Lunch Staple

I'm in a super "domestic goddess" mood this week.  I blame ye old ovaries for ticking at me during my physical prime.  Quiet, you.  Give me 8 more years.

I wanted to share my staple lunch recipe that I use constantly.   It's a cheap, vegetarian & healthy sandwich that includes:

1 whole wheat bread/bagel/english muffin

2 tomato slices

5-6 cucumber slices 

1-2 Tsp of Kraft Sandwich Shop Mayo - Hot & Spicy

1 slice of Swiss Cheese 

The beauty of this sandwich is that one tomato, one cucumber, one package of cheese, one bottle of mayo & one loaf of bread will make several of these puppies.   Depending on ingredients, it typically stays under 500 calories but only losers count those.  

Seeing Red

Window Shopping at Urban Outfitters

After a particularly hard & hurtful day at work, I decided to treat myself to an imaginary shopping spree at Urban Outfitters.  A shopping spree consisting of purely red & black, hip & non-office appropriate attire (and a vinyl storage rack I actually need for home..... hey, I can be practical and mad). 

Jeffrey Campbell Foxy Spike Platform Heel (size 8 of course) $185

Truly Madly Deeply Cutout Back Tee (size small) $39

Cooperative High-Rise Denim Short (size medium) $49

Mini Storage Rack (for my screamo bands on vinyl...kidding) $39

Nom de Plume by Yaya Ivy Dress (size small) $69

If only those fake smiles resulted in more $$$ to buy these things with.... 

(individual pics, photo credit: Urban Outfitters)

wishlist

$69

www.lorisshoes.com

Mondays tend to hover under a blanket of seriousness.  I usually wear black to work on Mondays.  Perhaps it's a fashion pun on "back to work"....or mourning the retirement of denim and hooker shoes for the next 4 business days.  

The materialist in me feels like this bag would make my Mondays better.  I think I need it.   It is one of the coolest-least-expensive-most-expensive looking bags I've found in a while.

....oh and it comes in yellow.  badass. 

Photo Credit: Lori's Shoes 

How To Be Cute with Little Effort & Little Money

Cucumber Water

Buy a glass carafe ($3 at Walmart).

Buy a cucumber ($.88).

Chop the cucumber into slices and then chop a few slices into quarters.  Place a quarter into each slot in an ice cube tray.  Throw the rest of the slices into the carafe and add water to both.   2 hours later, you will have the most adorable drink in the world and you did it for mmmmm $4 or less.  You also did it with supplies from Walmart.  Bonus points for drinking it out of an oversized wine glass that sometimes holds ice water at fancy restaurants. 

Chicks & Succulents

What is it with the succulent/indoor terrarium fad these days?  They're all over the blogs this year and now these little desert plants are popping up in fashion shoots (photo credit thestonecoldfox.com).    Now I'm not saying anything negative since I'm tending to two plants of my own... however I thought it was an interesting point to bring up.   Plants can go in an out of style?   What?   Such an wild idea.  Perhaps the trend spawns partially from the Pintrest craze and the "green", eco-friendly movement.  I have no clue.   Anyway, it's cool to have plants as fashion items.  Way better than feather hair extensions. 

flower crowns

Made these flower crowns for a friend's fashion show.  

Land Of Beautiful Girls

Viva L'Instagram.

How cool is this car, man?  And by car, I mean the license plate. 

"Kansas, Home of Miss America, Land of Beautiful Girls"

Found this gem outside Penn Square Mall.