Style Diary: New Scarf

Fashion has a way of making you want to purchase things you really don’t need.  Take a look through any woman’s closet and you’ll see multiples of everything.  My latest don’t-need-but-had-to-have was my black scarf with metallic dots, discovered at Off 5th.  Its modern cut (it’s already pre-formed into a loop that you can wear long or double-up) is what helped me rationalize the purchase.  “I’m updating my winter look” er so I thought.  In actuality, this scarf isn’t even fit for a chilly fall being that it is practically sheer and so lightweight.  If I were honest with myself at checkout I’d have realized it was far less practical of a purchase and simply an impulsive fashion update.

Here it is with my mom’s vintage suite (skirt hemmed higher), flower brooch, masculine boots and Chanel purse.

What was your latest impulse buy?

I’m thinking of doing a shopping haul pictorial round-up and/or shopping video for my blog.    Any interest in seeing what I bought over Thanksgiving week?

Fab Fete: Cupcake Caps

I’m a nut.  I just spent the last hour obsessing over finding the perfect cupcake toppers for my engagement party.  I recalled seeing these beautiful toppers in the form of Chanel quilting and felt the need to HAVE them at my party.

Of course it took me an hour to find them online because I had searched “cupcake topper”, “designer cupcake” and “cupcake tops” before finally searching cupcake cap and getting to my desired website cupcake caps!  They make any amateur cupcake baker like me magically transform into a Martha Stewart professional.  Just bake your cupcakes as you normally would, heck bake something straight out of the Betty Crocker box, frost quickly (doesn’t have to be perfect) then srew on a cupcake cap and voila you’ve got yourself a designer cupcake for only 1$ a cap!

Unfortunately, by the time I re-discovered the lovely cupcake topper site, I learned that the turnaround time for the caps I wanted was 2weeks, longer than what I needed for my event.  Ah well.

I did however, fall in love with a few other vendors along the way that I will now include into my favorites list.  Check out ticings, edible icing sheets that fit cakes or cupcakes and come in all sorts of holiday, special occasion and kids themes.  You can create your own logo or pattern too!


On a similar note, I found that I can add fashionable patterns sticker-style with edible prints.

Who knew baking could be such a piece of cake?

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