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February 3, 2012 | 3 Comments

It’s Getting Hot in Here







{Blazer/Blouse: Forever 21, Jeans: MIH, Ring: Asos, Bag: Vintage, Bangle: Thrifted via Goodwill, Bag: Thrifted via Buffalo Exchange}

You may be alarmed by these short sleeves but you should know it’s like scary warm here in New York. So unseasonably warm that global warming has become a colloquial term to describe the weather. “Oh the old global warming is acting up today. 2012!” It’s also really not doing wonders for my plan of not working out or shaving my legs until May. We are rushing far too quickly into bikini season and I am not ready for it at all. Let’s slow down, have a snowstorm, quit talking about how we’re going to survive the 2012 apocalypse, and give me another month to stop think prematurely about showing my stomach in public.

January 31, 2012 | 2 Comments

Confessions

{Skirt/Necklace/Shoes: Thrifted via Buffalo Exchange, Blouse: Forever 21}

Confessions:

1. It is impossible to keep my apartment clean for more than a day. People who do that…I just cannot understand you. I feel like I just cleaned my place when people came over last week and yet, here we go again with the weird smells in the kitchen and the black cat hair everywhere. Cat hair is slowly taking over my apartment and it is winning, people. Winning!

2. I find it hard to not to dance to the music I am listening to at work so sometimes I kind bee bop in the bathroom. To the music in my own head. Please don’t enter me into a mental health facility Bryan.

3. I was legitimately hungover at work last week. Just like college! Woof.

4. I do not understand women who work out with their hair down. How? Why? I, on the other hand, look like an androgynous ball of sweat.

5. This blouse reminds me a lot of the pirate shirt scene from Seinfeld, which is slightly disconcerting. “But I don’t want to be a pirate!”

January 30, 2012 | 1 Comment

New Year’s Resolutions 2012

{buy this print from theloveshop and love it forever}

I just thought since it is almost the end of January (gulp), I should share my New Year’s Resolutions. Better late than never right? I also need an actual list of these outside my mind before I start forgetting them.

1. Take more pictures…of everything, all the time.

2. Start a yoga practice (I am sounding do much like this already).

3. Stick to a budget at some point before the end of the year and pay back off all loans (boring I know…feel free to call me an old lady).

4. Give myself more manicures (at home so we’re not breaking the bank here).

5. Go on a vacation with Bryan even for just a weekend.

6. Everything on the print above. I love it all!

7. Blog frequently.

January 28, 2012 | 2 Comments

These Are Not Grey Hairs…




{Jacket: Artizia, Chambray shirt: Madewell, Skirt: Zara, Shoes: Dolce Vita, Bow-tie: American Apparel, Purse: Vintage}

There are really great aspects to taking pictures of yourself more than the average person. You realize early on what clothing looks good on you and what clothes make you look like the girl who becomes a giant, rotund blueberry in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. You learn what style suits you after the inevitable failed picture of clothing that looked so much better on Ashley Olsen (who is also half your size and generally dresses like an elderly person). You realized that you, in fact, do not have nice hair if you didn’t get the chance to blow dry it. And yes, lipstick or lip balm is something you should put on with semi regularity.

Then there are the scary flukes of photography that cause intense internal turmoil. Such as why do my dark brown roots look grey in these photos when they are not in real life?!?! Thanks, camera, thanks. I could easily have gone another couple years without fretting I have grey hairs even if it was just for five seconds.

January 23, 2012 | 2 Comments

Faux Fireplace Inspiration

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When you move to New York, you find yourself getting excited about all sorts of apartment features you thought were just living prerequisites in your pre-NYC life. I was ecstatic (yes, ecstatic) to find the following in our apartment: a dishwasher (circa 1960s, hardly works), a living room, multiple closets, heck a closet at all, a stove (didn’t work, had to be replaced), bedroom large enough to fit a queen, hardwood floors and a yard. I was beyond thrilled to also have a fireplace even if it doesn’t even work. Fireless fireplace I believe it’s called? It’s probably my favorite feature of this apartment other than the yard, which is funny because I am 25 percent terrified that Louie will someday just crawl up into its abyss (both cats look up into it suspiciously) but there is something fun about it. Something that makes me feel very Domino magazine-esque. Right now it’s just laying plain with its cat sucking abyss but the photos above are all options I’m looking into making happen in the coming months. I like Option 2 but there’s something inside me that knows once I light those candles a cat will burn its whiskers on one or all of them. And it will probably be the disabled LD because he is prone to disaster. Or I will trip over them and our entire apartment will become an inferno. Maybe Option 1?

January 21, 2012 | 0 Comments

Tangerine & Orange Margarita

{2 oz tequila + 2 oz tangerine/orange juice + 1/2 oz Cointreau + lime juice + kosher salt for rim}

It snows in Brooklyn, I make margaritas. Typical.

I really, really wanted to make this blood orange margarita recipe but our local grocery store didn’t have any blood oranges. Or shaving cream. Or not gross looking shrimp. However, I was able to make some form of the eat make read recipe (awesome blog by the way) by combining it with this version of a margarita (mainly as proof an orange margarita did exist and was not gross). I put my own little spin on it with the orange tangerine mixture, which was just an attempt to make it kind of fancy. I made it a little more juicy than tequila-y but that’s my preference. Verdict in our household? Delicious! Fresh! Loved by Bryan!

Except for LD and Louie. Who prefer plain water to tequila, thankyouverymuch. And pretending they aren’t snuggling.

January 20, 2012 | 2 Comments

Old Lady




{Jacket: Artizia, Pants: MiH, Blouse/Ring: Thrifted via Buffalo Exchange, Shoes: Urban Outfitters, Clutch: Vintage}

Surprisingly, there are a few upsides to having moved five times in the last two and a half years. One is that I am sure my boyfriend and I can survive almost anything as a couple. He has seen me cry in the middle of unloading a U-Haul. I have seen him have a mental breakdown while driving a U-Haul. The couple that moves together and did not kill each other is the couple that stays together.

The other plus side is that moving forces you to constantly reevaluate your closet because after Move Three, I learned even just one additional box could mean the difference between crying and keeping it together on a tough move. I wish I could just stuff every bad shopping mistake into the back of my closet and not look at it again for about a decade but I usually have had to donate bags of clothes to Goodwill or, if I am very lucky, sell back to Buffalo Exchange more than 50% of my wardrobe every move. Typically, it’s because I buy cheap designer duds at thrift stores or cheap, well, just duds from Forever 21 that are wayyy too small for me. I always buy them with the hope that perhaps I will have a life-threatening tropical disease and will survive only to weigh 20 pounds less so that the XS Diane Von Furstenberg wrap dress I bought for $15 will finally fit. Except as it turns out, tropical diseases are hard to come by in the Northeast. The other downfall is that I buy wacky things I could never, ever wear to the office just because they are less than $10. Incidentally, a low price tag doesn’t make that sequined rainbow (yes, rainbow) mini dress classy enough for anything but New Year’s Eve…if that. Long story short, I find myself shelling out constantly for cheap thrift items I never wear but being near petrified of purchasing anything that is somewhat pricey, yet wearable for years to come.

My last workplace had me right in the epicenter of some of Boston’s best thrift stores, which helped me find thrifted favorites like this blouse all the time. And I just have a penchant for easy, cheap things from Forever 21. But I somehow ended up buying additional more wacky stuff (read: sequined, leopard printed, or fur-embellished) that I could never wear in my low-key office environment and less versatile blouses that hold up in more than one wash. My last move force me to yup, you guessed it, reevaluate my closet as I ended up selling back to Buffalo Exchange stuff I bought, but never wore. Or worse, could never even fit over my hips.

One of my New Year’s resolutions is to buy more classic apparel like today’s camel coat. Yes ma’am (or sir?) that’s a camel coat I can wear for years to come. Gosh, I am getting old and boring. Don’t worry, the polka dot obsession will be staying.

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