Weekend Recap and Outfits

So I made it through the weekend without buying anything, good girl, good girl. The ATL Family and Friends was particularly challenging but thanks to the low inventory in my size and the long lines at the register I ended up not taking advantage of the promo. I was tempted by the jewelry and I put on hold a pair of earrings TWICE (once the first day of the promo but it was at a store far from home and I didn't have the printout with me and one Saturday at my local store but never went to pick them up) but I had just bought a pair of Infinity earrings on the JCA Exchange earlier last week (for a fraction of the FP) and didn't want to "overshadow" them buy buying another pair of earrings (very similar but smaller, more for the day than for the night). At some point they will on sale and I will see then if I really want them.

Saturday instead of going shopping by myself I went shopping with my husband and daughter, for a change. Actually we went flat-screen shopping (we just finished creating a small family room and now we need another TV) and even if it wasn't as exciting as shopping for apparel, I enjoyed looking at all the options and being involved in a big-ticket purchase for the family (it doesn't happen very often, not because my husband doesn't involve me in this kind of decisions but because we buy very little for the home). We ended up not buying for the time being (Thanksgiving is just a few days away and there could be a good deal around the corner) but now I know what's the difference between the plasma, LCD and LED technologies (by the way, the quality of the pictures on the new LED screens is AMAZING).

It was a beautiful day in NYC, warm and sunny and I wore my toothpick jeans, Marjorie ballet flats and a Chanel-like jacket from Zara that I had tried when I was in Milan in September and my parents finally bought for me (even if it was nice outside I wore a coat and a scarf over this outfit):



In the evening we were invited for dinner at friend's. I wore the Jcrew Olive top and the same jeans and flats:


The Olive top ranks among my favorite Jcrew pieces of all the time (BTW, sale alert: I saw it on sale for $59.99 in store last Thursday). The necklace is the Champagne fizz necklace (sold-out online) that I bought some time ago when it went on sale expressly to wear with it because I felt like I needed something around the neck with this top but I didn't have anything in a color that could go with it. I love them, what do you think?



Last week I stumbled across the matching earrings on the JCA Exchange for a very good price (actually I got a price for the Infinity once and these) and because I had already tried to buy them in store (but I could only find one earring, the other one was missing!) I jumped on the occasion. I decided not to wear them on Saturday night because they were too dressy for the occasion, but here is what they look like with the necklace:



Sunday we were meeting a friend for brunch at the Time Warner center and we planned to walk there and stop at the zoo on our way. It was a gorgeous day but much colder than Saturday and I was in the mood for a fun outfit. I wore a very old red cashmere sweater with jeans, red lipstick (that I never wear) and a "snow leopard" Zara coat that I bought in Milan as well (and my parents shipped to me because there was no way that I could fit this in my suitcase):



I was hoping for an encounter with the resident snow leopard at the zoo and we had practiced the snow leopard GRRRR with my daughter (she was all excited by the idea of the snow leopard mistaken her mommy for a leopard), but he was sleeping when we went there. Boo!
The necklace is one of the cheap jewelry finds that I had ordered on the F21 website. This one was a disappointment because it also had a strand of very cheap-looking "lace chiffon" (just a printed fabric) entangled with the pearls and crystals, that I have managed to get rid off not without damaging permanently the necklace. Anyway you couldn't see the damage near the clasp and I thought that my red sweater needed some bling and I was surprised that my husband liked it (I wanted to take it off but he convinced me to keep it on). By the end of our day the thing was falling apart, but at least I wore it once.

Have a wonderful week.