If you want to refresh your memory , here's what Janice picked out for her hypothetical owners of exquisite Hermes scarves....
So, I've managed to hang in there another month, lol. It was dicey; I didn't sew anything, although I did make the necklace. Caught a sale at Lands' End and added some red to the wardrobe:
I have learned my lesson; if I order something from Lands' End, I need to download the photo immediately; they pull the pictures of sold out stock way faster than I thought they did. Anyway, I have a red plaid shirt that I actually wore to work today...and, while it fits pretty well, if I had made it I would have positioned the buttons differently. Like, so one of the buttons would have been right at the line of the full bust. Sigh. It is actually a good match for the sweater; the blouse looks darker, due to lighting, and the sweater looks lighter, because, well, probably lighting, lol. The jeans are standard blue denim (despite the dark picture) boot cut jeans...from the Lee outlet down the road.
I didn't put my crossbody -strapped wallet in the set after all; I bought the back pack from Amazon earlier this year and I've been carrying it for a couple of weeks. It's the PERFECT size. Finally. I've been squeezing my stuff in a just-barely-big-enough backpack for ages. I probably need to invest in a true crossbody bag that that would hold more than my phone and my checkbook. Someday. This is working well enough for now.
The necklace, well, there is a story there. I have mentioned that My Sweet Babboo is part of a frontiersman's reenactment-type group; one of the things he's been sort of interested in and slowly accumulating is trade beads. About a month ago, a set of about a dozen or so ceramic trade beads he'd ordered arrived in the mail. They were really cool; denim blue, with a spiral white viney pattern around a rope spiral pattern in white, red and royal blue. They were huge...about 1 1/2 to 1 3/4 inches long.
I managed to beg three beads off of him....and put together the long necklace with some red glass and lapis beads from Hobby Lobby. It might look better with a leather cord, but it's ok with the chain. Took me a couple of evenings to put the bead sections together. It was nothing to add the chain. Since it's so long, I didn't have to add a clasp. It works well with the sweater; I thought the necklace needed to be rather hefty to not get lost in the texture. This one certainly came out hefty!
So, with two months to go, here is the wardrobe to date:
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