Tuesday: brown Miu Miu clogs

We now return you to your usual programming after a week’s vacation. Well, I’m not sure if you can really call a vacation a vacation when it consists of spending 11 hours every day in a veritable sweat shop! But I took a week off from work to take an intensive jewelry making workshop. I figured it was time to learn how to solder and make bezels and set stones and weave chain and all that good stuff.

All good stuff indeed! I annealed and quenched, I dry-fluxed and soldered, I wielded a torch. What more could a girl ask for? That was the good part. The not-so-good part? The second-degree burn on my left index finger from accidentally grabbing the lid of the kiln with my bare hand… The various scrapes from too much filing and sanding… The backache from sitting at the bench for 11 hours a day!

But I finished the week with some new skills (not to mention new safety tips), four rings, three bracelets (including the granulated cuff below), an enamel pendant that took two and a half days (!), and a lovely new scar on my finger. Ah, I’ll wear them all proudly!

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Tuesday: black patent Prada wedges

My Fourth of July was overcast and chilly… how was yours? But honestly I didn’t mind — with only one day off, in the middle of the week at that, I wasn’t going anywhere. I was discombobulated enough. I kept thinking it was Sunday…

I decided to partake in some indoor activities — online window shopping for fall!

At $865, this YSL large Tribute tote seems like a bargain. Did I just write that? But what “premium designer” (as Saks puts it) handbags are ever under $1,000 these days?

That said, the YSL quilted patent Medium Tribute tote, while smaller, sure looks worth the upgrade to $1,195.

Now all I have to figure out is how to flatten my wallet and makeup bag to fit into this tote… Oh wait, I know how to flatten my wallet — by buying this bag!

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