30.8.10

tear drops will fall

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Dress: secondhand
Boots: Vintage Dingo brand
Bag: L.L.Bean Signature


I'll admit, I've been fighting off a pretty wretched case of post-vacation blues these last few days. It's just so hard knowing that I wont be able to visit home again until around Christmas (hopefully) which means many months of no cabin, no best friend, no cats/birds/sheep, no family and no farm. And it'll be a whole year until I can make up for all the warm weather things I somehow failed to do this summer (Swimming! Kite flying! Skim boarding! Rollerskating in empty parking lots!) All this exacerbated by finding out that I lost about a third of the film photos I took, mostly of Dag and her sweet cat Zowie and her beautiful home...SOB!

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ANYWAYS, today I forced myself to put on my brightest dress (handmade in India! It was a diaphanous One-Size-Fits-None until I took it in quite a bit) and get busy running errands. I ended the day with a nice set-down in the little park near our apartment, trying to remind myself that all of NYC isn't concrete and grime and sirens and dudes who sit next to you in Barnes & Noble and make weird/awful snuffling noises every twenty seconds until you wanna punch them in the head...

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Also, I'll admit, this is basically the exact same thing I wore last week while sipping tea and eating mini red velvet cupcakes at the Rebecca Minkoff headquarters. The designer and her team were sweet enough to invite a few bloggers around to have a look at all their gorgeous shoes and bags. The colors! The textures (namely: BUTTAH.) The things that handbag dreams are made of...

8 comments:

Cindy said...

gorgeous girl.
it's always sad to go home after some time away, life is always a bit sweeter when you're out of the usual grind. that said at least nyc always has an adventure waiting around the corner, that minkoff pary sounded great. she is probably the best smaller handbag designer out there, she deserves the success.

Little Lost Treasures said...

I love those little booties! and the color of your dress is just gorgeous

Lizzy said...

You look gorgeous! I Loveeee the dress x

Anonymous said...

is the strap long enough to wear it cross-body?

Ringo, have a banana! said...

The strap is adjustable, and at its longest I would say yes!

Eli said...

Im in the same funk post vacation! but you just gotta keep going! love the photos with the cats and flowers in the posts below, so cute yet funny in a way

The Velvet Bow said...

Those boots are excellent. And you are fabulous!

Dulcie said...

I love your style, you're very cool! :) xxx