Weekend Reads is a series by Wardrobe Oxygen that is published every Saturday. Art, music, interesting articles, sale alerts, and reviews of TV, movies, books, theater, and art exhibits by Alison Gary, and over-40 working mom in the Maryland Suburbs of Washington, D.C.
Reader Laurie asks: When I wear jeans, I quite often reach for the athletic shoes simply because they are so comfortable. I know this is not the most stylish choice, but I’m not quite sure what to substitute. My standby ankle high boots look great with the jeans, but are really not comfortable enough for… Continue Reading Ask Allie – Weekend Shoes
This Weekend: Saturday was an errand day – we pretty much were moving from 8am until 8pm. House cleaned, laundry completed, headed to every store and bank necessary… it was exhausting but really productive and necessary. I ended up crashing around 9pm. I wore a pair of Motherhood Maternity jeans with the Secret Fit Belly… Continue Reading This Weekend and Monday
This weekend was pretty hectic. Wonderful, but hectic. Friday I worked form home the first part of the day. Then my husband and I headed to his aunt’s house where she was hosting a lunch for his great aunts who were visiting from Minnesota. My husband had met them years ago at a family reunion… Continue Reading This Weekend Sep 22, 2008
Saturday was a big at-home day. I wasn’t feeling my best, so I did a lot of things like laundry, sorting through my closet, sorting paperwork, things I usually put off. The weather was also really gross – hot and thick and humid and like soup. That night I was supposed to assist my husband… Continue Reading This Weekend and Monday
So a bit late… sorry for the lack of postings for almost a whole week – baby’s not even here and life has been getting hectic! Thursday I took off because my mom had foot surgery and I was her chauffeur/nursemaid. She’s totally fine – hobbling around with one of those boots but not feeling… Continue Reading Tuesday and Wednesday… and Weekend Recap Sep 3, 2008
This weekend was purposely uneventful. Life has been terribly hectic with weddings, showers, photo shoots, concerts and social engagements so we looked forward to a bit of true couple time and home time this week. This is my look for Saturday which is the only day where we did real activity. I met my husband… Continue Reading This Weekend
The Weekend Friday was exhausting – work was busy, so many personal things to attend to… got home and had to deal with Verizon AND activate the husband’s new Blackberry (I own the account) with a tech who had no clue what she was doing. Had a seat on the couch and next thing I… Continue Reading Weekend and Monday Aug 4 2008
Sorry for the late posting, work was pretty busy yesterday! So this weekend… Friday we went to the Nationals game and it was pretty awesome! Nats beat the O’s 4-2 and we had great seats. I went straight from work so wore exactly what I did all day. Saturday I ran lots of errands and… Continue Reading This Weekend: High School Reunion
Friday night I got home and realized I spilled on my dress, so I switched to the dress that arrived in the mail – the “Kate” dress from J. Crew in “Flame.” This is a bright orange-red that I adore. On sale and with a coupon so the dress was a cheap as Old Navy.… Continue Reading The Weekend through Tuesday