Atlanta Frugal Finds

Dear Fru. Finds edituR,

I needz an dresSS that has KULlors to wur fur FALl. I want a ZTYLE that will look GuD wit heels for now and boots fur Xmas. NE ideas fur whur?

SUperErkA3000

Sigh.

Only a few thousand, SUperErkA3000.

Peeps, when you email me a question try to be a bit more specific about what you want.

“I want a dress.”

Thank you.  That narrows it down considerably.

Also, please include translations where necessary so that the southern public can understand what you are saying.

(That entire paragraph has been copied, bolded, and italicized as it was emailed to me, no joke.  Thanks ERKA!)

Try ASOS.com if you are comfortable purchasing online. This dress is super-adorable and less than $40.

The less-preferred dress to the right can be found at WetSeal ($17), but you can actually head over to Lenox Square and try on.

Just wear a really good bra.  And super-high heels. None of this crazy flat-shoes-with-a-centimeter-bump-for-a-heel stuff either less you look like Granny from Acworth.

And please carry a spell-checker and thesaurus with you.

Have a question?  Hit me up and I’ll figure out something to say: Kat@hometurfmedia.com

Lovelies, I present to you your future:

I beg you to just think about this for a second. That COULD be YOU. And there is a company in Atlanta that wants to teach you how to do THAT. God, that’s hot.

I have been planning to do this for months, and now that the class price is only TWENTY DOLLARS WITH THE FIRST WEEK AT FIVE BUCKS maybe I can actually follow through with my promises.

Hot. Gorgeous. Lush. And that’s just how you will look doing the moves. How your body will look after a month or two…

I guess we’ll have to see, won’t we? So get your ass out of the desk chair and into the air already.

I have a special coupon/announcement thingy. Email me and I’ll forward it to you. Classes start next week.

Check the company info here, email me here.

Right now ladies you can get all your Alloy.com goodies for 20% off.  I don’t even need to tell you a special code b/c it’s just built into the site!

You could get this cutest-ever Babydoll Trench Coat (perfect for Atlanta’s un-winter) for $48, orignally $60.

Do it. I’m going to as soon as I get some extra cash.  When I’m 55.

Let me make one thing perfectly clear–

I do not advocate wearing this specific dress.

It takes a very poor design to make someone with A-cups look like her girls are trying to run south.
Now, to actually make my point:

I’ve always loved these shoes that Paris is wearing.

I was first alerted to their existence by Kristopher Dukes a while back on Top Button Dot Com. (I must insert that I spent a good hour trolling TB’s site and I cannot find the originals that Paris is wearing. My apologies!)

Most people think they’re hideous, and I think they’re fab. Go fig, right? That’s why they are letting ME write the fashion blog.

This a.m., I found the $10 version. Give me some credit– the originals are by a very expensive designer-type.

Pair it up with a non breast-destroying dress comme ça:

So I would wear these two pieces together… if I could find these wedges in a version that boosts me up an approximate 6″ extra.

Time for my caffeine. Mwah. Happy Monday kiddies.

Just think– this weekend you could be hanging out with these guys!

So I was looking for a good weekend event to post about, and I think I found it.

This picture is from the website of Peelander- Z, the Japanese Action Comic Punk Band.

Peelander-Z was formed by — you guessed it– Peelander-Blue, Peelander-Red, and Peelander-Yellow from the Z area in the Planet Peelander.

And they came all the way from Peelander to perform for you, Atlanta. Check out their equally impressive venue, Anime Weekend Atlanta 13, here.

So, friend, what will you be doing this weekend?

more at twiigs.com…

So I want to tell you about this great scented oil company I discovered at Whole Foods Market at Sandy Springs.

The one on Roswell Road, you know?

They have the most delicious smells and they are only $8 a piece.  They are GREAT.

And I’m really poor so I couldn’t buy any.

…

And I don’t remember what the brand was?  But they have a web site.  The brand is Kuumayadfka*(&#$# or something like that.  And the “Zen Mist” smells like childhood distilled and is on me right now.

Here is a really cute picture to soften the blow.

–But really, does anyone know the scents I speak of?

Beautiful vs. booty-full, definition:

Enhancing the figure versus enhancing the butt.

Let’s steal some fashion ideas from those that have more moolah to spend on the wardrobe than most anyone in Atlanta(with the exception of Mr. 3000). I don’t think I need to name either of these ladies. If you don’t know who they are I suggest checking Perez Hilton’s site with more regularity.

Witness the million dollar looks, which I shall recreate for you below for under $75 a piece. Well, dress and shoes anyway.

This totals out to about $57. Bam.

I also promise that this outfit will make you booty/beauty-full. And damn, girl, check the sexy back of those boots!

If you are going for more beautiful and less booty-full, and this purple is loverly btw…

This combo comes in at a whopping $57 as well.

So there you go. Two celeb clothing ensembles for at least 1/10th of the price they paid. Click on the pictures for your links to fashionable and affordable digs.

You can thank me in martinis and cupcakes.  Let’s meet up at Eclipse de Sol and move onward from there.

So I am told by the fashionably powerful, 3/4 sleeve coats are still going to be in fashion this year.

Thank God. They must know where I live.

Now I’m not affiliated with Forever21 in any way whatsoever, and lots of their things are total crap. I just seem to find an awful lot of good stuff on their website.

Lots of their things are great looking and will do for a season or two (if you are both supremely careful and incredibly lucky).

View this beauty 3/4 sleeve jacket to be cinched with the accompanying belt. Of course you could wear each one alone as well…

Bing! Changing topic.

I was browsing Net-A-Porter this morning and found multiple recommendations for wearing long gloves under 3/4 sleeve jackets. I almost came on here to show you multiple pairs of those gloves… If you live here I’ll bet you can guess why I didn’t follow through with that idea. Maybe I’ll post that business in January. I did however, find this really cute purse online for $13, so it wasn’t a total waste of morning.

Also funny…

When I was trying to find something ultra-affordable from an Atlanta boutique I came across THIS DRESS AT FABRIK. Someone should have emailed me when they got this one in. Seems like something I was blogging about in June….

Are you brave enough to wear these green shoes? I think they’re fully boss, and if you will check with the OVERPRICED BUSINESS AT NET-A-PORTER you will see that they suggest shoe-booties and bold shoe colors as two necessary pieces for Fall 2007. I’m in love with some shoe booties and I really like the bright colors of these. Set them off with some opaque tights and a miniminiminiskirt and you’ll rock my socks for sure.

Although I’m in love with booties so much I might be inclined to invest in these instead.

So.  Wanna come party like a Rastafarian rock star for FREE?  Please click above and you too can find yourself hanging out with these…er… funky types above.  But really.  Do come.  Get off the internet and DO SOMETHING.