Results Inconclusive

I am so sorry that I have let so much of this week slip away without letting you know what I looked like on Sunday. (I am sure there are scores of you out there holding your breath for the pictures.)

So here it is.

Let me just tell you that the ward on Sunday, two days after Christmas, was more than scant. Fascinating Girl opportunities were definitely limited.

The outfit was average at best, but look what cranked it up a few notches. (Super sorry about the bad photo!)

In case you can't tell, or didn't, sadly, get to see it in real life, it is a fantastic flower headband that my roommate picked up for me on her recent travels. My roommate, despite, oddly, introducing me to Fascinating Girl, hates that I am undertaking this project. But she is kind enough to humour me every once and while and I was extremely thrilled with my new hair flair.

Due to low turn out, I am going to have to make sure to have my new hair piece make another appearance soon to see how well it actually works at attracting the menfolk.

Scarily another Sunday will be upon us soon, and I have not even one idea what kind of Fascinating look I can pull together for a new year. Hopefully it will come to me sooner rather than later.

Bonus Hair Flair

So with Christmas less than a week away, our sister YSA ward is joining with us for the next couple of weeks, which, despite most people heading home for the holidays, means I have a whole new audience in which to try my Fascinating Girl theories.

The look itself isn't that interesting.

You might remember the skirt from this post near the beginning of my experiment. But, my younger brother always, strangely, raved about my teal blouse, so I figure I should give it a try. Who knows, it might strike a cord with some boys I am not related to.

But the  pièce de résistance is the feather headband I made myself. Yes you read that right. Just like as a real Fascinating Girl would, I made my own hair flair. I did try and take a picture, but it didn't come out that good. It looks surprisingly similar to this. (I do wonder what kind of feathers these are. The package just said "natural." I am just hoping that some poor goose didn't loose it's life for fashion. Oh sad.)


Hopefully my natural hair flair is just the spark I need to jump start something good. But sadly, as we all learned from the mink brooch, maybe YSA is not the place to showcase such fashion risks.


Fingers crossed.

Fashion Tips From Heaven

Can you believe it!?! But here it is my 15th Sunday look. Fifteen weeks of looking more than fantastic.

So Tuesday morning I was laying in bed already thinking about what to wear on Sunday when out of the corner of my eye I spotted my 'new to me' houndstooth skirt hanging in my closet. I got it weeks ago, but never quite figured out what to wear with it. That is when the angels seriously whispered in my ear what to pair this great skirt with. (Yes, I do think angels do care about fashion)

Take a look at my divine creation.

And believe it or not, but everyone, EVERYONE was agog over this outfit.(Now if only all the boys weren't so stressed out about finals or Christmas, maybe this look could have actually achieved some results.) Paired with a strand of pearls and I really was the pinnacle of Fascinating Girl perfection.

It was a good week, and I think I am thisclose to finally looking my age.

Now to only find something fantastic for Christmas and New Years. Tall order.

Baby It's Cold Outside

So just like that, it became winter. There was complete blizzard all weekend with 61cm (24" ) of snow and temperatures of -20*C (-4*F). This morning, in a VERY un-Fascinating Girl way, I dug my car out from the piles of snow and carefully carted myself to church, wearing this.

(I really don't like the camera I am using now. Sorry for the horrible pictures.)

Drawing inspiration from the snow itself, I wore my boucle skirt, of which a boy once said it looked like a snowstorm. With the fancy bow on the front of my sweater, it was a pretty cute way to stay warm.

I grazed the book last night to see if Fascinating Girl had any tips for the winter and found this tacit in the "Securing Action" section under the subsection "Create Romantic Situations"

"The atmosphere can be even more suggestive of sentiment if it is winter and the wind is howling outside and sleet is dashing against the window. How cozy and comforting it is for the man and woman, sitting before an open fire with the lights dimmed, to sit and dream. The man may feel he would like this to continue forever. There cannot be obstacles, he feels, when life is as easy and peaceful as this. How easy for him to forget his fears and succumb to his desires."

Oh my Fascinating Girl! If only I knew someone with a fireplace.

I will tell you that maybe things are looking up. I did receive, albeit odd, a hug today from someone I'm convinced couldn't resist my feminine charm.

Keep your fingers crossed.

I Hope I Still Get My Fascinating Girl Diploma

You probably feel the same way about yourself, but I like to think I am pretty smart. Okay, maybe not smart, but I have a lot of useless and half interesting facts stuck in my head. I think this is why I enjoy a good game of Trivial Pursuit, or watching Jeopardy.

I stumbled on this section of Fascinating Girl the other day, and had a 'pause for thought' moment.

Under the Feminine Nature section it says:

"Don't compete with men in anything that requires masculine ability. Don't compete with them for scholastic honors. Don't appear to know more than a man in world events, the space program, science or industry. Don't try to excel him in any field of thought or endeavor."

So let me share a story with you. A long while ago, long before I heard of Fascinating Girl, I ended up on a double date where we played Trivial Pursuit. My date really thought he was awesome at the game, despite getting most of his questions wrong, and continued to tell me how I was "just lucky" to be getting most of my questions right. (No, we didn't go out on any subsequent dates.)

So it was my date's last question, and here is the question he got:

"Who did The Beatles call my belle in 1965?"

I laughed and my date asked me if I knew the answer. I nodded that I did. "Well, so do I." my date told me in a strange tone and proudly said, "Marilyn Monroe."

The reader turned over the card and shook her head. He had gotten the question wrong. (Here's the right answer)

My date turned to me and started to "pretend" yell at me for not giving him the correct answer. The scores were tallied and not surprisingly, our team lost, by one point. My date turned into such a poor loser, and "jokingly" blamed me for losing the game.

Even though that night was years ago, I never forgot it. I decided long ago that I wasn't going to pretend to be stupid, just to make a man look smarter. So sorry, Fascinating Girl. I think this is one tip that I don't plan on using. I'll have to find other ways to showcase my feminine nature.