Petite Fashion Challenge #16: Summer Wedding

This month's PFC #16 is hosted by Lauren from Petite on Penny

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Summer Wedding--Create an outfit for a summer wedding (the dress code is up to you). For bonus points (and this is what I'll be doing!) try to make your whole outfit, head to toe, come in under $100! (Or, exclude shoes and accessories to meet the $100 mark.)

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My Summer Wedding outfit is

Dress (same shape but different color) and bag from H&M, Shoes from Guess (DSW),

 belt from other skirt, Ring and necklace :gift from Mom

I assumed a little casual wedding. Usually I wouldn't show my bare legs so much for these occasion, but summer & casual so it is OK I think.

This dress itself is already cute in my opinion, but I don't have any shoes to fit this dress. So I added a black belt so that overall outfit match my black sandal! These sandals are high but surprisingly comfortable.

What I love about this dress is back! 

So cute! Isn't it??

Regarding the price of overall outfit is

Dress ($24.95) + Bag ($17.95) + Shoes ($54.99 I guess) = $98.89

(Fortunately others (belt & ring & necklace) are free!)

Hope you enjoyed my summer wedding outfit!

Please check other participants on Petite on Penny!

Thinking about Black/Red Sandals

Since I BROKE my black sandal, which I loved and really appropriate for work and for weekend, I've been looking for replacement even though I bought another pair of black sexy one which will never be work-appropriate no matter what.

One day I found this black sandal (size 6.5) in target less than 10 dollars and brought them back with them.

I like this little gold accent on shoes. But not sure about size. Size 6.5 actually feels a little tight on me. Other than size 6.5, I could find only size 9 or larger so I have no choice. I just tried them for two hours, other than pinching my toes a little bit, these are ok for me. Easy to walk and hold my feet really well. I'm thinking getting another pair of black wedge from DSW in a few days, not decided what to do with these shoes. I'm hoping after break-in they will be more comfortable. $10 is really cheap and hard to give up for shoes, isn't it??


I also found cute Red sandals in sears. They are from Kandarshian Kollection.

Not sure I would buy them or not since I have to buy them online and I found out returning sears products which are bought online is complicated than just returning to stores. At least I could see them in real, even though they didn't have my size (I'm wearing size 7.5 which is obviously big on me).

I'm also keeping eyes on them from Madwell. I wish they were a little cheaper. Never seen in a store, so I don't know the fit. Now looking at my lovely shoes and cannot decide anything. I have to calm down first?

My Tokyo Life

This post is not as excited as you expect to be, unfortunately. I didn't go sightseeing, so pics here are what I did and what I saw in my every day life. Only a little bit of special for me since if it is not anything special for me, I wouldn't take any pictures. I'm still checking more photos, since I found out I didn't have so much food photos. I enjoyed many many Japanese food, such as Sushi and so on, but didn't go to any special place, didn't take any pics. I have some scary food pictures for my colleague, but better not share in public.

 

Unagi (Kabayaki)

I had eel with my mom one day. She took me to famous restaurant. It was really delicious. Upper one is no sauce. I actually like the one without sauce more! 

 

Cute display

Love rabbit! Those are bags too. 

Sky tree

It opened a couple days ago. Lady Gaga visited here too. 

Now it is the tallest building in Asia. Soon Korean one will be the tallest.

 

Koinobori

They were illuminated, and super beautiful. 

 Tokyo tower

I hadn't been there for long time, even though I saw it often from far. Closer is definitely better.

Chocolate

My sis gave me this (sorry for a bad pic). We call it tirol choco. You can get any supermarket or continence store, price is around 10-30 yen. They have a lot of flavors. This one is green tea chocolate & mochi inside. It is really well made and you can taste both green tea flavor and mochi.

Cake from sadaharu aoki 

Beautiful and delicious cake. I LOVED them.

Rainy Saturday in Shibuya

It is more crowded usually but because of rain, it was totally less crowded. I haven't seem such a empty Saturday in Shibuya. We have Starbucks in Shibuya crossing. This Starbucks sells only tall size because of crazy business.

Lunch at L'ATEIER de Joel Robuchons

I got champagne... hehe Happy lunch! I liked the environment and their bread so much even though their table is weird. The food was really good. I didn't have chance to try dinner- would love to try someday.

Eclair from sadaharu aoki

Upper one is Sakura (cherry blossom) and lower one is Maccha (green tea). They are not so sweet, surprisingly. Sakura contains cherry jam added to custard, which is really good accent. If you really like green tea, you'll love Maccha ver. I liked both, but Sakura more. 

Japanese Magazines

Even though I love reading them, I cannot chose which one I should buy all the time. Just too many magazines. For every ages and every style. As long as I know they have more than 20 fashion magazine coming out every month.

My Spring Image (Tsukushi)

I don't see it in US, but when I was little, they were everywhere in Japan in the beginning of Spring. Happy to see them again! You can also eat them. I tried before.

My obsession

Haagen-Dazs offered a new flavor 'chocolate brownie' around March (don't remember exactly) It is expensive in Japan (3 bucks for small one). I was so obsessed with it and cannot remember how many I had!

Hope you enjoyed this post. I'm not sure though... 

Happy Memorial day weekend. Mine already started- yeah!

Kyoto Travel

I had chance to visit Kyoto a while ago. I didn't have so much time, but really enjoyed. 

It was still cold, and cherry blossom just started blooming. Because of cherry blossom season, it was crowded. 

Cee from to brighten my day has great post regarding her travel (her vacation in Japan, Philippine,and Taiwan !) 

Here are some pictures.

 My Lunch
I arrived at Kyoto around lunch time, so first thing I did was Lunch! I was lazy so I picked one restaurant in Kyoto Station Building. They actually have many good restaurants. I had Kyoto-home-style lunch. A lot of side dishes and lightly seasoned Japanese food. 

Dojo in Nishiki market
I love seeing a lot of local food there. I'd actually never seen Dojo sold like that. For me, they are living in mud. Yes, I caught them when I was a child. 

Cherry Blossom and Kamo River around Shijyo
There weren't so many cherry blossom yet in the area I visited, but here it was so beautiful. Many people actually taking pictures!

Ponto-cho

This place is really close to the pic above. After I took that pic, I found cute houses and restaurants. It was too early for dinner and too late for lunch, so just enjoyed watching these structures. They are really traditional houses, so it was really interesting for me. 

My yummy sweets. 

Hot roasted green tea and Green tea Anmitsu. I was curious about green tea Warabimochi. It was really yummy!

The cute table in my lunch restaurant on the other day
They offer really good Kyoto-homemade-style lunch. That place is so small and I thought difficult to find, immediately after opening, it was full and people were waiting. I found this place in my little guide book, which have full of restaurant information and cute temples.

Ryo-an ji

It is famous for stone garden. The tree center was supposed to be full bloom! I came here too early. This place is one of my favorite place to visit. It is really calm and stone garden is really beautiful.

Ninna ji

This temple is famous for beautiful garden. Yes, I expected cherry blossom but it was too early. They have beautiful temples, which are worth seeing once. I'd never been there before, so didn't know it is huge! Ninna ji and Ryo an ji is between walking distance. I guess 15 min. There are signs everywhere so it is easy to find.

Fushimi Inari Taisya. 

This was my first time to visit there and I was so impressed with this Torii. I don't know how many they actually are, but you can walk under thousands of them. That orange-red is really beautiful even though some of them are old. I'm pretty sure I'll visit there again. This place is a little far from other sightseeing place in Kyoto...that is only bad side.

It was really quick and short trip, so I wish I had had more time and had been a little warmer. I couldn't visit all the place I wanted. I planed well, but eventually ran out of time, and had problem dealing with so many buses and subways! I hope I have next time!

When I was sorting pictures, I just realized most of my pics are food... and I didn't take so many. I'm not used to taking pics in restaurant, or anywhere outside (too much self-conscious, I know).  I'm happy to feel the place and happy with time with it. So my post does not seem so helpful, but hope you enjoy it.

PS Katherine from Feather Factor is also in Japan and seems she visited Kyoto too. She might have post related to her travel.

Orange and my one-piece

After seeing this post from with each passing day, I got this dress!!

 

This is one-piece dress too. Chiffon top & cotton skirt.

Actually the top felt a little big but it is chiffon-like so I think it's ok. Surprisingly, the bottom fits me well. Mom loved I'm wearing something other than jeans and she bought it for me.

Sometimes we don't agree over clothing choice, this time, I was not sure about this orange and mom persuaded me to have one since she never saw me in this orange and she thought I look really fresh.

Since I'm not sure about a little puffiness on chiffon top, I decided to pair with my long necklace which is bought years ago.

 

Unrelated note- this is my new toy.

 

Frapucchino Spoon!

It is reusable and I love this cute spoon.

What I'll miss...

I haven't have any post for a while. I've been a little busy and realized I could have one quick post.

Once I'm away from Japan, what I miss is...

Convenience Stores!

I know US have many, but totally different.

Japanese ones sell so many different stuffs, not only food but also magazines, cosmetics and so on. They are really convenient. If you need something, you'll find it there. In Tokyo, they are almost everywhere, you can find one within 10 min just walking.  

At the same time, I miss a life I could go out for the convenience store midnight since I was bored or I just needed one or two stacks to fill me. I had one within one min walking. Sometimes I bought lunch or quick dinner, and they microwaved for me.

The truth is that I don't know so much about US ones, but the one I know is different from Japanese ones even though it is 7-11. 

Dot Shoe & J.crew Jacket

Now supring is around finally I'm going out without winter coat!

Now I wear this J.crew Schoolboy Blazer half the time (the rest of time I wear H&M casual jacket)

H&M sweater, Jcrew Schoolboy Jacket, Uniqlo pants, Paisley scarf

I never tried to wear any print together. This time I felt I could do it...

so Polka-dot & Paisley & Argyle

So far I'm not so used to this pairing, so my next step would be pairing print in tops and bottoms.
 

I like pairing this jacket with my new dot-shoes. Color is beige, so easy to pair with anything!

Happy Monday! Have a nice week!!!