7 Quick Takes, Fashion Edition

I could say this was a Thanksgiving edition, but it really has more to do with fashion/home decor, so there you have it.

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(Ignore my horribly puffy face; I just finished a round of prednisone for food allergy issues)

After seeing Liz Stanley's post on what she was wearing to Thanksgiving, I immediately wanted her outfit. This is our first year to have Thanksgiving at our house, and I wanted something easy to nurse in, easy to cook in, and easy to eat in! As Loft was having a 40% off sale, I did order it, but it didn't arrive in time for the big day. Oh well. I'll save it for another day. However. I did end up wearing this super comfortable nursing dress I got earlier in the fall but haven't worn yet. Easy.

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The back of the "Schroeder"

Let the post partum hair loss begin! I have started losing my hair now that Birdie is almost three months old. I find that my hair falls out at alarming rates until I think I will be bald and then it suddenly stops. Hopefully that will be the case this time, because the hair loss is truly amazing. That said, I still have long curly hair and three children under age four, so I'm always looking for interesting (and easy) ways to wear my hair up. I saw this hair style on Stylish White Female's blog last week and I had to try it. I think the Schroeder is going to be one of my go-to styles. (I'm also a recent fan of the double cinnabun).

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I have decorating issues. My mom has this knack for decorating that I didn't quite inherit. I know what I like, and I do decorate, but I find there is a little something lacking in the details usually. It doesn't help that my children basically contrive to take apart my house on a daily basis. So when it came to decorating our Thanksgiving table, well, I did the best I could. And since I thought of it at about 2 p.m. on Wednesday afternoon, I had to make do with the selection at Kmart since I could get there and back quickly on the bus. But I did find a nice fall-ish tablecloth, and I had gotten the placemats at IKEA a few weeks ago. I got the flowers earlier in the day at Whole Foods, but ended up putting them on the dish cabinet behind the table for the meal to make room and allow for conversation. But we had a nice meal nonetheless.

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During food prep

The other thing I did this year was to order a few key food items from Whole Foods just to relieve some of the cooking burden on me. We didn't have a bunch of people coming (just my mother-in-law and our housemate's sister), but I know with three little children under foot and a mother-in-law who tires easily, I would need all the help I could get in the kitchen. As it happened, the whole time I was getting everything together, Birdie was screaming (at least utnil I put her in the carrier, but then I had to cook over the carrier). But everything was delicious and we had enough food for two complete meals, with a small amount of leftovers, so it all worked out well.

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I eat my pumpkin pie with cool whip, because that is the only meet and right way to eat pumpkin pie, in my opinion. All else is OUTRAGE! (to quote Fr. Vasiliy Vasilievich at The Onion Dome). So it was a nearly unforgiveable offense when my husband stuck the cool whip back into the freezer after the noon meal so that it was frozen when I wanted it for my pie after dinner in the evening. Luckily cool whip defrosts quickly and I was able to have my pie and whip by the time the dishes were done.

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My target.com woes continue. We don't really have enough chairs for our table, and have been slowly adding two at a time as we go along. None of the chairs match, which is fine, given the vintage of our table and my own ecletic sense of order. The most recent set we ordered a few months ago from Target, but they haven't restocked since then, so I thought I would just order something similar to have it for the holiday. The chair set I picked was a bit more money than the original bargain we got, but I thought we should just finish with the chair buying already. The box arrived on Wednesday (perfect timing!), so I opened it up to put it together, and discovered that a) the chair is a barstool height (which was not indicated in the online description) and b) there was only one (despite reviews and pictures to the contrary). I went through the online return process (again) and it didn't work (again), so I called customer service (again) and was put on hold a long time (again) and made a big stink about it being their problem to fix it, and there was no way I was going to return this sucker to the store. So they did something on their end and after several hours, a bona fide shipping label showed up in my inbox, and now everything is fine (I hope).

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In keeping with the fashion theme, this is a card I made a few months ago and sent to my sister as a "break a leg" card for a play she was in. She is so fashionable and into vintage, that I knew she'd love this card. I CASEd it from Nance Leedy.

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