NYFW- Take 4

Oscar de la Renta F/W 2010: I don't really remember when I fell in love with Oscar de la Renta; but I can tell you it was love at first sight and I've been in love everyday since. This man is literally a genius when it comes to design. He makes garments that compliment the woman and makes her the center of attention and not the garment. I love his spanish style to the garment (ruffles, tiers, etc) and his way of making it look refined and ladylike.....Now that I am done drooling over the man, lets move on to his Fall 2010 line. The Fall 2010 line was elegant and refined; fit for a certain first lady.....the pieces I feel catered to both his older client and his new younger clients. Its overall theme: anyone can look like a lady. His use of rich colours and fabrics make my hand itch to be able to touch the garments....I need to study under him! My must have piece: The orange taffeta slim dress.

Marchesa F/W 2010: .....Where do I begin with them? The design duo (Georgina Chapman and Keren Craig) are awesome. One went to school for costume design (Chapman) and the other went for textiles (Craig). And in 2004, Marchesa was created. What I like about this line is the fact that every piece looks like art. The texture, fabric choice, draping, etc. makes each garment look as if they're telling you a story. For Fall 2010, they totally blew my mind. In the midst of cocktail dresses and full length gowns that were a mix of off whites, pale blues as well as bright pinks, reds and blues were a few amazingly tailored tuxedo jackets. This label is not for the wall flowers. My must have piece: the gold long gown with the sheer/beaded front. Amazing!

J. Mendel F/W 2010: I discovered J. Mendel in 2005 at the MET Costume Ball. Liya Kebede (My All-Time Favorite Model) was wearing this gold tulle empire waist dress that had me drooling....I was hooked from that day on. Moving to modern day J. Mendel; Fall 2010 is young and hip with the abundance of cocktail dresses but he remains true to his old school elegant with the furs, leathers and full length gowns. His cocktail dresses are bound to catch the eye of many starlets and I won't be surprised when his gowns end on on red carpets during awards season. His colour scheme was reds, blacks, deep beautiful blue- greens and classy furs. My must have piece of this collection: The deep bluish-green semi gathered strapless gown.

image sources: papermag.com; nymagazine; myfashionlife.com; gettyimages.com; fastany.com

I Need Glasses!!!!!/Anja Rubik by Camilla Akrans for Vogue Nippon March 2010

I have been puttinmg this off for 10 years give or take.....lol (I'm so serious). I haven't worn my glasses since I graduated from H.S. but lately I can't see anything past a block. SMH. So now the question is what kind of frames do I get? I have no clue! Time to do homework!!!! I'm thinking thick rimmed frames in purple or navy (black is so boring)! Like this but for women (duh)! I don't know; I don't want too look too serious! (BTW, Ashton looks like a Hotty McHotty!)

Anywho....came across one of my favorite models Anja Rubik in a vision of white for March 2010 Vogue Nippon. It appears to be wedding dresses; I tell you I am all for unconvential wedding dresses! This just makes me love it more.

Speaking of weddings.....My friend Stacy and I went wedding dress browsing on President's Day. We found her dress but the dress store won't tell us the name so we will be spending the next couple of days googling so we can find out if they are ripping her off or not, lol. The bridesmaid dresses are from Bari Jay. I love them! The colour scheme is Purple and Pink (she calls it Raspberry and something else, lol) and its the same colours her mom did for her wedding! Too funny!

images source: usatoday.com; lundlund.com; barijay.com;

MASH, Truth or Dare and Ding Dong Ditch ...

Remember when you were in 7th or 8th grade and you played those fun little games listed up there?  Or heaven forbid, the borderline pagan game (although we didn't know it at the time) "Light as a Feather Stiff as a Board"?  Or called boys you and your girlfriends liked and hung up the phone (one reason I thank the LORD caller ID wasn't around when I was 13, can I get an amen?) and then squealed with giddyness?  Well, today is going to be "8th grade Tuesday" because I DON'T have much to talk about (gasp!) and because I secretly LOVE these ridiculous quizzes.  Plus I thought it'd be a fun way for some (most) of you that don't know me in person to "get to know" me (not that telling you my shoe size is deep and personal but at least it lets you know that I have HUGE feet.  No seriously ... there is no rhyme or reason for a girl all of 5' 3" to have size 8 1/2, some days approaching 9, feet ...)


(And yes friends, that's me.  Top row.  Far right.  This was for our HUGE (and seriously, I mean huge.  Like we had close to 500 people a night at the shows.  I went to the church that many in the Dallas area lovingly refer to as The Baptidome ... it was Baptist.  Get it?) Christmas production we put on every year.  There's my MOH, see her 2nd row from the top, far left?  We always say "We're cute best friends." Mainly because she's modely gorgeous tall and I'm ... well a munchkin.  HULLO high school!  I think we were sophmores this year ...)

So, AWAY we go ladies!  PS - Pardon this quiz.  I found it online.  Some of these are spelled AWESOMELY (I'm talking txt talk) and I'm going to leave them because I feel like it adds to the "8th grade" effect ...

WHAT IS YOUR FULL NAME?:  Seriously people?  This is the WWW.  I'm not putting my full name out there for all the world (that's being a little presumptious Kate, all the world does NOT read your blog and don't they already know your name is Katie Fulmer?  What is saying Kathryn Wells Fulmer going to do ... EEK you gave away your name whilst dictating your inner-dialogue!)

NICKNAMES?:  Um, how much time do you have?  Here we go.  Kate, Katearoo, Princess, Sugar, KK, Wells, Kewpie, Katie Lady, Roo, MOH, Katie Bug and there's some that are nunya cause my mister calls me them ;0)

SINGLE OR TAKEN?: Duh.  Have you SEEN my mister?  I'm taken.  And taken good. 

BIRTHDAY?: Yep.  I've got one.  Duh.

ZODIAC SIGN?: The peace sign?  I don't know I really don't like the whole "what's your sign" biz.

AGE?: Yep.  I have one.  Duh.

HAIR?:  Yep.  I got some.  Sheesh, these questions are too easy ...

WHERE DO YOU LIVE?: You're being a little too personal here WWW quiz ... I mean I love these ladies, but I don't know that they're not really 40 year old men creepin' my blog every day ... we're just going to stick with what we know and say the DFW Metroplex ...

WHAT COLOUR UNDERWEAR ARE YOU WEARING RIGHT NOW?: Um, for reals?  Nunya.

WHAT ARE YOU DOING RIGHT NOW?: This.  Duh.

WHAT WAS THE LAST THING YOU DID?: This.  Duh.

WHAT IS RIGHT NEXT TO YOU: My mouse along with it's cute mousepad.

WHO WAS THE LAST PERSON YOU ATE OUT WITH?: Excuse me.  Can we please re-phrase the way this question is worded.  Ew.  The last person I WENT TO DINNER with was my mister.  At Dickey's.  Remember?  Pay attention blog quiz!

IF U WERE A TOY, WHAT WOULD YOU BE?: Oh a Barbie, FOR SURE.  Not because I look like one but because I want to.  And maybe because I played with them until I was 14 but that's neither here nor there ...

WHERE WOULD YOU WANT TO GO ON YOUR HONEYMOON?: Been there, done that.  And it would be the place that we went.  Bora Bora.  Let's have a visual shall we?

Yep, that's our hut we stayed in ... You can feed the fishies through the floor ... Amazing.

(PS - I'm going to do a whole post about this during our anniversary month ...)

WHO WOULD YOU WANT TO SPEND THE REST OF YOUR LIFE WITH?: This guy.  Right here ...

That's why I'm in a wedding dress!

HOWS THE WEATHER RIGHT NOW?: Supposed to be snowing starting at 5am this morning.  I have yet to see it ...

LAST PERSON YOU SPOKE TO ON THE PHONE?: Da mister.

LAST PERSON WHO TEXT YOU: Last person who text me?  Did you just learn English WWW Quiz?

LAST PERSON YOU TEXT: Okay seriously this is getting ridiculous.  Texted.  TEXTED!

DO YOU LIKE THE PERSON WHO SENT THIS TO YOU?: Considering I sent it to myself.  Yes.  Yes I do.  Well, most of the time that is ...

WHAT DO YOU THINK A TOBLERONE IS?: Holy inside joke between my husband and I.  Sugar, I can't believe this is a question.  I think it's VERY fancy chocolate that you can ONLY get in Switzerland ... or Target ... or at every department store in the country, but whatev.

U WEARING RIGHT NOW?: I sure am wearing right now ... clothes, to be exact.

DO YOU WEAR CONTACTS?: Negative ghost-writer.

WHO DO CONSIDER YOUR CLOSEST/BESTEST FRIEND?: In the real-world?  My mom and my MOH.  In blog world?  Miss Kriss.  LOVES her.  And we've never even "met".  Oh but we will.  Don't you worry.

WHAT WAS THE BEST ADVICE EVER GIVEN TO YOU?: Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticize them, you're a mile way and you have their shoes.

DO U OWN A VEHICLE?: Kind of.  Just 82 billion more payments and it's OURS!

HAVE YOU EVER WON A SPECIAL AWARD?: BLOG awards!  That's ... about it.  Thank GOODNESS for my blog friends!

WHAT ARE YOUR FUTURE PLANS?: Get older.

FAVOURITE FOOD?: Pretty sure we didn't spell favORite right here kids ... And I'm going to go with Thanksgiving food.  Thank goodness I only get it one week (HELLO left overs) out of the year.  I'd be the size of the car I don't own ...

FAVOURITE FILM: Stop it.  Stop spelling favORite like that ... Remember when I said I wouldn't care about this?  Apparently, I lied.

LAST FILM YOU SAW AT CINEMA?: Apparently this is a British quiz ... who the smack says CINEMA?  It was Valentine's Day bythaway.

FAVE BOYS COLOGNE: Even spelling FAV wrong are we?  Whatever my mister's wearing ...

FAVE GIRLS PERFUME: Quel Que Fleur (LOVE), Burberry Brit, Trish McAvoy No. 9, Stella.

DO YOU LIKE TO DANCE?: After a glass or two of wine?  Heck yes.

ARE YOU TOO SHY TO ASK ANYONE OUT?: No.  I'm too married.

IF YOU COULD CHANGE YOUR NAME TO ANTHING, WHAT WOULD IT BE?: Princess Consuela Banana-Hammock.

HAVE YOU EVER BEEN IN LOVE?: Have.  And am (smile)

WHAT IS THE MOST STUPID THING YOU HAVE EVER DONE?: This quiz.

DO YOU LIKE SCARY OR HAPPY MOVIES?: Both.  Depends on if it's close to Halloween or not.  Seriously - I only like to be scared/watch scary anything close to H-Ween.  I have no idea why ...

CHRISTMAS OR EASTER?: Um, I start listening to Christmas music in October.  Duh.  CHRISTMAS.

LUST OR LOVE?: Love.  It lasts longer.

KISSES OR HUGS?: I'm going to cliche-ly say both.  Cause it's true.

IF YOU COULD CHANGE ONE THING, WHAT WOULD IT BE?: ONE thing?  About the WHOLE world?  ALL on my shoulders?  This is too much PRESSURE!  So I'm going to be shallow and say my weight.  I'd go back to wedding weight (or maybe about 10 lbs heavier, I might have been borderline malnourished when we got married ...)

WHAT COLOUR ARE YOUR PYJAMAS: Well, (I'm going to ignore the spelling of this word because I just. can't. handle. it.) SHOCKINGLY I have more than one pair ...

WHAT COLOUR'S YOUR TOOTHBRUSH?: Teal.  Any and everything I can possible buy teal, is teal.  I know JLO said it's the color of gangrene but I. LOVE. IT.

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THIS QUIZ?: I think I should have packed the necessities before I started ... and maybe paid a visit to the porcelain throne ...

DO U WANT UR FRIENDS TO WRITE BACK?: I would LOVE for them to comment!  If I havent' lost them by now ...

WHO IS THE MOST LIKELY TO RESPOND?: The lovelies that read my blog.

WHO IS THE LEAST LIKELY TO RESPOND?: President Obama.  And Big Bird.

FAVE PART OF THE OPPOSITE SEX?: Umm ... wink, wink.  Kidding.  Sorry mom.  Come on ladies, you know that made you giggle.  Eyes (along with my mister's eyelashes ...) and his smile.  I'm sorry, apparently I read this question to say "FAV part of your mister?"

WORST FEELING IN THE WORLD: Not sure.  I'm not in the habit of going around and "feeling things".

WHATS THE FIRST THING YOU THINK OF WHEN YOU WAKE UP?: SHUT. UP.

ROLLER COASTER, SCARY OR WICKED??: I'm sorry, I don't know that I know the difference.  Does ANYONE say wicked anymore?  I'm pretty sure that means evil ... how about, fun?  Because I LURVE them!  Wicked fun maybe?

HOW MANY TIMES DO YOU LET THE PHONE RING BEFORE YOU ANSWER IT?: You say this like I have a choice and don't scramble like a mad-woman to actually FIND it in my purse before I miss the call ...

IF YOU COULD MEET ONE PERSON, DEAD OR ALIVE, WHO WOULD IT BE?: I don't like this question.  Because I inevitably say someone (like John Candy) that makes me sound like an IDIOT because I didn't say someone incredibly influential (like George Washington) ... PASS.

IF YOU COULD HAVE ANY JOB IN THE WORLD WHAT WOULD IT BE: Wedding planner.  Hands down.  I LOVE planning weddings (and anything for that matter) ...

IS THE GLASS HALF EMPTY OR HALF FULL?: Depends on how thirsty I am.

WHATS YOUR FAVE NUMBER?: 4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42 ... kidding.  YAY Lost is on tonight!  Seriously.  Whatever ones win me the lottery ...

FOR GIRLS TO FILL OUT ON GUYS

BOXERS OR Y FRONTS: Y FRONTS?  Is this a thong for men?  This is wrong on so many levels ... where DID this quiz come from!?!?

DARK OR FAIR: my mister.

TALL OR SMALL: JUST right.  LIKE, my mister.

MOST IMPORTANT PHYSICAL FEATURE: Teeth.  That they have them.

CHOCOLATE - WHITE OR MILK?: How did we seguey from talking about preferences in men to chocolate ... ?  White, by the way, but what?

ROOT BEER OR DOCTOR PEPPER?: DP.  All tha way.

MUD OR JELLY WRESTLING?: Well, in my personal time, I actually prefer JELLO.  For the wrestling that is.

SKIING OR BOARDING?: Depends.  Do I want to die or not?

DAY OR NIGHT?: Being that both are equally important, I'm going to go with ... both.

SUMMER OR WINTER?: Um.  Hello, welcome to Texas.  Do you KNOW it hovers around 100 degrees for about 3 months here?  Winter.  Hands down.  I always say, you can put on more clothes, but you can't take more off ... unless you want to get arrested that is.

CAKE OR PIE?: Well if I can have it and eat it too, that would mean I can have both.

SILVER OR GOLD?: Platinum baby.  I can hear my mister.  "You would."

DIAMONDS OR PEARLS?: Sounds like a FANTASTIC combination.  I'll take both.  Wrapped up please.

SUNRISE OR SUNSET?: Sunset.  I'd prefer to be horizontal during the latter.

HAVE YOU EVER BROKEN A BONE?: Nope.  Not mine or anyone elses.

DO YOU WEAR RINGS?: I do.

DO YOU HATE ANYONE: Yep.  Anyone who hurts animals or children.  I know I shouldn't say hate.  But I'm gonna.

ARE YOU LOUD OR QUIET: Depends on what I'm talking about and who I'm talking to ...

DO U BELIEVE IN YOURSELF: I just pinched myself.  And it hurt.  So yes, I do.

I hope you all enjoyed, THE longest post EVER!  At least I had fun doing it ... Happy Tuesday loves!

Weekend, Another Blog Award and, Well That's It.

Good morning lovelies.  Can I just start out by saying you are going to be SO proud of me because I. TOOK. SOME. PICTURES!  I know, I know.  You're shedding a tear because you're so proud of me.  A happy tear of course.  Well, grab a hanky and get excited.

I hope you all had a FANTASTIC weekend.  We (kinda) did ... my poor mister pretty much spent (and by pretty much I mean worked until 2am on Saturday night) the whole time working.  Poor guy.  Don't pity him, because he hates it.  And because he's a super trooper (anyone singing the Abba song?  cause I am ... lights are gonna find me, shining like the sun, smiling having fun ...)  Anyway, moving on.  Friday, once my mister got home, we pretty much went to bed.  I spent the evening flipping back and forth between the Olympics and whatever was on TBS while snuggling with my pup.  He's a good snuggler.  Saturday I slept until 11am ran errands and had a fairly productive day and was gearing up to get ready to go on a date with my mister.  Until all H broke loose with some issues with the job he was working on and he had to cancel.  So LUCKILY two of my sweet friends let me crash their dinner plans.  We had a FANTASTIC dinner at Artens where I had a this yumminess (along with food, I promise I didn't drink my dinner) ... 

(Berry Mojito)

(With this sweet girl, miss Kelly, I HEART her!)

After dinner, I went over to my mom's house for a surprise cake and champagne party for my step-dad, Richie.  Remember?  The one I talked about on Friday?  I have to tell you how HU-LARIOUS this was because of the way my clever momma set it up.  Rich's actual birthday was on Saturday.  Well, being that they have twin 10-year-olds (or the twin-year-olds as I like to call them) they both had games (basketball, I THINK) on the night of his birthday.  The games would put them getting home around 9ish, which would obviously be too late to go to dinner (well, at least for those of us no longer in college ... those were the days ...) or really have any other sort of celebration.  My mom had called all of us previously and told us just to start arriving at the house around 9:30.  So my mom, Rich and the twins get home, and he starts to make a fire and change into comfy clothes and on his way to change the doorbell rings.  My mom said he looked at her with the MOST confused look on his face and said "The ALLENS (some of their best couple friends) are here?!?!"  They played it off real smoothly saying they were in the neighborhood for dinner and they wanted to stop by and say happy birthday.  Shortly after that my aunt Belinda and her beau showed up followed by several other couple friends of my parents.  Rich quickly caught on (he IS the President of his company, that makes him real smart 'n all) that this was planned and we ended up partying until 2am!  RIGHT about the time my mister was leaving work ... poor guy (I know, sorry sugar, I promise I'm not pitying you)  Luckily my Silly and brother were there to keep me entertained (not that the partying grown-ups didn't do so thoroughly) and to take pictures with me as well (much to my brother's dismay, apparently this hatred of pictures is a disease that's catching within the men in my family ...)

 

Oh and PS - don't mind my awesome comb-over bangs ... I wanted to try these suckers out parted on the side and I THINK I may have taken the part a LITTLE too far over thus achieving the mid-80's sprayed wave effect ...

N-E-WAYZ (there it is again!) Sunday we went to church and when we came home I decided I was going to take our energy-FILLED pup for a run.  Now hear me when I say that this is a dangerous endeavor.  Because Koda thinks that when we start jogging he either (a) needs to run in a full sprint "I'm chasing a squirrel" type fashion, (b) thinks it's completely acceptable and or necessary to DART in front of me whenever he so feels, causing me to AWESOMELY trip in front of the 45 strangers driving past us on a busy street or, last but not least (c) decide he NEEDS to smell whatever it is he wants to smell and HALT his 85 lb body while I'm mid-jog causing my WHOLE body to JERK backwards borderline pulling my arm out of it's socket.  But I wanted to jog and this pup had WAY too much energy for my taste.  And that's saying a lot because I think he's adorable no matter what (Even making me trip in front of 52 driving by strangers ... What?  That's a higher number than I stated before you say?  I know.  There's more traffic as the day moves on ...).  Well, I am PROUD to say my little booger did GREAT!  He jogged next to me the whole time.  Didn't try to "stop and smell the roses" more than a hand-full of times and was perfectly tuckered out by the time we got home just enough to keep him from bringing me the squeekiest toy and squeek it in my face 542 times while I'm trying to watch the most emotional part of a movie on TV.  HOORAY!  I think I have a new running route with my bubbers (one of his many nicknames) ...

Finally, last night we were supposed to have Home Group, but considering Matt and I had seen each other for about 3 hours total, and that was including church Sunday morning, we decided to opt for spending the evening together beginning with dinner here ...

Topped off by playing a little game of ...

(I had to post this because it was funny that I got these letters - this describes our little pup to a T ...)

... he's rare because he's white (most are yellow, chocolate or black) AND because he's so. dang. sweet.  I'm probably the only one that thinks this is cute and if so, sorry to bore you.  I'm easily amused.  Oh, and did I mention I beat my mister?  Um, cause I did.  What's that you say sugar?  You want a rematch?  Bring it on!  And I mean that in the most loving way possible of course :0)

And last but not LEAST I got another blog award!  I feel SO honored!  Sweet Summer at Summer's Story gave me THIS lovely blog award ...

So hop on over and show her some love.  Her blog is PRECIOUS and very sweet (as is her ADORABLE daughter)!

And there you have it friends.  That was my thrilling, electrifying (wow, that's dramatic), tentalizing, non-stop excitement of a weekend.  I hope you all enjoyed yours as well!