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Recent Thrift Find

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Wearing: thrifted gap dress (300 yen!), gifted white beads necklace (thanks Lisa!) and vintage Salvadore Ferragamo two tone color pumps

I’m back at my parents’ house for the first half of this week. So my sewing projects are currently on hold. I brought over some things to work on, like fabrics that I wanted to cut or patterns that I should glue together, but when I’m at my parents’ house, I tend to get distracted and usually end up not finishing anything I bring over.

My plan to loose weight is also currently on hold as well, since my mom fills the house with delicious chiffon cakes, sandwiches, homemade vegetable and more..

Instead of working on my sewing projects, I have had a chance to go for a long run, go to gym, and shopping while my mom watched the baby. This gap dress was one of my thrift finds from this trip. I scored the dress for 300 yen, and it’s nice since the material is jersey and I can throw it in a washer without thinking about it. I paired it with vintage Salvadore Ferragamo pumps I got from Etsy and a statement necklace to go out for a dinner at natural food restaurant:)

Vietnam Fest

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Had a perfect Saturday today – relaxed and sewed a bit in the morning, went to fabric shopping and vietnam festival at Yoyogi park and walked around the city with my husband. I love Yoyogi park – you get to see a lot of interesting people, people dancing while they jump rope (seriously, pretty impressive), kids playing basketball and drinking at the park (yes, drinking in public is not illegal here!).

I recently got this dress from Bombshell Bettie’s vintage on etsy, and I love it! Too bad the Summer is ending and I won’t get to wear it often until next year. The dress pattern is kind of like a water color painting with green and blue. Came in perfect vintage condition, I just needed to hem it a bit.

Gift for myself

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Wearing: Vintage 70s dress, thrifted cardigan, payless booties,
coat I got 5 years ago in Japan, and Bally bag.

Last week, I went out to Ginza (it’s like 5th Ave. in NY) with my high school friend. I knew what I wanted to get, and was glad to have found it on 50% off sale! I bought this Bally bag as a gift for myself…what’s the occasion? Well, Christmas bonus from my job, plus, having 100th sale for my etsy shop. I usually feel terribly bad for spending a big money on clothes, and I rarely do it, but for some reasons, I can justify spending money on bags. How crazy is that..

By the way, I was in right timing for the Rebecca Minkoff project at TweetMyBag. By posting a picture of your favorite bag at TweetMyBag, you get 25% Rebecca Minkoff bags and enter a style giveaway from Rebecca, and of course I entered it:) Liebemarlene Vintage and KeikoLynn made lovely posts about their bags in their blogs as well.

I was in terrible mood this morning, so I threw on my favorite dress. I knew it would help my mood and it did. I auctioned this off at Market Publique for 20 bucks! And the color, pattern, fit… just about everything is perfect with this dress. I’m ashamed to say that that was my very first time to purchase clothes online. The whole time I’m selling clothes online, I had not bought clothes online until a couple of months ago. But after that experience, I realized shopping clothes online gets pretty addictive..sometimes you can just lost in worldwide web, browsing through all the pretty things that you could buy.