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Tuesday sparkle: Ben-Amun

By Amber, on September 28, 2010, at 10:00 pm

A little splurge that Mark talked me into (I was going to see if I could find a cheap, Chinese version on Harwin St., until he talked sense into me):

Love them! They’re so sparkly. What will I wear them with? Oh, everything…but what will I wear them with first? I have until Friday night to decide.

Double link leather wrap bracelet by Leila Jewelry

By Amber, on March 9, 2010, at 10:00 pm

This photo is brought to you by my near-inability to take a photo of my own right arm:

Just another Billion Dollar Babes find. It was a little bit of an impulse buy, but it is currently one of my favorite bracelets. I don’t typically wear a lot of gold, but I’ll wear it just to go with this. I had a little moment of panic when it first arrived because it seemed a bit short, but I did just a little gentle stretching and now it fits fine.

I really like Leila’s stuff — it’s a little bit girly and a little bit rock ‘n’ roll. You can check it out here, but I’d strongly advise searching for a deal or waiting until it comes back to BDB, because that is way more than I paid.

Fall obsession

By Amber, on November 17, 2009, at 10:01 pm

It’s finally sweater season in Houston! But our threshold for sweaters is wimpier than in most of the country. So I can still wear these:

dresses

…albeit with tights and a sweater. That’s my fall obsession: tights. I love them! They’re comfortable and warm and durable, whereas conventional hosiery is pretty much single-use in my hands. Plus they come in a million fun colors and patterns and remind me a little of childhood (when I probably hated them; funny how that works).

My height and weight combination falls somewhere outside of most hosiery sizing charts, but We Love Colors carries tights in an astounding array of sizes. I have a couple pairs, couldn’t be happier with them, and am constantly looking for a reason I need more.

BTW, the dress on the left was a recent dirt-cheap acquisition from Limited’s end-of-season clearance. The one of the right is by Hale Bob (love their prints), and it was a Billion Dollar Babes score. The BDB price was substantially less than Hale-Bob’s own sale price! The colors were somewhat different than the pictures had led me to believe, which is always a risk when you’re ordering something you can’t return, but it worked out in my favor this time.

Bonus action shot (no tights, alas):

hale bob

Bug bracelet by Meghan Fabulous

By Amber, on October 29, 2009, at 10:00 pm

If you hadn’t noticed, I have a preoccupation with insects:

bug bracelet

When this popped up on Billion Dollar Babes, my other go-to online trunk sale besides Editors’ Closet, I knew I had to have it. I’m careful about ordering solid bracelets because I have large hands that can’t squeeze through those cute Indian bangles that come in stacks of a dozen for dirt cheap, but the provided measurement suggested that this would be no problem.

Of course when I received it, I could not get it over my right hand to save my life. Miraculously, it somehow fits on my left. Good enough.

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