XP a nickle, a dime, a bit of creativity and a little bit of time SNIPPETS....

I love love love love a piece of fabric ... whether on my body or on a window or on a table or on a countertop I love the way fabric rocks and feels ... 

I sew... I love love love to sew ... I love buying fabric and have a few favorite fabric haunts Mood Fabrics in NY being one of them ....BUT I ALSO love the next best thing.... shopping designer's at my favorite place in the whole wide world ... the ONLY consignment store I visit... where I can rock mean designer clothing for so much less in cost... as low as a dollar on VIP days .... UNLESS I decide to invest an original expensive piece myself which is an option that I consider very carefully and quite infrequently where clothing is concerned as there are more durable goods I rather invest in... an awesome consignment boutique in Orange, CT a few blocks up from where I live ... I love it ... the gals there know me from the time I was shopping rocking and consigning there at a size 4-5X pant size 32 .... I shopped there in the 90s up to 2007 at my biggest and I am shopping today still from the largest to the smallest size ... I love it ....

It is fun too .... all I need is a nickel, a dime, a bit of creativity and a little bit of time ... and it is pure FUN! for me ... because this is my experience and my journey .... I share my goofy snippets today...

I always loved to dress ... being the daughter of an awesome couturier we learned from very young how to sew ... I love putting things together ... asymmetrically I blend and mix colors and shapes and love the loudness and the cla****s my style ... has always been ... so when I am acting like the happiest baby in the playpen at my favorite place in the whole wide world ... a consignment store in Orange, CT .... excuse me for a minute... I am having FUN...FUN... FUN... 

After all I got all of this for less than $40 bucks .... and this morning being still in a bit of pain after oral/maxillofacial surgery on Monday I went shopping in my closet .... I pick up anything from a size 0-4 or XS or S that has the original label and marked NEW still on it ... I NEVER try anything on at the store ... I bring them home and whenever I get to them if they fit and I like them I rock them ... if them fit and I don't care for them I give them away ... if they don't fit they are oftentimes too big or too youthful I give them away ...if I see something a friend would like/love I will get it for him/her and give it away... WIN WIN because I am a giver at heart and I love to have something ... anything to pass on no matter who small or how big it is ... it makes me happy,...

Casually decked out in an XS VanHeusen top and a Size 2 AX pants ... I am the same person who rocked at Size 4-5X at my favorite place a month over 6 years ago before my WLS.... I paid $5 for my top and $17 for my slacks with the original tag at $88.00.... awesome find.... I love the look and the fit ... after all I am wearing it...

ANXIOUSLY AWAITING SPRING.... IS IT EVER GOING TO COME???? LOL ...... in the same section of the very same store about a week ago when I also got the outfit above I picked up this awesome powder blue two piece set in a Size 0 from BCBG ... and paid a whooping $10 bucks for it ... but Spring never came ... I decided to put it on this morning with a black blazer over it but nope... snow showers and COLD ... I changed my mind.... but it certainly felt good to be able to wear these tiny garbs after an awesome loss of 203 pounds held in maintenance over 6 years... I love the look and the feel.... just as I loved the look and feel of my awesome ensembles put together at this very same favorite store at my largest size....

As it was cold and snow showering today as I dressed for work I decided to put on the other awesome find I got with that very same trio about a week ago at the very same place ... An AX knit dress and shirt in Size S for a whooping $8 bucks and rocking the original labels that someone did not wear WOOT .... with a total of $40 bucks and I rocking these that I LIKE ...  I dress for me and moi...

I rocked the above outfit  to work today and snapped a pic of my do (hair play) and collaged it with my before WLS pic and entered it in my goofy and fun personal journal and empowerment tool "A Picture A Day Keeps the Pounds and The Inches Away".... an empiric fun tool that is working for me ... cause I love taking pics of just about everything... 

I love before and afters... I love picture AW'ing and I love love love love to share SNIPPETS OF MY JOURNEY .... pre and post weight loss surgery ... NO REGRETS .... ENJOYING EVERY DAY one day one choice at a time .... I EMBRACE JOY AND JUST MAKE IT HAPPEN TO ME ... despite all life challenges .... for I am so blessed.....

Thanks for allowing me to share ... Snippets Of My Journey.... 

You are a girl after my own heart. I have always loved haute couturier.  At age 21 and just married we put a Pauline Trigère cape on lay-away and at the end of the summer finished paying for it.  That was 1961 and I wore it this winter.  It looks as good now as it did then and I love it just as much now.