From America with love

Two of the items I adorned my body with today came from the USA.  First, the bracelet, which I've worn the entire week (I really love it Miz T) and my gorgeous jacket.

The skirt is one of the items I had altered (per this blog post) and its a much better fit now.  Next week I'll wear the dress that I had altered.  At least I did not spend half the day trying to keep it on me.

I was given this jacket in January when my children returned from visiting their dad in Houston, but waited to wear it when the weather cooled.  Today, it was perfect.  I was a wee bit nervous of the collar, but was reassured it looks fine.

At first I was going to wear an animal print top, but did not like how the collar looked under the jacket, so I opted for a plain and lower neckline.  I think it worked fairly well.

T-shirt : Legit

Skirt : Miladys

Jacket : Loft

Bracelet : Charlotte Russe

Shoes : La Diva

Earrings : Truworths

It's T.G.I.F. tomorrow and I have lots of things waiting on my desk.  Motivation levels in our office are at an all time low ... I think we're all suffering from S.A.D. and stress.

Hope your day was fabulous

Til next time

Keep it Simply Sassy

(P.S. Thanks for the awesome pics Schatz)

Inspired - Gold and purple

Source Jentine, http://myedit.blogspot.com

Help - I can't remember the site/blogger - I usually save pictures I use as inspiration by the name of the blogger, but seems I did not this time ... please help so that I can give due credit - I visited her just last week but the name escapes me.

— Common connotations —
royalty, imperialism, nobility, Lent, Easter, Mardi Gras, episcopacy, upper class, poison, friendship, passion, sharing, wisdom, rage, homosexuality, contrition, sympathy, extreme and sophistication

source : wikipedia

 In real life, the skirt has a far more 'gold' tinge to it that what it looks like in these photos.

Details :  Skirt & Shirt - Truworths | Booties - Woolworths | Lace Tanl - Jay Jays|

Necklace - Miladys | and my fave bracelet from Miz T.

a little frill and a dash of sequence

I always wait until I've taken my pictures in the afternoon and reviewed them before I get really excited about an outfit.  Reason being, there have been some that looked smashing in the mirror, but in photos were none too pleasing.  Maybe doing the photos in the morning would be the answer, but it's a matter of having enough time.

Todays look is a little cheapie dress I picked up this weekend at the whopping price of R119.00 at Mr. Price.  The fabric is quite divine and falls great, which can be surprising as some of Mr. Price's item are not of the greatest quality.  The cardigan I bought almost three months ago on sale and today is the first time I'm wearing it.  It's a nice three quarter sleeve which I thought was rather appropriate as the weather channel said we could expect a day time high of 22 Celcius ... looking out my window at 10:00 this morning it looked way lower.

I have high hopes for this dress and think it may be worth much more than R119.00 I paid for it, much as the black shift I bought from Jet last year at R99.00. 

Kept it rather simple by not adding a necklace and simple silver hoop earrings, a silver and red bangles and a red belt ...

| Dress - Mr. Price | Shoes and cardigan - Truworths | Belt and bangles and chunky ring - Edgars | little diamond ring - birthday gift from G-man |

See the lovely gash on the outside of my leg there?

Love me some red mary-janes

Ooops - I forgot to smile ... lol

The sequence were not visible in the first pictures

After work I headed to the optometrist.  Ended up chosing different frames to what I looked at yesterday and decided on Ray Ban frames for my sunnies.  The lenses, due to them being multifocals on my day to day glasses cost an absolute fortune.  I also got a stern talking to from her about the migraines I've been suffering with ... she has insisted that I now visit a neurologist - 8 migraines in two weeks, especially with halo effect is no laughing matter.  Between us - I'm terrified and have no excuse for not doing this sooner.  But, I know its time.

Well, it was a late day, I got home close to 7pm and thankfully G-man cooked dinner.

Now, I'm going to go sort out my clothes for tomorrow, file the nail I graunched on the car boot, shower and cuddle under the covers with my man.

'til next time ...

be fabulous, be stylish, be awesome!

Additional classics

This morning I headed to The Glen early to get some errands done and payments made.  I visited DisChem for vitamins, Exact for a beautiful grey pleated skirt, Mr. Price for pj pants for the boys and Truworths and Edgars to pay my accounts (and a little shopping), the optometrist to get miss beans glasses fixed and at the same time scheduled my own eye appointment and chose two pairs of frames (one for my glasses and one for new sunnies/I need them to have my script in them).

I bought some 'basics' today :

Grey shift dress from Mr Price

Funny coloured long sleeved top as well

Grey winter long length pleated skirt from Exact

Grey shoes (another sale purchase - I do love sale prices), black/dark grey pencil skirt and grey/blue cardigan - Truworths

Edgars - a pair of boots for the little lady.

We then stopped for lunch before heading home.  It was a pleasant morning, just us girls, while the boys took the dogs down to the veld for a run.  FUN all round.

Tomorrow, it's back to work ... thankfully I have a job to go.

Hope your weekend was fabulous, 'til next time ...

be fabulous, be stylish, be awesome!



Catch up

So Monday, as you may have read, we said goodbye to our blue-eyed girl and I had class.  Then Tuesday, I got a migraine in the afternoon and by the time dinner was done, my head was 'outta the game' - the reason for now updates.  Today - I'm doing good ... and here's the weeks roundup.

One day I'll get brave and make the space and really jump, or something ...

Anyone for bowling?

 Shirt : Woolworths (from my sister) | Trousers : Truworths | Belt : Edgars | Shoes : Jet | Necklace & Earrings : Justine Cosmetics

Tuesday - Betty Boo

 Shirt : Local Chinese Store | Skirt : The Hub | Shoes : Merien Hall | Necklace : Honey Accessories

Posing

A 70's look going on here?

 Shirt : Truworths | Skirt : Mr Price | Shoes : Makro | Necklace & earrings : Gift from Miz T

A wee bit serious

I love the embroidery detail in the shirt

Yesterdays outfit I was told by one of the guys at work looked like Betty Boo and today, another guy said I looked pregnant, he really didn't like this look on me.  The tea ladies said it looked good, as did Courts, Felicia and G-man.  What do you think?

March 17 - New addition

Did I mention my little Sale shopping spree at Woolworths' 50% off sale about a week ago?  I think I did, because that was when I got the skinny jeans and delicious green top.  Todays pants were bought at the same time ... along with a striped mans shirt I have not worn as yet.

Picture invader No. 1

Picture invaders No. 2 & 3

Rolling my eyes ... they all N.E.E.D to pose with me, why dont they start their own blogs? lol

These pants are so comfortable, I think I may wear them for our ride down to Clarens in April, I think they'll be great on the bike ... just the narrow legs may pose a challenge.

Details : Trousers - Woolworths, Shirt - Ltd, Truworths, Jacket - Truworths, Sandals - Juliette.

Now I wanted to get back to the Tsonga boots I mentioned a day or two ago ... finally their site had the pictures up.  The first pair I only just spotted tonight, but the second pair I saw in one of the stores at our local mall ... I'm smitten.  Another reason I'm keen on them, besides that they're hand made, is that they are empowering a previously disadvantage community in Kwa-Zulu Natal.  Only question now, (since I'm neither Oprah nor JK Rowlings) which one do I go for?  G-man suggests buying one left boot in one style and colour, and one right boot in the other ... just imagine the looks I'll solicit ... lol.


Dakisa



Ikloba

February 1 - Yellow, the happy sunshine colour

I took this photo after I'd removed my necklace and earrings ... but I did not like the photos I took earlier ...

The belt I bought over the weekend ...

 Trying to get a decent picture of the necklace and earring set I wore today



Earrings



The necklace

 

I wore this dress to my nephews engagement party last year and was rather shocked when I saw the photo of just how low the front is.  So, for the sake of decency, I wore a cami underneath today.



Teasing my man with the promise of a flash

The dress, cardigan and necklace and earring set are from Truworths, the cami from Woolworths, belt from Edgars, shoes from Jet.

I felt good in this outfit today and the yellow was just what I needed to perk up my spirit.

I updated my Weigh-Less page earlier ... need to get exercising!

Hope your day was fantastic.

January 10th - back to work

It's Monday again and almost feels as though the work year has only started, guess in all honesty it only has.  The team were back, although out to meetings and then we had no power for 3 hours - just crazy and made the day ueber boring.

It's still grey here and lots of flooding. 

Todays look - sales inspired ... lol

Black trousers -  Finnigans at Truworths

Lilac top - Truworths - I just love it, it's so feminine ... a new addition to my wardrobe

Shoes - Legit (the sassy lacy ones)

Bracelet - Charlotte Russ

Necklace and earrings - Edgars

This afternoon we rushed off to the Glen to buy school shoes and get Jarod's tv sorted out.  I'm happy it's now done and he's happy he has it.  G-man needs to mount the wall bracket and then it's totally sorted.  I'm happy he managed to save the money for it, even though we had to take his bank card and cash away from him.  Liam was even offering him money today - I think he really wanted his brother to get his tv.

I'm so tired!  Back at work and not having much to do really exhausted me ... I'm off to shower and find something to wear to work tomorrow.

Hope y'all are having a super 'stylish' day ... ciao

Still scarce ...

but alive and well and having a jolly ol' time.

We have houseguests and have been busy busy what with Christmas, house chores, then preparing for our first ever guests, it's been crazy with no time for outfit posts, but then the outfits have been seriously plain and boring.

Today we headed off to the stores and dang, I'm so disappointed, a skirt I coveted for two months was on sale, so of course I snapped it up, only to find once I got home that it's two sizes bigger than the size on the tag :-(.  I'm going to take it back, but am not overly hopeful that they will in fact have my size as I only saw the one in this size, or at least, the size on the tag.  I also got myself a new top, two bras and pj pants as well as two tops for my dd and three sleep tops.

Santas helpers were great as well ... my dd Courteney bought me a pretty top and G-man bought me a lovely handbag and a pair of shoes for Christmas (purse).  I really need to do lots of photos as I've been so spoilt and bought myself some items ... so much for TGAAD, I just could not get my act together and stick with it.

Now, since our nanny is on leave, I'm going to have to head downstairs and do some ironing for the kids ... otherwise, they'll be parading aroun in undies real soon.

I'll be back soon thought ... hope everyone is having a great time ... almost 2011!!!  Any resolutions?

December 8

Everytime I wear these trousers and see the photos I think 'I should shorten them a little' and then I don't. 

Another Edgars outfit ...

Top from Merien Hall, I liked the design

Pants - Either Kelso or Merien Hall

Belt - from a Merien Hall skirt

Shoes - Shybikers fave's

I bought this top a while back and kinda forgot about it, but had originally bought it to wear with this skirt.

I've been up since 05:15 this morning.  It's Sunday - you're supposed to stay in bed late, but not me. 

December 6 - Maniac Monday

... and today was truly  maniac, I barely stopped from 07:30 - 16:15 and did not even break for lunch, I gobbled it down while I worked and tomorrow is off to a crazy start as well.

The dress was a bargain from Contempo ... I saw it about two weeks back and on Saturday Courteney saw it and said she thought it would suit me, I think she knows me quite well.

I chose to wear it with a belt from Edgars and my wedge-heeled peep-toes.

Easy and breezy outfit for a mad mad Monday.

Just a few days left before holiday time ... I'm counting down the days - 11 days to go.

December 2 - Skirts Rule

Floral skirt worn here previously

But I wore it again with a navy top, but no jacket this time.

The top in new ... Essence at Truworths

Skirt - Merien Hall at Edgars

Shoes - Fashion World

I only wore earrings as the top is very busy.

November 10 - Whacky Wednesday

Just a side note : I tend to be a bit of rebel and a wee bit stubborn ... our office is pushing us to wear a black pullover on Wednesday, which I would consider doing if it were not made of the cheapest yukkiest nylon 'knit' ever in creation.

 Details

Skirt and shirt - Legit (I usually don't  buy there as I find their styles are very 'young' but this skirt was hanging on my ankles begging to go home with me - who can resist that kind of beggine?)
It has a criss-cross lace on the 'almost' waist - I think they should have gone all the way to the top of the skirt, so it does look a little odd at the top and I like the stitching at the bottom - rather a military style look to the skirt. 
This is one I'll definitely wear in winter with my new jacket G-man bought me about a month ago.

Necklace - Contempo

Shoes - Brand = Juliette

Ring - Truworths (big and chunky - but it's a little loose :-( )