OOTD- Before the Clock Strikes Midnight

Happy New Year!!!!!

Well, I'm a little early, but the sentiment is the same as if it was midnight already. I hope you guys are ready to ring in 2011. Whether you are going to party hard or make it low-key, spend it with the people, places and things you love the most (in that order)!!

This is my last post of the year 2010, I can't believe it. I want to thank you guys for making this year a great blogging experience. I'll see you next year for an even better Notes from the Dressing Room. What that entails, I'm not 100% sure, but I know good things are to come.

Spent a little time enjoying my day off with some Starbucks and magazines.

And Chipotle for lunch

Gotta figure out this no baggy knee in boots thing!!

I'm getting the party started early.

I'm ready to celebrate!! Got the balloon and cupcake, can you bring the champagne?

Outfit Details:

White tee- James Perse

Denim jeggings- Lauren Conrad for Kohl's

Brown leather hoodie- DKNY

Blue leopard scarf- South Moon Under

Brown pendant necklace- Forever 21

Brown ostrich embossed clutch- M.Andonia (available here)

Green flat boots- See by Chloe

Does This Make Me Semi-Quasi Famous?

I've mentioned before the jewelry of the month club, JewelMint, created by Kate Bosworth and stylist Cher Coulter before (see post here). Well, they held a contest for people to submit a stylish picture of them featuring their favorite JewelMint pieces. I decided to submit a pic that I featured here on the blog (see post here) and lo and behold, I won!!!!! I'm still giddy about it and just wanted to share. I'll be the lucky recipient of 3 new pieces of jewelry and guess who was featured in the weekly e-newsletter?  :)

Yay!!!

Kate Bosworth featured in the January 2011 issue of Lucky magazine wearing the necklace.


Interested in JewelMint, go now!!

Back from NYC, Barely!!

After spending a great weekend celebrating Christmas in NYC with my honey and a million other tourist, we managed to make it home safely in a snow storm. You guys, the snow tried to keep me from making it back, but after 9 hours of travelling on the road, we finally did it! I just wanted to share a few pics from the trip.

Early morning and off to the Big Apple!

I wanted to pack this big, fluffy bed up in my luggage and take it home.

The view from our hotel window. The sun rising was such a pretty sight.

It's Christmas time!! The bf did his first wrapping job on a lovely present from Shopbop.

Somebody was feeling fly in his new leather jacket.

I watched A Christmas Story too many times, including on the screen outside of the hotel during breakfast.

We went to the top of the Empire State Building. So did a lot of other people as you can see.

We tried to go ice skating at Rockefeller Plaza, but it was wall to wall people. We could barely squeeze past to see anything.

Times Square!

The view of the snow as we were leaving the city.

I hope you all had a lovely holiday. Did you get any Xmas goodies or had some fun times?

Merry Christmas To All And To All Have Fun

I want to wish all of my wonderful readers a very Merry Christmas and a happy holiday!! A short work week and general holiday excitement have put regular post on the back burner, but shall resume next week.

I hope you all enjoy time with people you love, have an extra cookie or two and get tons of fun new toys. I will be in the big city (NYC, of course) with my bf having some a blast and trying not to break my butt on the ice skating in Rockefeller Plaza.

Later, alligators!

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Opinion Poll-Keep or Return?

Have you all had a chance to check out the William Rast for Target line yet? I was up way too early on Sunday morning at Target for a certain somebody's Xmas gift. After checking off a name on my list, I wandered through the store and ended up in the clothing section. I would have totally missed the William Rast items since the Tucker for Target sign was still up. Interesting that they are getting no love or strong advertising from the store? I tried on a few things, but was a little disappointed in the selection. The styles were rather simple and although the jeans were nice, at $50 I feel like I can walk into Marshall's or Nordstrom Rack and find an actual pair of designer jeans at a comparable price. Besides, the cost of buying them and then getting them tailored made it lose even more points. Nothing was truly stand-outs or must-haves and I usually get one item from each Target designer collaboration line. However, I ended up with a little something in my shopping bag, but I'm wondering if I should keep it. I'd like to poll the class to see what you all think.

Keep and rock it or put that money back in my wallet ???

William Rast Twill Vest in Green (available here)