Atlanta Frugal Finds

I’m sorry to inform all of my friends that read my blog of this: I watched The Simple Life on E! last night.

Cut me a little slack here. I think I’m about to turn into Killer the Psycho Klown if I don’t get some chill time and a haircut in a second or two. And my boyfriend is out of town so it’s just me and my three cats chillin’ in the apartment Crazy Cat Lady style. However, the viewing of the infernal BoobTube yestereve was not totally in vain. I saw Ms. NicoleSuperRich wearing a dress that I LOVED. Alas, I could not find a full shot on le internet. View top portion of said frock at left.

Not the most flattering picture ever taken of our little 85-lber, but you see the pattern at least. Search it out and email me the link if you’re that obsessed– I’ll be in your debt.

So today I had some midday clowning to do, after which I avoided 5pm rush by spending a bit of time at the MOG. Truly, I am so over malls. Give me a boutique or a thrift store any day over a mall. But they do dominate the retail landscape in Georgia so for the time I must acquiesce.

This picture is of moi in a WetSeal dressing room. I scoured all the small shops and left the bigger department stores on this trip, but I was trying to find a similar dress to Nicole’s. For less than $25 I think I did fairly well. Opinions? Suggestions for better options?

Do let me know.

Ria’s Bluebird

If you’ve lived here for over a year I think you should be officially denied residency if you’ve not eaten here. They are totally affordable, vegetarian friendly, and even give you a coffee to go– free of charge. What is not to love?

My favorite way to enjoy Ria’s is by indulging in either a) a large pancakes, nicely phrased as “fat stack” (as in, ‘What would you like to have today?’ ‘I’ll have the fat stack with coffee.’) or b) some vegetarian gravy. Yeah, even the Fashionably Fascist-est of us eat gravy because we live in the south and were more or less weaned on it.

Check out the website and get a glance at Ria’s cuteness. Look at her and tell me you don’t want to eat there.

Don’t lie– you know you do.

riasbluebird.com

Has anyone been to 15dollarstore.com lately? I suggest you hop over for a bit.

Let’s play “Make One Total Outfit for Sixty Bucks.”

Here we go:

Start with this cutesy white dress. $15

Pull out that string thing from around the bodice.

Then add

these cute cowboy boots from Rampage. Yes, I know we all did the cowboy thing two years ago. What no one seems to realize is that you have to not wear the boots EVERY FRIGGIN DAY and then you won’t look like a wannabe. So do it. They’re only fifteen bucks anyway.

Finish with this cute, not stereotypical cincher belt. I should own, like,
three of these. This is why you pulled out that weird string thing.

And carry this red wallet. Like a clutch.

How easy was that, really? I mean it’s kind of like a big Ross online, but you can find some way cute stuff there if you are looking.

Check ‘em out.

Run to your nearest Loehmann’s. RUN I tell you!!!

Lots of cute stuff. Today I went perusing the aisles of the Perimeter Loehmann’s, although the Briarcliff/N Druid location is admittedly better stocked.

I cannot explain the extreme excitement I feel when I see an entire rack (or two! or three!) of Free People threads all priced BELOW SIXTY DOLLARS. I know for sure they had this one today priced for around thirty bucks.

Also all swim gear is priced 20% off their already low prices. So we are talking a Juicy Couture skirtini for around thirty-five coconuts or so. Speaking of coconuts…
Feeling kind of spastic today–*bing. Next topic:
Does anyone else want to have a for real luau? I have this pool in my apartment complex that is just screaming for some grass skirts and leis to come and hang around it. But I know that all the luau gear at PartyCity will be on SuperSale once we get back to school… so what if i had a Cinco de Mayo themed luau? Would you come?

Wearing:

Wanting:

Eating:

Missing:

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***This is a complete take-off of a section piloted by Kristopher Dukes, a fellow fashion blogger.  Check her out at KristopherDukes.com.

What Not to Wear. Although I do indeed love it, I am not using this post to comment on that British show pimped by TLC. I am referring to some “fashion” choices I witnessed on vacay. Alas, my digicam was hiding in my hotel for most of my stay, although I believe I could find some hot messes via a little Google that could accurately mimic those things I wish to discuss. Mostly I want to talk about the importance of avoiding Hawaiian Shirt Syndrome. Hawaiian Shirt Syndrome describes the condition of looking like, acting like, or living like you are a stereotypical tourist. Not the cute Aussie exchange student kind, not the baguette munching bare-faced Frenchy kind, but the Unfashionable Kind. The unforgivably dressed kind. The ones that look like our friend to the left, or his similarly attired girlfriend…
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Dear Friends,

I will be away from my blogosphere for a few days.  Flying to New York Monday morning, my first vacay in  six years!

I’ll keep  my eyes open for what the Yanks are wearing and bring some delicious ideas back here on Friday… along with some sweet, sweet H&M.

Wish me luck!

So the clowning business gets quite slow during the summer, and that’s a real shame for me because less cash means less shopping. And although I don’t have the body of a Victoria’s Secret model I am still all about rocking your swimwear with confidence and letting that be your best accessory…

Of course, a large piece of neck candy (or arm candy!) never hurt anyone. So allow me to suggest two affordable types of each– neck candy and swimwear, I mean. You’re on your own with the arm candy.

Victoria Is Not Such A Secret sent me a catalog that has their Beach Sexy bikinis going for either $24 a piece or 2/$40. At that price we should all buy two or four. Always remember that when you are buying coordinating suits you can mix and match tops and bottoms, giving you a large multiple of possibilities. For example, buy two suits and get four looks. But buy four suits and get…. SIXTEEN.

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So I’m a clown. That’s what I do for money, I mean. I make balloon animals and paint faces and do magic tricks. And I wear mascot-sized costumes that have been sitting in the car in the Atlanta sun since 10am when I left the apartment and now it’s 5:45pm and they are stored in gigantic black trash bags which means that on top of being inside a car that reaches approximately 115 degrees inside they are also stored in the most HEAT absorbent material known to mankind.

But I like my work for the most part. And no, that’s not me to the left.

I just dream of an easier way to make money while I wait out my big move to New York for graduate school. Like cuddling with my laptop in a cafe every morning while I’m being paid $25 a post to blog about fashion (yeah, that’s not happening with this gig yet).

So here is my first stab at it, and I hope someone (is it you?) will read this and see that I am brilliant and funny and fashionable in addition to being able-to- withstand-skin-searing -temperatures -without - complaining.

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