Flowerchild Vintage - Columbus, OH

Sorry, I've been too cold/poor/rushed to dress well lately (bad excuses, I know!). But I ventured down to Columbus this past week for the DEAFair at the Expo Center and stopped by a lovely little shop in Short North I thought you guys might be interested in :)

Going Out!

So sorry to have disappeared for awhile there! But, good news! I quit the job I hated and now I'm looking for a new one, and thus more time for blogging and school and such :D. So basically, I have a million ideas for new posts. The first thing I wanted to do was show you two outfits I've worn while I was away :)
































Romper: Traded with Claire of Mamushka Marie. THANK YOU, I adore this :D!
Tights: Walmart...maybe?
Ballet flats: Some department store, years ago.
Little black bag: Thrifted
Cameo necklace: Gift from Bettie a few years ago.



I wore this a few weeks ago to visit Bettie in Akron and drink beer and play charades all night. Fun!
































Leopard dress: Thrifted
Dotted tights: Nordstrom's (they have these in plus size for $10 there!)
Buckle booties: Thrifted
Little black bag: Liz Claiborne, thrifted
Black cloth belt: Thrifted

One of my favorite outfits ever I think! I wore this last weekend to Columbus to see Gil Mantera's Party Dream.



























I'm actually pretty obsessed with these boots, I wear them with 90% of my outfits these days. They're super comfy, too! I also wore a black cardigan with both of these that isn't pictured. It's pretty chilly these days so I think I'm in the market for a new black coat, too!

Anyway, I hope everyone is doing well :). Things to come: Etsy seller giveaway, the shop update I keep putting off, recent finds, two new outfits, and more!

P.S. I don't know if you can tell, but I've also found a nice red lipstick I was looking so hard for. It's a nice soft, non-scary red by MAC called Hot Tahiti. I'm so happy to have found the dotted tights in my size, too :)!

A Spoonful of Sugar

Vintage dress: Livejournal sale
Teal bow flats: H&M
Cream knit cardigan: Kohl's (shouldn't sweaters be out by now!? They were so hard to find :O)
Vintage taupe bag: Coach, thrifted

Finally an outfit post, yeesh! I wore this to go see Mary Poppins on Broadway with my mom and sister the other night :) I haven't been to many shows, so it's always such a special occasion to get dressed up to go. If you haven't seen it, you really should! I must have seen the Disney version about a million times and I really enjoyed the stage adaptation. Though I can't help but be nostalgic and favor the movie! It was a particularly educational gig for me, too, because we made sure to go the signed performance so I could see the ASL interpretation :D Which just added to the experience!

Here was by far my favorite part of the performance, and then the second is the original 1964 version. Enjoy!

Teeny Bopper Challenge

Very Modcloth -ish, right? Hm, maybe it's just me...

Cream top: Forever21

Patterned skirt: Wet Seal
Purple flats: Charlotte Rousse
Faux snakeskin bag: Thrifted

Unfortunately I haven't had much luck with thrift stores lately, save for a few trinkets and things to put in the shop. I know every girl has some feature she finds hard to dress (broad shoulders, big hips, tiny frame, etc!) but being the curvaceous lady that I am I get discouraged sometimes when all the "best" vintage things I find are about 5 sizes too small.

SO! A mall-lovin' girlfriend of mine's birthday is coming up and I promised I'd go to the mall with her to help her find a birthday outfit. I really had no intentions of finding anything, let alone buying anything, since I haven't been there in so long and have become quite accustomed to strictly 2nd hand shopping. So I thought heck - I wonder if I can put together an outfit strictly from the mall...that I actually LIKE. It was especially difficult because there is no F21, Gap, or H&M at this mall. So I stuck to the teeny bopper stores.

A few observations! First of all, everything is divided so strangely in these stores. They're arranged by style, so the sections are like "hippie," "clubbing," "preppy," etc. And - SO GOOD! - a lot of them are now carrying larger sizes! Duh, glad you caught on to real female shapes, guys.




As for yesterday, Bettie and I went thrifting in Cleveland. We only made it to a couple (and in one of them we got there 5 minutes before closing and both managed to find a few things! Talk about serious shoppers) but it was a nice relaxing day, complete with a visit to my favorite Chinese joint! Bettie has promised a post featuring some of the pictures we took, so I'll just let her do the talking! Oh, and we've got a Flickr account up and running if you'd like to take a gander. There's a photo on there of the outfit I wore the day I met with the ASL lady, the one I posted about here, that I didn't blog. And a snap of The Mysterious Bettie, too!

Oh, and more things going into the shop tomorrow, so watch out!

M.O.C.A.

Perfect fit 80s dress: Thrifted
Black cross body bag: diegoldenegans.etsy.com
Bowler hat: Target
Black ballet flats: Department store in the mall I can't remember, years ago.

Just a quick post tonight! Bettie, my boyfriend, and a few of her friends and I went to Cleveland's Museum of Contemporary Art today for the opening of their new exhibit, which I believe was called "There goes the neighborhood." We got there at the tail end of it, but I was glad I got to see it, mainly because it was free :P And a good excuse to wear this dress, too! It fits perfectly and is incredibly comfortable, but I just don't think it's suited for day time. The bowler hat was an experiment...thoughts?!




There were soooo many stylish people there, but most of them were leaving as we came in. I did however get up the courage to ask one girl to let me take a shot of her outfit. Probably the best one in the whole gallery! Very friendly too, thank goodness!




She even turned out to be one of the artists! Her name is Amy Casey and you can find her awesome work here, which kind of reminds me of Howl's Moving Castle. Unfortunately the pictures of Bettie didn't turn out, BUT! She's visiting on Monday and we are definitely taking photos ^_^. Anyway, blah, time to hit the hay. I work weekends at a book store (Saturday as a barista and Sunday as a cashier) and I've been spoiled with my weekdays off taking my classes online and working on the store, but it's back to the ole 9 to 5 tomorrow! Yuck.