I got the sun in the morning and the moon at night.

Today my cousin came down from Wisconsin to pick me up for a day of shopping, hanging out, and then to see Patti LuPone in "Annie Get Your Gun" at Ravinia. Perfect, I know. We swung out to Old Orchard Shopping Center and perused the fine array of stores... I didn't know they had an Anthropologie there, but I wanted to go in because I've never been into an actual store before, just drooled onto my keyboard while looking at the website. What follows is the photo-mess I couldn't stop myself from creating with my iPhone while we wandered blindly through the store, going "That's cute. That's so cute. That's really really cute. THAT'S $248?!"

These first two pics are from the BCBG Max Azria section of Macy's we found ourselves in looking for the restrooms... cute, no?





Now Anthropologie...





I wanted this top so much... here's a detail to show you why... It was actually a chocolate brown color in real life.



Found this top in the tiny Sale closet off to one side... $29.95 on sale. Fought with myself over it for a good twenty minutes. Even tried it on, and loved it, but $30 was too much for me.



THIS outfit is bomb. The jacket is a soft leather, champagne colored, and the skirt was to die for. Obviously. But $118 is too much for a skirt for me. Sigh.





This dress. Has. Teacups. On. It.



...and now for the totally self-indulgent self-portraits taken in the fitting room. The lighting was SO bright and SO clean... I had to take advantage of it. You can skip this if you want. :P









That done, we had dinner at Panera and made our way to Ravinia for a WONDERFUL show. Very minimalist, as in the tradition of Ravinia, but Patti sounded beautiful and SURPRISE! GEORGE FREAKING HEARN WAS IN IT AS BUFFALO BILL. It was so freaking cool to hear him in person. And hilarious. Knowing that they've done Sweeney Todd together. Hah. It also thunderstormed around us during the first act... oh, Ravinia. <3