The Lover In Me

I recently saw two movies that seemed to have been made for me. Bright Star and The Young Victoria.

I love love love period pieces. I love the clothes and the accents and the manners and traditions. Most especially out of that list, though, I love the clothes. Do you know how badly I wanted to be wearing a regal gown today? Very!

I don't want to bring back much from that time period, but can't we have a blast from the past with the clothes?











XO,
SVR

Now I'm All Over The Shop

I has a dream I was shopping last night. It was awesome. The fitting rooms were there...and sales...and even the final four numbers of my credit card.


Do I have a problem? No....I just think I need to go shopping!



XO,
SVR

Out Of Reaches

In a continued effort to be excited about spring*, I have decided that I need new clothes. I could probably clothe a small army with my sweaters and long-sleeved shirts I have for fall and winter, but once it's warm (and then hot**) out I just don't have the same vast wardrobe from which to choose my outfits. I wear a lot of skirts in spring and summer as well as jeans and once it's wicked hot out, I love to roll them up. Rolled up jeans are a look I will never tire of.


This year I want to wear a lot of dresses. Dresses are fun because they are classy and I am a classy lady. I got the Anthropologie catalogue in the mail today and, after asking it to marry me, I circled everything I wanted in it. Then I realized I would need to sell a kidney on the black market to afford everything I wanted. But hey, you never know!


XO,
SVR

P.S. I spent forever trying to find pics to show you guys, but the site doesn't have them as links and I gave up.









*For those who do not know me, I tend to hate the warm weather months. I am a winter girl at heart. However, I realize that I am in the minority and since being positive is a constant goal of mine, I am trying not to hate on spring. It's though, though.
**Breathe, Scarlet. Breathe. It will be okay.

Ooh Ooh Baby

I don't know what to wear. The party starts when people get here, which could be any time really, and I still don't know what to wear. It's way warmer than I expected and so I had to throw out all of my original ideas. Now I have no idea!

Eeeeek!

Clean

For some reason, I decided that today I would rearrange and clean my room. What started as a sort of fun project turned into me being literally stuck in my room, trying to move a shelf over my bed, while my dresser blocked the doorway out.

I got my bed, dresser, and large shelving unit situated and am now to the truly difficult part of this endeavor: the clothes.

I own a lot of clothes.


A lot.


A whole hell of a lot.

I am not sure if I trust you to not judge me if I really get into specifics so for now I will just leave you with the knowledge that this could take awhile. Wish me luck.


XO,
SVR

Change Clothes

I find that when I choose my outfit in the morning, I tend to think ahead to who I may run into during the day. A day where I work with random people? Choose a more boring outfit. A day when I work with friends and may go out after work? Something a little funkier and more put together.

And it's not guys of whom I am thinking. Sure I sometimes want to look hotter for certain guys when they're around, but it's not like I thought today, "Hmmmm, the light brown skirt, I hope So-and-so likes it!" but I did think, "Hmmm, I havn't worn this before. Am I wasting it on today?"

I am such a dork. I should just wear stuff when I want to wear it. Back when I worked in the office, I always looked cuter on staff meeting days when the entire company would see me. On days when most people were out of the office? Nothing special was worn by me.

But I also had the realization that maybe this is why it takes me so long to get ready some days. Like today, I picked out what is a comfortable, new, and (I think) cute outfit and then had the dreadful, "Am I wasting it on today?" thought. But today, unlike some other days, I told myself, "Bitch, just wear it!" and came out to blog about it instead. So to summarize:
1. Just wear it.
2. If you go to blog about it, you're going to end up just as late as if you had changed outfits 4 times.
3. Idiot


XO,
SVR

Short Skirt/Long Jacket

You know how a tiny pebble in your shoe can ruin a nice walk and leave you hobbling in pain? That is how I liken days where I don't like my outfit and today was one of those days. Now, to liken my day to pain is not appropriate because it really wasn't that bad. I just wasn't as 'on' as I would have liked. I ended up pulling my hair back about an hour into work (hate that) and later begged my bangs to stay strong against the heat of the area I was working in. I just wasn't feeling it today. Someone even commented that I "looked tired" and didn't have on one of my "cute outfits*" like usual. I went for comfort today and ended up more out of wack than if I had worn a wrap dress on a windy day.

Putting my jean jacket** on after calling it a day helped. And then heading to Tysons to spend some gift cards helped even more. I hit the jackpot tonight and left the malls quite the happy shopper. Funny how good clothes can improve my mood:)

Early tomorrow morning (4am) Ali and I head south to Bald Head Island, NC for our cousin's wedding. Part of my shopping trip tonight was to find an appropriate cover up for the dress I am wearing. And maybe only DCCeline will care about this part, but this is what I'm wearing: strapless, dark blue with white polka dots dress and a marigold cardigan over top. I might tie the bottom of the cardigan because it's long, but that's to be decided later. Pictures to be posted upon my return. Promise!


XO,
SVR


*Her words, not mine. My words would have been "hott outfits" or "totally bitchin' outfits!" :)

**Jean jackets=love. Except for the other day when I accidently grabbed it to wear and didn't realize I was wearing jeans until I had walked into work. As much as I love my jean jacket, it should never, ever, be paired with denim pants. The horror.

Letterbomb

Dear GAP,

I'm worried about the safari that you vomited up for this season's clothes. I haven't seen that much khaki since well, never. It's too much! Does anyone wear safari clothes every day? No, I didn't think so. How about some color? Black, please? I'd even take more white*.

And I have recently been very pleased with your jeans. They are fitting so well, BUT you don't stock any. Or wait, you don't stock anything other than a Size 0 short. Who wears that? Babies? I don't understand how you can stock so few of them. It's weird.

But what's weirder and way more perplexing is the fact that all you ever have left are the teeny tiny sizes. It seems to me like your buyer needs to check his/her numbers because if you are consistently running out of normal sizes, way before clearance sales, then you need to adjust what you start with.

So, Gap, shape up, please. I still like you, but my feelings are going to be up for grabs pretty soon.


XO,
SVR



*Gasp!