She Sells Sea Shells.

voltee ♦ January 8, 2011 ♦ 3 Comments

Item: Dress Color/Fabric: Green/white, cotton/polyester Designer: I’m not sure- the label just has a picture of a mermaid on it. I’m partial to thinking that it was made by an actual mermaid. Where Purchased: Anthropologie Years Owned: 1.5
Ah, what a week! As they say somewhere, I’m sure glad to see the end of it. I had a truly lovely snow day today, even though I only got to leave work an hour and a half early.
I love, love, love being snuggled up inside around a fire, with a nice, isolating cushion of snow on the outside. As long as I have no where to go. But I have been thinking back to the summer tonight, and to one of my favorite summer days.
I wore this dress, even though it is actually a swimsuit cover-up. I just throw a white tank dress under it, and … dress! It’s a wonderful stifling hot summer day sort of dress.
This day was indeed, a stifler, but it was a day in which many, many wonderful things happened. The first was an ideeli red sale, where I got this tragic lovliness (here). Such excitement!
This wonderful event was followed by brunch at the Barneys’. Brunch at the Barney’s is every bit as wonderful as it sounds. There are waffles, gluten-free if needed, fruit, eggs, sausages, sometimes banana custard, and always mimosas. All that plus an adorable, probably napping, toddler. We always have a glutinous, glorious good time!
But on that particular brunch, my mind was troubled. On the way, I spotted a yard sale that was selling little mannequins. And I had been trying to find one to display clothes on since I started writing this. They are very costly. So my fear was that in all of our revelry, we would either miss the yard sale or all of the mannequins would be gone.
My fear was entirely unfounded, though, because the place had quite literally hundreds of the things.
Kevin loaned me $20, since we never, ever have cash, and that’s how Trixie entered my life. She is wonderful, except for her lack of butt.
Even if the day had ended there, it would have been splendid. But the good times kept rolling! Kevin, Vicki, Nate and I went to a chaotic and fascinating flea market, where I found some fun jewelry, an amazing vintage handbag, and some gorgeous stone beads.
The highlight being the stone beads. They were just irresistible, in every color and shape, with such soothing smoothness and interesting textures. Numerous winding ropes of gorgeous, semi-precious stones.
Even Nate was enthralled. We deliberated, along with Vicki, for close to an hour. And ended up with wonderful round treasures, and an awakening of a cache of new creativity in my head.
Hence was born my obsession with jewelry making.
But wait! There’s more!
After some careful prowling I feel safest not to disclose in this venue, Kevin and Vicki came to our house and cleaned it with us. To show tunes. For hours. That will go down in history as one of the single greatest acts of kindness anyone has ever showed me.
Cleaning is always helpful to my sanity. But sometimes I am too crazy to figure out how to do it.
So yes, I have amazing friends. We re-payed them with burgers and beer, and spent much time trying to decide the name for my new clothes model. I forget what we all decided on.
But when I woke up the next day, her name was Trixie.
I have to say, it was a good day…
But what about the dress? I do love it. It’s just so beachy to me. I feel warmer just looking at it. But I can also imagine myself wandering around on some beach, barefoot and crazy and alone, with seaweed in my long, knotted hair and fish in my hands . Perhaps I’d been shipwrecked. I hope that I didn’t have to resort to cannibalism.
But I think it does great things for Trixie’s figure, which would hopefully translate into great things for mine. The slight pucker of the fabric enhances her bosom. And although I have never noticed this phenomenon on my own figure, I would find it hard to pass up such a possibility. Just being honest.

**There are just so many uses for this. I’m keeping!