Long Weekend, Dresses and Flop-Cat

Ooh, I love a long weekend. I wish I weren't in so much pain, but a long weekend is still nothing to be sneezed at! Yes, my back is still very sore and the nerve is still pinched. I must make an appointment for acupuncture this week.

However, in the meantime, all plans for complicated outfits go out the window when it's hot. And it has been a HOT weekend - up to 28 degrees (that's over 80 for those of you on that other scale). Yes, we are all wusses here, but that is very hot for Victoria!

On Saturday, we didn't have Ultimate, so we met up with our friend Andrew for brunch. I had a massage booked for the afternoon, so I went with a simple dress and walking shoes. I did a bit of thrift store browsing but didn't find anything.

Infamously referred to as my "lettuce" dress, I last wore this as my July 2012 Wild Card outfit during my year-long capsule challenge, here with my aqua Fluevogs. It's a lovely cotton eyelet fabric, so wonderfully comfy on a hot day.

My easy cream Clark's Artisan sandals were great for walking home.

The necklace is one I picked up at the St. Vincent de Paul over a year ago for one of my steampunk costumes - it was $5.00. I hardly ever wear it, but I liked the look of the long pendant with this outfit.

Voila!

I loathe wearing sunblock, so I often wear a physical block in the form of clothing instead. This thin denim shirt fit the bill perfectly.

Dress (Taylor, consignment), shoes (Clark's Artisans, consignment), necklace (thrifted).

Our friends Jean and Michael threw a pre-Canada Day barbecue at their house Sunday afternoon. It's better to have the day off after a holiday so that you can recover from the drinks and rich food!

It was roaring hot again yesterday, so out came another dress! This fabulous 60s vintage Hawaiian dress gifted to me from my aunt Kathy last week.

It's funny. You know you've pushed most people's fashion envelope when the "normals" look away from you, and the drunks and homeless people vocally approve of your outfit. Ha! I was very popular with the transient population of Victoria yesterday!

This dress fit like a dream. I wore it out for brunch, and a bit of walking around, as well as lounging around in a shady backyard - as with the previous outfit, it was great sunblock (I do block up exposed skin, of course). Plus, I didn't have to shave my legs. Heh.

I kept the accessories to a minimum due to the heat. Just a pair of silver earrings, these Fossil ones - the shape went really well with the patterns on the dress.

I wore my kitten heel gladiator sandals (last worn here several times on our journey to/from Powell River) and did a quick half-assed pedicure with 60-second polish in a matchy lilac purple. Toes are an accessory, right?

Showing my ink! This dress was a major statement, so I am linking up to Patti's "Visible Monday" over at Not Dead Yet Style. Get yourself over there and have a gander at all the lovely peeps.

I didn't take a picture of it, but see the furled up parasol in the background? I carried that around all day for extra sunblock. There's a picture of it here from last August. It was an excellent $10 investment several years ago, but the weather has to be just right: no wind, no rain (the parasol is paper).

Dress (Tori Richard of Honolulu for Andrade of Honolulu, vintage 60s, Joyce's), shoes (Enzo Angiolini, consignment), earrings (Fossil).

Someone has been barely tolerating the heat.

"I flop where I want."

L and I played Arkham Horror on Saturday night - we have a really big living room coffee table with another shelf under it that we use for storing our Dungeons and Dragons character sheets. It is also Vizzini's secret passageway from one side of the room to the other (good for sneaking chip crumbs off the floor).

I looked down at my feet and there he was, flopped out on the shelf, having a lie-down.

"There are game pieces up there that I can steal."

He likes to chew on the handle of that old pencil sharpener, so we have the handle jammed into the corner. What a devil.

After lounging around hoping for chip crumbs, he expressed his dissatisfaction with our lack of messiness by hopping on top of the big CD shelf.

"I'm king of the world!" 

We try not to make a big deal out of it, as there's nothing he can destroy up there (hmmm...except the curtains).

Later on that night, I caught him on his post out on the deck.

"How dare you use the flash?"

He's such a funny bub.

I hope everyone had a great weekend!