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At Make-Do Mondays, we discuss how we’re simplifying, downsizing, repurposing, buying used, and using what we’ve got.It’s a carnival you can visit to celebrate creative problem-solving, contentment, patience and ingenuity. If you want to participate, you can share your own make-do solution in the comments or write up a Make-Do Mondays post at your blog, then return here to link via Mr. Linky.Here’s a mini-tutorial on Mr. Linky:
Click on the icon and a separate page will pop up. Type in your blog name and paste in the url of your new Make-Do Mondays post. Click enter and it should be live. If it doesn’t work, just include the link in the comments.To visit people’s posts, click on Mr. Linky and when the page comes up, click on a name. You should be taken right to the page that they provided. If I have time, I come back and update the post by hand.
- Sunnydaytodaymama (Dandelions)
- Trish Southard (Traveling Pants)
- The Goat (Sesame Oil)
Make-Do Mondays with AnnA friend of mine was helping me with some style concerns. I needed to look conservative for a business event, and she thought a cream suit with a simple white shell would be a good look for me.Trouble was, I didn’t own a cream suit. Or a white shell.At her recommendation, I looked through TJMaxx, Stein Mart and similar discount stores.No cream suit.No shell.The event was looming. A little concerned, I contacted my friend and asked, “What should I do?”She said she still thought that the cream suit would look best, especially this time of year. She said that a lot of the female newscasters were wearing cream suits and looked classic. But, since I didn’t have one, she was going to send me off with my black suit and a simple, light-colored tailored blouse or cream shell, to soften the look a little bit.”But,” she suggested, “maybe you could swing by Goodwill and check if they have a cream suit, just in case.”So I did swing by Goodwill, just in case.I looked through the blazers and found a lovely, almost stone-colored, cream Ann Taylor blazer. My size.But it was just the blazer. No pants.Wouldn’t it be cool if the pants had simply gotten separated? I took the blazer over and held it up to the slacks, walking slowly along the racks.What’s this?Gasp!I found the matching pants!And…Gasp!I found a white shell!So I attended the event in a simple cream suit after all, making-do in style.
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Oh. You KNOW I love that. And it looks great! (Man, I need a fashion friend…)
That’s a really stylish suit! What a fantastic find. We buy all our clothes second hand and I love that we get some really nice things that we’d never be able to afford new 🙂
Ahhhh soigne’ and chic classic …I love it …love the minimalist sensibility to it all also!
Oh! That looks lovely!
What are the odds?
Wow, you are a lucky girl!!!
SMM: I’m hopeless without my friends’ input.
sunnymama: It’s so true–I probably wouldn’t have set foot in Ann Taylor, but there she was waiting for me at Goodwill. I tell you that suit looks like it has never been worn.
trishsouthard: Oh, if you were here, I’d have turned to you for my style help!! You advised me early on, as this other friend confirmed, that I need to stick with classic. And minimalist also fits me. Simple. Basic. Maybe even a little boring! 🙂
Meredith: Another friend exclaimed, “That HAS to be a gift from God for you, Ann! That just doesn’t happen to people!”
Leila: (See above response to Meredith)
What a great suit and what a great find!! Bravo for sticking with it and looking for what your friend thought was best. It all worked out wonderfully!
What a wonderful find! You look so springy!
I love a story of victory from the thrift store. You look great!