Dressing Up For Me

My go-to summer top when everything else fails. It´s long which I can pair with shorts for those sizzling(literally) hot summer days and with a pair of skinny jeans for the chilly summer days. If I look weird in the photo below, it´s because I placed the camera on top of the ledge of the balcony  half fearing that it would fall. Haay,the things that you´d  do for a better photo. ( plaid shirt dress - Pull & Bear, bangle - Blanco, necklace - Promod) So what´s your fave go-to summer combination? Enjoy your week, luvlies ! :) Che PS: These are actually three- week old photos which I´ve forgotten to post until now. More travel photos on my next posts and expect to see a much rounder and plumplier face too. ;)

Just before the summer ends, let me share with you the 3 things that I´m loving these days. 1. A Cheese and Fruit Platter Summer is hot. When it´s so hot I don´t usually eat but I feel thirsty. So instead of drinking fizzy drinks why not go natural with fruits? A little cheese which is rich in calcium is also good for your bones. And if you feel just a tad classy, pair it with a galss of white wine. I know alcohol isn´t good for the skin and dehydrates the body but indulging on it once in a while doesn´t hurt much. ;) 2. Miranda Kerr´s Chic Casual Look Dimples, killer bod, mile long legs, Orlando Bloom( hehe!) and her sense of fashion. So what´s not to love about Miranda Kerr? I´ve tried the plaid shirt dress and leather jacket look but I haven´t tried yet the stripe shirt dress and blazer ensemble that she´s wearing. Hmmm, does that mean that I´d be buying a stripe shirt dress soon? ;)   photo and story source Of course, pairing it a classi...

Third day of our Galician trip was spent at Lugo. A very old city founded by the Romans which we failed to see the last time we where in Galicia. Cam whoring while waiting for a small museum to open. We didn´t get to see what´s inside because it´s reserved for the whole afternoon. At least I get to take photos outside. My photos . hehe! Admiring the graceful columns of the main musem´s ¨ cloister ¨. The only place where we can take photos. Most of the museums here in Spain do not allow photo taking. Too bad because I´d have shown you a lot of things. A sundial. At first sight I  blurted:¨What´s that piece of rusty blade doing at the center of an old slab with diagonal lines?¨ The hubz replied: ¨ That´s not a piece of ordinary stone, Che. That´s a sundial!¨  There. So you know now. I´ve got little imagination.Weeheehee! My swirly floral top and and mini. The top is new, the mini is old. Ten years to be exact. Now you know why it´s r...

Went to San Sebastian for a short trip. It was hot! Perfect for a white cottony top and a pair of pale pink shorts which I scored from the recent summer sales. The shorts was so tight ( from my seafood bingeing in Galicia, oh no!), I was afraid the buton will pop. Good thing it held on until we got back home. Hay! I´m seeing square shopping totes in the stores nowadays and so it´s the time to pull out  the leather and suede bag from Zara thrifted a year ago. See? Trends do come and go and come back again. :) Dinner was a yummy bocata with jamon asado and alcohol free mojito. Can it be called a mojito without alcohol? Continuing on, we toured the place and the stores too and took a snap of the church steeple with my low tech camera. We ended up on this half deserted beach which was filled up in record time, say after 10 minutes? Why? Because the best way to watch the fireworks was on the bea...

Every August, my city becomes a ghost town ( except for a number of tourist sightings) right after celebrating the fiesta. You know why? Because everybody jets off to somewhere, us included. I originally wanted to go to Rome but when the hubz said that Rome is too hot at this time of the year and tempted me with the words ¨seafood¨ and ¨cool weather the whole day¨, my thoughts on Rome took a backseat and readily said yes to Galicia instead.We stopped by La Coruña ( the region´s capital city) first and used it as a base and went to St. James of Compostela by train. I didn´t get to photograph the whole facade of the basilica but that´s how it looks like in the first photo. It´s HUGE! The photo below is a snap shot of the St. James of Compostela skyline from the top of the basilica. But there were a lot of things to see on the streets too: I had my photograph taken in front of the bells ( they´re 3 actually) but .. I didn´t ride the tram which is usual...

And so I´m back! :) But before I´ll show you my latest travel photos from Galicia, let me finish first the Balenciaga Series. This would be the last part of the series. Unfortunately the gallery where the gowns were displayed was so dark, only two of the gowns photographed well. Good thing, these two are the most beautiful too. ;) The upper portion of this gown is a  ¨cloque¨. The most expensive fabric ( probably due to the embroidery, etc.) of that time. You can see more current designs and  jaw dropping dresses made from this kind of fabric at the  Museé de la Mode et du Textile in Paris. This time the dresses were designed by Nicholas Ghesquière. The museum´s quite near the Louvre entrance and so you´ll never get lost. ;) Color blocking at it´s best. This long two-piece gown was worn by the late Princess Grace of Monaco in the 1960s. Dahlings, color blocking existed a long, long time ago. As the old cliché goes: Fashion repeats itself...

So the weeklong festivities in here ended today. I didn´t go out much to celebrate the fiesta but a well celebrated one is never complete without: Lots of colorful balloons for the kiddies and not so kiddies Food--- another reason to ditch the diet  temporarily ;) An odd man walking on the street offering a lot of things for a little something  Lots of things for the fashionista like these hand knitted shawls Handmade espadrilles and color blocked leather bracelets/bangles Spectacular entertainment---  African music at it´s best and fabulous street art --- freshly made. Later during dinner with friends, I wore this:  It was a cold rainy evening and so I opted to wear my go-to  jeans and a thick top and debuted my blue bowed flats which I thrifted last year. top - Vero Moda ( 1st worn here), jeans - Zara, shoes - vintage To cap the night, the hubz and I watched the fireworks from our bedroom window. We´...

Howdy, all! :) Frankly, I do not know what to write in this post because I´ve lost my writing mojo. Not that I have a lot of it anyway. hahahaha! Okay, I take that back. It´s just that my brain cells as usual have gone haywire or are still numb from lack of sleep or from the summer heat or both. So I´ll just start this post with ¨ finally I got to wear a real skirt, the flouncy one that twirls with you when you twirl around¨ and end it with ¨ let me entertain you with some photos¨.  Do I make sense?  If not, just scroll down anyway and forget what I´ve said in the beginning. ;) clutch - Bershka top, hat - Zara, belt - H&M, skirt - Mango Actually, I had a walk in one of the many parks in here, listened to old classical band music played by the city band, bought some   pastel vasco  and a pretty leather bangle and then got lost in the festive crowd. Fiesta photos to follow in my next posts. Now excuse me while I get lost in the...