Tag: What I Wore Today

I snapped these after I came home from my deep dental cleaning: I finished 2 out of 4 quadrants and have another lined up for next Wednesday! Tee: Loyal Army Skirt: Heidi Seeker Necklace: AppleNoggin Belt: I dunno…..maybe Naughty Secretary’s Club but I have no clue!

This is the tee that Hairy bought me at Disneyland! This weekend consisted of Manda’s yard sale, Goodwill adventuring, Thai food, the Loyal Army sample sale, eats at Cha Cha Cha, quick wander around the Haight, and a major Target run. Today: desperately trying to finish Valentine’s eBay auctions, trip to post office, must purchase printer, paper. My plan is to have the most-likely-to-be-one-of-a-kind Vday stuff on eBay, and then give myself a day or two to finish up other Vday items to be posted on my site or on etsy. Sorry I always get holiday stuff out so late. I’m tryin! 😉

So there it is. It’s for my boss’ charity event, and she requests formal full-length gowns, but, I also wanted something I’d be able to wear more than once (I’m not really a full-length kinda gal). Any suggestions about accessorizing and styling are completely welcome. That’s just how I have my hair today, and then I threw on pearls at the last second but am not married to the idea. I don’t really want to buy new shoes, so I’ll just have to stick with what I have around the house! I am thinking I may try my clip-in hair extensions for this night, but I don’t know yet. I DO need to touch up my roots, tho! Wish I were brave enough to do that myself at home! Earlier this morning, I was doing this: And that’s what I’ll be doing more of right now, and maybe take a “break” to work on my taxes. I’m really into rosettes right now!

My long-sleeved kitty dress by I’m Your Present! I am trying to be REAAAAAALLY good at not buy anything from her for a bit (or any clothing at the moment)! Today I finished baking up the peppermint swirl cookies. At first I wanted to bring them to my folks’ house on Xmas day, but I ran out of time and the dough has been in the fridge. I finally rolled up the layers and stuck them in the oven! I found the dough not too pliable, even after I left it out to warm for a bit, and everything kept crackling and crumbling!!! So I ended up with a bit of air in my layers, which is sad (holes in cookies!). Also, I didn’t really prefer the flavor. I think I need it sweeter and more pepperminty! Also I’ve never ever worked with nonpareils before AND THEY GET EVERYWHERES!!!!!!! Today I also caught the pups cuddling in front of the space heater. Sorry it’s so dark. Bibi’s face is resting on Bunny for a while until Bibi gets curious and decides to come over and say hi. Aside from baking cookies, I ended up eating a peanut butter brownie and left over stuffing today. I LOVE LEFTOVER STUFFING!!! What is your favorite holiday leftover?

Tonight, Hairy and I joined my mom, dad, and brother for dinner at The Village Pub. Afterward, as is our family tradition, we went back to my parents’ house to open family presents and Jaci joined us, too. I think I will do an xmas prezzie photo round up tomorrow. Tonight, I am still crocheting a present for my mom! Also, I plan to bake two more batches of cookies, except, we ran out of powdered sugar and there is no store open right now!!! Doh!!! Anyway, here is a pic of some stuff I acquired recently (mostly from Disneyland). From left to right: 1) Polka dot fleece throw from a store called Libby Lu in Downtown Disney. I LOVE THIS STORE!!! It’s so pink and princessy and pretentious. It’s every little girl’s pink polka dot dream!! 2) Pop Sugar glitter tank top from Libby Lu. Okay, so this store is for like, little girls, right? So, I’m not really assuming I can fit into any of the clothing, but a grown up can can have pink polka dot dreams, too?! I picked up this awesome tank top for what I thought was going to be $9.99 on sale, but when she rang me up, it was TWO DOLLARS AND NINETY EIGHT CENTS!!! SCORE!!!!!!!!!!! Unscore: I tried it on at home and it’s hideous because it’s boxy/wide and too short. I just can’t pull off the short tops anymore, as my lady-sized muffin tops are quite abundant at the moment…. I suppose it would make for a good gym shirt, if I went to the gym (which I should!!!!). 3) Awesome teddy bear neckwarmer made by Rosaleen Dhu. She makes all kinds of animal scarves, so check out her shop! 4) Alien t-shirt which was a prezzie from Hairy after we got off the Buzz Lightyear ride at Disneyland. It’s also a weird boy sized boxy shirt which I have not dared to try on yet……now that I think about it, I should make a blog post for all my new ill-fitting children’s clothing!!! :/ 5) Awesome pink top from I’m Your Present. The shiny bow is TO DIE. I wore it tonight with my black jumper. Also it kinda perfectly matches my hair color. Also I got a haircut today to mow down some of my hair weeds. When I used to put some styling wax in it, Pickle said it looked like I had twigs growing out of my hair. Man, I miss my twigs! Hope you all have a very safe and warm Xmas! I can’t wait to eat!!!!!

WIWT 12.9.08, originally uploaded by TWiNKiE CHAN. Sorry about the crazy hair in this one. I kind of had no idea it was so messed up until I looked at the pics just now!! Haha. Today I wore a handmade dress by ohladysolo on eBay. I bought two from her! I loved this little Eiffel Tower print and the pretty blue color! The cardigan is from Old Navy, the sweater clips from PeptoGirl, and the necklace from applenoggin on Etsy. I have been working on finishing up a special order. This is one of 3 scarves. I rarely do cupcake scarves with strawberries, so this was a fun break from cherries! And this week I’m focusing on one more shop update for the holidays, and then, onto gifts! More soon!

Ugh. I know this blog has become a wiwt-fest, but sometimes I feel like my life is too boring otherwise for actual blogging and photos! Here are more entries with no bottoms because I’m just wearing jeans these days. Sparkly pink striped dress: from www.GoJane.com Cardigan: Target Necklace: applenoggin.etsy.com Hair flower: Tarina Tarantino I wore this to go to lunch with my friend Margaret and my mom. We ate yummy greek food at Evvia! We were very loud and talked about marriage and babies and stuff like that, and at some point my mom said the word “vagina” really loudly in public while business people in button-ups and khakis were eating their slovaki and baklavas. Hilarious. It explains a lot about me, I think! Haha! I don’t think about the colors in my outfit being very loud, but Margaret was also in a hot pink track jacket, and my mom came into the restaurant in this adorable and giant white coat with huge polka dots all over it. We must have been quite a sight in relation to the earth tones and navys of most of the other diners. This is from today. I went to Manda’s house in the morning to work on our hoodies, and somehow the rest of the day ran away from me, and I feel really badly that I didn’t get very much work done. Ugh. This is why I end up working until 5am! And I had to get up earlier than usual the past two days so I have been on full-throttle sleep dep. ZZzzzz. Shirt: www.Postlapsaria.com Cardigan: Old Navy Necklace: applenoggin.etsy.com Tonight I hope to wrap up a special order (I really don’t do many of these but she was really nice and has been waiting a LONG time and also she keeps touching base with me WHICH IS KEY!), and this weekend I want to work one more shop update for Xmas. Here’s to hopin! p.s. oooooh I just opened some fun mail! Pics tomorrow.

WIWT 12.3.08, originally uploaded by TWiNKiE CHAN. When I don’t want to get out of bed and feel like I want to be a huge slob and exude COMFORT, my favorite go-to outfit is a dress over pants. I know that in many circles, this is an incredibly UNstyley choice, but I have to admit, it’s a standard of mine, because you get the cuteness of the dress, but the utility of the jeans! So you can’t see the jeans in this pic, but they are there, providing warmth! The dress was a bday gift from Hairy. At first I didn’t thikn I could rock this orange (it’s much brighter than the peach pictured), but it’s growing on me. The dress is exquisite and adorable, and has huge giant pockets! I just bought the little grey hoodie from Becky’s livejournal. I love that when I went to see what size it was, it basically said “13 years old.” Haha, perfect! Dress: www.MyRebe.com Hoodie: Y.d. Necklace: www.KidPirate.com So, the Twinkie Chan-ifesto that I threw together with some of my infamous childlike graphics is going over pretty well, and I’ve been putting together my (rather meager) press. Today I trekked to Joanne’s Fabrics (that place was packed!) to pick up some raw materials for some holiday hoodies that I am going to be working on with Manda starting tomorrow morning. Exciting! I’m also aiming for another shop update next week, so don’t fret, there will be more to buy before Xmas! Oh also, here’s a clip of Bibi being 47 lbs!! WOW!!! She’s a big girl. Also Bibi watching Star Wars. And me trying to coordinate a trip to see Twilight!

So, every day, at 2pm and 3pm, if I am home, I watch re-runs of Beverly Hills, 90210. I have learned many important lessons from 90210, such as, if you are being held in your room by a rapist, and somebody comes to visit randomly, and the rapist tells you to make the person go away, you say through the closed door, “I have a migraine! I’ll talk to you tomorrow, Matty!!!!” And then that person will know to grab the baseball bat by the front door, barge into your bedroom, and put the smash down on your rapist. How did the person know? Because you never call him MATTY. Thank you, Donna Martin! Today’s lesson was in controlling dramas and violence. Don’t let someone talk you into a fight. You are bigger than that. How do you let them know? YOU “SQUASH IT.” This is how it is done. End of confrontation! And you still look “cool,” so don’t worry….. Okay, and today’s WIWT is from taking photos for new choco chip cookie mitts to go up on Black Friday. Kitty tank top: from a shop in Hong Kong Mini skirt: www.HeidiSeeker.com Leggings: I think from Urban Outfitters a few years ago Socks: I have no idea! Cookie Mitts: ME! Necklace: www.KidPirate.com Shoes: Marc Jacobs

I am getting a heck of a lot of use out of my black jumper! And again, it’s my cute kitty tee by Em and Sprout. I got dressed doublequickstyle today because I had to race to the office to meet with a potential intern. Then, I had to go to the post office, so I took a break to get brown rice sushi and Odwalla carrot juice and to drop off some of my TurkeyDay/eBay packages. While walking back to my car, someone approached me, and this is how it all went down. I call this scene, “The Back-handed Compliment.” Lady: Your look is so cute! Me: Thanks! Lady: It looks like you work really hard to look that way! Me: Uh…well…you kind of just start accumulating some things here and there … and the next thing you know, you look like THIS. Lady: You and I look better than aaaaaall these people out on the street. Some people leave the house in sweat shirts and sweat pants! Where’s the femininity? Me: (opening car door) Well, it’s nice to be comfortable, too. OK BYE! Please to visualize this woman with very curly permy hair, a fur vest, and a wrist brace which I thought at first was a wrist warmer which would have been awesome. When I am an old lady, I will wear fur vests. It did make me wonder, tho, if I have become too vain or concerned with my physical appearance. When I was in fourth or fifth grade, I went to my friend Kate’s house, and she and her other friend Erin were going to go shopping at the mall. I was not really into shopping or clothes at this point, but I went anyway to hang out. Erin asked, “Did your mom give you money to shop?” And 9 year old me was like, “Heck yeah! I have forty dollars!” and Erin was like, “Forty dollars? For clothes!?” I felt very weird hanging out at that point. What loser only brings $40 to the mall to go clothes shopping! I’ll take one sock from Banana Republic please! THX! Today, I still do not like browsing racks at malls, although I am an INSANE online shopper. But I wonder if I care too much how I look when I leave the house. I will NOT leave the house without eyeliner. I look like a 60 year old alien without eyeliner. Trust me. This is a service that I do for you. But the clothes and the hairclips and the purses? I guess that’s for me, and I’m okay with that. If it makes me feel happy and cute and okay with the world, that ain’t such a bad thing. Oh yeah, here are Hairy and Bibi. She looks really evil.

Dress by MissDandy Don’t you love how much care and precision I put into cutting myself out and pasting myself in? People should pay me for this! Also, only one day left for my TurkeyTastic eBay auctions!

I have a really cute long fleece coat in pink that I will wear outside, but I forgot to snap pics of it! On one hand, the concept of WIWT seems overly self-absorbed to me. But on the other, it gives me a little more incentive to wear more of my clothes, instead of going to jeans and t-shirts every day. Why have the clothes if you are not going to wear them? I still need to get more sweater/lingerie bags, tho, to keep my cute handmade clothes in clean rotation! Tonight we are going to this. If you are in SF, you should come out! (I’m still tweaking that durned mitten pattern. I can’t let it go! AHHH!! I need to stop tinkering and move on! Anyway, hope to finish my favorite ones before the weekend is out.)

Another day I didn’t wear pants! I can’t remember where some of this stuff came from because I’ve had them forever. The Parker Posey Shirt and the belt I’ve had for ages. And the shoes, well, let’s not even talk about shoes because I only wear one pair everyday, basically! Skirt: www.HeidiSeeker.com Leggings: Macy’s Socks: www.sock-dreams.com Popsicle Necklace: a boutique in Kowloon I was up late last night trying to finally nail down my own pattern for mittens. There are some patterns that are like hand tubes, but I always like my mittens and fingerless mittens to also have some shape in the wrist. I will probably keep tweaking and keep tweaking (and thus driving Dorita crazy) but I am fairly happy with what I’ve come up with so far. I finished one whole one and then ran out of yarn. I basically live at Michael’s and they should just let me have a cot there for napping! I’ve a really really cute idea for a neat ice cream cone mitten! I’m so into things like mittens and fannypacks right now that it seems the scarves have fallen to the wayside, but I also have tons more cute ideas for scarf collections. I just need a thousand hands! Here’s a peek into my pattern notebook. It’s a total mess. I then type them up later with cute Photoshop graphics (you know how I roll) and photos of finished objects, but nobody gets to see that except me, Dorita, and the copyright office (triad posse of 3, reprezent). I am off to visit the office, mail something off to ShanaLogic, and also mail 3 scarves to my dad’s friend for her nieces on Thanksgiving!

I do not have a strong history with sweaters of anywhere near Cosby-proportions. I get hot really easily and prefer layering over my tees with cardigans that don’t need to be pulled over my head (anyone with high maintenance hair will understand!). But I got this little green 3/4 sleeve from Forever 21 and I think it’s about the cutest thing ever. It’s a little short on me, but, what’s a little muffin-top time on a 30+ year old woman, eh? Oh about them turkeys, I will be whipping up a turkey-themed auction before T-Day. Gobble Gobble.

I’m truly a t-shirt and jeans girl. It’s comfy. It’s practical. It’s easy. But today was a rare day I decided to sport a jumper and leggings. Documented! Last night, Hairy mentioned the term “WIWT” which isn’t fully in my vocabulary, so I guess this is a WIWT post. T-shirt: www.All-Mighty.net Jumper: www.Forever21.com Leggings: www.urbn.com Shoes: www.amazon.com (Demonias) My Trusty Necklace: www.KidPirate.com Also documented: the messy state of the coffeetable/workspace today. Tonight, I believe, we are eating hot pot and frozen yogurt. Yums!