I FINALLY MET OPRAH!!!

Well not exactly...okay... not even close but I'm one step closer to being a success story on Oprah. I have been featured on Mustard Seed Collective's blog! I am so excited. It's not a big deal to you, but it's a big deal to me. It means that someone other than my family reads my blog!

Here I thought my sister and friends were the only ones who read my blog...and by "read"...I mean look at the pictures only! (cough, cough)

Click here and read my little interview! This could be the first step to me getting out of debt.

Here is my Plan!

1. Be featured on Mustard Seed Collective website.

2. Gayle (Oprah's BFF) is surfing the net and stumbles upon my feature.

3. Gayle tells Oprah that she has got to read God's Favorite Shoes blog!

4. Oprah sends for me to talk clothes.

5. When I get there Oprah will surprise me with a book publishing deal or a job on her O' Magazine writing staff.

(Remember, this is all in my head, none of this is real...yet)

5. I will be so funny, cute and witty that she will invite me for different segments on the show.

6. Oprah will ask me to be in her "inner circle" with Gayle, Andre the hairdresser, Nate the design guru and Stedman!

And BAM! I made it!!!! It could happen!

So thank you Adrienne at MUSTARD SEED COLLECTIVE...you are my first step in that direction!!

Just Kidding...unless you are OPRAH...then I am serious as a heart attack!

But really, go check out the feature! This is my First Feature! I. AM. SOMEBODY! (Thank you Jesse Jackson!!)

Thrifted Jacket/Belt

Anthropologie Summer Dress

Jessica Simpson Shoes

Marshall's Textured Tights

What a difference tights make! These babies are going to help transition my summer clothes into the fall!

Textured Tights from Marshall's. And I promise to stop wearing these shoes!

Click here and Go Check out my Feature! Then come back and tell me what you think!

Are you are a follower of mine yet? You should be! I'm going places! (going a little far with this feature thing huh?!?)

Quick! Help Me Decide!

Update: I wore the black dress to the wedding. I know, I know...Everyone chose the blueish/greenish one but I felt better in the black dress. A little more zexy and the temperature dropped at night:)

The bride even called me the next morning to tell me I looked beautiful...(hey, I'm supposed to call her to say that!)...so all is well! Thanks for the votes. I promise to listen to you next time. (I did wear the blue dress to work with black tights though, so all is not lost:) Thanks again!

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Quick! Help me choose a dress! I am going to a wedding tomorrow and I can't decide which one I want to wear! The stats of the wedding are that it's at 5pm and there will be alot of Salsa and Merengue going on at the reception:) Which one should I wear?

Dress: H&M Philly (seen here) I got this long time ago. Basically it was a free dress.

Belts: Thrifted (I'm totally obsessed w/ gold belts these days)

Dress: Goodwill (but altered...seen here)

Jewelry: My Late Aunt's Vintage Chanel Earring (on necklace) and Purse!

Belt: Thrifted

"Boyfriend" Blazer: Donna Karen Jacket (thrifted $3)

(by the way I am totally into "boyfriend jackets"...may do a post later about them)

Chanel Sunglasses: FOUND IN THE GROCERY STORE THE OTHER DAY...( found as in they were just laying there at the meat counter. I asked the deli guy if they were anyone's and he said "Take em' child"...THey're totally real!)
Shoes: Jessica Simpson vis Marshall's

WHICH ONE DO I WEAR? The Green Dress or Black? Hurry...Leave a comment and help me! I have 23 hours from this very second to decide!

My camera work is not that great...sorry

I'm Just Saying...

I'm just saying, looks alot like to me:)

Janet's Look: Versace

My Look: H & M Philly (I clearly remember buying a clearance item and getting the second clearance item free...this dress was the "free")

Belts: Notice they are different on me...(both thrifted)

Shoes: Jessica Simpson via Marshall's

Necklace: Chain F21/Late Aunt's Vintage Chanel Earring on Chain.

When I saw Janet in this dress a few weeks ago, I said "OH NO SHE DIDN'T"! I totally already have that dress and I didn't have to sell a kidney get it. Although we all know that Janet is friends with Donatella Versace, so she got it free too. So in my head, me and Janet paid the same price:)

I'm just saying.....am I wrong?

Shoe Therapy

There's nothing like a good shoe to get you out of a funk...that's what I tell myself atleast:)


I am flabbergasted at myself for owning anything with Paris Hilton's name on it but these gray suede pumps could not be denied. The fact that Paris Hilton gets paid to do nothing secretly angers my soul but I'm a sucker for pretty details on heels. I also have become mildly obsessed with finding all kinds of cheap textured tights this fall.

How hot are these! Once again, I can't believe I am wearing a shoe by another rich airhead... Jessica Simpson. I fought the urge to like her shoes for the simple fact that she tried to bring back wearing MOM jeans last year. But I finally gave in and I am kinda in love with all of her shoes. I can't tell you how close I am to putting these on my kitchen table as a centerpiece!

So, I had a horrible weekend yet I was forced to go to my good friend's bachelorette party. I couldn't dare miss it but it meant that I had to put on the performance of a lifetime. My shoes were there but my head wasn't. Of course, bachelorette party means club...which means my slow death. The fact that I was taking photos of my shoes INSIDE the club should let you know how enthused I was about being there.

(...don't get me wrong, I shook my BOM BOM to keep up appearances. That's what good friends do:)

Random Thoughts While in the Club

1. I am way too old for this.

2. This is so not my element.

3. Why did the DJ mix a Michael Jackson song over a Tejano Beat?

4. I wish I had some Double Stuffed Oreos in my Purse!

5. MyLeopard Shoes ARE HOT!

6. My Leopard Shoes Hurt!

7. I clearly have no "going out" clothes.

8. Does everyone in here shop in the same mall?

9. Is anyone noticing that I am taking pictures of my shoes on the zebra sofa?

10. I could have been atleast 15 minutes into the R.E.M. stage of sleeping by now.

11. How many people are going to church tomorrow?

12. Am I going to church tomorrow?

13. People who stay in the club until it closes are lame.

14. What would happen if the DJ stopped playing music and started praying over the microphone? LOL!

15. My Shoes are HOT!

16. I need a zebra sofa in my house.

17. I am so glad that it's illegal to smoke in clubs now.

18. I should start a Club Coat Check business for extra cash. (don't steal my idea!)

19. I hope I don't run into one of my students.

20. Why is that lady across from me atleast 8 months pregnant and grinding the wall?

Bonus: **COULD I BE ANYMORE LAME?**

** by the way, those are leggings not jeans that I am wearing:)

*Sorry Jessica Simpson and Paris Hilton if you are reading this...I know you are not airheads...you can't be to make millions from saying "That's Hot" or "Is this chicken or fish". I think you are actually brilliant to have suckered America into buying things with your names on it. I respect a good hustle. Play on Playettes!*

Honest Scrap

I have been scrapped! The mastermind over at Mustard Seed Collective tagged me because she thinks I'm cool or atleast my blog is kind of cool? I hope atleast:) So, Thank you Adrienne for the tag...this kind of stuff gets me kind of nervous! LOL. Stop over to her spot sometimes...she always has great images for decorating that somehow make me want to throw a jackhammer through a wall in my house and decorate with Skittles or something completely random!

Here are the rules:

1. Say Thank You and give a link to the presenter of the award

2. Share “10 Honest Things” about myself

3. Present this award to 7 others whose blogs I find brilliant in content and/or design, or those who have encouraged me.

4. Tell those 7 people that they have been awarded the HONEST SCRAP aninform them of these guidelines.

Sooooo....here goes............

1. I have been thinking strongly about how I can turn my "passion" of style/clothes into an occassional supplemental payceck.

2. I think Beer smells like pee and potatoes.
3. I love the smell of coffee even though I don't drink it.

4. I get irate when people take my kindness for weakness.

5. I recently discovered DOUBLE STUFFED GOLDEN OREOS and literally almost cried in the store because I didn't know they existed! (no, for real...I had a moment on aisle 6)

6. Most people think I am a ballbuster but I am actually very sensitive.

7. I pay extra to have my the lenses of my glasses shaved down because I have been taunted my whole life about being blind as a bat! LOL!

8. I have obsessive spurts...one week I will be all about thrifting and the next week I am all about cooking a new dish every day of the week. Usually a new obsession takes over the old obsession!

9. I am anxious alot these days.

10. People give me way too much for being confident. I am so the opposite of confident. I just fake it really well.

I tag the following BLoggers...

1. Love Maegan ( she is hands down my favorite fashion blogger but I don't expect her to take this challenge. I look forward to every one of her posts)

2. Ah Me So Hongry- she is hilarious and is kicking butt with her weight loss and I know her in real life...not just in cyberspace:)

3. Loc'd and Lovin It- that's my homie in real life too...my for real homie!

4. La Rue Neuve- I check her page religiously...she has great style!

5. Fashion Nette-Work- We have the same style.

(I know I cheated...I'm supposed to choose 7...I always break the rules though:)

*if you were chosen, feel free to ignore the tag...I know people are busy but I do think highly of each and every one of your blogs:)

I Hate Stripes...

I hate wearing stripes but I wore them anyway. I'm trying to find ways to let go of all these rules that I've force myself to follow all these years...except wearing CROCS...I WILL NEVER ROCK CROCS!!! I would rather skin the bottom of my feet with a dull contaminated razor from the days of slavery and walk barefoot over the heads of 12 porcupines than wear CROCS! (do you get the picture now?) LOL

At any rate, here is just an in between time post until I have something super earthshattering to share.

Dress: Calvin Klein Sheath via Marshall's (2 years ago?)

Shoes: Nine West via Marshall's (last year perhaps?)

Necklace: F21

Bracelet: Gift from my Sister

Belt/purse/Cardigan: Thrifted

This isn't an especially postworthy outfit, I feel pretty ordinary in it..can't be fly all of the time, now can I? :)

I'll just call it my "professional" look so that I don't bang my head against the wall for finally accepting that I am getting older! Michelle Obama would approve of this ensemble though, don't you think? I am gonna have to rock my Prince t shirt and Skinny jeans soon, so I can feel cool again:)

I'll spice it up for the rest of the week. Let's call this a Mundane Monday Outfit Post:)