Check out Rue magazine

Hells yeah, you read that right. OVER 100 comments! When my man slept, I entered and entered…and well entered. I found out I won on Friday while we were at Six Flags for family day. I pulled it up on my phone, and screamed. My hubby thought something was wrong or, I got bad news. No sugar something is right, and I thanked God for another blessing. There is a bigger story behind why I wanted the ipad so badly, but will reserve that story for another day…as I am teary enough.

If only you could see the look on my face. I picked it up yesterday, and played with it a little bit. I am sure with all the plane riding, I will have even more time to play.

See yall soon. In the meantime. Check out Rue magazine. It is a new online magazine that to me represents the best in style, and home decor in “print” right now. Over 250 pages of page turning goodness, that only keeps you wanting more. TRUST ME. Just look below.

In The Fashionista's Closet: Too Tired To Think of a Title

I have been really busy lately and I am oh so tired, the strain of working two jobs is starting to wear me a little thin...

 (Sorry for the expression in this pic, I'm not sure what I was thinking about...) 

I got my FABULOUS thrift items from Reiko yesterday but I left my handbag at school with my camera in it so I couldn't take pics. STAY TUNED for those, I'm so excited!

So happy to nab this navy polka dot jacket at a thrift store for $2.99. I kept thinking I needed a navy and white striped shirt to pair with it and I already had one! It has a red bow on the shoulder but you can't see it.

Haven't worn jeans in quite a while, I love these wide legged pair from 7 For All Mankind.

For some reason I didn't wear these pink peep toe shoes from Nine West that much last year but now they are getting all kinds of use.

I'm so behind on my tv shows that I watch but I did get an opportunity to watch Glee last night and was blown away by Charice's rendition of "Listen" from Dreamgirls. You can watch it here.

In The Fashionista's Closet: Mad Men 2.0

I gave these pics a vintage feel to go with my outfit, I love how they turned out!

 

 I got this dress at least four years ago at Buffalo Exchange, I think it was about 9 bucks. This is when they still used to carry quite a few vintage pieces, now, not so much. When I think of wearing a crinoline I think of this dress.

Last week in class I had three pee-pee accidents and two throw ups so I thought it can only go up from there. 

This week I have a lice infestation.........

Is this par for the course? Am I being hazed? Are the kids secretly plotting against me because they want a teacher who hablas mucho espanol???

Where Are The 'Fits?

Sorry for the lack of posts, I have been a busy bee and had some computer issues last week so now we should be back to our regularly scheduled programming.

In the meantime, check out a post that God's Favorite Shoes did on our Thrifting Challenge. I should receive my goodies this week and I can't wait!

How much do I love these Rachel Roy heels? Not practical for anything in particular but who needs practical?

Check out Sarah Jessica Parker at Alexander McQueen's memorial service decked out in McQueen of course.

 I adore this whole look, check out the bag....

 Outfit posts back tomorrow, later gators!

An Open Letter to Rachel Zoe: I Die

Dear Rachel Zoe,

I admit I didn't like you when I heard of you because I thought you were making all of the stars you styled scarily skinny and that you lied about your age. But I realize now that Nicole Richie was just anorexic or on cocaine and I can't blame you for that. But even if you are lying about your age, I forgive you. I know women that do that so it's all good. Ever since I started watching The Rachel Zoe Project, I've figured out that there are some things I really love about you.

1. Your styling skills are superb. You have a knack for dressing women for their body type and not having them look too over the top. Whenever I watch awards shows and pick my favorites, nine times out of ten, you have styled them.

2. I adore your jackets and your jewelry and I generally like the way you dress.

However, you are eerily thin when the paps have caught you showing skin....

 3. You made the greatest decision ever by hiring Brad and getting rid of Taylor. I enjoy the show now, Brad seems to have come into his own without Taylor's negative vibes stinking up the joint. And I love his style...

So even though I (not so) secretly think Rodger is gay and is sleeping with your hairstylist Joey, please go ahead and have a baby so that he won't leave you for a similar-to-your-build 12 year old boy. Or at least stop talking about your work so much, I think he needs a break from the fashion monotony.

Rachel and Grown Up Justin Bieber (Rodger)

Ba-na-na-ly Yours,

Juanette

 Harper's Bazaar shoot with Zoe and Marc Jacobs

ROAD TRIPPING

THE PEEKING SUN

THE BIRDS

THE BIKE

THE CORN

THE FIREWOOD

THE ORANGES

THE ROCKY SHORE

THE SAND AND SEA

THE TEXTURE

THE TREES

THE WAVES AND ROCKS

THE WORKER

Like what I said, there really is nothing better than being close to nature. :) There is always something beautiful to photograph. Here are some photos and hopefully it will inspire hobbyists like myself who has kept their cameras for far too long :)

CLOSER TO NATURE

A BEAUTIFUL SUNRISE TO START AN EVEN MORE BEAUTIFUL DAY! :)

THE OTHER CAMPERS

GETTING UP TO START THE DAY. :)

BUILT OUR OWN FIRE TO ROAST MARSHMALLOWS. YUMMYY!

STOPPING BY AL AQAH BEACH RESORT FOR DINNER

OUR TENT

Dubai recently had a 3 day holiday (4 to some) in celebration of Eid.

Eid basically is a Muslim holiday which marks the end of Ramadan. Ramadan is the holy month where our Muslim brothers fast from dawn to sunset.

Hun and were thinking of where to celebrate it and I thought that it would be nice to take a road trip since I have not taken my camera out since leaving Paris in 2009.

I don't whether it was the lack of inspiration or I was just lazy. hehehehe

So, we packed our bags, a tent and drove to Fujeirah to be closer to nature. :)