"I feel Heaven, stay for the sound"

[Casual Friday Recap]

scored these at the thrift my mom showed me, Savers $2.99

they had a whole gaggle of them, pumpkins, cats, vampires, bats...

but these best matched the shirt I had just ordered.

I want to say I got this jumper at Target....of course.

woot shirt! $10

this is definitely a spot to check out everyday.

Free shipping on everything & they normally come out with some awesome t-shirts.

I got these suckers at Target (I had no idea how much shit I owned from Target or how much I really wore it, good god) after some additional walking around to convince myself they needed to be mine. I got these last year and I knew I couldn't pass them up. I want to say they were $8.99 or some small price that doesn't really require "convincing", but oh well. They are mine now with no regrets.

As stated a million times over, Casual Friday is my day. Especially when those Friday's fall in October.

I have a decent amount of Halloween funk at this point and I love putting it to use. I wasn't too enthused about fake holidays (Sweetest Day + Boss's Day) keeping us at the work establishment past midnight, but my paycheck will be rollin' fat. There were some good laughs for sure and that always makes it worth it.

[Today]

today, I am admitting, the bright skies were nice.

This is probably because it was definitely sweater weather.

FINALLY.

See, here's the thing. I am all about nice weather and an Indian Summer, but once it drops below 55º, let's keep it that way. Once it is sweater season is in, I want to keep that momentum going because it seems in those few short days where coats and sweaters aren't necessary, the ability to layer well leaves my brain.

I got this sweater at Goodwill last year around this time and I love it. It's ugly in just the right ways.

I'm really drawn to the colours in it.

I call these pants my "Rock Star" pants because they are basic, thick in material, and just the perfect black pants to wear anywhere. Unfortunately, they are a tad big. They were originally cropped, but I undid the seams so they were longer. Gap $50

...Because the weather was so dashing, I did the usual routine and headed out for a walk.

I walk past the park that's almost always wide open and if the swings are free, I always snatch the opportunity. I love swinging, always have. I was that asshole 5'th grader that had a swing everyday even though "it was so unfair" (this is why you have to run to the park during recess, kids). 

So today that opportunity was present and I took it for a good half hour. My iPod is a great accompaniment on the swings, but sometimes I miss those middle school conversations and those times where the swings served as a destination, that was "going out" on a Saturday night when I was 13. Keep in mind, I was kind of a huge loser. So today some great tunes came across on shuffle in my "Recently Played" list that's a good 400 songs wide; ah, I love all of these songs. All for very good, but different reasons, but they were just what I needed to hear today. What a great to sport a funky sweater and soak up some sun...through that thick...sweater...

Hopefully you dig 'em and head for the swings soon while you still can!

Thrifty adventures // Casual Friday Outfit

The other day I got an opportunity to go hang out with my mom. She's been telling me about this new thrift that they put in 15 minutes away from my parent's house called Savers and she has also been well aware of my un-dying need to thrift. So these are my little treasures from the trip;

one of the first things I came across. I fell in love instantly.

My mom had her doubts, to prove her wrong I put this bad boy on the social networks & let my friends respond.

All 3 of them said yes. Done deal.

AWESOME adornments.

It even has that rockin' grandma/thrift smell.

This was brand new from Gap, tags on, $50 to $5.99. MUAHAHAHA!

Empire Records-esque

I saw this and knew I had to have it. It is marked as a size 12, multiple sizes too big.

I was really bummed out, but when it came to trying it on, it fit me perfectly.

When I read the label on this plaid pleated beauty, it reigns from a boutique in Wilmette/Oak Park, Spauldings.

It was also marked brand new with a tag for $168, mine for $14.99!

It shall go perfect with my babies;

this is a total high school throwback for me when I had a whole collection of odd shit to wear atop my head.

It just seemed right. Plus, I knew they would go perfectly with my just-arrived Woot shirt!

I love this bright little floral dress. It's a tad big, but it works.

My mom tried taking it in, but the machine was acting up.

The funny little thing about this is that it is a SKORT!!!

ha ha ha ha. Where are my jellies??

This reminded me of something from Proenza Schouler Fall 2011 and I knew it had to be mine.

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Casual Friday outfit.

Huge. Deal.

 

These are cool, but were instantly made cooler by turning them inside out.

 

leggings: UniQlo (Japan) Dress: Target Coat: Forever 21 Scarf: hand-made by me

this scarf has a satisfactory back story to it;

So I made this sucker in high school. I made A LOT of scarves in high school, almost 1 a day.

I crocheted in all of my classes, teachers allowed this because I still participated, did well on tests, & did homework.

[this was also allocated in college]

So that's about 6 hours of crochet time, which totally allowed me to do one chain per class.

I was rolling these out all the time, gave them out to people, etc.

This was obviously an awesome scarf & was COMPLETELY excited upon finding it.

I accumulated a ton of yarn; a huge bin of it over at my parents house.

I was over there the same night we went thrifting while my mom was trying to take in my dress in the basement.

I went through the huge bin because I am working on a scrap blanket...

[where I use all my old yarn from past projects]

I took home two huge bags of yarn that is totally rad and usable.

I threw out one garbage bag of un-worthy threads. The blanket will be HUGE.

It's already getting to be kind of a beast...

So anyway-

EARRINGS....

 

earrings: bows (Forever 21), Turquoise ones (?)

Necklace: I made this sometime last week.

Needless to say it's part of every outfit.

However, now that I made this one today, there will be some competition:

I'm in love with this necklace.

It definitely looks better when you see it live!