Monochromania! White Rushin' and Kitty in the Fog

Hey, have you heard? Monochrome is modern! What is it? Monochrome is wearing one colour head-to-toe, including jewelry and accessories. What's monochromania? A made-up word (by me) for those who love this look! As such, I'm a monochromaniac. Well, maybe just the "maniac" part, ha ha.

As you might have read, I'm challenging you, dear readers and fellow bloggers, to try this yourself. Stretch your boundaries, put yourself outside your comfort zone! I'll be featuring pictures of anyone who wants to play along - just drop me an email (it's in my profile) with your photo or a comment with the link to your blog entry (I'll link back). I'll post the round-up on Sunday, so get busy!

Anyway, enough jibber-jabber, it's Friday and you know the wine is calling to me... "Sheila...drink me..." That wine, always so seductive. I won't, however, be wearing this outfit when I uncork that lovely red wine.

Me (aka "Madame Spillypants" as L calls me) plus white is pretty much a disaster waiting to happen. I did pretty good today at work and avoided pen marks on myself and coffee spills, but I did splatter my green curry on my top and right at the end of the day I got cocoa powder all over my pants when I was refilling the coffee machine's cocoa reservoir. Good gravy.

However, I enjoyed flouting the "no white after Labour Day" so-called rule and enjoyed my all-white outfit, even though all items are now in the wash.

We have the white drapey cardigan, last seen here in August with my chambray dress.

We have the pretty little white structured top, which was last featured here in July under my denim dress (I love that look).

And then we have the white cropped pedal pushers, which do such nice things for my butt. Heh. I last wore them here (third outfit, after the cat pictures) a couple of weekends ago, after rediscovering them in my little-used pant drawer in my dresser.

This will probably be the last wear of the cardigan, pants and shoes for the summer season. I'll keep the top in rotation as it's a good layering piece.

The stuff:

Fabulously comfy white shoes and the one white accessory I have (well, I was tempted by my bigass white fabric flower but it felt too fussy). I last wore the shoes here last Friday with pink and gingham. They were awesome for rushing around today.

Cardigan (Bellisima, consignment), top (Le Chateau, consignment), pedal pushers (Contrast, thrifted), shoes (Aerosoles, thrifted), earrings (Plum).

This morning I woke up to a layer of fog outside - it is hot in the daytime but we get cold ocean air pulling in overnight. It's getting cooler in the mornings. Soon, we'll have to pull Vizzini's scratching post indoors for the fall/winter.

"I'm watching for falling leaves. I'll report later."

You can see that the Garry oak trees' leaves are starting to turn in the background. One good stretch of cool weather and they'll all be gold and orange.

I called Vizzini to get him to look at the camera.

"What do you want now?" 

He was having none of it. I petted him and scritched him under the chin until he roused himself from "loaf position".

"I'm the epitome of catness."

Such a pretty boy, and such a fine mustache he has! Once he was up, he was game for walking the balcony ledge. He quickly spotted something.

Ignore my dirty windows.

 The sun was trying to burn through the fog. But what's that?

Our neighbour Terry's cat

Aw, kitty sleeping. The maple trees are turning faster than the oaks.

Wishing you a weekend of gentle fog, colourful leaves and snoozing.