I promised pictures...

Here we see the fact that I am losing control of my hair.



I need a haircut, but I can't justify a $40 trip to see Jonas with my Vow of Frugality. That suit BTW is my Easter outfit from three years ago, sans hat, a pale blue vintage Mr. John straw turban.

Here we see yesterday's church hat and the pink that will not stop.



And here we see the last hat that I bought before my Vow of Frugality.



This is the one that I bought from the milliner on Etsy, who was so nice, even after I complained about her textspeak.

Why do I look like someone just poked me in the side in that picture?

Sunday

I looked like a breath of fresh spring air at church this morning. I know this, because someone came up to me and said, "You look like a breath of fresh spring air". Why, you ask? Undoubtedly, it was because I was wearing pink and white. Now, if you've been reading my blog for any length of time, you know I loathe pink. But several years ago, I bought an inexpensive lot of vintage hats that included an amazing pink/black/white striped Christian Dior toque. A gorgeous hat. However, I have had nothing to wear with it, because I avoid pink like the plague (except for the occasional shoe or purse). Last year, I bought a bright pink, almost a hot pink, linen sheath trimmed with an organza ruffle and a matching ruffled-trimmed jacket embroidered with a pale pink rose. When I say this thing is pink, I mean it is really, really pink. Nauseatingly so. And worse than that, it doesn't really go with the hat. :-(

So today, I wore a sheer white organza lampshade hat (a past Easter hat) and low-heeled white slingbacks and carried a white leather purse to cut some of the pinkness. Dogwood colors, as it were.

And the Gay Boyz loved it. :-)

I'll try to post a picture of the hat later. I'm at the office right now, writing an opening statement for my hearing tomorrow.

Frugality Pledge

Natalie McNeal of the Frugalista Files was on Talk of the Nation this afternoon, and I am inspired. I'm going to take a frugality pledge of my very own. Granted, I'm just going to pledge for the time between now and when I leave for Scotland to see how it goes. I'm not going to be quite as draconian as Natalie (I have to have my dry cleaning), but I'm going to try several of her ideas and see how much money I save.

Here's the plan:

1. No shopping. None. Zero, zip, nada, niente. No Ebay, no Etsy, no sales, no vintage, no nothing. This part should be easy, because I have everything a single woman could possibly want.

2. No buying new books. This means that I will have to renew my library card, so that I can still participate in my book groups.

3. No eating out. This means that I will have to cook more often and brown-bag it to work. I may have to make some exceptions when I'm on the road, but the one thing I can do is avoid fast food. It's expensive, it's bad for me, and I tend to use my own money to buy it when I'm travelling. If I stop and eat at a sit-down restaurant when I'm on the road, I use my company credit card.

4. No entertainments that cost money. No concerts, no movie theaters, no plays, no ballgames, no new DVDs, no new CDs. Of course, the library has DVDs...

5. No air conditioning until June. This may be tough, but I'm almost never at my house during the hours of the day when the house is the hottest, so I should be able to manage.

New Purse

I bought this purse yesterday on Etsy. It's handmade by an Etsy artist and made of upcycled and recycled leather, suede, and vinyl. Isn't it fabulous?



And that will be my last Etsy purchase for a while. :-\

Happy Earth Day!

Picture of me in my aqua finery on Sunday:



This hat, which I bought at the Van Heusen outlet a couple of years ago, is actually comprised of tiny stripes in aqua, green, silver. It's really pretty in the sunshine. I carried this purse with my ensemble:



Picture of me from yesterday wearing a vintage cellophane straw pillbox hat:



You can tell I need a haircut. :-\

I'm back!

I was in Oak Ridge for four days last week for a hearing, but I'm back in Nash-Vegas and happy to be home. There will be more hat pictures soon, as I have started breaking out the spring/summer hat wardrobe. :-)

Are you in, or are you out?

Flip flogs are apparently on the way out. Thank heaven. I loathe the damn things. They don't look good on anyone's feet, and they just scream, "I am too lazy to dress myself properly!" :-p