Happy Sunday! I hope your weekend has been drier than mine. It's rained all weekend here in San Luis Obispo and it was even worse today than Friday or Saturday combined! Here is what went down this weekend:
Saturday, I was up bright and early (4am to be exact) to put on my Department's Reindeer Run. About 150 people ran the race and we were lucky to only have had a light sprinkling when the runners started at 8am. Afterward, the mister and I grabbed lunch and headed to a City planning open house. This was a chance to provide input on a 30 year plan to improve the City. Then, we headed to the bookstore so I could by Blog, Inc. by an awesome blogger, Joy Cho. I'm about 20 pages in and am really liking the format of the book. I hope some of these tips will help me as I set-up and continue to blog. Mister Special had a BNO (boys night out) and I had decided to stay in by the fire to catch up and read and prepare for my next video blog (which will come out tomorrow...stay tuned!).
Saturday, I was up bright and early (4am to be exact) to put on my Department's Reindeer Run. About 150 people ran the race and we were lucky to only have had a light sprinkling when the runners started at 8am. Afterward, the mister and I grabbed lunch and headed to a City planning open house. This was a chance to provide input on a 30 year plan to improve the City. Then, we headed to the bookstore so I could by Blog, Inc. by an awesome blogger, Joy Cho. I'm about 20 pages in and am really liking the format of the book. I hope some of these tips will help me as I set-up and continue to blog. Mister Special had a BNO (boys night out) and I had decided to stay in by the fire to catch up and read and prepare for my next video blog (which will come out tomorrow...stay tuned!).
Earlier today, I decided to brave the elements and head to Target to see the Neiman Marcus goodies. A Forbes article called the Target & NM launch "its most ambitious merchandise scheme to date as a multichannel retailer." The interesting article which has a behind-the-scenes video about the launch can be found here.
I tried on a few goodies (sorry for the shameless dressing room iPhone pictures):
When I saw the Lela Rose top, I was a bit skeptical about it. Most black with nude inset clothing on me have been less than flattering because the nude fabric was much lighter than my skin tone but this top was really cute and the nude was a flattering color. This would go perfect with a black pencil skirt for a holiday party.
I was rather disappointed by the dress by Robert Rodriguez. The dress is really full which I thought was adorable but the top part was unflattering. Not a bad buy for $100 though.
I thought the girl's collection from Marchesa was absolutely ADORABLE! The frilly dress was even cuter in person and right next to it was a gorgeous cream colored shift dress with beautiful beading across the neckline. I debated trying on a girls XL...still might. :)
Jason Wu had also put out cute girl's dress in khaki polka dots. Here are a few other snapshots I took of other pieces: Altuzarra tumblers and Oscar De Larenta bag.
I had a chance to talk to the woman manning the dressing room station and she said that while a lot of people were trying on the clothes, they weren't buying because the price point is so high.
I did manage to try on some other cute tops that were put out:
This cute animal printed (and sheer) button down blouse:
And this super cute scaled tank top (the true color is the image on the left - an aquamarine color):
I hope you all can get into Target soon to check out the collection. I'm curious to hear what others have to say!
Cheers,
Melissa
