It's Fall Y'all

Well hello from sunny California! 

 I'm assuming you had a great week. I did too. Service for Gary on Tuesday was amazing. If I wasn't 100% convinced of my good fortune to have worked with one of the few good men on earth, I am now. Beautiful celebration of a beautiful soul. A gentle giant that planned out his own funeral service down to the pastor that'd preach, names on program, time /length of service etc. Even though the tears still flow freely, the service was an initial very little baby step towards healing. His son shared that the very last words his dad spoke to him before he passed on were 'God's got this'. Pretty powerful you'd agree. So I echo Gary. In any and every situation. God's got this. 

If you’re like me then snagging up and adding cute RTW runway pieces to your arsenal is your darn thang too. I'm totally giving this one bonus points for being so cute, so flirty, so feminine, so fun : all the things we gals naturally gravitate towards in an outfit and of course so Fall. I love the playful pleat detail. For me it was one of those 'Omg I want this so bad' looks from the Alexander Wang SS 14 collection (video at the bottom).

Even though it's making it's debut on FI today, I've worn it a couple times prior and styled it differently each time. This time I paired my perfect neutral color dress with a pair of purple calf hair pumps and a structured puff style sleeve black blazer cos It's Fall Y'all. After all grey is the perfect neutral, the color of compromise when you can't decide between black/white and one that truly represents the young three week old season aka Fall.

While I'm heralding the arrival of Fall with it's rich and beautiful oranges, reds and yellows, and literally squealing with sheer delight (Does it show? Can you tell?) at the thought of shopping for new Fall/Winter staples, I am by no means done with my brightly hued summer clothes, hehe. Transitions always take me forever. In other words, I'm not a fan of in between seasons. So roll not your eyes when you see I'm still in brights come November haha. You? Still holding on to Summer? For how much longer? I am, for as long as possible, :))). Or are you pulling out those fun layering pieces already?

Oh and you guessed it. I am wearing my Christian Louboutin lipstick Eton Moi reviewed here. It's that time of the year for dark vampy lippies.

Your thoughts?

Thank you for all the love for my hot off the oven new column 'Fab on a Dime'. My gosh I received a lot of messages from last week's post. I guess we all love looking fab on a  fashionista 'frugalista' budget, haha. If I haven't replied your message please bear with me, I'll surely get to them all. It's been a crazy past two weeks. But all the product links are on that post though, :)).

Deets

Dress By Alexander Wang (here) (here)

Blazer By Yves Saint Laurent (old)

Shoes By Brian Atwood (here)

Thank you for stopping by and keep thinking the purple thoughts, Xo..

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It's Fall Y'all

Read My Lips, It's Fab on a Dime

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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Welcome back FI readers! 

I had a great 1st week back at work, great students too. I feel like I was run over by a truck though and just managed a few smiles for these pictures. All the same it promises to be a good school year and I’m thrilled. My sleeves are rolled up, let’s do this.

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