My Summer '07 Look

I've been wearing a lot of white this season - white skirts, white city shorts, white tanks under wrap shirts. When I saw this photo of Kate Bosworth, I realized that silver accessories would be terribly cute with an all-white outfit. So I set out to find silver flats and a silver handbag.

One of the hardest things about being me is that I often decide something I want to wear, and then can't find it anywhere. I do not know if this is a shopping issue for my city or a lack of talent on my part that I cannot just design and create my own dress/shoe/handbag/necklace.

I found these shoes on sale at piperlime, which? Cute AND cheap - double score! But my lord it was difficult to find a decent silver handbag. The only ones I could find at the mall was this line of clangy and bejangly and horrible, horrible bags, that, for some unexplained reason, are carried by both Macy's and Dillard's. I thought maybe I could remove the 49 key chains hanging from the side but there's no getting around that bling on the buckle which is kind of the hip-hop version of the country/western belt buckle, I think.

I ended up getting a smaller version of this bag at a store I've never even ventured into before. It kind of reminded me of the Lerner's we had at the mall when I was a teenager. Remember Lerner's?

I realize that people in New York and London were wearing cute little metallic flats some year and a half ago, but it's not a look I've seen around here yet, so I still get to consider myself a trend-setter.

(Next on my list: Yellow dress and Red shoes.)

After my short shopping excursion, I got drenched in a thunderstorm that pounded us this afternoon. Then I bought some Dinstuhl's cashew crunch and went home and gorged on it. You know, to celebrate my great accessory finds.

Now I'm back working my way through The West Wing, Season 1. It's fun to watch old episodes and see guest stars that you didn't know back then - like Dr. Cuddy as the call girl that Sam accidentally slept with, and Paris Geller as the aide who leaked Leo's personnel file with notes of his drug treatment. And Representative Becky Reeseman? TOTALLY reminds me of that bitch from New York that I so despise. Only taller.