Tuesday, August 05, 2008

Shopping, Packing and Fluffiness


I just got back from running a few errands - which included picking up a gift for a lingerie shower being given for a very good friend this weekend. So - of course - there happened to be a rather enticing sale on at the store... and so clearly I ended up with some lovely night apparel for next week. Very exciting. Said items are packed away and safely ensconced in tissue and scented rose petals awaiting their debut for Spartan *JOY*.

Unfortunately for me - it is right around that time of the month when I'm feeling absurdly fluffy (due to impending communist visit - you were all just dying to know that). For some reason the lighting in the store is from above - which anyone knows just makes all the flaws that much louder and more obvious! I think I will open a store for these types of purchases where they are lit only by candle light - and maybe have a team of hair stylists and make up artists as well - you know - so that you feel divinely sexy. Maybe even serve wine. I'd sell more - Or less. Or more of the items that are made of less - if you catch my drift.

As it stands - what I initially set out to purchase looked devilishly burlesque - what I ended up with more resembles a burka with a matching robe. Ah - but still somehow sexy in that middle eastern type of "leaving absolutely everything to the imagination" type of way... (not at all like the top picture sadly for me...)

9 comments:

Verdant Earl said...

Just once, I'd like to be invited to a lingerie shower. Just once.

Ruby said...

i loooooove lingerie!!!! lingerie, shoes and accesories are my death in a shopping mall......i'm going to have a very happy husband one day;)

Lane Mathias said...

I had to think about the 'communist visit' for a moment. Ha!

Shop mirrors are cruel. All of them:-)

Janine / Being Brazen said...

Store lights are always so harsh and I seriously think fitting rooms have warped mirrors too..lol

Bruce Johnson said...

I have never been to Victoria's Secret, but I do recall scanning through the Fredericks of Hollywood catalog for hours on end as an hormonal ravaged youth.

Slyde said...

thats YOU in the banner pic, isnt it?

sprinkle4 said...

LMAO "burka with a matching robe" and YES, I was interested in knowing all about your impending communist visit. Or was I?:)

Stace said...

How I hate those communists... especially when their visist coincide with other events :(

elizabeth said...

earl - you can come...but you'd have to model the stuff (only fair)

ruby - me too!

lane - ;-) It's not just shop mirrors - I think my home mirrors suffer the same affliction

being brazen - well at least it isn't just me! lol

lotus - better than national geographic

slyde - of course

sprinkle - oh trust me - no...

stace - which mine usually do ;-(