Just Poking My Head In

realize it's been months since one of us has posted...a new year has begun...we're all a little fatter from the winter...or I'm the only one, but I have re-begun jogging after 5 years!  Anyway, here's some randomness I meant to share in 2009, and never did...just can't let it go:

Dwell Studio Children's Clothing for Target

Target has some great girls clothing, esp. dresses and girls coats.  I like their Genuine For Kids by OshKosh girls dresses, Cherokee girls dresses, and most of the Dwell Studio clothing.  (Target Online's selection doesn't have half of what the stores carry, so I didn't bother posting any photos/links.)  I usually pull out my camera phone and take photos of some of the girls dresses detailing I like.  I bought each of the above for $1.74.  I love the little piping details and that they used gray for a newborn baby girl...I don't think Utahns like Dwell Studio style, as it's usually on clearance...that leaves more for me! 

Anthropologie December 2009

This catalog arriving got me all excited for winter and snow and totally extinguished my grinchy tendencies:

I don't know whether I like Anthro's clothes or photography locations more.

Imitation is the SINcerest of Flattery?. . .

. . Or I hope Hunter thinks so.
Hunter, is the maker of the most popular welly out there. Although they've been around for years, lately, wellies are all the rage. My first pair of wellies I got for $50 at Marshall's five years ago. They were COACH and I thought they were A-mazing. Not so much. They had zero insullation and would easily pull off when in the mud. I still have them somewhere in a box in my garage, I'm sure.
I needed something that I knew would stand up to the test, and not just look cute. I found HUNTER.
They're tough and taper a little at the top to form a kind of suction.

While at Target a while back, I noticed the over abundance of wellies. Stripes, prints, plaids, and solids. They had 'em all. Strangely enough, I knew I had seen these before. Imitation or coincidence? You decide:


Hunter Lady N- $140

Target Flannel Boot- $32.99


Hunter- $79.99

Target- $24.99


Hunter lace-ups- $125

Target lace-ups- $29.99















Although they failed to make me a copy of these:

JIMMY CHOO meets Hunter!
Love them. Who can justify spending almost $400 on rubber boots?
Perhaps if JIMMY is in the mix.
Just like anything else in fashion and design, great products have 'lots of fans. Yet, these things are beyond reach becasue of their prices.
I'm guilty. I currently have this mirror hanging on my wall from Pottery Barn (on sale $149) that looks wildly like this $1600 Captain's Mirror from BDDW.

              PB                   BDDW

Guilty.
Is it imation, copying, coincidence, or getting a good deal??
Inquiring minds want to know.