Archive for 2010

Daily Outfit & Alice in Wonderland Review

(no Marvelous Monday post this week – it was kind of a scrawny bunch, so I’m just saving those links for next week!)

Saturday was kind of a mixed bag. I didn’t get photos of the outfit I was wearing earlier in the day, but I started off frustrated because my hair was not cooperating (just [...]

March 8th, 2010

Learning & the Renaissance Soul

The following post was sparked by reading about the BME internship contest (you can vote for the finalists here), which was linked to in Gala Darling’s latest Carousel. Actually, a combination of reading about the internship contest and a comment that was left on the post, from Sunny:
Oh man, I wish I knew about that BME contest [...]

March 3rd, 2010

Marvelous Monday!

Jealousy’s a Green Eyed Bitch.
SXSW is coming up and I am sooo excited! Tolly over at Austin Eavesdropper has some tips for you: How to Dominate SXSW & part two is here.
How to embrace your true beauty – what a sweet article!
Making Your Travel Dream A Reality: Part 1 & part 2.
Memo: quit beating yourself [...]

March 1st, 2010

Links a la Mode

Project Beyond the Runway
Edited by Fashion Pulse Daily
Reading through the links this week, I realized that fashion week or no fashion week, fashion will most certainly go on! A winter snowstorm couldn’t even slow down New York Fashion Week, and the links below are testament to the wonderful style that exists beyond the runway, such [...]

February 27th, 2010

Daily Outfit 2/25/10

I need to stop writing these posts when I’m tired, so I can come up with witty titles!

HOKAY. So here we have: T-shirt from Rock N Swap & then dyed unevenly (more on that in a second), H&M hacked up skirt, JUMP booties, Tarina Tarantino bracelet is from BX, secondhand necklace, no idea where I [...]

February 26th, 2010

Internet Diet: Recap & Thoughts

I’m sure you’re all waiting with bated breath to hear the results of the internet diet & my thoughts on it after finishing! I ended up just doing one hour a day; thirty minutes in the morning and thirty minutes at night. I was originally going to do two hours a day, but figured I [...]

February 24th, 2010

Marvelous Monday!

Another short one this week! Still getting caught up after the end of the internet diet and all.

How to be miserable as an artist.
100 ways you can start loving yourself right now. (Note that turning off technology was on there. I’m totally ahead of the curve!)
Simon Doonan’s tribute to McQueen is one of the best [...]

February 22nd, 2010

Saturday Shoelust: Wedge Edition

Three out of four are Jeffrey Campbell. He’s fast approaching John Fluevog as far as “man who makes most awesome shoes”!

Sure, these aren’t anything revolutionary – but they are awesome.

These are apparently exclusive to Need Supply Co. – they come in black leather and gray suede. Personally, I like the black leather more.

Audi is to [...]

February 20th, 2010

What to Look for When Buying Vintage Shoes

Vintage shoes are wonderful. You can get a unique shoe that not everyone else will have, usually for a fraction of the price that you’d pay today for shoes of similar quality. However, there are some things you need to watch out for when buying vintage shoes. These include:

All leather construction. This means the shoes [...]

February 19th, 2010

Going on an Internet Diet

So, as I mentioned on Monday, all of this week I’ve been trying an experiment. I’ve restricted my internet access to 1-2 hours a day. That probably doesn’t sound huge, but I spend a lot of time online and it’s a drastic change for me!
Why?
The obvious question is what prompted me to go on an [...]

February 17th, 2010