed me too much and I'm making it up by posting my Saturday night outfit. Nickie and her posse had planned a night of dancing at this pub here in Park Slope. Well, what we didn't know is that the Yankees game took precedence over a dance party and nobody ended up dancing except for Nickie. Oh well, maybe next weekend. I decided I should try wearing my betsy j heart stockings one more time, even though I got a huge run in them the first time I wore them on my birthday . I proceeded to make a couple more snags/runs in them, then paired them over my coral opaque tights as to slowly ease into this shredded trend that I'm not so familiar with. Hope everyone had a