On Lar/moi: cami from Rockit Boutique • mesh shirt thrifted • Zara skirt • old gladiator sandals from a trip to Florence • gifted Michele watch • BCBG OMG bracelet • curtain swag from Hancock Fabrics

Hi guys! It’s Friday! Yippee yeah! Lots of things to be excited about: Cath has been away all week – le sigh – but she’s coming back tonight! Plus we’re just about to jet to the airport to pick up my in-laws who are coming in from Sudan!

Before I go here’s a quick list of how Scar-Oh and I are alike:
1) We both live in Georgia
2) We both like flouncy dresses and big hats (who doesn’t)
3) We can both arch our right eye-brow pretty effectively.
4) We both wear window dressings on our persons. That ropey thing I have around my neck is actually something to sweep a heavy drape off to the side of a window. I bought it to wear with my (not-yet-purchased) all white summery ensembles – the kind that I usually am scared to wear because I know I’ll inadvertently sit in a pile of dirt 15 minutes after I put it on. So for now off-white and pink ensembles will have to do. Maybe one day I’ll graduate to wearing the whole curtain – white instead of green velvet.

Hope you have a wonderful weekend, lovelies!!!

I’m nearly legally blind without my goggles on. I much prefer my contacts, but during the spring and summer in Atlanta there is some allergen in the air that makes my eyes and contacts kung fu each other.

I know frames are trendy now, but no matter how popular they become, I won’t like glasses on me (love them on other people though). The pair I wear now are my favorite ever because they are almost non-existent. But they don’t fool me. I can still see you, you skinny feather-weight-ified frames that constantly slip down my nose and make going down stairs tricky (fuzzy peripheral vision sucks). I want to rip them of my face and stomp them into little shards – except my foot would probably miss the glasses because I wouldn’t be able to see the darn things. Damn you, lack of depth perception!

Anywhoddle, I usually take the things off before I take a photo: 1) because I’m vain (and don’t like the way they look on moi) and 2) there’s a glare issue. Both bad reason. So I figured I’d keep them on this go round.

(See how the photo below is fuzzy? I wish my eyes were that good without my glasses!)

These made up for the glasses today:

On Lar: DIY cut-up thrifted man’s shirt • Citizens of Humanity skirt • Madewell necklace • Silvia Tcherassi for Payless shoes

p.s. Thank you guys for all the sweet comments on the last post! It truly made me think, maybe I can do more of this. Xoxoxo, Lar

Okay, first off, let me warn you, this is not going to be everyone’s cup of tea. This knitted top/dress kind of looks like something that belongs over a neon, high-cut bikini from 1982. on the beach. seeing as it’s, you know, see-through.

But just give it a second look. See how clean and minimal it looks with khaki and black? Notice the overabundant ventilation holes (key to any deep South summer)? See how it’s kind of a neutral but with added texture?

On Lar/Moi: thrfited knitted top • Ashley Watson recycled leather purse • Zeebra bra (so comfy and lots of coverage) • AE shorts • Mango shoes • BCBG ring and OMG! bracelet • Kristen Coffin rings

Also, I got it for $12 at Rag-o-rama! That day I took my closet purge goodies to Rag-o-rama, I thought I would just have myself a little look (I know I’m supposed to be cleaning out my closet, but this folds up real small – I promise!). For you see, I’m not the first person to think this whole knitted top thing looks good. In fact I stole the idea from a bunch of Scandinavian girls’ closets and the Isabel Marant Spring 2011 show.

Scan girls: Elin Kling • Emma Elwin • After Drk

And this is how the Isabel Marant girls wore it. I promise to never think this knit is so awesome (or I am) that I can wear it the way girlfriend #2 has it. I’ll save that for the professionals:

So tell me, did I convince you? Would you wear something like this or do you think I’m just nuts?

So before I can hoof it over the Atlantic to my new home in Scotland there are some things to do (apart from not thinking about leaving my twinie, and the rest of my fam and friends).

It turns out that we will be carrying everything we need in Edinburgh in two medium-sized suitcases each. Going by my current closet status, I can fit my boots in one suitcase, my sweaters in another, jackets in the third, tees and blouses in the fourth, and because I’m a generous wifey person, I’ll give Matt a quarter of the fourth suitcase for his clothes. He doesn’t need shoes.

Okay, okay, okay, so I have to clean out my closet. Like whoa. So I purged last weekend. I’m bad at it. I think about it for weeks, grumble about having to do it, and cry a little over my favorite worn out boots that won’t last a week in Scottish rain. It’s silly to get sentimental about things. They don’t matter! I’ll be in one of my most favorite countries with my awesome mans. Awesome! Lovely! Beautiful! I can smell the fresh Scottish air now – ahhhhhgahhh, I have to give away the pink cowboy boots to?!!

Done and done. Most will be going to Rag-o-Rama and Good Will. Reduce and reuse! Once it’s done, it feels good. I still have another wave of purging to go: I won’t need my summer clothes for the next few years and I have one two many coats. But for now, it’s a start, and Matt can have at least one suitcase all to himself.

What are your tips, readers? How do you go about culling your closet? How often do you do it and what’s your method?

Silvia Tcherassi for Payless and Hunter boots

Two new pair of shoes in the same month is a little extravagant. Well, “extravagant” is relative, right? The first pair: from Payless. And  I paid for them with a 20% off coupon from Kroger (that’s one of our local grocery chains for those not familiar). I also had been eying them for about a month (stalking my prey- you know how it is), and I took the grocery store coupon as a sign from the shoe god (can you imagine his/her closet?!), and scooped them up.

The second pair: real wellies – dressed up. I’ve wanted a pair of Hunter wellies since about the age of 10. My anglophilia started very early (with PBS). I was going to go for the classic wellie until I saw these 1) had a heel, 2) had laces and 3) were on sale at Shopbop. Yippee!

Guess which pair will work better in Edinburgh?

Somehow I don’t think this outfit will work as well in the wind and rain: