Happy Halloween!!! May this day bless you with ridiculous costumes, spooky movies, and lots and lots of candy. Fiance Kaboom and myself had a pretty crazy time last weekend, which sadly has left me kinda sick this week. So I think I am going to be keeping this weekend rather low key – but you can be darn sure I’ll be in my costume Saturday, and have pics posted up for your viewing pleasure come Monday! What is it? I’ll give you a hint – it ROCKS.

Friday, 10/24:Dress: eBay, Necklace: Hiroshima, Japan, Boots: Thrifted, Watch: Bulova

Just when I all but give up on eBay, they pull me back in. I snatched up this AMAZING dress for a song last week. Even better, it arrived in time for me to wear out to my soon-to-be-sister-in-laws’s birthday extravaganza Friday night. Not only is it fantastic, but it is so comfy to wear – it feels like I am in my pajamas. I love how it has that vaguely kimono-look, and the cranes on it just give me unending delight. A wonderful new addition to the wardrobe.

With the economic turbulance going on, I think I am not alone in curbing my spending. I find myself returning to eBay and Etsy for the things I need these days, rather than shelling out the big ones in actual stores. And sample sales are right out until the market improves – sorry Vivianne Tam *sniffle*…

Wednesday, 10/29:Tank: Target, Shirt: Thrifted, Skirt: NY Wholesale Shop, Moccasins: Minnetonka, Necklaces: Etsy, Watch: Bulova

Another dependably cheap source of shopping are the NYC street vendors and wholesale shops. Consistently you can find wonderful accessories and garments from them that would cost you three times as much at a regular store. The skirt above is one of those wonderful wear-30-ways wrap skirts – and thanks to a wholesaler not too far from my job, I am amassing a nice little collection of them (this is my second). These are great all year round: in the winter as a maxi-skirt, and during the summer as beach wraps and strapless dresses.

Thursday, 10/30:Sweater: Thrifted, Shorts: Charlotte Russe, Leggings: American Apparel, Moccasins: Minnetonka, Earrings: Lord & Taylor

Since I have been a little under the weather this week, I find myself donning outfits that are comfortable and warm, and this is the perfect example of one such. I love this big, chunky sweater that I picked up at a Goodwill last year – it’s hard to see in the photo, but it is flecked with blues and pinks as well. Me and my sister went to the Banksy exhibit last night, so I was pretty glad to be well covered, as it has been freezing in NYC lately. For anyone in NYC, I highly, HIGHLY recommend catching Banksy’s Pet Shop exhibit currently installed in the Village – but hurray, tonight is the final night!!

Fiance Kaboom and I were planning on going to a friend’s costume party tonight, but between his schoolwork and my slight illness, we’re settling for a quiet night in instead. I plan to pack boxes, watch scary movies, and make myself rather ill on candy. Can’t really ask for much more…

Hope everyone has a great Halloween!! If you have any pics of your costume, leave them in the comments section, and I’ll feature them next week!

Saturday, 10/18:Earrings: Jami Rodriquez, Top: Thrifted Dolce & Gabbana (!!!), Jacket: Thrifted, Jeans: Joyce Leslie, Boots: Jeffrey Campbell, Bracelet: Jami Rodriquez, Watch: Bulova

This is what I wore to the engagement party we had in Astoria this weekend. In hindsight, it was a little pointless for me to get all prettified, as I spent the entire night ensconced in my new, enormously puffy Miss Sixty coat that I grabbed at a sample sale the previous night. And boy, I didn’t buy that sucker a moment too soon – it was a chilly evening, in deed, but nothing that a little booze and goulash didn’t fix.

Monday, 10/20:Dress: e.a.p., Hiroshima, Tunic: Thrifted, Leggings: American Apparel, Half-Socks: Japan, Shoes: Shoegasm, Belt: Charlotte Russe, Necklace: Erica Weiner, Watch: Bulova

I am still in a swoon over how many people came out to celebrate in the cold with us. To all of you who did, you are amazingly awesome people, and it meant the world to us! Also, I think there is no limit to the amount of perogies I can eat. Man, the only problem with going to the Beer Garden is how badly I crave their perogies for the next month.

Tuesday, 10/21:Top: Thrifted J.Crew, Slacks: John Varvatos for Converse, Boots: Thrifted, Watch: Bulova

Work has been utterly crazy this week – it’s all a little hard to explain. It’s definitely affected my posting, as this absurdly late wardrobe post should demonstrate. My boss and mentor is leaving the company to pursue his freelance career, and I wish him all the luck in the world, though I am going to miss him terribly. I am so bummed about it that I am having a hard time being happy about the fact that I am being promoted to an art director, but I guess that’s the way things are in life – sometimes the thing you desire doesn’t come in garb you admire.

Thursday, 10/23:Tunic: eBay, Jeans: Levis Red, Boots: Thrifted, Watch: Bulova

Still, you gotta keep doing your best, right? In the words of the immortal Kurt Vonnegut, “So it goes…” I am going to try to concentrate on the very good things happening in my life, such as the fact that Fiance Kaboom! and I are going to rent a house! That’s right. A HOUSE. With FLOORS. And a BACKYARD. I have yearned to live in a house of my own ever since I moved out of my parents’ house and renting these shoe boxes they call apartments. It’s also going to be so wonderful to have so much space, as our current apartment and the “Shoe Mountain” were definitely beginning to enter the realm of “natural disaster.”

Friday, 10/17:Top: Gap, Cardigan: Victoria’s Secret, Jeans: Siwy, Shoes: Toyama, Japan, Bracelet: Jami Rodriguez, Watch: Bulova

Speaking of PANTS , can you tell I love love love my new Siwy jeans? I have worn them TWICE in the last week. The color, the fit, the comfort: I simply cannot get enough of them. Even if I look like I just arrived from 1984.

Friday, 10/17:Shirt: Joyce Leslie, Sweater: Thrifted, Jeans: Siwy, Shoes: NYC Wholesale shop, Cuff: James the Leatherman, Watch: Bulova

This week has made me understand why the Chinese consider the line “May you live in interesting times” a curse. Let’s hope for some less interesting, and more marvelous in the days ahead.

Friday, 10/10:Necklace: made by mom <3, Long Necklace: Gift,Dress: Nostalgia on Etsy , Over the Knee Socks: Japan?, Boots: Miss Sixty

O hi! Have we met? I am a slug.

Friday, 10/10:Necklace: made by mom <3, Long Necklace: Gift,Dress: Nostalgia on Etsy , Over the Knee Socks: Japan?, Boots: Miss Sixty, Cardigan: Victoria's Secret

There was time, about a month ago, when I was not a slug. I would go to yoga, and run on Sundays. I was full of energy, and joie de vive.

But now, I am a slug. A wobbly, lazy slug.

It started innocently enough – a bad week, a late day of work, a missed class. But now we are here, and I have not run or done a downward dog in nigh 30 days. I look at my belly conspiratorially, demand to know what it has done with the sleek muscles that were visible just a few weeks ago. It glares back at me, and rumbles “Hey, YOU are the one that decided chocolate peanut butter ice cream is a suitable daily breakfast treat.”

What can I say? I like ice cream.

Tuesday, 10/14:Hat: Kyoto, Japan, Top: H&M, Slacks: Orphan, Necklace: mking43 on Etsy, Cuff: James the Leather Man, Watch: Bulova, Shoes: Joyce Leslie, Socks: Hanes

But this will not do! I have no energy, and all I want to do is snuggle up next to Fiance Kaboom! and watch “Heros” (I am still on the first season, do not ruin it!). So starting now, I am launching the official “Get Back in Shape You Miserable Pudge-Nut” initiative. It will be a rigorous program of getting myself back on track with a vengeance.

I just need to finish that carton of ice cream, so it stops taunting me.

Tuesday, 10/14:Hat: Kyoto, Japan, Top: H&M, Slacks: Orphan, Necklace: mking43 on Etsy, Cuff: James the Leather Man, Watch: Bulova, Shoes: Joyce Leslie, Socks: Hanes

Last night, myself, my sister, and Fiance Kaboom! piled into his car after work, and headed to look at another potential wedding place, at the insistence of my mother. We spent 30 minutes winding around the spindly streets of northern Jersey, to the P—– (names will be omitted, to protect the out-of-date). We arrived in 1974. 1974 was covered in wood paneling, stained glass, marble and ornate woodwork. 1974 smelled like old mothballs. 1974 had ice sculptures, and no natural light. A porn movie could possibly be shot iin 1974, or perhaps a shoddy remake of “The Godfather.” I smiled, spoke pleasantly with the host, and spent the tour shooting Fiance Kaboom and and my sister “O HELLS NO” looks from the corner of my eye.

Wednesday, 10/15:Shirt: Gadzooks (defunct)
Tunic: Boutique in Philly, Skirt: H&M, Socks: Joyce Leslie, Boots: Pink Studio, Necklace: Bakers, Headband: Drugstore, Cuff: James the Leather Man, Watch: Bulova

Then my parents showed up, and we gorged ourselves on one of the awesomest, most inexpensive and delicious buffets I have ever eaten. I sure as heck won’t get married there, but darn, that was some great food. My father ate his way through half the coconut shrimp in the universe, while I made it my mission to eat as many oysters as I could muster.

So the castle is still at the top of the list, though my sister thinks we should keep looking, if only as an excuse to eat more food.

Wednesday, 10/15:Shirt: Gadzooks (defunct)
Tunic: Boutique in Philly, Skirt: H&M, Socks: Joyce Leslie, Boots: Pink Studio, Necklace: Bakers, Headband: Drugstore, Cuff: James the Leather Man, Watch: Bulova, Cropped Jacket: Joyce Leslie

This weekend we are having a little engagement shindig at my favorite beer hall in Astoria. The beer hall is one of my favorite places in New York: a huge, open-air venue, filled with delicious beer, amazing food, and occasional polka. I am in a bit of shock the sheer amount of friends who are coming out to celebrate with us – should be one heck of a night!

Thursday, 10/16:Top: Harajuku, Japan, Skirt: Buffalo Exchange, Leggings: Victoria’s Secret, Shoes: Shoegasm, Necklace: Street Vendor, Watch: Bulova, Bangle: sparklinglotusdesign on Etsy

My cat, Haiku, is utterly adorable. He’s realized where I stand in the mornings to take my photos. Now, he sits himself up there, and watches me work it, whilst begging for affections. It is rather crippling in its cuteness. He even ingratiated himself into this shot. Little scamp.

Thursday, 10/16:Top: Harajuku, Japan, Skirt: Buffalo Exchange, Leggings: Victoria’s Secret, Shoes: Shoegasm, Necklace: Street Vendor, Watch: Bulova, Bangle: sparklinglotusdesign on Etsy

What are you up to this weekend?