{"id":1001,"date":"2008-12-14T18:25:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-15T01:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=1001"},"modified":"2010-08-23T16:45:16","modified_gmt":"2010-08-23T20:45:16","slug":"same-old-same-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/same-old-same-old\/","title":{"rendered":"Same Old, Same Old"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here I am a couple of days ago, in my Black Halo top, Acne jeans and Karl Lagerfeld shoes from 1994. My <a href=\"http:\/\/wbjewelry.blogspot.com\/2007\/08\/ladies-who-lunch-with-prada-bags.html\">Prada Gaufre<\/a> bag is on the table. I&#8217;m standing in a hotel lobby.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/\" onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5279815304865665650\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_gTmdbGeiE-E\/SUWsC84wUnI\/AAAAAAAAG1I\/xuTKxafKaIw\/s320\/december+08+LA.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>And here I am in <a href=\"http:\/\/wbjewelry.blogspot.com\/2008\/04\/old-shooz-and-final-la-photos.html\">March 2008<\/a>, in my Black Halo top, Acne jeans and 1994 Karl Lagerfeld shoes. My Prada bag is on the table. I&#8217;m standing in the same hotel lobby.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wbjewelry.blogspot.com\/2008\/04\/old-shooz-and-final-la-photos.html\" onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5279816458736526642\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_gTmdbGeiE-E\/SUWtGHZAZTI\/AAAAAAAAG1Q\/XfOzBG3GL7Y\/s320\/20080329_0122.JPG\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nIt&#8217;s enough to make me wonder if I&#8217;m getting a little predictable!<\/p>\n<p>As for those Lagerfeld shoes, earlier that evening (the most recent evening, I mean, not the March evening) I was browsing the sale shoes at Neiman Marcus, and one of the saleswomen said, &#8220;I love those Lagerfeld shoes! I have the same ones.&#8221; When I disbelievingly said that they were over 10 years old, she said, &#8220;Yes, I&#8217;ve had them forever and I got them in red too!&#8221; So that was my little &#8220;you keep your shoes forever too?&#8221; bonding moment with a stranger for the month.<\/p>\n<p>Also in the recent photo, I&#8217;m wearing the Lancome red lipstick\/black gloss combo I posted about <a href=\"http:\/\/wbjewelry.blogspot.com\/2008\/11\/curious.html\">here<\/a>. It finally arrived. I found if you just put the tiniest amount of black gloss on, it gives the red a beautiful dimension, but as Jennine mentioned in her comment on my previous post, it did a hell of a lot of bleeding. The more gloss I used, the worst bleeding there was, of course. But what really annoyed me is that even without the gloss, the lipstick was migrating off my lips, which is something I don&#8217;t usually have a problem with. I&#8217;m disappointed with Lancome. I feel like they didn&#8217;t make a good effort to test the quality of their product. That&#8217;s why you should come shop my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/\">fine jewelry sale<\/a>. I personally wear-test everything to make sure, for instance, that the earrings are comfortable and that the <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/pro-detail.php?colid=29&amp;collect=true&amp;id=421\">lockets<\/a> stay closed. Get busy, people! You&#8217;re running out of time for holiday shopping. Remember, I still have one pair of the shoulder-dusting <a href=\"http:\/\/wbjewelry.blogspot.com\/2008\/12\/feel-like-egyptian-queen-for-less.html\">Cleopatra earrings in silver<\/a>. They&#8217;re long but amazingly lightweight. They&#8217;re not on the site yet, so if you&#8217;re interested, email me at wbjewelry at hotmail dot com.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wbjewelry.blogspot.com\/2008\/12\/feel-like-egyptian-queen-for-less.html\" onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5279820658616158674\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 200px;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_gTmdbGeiE-E\/SUWw6lKVydI\/AAAAAAAAG1Y\/A25D3eh_dtY\/s200\/-7.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 85%;\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Cleopatra Earrings<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-style: italic; font-size: 85%;\">\u00a9 Wendy Brandes 2007-2009<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-style: italic; font-size: 85%;\">Photo by John Muggenborg<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-style: italic; font-size: 85%;\"> <\/span><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wbjewelry.blogspot.com\/2008\/12\/feel-like-egyptian-queen-for-less.html\" onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\"><span style=\"font-size: 85%;\"><\/span><\/a> <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here I am a couple of days ago, in my Black Halo top, Acne jeans and Karl Lagerfeld shoes from 1994. My Prada Gaufre bag is on the table. I&#8217;m standing in a hotel lobby. And here I am in March 2008, in my Black Halo top, Acne jeans and 1994 Karl Lagerfeld shoes. 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