May 15, 2011
February - Olivia (Bebe)
My sister Olivia (Bebe) didn't always like me very much. For seven years she was the youngest. For seven years she was the Baby of the family. And then I came along....to bite her in the back (literally) and no one believed her. I eavesdropped on her conversations, I tried to borrow her clothes even though she was about 7 sizes smaller and I followed her for several years despite her desperate attempts to lose her annoying lil shadow. But over time, I won her over. I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that she really loves me now :-) haha. She does after all call me SweetPea.
Bebe lives about 30 minutes outside of San Fransisco. She used to be a flight attendant for United Airlines, but now just flies the friendly skies each month to come visit us in LA. I'm lucky to see her often and even luckier that she is one of my biggest supporters.
Bebe is a beautiful woman with a great sense of style. She is my Jackie O....if Jackie O was the queen of bargain shopping! I've never seen someone get the most beautiful pieces of clothing for so much less than the original price. She shops with the utmost of patience.... setting up surveillance on a shirt for weeks until it comes down in price, then going over it with a fine tooth comb to make sure it doesn't have any snags or stains. She is the clothing detective that ALWAYS gets her bargain!
I gave Bebe my gift cards to Banana in early February and she came back a week or so later with some very classic items. Only one of the shirts she bought didn't fit quite like it should. It hit in all the wrong places and just wasn't going to cut it. Which brought about a new rule....If it doesn't fit or I don't like it...YOU have to take it back and get a different size or something else.
And she did just that. A couple of weeks later she brought me a super cute vanilla colored cardigan than I've worn it more than quite a few times.
She done good and I haven't bitten her in the back in a couple of weeks :-)
Thanks Bebe. I love you.
Bebe lives about 30 minutes outside of San Fransisco. She used to be a flight attendant for United Airlines, but now just flies the friendly skies each month to come visit us in LA. I'm lucky to see her often and even luckier that she is one of my biggest supporters.
Bebe is a beautiful woman with a great sense of style. She is my Jackie O....if Jackie O was the queen of bargain shopping! I've never seen someone get the most beautiful pieces of clothing for so much less than the original price. She shops with the utmost of patience.... setting up surveillance on a shirt for weeks until it comes down in price, then going over it with a fine tooth comb to make sure it doesn't have any snags or stains. She is the clothing detective that ALWAYS gets her bargain!
I gave Bebe my gift cards to Banana in early February and she came back a week or so later with some very classic items. Only one of the shirts she bought didn't fit quite like it should. It hit in all the wrong places and just wasn't going to cut it. Which brought about a new rule....If it doesn't fit or I don't like it...YOU have to take it back and get a different size or something else.
And she did just that. A couple of weeks later she brought me a super cute vanilla colored cardigan than I've worn it more than quite a few times.
She done good and I haven't bitten her in the back in a couple of weeks :-)
Thanks Bebe. I love you.
May 8, 2011
JANUARY - Andi
I've known Andi since 2004 - her last year in college. I was a sorority sister so we connected instantly. But I had graduated five years earlier and she never lets me forget it :-) We started working together on Apprentice Season 2 and we hung out almost everyday after she moved to LA from MoVal. She is now a Post Production Supervisor and has worked on several popular network shows. As professional as she is at work, she is equally as fun as a 12 year old girl at a Bieber concert. We giggle over boys, love late night snacks and enjoy most every Romantic Comedy - although we disagree on Jennifer Lopez. yuck. She's an amazing loyal friend that would drop everything and drive a hundred miles to pick me up if I were stranded. Her energy makes me smile, her laughter is infectious and her true friendship is a real blessing.
Andi shops more than anyone I know. She also shops faster than anyone I know. She can be in and out of a store in less than 20 minutes and come out with at least 5 super cute outfits. So it was a no brainer that I would go to her first with my idea. I had about 5 gift cards to one of my favorite stores, Banana Republic and she gladly took the stack. A week later I got a call from Andi: "Laura!!! Banana is hard! They don't have anything!! Ugg!! I was in there for like an hour and didn't find anything!" Needless to say BR is not really Andi's style. So I traded the BR cards for one I had to Macy's.
Since Andi was my guinea pig in this experiment, I was still working out the kinks with her. In my head the whole point was to get my friends to shop for me because I was lazy. But I guess I didn't articulate that very well. Andi kept calling me to say..."I have a few hours after work tonight do you want to go shopping with me?" or "Let's spend this Saturday at the shops for you." After many groans and saying "Ugg no. That doesn't sound like fun." We finalized that the point of this project was NOT to get me to like shopping, but to release control of how I look and allow my friends to dress me.
So after a few hours at Macy's, Andi bought me some really nice things. Reminding me several times that they should never be worn together. Umm duh. Just because I hate shopping doesn't mean I strive to appear on the pages of peopleofwalmart.com.
Thank you Andi!!
Andi shops more than anyone I know. She also shops faster than anyone I know. She can be in and out of a store in less than 20 minutes and come out with at least 5 super cute outfits. So it was a no brainer that I would go to her first with my idea. I had about 5 gift cards to one of my favorite stores, Banana Republic and she gladly took the stack. A week later I got a call from Andi: "Laura!!! Banana is hard! They don't have anything!! Ugg!! I was in there for like an hour and didn't find anything!" Needless to say BR is not really Andi's style. So I traded the BR cards for one I had to Macy's.
Since Andi was my guinea pig in this experiment, I was still working out the kinks with her. In my head the whole point was to get my friends to shop for me because I was lazy. But I guess I didn't articulate that very well. Andi kept calling me to say..."I have a few hours after work tonight do you want to go shopping with me?" or "Let's spend this Saturday at the shops for you." After many groans and saying "Ugg no. That doesn't sound like fun." We finalized that the point of this project was NOT to get me to like shopping, but to release control of how I look and allow my friends to dress me.
So after a few hours at Macy's, Andi bought me some really nice things. Reminding me several times that they should never be worn together. Umm duh. Just because I hate shopping doesn't mean I strive to appear on the pages of peopleofwalmart.com.
Thank you Andi!!
May 1, 2011
A Revelation
I'm not quite sure when it dawned on me. I could say that I stopped abruptly in the middle of the 3rd Street Promenade in Santa Monica while making my way through the bustling crowds at Christmas, to shout I HATE SHOPPING!! So dramatic! But most likely it was while I was standing in my giant and mostly empty closet looking for something to wear to work. There I was scanning through the empty hangers, and glancing over at my red chair to see if I could wear something in that pile of clean clothes that has yet to be put away. Dragging my feet and moaning...I need new clothes. And then the next thought...ugg I don't want to go shopping. I don't like shopping. A day at the mall shopping for clothes sounds like an awful way to spend the afternoon. It's so daunting. Frustrating. Poop, they don't have my size. Why is the music in this store so loud? That's hideous. That's pretty...$200?!?! I like this...but not enough to buy it. I don't really need to spend money on this. Nothing found and time to go.
Apparently this has been going on for a long time. I just didn't realize it. But how could I not!? For years I've been carrying a pencil pouch full of gift cards in my purse. It was always with me just in case I found myself in a store and I saw something I liked. Friends would curse me for having so many cards and not using them. (I do admit it was fun to taunt them with the stack). But there they sat, year after year accumulating from birthdays and Christmas. "Some day", I thought. But I would go in with my free money and not find anything worth buying.
The last thing I bought myself was a blue tank top at Target in October...something cute for Palm Springs. But honestly I can't recall anything before that....maybe a pair of bright yellow heels when I was in Tahoe. But that was in June. And my mind goes blank. I think I bought 3 things to wear in all of 2010. Unheard of right!?!? Especially for a woman!!
When it came time to list out my goals for 2011 I started to write: buy new clothes. I generally like to write things that I WANT to do. But I didn't want to do this. So I thought....maybe someone could buy clothes for me. All of my friends LOVE to shop. If they have a gift card they use it the next day. If they have a few free hours to kill they go to the mall. They show up wearing new things all the time!! Why don't I have them shop for me!? My friends sometimes know me better than I know myself. They definitely know more about fashion than I do. Why not give it a go?
I mentioned it to Andi first. She definitely shops more than anyone I know and she jumped at the chance to get her finely manicured lil hands on my gift cards! She's been trying to steal them for years! A few more chats with a few more friends and whattayaknow....I have a personal shopper lined up every month through September of 2011!!
Several people have asked if I have a blog. Pish Posh I thought, I don't blog. I barely read, let alone write. But one turns into two, two turns into three, which turns into more than a few people asking about a blog. So here I sit in my messy bedroom looking at all of my new outfits (I have yet to master the putting away of clothes) as I write my very first blog. I plan to upload photos of everything bought for me and a lil something about each of my personal shoppers/ awesome friends. If you wish, please enjoy I HATE SHOPPING.
Lola
Apparently this has been going on for a long time. I just didn't realize it. But how could I not!? For years I've been carrying a pencil pouch full of gift cards in my purse. It was always with me just in case I found myself in a store and I saw something I liked. Friends would curse me for having so many cards and not using them. (I do admit it was fun to taunt them with the stack). But there they sat, year after year accumulating from birthdays and Christmas. "Some day", I thought. But I would go in with my free money and not find anything worth buying.
The last thing I bought myself was a blue tank top at Target in October...something cute for Palm Springs. But honestly I can't recall anything before that....maybe a pair of bright yellow heels when I was in Tahoe. But that was in June. And my mind goes blank. I think I bought 3 things to wear in all of 2010. Unheard of right!?!? Especially for a woman!!
When it came time to list out my goals for 2011 I started to write: buy new clothes. I generally like to write things that I WANT to do. But I didn't want to do this. So I thought....maybe someone could buy clothes for me. All of my friends LOVE to shop. If they have a gift card they use it the next day. If they have a few free hours to kill they go to the mall. They show up wearing new things all the time!! Why don't I have them shop for me!? My friends sometimes know me better than I know myself. They definitely know more about fashion than I do. Why not give it a go?
I mentioned it to Andi first. She definitely shops more than anyone I know and she jumped at the chance to get her finely manicured lil hands on my gift cards! She's been trying to steal them for years! A few more chats with a few more friends and whattayaknow....I have a personal shopper lined up every month through September of 2011!!
Several people have asked if I have a blog. Pish Posh I thought, I don't blog. I barely read, let alone write. But one turns into two, two turns into three, which turns into more than a few people asking about a blog. So here I sit in my messy bedroom looking at all of my new outfits (I have yet to master the putting away of clothes) as I write my very first blog. I plan to upload photos of everything bought for me and a lil something about each of my personal shoppers/ awesome friends. If you wish, please enjoy I HATE SHOPPING.
Lola
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