The wave of the future

This blog has been dormant for a while. This is in part because of upheavals in my personal life, in part because of a heavier workload and more demanding study schedule over the last few months, and in part because I got a little bored with the narrow focus I'd set forth in the blog.

Well, now my personal life is much calmer and my work and study schedule is still intense but is more consistent in its intensity (and I've become fairly acclimated to its demands). Plus, I really do enjoy blogging. So I'm not quitting altogether but instead am rethinking my blog and moving my blogging activities to a new address and a new name. This new blog, as my "About Me" testifies, will pick up where this blog left off but will not be limited to writing about fashion (although I will of course still write about fashion). This blog will also be linked to my new etsy shop, which should be up and running very soon.

If anyone still visits this blog, please do come check out the new blog and the new shop in the next few days.

Happy 100% Percent Thrifted Birthday to me!

Happy 100% Percent Thrifted Birthday to me!, originally uploaded by cmt2779.

Today is my 29th birthday, about which I am very excited. I am sometimes a little sad that this is the last year of my 20s, because I've enjoyed my 20s, but I also see so many fabulous people (here and in my real life) who are rockin' their 30s (not to mention the fabulous people in their 40s, 50s, and so on) that I almost can't wait to get there myself.

My brother turned 26 a couple of months ago and started talking shit about how he was old now. I told him that I wasn't old yet so he couldn't be old yet, either. Furthermore, I told him, I would let him know when I got old so he could prepare for it.

Hasn't happened yet.

Today is also the last day in my No New Clothes Initiative, during which I only bought clothes that were thrifted, vintage, repurposed, or otherwise used. So I wore a 100% thrifted outfit in honor of that occasion.

The Case of the Absent Blogger

If you're reading this post, you may have noticed that my week off around Thanksgiving turned into a several month hiatus. Oops. A convergence of personal life stresses, graduate school pressures, a new job position, and a general lack of creative or productive feelings did me in.

But.

I'm feeling much better now. My personal life is going swimmingly, I think I've got graduate school and my new job under control (for the moment, at least), and I've got creative juices flowing every which way (it's a messy image for a messy process). So I suppose this post represents my triumphant return to the world of fashion blogging--or at least a return. Triumphant remains to be seen, I suppose.

In the last few weeks, my creative energies have been working in a couple of fashion-related directions. One simply consists of dressing myself. I've felt much more experimental in the last few weeks and I think this experimentation has paid off.


This outfit was featured as one of Tricia Royal's wardrobe_remixers of the week last week, which just makes me all kinds of happy. It's such a nice feeling to have other people with awesome taste and style think you have awesome taste and style, too.

I've had the wrap skirt for a couple of years. I bought it in a random boutique in Evanston, IL, on my first trip up to visit a friend in Chicago. The fuchsia dress is a recent purchase, bought without having a chance to try it on properly because I could not pass up the color and the collar. The leggings and socks are from Target, and the shoes have been in my closet for years. I've rediscovered them recently, though, and have been wearing the heck out of them.


This is the other direction my creative energies have been working: embroidery. Here I'm embroidering a naughty word onto a paisley tie. This is a test tie, a prototype, if you will, for a larger project I'd like to undertake of embroidering various designs (not all naughty words) onto ties. Right now I'm in the bettering-my-skills-and-drafting-ideas stage, but I look forward to continuing to do more of this kind of thing. I also have some ideas for jewelry that I'll be featuring as they take more concrete form.