Fashionably Idu: Fashion Week

Saturday, October 10, 2015

Hello style lovers, welcome to another post. How was your week? Fabulous? Yes!! Mine? A good mix of happy and sad. Happy because I celebrated my twins’ birthday on Tuesday the 6th and sad because my partner teacher, a great friend of mine passed away. That was the breaking news on Monday morning the 5th of October. My principal and vice principal walked into my classroom about 7:30am both wearing long faces and I was like uh oh, I must be in trouble. They broke the news and it felt like the walls caved in. All three of us sat on the rug and I sobbed my heart out.

When I got myself together, I went down my contacts list and called or texted everyone that knew him directly or indirectly and told them the news in hopes that someone would say ‘well that’s not true, I just saw him, or I’m here with him or that was a bad joke they played on you, he is ok. No luck, the reaction was the same with each conversation, text message and voice mail. It was either (and I read this off of my phone) 'Wow, what a loss’, ‘You are kidding right’, 'You are lying, OMG', 'No way!!!!!!’, ‘So sorry for your loss’, that must be hard, are you ok?, ‘Unbelievable’, ‘He was so full of life’, 'He was a great teacher’ etc. Really guys, no one was going to say the words I hoped to hear. Bummer. Bummer. Life sucks sometimes. All I could utter was 'it’s so surreal'. Words failed me time and time again and my response stayed the same, 'its so surreal. I must have said that at least a million times. It still is so surreal.

Great support from the school district sending out substitute teachers to relieve the kinder team that day and all week as back up for whenever we felt like we needed to step away to breathe, talk, cry or do whatever. Councillors have been on site all week as well.

Gary was different things to different people, to me he was great friend, my confidant, my prayer buddy, a selfless friend, a good man and an amazing colleague. My heart bleeds. A gentle giant that gave his all to everything/everybody. Jeez God must have needed an extra angel.

Gary Golden, you will be missed forever. This post is for you. Not sure if I'll be able to speak at your funeral on Tuesday the 13th cos I'll be a wreck. But I thank the Lord for the opportunity to know and work with you.
Rest in Peace.

My wonderful principal, my amazing colleagues, so glad we have each other to lean on as we try to make sense of this craziness. Juaneta you are a rock and a blessing, love you always girl! What a week! I've turned to food and candy for comfort. What comfort foods do you turn to when challenges hit?

On the style diary, it's another Fab on a Dime look. You know what’s funny? Last year when this lip print dress in a beautiful shade of pink from the Alice McCall RTW collection hit the runways of Australia SS 14/15 fashion week here, I was one of those that ooh’d and aah’d, drooled and couldn't get enough of it. Hard as I tried and believe me I did, I couldn’t resist it so as you can imagine I snagged one and added it to my arsenal as soon as it hit stores. Oh to be a fashionista, nothing passes you by!!!

I wore it to an event in San Diego last summer and everyone loved it. I was totally shocked to see it at Shein, and thought it'd be great for another installment of fabulous on a dime and to promote breast cancer awareness this October. After all even though it's officially Fall, Summer weather persists in my lil corner of the planet. And that Summer sunlight hit and lit me all the way up as you can see, hehe. I paired the dress with pink bow shoes, a pink bag and a blazer to ward off the ~~mild Fall chill~~ direct heat of the sun on my skin.

Your thoughts?

Deets

Lip Print Dress - Shein (here)

Shoes - Shein (here)

Bag - Old (similar below)

Blazer - Karen Millen (old, similar below)

Thanks a bunch for stopping by, keep thinking the purple thoughts, Xo...

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Saturday, October 3, 2015

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“It’s a new era in fashion - there are no rules. It’s all about the individual style, wearing high-end, low-end, classic labels and up and coming designers all together.” - Alexander McQueen

Hello style lovers, it’s been another fleeting week. How was yours? My friend Juaneta and I went to see comedian Shawn Wayans with some other good friends. It was a rib cracking laughter filled night. I just got home at 1am and realized I didn't schedule this post to go live at midnight. My bad.

I’m looking forward to next week. My twins, my first born babies have a birthday coming up on Tuesday the 6th at 7:36 p.m and 7:37 p.m respectively. It seems like yesterday when we gave them a big Super Sweet 16 bash, each twin inviting eight friends for an all expense paid four day trip to the Wynn Las Vegas. Phenomenal outing, great fun.

Anyways fashion month and all it's buzz and hype, from NYC to Paris is almost over. Today I'm sharing my street style look to one of the shows. It features a black tank top, black wide leg pants and a longline vest. Icing on the cake was the statement jewelry. If you've been reading FI, then you probably know about my love affair with statement jewelry. I’m such a sucker for them shame on me. While I love them all, a particular brand has stolen my heart. Honestly I’m not complaining. They can keep my heart forever and always, hehe.

No peeking yet but I introduced this brand to you here, here, here and for my one year blog anniversary give away here . Every one of those pieces I adorned had a wow factor to it and this was no different.You guessed it, its Takai By Angela. Did you peek?? Aaah, cheater cheater pumpkin eater, hehe. I ooh and aah at the exquisite pieces they stock. Suitable for your Spring/ Summer wardrobe as they are for your Fall/Winter wardrobe. From your most dressed up ensembles to your street style ensembles, these exciting pieces offer great versatility and will accent any and every look beautifully.

I’ve styled some of their pieces for dressed up looks (now you may scroll back up and take a peek, haha). Today I’m showing another glam piece from Takai By Angela that will totally steal the night, any night. As I stated above, I styled this piece with a black tank top, black wide leg pants and a longline camel vest for a more casual look. I added the trending print top-knot head wrap to the mix and finished off the look with mirrored sunnies and a bag in contrasting colors. A whole different look for me but the wrap added interest and honestly much as I struggled with keeping it on and retied it probablay about 100x, I loved it so and can’t wait to do it again. Fashion truly has no rules. I could have also styled it with distressed denim and a shirt. I might have been pleasantly surprised at how cool it’d look. Now that I say that, I can’t wait to do it, :))).

Have I whet your appetite for all things Takai yet? There are pieces for every style and budget. The website is super easy to navigate so hop on over and treat yourself to an amazing piece or a few pieces. By the way they have huge sales going on every once in a while so make sure to check back OFTEN. You snooze, you lose I promise, haha. It’s also a great opportunity to snag up some beautiful pieces that will make perfect holiday gifts. Santa has started making a list and checking it twice remember? He’s also going to find out who’s naughty or nice so if you want to be gifted with these lovlies, send the website link to your significant other, strive to stay on the ~~naughty~~ nice list however hard that might be, and watch things happen. Get ready to be Takai’D out both now and for the holidays. Oh and you can thank me later, :))).

This is a sponsored post but all opinions are mine.