Archive for December 2006

It's Gonna Be A Good Year...I Can Feel It

Here's to 2007

1. Untitled #1 - Northern Picture Library
2. This Charming Man - The Smiths
3. There Goes My Outfit - The Dears
4. Weed Party - Band of Horses
5. Celebration Guns - Stars
6. Champagne - The One Up Downstairs
7. Gone in Three - AM/FM
8. Grinding Halt - The Cure
9. New Year's Project - Further Seems Forever
10. What's in Store? - Architecture in Helsinki
11. Album Of The Year - The Good Life
12. Break In The New Year - Cursive
13. Jet Black New Year - Thursday
14. The New Year - Death Cab For Cutie

Two pairs of spectacles, a lens polisher, a pocket knife...

Pockets on a dress in a fine fabric add a special cozy edge and are always so exciting to find unexpectedly as your eyes scroll the length of the dress. Cheers to added value.

Tracy Reese



Silk patterned pockets with a flap + zipper and back button accents.


3.1 Phillip Lim









It's like Phillip Lim reads my mind. He designs the kind of pieces that give you that lust at first sight spark when you see them. There's a black silk shirt from at least two years ago that still lingers in my mind. Same thing happened when I saw this shirt at Satine today. Ultimate lust.


Mayle



Fun in 100% silk.


Aerie



And finally, for those of us who have only $29.50 and want to jump into bed with pockets, love love this one.


PS - I feel like sites with a View All option are really underappreciated. Is there anyone who really likes to hit Next 23 times? Thank you pinkmascara.com.

Chain of Strength

Chain bracelet action. Thick and chuncky, thin and delicate, who cares it's like pizza baby! The varying of textures and styles is key, here are some that I most admire:


J.Crew



I don't exactly think jewelry when I think J.Crew but this piece really stood out, plus it's worth the $45 for all that chunky but funkyness.


Mollie Dash





These have all the appeal of the CC Skye & Tommassini pieces without the whole 'I wish I was Nicole Richie' vibe. $45, $38.


DottiespecK



Oh my the possibilities in 12 characters of customization! $42 lets you be ID-esque cutesy with a simple first name or Indie-clever quoting your favorite obscure album track!


What's a chains post without a Chain Hang Low quote? If you haven't heard this song I suggest you google the video at once - the childhood song gone bling will be in your head for weeks.
"I'm so icy
My charms so heavy that my neck dont like me"
-Jibbs

Icebreakers

I get excited when I come up on cheap sauce but unique accessories. These hand-made designers make me say yay:

tigerlillyshop



I like these simple but detailed rings from tigerlillyshop, featuring asian-inspired and floral prints. At $6 each, their better than a dozen roses.


mamadelic



I'm a sucker for a sweet charm - hmm airplane or baby panda? Okay it might be full grown but aww to the thought of baby pandas! Either way they are each $14. Starry coin purse at $8 so you still have some bills to fold up (or crumple up if you're naitze) and put insides.

Aw, Google's sympathetic

Till We Earned A Holiday

I'd like to turn the fuss away from Christmas and to New Years.
Excitement about a year ending a new one beginning? yes.
Excitement about the supposed birth of Christ? not so much.

Christmas colors - look especially tacky executing them with puff paint and lace on a sweatshirt. Speaking of Christmas sweaters, the google image search for them is quite frightening. One of the highlights - "They couldn't believe that I would or could willingly wear that Holiday Sweater for 25 days. They felt sure I would fold. And I was bound and determined to prove to them that I was made of sterner stuff - that I held fashion and hygiene in disregard when it came to holiday spirit." The pictures there are pretty classic in a 'I'm sooo emo' kinda way.
Christmas trees - uproot a living tree, sell it in an open lot, put it inside your house and put electrical objects on it. I don't need to point out the craziness there.
Christmas shopping - you lose a solid two weeks of going anywhere to avoid the traffic with people rushing to buy insignificant gifts for people they hardly know.
On to Christmas music - Let it Snow? Irrelevant. O Holy Night? O lord. I have always been partial however to Last Christmas...maybe because it's a little of an anti-christmas song. All that talk of re-gifting and tears.

That's not to say I don't like to gather with family and friends, give a well thought out gift to someone I care about, and eat a feast. I'd just like to kill the over the top bit and move it to an occasion I really care about.....and one with more alcohol.