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I got a package! Miss Jes sent me a few things, some or all of which she picked up when she went to St. Croix:
Thanks, woman!
*I may or may not be talking about myself. Just a little treasure that I picked up in Austin at Parts & Labour. They carry wonderful locally made things. It’s very, very hard to choose just one or two items to take home, but if you blow your budget at least you can feel good about supporting local artists! Click the photo to go to the artist’s site.
Like my Lolë dress, one item that’s been getting a lot of wear lately is this buckled cuff that I picked up from Editors’ Closet:
It looks black, but it’s a very dark purple. It’s by Seattle designer Tara Sauvage. She’s been around awhile, designing accessories for other companies, but now she has her own line. Rocco e Dante is named after her two pugs, who help with the inspiration and modeling. Her bracelets are fun, with the tough-girl, rock ‘n’ roll styling that I’m a sucker for — I had a hard time choosing between this and the zipper cuff. Maybe next time her line comes to Editors’ Closet I’ll pick up the other! With my big vacation for the year fast approaching, I did a little shopping. If you recall, I was in the mood for a stack of gold bangles. These were exactly what I had in mind, but the $100 price tag was not working for me:
I haven’t resolved the gold flip-flops issue. It seems like all the pairs I like the most have terrible reviews on Zappos. My sister says Havaianas are worth the price, but I’m still thinking. I used to have rubber flip-flops in a rainbow of colors, but hours of Stacy & Clinton convinced me it was time to start wearing real shoes when I’m not at the beach, and I got rid of almost all of them — so now I wear leather flip-flops around town all summer, instead. I like to tell myself they’re slightly more respectable. :) I can’t help but love octopuses. Octopi. Whichever you prefer. It’s hard not to be fascinated by such a strange, smart, tough creature, and it seems a lot of people are fans (check out some of Miss Monster’s popular tentacle stuff!). Here are a few little octopus baubles that have caught my eye:
Finally, one I’ve admired for four or five years: Yep, I’m a sucker for octopuses. When my sister and I get a really good deal on something, we like to tease our husbands about how much money we saved them. Sort of like when you get such a good coupon that you’d be losing money if you didn’t buy something with it. Don’t pretend you don’t know what I mean. Mark and I recently planned our big vacation for the year — we are going to Hawaii for a week and a half! I am so excited that I quickly commenced with the fantasy-shopping of swimsuits and such, and came across something at Bluefly that I actually needed — a pretty new cover-up, at an irresistible price:
Next up, I need the perfect beach playlist for my ipod. Any suggestions? This photo is brought to you by my near-inability to take a photo of my own right arm:
I really like Leila’s stuff — it’s a little bit girly and a little bit rock ‘n’ roll. You can check it out here, but I’d strongly advise searching for a deal or waiting until it comes back to BDB, because that is way more than I paid. Actually, the website calls it ‘BIZARRE vintage jewel Egyptian SCARAB bracelet’:
‘BIZARRE’? Nay, I think you meant ‘AWESOME.’ A couple days after my sister and I tore up Harwin St., we went for round two in the Heights. I got a couple hot tips from Taryn over at A Peine For Your Thoughts, and our first stop was Oolala. I love supporting local and independent artists, and Oolala has a fun selection of jewelry and clothing at very reasonable prices. So reasonable that I had to check the tag on this set a couple times to be sure:
We also checked out Hello Lucky on Taryn’s recommendation. It reminded me of Parts & Labour in Austin, but a teeny fraction of the size. Nothing we needed this time, but fun to look! Next we headed to the Historic Heights shopping district, which is a couple blocks of antique stores, thrift stores, and boutiques. We eventually wandered into Retropolis, which is kind of a black hole of old stuff, 90% of it being (IMHO) either crap, or utter crap (partial jars of pomades from the 60s: as nasty as they sound!). I don’t do a lot of thrift shopping because you really need patience to find the good stuff, but this time I scored with a few yards of fun fabric:
It has GLITTER!
You’re probably thinking this means I will sew something. I do make things, which I will show you when I (one day) have a craft table again, but none of those things are clothes. I asked my mother to teach me to sew when I was much younger, and I hated it because there is just way too much stuff to do before the actual sewing. Once in a while I convince myself that I want to learn to sew, but I’m pretty sure I’d rather just be the idea person, so I texted my mother and let her know I had a project for her! She and my dad are a little busy trying to sell their house so they can move to Texas, but as soon as they get settled here, I am hiring her for all the little bespoke dresses she can handle. Because I’m all about buying local. :) |
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