Mr. Spork and I recently went to Vegas for the weekend. He was going for work, and well, I was going for Vegas. Saturday he spent the day on set, and I was let loose in the shops.

I spent several hours shopping, went back to the hotel to rest for an hour… and went back out for more shopping. While sitting in that hotel room, I decided I wanted to head over to Betsey Johnson in the Desert Passage mall. On my 21st birthday, I got a beautiful black cocktail dress there for $50 (luckily I fit Betsey’s sample sizes perfectly). I was hoping luck would strike twice, and I could get a hot dress to wear out on the town that night.

They didn’t have any sample dresses, but they did have this adorable number on the sales rack. I didn’t want to spend any more money, but I just had to try it on. When I came out of the dressing room, I knew I just had to have it – it looked perfect on me. So good, in fact, it took me 10 minutes to finally take it off.

We were going out with friends that night to see Penn & Teller, so of course I had to wear my new dress. I paired it with my orange sequin Moschino pumps (which I feared would clash with the red polka dots, but they were the only evening shoes I had, and they ended up looking great – I got tons of compliments on them that night) and my black faux-fur Trina Turk clutch (again, I was worried about the black and the navy clashing; in this case it was just too dark for anyone to notice).