For Science!

You can probably tell from this post and the previous one that Rae and I are trying to get out every weekend while the weather is still nice! This weekend we saw a bit of Jamaica Plain, which is a neighborhood south of the downtown area. We took the orange line all the way out of Forest Hills and walked north along South St. and Centre St. Besides having a pleasant walk, the main goal for the afternoon was to find something cute and fall-appropriate at one of the thrift stores along the route. We had some luck at Boomerangs where we each bought a wool skirt that needs hemming and I bought a cute sweater dress for cheap.

We had some lunch at The Real Deal, which I like even though I find their menu board really hard to read. It’s a combination of the small writing and the fact that every sandwich is named after a person. I’m never quite sure what I’m ordering, but luckily I received the hummus wrap I wanted and not a meatball sub or something. Later we drank a double espresso at City Feed and Supply and watched people out the window (and then looked away and tried to pretend we hadn’t been looking at them when they caught us).

When we got home, Rae got to work on the skirt that she bought. I wish I had taken a “before” photo of what it used to look like, because she managed to change it from ridiculous 80s disaster into something extremely cute and wearable. First she hemmed it from calf-length to knee-length, which already made a huge difference. Then she decided to change the ugly-ish yellow color by dying it in a bucket in the bath tub. She kind of winged it with the dye, but it ended up an awesome dark purple. Now she has a fancy wool skirt for $5 and the cost of a box of dye. I’m very impressed!

If you’re wondering what I’ve done to my skirt, I haven’t even gotten started. To be honest, I don’t even know how to do a proper hem, but at least the skirt is grey, so no dying will be necessary. Whew!