Glitter goods
My scores from the Goodwill Glitter Sale! Compared to last year, I’ve already worn 4 out of 5 of the items I snagged. I’m even rocking these drop earrings today! I was trying to be a more realistic and practical shopper this year š
Events
All that glitters……
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| 5am arrival – just an hour later than we had planned – NBD |
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| Posted up |
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| Glam Bum Chic |
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| Spiced cider spiked with rum – keeps a gal warm |
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| Only 4 more hours to go…. |
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| Behind us – suckas! |
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| In front of us š |
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| Ticket to entry – not bad, not bad |
So, we did it! We woke up at the butt crack of dawn to get in line for the Annual Goodwill Glitter Sale in Seattle. We arrived last year at 8am and were 1,000th in line so we stepped up our game in 2012 and planned on a 4am arrival figuring we’d be first in line. Well, 4am became 5am and sadly we weren’t first in line. Womp, womp. But we did manage to sit nice ‘n pretty in the low hundreds which guaranteed us entrance with the first group of thrifty shoppers. Go us!
We tucked ourselves into our camping chairs, drank warm things, gossiped and watched the sun rise over Beacon Hill. Soon enough, it was time for us to get our shop on. The layers of warm clothes came off and we walked right into the shopping chaos that is the Glitter Sale. My focus this year was on purses, scarves and, as always, jewelry. The purse area was out of control (way too many elbows being thrown for my liking) so I refocused my energy on shoes. Unfortunately, the shoes were sorted by color and not size so it was difficult to browse efficiently.
Luckily, our low entrance numbers gave us access to the coveted jewelry counter pretty quick so I teamed up with a volunteer and nosed my way through the endless amounts of sparkling goodness. I worked up a pretty good shopping sweat picking out the eye catching baubles (something about the crowd and the pressure can really get to a gal….) I ended up with 2 pairs of earrings, 1 necklace and 2 scarves. Not a crazy haul, but I got some sparkly swag that has already been incorporated into my wardrobe. So incorporated in fact, that I will have to dig it all out to take some pics so you can see exactly what I got!
Photos of the goodies to follow……
Her majesty, Madonna
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| Photo courtesy of Danielle Plant, photographer extraordinaire! |
The gal pals and I recently hit up the Madonna concert at Key Arena. We had bought tickets back in the spring and decided that it was time for us to “big girl splurge” on seats ie. not be up in the rafters for once. Thankfully, buying tickets 6 months ago slowly took away the pain of the ticket price – sheesh! I had to keep telling myself, “It’s Madonna Leslie, this is a once in a lifetime thing. You can do it – no big deal.”
Although her vocals aren’t anything to write home about, her stage presence and dance moves were totally amazing and made up for it. Seeing her move like that was honestly quite inspiring. If I could only move like that when I’m her age, I’d be set. Man.
She played for about two hours – the notorious cone bra was rocked, pants were dropped, political statements were made and priests were in abundance. At one point during ‘Like a Prayer’ I felt like we were in church, but not in one of those stifling, boring ones but like a totally kick ass, rock out with your ‘ish out type. I seriously considered taking Madonna as my religious at one point during the night. That’s normal, right? š
This show kicks off our week long music venture as we take off to Austin for Austin City Limits early next week. Yee-haw!!!
JFS Food Sort.
OMGeeee! So much food – it was a sight to be seen! JFS hosts an annual food drive around the Jewish holidays and we invite volunteers to come help us sort it all out and store it away for use down the road. This was my first time at this event and it was utterly divine organized chaos – I loved every minute of it! Click here to find out how you can donate to my organization and our Food Bank.
Air brb’ing
I had a nice, long holiday weekend which included our 6 year anniversary and lots of prep for the upcoming concerts I’ll be seeing in the next week. Her majesty, Madonna, will be rockin’ Seattle this week (I will be dressing with an ode to her Erotica album – hello black pleather!) then we take off for Austin City Limits the following week for more non-stop music action.
After our Austin hostel dropped the ball (and our reservation) last week, I discovered airbrb.com and booked a place to crash for the first few nights we were in town. I ended up finding a sick place near Zilker Park within walking distance to all sorts of cool things. I’m totally sold on airbrb – have you tried it out?
