A day without accessories....

This may be a manic lookin' reflection of moi - but this is how I feel at the thought of a day without accessories!   For me it's brush teeth, contact lenses, make up & Dear Gad, accessories!  

Every day it's a race to the elbow with brackets, a couple of short, stacked necklaces and always a long one with an interesting object or perhaps two long ones!  And yes, this is true no matter the season!  

For me, a day without accessories, is like a day without wine... again, some things are simply unimaginable!

*Actually, it's summer, so I keep the glass of wine (or two) to the weekends - It's a calorie count thing for me!

I'm forever creating my funny women greeting cards which are here:  The Vanity Gallery

and I also invite you to come on by my youtube, Channel, Collene Kennedy, where I offer insights to the back stories of cards and once a week I'm trying to offer an interesting free downloadable art item!

Air kissed and accessory wishes until the next time -

 

I accessorize therefore I am fabulous...

 Yes, YOU are!

Accessories are they key to life!  Well, if not the actual key to life, they are invaluable to me taking almost any outfit from blah-to-Tah' Dahhhhh'!  

To me each day starts with brushing teeth, popping contacts in, putting make-up on, dressing and most importantly decorating with accessories!  The thing about accessories is it gives all of us the ability to be fabulous and to show that decoration is a celebration of feeling fabulation'!  I just made up that word!  *Characters on my funny women cards in my EtsyVanityGallery make up lots of words!

When working with children they are endlessly fascinated with my accessories because everyday I would have an accessory theme.  The task was to guess the theme! It could be let's say a Chinese theme when wearing my jade necklace that had the Chinese character of "Love," along with a very distinct and oversized Chinese Dragon low hanging necklace and then of course I layered a few more necklaces and every single day remains a race-to-the-elbow with bangles and bracelets!  

Along with red lipstick, my accessories complete me. Yup, just like the movie line, "You complete me," I say that accessories complete me!

And here's the funny thing, I never change my earrings, always pearls and I can wear the same outfit for days but it's the accessories that are the seasoning to the fashion meal!  

Do you "season" your outfit with accessories?!

And of course many of my characters on my funny women Vanity Cases cards, including the Accessory Queen, Iris Apfel reflect my appreciation for the fabulous decoration!  Click on over and see!  FREE  card with any order, even for a single card, if you say you saw this Fab'log! 

http://www.vanitygallery.etsy.com

This self-confessed Accessory Addict layers accessories around the neck

Oh yes!  I went there in the day time!  I layered three or four chains and necklaces and I thought the result was quite smashing!  

If you can layer clothes, why not accessories?!  And here's the deal, I wore my "triple play" fancy-schmancy necklaces with a simple fitted  black T-shirt [from Target and of which I have 4), under my simple black J.Crew jacket.  What can I say, the J.Crew jackets work for me in that they are the blank canvas I need to "paint" my accessory styling!

The necklaces are a vintage diamondy' chocker from my Mother in law, and I imagine from the 40s because the stones are glass and the clasp has a vintage closure with a safety chain .  I kept it in a jewelry box for years and recently thought, WHY?  What am I waiting for to be fancy!  Why not make an effort to be fabulously fancy everyday!?  

In addition to the vintage piece, I wrapped a silver diamond cut, Cuban link chain wrapped twice around and which I used in a previous incarnation connecting two crystal circle pins on two lapels.  And while it might be hard to see, I added a "gold like" rope 16 inch chain to this triple play necklace layering. I will forever like the blending of gold and silver -

And it's almost always a race to my elbows with bracelets and bangles everyday that of course have to "sing along" with whatever my accessory theme is for the given day.  This largish' cuff was is a fab' steal from a Jersey boardwalk shop and dare I brag, less than or about ten dollars!  I combined with vintage Monet snake chain bracelet and a slim gold cuff, given to me by my Mom a millionty years ago which always shines like a million dollars after I brush / refresh it with a little toothpaste.  Yes.  Toothpaste fore me shines my gold, my white gold and platinum.  

Most of the characters in my Vanity Cases funny women greeting cards are over accessorized and I still don't know, are they me or am I them.  I just know a day without accessories is ....crickets chirping...somethings are simply unimaginable!