...and so does Gertrude Stein...

Recently, the amazing Alix over at The Cherry Blossom Girl did a post about some of her favorite looks for the summer. One of them centered around pretty white dresses and blouses just made for running around barefoot in a sunny clover field (never mind the grass stains!) While watching "I Love You, Alice B. Toklas" last night, I was struck by all the lovely, lacey white things that sun-kissed Nancy kept slipping into. Here are a few of my favorites:















I may be short a clover field or two, and with thunder grumbling outside my window, not exactly in for frolicking weather, but in any case, we'll call it inspiration for the not-so-distant future!

weekend update

My best friend from back home came to visit us last week. Dagmar is the coolest girl alive, and adventure has been in high supply: Corona chugging, fireworks over the Brooklyn Bridge, shady thrift stores, snacking on street produce, Indian food, Icelandic chocolate, moving sales, roof-wrasslin', Fleet Week!, dog packs, cherry pie, Found videos, Rock Rock Rockaway Beach, and copious napping. I wish she could stay with us forever!

oh jeez

As an astute anonoymous commenter recently pointed out, my dear friend Cassie and I, of Sweeetheart Fever fame, recently made an appearance on Style Sightings. Spot our hammy faces if you dare!

hooray!

I have not one but TWO small articles in the current issue of BUST Magazine featuring Amy Sedaris on the cover. Here's one:



This book is so great, and they totally let me keep it! I'm convinced the authors must be two of the coolest ladies on earth, they are so spot-on and hilarious.

I was going to say that, in order to find the second article, you should go buy the issue (which, of course, you should! Hello "3 Women"-themed photo shoot!!!) but then I decided perhaps that wouldn't be fair for any international folks who are curious (I'm not entirely sure how widely it's distributed. Do they have BUST in your country?). So maybe I'll put it up a bit later. It's not quite as exciting, or related to fashion, but it is informative!

R.I.P. my littlest frenemy

Well guys, I've finally done it. After two, violent, tempestuous, love-hate (mostly hate) filled years, spanning several countries and a handful of states, I dropped my digital camera one time too many and it is now permanently frozen in a bizarre halfway on halfway off position, with barely enough strength to flash a "LENS ERROR" message. I'm not really sure what to do, since I'm waaay to broke to make another decent investment at this point, and from what I understand this is not an easy problem to fix. I'm thinking of just nabbing another Coolpix L4 off eBay, since, even though it's a piece of crap, I'm familiar with just HOW crappy, so there'll be no surprises...

Do you guys have any suggestions for another cheap-o model that'll get the job done and/or where to buy it? And I'm talkin' CHEAP! And FAST! A blogger without her digital camera is like...well, I could make a lot of analogies, but mostly it is just like "le suck"!