wish list

Dear friends, family, secret admirers, sugar daddies, etc:

The following items are on my Christmas/Hanukkah/ Kwanzaa wish list...

cashmere sweater (Martin & Osa)

thin, silk-blend socks for wearing with heels (a la Burberry Prorsum SS10)

a classic, slightly boxy blazer (J. Crew)

vintagey, mis-matched bracelets

shit-kicker heels (Burberry Prorsum FW10)

a statement ring (this one is YSL)

Swiss dot sheer tights (Balenciaga SS10)

Also:

vintage home decor

vintage books

assorted gilded frames for art

decorative paper

Let's all do our part and buy some shit this holiday season.

the hangover

wearing J. Crew sweater, Urban Outfitters T-shirt, F21 leggings and bracelet, vintage necklace, Zara flats

Fresh cough + shameless gluttony at Thanksgiving dinner - a face full of makeup = the ghastly, ghoulish expression you see above. Even my mom was like, you look pale. Want to put some lipstick on first?

Luckily the tree is BRINGING IT in these pictures. I may be too sick to "smiiiize" but the neon autumn leaves are stealing the show anyway, so who cares?

tuesday laughs

How hilarious are these album cover collages? If anyone knows who is responsible for these so that I can erect a shrine in their honor immediately, please let me know.

I definitely have a case of whatever I've been fighting off/narrowly avoiding for the past few weeks. I feel all fevery and my femurs hurt. If anything happens that will interfere with my enjoyment of Turkey, we're going to have a problem.

any idiot can face a crisis...

...it's this day-to-day living that wears you out.

wearing grandmother's vintage necklace (thanks, Gammy!) Target t-shirt, J Brand jeans, H&M sweater, Timex watch

No outfit posts from the weekend due to a marathon painting session that resulted in a peacock blue bathroom and leafy lime green furniture. Impending roommate changeover results, on a positive side, in a sudden need to get obsessed with apartmenttherapy.com again--but man it still sucks. A new roommate feels like a house guest that won't go away. And no matter how clever your Craigslist ad is, you never know whether they'll end up having horrible habits like picking their feet or breathing loudly through their nostrils or bringing ugly people home.

(Alicia, please stay!)

the tragic and untimely deaths of beautiful people

RIP Daul Kim.

traver rains photography

All photos courtesy of traverrains.com

I am obsessed with the moody, somber quality of these photographs by Traver Rains -- best known as one half of the Heatherette design team. The series was taken in Montana on his family's farm, and he is responsible for every aspect of the mise en scene--from set design, to the dress made entirely of welded horseshoes and barbed wire.

You MUST check out his website. It is all kinds of brilliant.

get ready for me to blow your mind:

wearing F21 poncho, leggings, J. Crew sweater, Urban Outfitters tee, Zara shoes, Furla bag, drugstore sunglasses, Timex watch

It's time to cross "stylish poncho" off the list of words that should never be seen together. It's a new age people.

And, because I feel like it, a quote of the day by the poetic, highly philosophical Kate Moss: "Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels."

Clearly, she's never sampled the rare delicacy known as bacon-wrapped hot dogs, because if she had, she wouldn't be extolling the virtues of "feeling skinny" aka gas, grumpiness, and bad breath, over the deliciousness of pig parts wrapped in--pig parts. Yummm.