Head to Toe with Heidi: sunbleached flower crinkle tee

Monday, June 15, 2009

Wearing Today and New Nail Polish

Ok, so I am finally slogging through all the blogging I missed over the weekend, and it's slow-going, since I love to read everything. I'm partway through my list. :)

So today I had to do errands, pick up Lucy, bathe her, and do some actual work. It's M & E's 2nd to last day of school - and the last full day, so I wanted to make the most of it. I was so glad to pick up Lucy today - she really is the 5th member of our family and the kiddies are so excited to see her this afternoon. And now she smells very pretty.

So in the AM, I wore my sunbleached flower crinkle tee in caspian blue (aka the "swirly" tee), and as I rightly suspected, I love it with white jeans. And I have on the J Crew braided rope rose-gold bracelet (#17753, orig $48, curr $29.99 online, very pretty)- which I love as well. But I was a little stumped about earrings. I went with a darker gold in earrings. And it will be great with my fireball necklace. So tell me...what colors do you wear with rose gold?

And I would like to thank J Crew for making their bracelets perfectly sized for my freakishly small wrists. My wrists are seriously the thinnest part of my body and so many bracelets - especially bangles are so large on me. JC - Love you, mean it.

Polyvore for today:

Wearing Today-6/15/09 by HeidiGblog featuring J Crew

And, um, yeah, when it was puppy bathtime - that was outside, with me in a bathing suit, and then I just swapped out for sweats. But I am in fitted, neat, not-sloppy sweats, so hey, it took a teeny bit of effort. But way too lazy, I mean busy, to update pics & Polyvore.

And then some new nail polish...

This is Looking for Love, by Essie, spring 2008 as part of their Mod Collection. Remember how I said that most Essie polishes do weird things color-wise on my yellow-y skin? In this case, it's a good thing. They describe the polish as "a fun alluring pop of sheer lavender." I have on 3 coats here (and yes, took the pic Wed night right after doing the nails, so I haven't cleaned up my cuticles or anything). I love the slight sheerness of the color - it softens the color. I think it's actually paler IRL.

I personally would rename this "cloud" because it can go from blue to lavender to gray like the clouds change, but it's always a soft, subtle color. Not screaming neon pastel. This is going to be a favorite this summer, I can tell already. If you haven't dipped your proverbial toe into the blue/gray polish world, this may be a good way to start. Soft subtle pedi, maybe? Well...I'm loving it.

Sunday, May 31, 2009

J Crew Sunbleached Flower Crinkle Tee & Weekend Review

J Crew Sunbleached Flower Crinkle Tee (#19095, $42.50). I have been seeing this tee pop up on Polyvores all over the place. So I had it on my check-it-out-next-time-I'm-at-J-Crew list. And then I found out the applique was actually black. And then I saw a really cute PV set Jillie made with cardi and jeans. And then I saw FFM's PV set pairing the tee with black cropped pants. I was done. It went on the definitely-getting-it-unless-it's-really-awful list. I love navy and black together. And I had a chance to get it last night.

So a few other DC JCAs and I met up last night at Montgomery Mall for supper at Nordstrom Cafe and then a little shopping jaunt to J Crew. We brought 2 of the mini-Aficionadas with us, E (mine) and CW (Dina's). The little girls had fun and E thought CW was the most adorable thing in the world. (who doesn't, really?) I wish I had pics to post but hubby & M went to the NASCAR race at Dover and took the camera. But Summer had hers and got a pic, so hopefully that will up on her blog later (hint, hint). Great girls, great time.

Back to the tee - Love love loved it. I actually ended up getting the L as I wanted shrinkage room and I felt the M was a little lumpy/bulgy on me. (hate it when the back bra straps show) And the L has more shoulder swinging room, not that I'm planning any YMCA dances today. So it's a size up from the boyfriend tissue tee, but the same size as my rosette tee and my silk-applique critter bow tee.

I love the caspian blue color - so pretty. The "flowers" are done in silk habotai. But I'll be totally honest with you, I am just referring to this as the "swirly tee." Flowers, whatever, I'm much more concrete than that.

One thing to be careful of (can't believe I'm calling attention to this) is the right hand flower. It's fine in the L because it sits a little lower, but in the M, it had the pasty on top of your shirt effect - yep, drew attention right to that. So if that bugs you, you may want to switch up your sizing a bit. Then again, maybe some people like that, follow your bliss.

I am wearing it today with my black cropped pants (the ones that I had tailored from too-short regular Gap pants into perfect ankle length) in a blatant rip-off of the PV set that FFM made. I love this with black pants. But I'm also going to love it with my white jeans and light khaki bottoms, too. I went with black sandals, Dina hoops, and a few bracelets. I'm not sure how a necklace would work with this - whether it would compete or enhance. But for me, I thought there was enough going on with the design.

Polyvore for today:

Wearing Today-5/31/09 by HeidiGblog featuring J Crew

Polyvore set #1 from Saturday, E's soccer game: (Wish I had gotten pics as my friend Laura and I both showed up to the game in charcoal gray knit dresses. different styles, thank goodness.)