Words, Glorious Words

Every once in awhile as a blogger, you get invitations to review some pretty cool stuff from some pretty cool companies.  Uncommon Goods is just such a company.  They're headquartered in Brooklyn, New York and specialize in featuring designs and handcrafted gifts that are created in harmony with the environment "without harm to animals or people."  The result is that they pay their lowest-paid seasonal works starting at 50% above minimum wage, half of what they sell is made by hand and "about one-third of their collection incorporates recycled and/or upcycled materials."  And, they also donate $1 of every purchase to various non-profits.

As you'd expect, Uncommon Goods has some wonderful, and uncommon, stuff.  And they have a lot of them to choose from; you can find unique gifts for nearly anyone, including some wonderful personalized gifts, here, as well as some stupid cute baby gifts, here.  I, being a scarf fanatic that cannot wait for fall, went straight for their gorgeous of collection of scarves.

The scarf I chose is the Literary Scarf, in Alice in Wonderland, and it's wonderful.  It's printed with the White Rabbit and The Doormouse as well as passages from the book:

They also offer Jane Eyre, Dorian Gray & Wuthering heights; you can see them all here.


As soon as I received my scarf, I squealed and then immediately planned to wear it with my Library Stamp tee from Out of Print clothing.  The result?  The wordiest outfit I've ever worn:

Scarf: Uncommon Goods  Tee: Out of Print Clothing  Skirt: LOFT  Sandals: Moorea Seal

And, possibly, the nerdiest.  And I love it.

I actually wore it last Friday when I was still battling my summer cold.  (Brief aside: summer colds are the dumbest colds; who gets a cold when it's 85 out?!).  I need to be cozy and comfortable and this outfit did the trick.

It was honestly like wearing pajamas.  Delightfully nerdy pajamas.

Happy Wednesday, All!

Gracey

Check, Check, Check It Out

Today's blog title is basically a stroke of genius on my part as it refers both to my checked pants and my library stamp tee:

Tee: Out of Print Clothing  Pants: Gap  Sandals: thrifted Franco Sarto

That's right, it's a t-shirt printed with the stamps that you used to see, in the good ol' days, when you... wait for it... that's right, checked out a book.  Let's all let that sink in for a bit.  Brilliant, yeah?

Also brilliant?  This tee:

I love it so much.  It's from Out of Print Clothing whom I love anyway for making awesome things like shirts, totes and jewelry and for donating a book for each awesome thing sold to their partners, Books for Africa.  And then they went and made this tee and I was in heaven.

Seriously though, pretty great right?

You can get your own Library Stamp Tee here.  And I hope you will, if only to confuse all the children who have no idea what a library stamp is (sad face).

Happy Thursday, All!

Gracey

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