Sometimes, we learn things best when we learn them the hard way. My Mom and sister whisked me away one afternoon in search of thai food (which we thoroughly enjoyed at Chinoise, down the street) and then, onward to one ...
Yet again, my Google Feed Reader has made me yearn for something completely out of my typical interests. This time, it hails from The Owls Are Not What They Seem - a blog near and dear to my heart not ...
The only two ways I know that summer is coming are: a) it's Memorial Day and that usually means that the end of May is here, and b) it's been in the low-to-mid 60's in Seattle. Without those two facts, ...
I have a confession to made: I have a bigtime shoe crush on a fellow blogger['s shoes]. Ever since I started reading ThinkThruFashion by Sydne Summer, i've enjoyed watching her rock her monthly staples, and her absolute diligence for daily ...
I'm trying to be more disciplined. While my busy life works best with a schedule - my main "blog work" days are Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday evening, and Monday nights are for doing nothing productive at all - ...
Yesterday afternoon I lost track of time in Nordstrom Rack. There were shelves and shelves of sunglasses, all on sale, and I couldn't resist. Sunnies in the kitchen. The sunglasses are by Fossil, which a friend told me is ...
All of the fashion magazines have explained to me, ad nauseum, that "the seventies are back," "the nineties are influencing fashion," and that I'd better get on board. And then they tell me that this - this - is trending: ...
The days are getting longer, the sun is starting to shine (intermittently, anyway) and I am still stuck on oxfords. The first pair I ever loved - and you always remember your first - were my Miz Mooz Histerics, and ...
I'm in a period in my life where everything is up in the air, my options are limited, and I have too few answers. (Jen, you are so dramatic!) So when things just come together, life is good. Who knew ...
Remember the now-defunct Broke & Beautiful Sale Calendar? If you do, mad props - that's old-school! For new kids, it was a comprehensive calendar that logged all of the sample sales for each day across all sites. Bear in mind, ...
God, am I ready for spring. Scratch that: I'm ready for summer. Spring in Seattle is cold and wet (even into May) and the lack of Vitamin D leaves me bored with my "it's gross outside" clothing options, and frustrated ...
Power. I've been thinking about it a lot lately: who has it, what it means, why it matters. I've been thinking about all the kinds of power there are in the world and, when forceful push comes to mighty shove, ...
I've been enjoying the little details in my clothes lately. (Those are my lace Kushyfoot socks - they are my FAVORITE. They have a big, fat, squishy pillow right under the ball of my foot - built in to the ...
Don't get me wrong, I love my job. It is maybe the best job ever... But that doesn't stop work from piling up and giving me a sad. This is helping me get through the day today: The Eighties Nope, ...
I love the "Add to Cart" button as much as the next avid shoe/bag/dress-lover. Trust me, there was a time in my life when I was swimming in cash (& subsequently1 debt) when I would surf Zappos and just chuck whatever ...
The scene: a typical Seattle pre-Spring day. It's cold, it's windy, and at any moment it could rain...but the sky is clear and the sun is bright. Which means I should wear a coat; I just don't wanna. One winter, ...
Poof, 200 readers lost, just with the title of this post. The 150 who are hovering over the release button - hear me out. If you're the same kind of "broke" I am, you're not hopping into your conveniently-parked, easy-to-drive, ...
Fashion Week has always been full of the hyper-professional and hyper-ambitious, most of whom have worked their asses off to get tickets to their favorite show. In the last decade, with the rise of blogging, digital media and the creativity ...
I've had a day or so away from fashion week, being dumb and migrainey, and the first collection I saw this afternoon was lackluster. (Sorry, Isaac Mizrahi, but the concept...and the poodles...didn't make up for it what I consider a ...
Marc Jacobs sent layers and layers of dots down the runway - also layers and layers of... socks? As for the shoes - I can't believe I love Marc Jacobs shoes. Never once have I liked MJ shoes. He's funky, ...