Have you ever fallen head over heels for something that's a complete departure from your usual style?

[Kim N]

It can be jewelry, clothing, home renovations, or home decor. Something that you could realistically obtain / wear / have in your home (i.e. not something only attainable by royalty or the top 0.01%).

Pics are necessary!

 

[Calliecake]

Yes, with clothes. I did it fairly often when I was younger. Sorry, I don’t have pictures. This was before camera phones.

Also a mid 80’s hairstyle and the 100 cans of Aqua Net hairspray to go along with it for two years. I thought it looked great at the time.

Thanks for the trip down memory lane @Kim N.

 

[Begonia]

I did a few years ago with curated ear piercing. At 54. Hmmm. Got quite a few lobe and cartilage piercings and then suddenly liked the simplicity of single piercings. Mid life crisis much?
Eye roll...

 

[Avondale]

Maaaaybe...? A ring. But it has to arrive first before confirmation and pictures are provided.

Usually I prefer streamlined jewellery. Things that don't draw too much attention and that I can wear with both formal and casual outfits.

This ring is anything but. It's blingy. It has an inner and an outer halo (and I don't even like halos!), diamond melee of two different cuts, milgrain and far more finger coverage than I usually wear.

Honestly, I blame PS for this. I wasn't that kind of girl before y'all corrupted me.

 

[canuk-gal]

HI:

Not head over heels, but wearing sneakers!!!! (no pun intended)

cheers--Sharon

 

[Mooshi]

All the time. ALL.THE.TIME.

That's what pinterest is for isn't it? I have such a wide variation of pins for hairstyles, home decor, landscaping, and of course jewelry. Lusting after intricate, blingy pieces of jewelry is fun online, but in my real life I'd feel way to over the top. (Said while wearing pajama bottoms with toucans on them while I WFH.)

Because pics make a thread much more fun, here are things I love but wouldn't wear simply because they wouldn't go with my uber-loungewear.

 

[Kim N]

I'm normally all for lots of florals, color, and variety in my backyard, but occasionally I dream of just doing something like this. So peaceful and soothing.

 

[Avondale]

@Kim N I might know of something that could strike your fancy…

 

[jaysonsmom]

I usually all about comfortable clothes and shoes, no more than 2” and usually wedges, because I’m a tall Asian woman already at 5’7”. However, since I started watching the show “Suits”, I have been wearing stilettos and fitted tailored dresses one day a week to feel powerful in my “Jessica Pearson” wannabe wardrobe.

 

[Kim N]

@Kim N I might know of something that could strike your fancy…

Oh my gosh, that is so cool and mesmerizing!

 

[LilAlex]

...but occasionally I dream of just doing something like this. So peaceful and soothing.

I just picture the dog running through that like wet cement...

Edit: I recently and inexplicably fell in love with a hand-knotted rug that has been in the remainder section of a downtown rug store for ~ 20 years (so they tell me) -- and the color combination supports this timeline. I can't stop thinking about it. We have no floor space for additional rugs! Spouse helpfully suggested that we could upgrade the one in our bedroom but it's not even the right size. I guess it's not a departure from the style of rugs we like -- but I honestly have not thought about rugs for a long, long time until I stumbled across this one.

And, yes -- seeing something in person or seeing it on your own finger or wrist (or earlobe...) can really cause a re-set in what you think you like! Decades ago, my wife asked me what type of watch I would want since we had a big anniversary in a few years. I said, I don't know; anything but a dive watch, I guess. Fast-forward: she surprised me with a dive watch (pretty sure she had no recollection of our conversation). And I just loved it and have worn it every day since -- it's indestructible -- and it has seen countless family adventures and most of the big oceans.

 

[stracci2000]

I posted this ring in another thread last month, but it fits the topic here perfectly.

I saw this ring in a pawn shop. Totally not my style.
I went back to the car, thought about it for 10 minutes. Googled the maker, and went back in to purchase it. (Tufa cast sterling silver by Gary Custer, Navajo)
I adore it now, and wear it all the time.

 

[LightBright]

I posted this ring in another thread last month, but it fits the topic here perfectly.

I saw this ring in a pawn shop. Totally not my style.
I went back to the car, thought about it for 10 minutes. Googled the maker, and went back in to purchase it. (Tufa cast sterling silver by Gary Custer, Navajo)
I adore it now, and wear it all the time.

I love all your jewelry. This ring is fabulous. Have you identified the turquoise? (Now I must look up Gary Custer!)

EDIT - I just looked up Gary Custer. Wow, what an amazing artist. I will be delving into more of his work later. I love the ring!

 

[stracci2000]

I love all your jewelry. This ring is fabulous. Have you identified the turquoise? (Now I must look up Gary Custer!)

EDIT - I just looked up Gary Custer. Wow, what an amazing artist. I will be delving into more of his work later. I love the ring!

When I realized who the maker was, I felt it would be foolish to pass this ring up.

No, I have not identified the turquoise.
Maybe Kingman, as it is very popular with Native artists.

I'm glad you like it, too!

 

[Calliecake]

It is no surprise to me that the you found a cool wonderful ring @stracci2000. It is definately a statement piece that can help make an outfit look spectacular. How fun! I’m glad you are enjoying it. it was a great find.

 

[Kim N]

Yes, with clothes. I did it fairly often when I was younger. Sorry, I don’t have pictures. This was before camera phones.

Also a mid 80’s hairstyle and the 100 cans of Aqua Net hairspray to go along with it for two years. I thought it looked great at the time.

Thanks for the trip down memory lane @Kim N.

I was like that with clothing too when I was younger. There were some questionable outfits for sure.

I did a few years ago with curated ear piercing. At 54. Hmmm. Got quite a few lobe and cartilage piercings and then suddenly liked the simplicity of single piercings. Mid life crisis much?
Eye roll...

They look awesome on you, though! And you might change your mind again and go back to them.

Maaaaybe...? A ring. But it has to arrive first before confirmation and pictures are provided.

Usually I prefer streamlined jewellery. Things that don't draw too much attention and that I can wear with both formal and casual outfits.

This ring is anything but. It's blingy. It has an inner and an outer halo (and I don't even like halos!), diamond melee of two different cuts, milgrain and far more finger coverage than I usually wear.

Honestly, I blame PS for this. I wasn't that kind of girl before y'all corrupted me.

Oh, please share photos once it arrives!

HI:

Not head over heels, but wearing sneakers!!!! (no pun intended)

cheers--Sharon

I live in sneakers! It's all about the comfort, isn't it?

All the time. ALL.THE.TIME.

That's what pinterest is for isn't it? I have such a wide variation of pins for hairstyles, home decor, landscaping, and of course jewelry. Lusting after intricate, blingy pieces of jewelry is fun online, but in my real life I'd feel way to over the top. (Said while wearing pajama bottoms with toucans on them while I WFH.)

Because pics make a thread much more fun, here are things I love but wouldn't wear simply because they wouldn't go with my uber-loungewear.

I love how geometric and architectural these pieces are. That first one actually looks remarkably wearable.

I usually all about comfortable clothes and shoes, no more than 2” and usually wedges, because I’m a tall Asian woman already at 5’7”. However, since I started watching the show “Suits”, I have been wearing stilettos and fitted tailored dresses one day a week to feel powerful in my “Jessica Pearson” wannabe wardrobe.

Oh, I love that look, and if I could wear stilettos without pain, I would. I bet you look like a million bucks!

I just picture the dog running through that like wet cement...

Edit: I recently and inexplicably fell in love with a hand-knotted rug that has been in the remainder section of a downtown rug store for ~ 20 years (so they tell me) -- and the color combination supports this timeline. I can't stop thinking about it. We have no floor space for additional rugs! Spouse helpfully suggested that we could upgrade the one in our bedroom but it's not even the right size. I guess it's not a departure from the style of rugs we like -- but I honestly have not thought about rugs for a long, long time until I stumbled across this one.

And, yes -- seeing something in person or seeing it on your own finger or wrist (or earlobe...) can really cause a re-set in what you think you like! Decades ago, my wife asked me what type of watch I would want since we had a big anniversary in a few years. I said, I don't know; anything but a dive watch, I guess. Fast-forward: she surprised me with a dive watch (pretty sure she had no recollection of our conversation). And I just loved it and have worn it every day since -- it's indestructible -- and it has seen countless family adventures and most of the big oceans.

I'll be another enabler: get the rug! You can't stop thinking about it. And that's a terrific story about the dive watch.

I posted this ring in another thread last month, but it fits the topic here perfectly.

I saw this ring in a pawn shop. Totally not my style.
I went back to the car, thought about it for 10 minutes. Googled the maker, and went back in to purchase it. (Tufa cast sterling silver by Gary Custer, Navajo)
I adore it now, and wear it all the time.

You always find the most interesting pieces, stracci2000! The turquoise is gorgeous.

 

[Austina]

Does my DH count? He really wasn’t my type at all, and here we are 45 years later

 

[jaysonsmom]

Does my DH count? He really wasn’t my type at all, and here we are 45 years later

Same! I liked tall and lanky, Dh is on the short side and muscle-y. Married 23 years this year!

 

[Daisys and Diamonds]

I'm normally all for lots of florals, color, and variety in my backyard, but occasionally I dream of just doing something like this. So peaceful and soothing.

that would be the ultimate challenge to every cat in our neighbourhod
the word would go out along the back fence and by morning

 

[Kim N]

that would be the ultimate challenge to every cat in our neighbourhod
the word would go out along the back fence and my morning

I burst out laughing just now!

 

[Daisys and Diamonds]

@Kim N I might know of something that could strike your fancy…

cat just asked for this for her birthday

 

[Kim N]

Does my DH count? He really wasn’t my type at all, and here we are 45 years later

Same! I liked tall and lanky, Dh is on the short side and muscle-y. Married 23 years this year!

Aww, that's so heartwarming to hear, and a DH totally counts!

 

[canuk-gal]

It is no surprise to me that the you found a cool wonderful ring @stracci2000. It is definately a statement piece that can help make an outfit look spectacular. How fun! I’m glad you are enjoying it. it was a great find.

+ a billion

cat just asked for this for her birthday

you are so funny!!! LOL

 

[OboeGal]

I'm normally all for lots of florals, color, and variety in my backyard, but occasionally I dream of just doing something like this. So peaceful and soothing.

This! Well, not exactly this, because we have dogs, but it's gorgeous, and yes to peaceful simplicity!

I've always tended to prefer simple, uncluttered/unfussy, modern interiors - not that I'm able to maintain one, like, at all - but for landscaping, I was always drawn to lush, full, English garden-style landscapes with tons of different colors, dimensions, and textures, and as little empty space as possible in beds and bordering the house. I've been trying, little by little, to implement that on our property in recent years, and, well......it's really haaaaarrrrd........

I don't know nearly enough about plants. Our local climate is changing and erratic compared to what we're used to here, and it's throwing even more veteran local gardeners off track. Plants don't behave the way they're supposed to based on online write-ups. Everything needs different amounts of water, different soil conditions, etc. Our soil in general kind of sucks. Some beds get totally different amounts of sun earlier in the growing season compared to later. So many pests. So many diseases. So many hungry rabbits and chipmunks, and I'm too much of an animal lover to harm them (although I wasn't above, in a moment of frustration, puffing myself up large, stomping towards them, and loudly growling "I'm scary!! Be afraaaaaiiiid!!" much to my neighbors' amusement).

And it's so much work. And I'm not that good at it - my thumb's not brown, but it's definitely green with brown spots and lots of bug nibble-holes. And I'm finding that I don't really enjoy it all that much. I mean, a little deadheading and watering is OK as an excuse to be outside, but that's about it. So, now when I'm out running or walking dogs and look at others' landscapes, while the full ones are still lovely, I increasingly feel drawn to the simple set-ups - a few evergreen shrubs, nicely kept, a few hostas, a few ornamental grasses, and maybe one patch of annual flowers and a couple pots with some more for a couple dashes of color, and THAT'S IT, at max, and surrounded by smooth pea gravel in the beds. It feels so peaceful and calm to my brain. Now to get hubby on board, which isn't going so well so far.

I've had a bit of a change-up with rings, too. My other jewelry tastes have always run to the simple and understated as far as what I wear, even if I admire more ornate pieces as works of art that I wouldn't wear, and ring tastes were the same - simple, streamlined, understated, with modern-cut stones (based on the the assumption that surely more modern cuts must be the best, right?) and only in 14k yellow. I couldn't understand the fuss folks made over antique cut stones, at all. Then, going through old stuff my parents had kept from their parents, I came across my paternal grandmother's engagement ring wrapped in a facial tissue in a tiny box stuffed in the back of a moldy, rusty jewelry box choked full of rusty costume jewelry. I was tickled, but also thought it was a bit ugly and not my taste, at all. It's 19k unplated white gold in an incredibly fine filigree vintage setting, set with a for-real transitional cut diamond, at about 1/3ct and around I color, I'm guessing. I figured I'd sell it if my niece wasn't interested in it as a family heirloom, but in the meantime, I would occasionally pop it on my right hand.

Well, I certainly came to understand what all the fuss was about with antique-cut stones. Oh, my - the chunky, colorful flashes! I was hooked. And before long, I came to love the setting, too, and now, I wouldn't part with that little ring for anything, and it's opened up a whole new world for me that's included an AVR diamond and an antique cushion moissy that I adore as well, and an eye for vintage settings.

 

[Daisys and Diamonds]

my obsession of Whitby jet
i just do not normally do black at all

 

[missy]

Yes. My dh



oh wait NM sorry. You mean ”things”

 

[VRBeauty]

What can I say?



Yes, that is my hand. And placemat. In my dining room.

Unfortunately, this poor little octopus spends most of her time in my safe.

 

[stracci2000]

What can I say?



Yes, that is my hand. And placemat. In my dining room.

Unfortunately, this poor little octopus spends most of her time in my safe.

Wow, I love it!!!
I adore all things octopus!

 

[Kim N]

This! Well, not exactly this, because we have dogs, but it's gorgeous, and yes to peaceful simplicity!

I've always tended to prefer simple, uncluttered/unfussy, modern interiors - not that I'm able to maintain one, like, at all - but for landscaping, I was always drawn to lush, full, English garden-style landscapes with tons of different colors, dimensions, and textures, and as little empty space as possible in beds and bordering the house. I've been trying, little by little, to implement that on our property in recent years, and, well......it's really haaaaarrrrd........

I don't know nearly enough about plants. Our local climate is changing and erratic compared to what we're used to here, and it's throwing even more veteran local gardeners off track. Plants don't behave the way they're supposed to based on online write-ups. Everything needs different amounts of water, different soil conditions, etc. Our soil in general kind of sucks. Some beds get totally different amounts of sun earlier in the growing season compared to later. So many pests. So many diseases. So many hungry rabbits and chipmunks, and I'm too much of an animal lover to harm them (although I wasn't above, in a moment of frustration, puffing myself up large, stomping towards them, and loudly growling "I'm scary!! Be afraaaaaiiiid!!" much to my neighbors' amusement).

And it's so much work. And I'm not that good at it - my thumb's not brown, but it's definitely green with brown spots and lots of bug nibble-holes. And I'm finding that I don't really enjoy it all that much. I mean, a little deadheading and watering is OK as an excuse to be outside, but that's about it. So, now when I'm out running or walking dogs and look at others' landscapes, while the full ones are still lovely, I increasingly feel drawn to the simple set-ups - a few evergreen shrubs, nicely kept, a few hostas, a few ornamental grasses, and maybe one patch of annual flowers and a couple pots with some more for a couple dashes of color, and THAT'S IT, at max, and surrounded by smooth pea gravel in the beds. It feels so peaceful and calm to my brain. Now to get hubby on board, which isn't going so well so far.

I've had a bit of a change-up with rings, too. My other jewelry tastes have always run to the simple and understated as far as what I wear, even if I admire more ornate pieces as works of art that I wouldn't wear, and ring tastes were the same - simple, streamlined, understated, with modern-cut stones (based on the the assumption that surely more modern cuts must be the best, right?) and only in 14k yellow. I couldn't understand the fuss folks made over antique cut stones, at all. Then, going through old stuff my parents had kept from their parents, I came across my paternal grandmother's engagement ring wrapped in a facial tissue in a tiny box stuffed in the back of a moldy, rusty jewelry box choked full of rusty costume jewelry. I was tickled, but also thought it was a bit ugly and not my taste, at all. It's 19k unplated white gold in an incredibly fine filigree vintage setting, set with a for-real transitional cut diamond, at about 1/3ct and around I color, I'm guessing. I figured I'd sell it if my niece wasn't interested in it as a family heirloom, but in the meantime, I would occasionally pop it on my right hand.

Well, I certainly came to understand what all the fuss was about with antique-cut stones. Oh, my - the chunky, colorful flashes! I was hooked. And before long, I came to love the setting, too, and now, I wouldn't part with that little ring for anything, and it's opened up a whole new world for me that's included an AVR diamond and an antique cushion moissy that I adore as well, and an eye for vintage settings.

I share so many of your gardening woes! to the "green with brown spots and lots of bug nibble-holes"! It is far too much work, and the bunnies and chipmunks are cute but so destructive.

What a lovely story about your grandmother's engagement ring.

my obsession of Whitby jet
i just do not normally do black at all

I recently discovered a love of black stones, so I completely relate to this, Daisys and Diamonds!

Yes. My dh



oh wait NM sorry. You mean ”things”

You're not alone, missy! See Austina and jaysonsmom's posts above.

What can I say?



Yes, that is my hand. And placemat. In my dining room.

Unfortunately, this poor little octopus spends most of her time in my safe.

Oh, she is gorgeous. She looks wonderful on your hand.

 

[SparklieBug]

You're not alone, missy! See Austina and jaysonsmom's posts above.

Haha! This is me, too.

ETA: Meaning that my DH was a definite departure from my usual "style". And we celebrated our 30-year anniversary this year.