Shh... it's a secret

That I am telling the whole world. . .

How is it still considered a secret you ask?  Deal with it "because I said so" and no I am not Diane Keaton. 

So, here's the deal.  I'm finally going to tell you what happened!

I wrote a 50k novel in the 30 days of November (along with lots of other people, with the NaNoWriMo group, but they are not as awesome as me... cause it is me).  Long sleepless nights, endless staring at the computer wonder "WHAT am I DOING?!?", and wondering how truly terrible it will really be.

But alas, it is done and it is awesome if nothing else to be able to say, "I wrote a novel."

On to the reason you came:

Do you remember that shirt and pants that I wore for two days on a trip?

Well, here's it with the sweater.  Simple and easy and took up about the space of a small purse to pack: awesome!  ; P

Here's to wish you a happy weekend! 

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I feel silly, Oh, so Silly!

Fashion is fun.  It is the one aspect of my life I can wear the ridiculous, looking awesome I might add, and I am not ridiculed.  If I decide to act silly... it is not accepted, not that it stops me.  But I pull out tutu and so long as you pair it well you can be celebrated!  So here's to fashion!  Here is to celebrating different!  Here is to having fun with who you are and what you wear!

By Rachel Abi

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It's so hot out here...

but you can't .... well do what the song advises.  So instead I do what I can: keep cool.  Air conditioning and pools are my friend... now sadly pools are all closed and thus I just enjoy the indoors for now ;P

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Whiffing like crazy

Thrifting like crazy and that's how we like it!  (why, yes there is a mouse in my pocket ;)  Got this shirt this from a great local shop.  But my favorite piece from this outfit is actually the necklace.  My one and only father in law came back from his last tour in Afghanistan with two great necklaces for me.  This one and then an azul lapiz one.  It's a great bright and unique.  This was another one of those days when I wanted to look cute but have the ease and comfort of laying around the house.  

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Bright and funky me needed to take a whiff of my dainty flower 

Personal Thrifting

So I mentioned in passing in a tweet that I met up with my dear sister in law to go a-thrifting.   Rambling Heather has the problem of seeing style she likes but doesn't know how to make it her own: ie the problem everybody has ;P

So we decided to meet and do personal shopping "Crinkle style"/ cheap.  Unfortunately near my house there are only 3 consignment shops, 1 really expensive (I'm sorry but I won't pay $15 for a used shirt) and 2 Goodwills.  So we went to the two good wills and to Target (their clearance section can be a great place to find cheap tops!)

 Step one at a Goodwill: must walk around and enjoy all the random things you can find, like lit reindeer in end of summer, walls and walls of books and VHS's (because if you listen to the Beeper King "technology is cyclical").

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 In the process of finding all the weird and off the wall stuff you can find really cool stuff.  I found this pretty cook end table that needed refinishing but they wanted $25 for it, sorry, not worth it, but then again I am super cheap as cheap can be.

 Yet another one of those things that cause you to stop and tilt your head.  This dress??? was in the woman's dress section.  Rambling Heather and I had a nice long discussion about whether this was a woman's dress and if so who might be able to fit in it.  My guess: pygmy with a love a deep V-necks

I both love and hate the way Goodwill organizes their clothes.  It's great when I am looking for a certain color pair of pants or top... not so great when I want to just browse in my size.  Either way it is such a hopeful sight to me, rows and rows of endless possibilities 

It was too great, when going from one Goodwill to the next I felt like I was a kid again at my old CPU playing Oregon Trail... 

only no one died of Gout this time...

Nothing so fun as low prices... well to a super tight wad: me

Rambling Heather loading up on her new found treasures!

Once we finished with the 2 Goodwills we were off to Target and there end of summer clearance!  We walked away with a nice light short sleeved sweater with eyelet details for a whopping 3.24!  All in a day in the life with Personal shopping with Crinkle!

You'll notice that each time I mention Rambling Heather, save for this time, there is a link attached but what you might not have noticed is that they are all different links.  My exorbitantly talented sister in law keeps three blogs, on top of everything else but I will let you learn about her from well... her ;P

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