Texas

I was part of the Texas Style Council Conference, including leading the Thrifting Tour on Saturday with fellow bloggers Elissa from Dress with Courage, Jessie of Style and Pepper & Jentine of My Edit.

Despite the torrential rain on Saturday, many bloggers came out and we had two buses full of thrifting enthusiasts! We cut the shopping locations short a bit because of the weather, which gave us way more time to dig through the racks at Savers. 

The staff Savers was fabulous, and they greeted us with coffee, snacks and even 20% off coupons! Amazing. 

All of us leaders gave a short little speech filled with useful vintage tips. My tips were more of a list of supplies, and many asked to have it, so stay tuned for a little compiled Thrifting 101 Tips guide! 

Apparently out tips worked, because everyone went home with amazing finds. At first I was a little scared to share a thrift store with a busload of stylish ladies, for fear fist fights and hair pulling would ensue over an amazing dress or skirt, but everyone was super nice and even helped find things for eachother! Awww. Bloggers unite!

You can see recaps of the events on all of the other ladies' blogs, including more photos!

Jessie of Style & Pepper and Jentine of My Edit getting ready for the tour!

One of the buses full of thrfters, with fellow leader Elissa from Dress with Courage

Kendi finds an amaing Ann Taylor blouse. We all freak out.

The aforementioned blouse.

San Antonio-based blogger and thrifter Diedre combing the racks - and scoring major finds!

How fun is this caftan Merl Kinzie found?

How about that dress Kirsten found?

Tons of scores including a leather trim blazer!

I found this crazy sweater coat. See my face of being all like 'crazy good or crazy awful?'

Ikat sweater! Crazy awesome!

Thrifters and their scores back on the bus!

Be on the lookout tomorrow to see these blogger's best scores and how they wore it. The best find in an outfit totally won a $100 gift certificate to Market Publique, Elissa's Thrifting 101 book and more amazing goodies!

Photos from various people's Instagram including Elissa, Jessie, Jentine, & Market Publique.

We have a soft spot in out hearts for Texas vintage, so we were super thrilled to learn about Vintage Glamporium– a weekend extravaganza in Austin featuring some of our most-favorite Texan vintage sellers ad organized by Feathers owner Masha.

We wish we could fly over there to shop, so if you go please take a ton of Instagram photos so we can live vicarioulsy through you.

THIS WEEKEND

Vintage Glamporium

Saturday, October 8, 12-6 and Sunday, October 9, 12-5

Zach Theater 1510 Toomey Rd.

We were super excited to be seed sponsors for the swap at the Texas Style Council Conference in Austin last weekend!

Organized by The Swapaholics, the swap was a fabulous success and everyone went home with some amazing goodies, including some of the items we donated to start the swapping on the right foot.

Unfortunately, my flight didn't get in until 1am that night, so I missed the swap - but we did get some amazing pictures courtesy of Adam Towner (more photos here!).

Read more about it on The Swapaholics & the BurdaStyle blog & scroll down down for more pics of the swap!

Some fab shoes & jewerly, including cobalt blue Proxy, polka dot & nude pumps from the 80s!

The rack of our vintage goodies at the Swap.

A few pieces of jewelry, like this Avon vintage solid perfume locket!

Right on-trend: printed pants!

And of course, sequins. You can't leave out the sequins!

The line of swappers was quite long! Everyone was super excited to peruse the goodies and ready to get first dibs.

Organizer Amy chatting it up and keeping things under control. Read her blog post about the swap here.

Swappers & bloggers chatting and perusing. What a spread!

Some of the attendees included keynote speaker Jennine from The Coveted, conference organizer Grechen of Grechen's Closet &speaker Jen of Jen Loves Kev.

Rachel peruses our rack.

She finally settled on this silk skirt with a scenic print. Check out how she wore it on her blog.

Plus stay tuned to see what other amazing pieces bloggers and attendees scored and how they wore them - post coming later this week!

Hey y'all! I'm headed down to Texas to speak at the Texas Style Council Conference this weekend!

Last year, Indiana Adams of Adored Austin put together an amazing (and super fun!) New Media Fashion Brunch and Boutique Crawl.

This year, the festivites have grown. Indiana joined forces with Grechen of Grechen's Closet, and put together the Texas Style Council Conference.

Spanning the whole weekend, the conference includes a swap organized by The Swapaholics, for which we're sending a box of goodies from Market Publique, as we are a Seed Sponsor.

On Saturday there's shopping and treasure hunting, and then Sunday is the actual conference with panels and workshops featuring soem fo my favorite bloggers and companies.

I am honored to be speaking at one of those panels, at 2:30. Hope to see you there!

Panel 2- CAREERS: Beyond the Blog (using your site to sell your goods or launch a new career)
Panelists:
Kendra (DBA)
Nora (Burdastyle)
Brooke (Fashism)
Pamela (Market Publique)
Janette (Store Envy)
Krystal (Boutiques.com)
Moderator: Amy (Swap.com)

Amber Venz, of VenzEdits

Speaking of Texas, I have been meaning to share this fabulous Dallas gal's style. We met Amber at the IFB Workshop we taught for NYFW, and she was wearing our favorite outfit of the day: a vintage dress over leather leggings, black wedges and the amazing Céline luggage tote. And that hair, that hair! More about Amber's outfit on her blog.

Amber does not only write her blog, but has also started her own jewelry line, which is big and bold just how I like my jewels. I'm looking forward to seeing more of here when we come to #TxSCC!