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Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Quiet moment for less
Hautelook has Line knit wear on flash sale. Remember Anthropologie's Quiet moment cardigan? I remember it was rather expensive.
Here is Haute's version. Note it is from the same brand - Line Knit wear Anthropologie carries so I would expect it to fall and drapes the same way as the one sold at Anthropologie.
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Happy Chinese New Year
2012 hasn't start smoothly for our family. My son had gotten a stomach flu and I was under the pressure for product tape out. The time taken to stay home care for my son him means there are more work pile up on the tight schedule.
So I am officially going to start my new year on the Chinese Lunar new year and hopefully things would go on more smoothly this time, haha :-)
Red is the color of celebration and purple is also a happy color. In fact the word "Great red and purple" is a proverb describing someone is prosperous.
Originally I was hoping to wear this set from Anthropologie
Outfits: Cultivated - Clothes - Anthropologie.com (clipped to polyvore.com)
but the Chinese new year happen to be on the Monday when I aide at my daghter's school, and we are schedule to do PE. Doing jumping jack on a pecil skirt is just not going to work out. So I decided to go "Great purple and red", wearing the Chinese vest my husband got for me when he visited China on top of the JCREW's purple cashmere sweater and paired with jeans and UGG boots.
May the new year bring prosperity to your family!
So I am officially going to start my new year on the Chinese Lunar new year and hopefully things would go on more smoothly this time, haha :-)
Red is the color of celebration and purple is also a happy color. In fact the word "Great red and purple" is a proverb describing someone is prosperous.
Originally I was hoping to wear this set from Anthropologie
Outfits: Cultivated - Clothes - Anthropologie.com (clipped to polyvore.com)
but the Chinese new year happen to be on the Monday when I aide at my daghter's school, and we are schedule to do PE. Doing jumping jack on a pecil skirt is just not going to work out. So I decided to go "Great purple and red", wearing the Chinese vest my husband got for me when he visited China on top of the JCREW's purple cashmere sweater and paired with jeans and UGG boots.
May the new year bring prosperity to your family!
Friday, December 23, 2011
Friday, December 9, 2011
Cozy up (Holiday wishlist)
Love this! Curl up in it with a good book, life is good!
More perfect with a hot cup of tea?
Thursday, December 1, 2011
A Love Letter
Thursday usually is the day I want to dress in absolute comfort. It is the day I volunteer in my daughter's Kindergarten class. I avoid anything that would prevent me from bending down or sitting on the floor comfortably or too low cut or delicate to withstand the innocent pulling of young children. I have seen other bloggers who are teachers, looking gorgeous in their pencil skirts. I am always curious how they manage to do that. Maybe they are upper grade teachers. I love pencil skirt, but try getting down to the eye level of 5 year olds, it can be a difficult task.
(Outfit detail: Top: Nordstrom Caslon color block tee. Cardigan: JCREW Bottom: Vince Camuto Riding legging. Boot: from Hong Kong 10 years ago.)
On aiding day, I also make sure I go to bed extra early the night before. I tend to be very impatient with kids when I didn't have enough sleep.
Today's greeting is something I haven't seen in the past few month. They each take off a shoe and put in the center of the circle. Starting with the child of the day, they pick up a shoe, match it up to the owner and say Hi!
Thursday routine usually consist of writing and making pretzels and choice time. While the pretzel starts to get a bit boring for me now that we are onto letter "M". I also realize the mistake of wearing black. The dusting flour shows too well on the black pants.
Writing time is always fascinating to me. The classroom takes a free spirit approach during writing. Children write, or mainly draw at this stage, anything that they might fancy. It is amazing to see the different ideas flourish during this time. You definitely see the difference between boys and girls. While girls carefully details out rainbow, flowers, dog, princess, or other beautiful things and write things like "I like flowers" or "I love you", boys boldly explodes not only with colors and lines, but also sound effects during the process of making laser guns, black hole, or ninja and write things like "blizzard", "Poke ball (as Pokemon's weapon)" or some other fancy sci-fi world that completely out of my comprehension.
Choice time is always the children's favorite. Today it seems everyone is into making something. The crafts table became really crowded. There are a group making airplanes and flying ships. Later two boys ask me if they can go outside to test out their results. I thought that would be a good idea and accompanied them to the kiner yard. Today is a very windy today. One flied and the other one plunged like a rock with all the stables. I ask them to observe why one worked and point out the winds and hollow body and why the other one not (it was a chunk of paper with lot of stables) Another group was making shields and swords.
My daughter generally love making something. but today she was busy writing something on a chair. There were no room on the table. Since she didn't complain about it, I let her be. A while later, she handed me a letter, with a hand made envelope:
Oh, I love you too, baby!
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Lia Molly Sweater at Swirl
Swirl by Daily Candy is having sale on their sweaters. Some Lia Molly items are under $50. It is a brand anthropologie carries. I love the beautiful knit of Lia Molly sweater in the past, but the fit can be problematic at times. For your reference I am usually a S in their item. If you are into Lia Molly, those are pretty good price, consider most of their sweater are regular priced at $200 or more.
Happy Shopping!
Happy Shopping!
Monday, November 28, 2011
Shop till you drop
Hope everyone had a great weekend!
Did any one participate in the black Friday? Do share so I don't have to be the only one feeling guilty about spending so much. :-) I didn't intend to go to the Anthro store, but relying on the freeshipping online purchase. Although some got cancelled later, but I still got a pretty good batch.
After mentioning that I might go to lakeshore learning store to pick up some toys on Thursday night for my son's birthday because the stuff I order on line might not arrive on time, My daughter got overly exited and got up really early. I wish she does that during school days. I told her to go back to sleep because that is what I want to do. She end up just laying next to me quietly and after an hour, she still have her eyes wide open. It got too uncomfortable sandwiching between her and hubby, even though we have a kind size bed. After that I gave in.
The toy run didn't take long, and after that there are still plenty of time, I thought I'd venture to Anthro to do some returns. Among the return items are the Feathered Village Skirt I reviewed previously here. The petite size came and won slightly although the difference is pretty minimal. The plan was that if the parking is too crazy, we'll just go home. Suprisingly, parking is extra light, lighter than a Friday night. The Anthropologie store is a different story. Boy, did I pick the wrong time to go for returns. I have never seen Anthro so packed, not only full of people but also full of merchandise. The isle is so tight that I couldn't even get near the popular sale items. I guess they brought everything they had in the back out. My daughter tried on a dress there, and it is $45 even after the 50% off and she is almost at the limit of the sizing, but she understands that was just for playing dress up. Not having anything particular in mind, the crowd wasn't too bad. We just played with the stuff animal while waiting in the line. After that we went to the nearby pastry shop and I had a large cup of Latte. And that was a mistake. I had full intention of taking a nice relaxing nap, but instead, I end up in a zombie state in the afternoon where my brain doesn't quite work, but i cannot fall asleep either.
It has been a while I post any OOTD, but today I want to show off my new favorite purchase. It is Vince's Blanket coat. It is soft and warm like a sweater but the tight weave makes it wind resistant. It is 50% wool and 50% yak, but it is not itchy. It has a hood and size pocket. I like how easy it is to put on and move around and yet look polish enough.
(Outfit detail: Dress: JCREW High Tide Dress, Scarf: Ann Taylor (buy it here), Bag: L.A.M.B. Coat: Vince, Boots: Hush puppy)
I got this sweater from Nieman Marcus Last Call when they had the 40% off everything, but Hautelook has a flash sale on Vince today and the price is even lower than Last Call. Naturally the sale went off the shelf quickly but there are still some left. Vince's style is total opposite of Anthropologie. Some seem overly simplistic for such a high price point. What is your take on vince? Do you think it is over priced? For me I normally don't mind pay extra for a sweater because they last very long time, however for a jersey item that are cotton, would a brand name cotton worth the double for its comfort?
Did any one participate in the black Friday? Do share so I don't have to be the only one feeling guilty about spending so much. :-) I didn't intend to go to the Anthro store, but relying on the freeshipping online purchase. Although some got cancelled later, but I still got a pretty good batch.
After mentioning that I might go to lakeshore learning store to pick up some toys on Thursday night for my son's birthday because the stuff I order on line might not arrive on time, My daughter got overly exited and got up really early. I wish she does that during school days. I told her to go back to sleep because that is what I want to do. She end up just laying next to me quietly and after an hour, she still have her eyes wide open. It got too uncomfortable sandwiching between her and hubby, even though we have a kind size bed. After that I gave in.
The toy run didn't take long, and after that there are still plenty of time, I thought I'd venture to Anthro to do some returns. Among the return items are the Feathered Village Skirt I reviewed previously here. The petite size came and won slightly although the difference is pretty minimal. The plan was that if the parking is too crazy, we'll just go home. Suprisingly, parking is extra light, lighter than a Friday night. The Anthropologie store is a different story. Boy, did I pick the wrong time to go for returns. I have never seen Anthro so packed, not only full of people but also full of merchandise. The isle is so tight that I couldn't even get near the popular sale items. I guess they brought everything they had in the back out. My daughter tried on a dress there, and it is $45 even after the 50% off and she is almost at the limit of the sizing, but she understands that was just for playing dress up. Not having anything particular in mind, the crowd wasn't too bad. We just played with the stuff animal while waiting in the line. After that we went to the nearby pastry shop and I had a large cup of Latte. And that was a mistake. I had full intention of taking a nice relaxing nap, but instead, I end up in a zombie state in the afternoon where my brain doesn't quite work, but i cannot fall asleep either.
It has been a while I post any OOTD, but today I want to show off my new favorite purchase. It is Vince's Blanket coat. It is soft and warm like a sweater but the tight weave makes it wind resistant. It is 50% wool and 50% yak, but it is not itchy. It has a hood and size pocket. I like how easy it is to put on and move around and yet look polish enough.
(Outfit detail: Dress: JCREW High Tide Dress, Scarf: Ann Taylor (buy it here), Bag: L.A.M.B. Coat: Vince, Boots: Hush puppy)
I got this sweater from Nieman Marcus Last Call when they had the 40% off everything, but Hautelook has a flash sale on Vince today and the price is even lower than Last Call. Naturally the sale went off the shelf quickly but there are still some left. Vince's style is total opposite of Anthropologie. Some seem overly simplistic for such a high price point. What is your take on vince? Do you think it is over priced? For me I normally don't mind pay extra for a sweater because they last very long time, however for a jersey item that are cotton, would a brand name cotton worth the double for its comfort?
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