2021 is about skirt length. The maxi for day is popular with the teacher crowd. Instagram fans seem to prefer the mini on me. The midi is the most comfortable for sitting during Zoom meetings. And my new Coach leather skirt, knee length, is my favorite go-to. It is perfection!
I love the new proportion. Boots with skirts is my look. And I am loving Rag & Bone right now. Their lug sole is genius. I am truly a fan of the almond toe.
Here are my outfits of the day for the month of March 2020. No more school for a while. I just discovered a show on ABC called Schooled to help with my school withdrawal. It is almost as funny as the silly things kids say at real school. It’s set in the ’90s, which is when I started working at my job. Back then I think my fashion look was sort of Monica from Friends.
Rebecca Taylor jacket, Milly top, Joe’s Jeans leather jeans, Calvin Klein booties
Free People dress, Sorel boots
Joie leather dress, Marc Jacobs boots, Tashkovski bracelet
BCBGMaxAzria sweater, dress, and pants, Rag & Bone booties
Free People cardigan, Theory sweater, BCBGMaxAzria leggings, Rag & Bone booties
Free People cardigan, BCBGMaxAzria top, Rebecca Taylor pants, Calvin Klein booties
Welcome to my world. Here are my 2020 #ootd school pictures thus far. My Studio in Art students have been painting with acrylics – these paintings are going to blow your mind. They are sooooo good!!!!! I think they only need a couple more weeks to complete them. I have been wearing stuff that wouldn’t freak me out if it got paint on it. I guess I am saying that fashion is taking a backseat at the moment. I’m a control freak about the brushes – I tell them to use however many they want and need, and I will wash them, so, I spend about twenty minutes washing brushes on my lunch period every day.
Today was the first day of the 2nd semester, believe it or not, which means we are already half-way through the year. I am giving pre-tests and prepping lessons – lots of cool things to come: oil pastels, collage, more paintings and clay!!! I’ll be switching up the artwork on the cabinets soon, as well as eventually organizing the excessive amount of white paint on that back counter, lol, for those of you who scoff at the mess. (It is an art room, after all – that’s what makes it fun and funny). Special thanks to Katy C., my colleague and photographer, who laughs with me every day. <3
Theory sweater, Rag & Bone skirt, Marc Jacobs booties
BCBGMaxAzria dress, Marc Jacobs booties
Theory cashmere cardigan, Syracuse Yoga T-shirt, Banana Republic skirt, Marc Jacobs booties
Just completed a legit full week of work with outfits of the day to show for it. I am all about silk, silk-velvet, leather and embellishments, and have taken to wearing the bracelets I created over the summer.
Akemi + Kin for Anthropologie dress, Calvin Klein booties
Rebecca Taylor silk top, French Connection leather skirt, Marc Jacobs booties, Tashkovski bracelet
There are over five hundred bracelets in stock with more on the way. I’m obsessed with this new venture! I’m waiting for the arrival of tags and some other supplies. Will be launching the collection soon! <3
BCBGMaxAzria T-shirt, velvet leggings and sandals, Alice + Olivia silk velvet top
Trina Turk top and pants, C by Bloomingdales cashmere cardigan, BCBGeneration velvet booties, Tashkovski bracelet
Cinq a Sept top, Trina Turk pants, Calvin Klein booties
Trina Turk dress, Marc Jacobs booties
I have been playing with mixing patterns and textures in my #ootd. And layering. Putting sweaters under dresses and finding unexpected matches, like my amber necklace (I actually designed it myself!) is the same color as the Marc Jacobs patent leather booties in rust (pictured above).
Rebecca Taylor top and pants, Alice + Olivia top, Calvin Klein booties
Theory cardigan, BCBGMaxAzria dress, Calvin Klein booties
And a new cardigan pairs nicely with a four-year-old dress (above).
Theory cashmere cardigan, Rachel Zoe dress, Via Spiga tights, Calvin Klein booties
Trina Turk top and pants, Calvin Klein belt, BCBGMaxAzria sandals
C by Bloomingdales cardigan, Banana Republic leather top, Free People leather skirt, Nine West boots
Kobi Halperin top, BCBGMaxAzria jacket and pants, BCBGeneration sandals
BCBGMaxAzria dress, Marc Jacobs sandals
It is now spring. I have started to slowly reintroduce sandals. The weather in Syracuse/Chittenango will just have to catch up.
BCBGMaxAzria tops and pants, BCBGeneration booties
In other news, students are glazing textured clay projects, finishing up patterned paintings and some fashion drawings. The quarter ends on April 5th, I believe. Then we will be gearing into the homestretch with sculptures, more paintings and artsy mayhem (the good kind – there is no fartsy in the art room).
Michelle DaRin jewelry ring, Coach crossbody bag, BCBGMaxAzria sweater and dress, Ralph Lauren boots
Here are my #ootd pics from December 2018. A few new pieces are in the mix, like the lace tights and my first Milly top. OMG, I love stretch silk, which is a silk blend with a bit of spandex in it. You can tell that I am a huge fan of silk, cashmere and leather.
I wear two smocks while painting and using Mod Podge, which is my new go-to instead of using Plaster of Paris for sculpture. I’m doing a form of papier mache instead and it is amazing. Can’t wait to share my donut project!
Aqua Cashmere cardigan, Trina Turk skirt, BCBGeneration booties
Rachel Zoe dress, Calvin Klein booties
BCBGMaxAzria dress, Karl Lagerfeld Paris boots
The other big project is…Artist Books! My Studio in Art students are creating these very cool books using sports equipment, lunch boxes, ceramic bowls and musical instruments. They will be done by the end of the semester. Then we will start watercolor!
Trina Turk dress, Marc Jacobs booties
C by Bloomindales cardigan, BCBGMaxAzria dress, Nine West boots
Milly top, BCBGMaxAzria pants, Marc Jacobs booties
I will eventually clean off the back counter and prepare for new students in February. Art – 8 only meets every other day for one semester. I am able to do about three or four projects in that time – a drawing, a painting, a sculpture and a clay project or some combination of those things. Right now we are finishing up sculptures in the five classes and drawing in the other two.
C by Bloomingdales cardigan, BCBGMaxAzria top and leggings, Ugg boots
I did not get any clothes for Christmas, lol. Or did I? Santa was good to me. I know him! (I really do!) <3
Rachel Zoe dress, Coach clutch
BCBGMaxAzria top, pants, and belt, Nine West boots
Free People cardigan, BCBGMaxAzria top and pants, Marc Jacobs booties
BCBGMaxAzria jacket and pants, Cinq a Sept top, Calvin Klein booties
My Marc Jacobs boots have gotten a lot of air play so far this year. I am crazy about them, especially the rust colored booties that at first I didn’t think would actually go with anything. Love them! Patent leather rocks.
Akemi + Kim for Anthropologie dress, Marc Jacobs booties
Trina Turk dress, Marc Jacobs booties
Kobi Halperin top, BCBGMaxAzria leggings, Calvin Klein booties
The past two months really flew by at work. The annual peace poster contest is in full swing. The Lions Club will send three judges to select a winner from the eighteen entries on November 1, 2018 and my Studio in Art students have really nailed the theme. It is “Kindness Matters”. They are an amazing group of people. Kind, without a doubt and so, so talented. Cannot wait to share what they are doing. I gave them each a brand new tin of 72 colored pencils to use and they are taking such good care of them. So responsible! I just love them all.
Cinq a Sept dress, Marc Jacobs booties
Max Mara top, Banana Republic pants, Marc Jacobs sandals
All of the Art-8 students have finished their clay projects. We are glazing them as well as working on finishing up some paintings. I double up on smocks during that activity but I still manage to keep DeWitt Cleaners in business. Most of my clothes are dry clean only because they are all pretty much silk and cashmere.
BCBGMaxAzria dress, Calvin Klein booties
Honora necklace, BCBGMaxAzria wrap top, shell and pants, Calvin Klein booties
I don’t always take my #ootd pic. Sometimes I am in a re-run. I try to style myself so that I am not wearing the same shoes with a dress or the same pants with a top but sometimes I just feel like repeating a great outfit. I admit I have a lot of clothes. I just love fashion. There is always a new designer to discover or something new from the ones I already know. New – new – new. I love new. Getting dressed to go to work is just fun. It is easy – effortless. And anything that makes you feel this good is a good thing. <3
Rachel Zoe dress, Marc Jacobs booties
Free People cardigan, BCBGMaxAzria top and pants, BCBGeneration booties
Free People cardigan, Rachel Zoe dress, Marc Jacobs sandals
BCBGMaxAzria top and pants, Calvin Klein booties
Talitha top, Hudson jeans, BCBGeneration booties
Free People dress, BCBGMaxAzria leggings, Calvin Klein booties
Cinq a Sept dress, Marc Jacobs boots
Rachel Zoe top, BCBGMaxAzria pants, Marc Jacobs boots
