What Does $125 Get You? -- Target Edition

I love Target. I know, you think, who wouldn't ? Rafe and Proenza Schouler abound, but it isn't just the biggest, newest designers that get me excited to go to the store or browse the website. It really is design for less. I've fallen hook, line, and sinker for their tag line. (Someone give that Target account manager at FILL IN THE BLANK advertising agency a raise!). So, how much could $125 get me at Target? Quite a few things. How could any style loving woman not get excited in the face of these?

Enough patent to satisfy the trend, not so much to make me ashamed if I use this next spring:














Knockoffs of the Christian Louboutin wedges abound and Target's are some of the cutest:

And if you're loving yellow for the spring:
















If ever there was a bag to haul to the beach, this would be it:















Maybe for work... definitely for fun:

A Kept Woman

Dear Mom,
I love you. You encouraged me to be strong, smart, and to take little to no mess. You can definitely bring home the bacon and fry it up in the pan. I aspire to be like you, hope to be as amazing as you are when I "grow up."

But what if maybe for a bit of time while I'm finding myself, I let some of that "I am woman, hear me roar" go? What if instead I allowed myself to be a trophy piece, arm decoration to some nice man? This man would, in exchange for witnessing my beauty (No, Mom not THAT beauty!), buy me nice dinners, take me to fancy places, and buy me one of these Goldenbleu bags:




































And Mom, the new Spring/Resort collection on the website is even better:
http://goldenbleu.com/collection.html

Love,
Me

P.S. Maybe I can even get him to buy me two, and you could have one.

Functional Beauty

My love of handbags runs deep, but sometimes love hurts ... my shoulder. I tote around makeup, books, magazines, an ipod, and the miscellaneous clothing item to return or umbrella in case it rains. The sensible choice would be to find a messenger bag or backpack and there are cute ones but none of them quite fit my style.

This could be the answer to my prayers: the lambskin Tessa bag from Ananas. The convertible bag can be worn as a shoulder bag or changed into a messenger bag and worn across the body. The color choices and the wood accent add rich detail to the bag, and at $460 they should. It's also two great bags in one. Smart and sexy, that's so me.