Worn: Day To Night

I wore a bright satchel and flats for running errands...

...and switched into flatforms and a fur clutch for dinnertime.

Fall Mini-dressing

This outfit was from before the freak heat wave (in the hundreds of degrees!) we just had. I even went to San Francisco on Sunday for a concert and never once froze my butt off in the wind-because the wind was deliciously warm. The rest of the time I spent hiding inside the house with all the windows shut and curtained. It was so hot I almost burned all my tights in a fit of sweaty madness (I'll never wear these again!!), except a fire would just have made things hotter. I'm glad I didn't though, because as I type this, cool grey fog lurks outside the windows and I'm thinking about getting some socks.

What I Wore:

Yuki dress, secondhand via Crossroads Trading Co.

$5 tights, Target

diy furry clutch

color-blocked shoulder bag, oasap

H&M earrings

red suede flats, Target

Rampage flatforms, secondhand via Crossroads

DIY Autumn Wreath

Materials:

a wreath base (or make one of heavy paper or cardboard), a pack of fall leaves, craft glue, yarn in assorted colors (for pom-poms), felt (for the yellow buds), rhinestones (painted with nail-polish), or buttons, or whatever else you'd like to decorate your wreath. I found almost everything I needed at the dollar store (I'm obsessed with the dollar store).

*I didn't make the how-to-pom image, it's originally from beautiful site designoform.com*

What I Did:

• Glue leaves to wreath as a base, and paint the rhinestones with nail polish in complimentary colors (I used gold and deep reds). Let both dry completely while you assemble the other parts.
• I wanted large pom-poms, so I used four fingers instead of a wooden spoon to make them using the technique above*. I used yarn from my stash in marigold yellow, rust and maroon. You don't have to make them too perfect, since part of them will just be glued to the wreath. The more yarn you use, the fluffier and denser each pom will be.
• I cut one inch wide strips of felt and rolled them up for the yellow buds. While searching for the original post where I saw the technique, I just discovered a much much less time consuming (and way prettier) method which you can check out {here}. I glued them to the leaves in a little cluster at the bottom left. I also glued on the rhinestones haphazardly to suggest berries.
• Cover the remaining empty spaces on the wreath with pom-poms, overlapping a few leaves here and there. Glue and hold each pom in place for 10-20 seconds, then move on to another area while that one dries. You could also use wire or string and tie each pom down. Let the wreath dry completely overnight before hanging it up.

This was so much fun to make! I hung it above the dining table. I think I want to make one of these for every season/month! Christmas colors, packages and glitter for December! More glitter and all white for January! Pastels in spring! Neons in summer!

Worn: Back-To-Schoolmarm

Oh darn, I shoulda worn my reading glasses with this outfit. Instead, I put on some red lipstick and awkwardly held my self-timer, boo... Anywayz, my favorite new satchel that just arrived in the mail from oasap. I picked it out without thinking how perfectly fall orange and green are, so I love it even more now it's in my hands. Sometimes I forget I'm out and about in public and leave my purses dangling open so I can easily rummage in them, to my disparagement. Luckily nothing has been lost or stolen before, but now that I have to go through such a serious closure (two zippers and a cross-lock) my stuff is safe for sure!

Isn't late afternoon so beautiful? 

Haha, it just popped into my brain that both the daily natural occurrence and the blogger are both pretty beautiful, no?

worn:

color-block zipped shoulder bag c/o OASAP

cropped Cheap Monday jeans, hand-me-downs

Bridge & Burn shirt, secondhand from Crossroads

vintage sweater {for sale soon in my shop}

Nine West moccasins, Crossroads

Posh polish #571, Revlon

Styling Scarves

Fall is here and I know that means my scarves will be coming out for more and more appearances. During the summer I pinned this image of 15 Ways to Tie Scarves, and wanted to share it now that it's September. I have a kind of ridiculous amount of pashmina-style and vintage scarves in a rainbow of colors, and I need to be less intimidated by them! I like numbers two, three and eleven below, simple but interesting variations on the good old wraparound. And this is already so last year, but if you haven't watched Wendy's Ways to Tie a Scarf video before, you really should, she's so talented.

{ image via }

Which is your favorite way to tie a scarf?