Last weekend my husband and I took a day trip to LA - not for anything glamorous (car repairs), but I tried to make the most of visiting suburbia by jazzing up my wardrobe. I didn't take any pictures of myself (there's also nothing glamorous about strutting around strip malls), but here's a great example of what I wore that day. At least I felt pretty good while discount shopping at Nordstrom Rack. That counts for something, right?

This is why you have to own this purse.

I have been pining after this "Make Do and Mend" sign for about a month now, and when I did a search for it, I found these other sewing items that are just darling. How else can I show my novice passion for sewing napkins and really bad costumes than a sewing machine tape dispenser and a little medallion necklace? I imagine people would see my sewing machine tape dispenser and we'd have this conversation:
 
Person: Wow. That's cool.
Me: I know.
Person: Are you into sewing?
Me: Not only am I into sewing, I'm seriously AMAZING at sewing napkins.
Person: But isn't that just sewing a straight line to make a square piece of fabric.
Me: Shut up! You don't know! *runs away*

This might be my first dress since childhood that has sleeves and lace. What an interesting concept.
 
Granted, in childhood those sleeves were puffy and that lace was in the form of eyelet trim (my mom would've "eyelet" the family cat if she could've - that's how much she loved eyelet in the 1980s).
 
Tonight I'm attending a social club's anniversary party - I plan to sport my new duds with some wine colored accessories.