I am that woman that makes you look at pictures of her cats.

As anyone who follows me on Twitter saw that we got a new computer at home. Dave's school computer was 5 years old it died over a year ago and he had been borrowing one. Now he has his own computer (ours) to run his architect stuff I don't understand on it. Although it was funny when he would use my pink sparkly laptop. Currently we have 3 working computer for two people(Mac, Netbook, PC) and 5 non working. (4 lapops and a g4) BAH.

Reminder in how girlie it is. It has a giant hello kitty decal on it and a hello kitty mouse too.




So his new one is the tablet one you see on Project Runway. YES that is where he saw it for first time. It's pretty damn neat. The best part is that you can flip the top over and use it like a notebook and write on it. He did pictures of our furbabies while testing it out.



Here I am making you look at picture of my cats. Sorry that is who I am. The librarian who wears glasses, has no social skills and so many cats she trips over them.(which doesn't take much in my tiny apt)

Waffle McButterpants

Daisyboo Marie

I sometimes think people think I am making some of the stories about waffle or exaggerating them. Nope she really is a complete wacko. She ran up him and his arm trying to get the cup so she could dump it on herself.

Shop the Look

Dress and belt Target 2008
Shoes Nine West 2010
Necklace and Earrings ShoptheLook Read on to find out more.



I was contacted by Shop The Look and offered the chance to review two of their products. A little about them in their own words.

"Gracing the pages of our site are the most up-to-the-minute trends, hottest “it” items and absolute must-have accessories. ShopTheLook.net caters to fellow fashionistas all across the globe. Our mission is to make the world a prettier place one accessory at a time!

Our experts jet set all over the world (London, Paris, Italy, Japan, Los Angeles, New York, Miami and more) to truly “shop the look.” We may sound like we’re tooting our own horn, but if anyone knows fashion, it’s us. We’ve been fashion experts for well over ten years now and know just how to turn runway looks into reality.

We pride ourselves on providing affordable and fabulous jewelry and accessories at the utmost of quality that all babes on a budget can appreciate. 

Let your hair down, sashay around our site and “shop the look.” With prices between $8-$30, how could you resist! If you need the help of a seasoned accessory diva, feel free to send us an email. And of course make sure to visit often as our site is continuously updated with the latest and greatest."
 

I was having a hard time picking as they have lots of fun cocktail rings and bold bangles. I ended up picking two items from their Disney Collection, in particular 2 Alice in Wonderland items. They are unlike anything I currently own and the black cut out metal is so inline with my aesthetic. And you know how much I love wearing black and red together. They arrived in a cute pink and white bubble envelope and each item was wrapped in a little velety bag. (Nice touch!) The necklace (retail $14) is very light and you can hardly feel you are even wearing. It is bold and eyecatching and unlike stuff you are seeing in the costume jewelry shops. The earrings (retail $12) are SOOO cute. They are little clubs with dangling spiky red hearts to represent the Red Queen. They have a little weight to them but aren't too heavy and don't make noise like some dangly earrings do.



I am actually wearing the necklace backwards here.



Shop the Look has lots of great pieces at really low prices. They are also being featured in many of the current magazines. Their customer service gets an A+.
Some things in particular I am interested in is Purple Ring. These fuchsia earrings. and this pearl and chain necklace.

squeaaaaaaaaaaaaak

Dress H&M
Cardigan with lacey back Target
Shoes Born compliments of TJMAXX (read about it here)




For makeup. I have on Brown liquid liner that didn't look nice so I covered it up with a gold sparkly liquid liner by MAC. It was a limited edition in Feb 2009. I use See Sheer on my lips and Utterly Game from the new Feline collection. Both items are from MAC. For mascara I have Chanel Rouge Noir on. (Deep red color)I had been wanting to try a true peach blush and coral lips for awhile. I usually am much more a pink person and shy away from oranges in makeup but with my hair red I am rethinking it more.




I feel tre boring lately. Like I am just wearing things over and over. Technically I have only worn this one before. See exciting stuff huh? Oh but I did wear it with this cardigan and I think my hair was in a bum. *headdesk*

OH I have exciting for you.

1. There was a guy on some scaffolding on a street I walk down on my way to work. There was a little cardboard sign on it. Washchuheda. I was saying it over and over in my head an by the time I realized what it said I was too far to take a picture.If it is there on my way home I so am!

2. I completely forgot to write about my kinda surreal experience with a friend a few weeks ago. We were going to a costume shop that is next to the Christian Science bookstore and before we went into the store she said oh wait have you been in this back door. So she walks around the side of the building and there is this janky looking bodega with sun bleached stuff in the window. I have passed it a million times and never went in. She goes in and it's tiny and full of crap. She walks right past the counter and I am looking at her like shes nuts but I follow. She stands in front of the snapple machine and zooooom the machine is a secret door that  slides to the side and we walk into this GORGEOUS SHOP called Bodgea.

I didn't take pics but I will link you to a couple.  Bodega inside.  Bodega outside. Inside 1 Inside 2
To anyone who is in Boston that I have mentioned it to they had never heard of it. Dave had read about it in a magazine. I am taking him there Friday. They mostly sell skads of beautiful colored sneakers. My friend who look me said one time Ludacris was in there when she went.

Have any bizarre shopping experience stories?

Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy of Company B

This morning there was this guy who stopped at the end of the street like 6 feet away and just STARED. Wicked rude. He wasn't staring and smiling. If he had been maybe that would of been OK.

So I had to give him something to stare at.



Then I thought this would be cute/witty. We do live on the water and all.



Then I realized I looked like a complete tart so I started singing Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy quietly and was dancing to it thinking that would save me.




Through all this Dave didn't ask once what I was doing. Ha. He just kept taking the pictures.
and because when I am overtired I can't stop moving I ended it by jumping off the curb.



And I am wearing these shoes.



That is not a recent photo if you haven't noticed I have "stock" accessories photos I plug in as needed. I always get questions on the manicure on this one. I don't remember even doing it but it's globby flowers so I am 93% sure I did it. I usually do it when I break a toe nail to cover up the split. (I broke my toe in highschool and the nail has never been the same)

This is the dress the lovely people at Shabby Apple gave me. Read about it and see cute pics here. 

I can update this with makeup photos if you are interested.

EDITED TO ADD
Sorry I didn't realize until I uploaded them but these are terrible makeup photos. I am home and makeup off now so it is all I got and I DID offer. bah.




For eyes Chanel Khaki on the outside third of eye and in crease and wet as liner on bottom lid. Entire lid up to crease MAC Shale and pink freeze in inner corner and bottom inneer 1/3 of lid.
Rouge Noir mascara by Chanel and Imaginare lipgloss. Blush is Benefit Cosmetics CORALista

All the dirt you've wandered through

I get fussy holding my glasses. I don't know what to do with them when they aren't on my face.

This should be interesting. I can get to blogger but not my blog so I can write this but I can't actually view it. So if the formatting is screwy sorry! I wish I could see it.
Shirt Target
Skirt New York and Co
Shoes Clarks
Necklace Marc Jacobs

In the top photo something isn't quite right with my middle section. It looked like was I AHEM larger than I am. (I am not skinny by any means but I know what I NORMALLY look like) I kept enlarging it wondering if this shirt should be donated and what the heck was going on in that section. Then I realized what it was. This shirt is see thru so I wore a nude cami tucked into the very high waist of the skirt. That is the skirt you can see thru the shirt. See I used an arrow to show you.



It also has ruffles down the middle. Which you so can't see in top photos.



I don't have many pairs of brown shoes so I was at a loss last night WHAT to wear with this outfit. I finally decided to try red. I threw the necklace on so if anyone called me on it at work I could say SEE I HAVE RED HERE TOO. Because my coworkers are so the kind to point them out. All the shoe pointer outers were out today though!




I am wearing my liner, lips and shadow from the MAC Fabulous Felines collection. Shadow Palette is Palace Pedigree lips is Fanfare lipstick with Wildly Refined gloss on top and liquid liner in Smoky Heir Then I have my Chanel deep red mascara Rouge Noir Inimitable on.For blush I mixed Coralista by Benefit with a peach blush from a long ago MAC limited edition line. (Its in a safety orange package)



My weekend? Uninteresting. Dave was doing homework. I read.
Sat we went to lunch. I asked Dave if the front camera on the iphone also shot video. Apparently it does. (I knew it did facetime but I didn't know if it recorded. I just had never tried)



Oh this is worth sharing too. We had to take Daisyboo to the vet on Saturday and $500 of tests later we just heard from vet and my furbaby is OK. Her sugars were great and she won't have to go on insulin. I was so sick over it. I honestly thought I was going to have a nervous breakdown in the car on the way there. She was crying and crying and we were in traffic. She hates the car so much she cried the entire way. She was sniveling by the time we got there. We ran into someone Dave knows and she even was saying "oh the poor baby" as Daisyboo cried the entire time waiting for our turn.  In the room when they were doing the ultrasound and sticking a needle into her and you could see it going in on the monitor and I was shaking. I could feel Dave watching me the entire time waiting for me to pop. But once we were in the room and they were shaving her and doing all the needle poking she didn't say BOO. She didn't try to get up, she didn't cry, she didn't do anything. She is SUCH a good girl. They all loved her there. She also didn't say anything the whole car ride home. Once we were going up stairs she started crying again. I let her right out and she ran and hid for a few hours.



Yeah I don't know if I can handle having children. My nerves can't handle it.

Twinkle Twinkle little nail

I haven't shared a konad for awhile. I did this manicure with a plate from the Monster Bundle (If you haven't seen it, it is an insane deal. 21 plates for $18!! (Konad are $7 a PLATE)  I got on Amazon. This one is really simple but it also is really me. I sign my name with a little star and have for almost 20 years. People used to buy me lots of star stuff too.



I covered the entire name in OPI Done Out in Deco by OPI from the South Beach Collection.
Then I stamped stars in OPI Shrek Forever After Collection in  Funky Dunkey.  Over that I stamped the same stars with a pink gold from Milani called My Network.I topped it all with a coat of Seche Vite top coat. Dries it virtually instantly.

If you are interested in more nail info please check out my All about nails page.

doot do dooooooooooooo Quiz Time PENCILS UP!

Today I had the bright idea to attempt pictures in the park on the way to the T. Not a great idea. Too many people stopping and staring and too many shadows to dodge from the weird awning.

First I tried my back to the East



Then genius I am remembered the sun rises from the East
So I turned TOWARDS the sun.



Aw hell I give up



Dress Lands End
Teal cami H&M
Teal and silver pearls H&M
Glass pendant Gift from MIL
Silver belt Avon
Silver shoes Clarks

Though I like how this one makes me look like a superhero posing for a job well done.



Did you know my hair took batteries?



OK since I bored you HERE IS A QUIZ

1. Say one positive thing about my photos (haa you guys always forget about the post when I do a quiz so I GOTCHA!)
2. If you could be an animal for a day which animal would you be and why?
3. Favorite baked good.
4. Describe your favorite pair of shoes?
5. Describe a "perfect" weekend for you. (idealized or real)
6. How tall are you
7. What is a smell you love? (doesn't have to be favorite. Just something you love to smell)
8. Have you ever been to the circus?
9. Have you ever seen a giraffe in real life?
10. What one word would your mom use to describe you?

As always copy and paste the questions in your answer. I always say it but I mean it this time. I will not publish any that doesn't copy the questions. It is so difficult on my phone to flip back and forth from the answers and the questions so this time I will be firm and not sissy out like I normally do and publish everything. (I've not had to delete or not publish a single comment since I went moderation in January. I shouldn't of admitted that huh? Now all the crazies will come out.)

Oh hey

Oh hey someone finally charged their camera. I never did find my charger though. I shoved it into a different one and it appears to have work! huzzah!



Pants and Jacket Forever 21
Cami, shirt, scarf H&M
It is POURING here and has been for 4 days. No outside photos. I was busy all morning too so I missed out on the unwrikled chambray pants photos. HELLO WRINKLE by looking sideways at them. My flutter sleeves were disheveled too. I like the mass amounts of blue I had on today though.

Various times during day I had a coat on



and a scarf too



The front is interesting. So is this weirdo expression. What was I thinking?



Dave hemmed 6 inches odd them. I don't know who has a 36 inch seam but it isn't me. Forever 21 pants always scared me because I have large legs and a bottom. I didn't think I'd fit into any but I finally tried on these chambray ones this weekend. I liked how they looked in the store a lot. Now I think they accentuate my thighs a little too much. This is why I only wear trouser cut. bah.

I pulled out one of my favorite rings today. I usually don't wear rings on this finger because I have a silver one always on it but I wanted to mix it up.



I make noise when I walk.



Just did an eye wing and LOTS of peach blushes mixed with a bunch of pink in the corners of my eyes.



I took this in my bathroom right after putting makeup on with a flash. I knew that the rain would melt it so I tried to capture it right away. Not flattering but you can see it "fresh"




I was 100% inspired by Alison Sodul. How I didn't know about her until last night I will never know. I am in mad mad girl/hair crush with her.


I saved a bunch of her pics on my tumblr because I am so going with that color when I start getting it professionally done in Oct. (I wanted to use up the dye I had at home then I am handing it over to the professionals)