Swell Shopping: Romantic Dresses

I worked three different jobs this week. No joke. I started the week as a landscaper, then moved to school secretary, back to landscaper, tried a day as car detailer, and I'm ending the week as I began it - landscaper. I came home for lunch and decided to take the rest of the afternoon off. I'm pooped... and I need to get over to my mother-in-law's house to help with her garden.... but before that, I decided to do some screen-shopping for dresses...


I love dresses. You slip on a dress and you've got an instant outfit, plus everyone sees you as dressed up when in reality you are wearing something super-comfortable. It's almost like cheating.

River of Romansk has some beautiful dresses that are surprisingly affordable and I like the sizing - lots of one size fits most. Here are a few of my favorites....

These dresses have some super long names, for example this one is Riverofromansk Classic Romantic Spring Chiffon Secret Garden Twilight Cocktail Satin Elegant Pleated Flare Taupe Gray Silver Moonstone Dress. This dress fits sizes 2 through 10, is 36 inches in length, and it runs $39.85.

Find more dresses after the jump... 

Swell Smells: Absinthe Sucre Perfume

Back in the day, I worked for a blogging network as a perfume reviewer. Oh man, did I love that job. Free perfume, fancy-pants free perfume, and then I got to write about it.

I have to say, that much of it smelled very similar after awhile. Especially when it comes to many of the celebrity scents (sweet, sweet, sweet, candy-sweet).  I love to find something that smells spicy or woody or smoky. I was poking around Etsy today and I happened upon Absinthe Sucre Perfume.  It's billed as sweet, but there are just enough spicy notes to catch my interest. I'm definitely going to order this one in the near future.

Notes: Fennel, Anise, Wormwood, Cream, Carmelized Sugar, Vanilla, Tobacco, White Musk

Here's a quote from the Perfumer....

La Fée Verte... We all know her tawdry history. Her popularity among all classes of imbibers, from aristocrat to the bohemian set, from bourgeois to the poorest of the working class. Her rise, her fall... her branding as a "ferocious beast", a "slayer of men"... and now, her rise again.

My interpretation of this beloved verdant elixir is The Green Fairy on a sugar binge....

You can find Absinthe Sucre Perfume Oil at the Midnight Gypsy Shop. It's only $12 for a 7.5 ml vial.

Image credit: Midnight Gypsy at Etsy