Steal From Your Husband, Part Deux!

It's been a weird week. Tuesday night Chip left to fly to Hong Kong. Yesterday morning I locked myself out of the apartment--awesome, since my husband's gone. Then a car ran a stop sign and nearly ran into me while I was driving my scooter.

Also yesterday the power went out for a couple of hours at work and we just sat around and chatted and laughed. And then it came back on and we all went back to our computers. Just a weird week. Not a bad week. In fact, I've have a great week. Just... weird.

One thing about taking daily photos of my outfits: I notice when I need to change something up. Like yesterday. I wanted to wear husband's button-down denim shirt, but couldn't figure out how I wanted to style it. The scarf wasn't great. And just plain with the necklace needed some color.

And then I remembered this long vest. Perfect! I am really digging this look. And husband is planning on getting rid of this shirt. (It's in his "to sell" pile.) So I think I might steal it indefinitely.

 Martin & Osa top, Old Navy scarf, Gap jeans, Soda shoes, F21 necklace, gifted vest

Long Day

 F21 tunic & necklace, Urban cardigan, Target leggings, Madden boots

Yesterday--Monday--was a long day. It started with bootcamp at 6am (which has left me walking like a weirdo all day because I'm so sore) and ended with getting home from class around 9:30pm. Have I mentioned I'm taking a magazine editing class at the community college? Man, community college classes in California are cheap. So cheap that I can't help but take a class or two.

But it made for a long Monday. But a good Monday.

Tonight husband leaves for Hong Kong. You heard right. Hong. Kong. He's going for work. It's really exciting because it's his first overseas trip for work. And his first trip to Asia. Jealous? Yeah, me too, but I got over it because I know we'll go to Asia together someday.

Anyway, kids, it's seriously time for bed because I've got bootcamp again in the am.

P.S. Think I might be giving up the old Wordpress account to blog exclusively here. Maintaining two blogs on two different platforms is just too much. And silly.

P.P.S. Because husband will be gone for over a week, I might revive the "Steal From Your Husband" series, first seen here. Stay tuned.

Tomboyish

 Old Navy top and bag, Gap sweater jacket, gifted jeans, Banana shoes, Goorin Bros. hat (husband's)

The hubs and I like to go to movies on Saturday mornings with our breakfasts from Starbucks (usually oatmeal or those yummy sandwiches they have) because the early show is $6. Yeah! We're delightfully frugal!

Today I chose a tomboy look. Because I wanted to wear my husband's fedora because my hair is gross because I haven't washed it in several days. You didn't need to know that. But I think the look works. Not like "I'll wear it to work" works, but definitely "Saturday morning movie date" works.

Monday morning I start a month-long fitness bootcamp. At 6am. I need it because I've gotta get back into shape if I'm hoping to run another marathon this year. So I'm hoping it'll kick my butt.

Oh, and my husband doesn't take normal pictures, unless he's posing for someone else's blog.

Steal From Your Husband: Day Four

Oh, hello, blogland. This is the final day in my "steal from your husband" series. This day was tough. I chose a heathered-red T-shirt, which ended up being a bad choice. I tried a couple of different looks before I settled on throwing one of my husbands sweatshirts over the T.

First, I tucked the T-shirt in and threw a black sweater jacket over the ensemble. The problem? The black sweater and dark jeans didn't do much for the outfit. So I switched to a grey shrug. Better, but still just not right. Then, I figured out it was the T-shirt that had to go. I was much happier with the third look.

Thanks, husband, for unknowingly letting me raid your closet!*

In anticipation of my Warby Parker try-ons arriving in the mail, I tried out husband's new frames (they're still sans lenses). He got these and said "They're the same ones Johnny Depp wears!" A man after my own heart, indeed.

The scarf is also husband's, kind of. He was a fiber arts and textiles major and did a lot of silk screening on random scraps of silk. Some of them are still tucked away in boxes of his old art supplies. I think he was going to throw this away, so I took it and occasionally use it as a "scarf-necklace." It works.

T-shirt: husband's BDG (Urban Outfitters)    Sweatshirt: husband's (Gap)    Jeans: Gap    Scarf: silkscreened by husband!    Glasses: husband's    Boots: Madden

Meet Reba, the Yamaha Riva. She's currently out of commission, and we're hoping to get her all better this week after some electrical work.

*I did admit my sneaky shenanigans when hubs got back from his trip.

Steal From Your Husband: Day Two

My apologies for not posting yesterday. I have no good excuse. It just didn't happen.

But today you get two posts, so get excited.

These outfits are from Tuesday, the second day of raiding my husband's closet. Last week we were both sitting on the couch and I was browsing through some style blogs. Every now and then I would hear a groan or a "Now that's a nice outfit" from the hubs.

(Side note: My husband is really fashionable. In fact, he usually dresses better than me and has way nicer clothes then me. Seriously.)

I said something about wanting to be able to wear this-or-that from the such-and-such style blog and he told me I need to "find my style aesthetic."

What does that mean? I guess figure out what I like and what works for me. His suggestion? Wear more button-down shirts. I'm sure he didn't mean from his closet, but whatever.

Top: husband's (Gap)    Cardigan: ON    Jeans: ON    Boots: Banana Republic (on sale for $26!)    Necklace: gift (Gap)