Fun, flirty and fabulous-how to make thrift store clothes look great!

My colleague, Sarah wore this cute ensemble this morning. We were chatting about where our clothes came from and I mentioned that from the waist down, I was all thrift store*. She revealed that so was she! I told her I had to take a picture to share. Isn't she just adorable?

*Ok, minus the panties...those I still buy new.

Thrift store skirts

One of the gals I work with, Bo, has the most amazing collection of super duper cute skirts. Here she is in one of my favorites. I even picked up one of her skirts in our recent clothing swap at the office. What's doubly amazing about her collection is that almost every single one of them comes from thrift stores.

Good hunting, Bo!

Fabulous Sheryl

I was recently chatting with a fabulous friend and started talking about thrift store shopping. She started rattling off all the fabulous finds she gets at thrift stores and told me that in fact, the pants and jacket she was wearing were from a thrift store. I had to snap a pic on the spot and share with you all. I encouraged her to send me more finds, so hopefully more to come from Sheryl soon!

Dress for Success

Just a quick one. My good friend, Jennifer found these beautiful dresses, a cardigan and a shirt, plus a dress for her daughter (not pictured). Grand Total? $75! That's some mad Goodwill mojo!

St. Paddy's Day Muumuu

I saw this cute Muumuu Redo (see what I did there?) and just had to link to it. The best part is I have a muumuu in my collection that I plan to turn into a skirt. It's pretty hideous and I am really looking forward to the "challenge" of turning it into something I might actually like/wear. This post has inspired me to attempt it soon. Great job, Elizabeth!

Thrift store quickie

Capris in brown, gray, green and a
gorgeous light blue. (picture doesn't
do the color justice, obviously...)

Guys, I screwed up. Pretty big. I packed really wrong for our trip to Vegas. I had seen the weather reports on my phone (I may or may not have bragged to my coworkers about the ridiculous 80s and 90s weather we'd be having.) I think I paid for that bragging by being stupid about how I packed for the trip. I packed 1 pair of capris, 2 pairs of pants and t-shirts. No tanks, no hiking shoes, not nearly enough capris... *sigh* Oh yeah, I didn't pack any reading material, either. Yeah, I just packed poorly.

So... enter the thrift store! Luckily for me, the thrift Gods smiled upon me today. Sorry for the quality of this photo (I neglected to pack my "good" camera, too.... *double sigh*!) I scored myself 4 pair of capris and 2 books. The grand total? $20.26!!! Awesome...

Toilet tattoo?

Rawr!!

Another um...great(?) find by my friend, Janell. When she sent me the email, I assumed she was calling it a "toilet tattoo" and I thought that was pretty clever. Turns out, that's the actual name of the product. Interesting...