What I Wore This Week

Outfit 1 – Jean jacket • old (similar) | Black Sweater • Mango | Leather Pants • H&M | Slides • Steve Madden | Purse • Vintage |
Outfit 2 – Dress • Zara (similar) | Leather Jacket • Zara old (identical) | Shoes • Converse |
Outfit 3 – Tunic Dress • Zara (similar) | Leather Jacket • Zara (identical) | Jeans • Zara (I cut the fringe off) | Slides • Steve Madden |
Outfit 4 – Army Coat • Thrifted* (similar) | Harry Potter Patch • Hot Topic | Jeans • Mango | Slides • Steve Madden |
Outfit 5 – Coat • Topshop (comes in many colours ) | Jeans • H&M (Similar) | Blondie T-shirt • Brandy Melville old (similar) | Slides • Steve Madden
*I sewed this patch on to my daughter’s oversized army jacket and Tom asked why it had to be on the forearm and not some place more visible. I was like, “dude…”

I sitting here contemplating how I am going to move my living room around (it is Saturday night as a write this). I have mentioned a million times that this is a super small space. Under 700 sq ft and the rooms are really weirdly shaped because we are a corner unit. When Tom was at Value Village today he sent me a picture of a couch (and a Carrot Top alarm lock that he wanted to get but was so ugly I kiboshed it). The couch is a brown leather, three seater in great condition, with a matching chair all for $35 and from Ikea. Seriously. We were contemplating getting the $700 fabric couch from Ikea but this one is a clear bargain that can’t be passed up. If we were just swapping couch for couch then I wouldn’t have to move stuff around but since we are also adding another (largish) chair then some reconfiguring needs to be done. It’s along weekend (Victoria Day Weekend) so we have an extra day to get shit done before Tom goes back to work.

When you move furniture here you have to book the elevator but that causes issues with last-minute purchases since you have to book in advance. It’s one of the main frustrations that I have with condo living so we are going to try to sneak it in without booking it. We lost out on a couch a while back because we couldn’t book the elevator. It’s not really big so I hope we can get it in without any issues or getting in trouble :/

We had a couple of really unseasonably hot and humid days last week which gave us a taste of the summer to come and I am dreading it. None of us are heat people so the girls starting complaining the moment their eyes opened even though the air conditioning in the building has been turned on for the season.

I returned some clothes to Zara that I bought for Merle that either didn’t fit properly or she wasn’t a big fan of and caved and bought a kimono with the exchange. I showed the two colours that I had narrowed it down to and I ended up getting the blue because it fit better. So while I actually hate summer I am looking forward to being able to wear it.

*some people were moving in the day we got the couch and were nice enough to let us use their booked elevator to bring the new couch up and the old couch down. It was meant to be. Except the living room currently looks like a Tetris game and we need to either rent a van or cram it in to our suv to donate next weekend.

I can’t believe it is almost June.

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Outfit 1 – Leather Jacket • Mango | Blouse • H&M | Jeans • Zara (I cut the fray off) | Boots • Topshop |
Outfit 2 – Striped Shirt • Everlane | Kimono • Madewell (similar) | Jeans • Zara (I cut the fray off) | Slides • Steve Madden |
Outfit 3 – Jean Jacket old (similar) | Jeans • (similar) | Slides • Steve Madden | Purse Vintage (Similar) |
Outfit 4 – Leather Jacket • Mango | T-shirt • Target men’s | Jeans • (similar) | Boots • Mango | Purse • Zara (similar) | Sunglasses • Ray-ban
Outfit 5 – Jean Jacket old (similar) | Sweater • Mango | Purse Vintage • (similar) |

It’s currently Saturday night as I write this and once again I have a headache. I am tempted to try to medicate it with wine (probably a bad idea) or coffee which sometimes helps. But the problem with coffee is that I will be up to all hours. I don’t know if the pros outweigh the cons in this situation. I do really want to finish my book tonight so maybe coffee it is.

A few weeks ago my friend Niki posted a vintage handbag she has had for years. It inspired me to search my closet because I had a fantastic one that I bought when I was a teen and I haven’t seen it for a while. I was getting concerned that I might have purged it in an overzealous closet clean-out. I did do that to a hand tooled bag that had flowers and mushrooms painted on in it. I am seriously sad at my stupidity over that one. DON’T EMOTIONAL CLOSET PURGE PEOPLE! The bag is shown above in picture 3, and 4 and honestly, sometimes I don’t think you can find a better purse than a vintage one. They have so much personality (and are so durable).

I decided recently that I want to jump on the kimono trend for this summer. I find as I get older I am getting picky with what trend I want to try each season but there are just so many beautiful kimonos out there. I’ve been out trying them on recently and am a little iffy about the length. I want a full length one which always seems to hit mid calf on the model and me at the ankle which might seem overwhelming on my short frame. Or maybe I can just own it and my attitude will pull it off 😉 Zara has some gorgeous ones and I *think* I’ve narrowed it down to two choices (here and here) but every time I say that they add another one online and I second guess myself. I feel that this will be a great summer staple and it will get a lot of use from me, because while I hate to wear shorts I might be inclined to wear them with a long kimono over. So it’s like wearing shorts, but not wearing shorts. Which sounds weird but might psychologically talk me in to wearing them. I never said I wasn’t an odd-ball).

What do you think of the kimono trend? 

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Outfit 1 – Grey Sweater • Mango (similar) | Leather Pants • H&M | Shoes • Steve Madden
Outfit 2 – Bodysuit • Zara | Jeans • Zara (similar) | Leather Jacket • Zara (similar) |
Outfit 3 – T-shirt • H&M | Leather Jacket • Zara | Jeans • H&M old (similar) | Shoes • Adidas
Outfit 4 – Dress* • Zara | Sandals • Etsy (similar) |

As I write this it is Sunday afternoon and I am sweating because it is 20°C+ today. Our condo has certain times of the year where they will switch from heat to air conditioning and from central air back to heat. Usually the heat gets switched on at the beginning of November and the central air goes on Victoria Day weekend (towards the end of May) so if it gets cold or hot on off-season times you have to suffer 😉 I’m not complaining thought because we don’t pay for either, it is included in our rent. It would be nice to have a little cross breeze coming through the windows though.

I just started watching Girlboss and so far I love it. I can kind of relate to the beginning where she sells vintage clothes on Ebay. I used to do that too in the Early to mid 2000’s and to quit due to Ebay’s policies and it changing way too much to be profitable anymore. It was fun though and I totally miss those days on Ebay. And while I am on topic of buying and selling clothes on Ebay I found a killer pair of Converse at Value Village on Saturday. They are an off-white with silver studs on the side Have yet to take a picture). They were only $6.99 and I got 30% off because we had a discount coupon for donating a lot of things. It literally pays to purge your closet and home. Roo found a million t-shirts as well. I wish there was one a little closer (like walkable) so we could hit it on weekdays instead of weekends when Tom isn’t working and the car is home.

It’s the end of an era and my old college watering hole is closing after 152 years. This is depressing in a “I can’t believe it’s over” sort of way. So many great memories, many of which are foggy, and one which ended in “borrowing” a bike and doing a drunk biking pub crawl.

* I posted the picture of this pink dress on Instagram asking for opinions about it. I bought it because I liked the print and colour, but I don’t really like wearing short dresses. The dress’ hem is unfinished so it would be easy to shorten it a couple of inches to have it as a long tee/tunic top. I got mixed opinions on whether to shorten it or leave it so what do you think? 

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