Dressing Up For Me

Another day, another pair of pants, hahaha! This was what I wore while meeting with the girlfriends last week just before leaving for Lisbon. I´m having fun with this preppy look ( button up and crewneck sweater) lately,expect more of this combination in my future posts until the turtleneck season kicks in . ;) This time I experimented with different prints ( stripes, metallic and aztec) and textures (ring,clutch and necklace) using black as the predominant color. The lightly knitted burgundy sweater is the finishing touch to make this outfit trendy at the same time. I actually wore boots when I went out but pairing the whole outfit with cage heels isn´t bad at all! Don´t you think so? ;) stripe top -Vero Moda, necklace - Blanco, pants , ring - H&M, clutch- Pimkie Today is a Wednesday and as usual, I´m linking up with  The Pleated Poppy´s What I Wore Wednesday and Rolled Up Pretty´s Whatever Whenever Wednesday . Click, click! :) Cold hugs from her...

Hi, everyone! I´m finally wearing a skirt. ;) Have just came back from Lisbon today and yes, I´ve just spent another long weekend at the Portuguese side. Since I ´ve been wearing nothing but pants lately, I decided to wear skirts for this trip. It´s a good thing that the Lisbon weather was mild even if it was mostly cloudy and rainy and so I survived with just a pair of dark tights to cover my legs and flats for those long walks. Pardon the cropped and not so clear photos. I´m on a bloat phase right now and eating butter and bread for breakfast and dinner and rice for lunch doesn´t help conceal my puffy face either, hahaha! I know, I owe you lots of photos with the double weekend trips that I´ve had. Please just wait for that. In the meantime, here´s a candid shot of what I wore on my last day: chambray over a thin sweater, a dotted and pleated skirt and fuschia pink ballerinas  and to add a dash of color to an otherwise basic color palette: top - Zara, shoe s , b...

Here´s what I wore while going back to Spain from our little Portuguese getaway, a no-brainer outfit in classic black and pastel blue and it isn´t even spring yet! If you´re wondering why I´m wearing mostly pants these days is because the weather´s not cooperating much. We´re having rainy and windy weather here all the time (even in Portugal) and I can´t think of nothing else to keep me dry but my jeans, sweater, boots and waterproof jacket. And I re-discovered my love of vests, this pastel blue one was perfect as a ¨topper¨  to complement an all black outfit. It´s light but quite toasty when you wear it over your top. It´s too soon for bulky sweaters, dahlings ! Nope, just not yet. ;) I got lucky that it was a sunny day in Guarda(Portugal) when we took these photos but you what, it was 9 ºC cold at the top! top, pants, coat - Zara, vest - UC of Benetton, boots - Clarks And just before I go, here´s a peek of one of those coastal towns that we visited in Portugal: ...

Boo! Carving pumpkins and making jack-o´-lanterns isn´t customary here in Spain so I just wore this stripe orange sweater on top of my chambray shirt and had my photos taken inside the cemetery of   Sainte- Engrâce , a French basque town nestled between the valleys in the Aquitaine region of France to celebrate Hallow´s Eve. I hope this is good enough as a Halloween costume, lol! ;) The church by the way is from the 11th century, one of the oldest in France. stripe sweater , boots - New Yorker, jeans - H&M, bag - Massimo Dutti Tonight, the bars ( which are a lot if you´ve been to Spain!) around here are hosting a Halloween party, maybe I should go and dress scary or maybe not. Hmmm, let´s see.  So what about you? Are you ready for your Halloween party tonight? ;) Today´s a Wednesday, linking up with The Pleated Poppy´s What I Wore Wednesday and Rolled Up Pretty´s Whatever Whenever Wednesday . xoxo, Che PS:  My heart goes out to ...

Bom dia! We had a long weekend here in the Spanish Basque Country and so we escaped to neighboring Portugal. What I love about Portugal is that aside from the food which is delicious, filling and really cheap, the places to visit are old world ( which I love)  and very interesting. In these hard economic times, visiting the Portuguese side is the best alternative if you´re on a budget. Most of the people ( in stores and restaurants) speak English too and so getting around places and dining isn´t much of a problem. Our home base was Viseu and then from there, we traveled down south to first, the picturesque town of Óbidos : Before that, I noticed this old weather beaten church  called Sao Pedro( St. Peter) just before reaching the town and I just had to have my photo taken beside the door: top , jeans - Zara, bag - Massimo Dutti, scarf , shoes - local store Here´s how the church looks like from the front: From a distance I thought this was an...

As I was telling you in my last post, I´ve been acquiring costume and silver jewelry left and right nowadays but it´s got to stop because I´m broke. lol! Let´s start first with the necklaces like this two-tone chain necklace in gold and neon orange which a lot of you had already seen in the blog: Blanco Then I thought: ¨Why not try something trendy this time?¨ So this leopard-inspired necklace was the next target. It was too heavy (by the way) that I had to take it off just after a few hours of wearing it. Then yesterday while trying to put it on again, the thin wire where those gold toned ¨ arrow heads¨   were strung together broke. It was inevitable, the wire was very thin and the ¨arrow heads¨ were heavy. So I had no choice but to remove the wire and the fletches with it. What a relief  because the necklace was lot lighter after that and I could wear this for the whole day without breaking my neck! Blanco This was the pearl necklace which I´ve been telling y...

¡Hola, hola! Still posing from my kitchen door, hahaha! :) This was what I wore the other day when I had dinner with a girlfriend. Stripes aren´t on trend this season  ( I know!)  but I like recycling clothes so I normally buy colorful skirts and mix them with plain/ printed  tops and different accessories to come up with a different look each time. I first wore this skirt on my trip to Florence last summer. The only thing missing in the photos was my clutch which I forgot to photograph because as usual, I´m running late, hehe. As I´ve been telling you before, I ´ve been jewelry shopping non-stop. This gorgeous pearl necklace with a very simple clasp is just one of them. It was the clasp that got me and the pearl because I love pearls! ;) To finish the look, I wore a pair of thick ribbed tights because I´m still wearing open toed shoes. It just looks sexy, ya know . ;) I think I´ll be wearing open toed sandals whenever I like to dress up until th...