PTA-ELAC Clothing Swap

As President of the Grady's school PTA this year (and last), I had the honor and privilege to chair this year's annual clothing swap.  We ask for gently used shoes, clothing items and accessories to be donated by the parents and community.

Wow.  Did we end up with some fantastic items for the swap!  This event is awesome.  It's totally free and was created to build community among the parents at the school.  The hardest part is sorting the donations, but once it's done - let the shopping begin.

We all felt like personal stylists and oohed and awed over how cute this was, and how cute that was.

The inner supermodel in a few of us came out strong and why wouldn't it?  We were listening to Madonna's Vogue after all.

Shoes.  My weakness.  I think all of the ladies had a weakness for the tremendous selection of shoes displayed on the gym benches and once we started, well we just had to photograph our finds.  Neutral peep toe on Jill D. pictured above.

Sassy silver heels with cute little bows for me.

Shannan's awesome heels that she wore into the joint.  They had been recently acquired from Red Umbrella Consignment and she was not swapping these babies for nothing.  Who could blame her?

2010-2011 PTA Executive Board post-clothing swap

In the end, we had dozens of bags of clothing and shoes to donate to our local area thrift stores.  See, we were still spreading the love all around Marin & Sonoma Counties (but the largest recipient was the the Pt. Reyes Thrift Stor!).

Three pairs of shoes came home with me, but I'll have to donate two of the pairs back to the local thrift store.  My excitement got the best of me and the sexy heels just don't fit!  The good 'ole reliable leather Mary Jane's by Born are the clear winners.

Grady shopped the swap and did his mama proud.  Silk black clip-on tie (pictured above), black converse tennis shoes, Sonoma Coast Surf Shop t-shirt, new pajama pants and a really lovely Disney logo K9 sports jersey.  You can't win them all.   Oh, and he's sporting a D&G hoodie sweatshirt and baseball hat.  He has no clue that D&G is a second label for the designers Dolce & Gabanna  and, heck, either did I.  He just liked that his initial was featured prominently on the hat & hoodie and that he would now match his best friend at school.  His thrifting mojo was on at the swap and, of course, it was all free for the taking.

What's not to love about that?