The make over and the awkward angles...

I finally got off my couch and worked on getting my apartment together.  By that, I meant, I assisted my friend while he was doing it. I'm just not very good at interior decoration so I got some much needed help from the expert.







Remember the bared wall from all the previous posts, gone baby gone. My husband is not home so I'm actually quite nervous to see how he would react to the Audrey Hepburn's picture. ^_^

I'm still looking and testing different places and angles to put my camera for pictures going forward. This picture might have resulted from placing the camera at the top of my bookshelf. I'm not quite happy with it but I was too quickly changing out of my dress so I'll just have to post the "best" of what I have. Lesson learned!





Please excuse the bags in the background too :) Hope your week is going well!

Wear what makes you happy - Ellen DeGeneres

With my commute being relatively short, I try to get home in time when I can to catch the Ellen DeGeneres show for some LOL time. I'm cracking myself up watching her latest invention.. the Ellen DeGeneres soup spoon. It's just what you need if you are ever sick of moving your spoon up and down when having soup, here comes your rescue, the turning spoon...Ha..Ha.. HA! She also happened to talk about fashion today and I 100% wholeheartedly agree with her fashion motto: "Wear what makes you happy!". Simple, but so true. I've worn this dress quite a few times on or off this blog and I definitely feel happy every single time having it on. One thing I'm not quite satisfied with myself though, is that I always end up styling it the same exact way...happy, but boring? Ehhh. How would you wear it differently?

Indian Summer!

I finally get to experience my first Indian Summer here in San Francisco. It is sunny, warm and very pretty, just like I was told to wait for when I first moved here... seven months ago. Where did time go? I was proudly telling my colleague in Boston that for the first time in a very long while, I only needed a t-shirt when I left home this morning. You can't miss all the sun I have coming in my window right now!





So I feel a little less silly taking pictures with my new vintage sunglasses in front of my couch.




One of the things that I picked up from reading blogs is that accessories go a long way. I try to incorporate different jewelries into my daily outfits when I can and really like how they instantly give the same clothes a fresh new look.




Hope your September is going great!

FNO recap.

FNO was the perfect opportunity to be part of the vibrant scene of San Francisco fashion and bloggers. I had so much fun seeing so many wonderful fashion lovers in one place. Any night that requires party hopping from Macy's to Saks and then to Neiman Marcus is a OK in my book. I was too busy taking mental pictures of every single outfit that I couldn't talk to a lot of fellow party attendants. OK, not quite, I was shy. I'll work on getting over it next year. But I was really taking mental picture of everyone on the street of SF that night. So many inspirational outfits! The incredibly stylish, Ms. Blair of Atlantic-Pacific and some of the looks that she put together. Such a fan of her! I have to recreate this look for one of my upcoming casual Friday! The sweet and effortlessly chic, Ms. Anh of 9to5Chic. Ah, I. Want. Her. Zara. Dress. Please. Yeah, I wore black to FNO. My creative level was -2 on a Thursday night. Here are some of my favorite looks that the talented bloggers put together at Saks. When your bff gave you a grey dress, you add an orange cardigan and some flowers...

Oh Happy Day!

I feel like it was either my birthday or first day back to school today. New shoes and dress bring you that good feeling. I actually bought this Zara dress on the first day of the mid-year Zara sale but waited almost two months to wear it out. Thinking about returning it a couple of times but somehow didn't manage to and I'm very glad I kept it. These comfortable Nine West heels were waiting for me at the clearance rack at Nordstrom yesterday. Because they knew I was coming. What is my definition of comfy? Just a small requirement: leaving no blister or mark after a day in the office. Double points for being the perfect nude shade that I was looking for.

Happy Labor Day!

My husband, being such a responsible lad that he is, is making a quick stop at his office. Your truly, bored and somehow had an outfit together whille waiting for him to come back, decided that I should take some pictures. I hope y'all are having a relaxed and beautiful weekend. I just picked up this cardigan from H&M on Friday along with a couple of other items that I can' wait to show you. It was so hard to pick and choose of what I should / can buy versus what I'd like to take home with me. I finally narrowed down to THREE items from probably the TWENTY things that I laid my eyes on and the SIX things that I tried on. Shopping with a selective eye(s) is a hard thing to do. Being not very crafty, I'm very proud of myself for re-purposing this too-big bracelet into a necklace. In my rule book, now that IS my accomplishment for Labor Day.

The J.Crew effect.

It's a bit on the cold side today in San Francisco. But I won't complain because supposedly this long weekend will be gorgeous! Just like J.Crew catalog. Let's just say I pulled all my J.Crew stops with this outfit. Head to toe, sweater to boots, J.Crew all the way, except for my scarf. Now only if I can get a part-time job there to help pay the clothes bills.



I got these boots on final sales at J.Crew probably 4 years ago and still love them to pieces.



I've been playing around with mixing my nail polishes and this was what I came up with last week out of boredom.