Q: Cheap & Easy Costume Ideas? A: Bada Bing, Bada Bang

It's October!!! My favorite month of the year, which just so happens to be followed by my third and second favorite months of the year. It is officially time to get in the holiday state-of-mind, which is an all-around glorious state of mind. How the calendar has such an effect on my endorphins is beyond me, but so are most of the mechanics behind my hormonal fracases. 

I never understood those people - yes, they're out there and apologies if you're one of them - who claim they don't "do" Halloween. You don't "do" dressing up and candy? You don't "do" the two things that make up my entire essence and being? That is some real bogus hocus pocus that yo no comprendo. But if you're tempted to be a Halloween-Scrooge for reasons related to "ermergawd I'm not spending that on an itchy tacky costume I'll wear once in my life," then perhaps H&M and Katy Perry Collections can lure you over to the dark, sugar-infested side (my side) with these three easy costume ideas. 

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Mummy Slip-Ons - Katy Perry Collection

An Organza Extravaganza

These are a few of my favorite things: organza, leopard (print, cat, etc.), and Bordeaux (the color, the wine, etc.). Also Fridays, but we're not quite there yet. 

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Oyster Eyeglasses - Krewe// Andromeda Earrings - Mercedes Salazar// Clear Eyeglasses - Krewe

Wednesday Whimsy: Stubbs & Wootton + Luke Edward Hall

Something magical just happened: Luke Edward Hall and Stubbs & Wootton combined forces to create an exclusive collection of velvet slippers. Hall, a London-based designer, has an impressive portfolio that is described as "whimsical," "colorful," and communicating an aesthetic "informed by a love of history, an appreciation of beauty and a sense of playfulness." The slippers he designed for Stubbs are all the above. And I want them. 

What is not at all magical - but actually quite predictable - is that I'm now clicking on each slipper option incessantly and am unable to make up my mind, since each pair speaks oh-so-directly to each angle of my split personality. I can only hope you're not plagued with the same indecisiveness. Shop them here. 

Blacks & Baubles

Your wish is my command (kinda). So when you wish for black gowns and more baubles, this is what your genie provides. And while the Dom wasn't necessarily on the wish list, I threw it in there cuz' I lurve ya (and we made it through Monday). So now we can get all Morticia-donning-shoulder-dusters while sipping some bubbly - it's a lewk.

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Red Flower Tassel Earrings - Nicola Bathie// Turqoise Beaded Drops - Suzanna Dai// Embroidered Royal Kenyan Earrings - Lizzie Fortunato// Vintage Earrings - Lulu Frost// Mint Heartbreaker Earrings - Mercedes Salazar// Spritz Crochet Earrings - Lucy Folk// Coral Earrings - Concrete Jellyfish// Crossover Black Dress - Keepsake// Black One Shoulder Dress - Keepsake

La La Land, Fall Formal Edition

You know, that scene where Emma Stone and her gal pals break out into a choreographed dance routine in the middle of an empty street in their primary monochromatic frocks (see below). I watched La La Land again last night and (as with most movies) my favorite parts are always the beginning and the build up, before the plot gets too complicated and inevitably leaves you in a befuddling state of not knowing whether you're happy or sad anymore (which then leads to another trip to the kitchen, another pour in the glass - you know how that story ends).

Apart from 1) provoking a pathetic, attempted tap performance in my living room, 2) implanting some heavy nostalgia for the glory days of living with three girls and starting off our nights with the best part of the night - getting ready, and 3) leaving me with those damn tunes replaying in my head all. morning. long., the movie did something else. It inspired today's collage, which elevates the costumes just a wee bit so that Emma and her amigas are a little more on-trend and a little more prepared for some fall festivities (no offense to Mary Zophres).

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Flower Earrings - Patricia Peckinpaugh// Velvet Dress - Creatures of Comfort// Geometric Purse - Zara// Mismatched Flower Earrings - Bounkit// Clear & Black Suede Pumps - Steve Madden// Two Drop Earrings - Rebecca De Ravenel