i want your style

Damn ,I want everything she's got!
chambray shirt: check
high waist perfectly belted trousers: check
sweet combo of socks and tall ass clog/sandals: check check check

some girls have all the luck...
(photo cred The Sartorialist via Lulu Letty)

wishes

I'm alive! Ha! Weeks literally fly by when you are incredibly busy and living for the weekends-I think I'm in serious need of a real break. We were off for spring break a few weeks ago but I ended up going to sunny Florida for a training trip for rowing. This was not exactly a relaxing vacation; we were up at 6 every morning and trained twice a day, about 6 hours every day. Crazy! But also an incredibly fun and interesting experience.

In the meantime, I've been running ragged catching up on work, getting up too early and going to bed too late, and just trying to find time to chill out! I have hardly even thrifted once in the past month, never mind having time to dress decently! I literally live i the same gross sports clothes all week-except for Thursdays, my only day to wear normal clothes. I shouldn't be complaining, at least I am doing what I want to be doing, but I miss having my old life a bit.

OK, end rant, now that spring has arrived (YAY!) I've been thinking a lot about what I want to be wearing come real warm weather and no more threats of snow. Hence, I've made a compilation of wants/needs for the season, some real and some imaginary. Check it!

*high waist jeans in black from American Apparel, no matter what season I always wear pants, and I've been wondering if I could pull off these high waisted ones or not. I'm weirdly disproportionate from top to bottom, but I really do love the way high waisted pants look. I want to try these on in store before committing anyway

*chambray and jeans in general. I thrifted an awesome men's over sized chambray shirt a few weeks ago and brought it to Florida, wearing it on the beach as a cover up and with shorts as a comfy alternative to sweatshirts that always seem to be in heavy rotation. Such a great fabric! I also recently bought some 70's high waist jeans (shipped all the way from austrailia!) and I want to try wearing them around, and I'm also intrigued by the denim-on-denim look (not, however, the way my father rocks it. I mean like how Dakota Fanning as Cherie Currie in The Runaways rocks it in one scene; totally killed it with some of her wardrobe! MAkes me love the 70's so much more).

*very high platform sandals. I really like the Swedish Hasbeens that everyone seems to be talking about lately, but they are a bit outside of my budget. I'm also craving a higher platform, and have scoured the Internet with no luck searching for genuine 70s platforms. I'll keep trying though!

*handmade, light and airy dresses. I need the simplicity of a dress when I'm rushed to class/work/dinner, and cannot wait until I don't need any thought of tights! I recently purchased the Built by Wendy Dresses sewing book, and after I'm done with school I want to tackle at least one of the projects. Warmer weather come soon!

*high waisted swimsuits. I'm a big fan f vintage-styled swimsuits, and this one from urban outfitters/anthropologie is beautiful, but I would totally settle for this or this, from urban outfitters and hayden-harnett. I really wan tot try a high-waisted swimsit out this year!

it began between bookshelves

I know I am terribly behind with updates, and I have a whole bunch of things to share about what I've been doing and getting and seeing, but I wanted to share wit you something I made from a while back, in December in fact, for my English final project. We were assigned a 7-8 page paper on anything we wanted to write about, either a creative piece or an essay, on the themes for the semester. I chose to write a story, and I bound it up in a little book and drew in illustrations to go with it. I was pretty pleased with how it came out, although the writing wasn't necessarily my best, and I thought you might want to take a look? Sorry the scans are shoddy, I didn't want to unsew the binding and lazily scanned it in. hopefully I'll get around to scanning the text in too, just to see what you think!

(p.s. I hand-stitched some of the details, like the stars in the cover, the hearts on the tights, and the girl's tears. Oh, and I borrowed the names Hannah and Landon because I love them so much! The story isn't a very happy one though, so I don't think it has much to do with with either of them)

has it really been this long?

I really need to get myself in gear and remember to post; I was entirely unaware that it has been an entire month since I last let you all know I am alive and well! Can you believe it? I made a promise to update more and I keep taking these extended breaks...I need to get myself together here!
Forgive me for the long silence, I just seem to forget that time flies so quickly! I have lots of new and exciting things to share over here, tons of thrifting and little trips and films I saw and future plans I made, but right now I actually have to get my ass in gear and write some reports for work that I have put off for nearly two weeks (!!!). You see, I am just a terrible procrastinator, someone should really yell at me daily to make sure I get everything done that needs to be.
I will make a tentative promise that I will post a large collection of the finds of the past month come next weekend, but if I don't then I guess yell at me? Send me hate mail? Wait a bit more?
I don't ask too much, do I? ;)

don't think twice, it's alright

OK, so I guess spring is sort of getting into my head. All I've been thinking of is blues and whites and light gray, although It's frigid out in dear old Connecticut. I think I've been influenced most by the sweetest little look books that come out about this time of year, and I'm not complaining! I was able to sneak a mini day trip to Manhattan on Friday with my mom, and I think I can safely say that I can find my way around now, with little use of a map! Very exciting, haha. Well I dragged her to two stores, Anthropologie and Urban outfitters, with the intention of hunting down that blue dress in the above photograph and a pair of flats, and managed to limit myself to getting only 4 things, 3 of which were on super sale ( and no, they didn't have what I wanted in store, darn). Savvy shopper right here. Although I managed to get two impractical summery blouses (including that Pins and Needles one above, at a discount too, from Urban; so adorable and soft). I got home and ordered the dress online since it's been in my head for weeks; I'm a sucker for a sweet back detail. If it's as nice in real life I think I'll just live in it for the rest of the semester! I also have another two blouses that I got today at Anthropologie near my school; I got a 15% off coupon and wanted to get something special for my birthday. I'll show those off in a separate post though; they deserve their own spotlight!
Off to do some homework...I hate being in school, haha

i heart grandpa sweaters

There are few things out there that make me as happy as finding an awesomely warm, comfy sweater. So finding six of them for just $25? I was ecstatic!
So guess who will be warm and toasty for the remainder of the winter? Check it :)

Thank you, thrifting god! Not only did I score all these for way under the price I would pay for even one sweater at Anthropologie, but I also found a vintage hat thingy with a fur bow; too cute!

While I'm at it, I might as well show off some of my birthday loot (shameless, I know, but it's all too good not to share!) Oh, and I'll stop saying sweaters now, lol.

Quirky rings ftw! I'm really into interesting silver jewellery at the moment, and these were just what I was looking for.

And I added to my growing perfume collection. Rollerball Daisy! Lola! And I just discovered Stella Nude, which smells really great too :)

I go back to school on Monday, can you believe it? A whole month has gone by! Jeez! Until next time :)

take me out tonight, because i want to see people and i want to see life

I guess it's shameful that this will be my first post of 2010, two weeks after the fact, but I promise that I wanted to post! I've just been in a bit of a funk lately. I'm still trying to get used to the whole not living at home thing, and it's difficult, but I know I'll get over it eventually.

OK, well while I was being a neglectful blogger my birthday, January 10th, rolled around and I turned 19! This is another thing that totally blows my mind; I can't believe I'm in the last year of being a teenager, it's too weird!

I had a little party and though I'd share it with you. I had so much fun baking red velvet cupcakes, blowing bubbles, playing vintage dress up ( and finally getting to see some of my vintage pieces in action on my friends), and finally sitting down and catching up with everyone. We ate too much food and just chilled, and I hope to do it again soon; it was far too long since we all hung out like that! Here's an awful photograph of my birthday dress. I got it for Christmas off of Etsy; it's a vintage pink 50s dress with pin tuck detailing and a tuxedo-like front and a pleated skirt. It's too cute hanging on my wall.

So it was a great day, and I couldn't think of a better way to celebrate my birthday than with friends :)

(Oh, and I got Lola by Marc Jacobs and the tentacle ring! Thank you so much Mom and Dad!)

my fingertips are holding onto the cracks in our foundations

Hello and happy (belated) holidays! I am probably the worst blogger in the history of man; all the time I've been off so far has consisted of me sleeping in too late, getting too much coffee, and

generally avoiding posting because I wanted to put up something decent before the end of the year! Idiotic, I know, so here I am, with a crappy little self portrait I drew last night at 1 am, just because I was bored, haha.

So, if anybody is still out there, did you get everything you wanted for the holiday? I did pretty well, but I nearly cried when the boots from anthropologie came out of their pretty white box and refused to go on my not so pretty giantess's feet...I warn you to order a size up if anyone was intending on getting them! I think they are marked a 40, which is a 9 (I think) but the store says that is a ten...which means I can't even exchange them for a bigger size because they don't come bigger...bahh it makes me so mad, they were perfect! Someone please cut off my toes so I can wear them? Yes? No? Alright I'll just exchange them for something nearly as awesome...bah.

OK, I won't make any promises that I can't swear by, but I am pretty sure that I'll be better at this whole blogging thing in the new year! Look, a resolution that I can keep!

If I don't see you, happy end-of-the-first-decade that I can actually remember (I was too young to truly remember the nineties, haha). And I'll be turning 19 on January 10, can you believe it? The end of my teenage years is a year and three days away...that's so depressing!

p.s. I got some much needed itunes giftcards and last night at around 3 am I bought myself the 500 Days of Summer soundtrack-go out and do it too, it's awesome! And that isn't even the sleep deprived crazy girl talking, just listen to it, it's great :)

UPDATE: here's another drawing I made the other night, this time of my friend jen, who is my most stylish, world-traveling, cool friend :)