leopard coat

just the other day i purchased this coat on etsy from darling vintage..




and today i received it in the mail, in something like not even 2 days. coming from california too! i was so excited with the speedy shipment and just to get it. its the first thing iv gotten from etsy, so it was nice to come home at midnight after a long day of work and see the package waiting for me! i wasn't even expecting it, it came so fast!
it came from diane, who runs quite a lovely blog called darling darlingthat i came across the other day through calivintage when they had a blogger meet up recently. its funny because i had already taken interest in this coat a week or more ago, and when i found her blog i didn't even know it was her!
anyways, i highly suggest stopping by her store she is super friendly and very helpful and ships out your order very fast! she she just updated it with some new lovely things.

fishy

for the longest time i have loved fishtail braids, but never knew how to do them. a while ago i looked up a tutorial on how to do it, and it seemed easy enough but i still couldn't really master it. although i did barley even try, i couldn't keep the two sections of hair separate at the base, and it was getting tangled. and i just said forget about it.
the other night i tried it on myself again, for teh first time really. this is how it turned out..


it was quick, and messy and i only did about half cause i started to loose control of it again, but i though not bad for the first time! then this morning i did this one..


sooooo much better! it really helps if you put the hair in a pony first, which you can always take out later. i really love the messy kinda of fishtail braids seen all over the runways recently and in editorials.

last night i searched again, for something on fishtails, anything really, and i came across this crazy blog. its a woman and her daughter and she does all tis crazy stuff to her hair. like you wouldn't imagine, its very cute actually. that girl always has her hair done so nice for everything. but one post i found was on fishtails with a tutorial so check it out here

i think im going to be wearing my hair like this a lot more often!!

1.22.10

cardigan and flannel are thrifted, jeans are levi's, belt is my favorite from h&m 10 million years ago, and the boots are from target.


this is the necklace i always wear. it was my mother's she's had it for years. well actually iv had it for years, in and out of the jewelry boxes that iv had over the years. honestly i'm surprised i still have it after so long. but i'm glad i do. i think it's beautiful.

so once again, i work at trader joe's. its a really great place to work with some really great people. last night a manager i work with rented a studio space for a few hours for all the tj's crew who play instruments to go and just jam. i unfortunately don't play in instrument but my friend (well a little bit more than a friend) jeremy plays guitar very well and he was going and he invited me to come along. i brought my laptop so i could edit these photos actually. i figured i would sit on my computer and go online if there was wireless (there wasn't) and just do computer stuff. listen to the guys jam and take some videos and such. and thats exactly what i did. we also brought some beers along, and since i was kind of on an empty stomach i got pretty drunk!
i had a really good time though. i couldn't hear anything afterwards, but it was fun. only like 3 other guys came out, but they were all really good so it was fun. i need to watch what i recorded, you probably cant hear much cause it was so loud, probably too loud for my cameras little speakers so if i got something good ill post it later.

and heres just a shot i took of the collection of incense jeremy and i have going. we like to burn it a lot.


natural, midnight, nag champa, and super hit.

some kicks and knacks

i took a few photos of my room. well things in my room. i'm still on that cleaning kick and just yesterday i moved my moms old dresser into my room. the one i had was cheap, the bottoms of the drawers were always coming out and that would make the drawer get stuck closed. it was a mess. and i didn't really have enough room. and i just wanted on that was lower, since hte one i had was a tall dresser. i figured a low one would give me more surface space on top, as well as more room for clothes.
my moms old dresser was in the garage so my mom helped me move it in. it gave me a chance to finally go through my underthings and socks drawer. i'm constantly accumulating new things in that department and never getting rid of my old socks with the holes in them. i refolded and organized everything. and i got to arrange some things nicely on top

the photo up top is just of the clothing rack in my room. i also have a closet, but i like to keep my favorites on here since its out in the open. everything nice and hung up for once! and heres dome detail shots of my new dresser top..



i found that little mirror tray at my local thrift a few months ago. its so perfect and just what i was looking for.


its prefect for displaying my cat collection!


some of my favorite rings and a few bracelets


i just recently for this necklace stand at michael's so i can take photos of jewelry to sell. but while not in use for the store im going to display this necklace. i got it at f21 like a year ago, only wore it a few times when i was at my internship. but this stand is just perfect for displaying it.


some earrings

heres the pile of things i plan on selling. not the best photo but there are some real jems here. now i just need the time and light to get some photos of it all.

Shoe heaven

Just stumbled upon the vintage shoe seller James Rowland Shop on etsy and oh my god... I have no words. I have never seen a more beautiful collection of shoes in my life! Only like 2 out of all of these are even in my size, and only all of them are out of my price range :(
Can someone please buy me a few pairs, preferably all of them?

Blonde hair and long braids

My hair has been a rainbow of different colors starting from when i was 15. well not a rainbow..more like burgundy to orange (NOT on purpose) to platinum blonde to dark brown to strawberry blonde to blonde to "chocolate cherry" to eventually fading into sort of my old natural hair color. That was a mouthful. And a few months ago, after saying I would never dye my hair again, I dyed my hair again. I'm trying to go blonde, again, but not really really blonde. i want it to look natural and I don't want it to be too light that my roots become a big problem again. Dying your hair blonde consistently was one of the biggest mistakes iv ever made. It dried out my hair big time. But i can't help but go back to a lighter hue all the time.
So my most recent encounter with hair dye was about a week ago, I had a friend who went to beauty school do it for me. We went to Sally's and everything, got real dye and did it in my bathroom. However the dye didn't really take to my hair for some reason. It sucks. So i'm still trying to go lighter.


This lady here has maybe my dream hair. It's long and beautiful and jsut the right shade of blonde. This is the color id say i'm going for. natural and beautiful.

Oh, and I will also be getting extensions put in! I had a friend do it once before (once again, we went to a beauty supply store, bought them to match my hair color at the time and she glued them in for me) and she did a great job. But this time I will be getting them sewn in, so they will last much longer. They make my hair about down to my waist. I love having long hair like that and i want to put them in again. I saved them after taking them out, about 2 years ago. But in order to put them back in I need to dye my hair to match. My hair was much more blonde at the time. I don't think I ever took any photos while I had them in, although I wish I did!

I love long braids, I wear my hair in one a lot, often times for work. But even though my hair is pretty long, its not as long as I would like it to be. I'm beginning to think my hair has reached its growing point. Did you know that some people just have a limit? While others can grow hair down to their butt in only a few months. Some peoples hair just wont sop at all! Man, I wish my hair grew faster. I would change my hair style all the time since I know it would just grown right back in a short time.
So yea, I plan on wearing it in a beautiful long messy braid pretty often when I get my new long blonde locks. Kinda like the ones these girls have..

Etsy overload

Wow, I have been going etsy crazy today. Like I said earlier, I bought that hat, but I have been on the site favoriting things like crazy. And even asking some sellers to hold things for me, or extra information on something i'm interested in buying. I have never bought anything on etsy, or even off the internet before today. And I have to say its kind of addicting. Especially when you find something thats such a good deal! It's like its just so easy, here at my fingertips, just a click away from that package being in the mail on its way to me! And I love getting packages in the mail, so thats another bonus!
Now if only the things I have listed would sell!
Oh and by the way, I added the mini etsy thing over to the right there. Please check it out! theres only a few simple things on there right now, but i plan on putting more on within the week.

1.21.10

This is what I wore today. It's nothing special, since I don't have a car I can't really go anywhere on my own, so I haven't really been getting real dressed up, since I have been sitting around a lot. Which really blows, but hopefully, HOPEFULLY i'll have a car within the week. So I just wore one of my favorite sweaters, its got gold metallic threads in it and its just right, thats thrifted. The black skit used to be a long sleeve shirt that I cut up into a skirt. black tights h&m, socks and boots from target.

So much like everyone, I have been on a leopard print frenzy. And the other week when I went to that vintage store with my friend and found this hat..

I wanted it sooooo bad! But it was just a little too far out of my price range and i left it behind. So i have been searching etsy, and came across this one..

And I got it! at only $12 and thats including shipping it was a steal. I am so excited. It was also my first purchase on etsy, so that was a big step. Anything feels possible now! Once I get my hat in the mail I will be invincible!

Attrazione Indochic

I interned at Marie Claire last spring, and while it was an absolutely amazing experience, why can't the american version have the same amazing editorials as pretty much any other Marie Claire? Especially its Italian sister that this editorial is from. It's due to the dreamy style of photographer David Bellemére that makes these editorials so special. Common american MC, follow the lead here, yo will be better for it!





You can see the rest of the editorial here

Clean

Wow, so I cleaned my room pretty seriously today. I have this sewing table in my room that has been covered with stuff for about 2 years now,. Really, 2 years. It had things from when I went to FIT on it, mainly pads of paper and markers, things like that. And now it has some stuff on it again, but its things that have been sorted through, and I plan on maybe getting a real desk one of these days, since I never use this sewing table and i lack a desk.
Now the four cats i have keep coming into my room to check it out. They get so curious when I clean my room or move anything around. Especially since some of them like to sleep in my closet and i have just moved some things around in there so they are going to have to get used to it.
I didn't get the chance to take photos of things for etsy, but I have organize a bunch of things that I plan on selling, now they are all ready for when I do get the chance to take photos. There is quite a lot, and I am very excited to get the stuff up and start making some money, most of which will go to a new car.
I also have four big donate bags filled with clothes and shoes and other things, and I threw out a big garbage cans worth of junk. It amazes me how every time i clean this room, I seem to have so much garbage.
Okay, this was just a quick update on my cleanings today. I have to go to work now, I have been working alot of nights lately and its getting to me a bit. Oh well!

I love Hoarders

Tomorrow is going to be a very productive day for me. Or at least I plan on it being one. More like I hope I don'g get really lazy and just end up sitting around my house until I go to work at 5pm.
My room is very very messy. And I mean really messy. And I plan on cleaning it, again, tomorrow. I have never truly been able to keep my room clean my whole life. I'm not really sure why, I am fairly neat everywhere else in my life except for my room. My locker in school was always very neat, I find myself being very tidy other places, especially at work. I love organizing, and facing the shelves. Its a little strange.
But my room has always been a sea of clothes all over. It looks as if a bomb went off in my room (thats what my dad always used to say..still does sometimes actually) and it doesn't take long either for it to get that way. I can clean it one day and 3 days later it will be extremely messy. It mostly has to do with me having WAY too much clothes, and never putting them away.
As i'm sure a lot of you do as well, it can take me a while to pick out an outfit, and in the process i try on lots of different clothes, and when I discard them I never put them away in their drawers or on their hangers, I just kind of..throw them on the floor. I would have to say its one of my worst qualities, but!.. it is one of my new years resolutions, the second I think I mentioned on here. I am trying to purge much more and keep things more well organized.
My best friend Ali moved to Brooklyn a few months ago, and in doing so she narrowed down her possessions immensely. She has six bags of possessions. Wow. I would like to be able to do such a thing. Imagine knowing everything you own? Well maybe most of you do, but I sure know I don't!

I think i got off track a little here with what I wanted to talk about. And that is my productive day tomorrow! So yes, clean my room is first thing (right after some breakfast) and it needs to get clean to I can use my space to take some photos of things I plan on selling (also part of my new purging) on my Etsy shop. I just recently opened it and I currently have six things posted, but I have much much more I want to put up, a lot of clothing mostly. And well thats really my whole list of thigns to do tomorrow. All I can think on now anyway.
Now it's time to watch Hoarders on A&E.com now, since I was working last night? Does anyone watch that show? Kind of funny how much I like it after telling you all how messy I am. I promise i'm not a hoarder!

1.16.10

I went to my friends birthday house party last night, its always a good time over there, but I maybe had a little more than I usually like to drink. Shortest necklace was my mothers and the other two are thrifted i believe, black cardigan thrifted, black cropped tank thrifted, belt f21, skirt f21, socks target, boots target.


Being a good samaritan and blocking a friend from the peeping camera while she's on the pot. See her cute bum?

A good find

A while back i did wardrobe for my friends short film he was making. I got most of the clothing from thrift stores, one things being an AMAZING Elie Tahari white blazer for the character "International Mom" who was suposed to be a hard ass gangster type, outfit inspired by this Gucci S09 look:

And when I found this jacket (which also comes with a pencil skirt, with some very nice pleated slit detailing) I thought "Well I definetly have to get this, its great for the character, and i can wear this after wards!" It was only something like $10 so it was really a great find.
However since using the jacket in the film, it had been sitting with other costume cast-offs in a bag in my trunk. This was months ago, and i suppose i forgot about it. Or kind of knew it was in there but was just too lazy to open my messy trunk. But since getting in my accident i have to clean out my car, so the jacket is now in my possesion, and iv tried it on last night and its even better than i remember.
I remember when I was interning at Marie Claire last spring the woman Abby who i worked for was in love with and eventualy bought this while 3.1 Phillip Lim jacket, and this one also reminds me of it. What i'm trying to get at here is, this was a great find and i'm happy.

Zac Possen for Target

I remember the very first time i heard of Target doing a GO International line, collaborating with different designers for a a Target audience and Target price. I don't remember if this was the first collaboration, but it as Luella, and I just had to have that orange and white striped blazer. I still have it, never wear it. I really wish I had gotten something from when Proenza Schouler made a collection. Such cute cardigans, very scholarly looking.
With the most recent collaboration with Rodarte, I fell in love with the leopard print dress. I literally was to and fro Target like 4 times, trying it on, deciding not to get it because of the somewhat high price tag. But then every time I would walk away, I would come to my fellow bloggers on the internet and find someone else with it, and it made me want it so much more! So I finalty broke down ad got it. So happy. Couldn't be happier!
There are a few more things I would like from that collection, but I just cant afford it honestly. Especially now that I need to buy a car.
Now, i'm not sure when this new line with Zac hits stores, but I can already tell you, there are a few things i'm lusting over. With Spring riding on our boot straps, it's all i can think about, and these cute little dresses, fun florals and shinny metallic, i'm am even more ready to go!


Cute metallic dress? Yes please!


Blue denim sundress, I can already feel the warm rays of the sun.


metallic bra top/or rather swim suit, mine!


I just really love the styling of this. And a good one-peice swim suit really needs to make it into my collection.