On Tuesday morning I woke up with a raging sore throat and just knew I was coming down with a cold. I got Caroline off to school, popped some Tylenol and went back to bed.
And since I’ve been sick more in the last six years of being a mama than I have throughout the rest of my life, I just knew the sore throat was going to lead to heavy congestion and overall misery for me and everyone around me as I complained about how bad I felt. But then I woke up on Wednesday morning and the sore throat was pretty much gone and I felt fine. In fact, I even got out and accomplished a long list of errands that I’d been putting off for weeks.
(No, I didn’t buy deodorant. I have some sort of mental block at this point.)
So I complimented myself on my superior immune system and the power of my multi-vitamin, only to wake up yesterday morning with a head that felt like it might explode which would have been fine with me if it meant I’d feel better. I feel that I have come down with an exceptionally mean cold, especially because it toyed with my emotions and ultimately said, “SUCKER”.
And yet I still have to host a class party for first graders around noon today. May God have mercy on my soul.
Oh! On a completely different but equally pitiful note, I received a very nice email from a new reader named Amy yesterday. She just started reading the blog last week, saw my post about the denim puffy vest at Gap, and sent me this photo.
For those of you who may not share my addiction to reality television or People magazine, that is Tori Spelling wearing the denim puffy vest.
Is it the medication I’m taking or does it kind of look cute on her?
Amy, welcome to the blog. You made me so happy in the midst of my cough due to cold misery yesterday.
In spite of my ill health, I managed to find a couple of links I thought I’d share. This will be my last Fashion Friday post of 2009.
I know. SAD.
Also, please forgive the mediocrity of this post. In my defense, I’m high on Sudafed and self-pity.
1. Effortless Velvet Coat
I think I linked to this coat awhile back but at that time it was full price. It’s now almost 50% off and the sizes are going fast.
If you miss out on the coat, check out the rest of the Boden site. There are some great deals right now. I seriously cannot say enough about the quality of their kids’ clothing line.
Last summer when it was 106 every day, I couldn’t imagine that there would ever be a time when I would choose to wear accessories around my neck. But I have set a new personal record for consecutive days that I’ve worn a scarf.
It makes me so happy. I think it may be the best accessory ever invented.
3. Tulle Walking Coat
This coat is so cute and it comes in a rainbow of colors. It would look great paired with jeans or even with leggings and boots.
I’m a big fan of Tulle coats because they’re reasonably priced, but oh so cute.
I am in love with this scarf.
See? I have a scarf addiction but I’m trying to act like it’s not really a problem. I could quit at anytime. I could downgrade to a scarflette.
Is that even a real thing?
I honestly don’t know the answer, but I do think this scarflette is adorable even if it has a made up name.
6. Turquoise and champagne necklace
There is really nothing that adds more to an outfit than a great necklace.
Unless you have a scarflette.
This one is really pretty and I love the neutral colors mixed with the turquoise. Of course I love anything mixed with turquoise. It’s who I am.
For various reasons, Gulley and I got into a conversation the other day about things we feel strongly enough about that we’d wear a t-shirt proclaiming our love for it. I said I couldn’t think of anything other than maybe a Texas A&M shirt, but then Gulley threw down the “Riggins 33” gauntlet and I had to agree with her.
If you don’t watch Friday Night Lights then this means NOTHING to you.
Also, if you don’t watch Friday Night Lights then I am sad for you.
Also, if you do watch it and have DirectTV and are currently watching the new season, PLEASE do not tell me what is going on because I will have to be all “LALALALALALALA I CAN’T HEAR YOU” in the comments.
All I know is that based on the end of last season, my loyalties now lie with East Dillon as opposed to the Dillon Panthers. Go Coach Taylor.
Also, GO SUDAFED. How else can you explain that I just put a shirt about a T.V. show on Fashion Friday?
8. Hooded dress
I think this looks like a warm hug.
I’m always on the look out for clothing that would feel like pajamas yet be socially acceptable. I think this dress with some leggings would totally qualify.
9. Cardi Wrap
The Cardi Wrap is seriously the most versatile thing you can add to your wardrobe. If you don’t believe me then check out the BCBG site and all the different ways the models are wearing one.
See? I TOLD YOU.
10. Tassel Necklace
I’m not sure exactly why, but I have long been fascinated by this tassel necklace. It kind of reminds me of something my grandmother would have worn at some point in my childhood.
Granted, I’m not fascinated enough to pay full price, but I bet it will be on sale in about ten days.
That’s it for this week.
I’m off to take some more medication because breathing through my nose would be a real hoot right about now.
Y’all have a great Friday.
you should NOT have posted all these links- I told myseld I would NOT be buying anything else before Christmas. It’s all so tempting!!!
i have been sick since september (coincidentally when my daughter started preschool?)- so I feel your pain!
I so want the East Dillon t-shirt. My friends Kristen and Jennifer got me addicted to FNL over the summer. It is just sooo good.
As someone who has Directv…you are going to be in AWE of the new season. 🙂
Love this list. I need a new winter coat and think I may have found one on your list!
LOVE the scarflette. Ordering it right now…Just can’t help myself.
Hope you feel better – soon!!
Is it me or does Dean’s scarf matching Tori’s shirt seem a bit much? Have a good time at the party. Our lovlies begin their party at 8 this morning. Breakfast is pointless. Cupcakes and cookies here we come:) Happy Friday! Merry Christmas!
aka lovelies (it is 5:50 AM…too early too early)
I guess whatever shirt Tori is wearing didn’t come in an XXXS, so she tore off a bit to give to her husband to make a rather awkward looking scarf. I do like them, but… just an observation.
I have the Tulle coat in purple!
Wow…what’s that weird feeling I’m feeling? I’m thinking I’m having fleeting moments of stylishness. Very strange. This too shall pass, I’m sure.
Oh my word, when you said Tulle coat, I thought you meant “tulle”, as in the poofy fabric stuff you put under a wedding gown to make it stick out like Cinderella’s. While I was waiting for the link to open, I was saying a silent prayer that the brain damage inflicted by the Sudafed would magically disappear after you stopped taking it. I stand corrected and I took back the prayer.
I must say that the circle knit scarf and that champagne and turquoise necklace look really, really delicious.
Ok, I’m still not buying the whole vest is in thing yet. I mean, look, he’s got a scarf on. Maybe its because I’m married to a manly man, but men don’t wear scarfs as FASHION ACCESSORIES. I can probably look past it if its 25 degrees outside.
Love the cardiwrap, but can you really trust a woman whose thighs don’t touch? It looks great on her, but, her thighs don’t touch. EVERYTHING looks great on her. What will it look like on me?
And lastly, ever since your scarf tying video I have accumulated many many scarves and even made some. and hope to make more to sell. That one video has changed my accessorizing forever. Thanks. Oh and a nice refresher course would be great incase you’d like another easy post idea.
i know you are ill and are under no obligation to answer this question, but OH MY WORD, am i missing friday night lights’ new season? i got hooked on that show and have been waiting anxiously for it to start again but i haven’t seen anything about it. so please, in this season of giving, could you find it in your heart to help me make my joy complete?
(and i will stop now making any veiled spiritual references to a show based on high school athletes and a very wise coach….but really, it would be a great christmas present to have a little friday night lights on my tv)
I love, love, FNL, and do not have DirecTV, so I must wait for the episodes like you. Love your fashion Fridays and am sad that this is the last one of 2009! Have a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
Love that tassel necklace and the cardi-wrap…especially pink! 🙂 Have a great Friday and feel better soon!
I’m praying, crossing my fingers, taking vitamins, going to bed earlierish, etc. in an effort to ward off sickness. I had the worst sore throat ever last year on Christmas Eve/Christmas Day and it made the festivities not so fun. So I feel your pain, and hope you are well soon. 🙂
Thanks for sharing the link about the Dillon T-shirt; I needed another gift for my husband and we are both big fans. To think I resisted watching a show about FOOTBALL – well, that was just crazy talk. I love it now. They promised delivery by Xmas – hope they are not big fat liars.
I *almost* put the circle knit scarf on my Christmas list. It is cuter in person, I was trying to explain it to my SIL who knits. I have 2 other Steve Madden scarves on my list, but I have a feeling if I don’t buy them myself, I won’t be getting them. 😉
Off to a 1st grade Christmas party this morning, with 4 year old in tow. Wish me luck!
The scarf IS the best fasion accessory ever!
In Florida we manage to wear them year round. Think gauzy scarf with sundress. It works!
Absolutely love the circle scarf too, but the pink polka dot one with the velvet coat is adorable!
I love the hooded dress….and that flower scarf (that’s sold out).
What a bummer!
I’ll be coveting for weeks now! 🙂
Hope you feel better soon!
I LOVE FNL! 🙂 I do have Directv and have been watching the new season, but I won’t spoil it!
If you could find a Riggins shirt, that would be my new fav wardrobe staple!
Oh it is most definitely the medication talking. That puffy denim vest should be left alone. Or for Tori Spelling.
Merry Christmas to you & yours!
Love the scarves as I too have a scarf-fetish….well, I prefer not to call it that but just refer to it as my exquisite taste in accessorizing an outfit!
Hope you feel better soon!
Merry Christmas
Cute stuff as always!!!
Hope you feel better!!! 🙂
Umm…Why is his scarf matching her shirt??? I can’t think of a time when that would be cool unless they’re going for their holiday photo shoot, and I don’t think they are!
I WISH I DIDN’T BUY MY MOM’S CHRISTMAS GIFT YET! She’d drool over any shirt that has Riggins, East Dillon, or FNL involved. It’s an amazing season. But I’ll stop there because I have DirecTV and you don’t and don’t want to get the wrath of a sick Big Mama 🙂
I am with you on the scarf thing … I could seriously wear one every single day and I am going to be VERY sad when they are out of style (particularly because I will still be wearing them, thus dressing out of style). I often say, “you can’t have too many.” But, can you? I mean, if you really do wear them every day, are you starting to look like a dork? I’m talking about me, not you.
The vest–it does looks cute on her and here in the frozen tundra with a turtleneck scarf and gloves and cute boots it’s a great look to get out and do errands. Sorry if I offended anyone but it’s true. I mean who wants to drive in a big coat?
Loving many of the Fashion Friday items but will not buy myself another thing!
Finally. I hope you feel better and whateverthehellyouhave doesn’t morph into something like the I am going to cough up my right lung disease that I have.
Happy Holidays.
Okay… so watch channel and when does Friday Night Lights come on TV now? It used to be NBC, but now I can’t find it!!! I’m missing Layla and Riggins drama. And I’ve got to know what’s happening with Coach Taylor. I LOVE THAT SHOW and desperately need to find it on the tube. Please help.
She’s Tori Spelling, she can make ANYTHING look good.
Do you watch Tori & Dean? It’s my guilty pleasure. That my husband says he “can’t stand” – and yet sits and watches with me. And can identify the characters.
I think he secretly loves it.
Feel better!!
I love Friday Night Lights. It completes me. I do not have Direct TV and can NOT wait until the new season starts on cable. and like you, I go where Coach Taylor goes.
The babies — they ARE cute… the vest, not so much.
First, I wanted to say, that I found your blog through Chelsea’s at rootsandrings.wordpress.com and I have to stop reading you at work, I end up convulsed trying to hold in the laughter!!
Second, wanted to say that I have an almost 2 year old and I have not ever in my entire life caught as many bugs as I have in the last 2 years! I always thought I had a great immune system until the last two years. She won’t even be ill and I’m hacking up a lung or passing out at 7:30 at night due to some weird bug.
Can I just say 2 things, and by that I might mean 10, but anyway – first – can you stop posting the Boden links??? I’ve already bought the rainy day mac from last spring, and my 12 yo daughter is all over it. Everything is so darn adorable…yikes. Second, the tassel necklace may look familiar if, like me, your grandma wore that in the 60s, and then gave it to you (me), and then I took the necklace apart and made the tassel thing the chandelier in my Barbie Condo that my grandfather built for us – out of old cabinets, which stood 5 feet tall, so the chandelier was really the appropriate scale. Okay, now my comment has turned into a novel – no wonder I love your writing!!
I think that if we could all wear our pajamas everyday in public, the world would be a better place.
~Meredith
I do not have direct TV, so I am stuck watching re-runs on Netflix. Which is actually ok, because after re-watching that first season, it’s like falling in love all over again.
I cant believe you had to energy to post all of that….but then there’s that “brevity problem” huh!
I’m a fairly new reader too, and I just have to tell you how much I enjoy reading your blog. A few months ago I was working for a large Insurance company…we really didnt have much work to do and I stumbled across your and Boo Mama’s blogs through the Pionerr Woman. Well you all saved me, you’ll all never know how much it meant to have that distraction everyday.
So thanks, I hope you get over your cold very soon and I hope you all have a Merry Christmas!
My husband has that East Dillon shirt and wears it on a regular basis. We do have Directv and are currently watching the season. I won’t tell you what is happening, but I will tell you that it IS AMAZING.
Love, love, love that show!
I’m new to your website, too, and love it. Before you get too excited I’m also a big fan of Tori and Dean, but in my defense I never admit it in public. Sorry about the sore throat. We are passing it around in my neck of the woods, too. The cold rain doesn’t help, either. Nice, refreshing respite to spend a few moments on your blog.
Peace and Puppies,
Susan at Charm of the Carolines
Oh my sweet goodness, Riggins is my tv boyfriend and I’m so ordering an East Dillon shirt. Sadly we’re having to wait for the season as well. Thanks for the link to the shirt! Merry Christmas!
This whole scarves as fashion items cracks me up. We choose them for function first up here—does it feel good when your nose is buried in it to ward off frostbite?? I must admit to loving that circular scarf though—but not for wearing when running the snowblower. And I’m afraid that cute hooded sweater dress would require way too much Spanx, so I can pass it up and my wallet is happy. Feel better.
More than anything I am jsut happy to find another FNL fan it really warms my heart to know someone love Riggins as much as me.
Well, I thought the denim vest was cute the first time, but then again, I wasn’t born until 1987 so I may have missed the trend the first time.
I saw that circle scarf at Dillard’s and thought it was very cute! I am a HUGE Riggins fan and would wear the East Dillion t-shirt easily!
I don’t have Direct TV, BUT I have been watching the new season online. You can go to casttv.com and watch them or youtube has them also! I just couldn’t wait till this summer!
So glad to see you’ve joined the Etsy craze and included handmade in your Fashion Friday choices! That scarflette was adorable.
I believe we need either a moment of silence for the fact that it’s the last Fashion Friday post of 2009, OR we need an eggnog toast. Preferably the eggnog toast because a moment of silence seems indicative of loss… and it’s not like you wont be back in the future… So perhaps in light of your cold, we should have a Benadryl toast? I’d drink to that. (heh, heh.)
Sorry, it’s late, and I shouldn’t be here… I should be doing something productive… I don’t even know what that means anymore.
Merry Christmas,
LMM
I would so totally wear that East Dillon T-shirt! I do have DirecTV and have been watching but I promise not to spoil it for you. I’ll just say that Tim Riggins is particularly irresistible this season and that you should have a full box of tissues next to you when you watch episode 5. TRUST ME about that.
Love all of your fashion suggestions. Thanks for the highly enjoyable read and I hope you get to feeling better very soon.
Oh yes, Amy will fit in quite well around here. Welcome 🙂
I have never heard of a scarflet, but I’m all over it. How adroable. Perhaps next Friday you could show us what to wear it with?
feel better!
i love fashion fridays, been following you for awhile and love your blog. sorry, tori looks kinda cute, but i’m with you, the denim vest, acid wash, etc., should NOT return EVER!
I’m not feeling the denim puffy vest look. I think it might look good on Tori because she weighs 95 pounds. After a saltine. On me, it would look like the Michelin tire guy.
Oh say it ain’t so. This can’t be the last Fashion Friday post of the year. I can’t blame you since next Friday will be Christmas and I’m sure you’ll be in ZuZu pet heaven.
Love the picks. I too am loving that tassel necklace. And I think I share your scarf obsession. And that turquoise and champagne necklace is gorgeous.
I didn’t get to see the Circle Knit Scarf because I guess their was a run on them and now the link says they are sold out. I wish they’d kept the picture up so I could still see it.
Yeah, it looks cute on her, but did you see the man with her? She’d look good in anything standing next to him!
Oh wow… wish I would have known about the scarflette back when I picked out the Christmas gift for my mother (or made my Christmas wish list for hubby).
Hope you get to feeling better!
Praying you feel better soon!
OMG! (And I hate OMG!) I bought the exact same tassel necklace at Old Navy a year or so ago for $9.99. Love your Fashion Friday updates – you have great taste!
Let me start this commnet by saying I do not keep up with celebreties at ALL! I’m sure you all know who the man is with Tori Spelling. But did anyone else think that he looks like B.J. McKay? I wonder where his best friend bear is?
I’m thinking the happy couple appears to have the same cold you have.
Just now reading this post, and as a fellow lover of FNL (I have blogged about it myself before), you inspired another post about it. And now my kids will have to learn that my second favorite teams is the East Dillon **** (I know the name, but won’t spoil it for you.) I had taught them Panthers in the past.
Wish I had seen this earlier, because i SERIOUSLY would have asked for that ringed dillon tee for Christmas. 🙂
I am new to your blog and so I just found out that you love People Magazine and I subscribe to it. I also like mindless reality tv and celebrity stuff. We would get along famously.
i cannot believe they have an east dillon t shirt. i love it! and i’m watching it on direct tv.
Okay – I was loving your blog (found it through Holly’s which I’ve been following for years), found myself laughing out loud, but was stopped cold at this entry. WAIT. There’s an EAST DILLON TSHIRT? Holy guacamole Batman – I make fun of every adult who wears their favorite NFL player’s shirt on game day, but by golly – East Dillon? That’s a whole ‘nuther story! And that’s from someone who’s about to kiss her early forties goodbye.
Thanks for the great writing!