Where's Pudding?

Can you spot the kitty in this picture??? She's there, if you look really, realllly close.

This, my friends, is the view outside of Mr. PFP's closet - which apparently vomited its contents all over the room as he tried to find something to wear to work on Friday.

For shame, Mr. PFP!!!

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Velvet + silk + flowers = oh my!

Here's a bit of J. Crew Math of the unwitty variety, the point of which is to demonstrate 1) my love of the J. Crew Velvet Eden blazer, and 2) my ongoing love affair with flowery embellishment.

Velvet Eden Blazer in dark blossom, on sale now!!

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Hot mess Silk pleated Posey top, on sale forevah and now sold out ):

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I've got the collar of the pleated posy top popped so that the ruffles splay out, rumply-like. I suppose not too many people would look at this top and say NOT ENOUGH, but since the messery (a.k.a. THE BEST PART) is smooshed under my lapel I've garnished with a flower. Too much?? I think it works - but I know you peeps would tell me if I needed an embellishment intervention.

Bracketing my flower issues for the moment, I have to say I love this jacket, it's so soft and comfy. As soon as I put it on it felt like something I'd had in my closet for years. That's the sign, peeps! The sign that not only did you make a wise purchase, but you should probably also buy it in TAWNY OLIVE!!!!!

Am I right?

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Happy Birthday, Movement!!

Cake provided by Cake Wrecks. Mmmmm, Missing Upper Thumb cake...my fave.

My friend Sterling's ridiculously awesome blog Movement turns one year old today!! Congrats Sterling!!!

The Ottawa theatre scene? Intellectual musings on art, gender, politics, and society? Fashion? Poetry? A well timed poopoo joke? Pffft - all in a day's work for my pal Sterling.

Cause being awesome is how he rolls.
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Emb-HELLISH-ment 101

A couple of weeks ago I bought this adorable flower pin from Etsy,

From bstudio, purveyor of ribbonny, girly goodness.

with the aim of garnishing a sweater or cami I already owned. A result:



Kinda cute, perhaps. But, more more more, my inner Crazy Lady cried! I need more junkery streaming from my lapels!! My inspiration? The gorgeous J. Crew Lombard ruffle cardi.

Sold out. ):

So I searched around my various accessory drawers and tickle trunks and found some potential embellishments. The result has me a bit undecided. I like it a lot, but I do wonder if it takes me across the Crazyland border, getting my ASSport stamped. Crazy isn't a good office look for me, so I am going to defer to the better judgement of my fashionable peeps on this one.

Behold the results:


Please tell me, is it cute and Lombard-y? Or should we never speak of this again?
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I'm pretty sure this bag is my Edward

Peeps, I have scored myself an 'it' bag.

Ok, so I'm three or four seasons late on this, and it's an 'it' bag circa 2007, but do you think I care? HELLZ no. And do I mind that it's previously enjoyed and just a teeny bit scratch n' dent? HELLZ no! Cause it's a Rebecca Minkoff Nikki in WINE, and it completes me. And it makes even my narsty sleepin' sweater (erm, see above) look presentable.

New (To Me) Wine Nikki, you compete me. You complete me like Edward completes Bella and OMG IS ANYONE GOING TO SEE TWILIGHT TONIGHT???? For a 34 year old woman, I am ridiculously frightened of tweenaged girls in large groups so I'll be abstaining, for now...

Eeep. There's an unfortunate footnote to the happy wine Nikki story. Today I found out that the post man at the (busy) postal outlet I frequent now knows me by name, and no longer requires my ID when I pick up packages.

Erm, shopping ban starts now??
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Because sometimes you really need a onsie emblazoned with Lil Kim's face

While we all knew better than to enter the Doll and Miniatures section of Etsy *shudder*, today I became aware of the cautionary tale that is Regretsy, a blog chronicling the best of Etsy's worst. And peeps, I think you should be aware of it too.

You'll laugh! You'll vommie! But you certainly won't buy.

Thanks Regretsy! I think I just found my new Facebook profile pic:

Lil' Bride birdcage veil, $10.50 USD

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Dear F21...

I love you.

But your faux-fierce baby model makes me a haz a sad.

xoxo PFP
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I loves me a hot mess

Ok, so it isn't to everyone's taste, but I'm a gal who loves me a bit o' the hot mess. I think it's the same impulse that makes someone want to take in a stray cat.

So against all reason I'm kinda digging the J. Crew Silk Pleated Posy cami. The posy part is completely de-pouffed and floppy, and the material is a bit thin. But you gotta love the in-yo-faceness of these embellishments.

Bam! In YO face.

Here's how it looks when you try in vain to cover the inyofaceness.

Well, this officially makes me The Girl With The Weird Junk Hanging Off The Shirts She Buys Deeply Discounted And With Free Shipping. Next stop - crazeh town.

I own it.
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Anthropologie Math

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= Painted Cottage Sweater

= The Joy of Painting. On your shirt.

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J. Crew Math

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= Solid opaque tights in bright cobalt
= completely unsmurftastic.

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J. Crew Math

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= J. Crew Poulette party dress, USD $995.00

= A warning peeps; don't ever image google 'car wash'. *smut shudder*

[For the faaaabulous Zoe Moet, and the amazing Heidi G.]
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Pretty blossoms! [For me to hobo]

Seeing how gorgeous Roxy at Effortless Anthropologie looked in Anthro's pink Rare Bloom Tee gave me the serious case of the gimmes. Sadly, I happen to also have a serious case of the already gets. Yeah, I've been doing a bit of cha-chinging the last few weeks, so I thought I'd try cobbling myself a hobo version instead.

Enter Etsy, of course. I found this gorgeous ruffle brooch, ripe for the hobo-ing.

You likey? Visit bstudio Etsy shop for the fabulous.

It can't be as fabulous as the original, but pinned on a tank it could be pretty cute, methinks. Youthinks?? If not, I guess I'll have to face the fact that my hobo skillz are perhaps not as mad as I'd like to believe.
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Pudding sleeps it off

Plaza cardi is a keeper!

I kept it! And today I wore it with the cinnamon stick Perfect pencil skirt from J. Crew. Have you tried the Perfect pencil skirt yet? You must. It is aptly named.

Anyhoo, my favorite way to wear the Plaza cardi is with jeans, but today I had a meeting so I dressed it up a little. It was a fun outfit, yet no one looked at me like I was wearing my bathrobe, so...yay!
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The Lady's got some issues

My hapless pose isn't helping anything...

Lady Day coat, round two! Before I scooped up my amazing Lady Day deal on the JCA weekly exchange, I ordered a pink Lady Day coat from J. Crew. Yadda yadda yadda, three weeks later Canada Post finally decides to deliver it to me.

The colour - swoon. It's so cute. It's the perfect dusty pink. But Lady, what up with that fit? This is the same size as my ivory Lady Day, but this coat feels a lot baggier in the chest and shoulders. Is it just me? Mr. PFP says he can't see the difference, but when I compare the two I really do. The only thing I can think of to account for the size difference is that my ivory coat has thinsulate and this one doesn't??

Shoo, pink Lady! Back you go! I think the lesson here is that as lovely as it is, the Lady Day coat is indeed a box of chocolates, size-wise.

So my quest for pink coat fabilisness continues! I'm looking at you, Double-cloth ingenue coat...

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Keep or return?? Plaza cardi

Peeps!! Your wise and sagely advice is once again required. Should I keep or return the Anthropologie Plaza Cardigan???

Loving it is not the problem. Because I do. I love it. I want to take it out for cocktails and sneak a kiss when I walk it home. BUT, I must be practical. Is it something I could wear to work, saaaay with jeans and heels? In an office that runs the gamut from suits and pencil skirts to jeans and flats? Are the ruffles too much? Because I don't want to be Inappropriate Sweater To The Office Gal.

And well, as much as I love it, there is pretty much no point in keeping anything I can't wear to work. Basically, if I'm not at work, I am in my hermitage (my house), doing hermit stuff like cladding myself in hobo rags and petting my cat. And making cheese and crackers in my mouth while I stand over the sink. I do other hermit stuff, but I sense I've already crossed the bounds of propriety, so I think I'll say no more.

Anyway, please tell me what you think. And please let me keep it. For more Plaza cardi fabulousness, check out Roxy, and Kim. And OMG, check out the cranberry colour it just came out in. I sigh.
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Halloween greetings from Pudding!

Happy Halloween everybuddy!

It's Lady Day day!

The Lady has arrived - my Lady Day coat in sea salt! Purchased brand new with tags for a pittance from that fabulous J. Crew box of chocolates, the JCA Weekly Exchange!!! Well, not a pittance, exactly, but suffice it to say it was a substantial savings from the J. Crew site.

Whoops! I can seeee you, edge of toilet bowl.

Love!!! I love this coat. And I have already gotten a ton of compliments. People marvel at my fearlessness in the face of dirt and grime! But the Lady, she is a snug one. I sized up one size from my usual, and it just fits. The Lady is overly snug in the rib cage, in my opinion. Skinny b*tch!

Anyhoo, what say the peeps? Are you tempted by the Lady? Or does the hag need to get steppin?
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Pudding is not in the Halloween spirit

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Mr. PFP gets toldz

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An unprecedented spell of good wifeness!

I had a big bout of wifely unselfishness this week, peeps! I picked out and purchased this adorable cardigan for Mr. PFP from J. Crew, and I didn't even order a ride-along sumpin-sumpin for myself. Restraint, I duz it!

Wool cashmere cable shawl cardigan

Yeah, I'm actually rather regretting that restraint right now. I underestimated how meh it would feel to have to trapse to the Post Office From Hell to pick up a J. Crew package of wonderfulness that had nothing in it for me. It was arseome. Arseome means the opposite of awesome.

But it was worth it, because here is the fabulous Mr. PFP in his cute new cardigan (and lil' PJs). You look like a handsome young Mr. Rogers professor, Mr. PFP!



In another unselfish act, yesterday I brought him home a dessert! Yes, I know it looks gross. I put it in the trunk and it got crushed by a bag of groceries. But it was tasty! That's $3.99 worth of deliciousness right there. Cheap frozen pie is how we roll chez PFP!


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Anthropologie Math: Eeeps edition

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= The perfect old timey Ghost Lady costume. For $319 CDN. Eeeps! Eeeps indeed.

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Erm, LOL?

Far be it for me to throw poopoo in the punchbowl when everyone else at the party is having fun, but I don't think I find this video (currently making the i-net rounds) all that funny. I mean, I get it: a former Baywatch babe has gained a few. Oh. Har har? What I see when I watch this is a women who actually looks pretty darn decent in bikini, being rejected by a couple of unkempt dorks. Unless! Could the point of the video be to make fun of dorky losers who think normal looking women are fat??? Ah! Subversion!!

Don't care though, it still bugs me.
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Skating worlds collide; result is awesomeness

OMG, why didn't anyone tell me there is a TV show with the same premise of my Favourite Tween Movie Ever Next to the Karate Kid, The Cutting Edge????

CBC's Battle of the Blades pairs professional figure skating superstars with former NHL hockey greats in an EPIC figure skating competition.

The worlds! They collide! With music! And sparkly costumes! And the ever present possibility of a televised star crossed romance. *sigh* What's not to love?
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J. Crew Math

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= Ruffled Celosia cardigan

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