Tuesday Outfit: Casual Rabbit Hole

Yeah, I know I said I was going to try to swear off the jeans and t-shirt look, but what can I say?  Mornings don't agree with me and I didn't do my laundry until today.

Alice in Wonderland crew shirt in blue - Imageworks exclusive

Olive khaki pants - Daughters of the Liberation (via Anthropologie)

Blue moccasins - Peace Moccasins

So, this is variation 2 of the Alice crew shirt.  This is the unisex shirt, which I mainly picked up because the women's style shirt didn't come in blue, only this kind of really light steel grey.  Which is an okay colour, but look at the blue!  It's so much nicer, even though the cut is nowhere near as nice.  Yeah.  That show was, hands down, the least organized shirt order I have ever seen.  Even Green Lantern, the successor to the crazy, had their shirts in order.  I expect Arthur Christmas will see a new round of shirts for the summer in the next couple of months, which will be nice. Not like I obsessively collect shirts from every show I'm on or anything...

Tomorrow will be more interesting (I hope). We shall see... I think things are about to get crazy, so hopefully I'll be able to stay on top of things.

Monday Outfit: Back and Bright

Well, the cold of doom still isn't gone, but I decided that wasn't going to tone me down today, because I am really tired of being tired.

Denim jacket - Gap

Orange silk dress - Edme & Esyllte (via Anthropologie)

Red flats - Madden Girl

Yup.  This was simple, easy, didn't take much time to throw on in the morning, felt cheerful, and just plain worked.  I'm still congested, sadly, and small errands are making me really tired.  But hopefully if I just keep resting, then all will be well soon.  If not, I may actually have to go see my doctor about this, because a week of congestion is downright silly.

Hope all of you are feeling much better than I am.

Tuesday Outfit: Almost Like Pajamas

So, I dragged my sorry butt out of bed and to work this morning, and I wore an outfit that I thought most closely resembled pajamas while still being actual everyday clothing.

Denim jacket - Gap

Purple wrap sweater - Anthropologie

Grey comfy pants - Anthropologie

Black flats - Bass

These pants are amazing.  I pulled them off a rack at random because I wanted to try on a sweater, and I was wearing a dress that day.  I walked out without the sweater, but with the pants, because wearing them is like giving your legs a hug.  That is how awesome they are.  And that seemed perfect for going back to work in spite of not actually feeling any better than I did on my sick day.

Tomorrow's another FFB day!  Hopefully I'll have something for it... this cold has knocked me out pretty badly, but I have a backup topic in the pen in case I really run out of ideas.

Cheers, and have a lovely day!

Monday Outfit: Didn't Get Out of my PJs

And no, I'm not taking a picture of it. Two consecutive nights of volunteering at Return of the Jedi: Musical Edition left me with a nasty cold, so I feel gross and look gross.  Took the day off work and barely got off the couch.  Finished watching my Community commentaries.  Watched some Psych on Netflix. 

I will probably be back tomorrow, as I fully intend to go back to work, stuffy nose and all.  I feel gross, but I'm technically functional enough to do my job.  This is why I have decongestants, anyway.  And tea.  Lots of tea.

Hope you all had a much more productive Monday.  It may be cold season, but stay healthy! 

Friday Outfit: Looks Like Monday

No, really.  I didn't realize it until I was at work, but I wore almost the exact same thing, just with different shoes and a different quirky tee.

I wanted to come here with a picture for you, but I only have one, and my camera is not cooperating right now. Also, it's a little strange because it's after a costuming event where I was Leia, so I still have my hairpiece on (I don't like taking it off if I'm going to be going anywhere public, as I hairspray my hair up there pretty firmly.  And it's a picture of me with a fellow moderator at TheForce.Net who I have been modding with and living in the same region as for two years, and we only just met.

So, I shall offer the picture on the tee:

Threadless: "New Hairstyle" tee

I love this shirt, and I like wearing it to events where I'm being Leia.  I kind of had to dress Star Wars-y, since I didn't have time to go home after work before driving down, since Costa Mesa is forever away in late afternoon traffic. It's a habit we have of wearing our nerd gear out to events as our street clothes to make ourselves easily identifiable in a crowd if we're looking for people, or people are trying to find us.  It's a good system.

Anyway, I'm fading fast, my camera still isn't cooperating, and I have to work in the morning, and then drive back to Costa Mesa to do the same thing, but as a wrangler/photographer this time.  Good times!

Thursday Outfit: Kiss Me, I'm (partly) Irish!

So, St. Patrick's Day!  The day of all things Irish, and many things we just pretend are Irish so everyone can wear very sparkly green things and get very drunk.  Not that there's anything wrong with that, mind- I didn't have the green beer myself, but I did make a chocolate Bailey's milkshake.  It was delicious.

Green patterned tank top - Anthropologie

Denim jacket - Gap

Caramel khaki pants - Spoon Jeans

Braided headband - H&M

Green scarf (not pictured- it got too warm and I took it off) - scarf booth in Hollywood 

Clover Emblem necklace - RockLove Jewelry

The necklace also gets a special mention here.  RockLove is an independently owned jewelry company completely run by one of my college friends, the lovely Allison Hourcade.  I met her my freshman year when we were the only two people on our floor for Winter Term, and we shared tea.  She's an extremely talented designer and silversmith, and I highly recommend you check out her site. 

As the title indicates, I do in fact have a bit of Irish in me.  My great grandfather, James Moran, came to the United States from Dublin during the 1916 revolution by stowing away on a boat because his best friend got caught in the crossfire and died, and he just wanted out of the country.  He ended up getting a guilty conscience and turning himself in, but the immigration folks just told him he could go live in Canada for six months and then come back in the right way.  Imagine that happening anymore.

I never really knew Grandpa Jim, as he died when I was just a baby, but I know him through my dad's stories.  He was the family prankster.  He put coffee in a Coke bottle to fool my coffee-hating uncle into drinking it.  At my parents' wedding, he pretended to have a wooden leg, and had the pastor fooled for almost the entire time- until he accidentally switched which leg he was hobbling on.  He walked with the Mayor of Chicago in the St. Patrick's Day parade because he went one year and just decided he wanted to.  The security folks were dubious, but the Mayor quickly figured out that this random guy was very Irish, and let him walk with him for a block or so.

He also worked as a set builder at the old MGM studios for a little while, which is very special to me because the old MGM lot is now owned by Sony Pictures Entertainment, which is the company I work for.  I don't actually work on the main lot, but I use the gym there.  It's very cool to think, when I walk through the lot, that my great grandfather was there some 75 years before me.  Especially since the rest of my family is still back in Michigan.  Grandpa Jim didn't stay here long, since Grandma Grace didn't care for Hollywood, but it is good to know I'm carrying on one family legacy.

The rest of me is English and Scottish, but I like to think I mostly got the Irish genes.

I hope you all had a very celebratory day!

Wednesday Outfit: Shoes that Pop

So, when I was in high school and college and caught episodes of What Not to Wear, one of the tips I picked up was that, if you had a good pair of red shoes, you could make any outfit pop. 

 Blue cardigan - Love Culture

Sewing Circle dress - Floreat (via Anthropologie)

Braided belt - H&M

Red flats - Madden Girl

I was a little skeptical, but eventually ended up giving into the red shoes.  I found this pair of flats and as you can all see, I wear them all the time.  But especially with an outfit like this that is so monochrome, and is another primary colour, the red really stands out.

It's late, so that's all I've got.  Love this dress, love this combination, it's a great look for work.  I want to find some other ways to style this dress, but as I've mentioned, the time change is kicking my butt.  But tomorrow I've got a little Irish spirit planned, so hoorah for that.