The Blogs Made Me Buy Them

"Minty Fish"--Saturday, 5/14/16

This blog post from February 2015 promised "7 casual work outfits with jeans" and really delivered with this mint sweater + jeans + leopard flats combo.

From women-outfits.com

There's no need to reserve this cute look only for work, though.  In place of the embellished collar (doesn't it look to you like an inverted crown?), I added a separate statement necklace to my outfit.  Does mint go with fish?  I'm seeing some recipes that suggest yes (must they all contain lemon as well?) but I am more intrigued by the Vietnamese herb fish mint.

Mint cardigan vest (JCP), $7.82/wear
White long-sleeved crew neck T (Lands End), $1.71/wear
Bootcut jeans (thrifted, Target), $0.21/wear
Leopard flats (Nordstrom), $2.78/wear
Gold fish charm necklace (Ann Taylor), $4.96/wear

Outfit total: $17.48/wear

In other news...Last night I read this blog post about the new Lauren Conrad LC Disney Alice in Wonderland collection at Kohls.  For grown-ass women.  I am not making this up.  When I looked online, I found that there is also a Colleen Atwood Alice Through the Looking Glass collection (as in the new movie coming out later this month).  I told Robert that I didn't need any of it and he said (quite rightly), "It isn't about need."  True, it's about love.  I ordered the blue bunny blouse and a selection of graphic Ts/tanks.  We'll see how they work out.

There is also a collection for girls, which is super-adorable.  Why do I not have any girls to shop for?  WHY???

Last weekend I ordered the board game Carcassone, which is a tile-placement game that works with 2 players.  We've played several times already, and it's a winner.  (I had seen a blog post in which someone bought a different game, but when I looked it up, it requires 3 players.  A reviewer referred me to Carcassone as a two-player option.)  It reminds me a bit of dominoes, which makes sense, I guess, with the whole tile-placement thing, though there is a little bit of resource management to it as well.