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Magic Monday

by Pierre Etaix

Monday: Build your virtual Spring wardrobe (Pinterest is great for this!) & fill it with pretty dresses & beautiful shoes you’re dying to wear if this snow ever lets Spring get here! Here’s my number one dress lust.

Tuesday: Join the 1000 paper crane mission (you don’t have to make 1000!). Make one [...]

Holy Crap! It's Draw A Dinosaur Day!

How did I just find out about this? Today is the 5th Annual Draw a Dinosaur Day!

Draw A Dinosaur Day is a holiday celebrated on January 30th. The goal is as simple as it’s title: Draw A Dinosaur! You don’t have to be a brilliant illustrator, just take a couple of minutes with a blank [...]

Saturday Sweets

Fashion Friday: Stella & Dot

Medina Bib Necklace by Stella & Dot

For Christmas, I got a nugget wrap bracelet from Stella & Dot & it layers so nicely with so much of my jewelry collection that I fell in love. Their Spring/Summer Collection features a lot of Morrocan, Brazilian & Greek influences. The pieces are fun, colorful & worldly.

Things I Love Thursday

♠ The Other Guys ♠ Surprise store credit for Forever 21. I’ve had it for almost 2 years so I got some colorful necklaces, earrings, a tiny sparkly gold miniclutch, some fake eyelashes to play with & some things my sister picked out because sharing is what sisters do! ♠ Miniature boxes of chocolates. What’s better [...]

Totem for 2011

Walking around Walmart one night last week, I found myself wandering the toy aisle. This tends to happen when you start hanging out with a 2-year-old. There were all these adorable little animals with huge eyes beaming at me through their plastic packaging. They were a line of toys I’d loved when I was little, [...]

Haikuesday!

Hot chocolate & haiku

I spent the weekend at my father’s visiting with all my siblings, watching movies & having second family Christmas. I love spending time with my siblings. I wish they lived closer.

My youngest brother
thinks I’m cool. That’s pretty much
all I care about.

Armed with forks & wolf-
like hunger, my sisters &
I attack [...]

Magic Monday

The most magical shoes!

Monday: Write a small stone every day this week. A small stone is simply an in-the-moment observation that you later polish- kind of like a haiku but without the restriction of a form.

Tuesday: Sign up for Pinterest! It’s like Tumblr, but you can organize your “pins” onto different boards. For example, [...]

Saturday Sweets

Fashion Friday: Badass Ballerina

Inspired this week partly by this photo & partly by Black Swan, I’ve been thinking about how to mix lingerie into a workable wardrobe. I love delicate lacy things paired with edgy studded leather so I thought it would be sexy to throw a cropped jacket over a corset top & tutu. Let the corset [...]