Their Old, My New

Black top- Ahab Bowen, Shorts- J. Crew, Black wedges- Jeffrey Campbell, Necklace, Green cuff- Ahab Bowen, Bracelets- random.

So I have had this strong desire to go vintage shopping for the past few weeks now and I was thrilled when my lovely mom and I finally did! We hit the streets of downtown Dallas and walked in and out of some rad little shops, my favorite being Ahab Bowen. I found some pretty great stuff, like the above shirt. Way cool in my own personal, biased opinion. It’s like a freaking referee shirt, which for some odd reason, I find to be well, awesome. I also got this necklace I wore (which I don’t think is vintage, okay, it’s not...but I still love it) and a bunch more jewelry that I am sure will sit around begging to be worn but won’t be. I don’t know why I do that, definitely not my best shopping quality. I am sad to say the shorts were not some superb vintage find, but rather an old teenage purchase from…J. Crew. Yep, I found them there back in my high school days and somehow never got rid of them. Well, good thing I didn’t because now I love them. So eye-catching.

Short post? Apparently. I’ve got no fabulous updates for you all; no blog-worthy events have taken place for me to chat about. Enjoy your Memorial days, all (well, for those of you who have the day off or who even celebrate it).

First Aid.

Red cross ("first aid") shirt- Wildfox, White Destroyed Jeans- Siwy, Beaded Belt- TNA, Shoes- Litas (JC), Bag- Vintage Dooney & Bourke, Hoop Earrings- FP, Big Silver cuff- vintage, Bracelets- FP, random.

So yesterday was a fun and eventful day. Had to work in the morning (not the fun part), well okay, it was 10 am, but still. That's early people. But at least I had something to look forward to afterward...a photo shoot! After work, I met up with Margaret and her stylish self, where she took me to her favorite little spot in the shopping center by her apartment. It was amazing. I fell in love with a new store besides Intermix- Blinc. Well, this is where I purchased the fabulous red cross Wildfox top you have now seen me in. I wanted to buy, well pretty much everything I tried on (minus the pastel maxi...sorry Marg), but my wardrobe money is limited these days for my recent decision to get a new Mac. Not the brightest idea because all I do when I shop is buy, I mean there is no question. Maybe this will be good for me, saying no to that horrible little voice in my head telling me "yes, yes, yes!" to a $400 pair of shoes. It will be like shoppers rehab. Sounds terrible, but I suppose doable. 

Alright, let's fast forward through my rehab rant coming on and continue at picture time. The best part of taking photos is the before. Marg and I will throw the craziest stuff together, seeing how something looks that is completely, well...weird, but in the best way possible. I was in the middle of going through her closet and found buried in a heap behind her dirty clothes bin, the amazingly destroyed white jeans. NEED them to be mine. Good thing we were taught to share! So that is the concoction of this outfit post. Clothes were all lined up and ready to go for my 4 outfits shoot. *Click, click, click* Pictures were finito, just like that. Really. Joey is uber fast at this gig, no lie.

Now that I was done "modeling", it seemed fitting to just go home, watch a crime show (or two, three max), and go to sleep. Nope. My friends had other plans for me. I decided on going to hang out with a few of my girlfriends, thinking we would just hang around for a bit chatting about boys (I mean girls don't talk about anything else. Please note the sarcasm.), watch a movie, or paint our nails (I am the nail queen). Oh no, my dear readers. I arrived in perfect timing to watch...basketball. I believe they are called the Mavericks, Mavs for super fans who like to abbreviate. Ha, just kidding. I do know who our local NBA team is, but I have yet to become a fan of this sport. I apparently saw the ending to some super game because everyone was excited and screaming when they won. Go Mavs. Yeah. Well, our "after party" for their successful win was fun. Had some tonic water (nothing added, of course), talked, watched The Hangover to prepare ourselves for the second one. 

What a night it was, or shall I say day? Glad it took me 24 hours to indulge you readers of my wonderful Wednesday, but better late than never, yes? Indeed. Have a lovely evening everyone and enjoy your weekend!

Wait, I have a PS. Sorry for the laughing photo, but Margaret insisted that it was "too cute" to trash.

A Little Under the Weather

Tribal Sweater- Gar De (Intermix), Silk Button Down- Wilfred (Aritzia), Leather Shorts- 3.1 Phillip Lim (Marg's closet), Tribal Belt- TNA (Aritzia), Shoes- Jeffrey Campbell, Necklaces- Free People, Big Diamond Cuff, Bangles, Red Ring- FP, Shark Tooth Ring- mom made

It is so dreadful outside on this Monday morning, so here I am sitting in bed listening to the rain pour on my roof…and blogging. Nice. Normally I don’t get up until, like, now; but today I am under different circumstances. For some strange and very turned around reason, whenever I am a tad hung-over, I wake up at some ridiculous time – today was 7:30 AM! This early wake up was helpful in the fact that I was able to catch up on all of my season finales from the past week on television. So there was some productivity. Now I am writing for you all, telling you I drank too much wine last night with my girlfriends. Productive? Check.

Wow. So last night, my friend and I watched The Roommate, you know the one where Leighton Meester leaves Blair Waldorf and her realm of NYC behind for this creepy, stalking role where she obsesses over Minka Kelly. Such a bizarre movie. I was kind of expecting more from it, but will now be forever haunted with the memory of my favorite Gossip Girl character ripping out the belly button ring of an ex-Disney star. Wow, apparently I am now a movie critic! Sorry, Roommate writers, I am just not that big of a fan.

Okay. I suppose that is all I have to say for today. Not much for fashion, but I at least put up one of my latest favorite outfits.

Now off to work! Have a marvelous Monday everyone!

A Wander of Words

Striped Top- Free People, Baby Pink Shorts- Free People, Blue Suede Wedges- Pura Lopez (Intermix), Necklaces- Margaret's Box of Jewels, Bracelets- Random

Hello readers. Well, here I am sharing my latest favorite outfit, one that will soon be sold or given to a friend when I get sick of it. I tend to wear something until I can’t stand the sight of it any longer. Sad, I know. I need to learn how to savor my looks and not over-wear it until the people around me know I will be showing up in the same get-up. Oh well, it’s still cute and it’s not like I care anyway. I am going to own my not washed since purchased FP shorts and stripe top. Yes, that’s right.

So. This shoot was pretty fun (not like any of them aren’t). We were stuck in the middle of ugly weather and rainy skies, so here we are yet again at the Shaw-Pellicone residence, capturing some “sexy poses” (Joey and Marg’s wording) and attempting to copy the gorgeous model from the May Free People Lookbook. Obviously, I am now a FP fanatic…thanks Marg. But aren’t the Pura Lopez shoes to die for?? I found them at Intermix, kind of a whim buy, but hello. Look at them. They were a no question purchase!

Well, it is rather late here and I am quite exhausted, so sorry if this post is boring or anything. I just needed to put some pics up and apparently along came the shortest post yet!

It’s Friday night, guys. Hope you all are enjoying your evening/late night on this nasty, humid, and rainy Friday night! I know I am – just laying on the couch about to watch all of my shows I have DVR’d from the past week. Sorry, sleep, you are not welcome tonight. Okay. Goodnight to all!

Away for the Weekend

Okay, so I am currently sitting in an airplane. Yes, that’s right. I am blogging via American Airlines, about 35,000 feet higher than all of you readers. My reasoning? Oh, you know, I just felt like hopping on a plane just for the hell of it. Just kidding. Although, that would be pretty freaking cool to be able to just fly around whenever and wherever you wanted. Sure would beat 5:00 traffic! Any who, I am on my way back to Dallas from my weekend in McAllen/Mission, Texas, visiting my aunt, uncle & cousin, Grant (who just celebrated his 11^th birthday last week), which makes my 20-year-old self feel old. And yes, I am aware 20 is very young but I now understand how my dad feels when I tell him I ran into someone from like, elementary school.

So here I am on my second visit since their move from Dallas five years ago. McAllen (or maybe they live in Mission, I am not sure, but Mission just sounds kind of boring) is a small little suburb. SMALL. Okay, sidebar- I have to complain a second because the guy sitting in front of me just pushed his seat back all the way and made my Mac book fall in my lap. Not cool man with black, spiky hair. Now I am going to kick his chair. Okay, back to my trip. As I said earlier, I hadn’t been there in quite some time, so I was expecting a lot (according to Google, at least). Just kidding – try it. Even Google doesn’t have much to say about the city. The highlight of my first visit a few years ago was traveling by FOOT into Mexico. That was fun and I got a lot of cool things. And it was like, real Mexico. It was eye opening to see how other cultures live and what others go through; it’s amazing. Obviously, during this trip, a Mexican adventure was not an option. Kinda bummed, but definitely understandable…maybe next time?

The weekend flew by – shopped a lot (got some cool bracelets I probably over paid for), ate some good food, and had nice, old-fashioned family time. After one of our nightly dinner outings, I felt the need to go on a little adventure. So I took Grant and we walked around the neighborhood, and of course took photos so I could share with you all. We had such “blogging” faces on. He even captured me looking rather pissed/annoyed while sitting in a field of weeds. But it was too blog worthy to just trash it. 

Wow, this post is longer than I thought it would turn out. Thanks American Airlines for the generous amount of space I have here to type on my laptop! Apparently, my dad was too cheap (or just rude, I am unsure) to pay the $45 to upgrade me to first class (which is like, empty…taunting me). Oh well, I am just happy to be in a window seat with no neighbor beside me (there is a guy in the first seat who was originally next to me, but made the switcheroo mid-flight. Awkward.) Oh well. I had such a good weekend with the fam and hope everyone else’s was as eventful as mine or maybe even better!

Wait. I have a PS that is too funny to not tell (not to mention show the horribly taken “Myspace-esque” photo I took of myself, below). Okay. So when I got to McAllen on Thursday, I was probably one of the first people to get to baggage claim. I watch all the bags glide down to the circular rink for its owner to pick it up. Still waiting. UM. Where.Is.My.Bag? Yeah, it didn’t make it on my flight; it was on the next flight (which was weird there was a second flight to McAllen that night). Well, we didn’t know it arrived that night until Friday morning, so I was clothes-less, the worst feeling in the world. I packed my entire life in that damn suitcase. Good thing I am the size of an eleven year old, though, because I had to borrow his pajamas. So enjoy the photo of me in child’s size pj’s, I know my family did. Okay, that is now officially all folks.

The Jewelry Joint

Denim Vest- Neiman Marcus, The Who Tee- Vintage/Marg's closet, Red shorts- Urban Outfitters, Black Tie Oxford Pumps- Jeffrey Campbell, Megalodon Shark Tooth- mom made, Blue/Silver Bangles- Free People, Beaded Bracelets- various, Shark Tooth Ring- mom made.Oh.My.God. This damn Texas weather is really starting to irk me. One day it is 90°, then the next it is raining with tornado warnings and the temperatures are dropping…drastically. So, as you can imagine, this sudden pour of rain ruined any chance of spending an hour or so pretending to be a model outside in some gorgeous forest/cemetery/or any other weird-ass place Margaret & Joey seem to always be able to find to shoot pictures. Well, it ended up we were forced to capture my outfits from inside their amazingly cool apartment building (or should I say “phase”?) The photos here are from the inside of their place. Yes, that’s right. Their place is as cool as you would think (if you know them); there’s even a shrine of Margaret. Cool? Yes. I now want one in my own room. Cocky? No.My favorite picture (no I am not conceited) is the one of me staring at the array of Marg's jewelry on the table. Not photo'd: a huge freaking like, shipping, brown box containing MORE fabulous little trinkets. Joey was starving, and Margaret and I are probably the worst procrastinators ever, so you can only imagine a hungry man wanting the infamous In N’ Out Burger trying to be patient while I was trying to decide on jewelry (which of course led to a whole other discussion, delaying our food trip even more).

Finally, pictures were finito. So we hop in Joey’s big man car to get ourselves some good ol Cali-born burgers. Unfortunately, when we arrived, there were cars lined up over a mile long. No way were we waiting on that, their meat can’t be that good. Then we see an ambulance! This is horrible to say, but the fact that this famous burger joint already had an ambulance ready to take someone in to the ER. It was kind of hilariously ironic that someone was being taken away from one of the fattest fast-food places; well, unless it was something like they found a dead body near the place (if you don’t understand that, read the Police&Pictures post). But Marg swears it was probably just someone thinking they are having a heart attack, but truly, it was just a panic attack (over not getting their cheeseburger fast enough – oh us Americans). It’s quite a sad, anxious world we live in today. No, not even “quite,” – it is. Oh man, I feel a really long, rambling rant coming. I’m just going to stop typing now to protect myself from possible embarrassment.

Well, I am going to go and enjoy my afternoon playing a “Phineas & Ferb” board game now. Not my choice in the entertainment department, but I must keep my little cousin, Grant, happy. Good day everyone!

OH, I do have a PS – Thank you, new followers! You have NO idea how much that has just simply made my week knowing other people beside Margaret, my parents, & Jenn (our store manager at the fabulous Aritzia where I work) are reading my ridiculous thoughts. All right. Now I am officially done.

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Winning? Apparently.

White Eyelet Maxi Dress- Free People, Red scarf- Madewell, Sunglasses- Gucci, Bracelets- various.

So, I am currently sitting in my big lonely room deciding on whether or not to watch t.v. or to to do a blog post. Obviously, you now know which option I chose. I was unsure of whether or not to do an inspiration post or show you readers the "out-takes" Margaret decided not to use in her own blog (now on mine!). I assumed you all would enjoy pictures of myself rather than Mary-Kate & Ashley (my only source of inspiration, for some strange reason...eventually, you will all get used to it). Any who, here I am in the same field of green that we were kicked out of just after this outfit, posing for the few that are kind enough to look. This dress reminds me of a fairy; I feel so dainty in it - just like a little girl. This outfit really puts my girly-ness out there, which I love. I am a fan of almost anything cream (due to my lack of color in my wardrobe) and especially lace, so this maxi just won me over when I was shopping at the "winning" shop, Free People. And yes, sadly enough (or rather, embarrassingly enough), I did just quote Charlie Sheen's infamous "winning" catchphrase. Wow, when I begin quoting famous celebrities (who, in my own personal opinion, should not be famous for the reasons they currently are - which I will save my ridiculous tangent on that subject for another time). So, basically, I think that, in itself, should end my post. I have nothing more to say besides “winning,” it seems; so, there you go, readers. Go and win.

Pictures&Police

Cream Button Down Top- Equipment (Intermix), Hot Pink Shorts- J Crew, Hot Pink Sparkle Bralet- Free People, Baby Pink Platforms- Jeffrey Campbell, Gold Watch- Michael Kors, Hoop Earrings- Free People, Blue Rings- David Yurman & mom's jewelry box, Shark Tooth Ring- mom made, Bracelets- various.

Hello readers. Well, I have not done much in the preceding weeks (okay, months?) prior to this highly anticipated second outfit post. No excuses are ready, so none will be given. Apology? Okay. Sorry, you seven readers for not updating you on my daily life (even though I see most of you every day).  I am going to make a promise to try (note the italicized “try”) and update much more often to begin my blogging career.

Alrighty. Well… today I got to shoot with the lovely Margaret & her talented husband, Joey. As you can tell by the sneakily taken photo of me with the laundry basket full of clothes, this was a multi-outfit picture-taking afternoon. Margaret is doing monthly inspiration posts on the people she knows who enthuse her inner fashion muse (ha! I’m a rhymer, and yes I am aware that is not a Webster word). I am a lucky little duck for being chosen and today was the day for proof of my muse-ness! I am an extreme organization freak, so I had my outfits written out (even down to the shoes I was to wear along with the feather earring versus the popular hoop). Yes, I am going to take pride in my OCD-ness. So the shoot went fabulously; it was a ton of fun (wow, I should be a rapper or something). I can now say I was “walked” over by the Frisco Police Department. Yes, that is right, readers. We were in the middle of capturing outfit number 5 when a man in uniform comes tiptoeing up to us all CSI like (creepy, indeed) and demands our reason for being there. This mighty policeman then tells us we were on private property – which contained no sign of proof of his allegation in the parking lot. He completely rained on our picture parade by telling us this is where a dead body was found a couple of weeks ago. It would have been just like one of my favorite horribly wonderful crime shows I watch if one of us had been a mass killer or something and the police were there to finally catch us. Unfortunately (well, actually, fortunately), we all have a clean conscious and were able to finish our shoot in the parking lot where we found that amazing log above. So thank you, policeman, for doing your daily duties by kicking us out of a beautiful wooded area.

All right, enough of this. I believe it is just about time for my pre-recorded Criminal Minds. By the way, I am not a freak; I just love overly dramatic crime television. Goodnight to you all!