a nice photo.

at times I wish I had the simplicity of Tumblr, 

because lately, I don't have enough time to say much. 

The ' A nice photo' caption on tumblr always makes me 

kind of happy. 

Here is a nice photo of me and my best friend. 

It is important to know that here I had my hair cut to 

Match Cameron Diaz in There's Something about Mary. 

This phase was definitely the least frightening of 

all of the phases I went through. So, I will take it. 

Anyway... enough about me... Happy Birthday Nicole!!

I am so sorry I cried so much at your wedding. I am trying to work on 

my professionalism. 

me likey

howdy.. back from another whirlwind commute up to 

SF for some family time. 

So, I know I have given this shirt some praise before. But, you know..

love this shirt and its accordion pleats. 

Did you know my mom played accordion as a kid? fun fact. 

Accordions are hokey, which we all know I love, and 

too, describe all kinds of folded goodness. 

Some accordion images for you. 

Me and my shirt.. and a smile.

 

Creepy NY accordion player, who according to a friend, 

hoofed it all the way to Central Park from Brooklyn. 

Sneaky!

Some fantastic accordion pleated skirts..

via

via

Sigh, not a single accordion collar to be found. 

You are my main squeeze. 

via

Other accordion folds...love!

via

We had an accordion book for our wedding party and 

It really was fantastic. Something so cool about

opening up the book to one long panorama. 

The best.

 

via

And there is nothing classier than a vintage broach. Hee

via

Here's to starting the week on Wednesday!

super duper

New swim images! We kind of jerry-rigged em together, 

or as my pea brain likes to say 'jimmy rig', 

but I think they have a fun vibe!

Notice, too, the incredible necklaces from 

SODA.. and do not fear, we will be doing a give 

away over at splitusa.com! Soon. Soon. 

Sorry to be a stranger! If it makes you feel better, my daughter told her

dad last night 'mommy never plays with me.' Sad! Better go do that.. 

Have a great weekend!!

Baaack!

Back from NY and slightly discombobulated. 

Photo shoot day... So, I'll hit some quickie highlights. 

Stayed at the Ace hotel... glorious. 

Pretty much totally failed at picture taking. 

But, did take this in the lobby. 

Outside the Agenda trade show at the 

Comme des Garcons shop. Or, pod, if 

you'd rather. Saw this in person and it 

was delightful. 

Wanna hear something sad? I just looked through all of the pictures

of this day and realized that my sneaky husband stickered

the back of my shirt and photographed it over and over again. 

Cruelty! And here I thought I had a small chance at cool. 

The weather was seriously balmy. My hair almost had body!

I said almost. 

lamiskins doing a little vintage shopping at 

Rabbits in Brooklyn, which I love. 

I did fancy the best pair of shiny cropped tuxedo 

pants there that was amazing. However, 

what was also amazing, is that it took my honestly 

four or so minutes to shimmy them on, one

buttock at a time. 

Good thing I stopped myself. Or was it. 

They were so hot. 

More vintage pics of *purchases later.

 

Dinner in little Italy. 

I took this shot over my shoulder.. 

These guys were slightly too authentic for 

comforts sake. 

Other highlights included seeing not one but TWO top chef 

super stars.. super snarky critic James Oseland

and Jonathan Waxman! yes!

K.. back later with some more. 

terrible person.

I really need to explain something to the world. 

You may think me a terrible person? Why, you ask?

Well, because I am NOT a dog person. 

Of course, I am not talking to you. 

I love your dog. Your dog is different. 

All those times your dog knocked over my child, ate one of her

toys, ran off with a dirty diaper when I was doing a diaper change and

yes, farted on me with his stinky fish farts( ha - you know who you are..), 

scratched me with his nails or put his butt in my face, 

I said to myself 'aww' and thought about rainbows and 

unicorns.  

I am not soulless : I really want to love your dog. 

I will positively reply to your pictures and pet and care about

him when I see him. But, the gig is up and I think it's time you know. 

Although, here is the part where I am actually blameless, as I 

show you my childhood dog, bipolar and purchased from 

a shopping mall. I remember only the inside of his mouth, 

and several instances where I begged 'please Fluffy' while

he repeatedly bit my butt in the hall corner. 

My sister is the big kid, and I, naturally, am the small crazy who 

looks a whole lot like my daughter. 

Forgive me for my movie pirating. 

Happy Weekend and a little Monsters of Folk for you. 

RIP fluffy from jaimee brant on Vimeo.

wild and crazy

I am a wild and crazy buying machine. 

I am onto holiday and that means SWEATERS! woo hoo. 

I just love sweaters. Vintage sweaters definitely 

quite often fall into the category of campy. 

Check out these that i have purchased for Holiday inspiration...

First of all.. I have NO idea what is up with This teddy bear 

in this first photo... but, love the sweater!

That teddy bear. 

via FromFlorida

and this sweater is so tribal and fantastic... 

but this is as much as I am sharing. 

from individjuli

and behold... the most amazing sweater of the week. 

Batwings and rainbows..sold!

Don't worry, that is not a real person/vampire. It's plastic. 

via FunkyTime

Sorry I am forcing you to look at sweaters in the middle of summer, 

but sweaters are fantastic aren't they. 

oh! Good news. Posting tomorrow. Miracles do happen.

always behind.

So my blogging days have slipped to Tuesday/Thursday.

I am failing you. But, it's ok. It will all be ok

because someday soon, at least I will have fun product coming 

in to show you. Right?

So, thoughts of the week are as follows...

I am noticing bloggers posting themselves in lacy tops 

thanks to the big lace push from Fall runway. 

from Marc by Marc Jacobs. 

But, of course, my mind desires this look 

on steroids.. say, with a crazy color and giant sleeves. 

And, wouldn't you know, I have just the top on my 

rack at work. Loves it!

Like I said... pictures of myself will be few and far between. 

Let's leave this to the professionals . 

My point is : fall will be lacy. 

Thought of the week two.. I have really produced some results in the 

garden as of late.... 

Mongo rainbow beets, which I made beet risotto with. 

my first brush with beet risotto was here...

the beet risotto from the House of Morande winery in Chile...

that IS filet mignon on top. Dreams. Sweet dreams. 

And, my pumpkin crop is preparing itself nicely for the Halloween holiday. 

In other news...

the child is now a horseback rider. 

who can clean horses with this brush. 

and mount the horse. 

and  after lessons...

hanging with her best friend! (with matching band aids)

And I did get one straight on modely photo...

I guess not much as changed since the last one 2 years ago..

Well, besides the hair and the 'tude. 

Have a good week! I will be back before to long. 

bringing it back.

has anyone noticed what the top has become?

I just feel like shirt separates have morphed into the invisible

layers of totally cute jacket/skirt/pant based outfits. 

No one is talking about cute shirts, people!

Shirts are solids for layering or tunics for comfort. How will I 

bring tops back into the limelight?

This is one of those moments where I remind myself that my 

tops are whatever I want them to be and 

whatever whimsey I choose to inflict on poor bystanders. 

So, I say yes to oversized, dolman sleeved, 

printed and embossed silk masterpieces. 

who is with me?

So off I go onto a short voyage. 

with help from the shirt wall and the shirt rack, of course. 

And, I must applaud anyone who puts a picture of 

themselves on their blog because as of late, 

I cannot bring myself to do it. 

Perhaps it is a slow hump that one must get over. 

I am not sure. Thoughts?

and how

I love the color red today. 

how cute is this double gingham. 

Why is gingham so cute at times and so awful at others. 

Right now, it is cute and i love it. 

(from Ramona West.)

And I don't know if its a surge of women hormones or what, 

but I bought ANOTHER calico floral dress today. 

The last one I bought had HUGE sleeves like this :

these sleeves and this plaid are just lovely. 

from allencompanyinc. 

and I still have a vintage finding obsession with phones and 

vintage record players. Any ideas?

And now, Paige, to answer your question. 

I usually laugh off these answer the question and pass on to your friends, 

but I so cannot live with myself if I even let one person down. 

So, in ten years I will be forty years old, which seems crazy. 

I already, since turning thirty this year, have extreme paranoia about my 

safety and mortality.. so, I am sure I will continue on that track to the 

point of unbearable! ha. 

My main desire, though, is to be happy with myself and satisfied with my life

and the choices that I made in the last ten years. 

Of course, I desire to be WILDLY successful, it would be fabulous if we

could make this business take off and that success led to many fun 

travels. I undoubtedly will have collected many things by that point, 

and the thought of that makes me happy. 

Is that a decisive enough answer? 

I did do absolutely nothing over the weekend, which I am terrible at. 

Though, I did re-read the fountain head for my tenth or so time, 

and now I am lost in a moment of life crisis.. ha. 

Just kidding. Although, to be so glamorous and idealistic. hmm. 

Anyway.. I am not sure I can bring myself to directly call anyone 

out to name what they will be doing in ten years. 

So, I hope the ten friends of mine who have blogs (you know who you are)..

do it!

Have a good week!

are you

this hot?

If you wear a S swim top and S swim bottom... I need you!

I am looking for a hot small to be my fit model 

for Magic in Vegas mid August!

Tell your friends!!

If you are my small... send me a message!

loving!

This jacket! Such a cute one. 

buy it from Paige!

And, check out Paige's blog... she started out a little on

the shy side and has morphed into a complete

supermodel! Giving this 30 year old hope. hee. 

And, I am still in love with this. 

I am really needing more jackets, apparently, because I am starting

to get a serious amount of shi* for wearing this Guatemalan 

beauty close to every day. 

purchased from ramona west. 

The jacket has totally taken over the scarf's duty

of chief ridicule receiver... ridicule example 

courtesy of Yessi!! hee. 

So, I may be wearing a new jacket today - my mom's old 

seventies levi's ( and a really cute green vintage skirt!)

but, I need one of my staples. Sorry bout it, but the waitress

from the Claim Jumper Sunday night liked it. a lot. So, that 

compliment will take me at least into the next decade. ha!