Tall Order

Have you ever heard a man say the expression, "i'd give my left nut" for something? I know every time I have ever heard it I thought my self, "no dude you can keep it, i'll give you what you want for free." Seriously, whoever came up with that saying obviously need to have their head hit with a roll of barbed wire. But I also know kind of what they are saying because I would give my two bubbies and pigs wrestling on my back side to be tall. Actually, I wish the two were reversed, but that's beside the point. My point is if I were tall I would not have to worry about feeling dumpy. I am 5'4" but lower to the ground. By that I mean I have short legs. I suck. 

In TJ Maxx on Saturday, I came this close and I mean close by $14.99 close to buying a maxi skirt just to fullfill these outfits. I didn't because tennis shoes and bras were apparently more important.

The skirt was similar in color but striped and I have a army green sweater. I know dumb dumb!

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This is also a fav, but I feel like one of those nerds that wears their pants up their chest.

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Or maybe it's not tall I need to be, but a negative 12 pounds. I have a jean jacket too. Total fail!

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So, as I struggle with the fact that I didn't purchase the skirt or the awesome brown moto jacket for $24 smacks. I wonder what it would be like to be about three inches taller. Maybe its in the shoes. What shoes would you wear to pull this off? 

Help a Tater Queen out won'tcha!

Happy Wednesday,

Dusty

Prissy

It's time for Tater Queens Fashion Inspirations. I am a girly girl. No doubt. This weekend I was a pinning Pinterest beast. Here is what I would be wearing if I lived near an H&M and had a blazillion dollars.I am so ready for fall. 

I love this sweater

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With this shirt underneath

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These Flair Jeans (I love Flaired Jeans thank you 70's)

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Slip on these shoes

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And this little gem (In love with this)

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And there is my first fall hoorah! Thank you H&M for not retailing your store close to me because then I would be broke. But I love the bracelet. Sometimes its just the littlest touch that adds a little priss. 

Do you have your fall on? That was supposed to sound gangsta. Total fail.

Dusty

What's Your Fancy

Its Wednesday and that means another Tater Queens Fashion Inspiration. In the everyday world, we all have our go to pieces. Mine is jeans any day of the week. My second is a hat. I have over 20 hats and its growing. I believe that if you need just one accessory on days when you feel like your outfit is missing something, its a hat. Plus, it's great for bad hair days. And finally, a little lip gloss makes me feel complete. You would probably be ashamed at my lip gloss collection. I am always in search of the perfect pinky peach. 

Here are some outfits that would be in my circle of everyday, go to picks that are also perfect for the fall season.

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Now if someone could just buy me the whole outfit in the last picture, I would kiss ya on the lips or find me a vest similar that doesn't cost a blazillion dollars like this one does. Thank you Lindsay for this picture and Pinterest for letting me store into memory and relive it knowing I can't afford one piece.

So what are your go to pieces? Ready, set, go!

Happy Wednesday,

Dusty

Supermodel No!

Memba way back a couple of weeks ago when I was ate up with the dumbass and decided that I wanted all my lucious followers to vote for their favorite outfit and I would recreate it as my first ever outfit post? Huh, do ya? Well, if not here was the winner, not by a landslide but pretty close to it. 

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And here it is my version of this picture. Please be kind. This is me, in the heat, a dog poop filled back yard, getting ate up by chiggers, sucking in my muffin top trying to do this thang.

biker bitch jacket: JCP for my birthday

hat: Old Navy sometime last year

jeans: Levis a blazzion years old

tshirt: Ross so three weeks ago

Shoes: yes, two pairs, Chuck Taylors and Mary J's who knows where from

jewls: necklace from the kid and bracelets and earrings I forget

I'm no Jennifer Aniston that's for sure and the last picture is what I really thought about it. And there you have it. My first ever outfit post. This supermodel shit is alot of work. I tip my hat to all those that do it every single day. Once a week would be good enough for me.

Happy Wednesday Cindy Crawfords,

Dusty

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Model Requirements

I was MIA. My butt was plastered in front of the TV watching the Olympics. In the meantime, I have decided that I am not an official blogger. Why? Let me explain. Coming up on a year blogging, I remember when I first thought about blogging I wanted to have a fashion blog. I wanted to show outfits on a budget for those out there who wanted to be fashionable and affordable. Then after researching it found that there were those type of blogs everywhere. So, I backed up and said I should do what I want. Blog for me and what I feel comfortable doing. I do still have aspirations to do some outfit posts, but I have learned that I am not officially a blogger until I master these few things. 

First, the watch..I can pull up 50 blogs and everyone one of these girls have this watch.

Michael Kors makes one hell of a watch but for $250 smacks I can find a cheap knock off and hopefully the camera won't focus in on the dial with the name on it.

Then there's the bubble necklace. Turquoise, yellow, coral. What color do you want?

I call this the skittles necklace. It looks like your tibbies exploded bursts of color from a red package of goodness.

I also need to learn to master the top knot or the blogger bun. I have no clue how many bobby pins it takes to hold in this Flaky baked goodness on top of your head but I also refer to it as the peeled onion look.

Mastering the mani isn't really on my list of things to do but its apparently important in a fashion blog to paint all your finger nails and go, "what the hell, lets paint one a different color, cool!" What I don't understand is why is it the ring finger? If I want to showcase something wouldn't it be more dramatic to give someone the middle finger? Just sayin.

And finally, I must have the blogger pose down. You know the ones with the handbag strategically placed, the one leg up while your looking at the ground, the walking pose where it looks like Simon says Freeze! All I hear is Madonna's song Vogue playing in my head.

So you see I am not officially a fashion blogger until all of things come into play but that's okay. I love my fashion peeps alot and I love being the funny girl. Somewhere I will meet in the middle, but until then I am just going to keep observing all of these things for maybe in my next life I will be a supermodel or maybe my ass will explode some earrings to go with my skittles necklace.

Strike a Pose,

Dusty

Quirky Style

I love Wednesdays its my time to be a chick! I am feeling a little quirky this week. I don't know if its getting back into the groove or anticipation of things to come in August. So many great things to come in my blog. If you would like to sponsor and grow just go to my sponsor page, its a mere $5 smacks and all those ladies in the sidebar are the bomb. 


Okay enough of that shizl. Because I am feeling quirky, I have definatly taken a liking to that mint color. And although I hate peppermint patties with a passion, this color is awesome. And you can do so much with it. It could be the new black. If it makes my fluffy look smaller, its my everything, let me sing a song about it. 

So I came across this little doozy on the Pinterest and thought... this is my speed.

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And because I am all about being a little funky today, I think I will add these.

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Add this and call it a day!

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Now I saw the price of this bag, so in my world a nice little old lady with a sewing machine, some canvas and a stencil will do the trick. 

I think my friends this is casual cool. Like it? Who care's I do and this concludes another fabulous Tater Queens Fashion Inspiration post.

Be Quirky today wont'cha!

Dusty 

Reader's Choice

So I think I made a deal with the devil(s). She devils. I got myself into a pickles (pun intended). I agreed to do an official outfit post if one of those devils agreed to do her first ever guest post. The other one notice its plural has just been riding my fluffy about it. So I thought what better way than to get the whole kit and kaboodle involved than to have my followers choose which outfit they want me to recreate. As I type this, I am watching my worthless guard dog #2, Libby chase and try to eat flies. And away we go.

Number 1
Love this look and I have those shoes

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Number 2

Casual and a cool fedora 
I love hats remember?

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Number 3
A little Rock & Roll

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Number 4

Boho 

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Those are the four choices you have. Of course, I can't recreate everything exactly. If that was possible I would be rich like these bunnies and have their amazing assests. But the majority will rule. God don't you like being in control? I hate it that you are, but its going to be fun. I will debut the look August 8th. That gives me enough time to try and work up the courage to do this. 

Okay, phone lines are open. Ha! Gotcha! Comments and suggestions are all yours! Go! 

Happy Wednesday,

Dusty

simple is best

There is no doubt I am a jeans and t shirt kind of girl. Lately, by that I mean everyday, I have found that sometimes just the simplest things, clothing, can be great if you just add a statement piece. I don't like to wear skirts. I have turkey thighs or so I think and I just feel weird in them. One of my phobias is to get out of that mode. I, if I have a meeting, am more likely to have on a great pant suit or dress pants with a fab top. But more often than not you will find me in jeans and a tshirt. Today is about simple. Be yourself and go with the flow. 

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I love pink..period the end.

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I love turquoise..period the end.

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I love that these jeans are destroyed and worn..period the end.

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I love these shoes say summer and fall..period the end.

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I love every single thing about this from the hat (oh yes) down the the floor! 

Well, except her flat stomach, makes me want to burn

my corneas out because it looks so good.

So do you have a simple outfit? What is your go to if you wanted to be just you.

Be Who you Are,

Dusty

The End of Crazy

What a week, huh? I swear I have no idea what happened on my blog this week. It was like the Fast and the Furious and the brakes went out. I feel like I was absent but hopefully, I can make up the grade and pass with flying colors. Okay, so to end the week on a stupid note. I, to poke fun at my long lost seester, Justyn, made a Vlog for giggles because there is a link up called What's In Your Closet hosted by a slew of roosterbitches. It was meant as a joke, but I thought that since I busted out of the gate this week and landed myself 200 followers, I would reward you with more stupid than you can handle. I mean can you imagine. That's 12,691 less than The Daybook Fashion blog. Look out Sydney, I am coming for you. 

Take a note, that this will probably be my first and last Vlog and the only reason I posted it was because some nice people said some pretty nice things about me this week and I wanted to show them the real life of cray cray and the kid that is apparently dangling out of my butthole as you will hear in this video.

So as you can see, I am not one with a video camera. And as I set here in horror eating my Lean Quizine, please remember that at precisely midnight this video will be set to private or deleted and never to be seen again. I mean seriously, some New York magazine may want to use this piece of crap for inspiration and I cannot allow copyright unless there are substantial fees involve. I should be paid for stupid right?

Happy Friday,

Dusty

PS ..This was filmed at about 9 pm. I had no idea how to turn on the light for the recorder in the beginning, I hadn't combed my hair and had already taken off every stitch of war paint. Don't hate!

One Shoulder

There is something mysterious about showing a little skin. No, I don't mean go out with your thong bikini to the beach and shake it like a Polaroid picture. I mean a little here or there. Baring your legs in a great pair of shorts or an off the shoulder shirt. Of course for me the one shoulder shirts remind me of the 80's and 90's era and I can't help to sing "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun" at the top of my lungs. But its back with a vengeance. An updated hot version of Flashdance in 2012. And if I wasn't built like a linebacker, I would probably wear these alot more. They work for me in some ways, I got perky tits which translates to pebbles bouncing freely not making that much of an impression. And of course the girls with the jugs can put on a strapless and spin around like Wonder Woman.

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So you see these aren't for working out. They are pretty hot! I likey likey. What's your take on the off the shoulder style?

Happy Wednesday!

Dusty

Classic Cowgirl

Sadly my style is one of two. Classic or hippie. And I kind of sorta like it although I wish I could venture out more, but I don't think triangles and horizontal stripes are my thing. I see it on others and love it, but then I imagine myself in it and then I go, uh, no. Truthfully, jeans and tshirts are my go to like every all american girl, but sometimes a girl has to venture out of the house. 

There are a couple of fashion bloggers that inspire me. I am sure they know who they are I stalk I mean read their blogs everyday for inspiration. And then there is one that now has me addicted to the new Bachelorette and what she is wearing. I am a country girl at heart. So I thought I would give a whirl as to what I would wear out for a good night of honky tonkin'.

I see these shorts everywhere and I love them (if I was a bean pole). But I am not sure if they have a panel in them cause this girl is in a no thong zone. 

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Then I would put on something light with a tank underneath. Cause a girl sweats her baguettes of line dancin'

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I'd slap on this hat just because every other muchacha will have on a cowboy hat so a girl needs to break the rules

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And then I would pull these FANTASTIC BOOTS on my feet. Good gawd I hope these mothers go on sale because if they do they are mine, mine, mine! As soon as I saw these I imagined all the possibilities...key word imagined. But they are HOT SNOT!!!!!!!!!!!!

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So yeehaw girls!  A little cowgirl classic, now I need to work on being a bean pole. Love it or hate it?

Happy Wednesday, Ya'll!

Dusty

Summer Essentials for a Frump Girl

I haven't felt real fashion forward lately. This Tater Queen entered the biggest loser contest at work. Not to really lose alot of weight but to be motivated to exercise. I have lost 1 pound and ate enough fudge bars to keep Willie Wonka in business. But I do think a girl needs summer essentials in her wardrobe. Bikini season is upon us. Don't even get me started on that because I might cry like a girl. But my wish list contains a few things that if given the opportunity and the right time. Which means I get off my butt and go somewhere nice, these are a few things I would put on or put in my suitcase on a vacay.

these wedges most defintaly

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I am a hat girl. I probably have 30 so this is a must

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a fun bag, i am a hippie at heart

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honestly this whole outfit would suit me just fine

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So simple is the key. Doesn't take much to make me happy. Although those shorts are kinda shorty short. But every girl has a staple and few essentials that she loves. What's yours?

It's hump day!

Dusty

A Skirt Tale

Oh, what a beautiful day. Of course I have no idea what kind of day Wednesday will be. Let's get real I wrote this the night before. But hopefully, its all sun shiny. So Saturday we went to the evil place called Target. I went in to get one thing and $100 some odd dollars later. I was wondering what I really went in for in the first place. Oh, yeah, a picture frame and candle. So I must have been ate up with the dumb ass because I bought this outfit. 

Did you notice anything? It doesn't have legs. It's free flowing. It must have been the rain because I obviously was delirious. I like things that cover my legs because well they are the equivalent of a well basted turkey. And all I can think about is my butt is going to jiggle too much in this thin piece of bed sheet. Damn these fashion bloggers. They make me think like the Little Engine That Could. So I thought well, this outfit would be cute in the dark with these shoes.

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And then you know how I become obsessed with things. Well, I have been obsessing over all the Real Housewives of New Jersey have these clover earrings. One google search and wa-la, I found them. And I totally bought them too. What the hell is wrong with me? Thank you New Jersey.

So I must seek professional help. In a matter of days, I have managed to buy a skirt that quite possibly might hang in my closet until someone gets married and earrings I thought may make me hot snot. Oh, well, we all have our weakest moments. Thank you Miki for making me feel better on Sunday about it. She said I was worth it cause it was Moma's Day.

Have you bought something out of your element lately? 

Have a great Wednesday!

Dusty

Maxed Out

I can't believe I am going to show this picture, but its sorta necessary I reckon so you get the purpose of this post. I am a shrimp. 5'4". Dumpy legs, no tibbies well perky tibbies and built like a line backer. Which is why I have an issue with my personal fashion posts. My MaKaila rocks this out of the park. Marion my new style blog obsession..ugh give me her legs please, but me I am just one giant blob. I am also not much of a dress person because my fluffy just can't figure out where to rest. I mean its like looking at two pigs fighting over a piece of cornbread back there, so me and sexy sorta don't get along. 

This was my first wack at a Maxi dress and honestly I was in love. Flowey and light. There's no conflict because everything is just kind of free and if you got the muffin top nobody can see whatcha bakin'. 

So here it is....We went to a wine tasting at a wonderful local vineyard last year and had a great time. That's one of my BFF's, Lorraine. I couldn't cut her out. I bought this maxi at Kohls for $6 smacks. Can you believe it. I adore it, which makes me want more. And it was wonderful because it was blazing hot that day.

I am wanting a few more for this summer. But I really should work on my arm muscle tone a little more.

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All of these I found on Victoria's Secret and the first one I am in love with but double stick tape might be in order. Not as much as I love Hunter Boots but I am sure I could put this on and all the piggy swirl would disappear in the bed sheet I would be wearing. 


So this summer, I vow to wear a dress..a maxi dress.


What do you think about the maxi dresses? Are they all you and a bag of chips?

Happy Wednesday. I am going to hide under a rock now.

Dusty