Painfully Hip Roadtrip: currently in Fayetteville, AR!

After Sedona, we had our day in Santa Fe! What a cute city. Although the thrifting was not quite as prolific as Phoenix (our first stop is still in the lead for our contest), we did score some of the most amazing finds to date. Namely, a mind-meltingly awesome tooled leather satchel for $10 and a pristine pair of 60s brogue wedges for $1. Exactly the reason we took up this idiocy of 3 weeks of driving through the south in the dead of summer in the first place. Don’t we look smart now?

As some of our adventures can’t all be fashion-related, be sure to keep up with our hijinx on Diana’s excellent new blog: Well Worn Road! She’s got posts on our “fun lessons” in Phoenix, our hiking trip in Sedona, our day trip to the precariously-located mining town of Jerome, AZ, and outtakes of our long-exposure photoshoot. Even I am having fun re-living every moment of this “perfect 10″ trip!
If you crave even more coverage (oh yes, excitement overload!), Rory at AwesomeAllDay is doing a post a day. Enjoy his hilarious reporting of our terrifying encounters with a black widow spider and the Largest Cross in the World! Also do not miss our American Beauty-esque illegal fireworks-inspired photoshoot collaboration!

After a 7 hour drive, fleeing a rather unwelcoming Amarillo, TX a day early, we were relieved to be in the open and charming arms of Jeanette and Will in Fayetteville, AR. They immediately offered us a glass of delicious wine on their firefly-festooned porch and then took us out to a fantastic bar where we danced our faces off at the immortal Michael Jackson tribute night. So much fun!

So! If y’all are anywhere near Fayetteville on Sunday, we’d love to meetcha! This is likely to be our biggest clothing swap yet!

Thank you to Dustin and the Fayetteville Flyer for including us on their calendar of events! You can find more info there.

This is the way it works…
Bring your cast-offs separated into 2 different bundles – Things You Still Sort of Love and Things You Could Really Give Two Shits About Because They’re Off to the Goodwill Bin Next Week Anyway. On the way in the door, you’ll be tossing the latter into a big pile to be dealt with later.

We don’t want the swapping to be too organized so to make it more organic, we’re going to be swapping in a sort of bartering system. Example: you see that Fiona over there has the exact leather jacket you’ve been pining for? You may have to swap for 2 nice pairs of jeans and a floral sundress to get her to part with it, but to you it’s more than worth it. Or perhaps you’re lucky and she’s feeling generous enough to give it to you in exchange for a beer, you never know! So needless to say, there will be wandering and mingling, therefore laundry baskets for easy carrying/digging through would be a good idea. So bring your best stuff for this part of the evening and take home what you don’t find a good replacement for.

Toward the end of it all, around 6pm, we’ll have an all-out GRABfest with all the unwanted leftovers in a pile in the middle of the room. I suggest wearing a leotard or bathing suit under your clothes so if you’re bashful you can try things on right there without fear of nip-slippage.

We will be providing music and some snackage (nothing fancy) and bashfully hoping for any generous donations to help keep our costs down.

Thanks and we’ll see you at the Swap!