Retail therapy

This afternoon I was able to slip out of the house sans-bebe for a few hours so I headed to Old Navy. I've found that shopping for clothing with Maren in tow is an excellent way to work on giving myself an ulcer, so I try to do it by myself. I need a couple more pairs of pants for fall/winter and I can usually find something at ON that is cute and not too expensive. I probably tried on 10 pair of pants today and not one single pair fit me well enough to consider spending money on it. Man, that was depressing.

Instead, I bought a few clothes for Maren and 3 super-cute tees for myself. I LOVE LOVE LOVE the one to the left with the chandelier on the front! You can't tell from the photo but the white part is actually sort of pearly, like an oil slick (bad description but you get the picture). It's so pretty! There are 2 other chandelier styles and I'm half tempted to go back and get them both.

Old Navy has their Christmas wrap out and they had sheet wrapping paper and boxes in white with black chandeliers all over. I bought some of the wrapping paper, which I think is really only 3 sheets but I thought it might be good for some kind of art project--no way am I wasting that cool stuff on a gift where it'll just be ripped and crumpled! I even saw a pair of pajama pants with the chandelier pattern! So very cool. Reminds me very much of these, which I think are incredibly gorgeous and funky.

I also got this shirt which I love and another one with gold foil designs that I couldn't find pictured on Old Navy's website. That one is brown. It's funny, up until just about 3 years ago I HATED the color brown and refused to buy anything brown other than shoes. The silly thing is that brown looks good on me because of my coloring, but still I thought it was yucky and only boring people wore brown. Then brown came IN again and suddenly, I love it! Now I have several brown tops and at least 3 of the pairs of pants I tried on today were brown. Funny how tastes change.

Conveniently located next door to Old Navy is a huge shoe store so I headed in and bought the cutest pair of round-toe ballet flats--in gold leather! Yikes. They really are adorable and they were on clearance--hooray! Do you think I could wear them with the white shirt, or is that too much gold going on? Fashion advice gratefully accepted.

Now I have shirts and shoes and nothing in between. A new Ann Taylor Loft is opening up on Wednesday so I'm hoping to sneak away when Quin gets home from work and do a little more shopping, for pants especially. Wish me luck!