Wednesday, December 28, 2011
Riverside
Hello my dears!
I'm off to dinner with one of my most dearest of friends this evening. Just wanted to stop by and leave you with this beautiful song by the lovely Agnes Obel. Hope you had a most merry and blissful Christmas!
Adoringly,
Yours
Saturday, December 24, 2011
Let Your Heart Be Light!
Merry Christmas Eve, my dears!
It's happened again, and Christmas is upon us already! I have no complaints this year however, as I feel I squeezed just about every ounce of Christmas out of this season as humanly possible - I feel so blessed and joyful.
As anyone close to me knows, I am about as Christmasy as a person can be. I listen to Christmas music from the moment Halloween is over onwards - I adore it. What other time of year do perfect strangers wish each other a "merry" day? We live in a beautiful world, but one which is also very broken, and it can seem a weary place. This time of year is always such a breath of fresh air when radios cease to sing about da' club (unless T-Pain has a Christmas album I don't know about) and most other "every day" things, and instead sing of peace, joy, and cozy, tree-laden houses. I absolutely do adore it. Most of all, it's a wonderful time for me to reflect on the meaning of it all: when Love came down to Earth and our Savior was born.
So, now that it's here, I hope you are all snug as a bug in a rug with your families and that you count each and every one of your blessings :)
Here is my very first What-She-Wore posts (a new, but familiar to the blogging world tradition for my little blog). So here we're gonna baby go!
Outfit details: Dress - Forever 21, Blazer - Urban Outfitters, Brooch - Vintage, Necklace - Gifted to me from Etsy (Thank you, Chels!), Stockings/Shoes - Fred Meyer (College student, people ;) ), Lipstick - see post below ;)
I hope you all have yourselves a merry little Christmas!
Adoringly,
Yours
It's happened again, and Christmas is upon us already! I have no complaints this year however, as I feel I squeezed just about every ounce of Christmas out of this season as humanly possible - I feel so blessed and joyful.
As anyone close to me knows, I am about as Christmasy as a person can be. I listen to Christmas music from the moment Halloween is over onwards - I adore it. What other time of year do perfect strangers wish each other a "merry" day? We live in a beautiful world, but one which is also very broken, and it can seem a weary place. This time of year is always such a breath of fresh air when radios cease to sing about da' club (unless T-Pain has a Christmas album I don't know about) and most other "every day" things, and instead sing of peace, joy, and cozy, tree-laden houses. I absolutely do adore it. Most of all, it's a wonderful time for me to reflect on the meaning of it all: when Love came down to Earth and our Savior was born.
So, now that it's here, I hope you are all snug as a bug in a rug with your families and that you count each and every one of your blessings :)
Here is my very first What-She-Wore posts (a new, but familiar to the blogging world tradition for my little blog). So here we're gonna baby go!
Outfit details: Dress - Forever 21, Blazer - Urban Outfitters, Brooch - Vintage, Necklace - Gifted to me from Etsy (Thank you, Chels!), Stockings/Shoes - Fred Meyer (College student, people ;) ), Lipstick - see post below ;)I hope you all have yourselves a merry little Christmas!
Adoringly,
Yours
Wednesday, December 21, 2011
Four More Sleeps!
Hello my dears!
Stopping by with a bit of glee to say - only four more sleeps until Christmas!
Things have been so busy, but I'm determined to keep up this little blog (and no, this is not a new year's resolution ;) )! So, I will stick with the sweet and simple posts for now, and leave the longer posts for the doldrums which is January.
Lately, I have been challenging myself to step outside my comfort zone and wear lipstick. I am already beyond addicted to Burt's Bees chapstick, but that extra zap of lipstick color has always intimidated me. After much magazine perusing and Sephora shopping, I have finally come up with something that works for me: clean makeup, only mascara for eyes, and L'oreal Paris lipstick in Volcanic. I decided to start off with a drugstore brand before committing to a Sephora purchase, but I'm so in love with the orangy-red color that I am now determined to find a more lasting color. Every girl needs her perfect shade, as evidenced by Holly Golightly - am I right, ladies?
Adoringly,
Yours
Stopping by with a bit of glee to say - only four more sleeps until Christmas!
Things have been so busy, but I'm determined to keep up this little blog (and no, this is not a new year's resolution ;) )! So, I will stick with the sweet and simple posts for now, and leave the longer posts for the doldrums which is January.
Lately, I have been challenging myself to step outside my comfort zone and wear lipstick. I am already beyond addicted to Burt's Bees chapstick, but that extra zap of lipstick color has always intimidated me. After much magazine perusing and Sephora shopping, I have finally come up with something that works for me: clean makeup, only mascara for eyes, and L'oreal Paris lipstick in Volcanic. I decided to start off with a drugstore brand before committing to a Sephora purchase, but I'm so in love with the orangy-red color that I am now determined to find a more lasting color. Every girl needs her perfect shade, as evidenced by Holly Golightly - am I right, ladies?
Adoringly,
Yours
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Nothing Like It! (Glitter nail polish, that is)
Monday, December 12, 2011
Out of Hibernation (Yet again)
Hello my dears!
I'm going to hop, skip, and jump my way over the elephant in the room (elephant being: why oh why haven't you posted since the Dark Ages?). Ahem. I'm doing a reversal of hibernation by awakening to cyberspace before the snow comes; I'm so very happy to be back :)
That being said, I will ease into the blogging world quite mildly, leaving you only with some words to make you feel smitten, and a promise to be back shortly:
Adoringly,
Yours
p.s. I hope all your trees are trimmed and your tummies are full of mini gingerbread men.
I'm going to hop, skip, and jump my way over the elephant in the room (elephant being: why oh why haven't you posted since the Dark Ages?). Ahem. I'm doing a reversal of hibernation by awakening to cyberspace before the snow comes; I'm so very happy to be back :)
That being said, I will ease into the blogging world quite mildly, leaving you only with some words to make you feel smitten, and a promise to be back shortly:
"I will have poetry in my life. And adventure. And love. Love above all. No... not the artful postures of love, not playful and poetical games of love for the amusement of an evening, but love that... overthrows life. Unbiddable, ungovernable - like a riot in the heart, and nothing to be done, come ruin or rapture. Love - like there has never been in a play."- Shakespeare In Love
Adoringly,
Yours
p.s. I hope all your trees are trimmed and your tummies are full of mini gingerbread men.
Monday, April 18, 2011
Panini Love
Happy April, my dears!
As of late, I have neglected my blog; and for that, I am truly sorry. I hope you’re sitting somewhere comfy with a cup of something to drink, for I feel this entry may turn out to be a humdinger in length. Bear with me, if you please.
So these past few months for me have been filled with a deepening sense of singleness – in every sense of the word (Oh, the quagmire of life!). The sky has been composed of one single entity - grey clouds. Even the trees have consisted solely of the singleness of bare limbs. But now, with the arrival of spring, I seem to be experiencing everything in couplets, for better or for worse.
For example: the sky is now sun and sky. The trees are now limbs and leaves and blossoms. The beverage is now coffee and ice. Bodies are shedding their warmer clothes and flaunting arms and toes. Couplets. In addition to these natural duos that bring a lighter step to my life, there also seems to be an organic influx of Homo sapiens couples as well.
Now, I myself am a sentimental fool, a hopeless romantic. While I consider this to be a charming facet to any personality, it has it's downsides. Even on the sunniest of days in my merriest of moods, my wintery singleness seems out of place in a season overflowing with couplets. On such days as these, I find myself irrationally restless and filled with wanderlust. This attitude is only ever quenched if I set out alone and let The Sound of Music influence me as I set about doing a few of my favorite things. And so, such was my day, and I’d like very much to share with you how I set about, and how this lead to Panini love. (This post is sans pictures, which is probably for the best, because there are no pictures great enough to satisfy the mind, and the mind is what I spent my day with.) Here goes.
The first half of my day was spent driving to a park on the outskirts of Seattle, parking my car, and reading by the Lake with my windows rolled down. Here are some couplets I experienced:
Girl & Unicycle
Grass & Dandelions
Gulls & Sweeping Air
Lips & Straw
Lapping Waves & Dock
Strangers & Smiles
Dillard & Wristwatch
Hat & Tangled hair
Bench & Lovers
Sunroof & Open skies
Laughter & Boom box
Simon & Garfunkel
For the second part of my afternoon, I drove up a hill with such a sharp incline that I can only compare it to that of San Francisco, where a natural market exists. I found this market on previous days of wandering – they have brilliant German pretzels that have claimed my heart and taste-buds.
I decided to go with a Panini, and here is where my story begins and ends. As I’ve mentioned, I was feeling a heavy sense of singleness today, even down to the fact that the majority of humanity often seems so single-minded – so me-centered. I am not exempt from this by any means. Regardless, as I ordered my Panini, the man who served it to me flashed me a terrifically genuine smile and asked me which one I would like. When I said “Surprise me,” he responded, “Ok, turn around no peeking!” He then went on to toast it, because it would be “Cheese-melted wonderfulness.” When I came back five minutes later to grab it, he told me it was looking good, but another minute and it would be melted to a fabulous state. We chit-chatted until it was finally done, he grabbed some napkins, handed it to me, and told me to enjoy my Panini.
Call it flirting, call it being good at your job, but I call it a smashing example of going above the singleness to show an endangered emotion: caring. I feel that we oftentimes underestimate the power of being as friendly or genuinely caring as possible, most especially to the people who pass in and out of our lives in a matter of minutes. Nothing is coincidental; nothing is purposeless.
Panini man reminded me to exude love to every passerby, stranger, and dear one in my life. Everyone holds secret sorrows, as my grandmother used to say, and if we can’t show another love, if even a stranger, then what really is the point of it all?
Just some food for thought, my dears. Thank you for reading along, I sincerely wish you the most lovely of evenings.
Adoringly,
Yours
As of late, I have neglected my blog; and for that, I am truly sorry. I hope you’re sitting somewhere comfy with a cup of something to drink, for I feel this entry may turn out to be a humdinger in length. Bear with me, if you please.
So these past few months for me have been filled with a deepening sense of singleness – in every sense of the word (Oh, the quagmire of life!). The sky has been composed of one single entity - grey clouds. Even the trees have consisted solely of the singleness of bare limbs. But now, with the arrival of spring, I seem to be experiencing everything in couplets, for better or for worse.
For example: the sky is now sun and sky. The trees are now limbs and leaves and blossoms. The beverage is now coffee and ice. Bodies are shedding their warmer clothes and flaunting arms and toes. Couplets. In addition to these natural duos that bring a lighter step to my life, there also seems to be an organic influx of Homo sapiens couples as well.
Now, I myself am a sentimental fool, a hopeless romantic. While I consider this to be a charming facet to any personality, it has it's downsides. Even on the sunniest of days in my merriest of moods, my wintery singleness seems out of place in a season overflowing with couplets. On such days as these, I find myself irrationally restless and filled with wanderlust. This attitude is only ever quenched if I set out alone and let The Sound of Music influence me as I set about doing a few of my favorite things. And so, such was my day, and I’d like very much to share with you how I set about, and how this lead to Panini love. (This post is sans pictures, which is probably for the best, because there are no pictures great enough to satisfy the mind, and the mind is what I spent my day with.) Here goes.
The first half of my day was spent driving to a park on the outskirts of Seattle, parking my car, and reading by the Lake with my windows rolled down. Here are some couplets I experienced:
Girl & Unicycle
Grass & Dandelions
Gulls & Sweeping Air
Lips & Straw
Lapping Waves & Dock
Strangers & Smiles
Dillard & Wristwatch
Hat & Tangled hair
Bench & Lovers
Sunroof & Open skies
Laughter & Boom box
Simon & Garfunkel
For the second part of my afternoon, I drove up a hill with such a sharp incline that I can only compare it to that of San Francisco, where a natural market exists. I found this market on previous days of wandering – they have brilliant German pretzels that have claimed my heart and taste-buds.
I decided to go with a Panini, and here is where my story begins and ends. As I’ve mentioned, I was feeling a heavy sense of singleness today, even down to the fact that the majority of humanity often seems so single-minded – so me-centered. I am not exempt from this by any means. Regardless, as I ordered my Panini, the man who served it to me flashed me a terrifically genuine smile and asked me which one I would like. When I said “Surprise me,” he responded, “Ok, turn around no peeking!” He then went on to toast it, because it would be “Cheese-melted wonderfulness.” When I came back five minutes later to grab it, he told me it was looking good, but another minute and it would be melted to a fabulous state. We chit-chatted until it was finally done, he grabbed some napkins, handed it to me, and told me to enjoy my Panini.
Call it flirting, call it being good at your job, but I call it a smashing example of going above the singleness to show an endangered emotion: caring. I feel that we oftentimes underestimate the power of being as friendly or genuinely caring as possible, most especially to the people who pass in and out of our lives in a matter of minutes. Nothing is coincidental; nothing is purposeless.
Panini man reminded me to exude love to every passerby, stranger, and dear one in my life. Everyone holds secret sorrows, as my grandmother used to say, and if we can’t show another love, if even a stranger, then what really is the point of it all?
Just some food for thought, my dears. Thank you for reading along, I sincerely wish you the most lovely of evenings.
Adoringly,
Yours
Sunday, March 27, 2011
Thoughts Ahead
G'Evening, Dears!
Today was filled with polka-dot balloons, streamers, brownies, and giggles, as we celebrated my beautiful Mommy's birthday. It left me giddy with excitement for the next several spring months of hopeful picnics, garden parties, and sunshine.
Thought I'd share a couple of happy things I'm anticipating once the weather decides to cooperate:
~ The sun itself. Oh, and the sea, always the sea ~
~ Shakespeare in the park, my seasonal joy ~
~ Picnics with delightful foods and beverages ~
~ Taking this little man and his sister to the Zoo ~
~ Baseball games - nothing more nostalgic, nothing happier ~
Also not represented here are farmer's markets, concerts in the park, berry-picking, water-wading, walk-taking, flower-gathering, book-reading, sun-tanning, toe-nail-painting, mountain-hiking, and a plethora of other mirthful things.
Adoringly,
Yours
Today was filled with polka-dot balloons, streamers, brownies, and giggles, as we celebrated my beautiful Mommy's birthday. It left me giddy with excitement for the next several spring months of hopeful picnics, garden parties, and sunshine.
Thought I'd share a couple of happy things I'm anticipating once the weather decides to cooperate:
~ The sun itself. Oh, and the sea, always the sea ~
~ Shakespeare in the park, my seasonal joy ~
~ Picnics with delightful foods and beverages ~
~ Taking this little man and his sister to the Zoo ~
~ Baseball games - nothing more nostalgic, nothing happier ~
Also not represented here are farmer's markets, concerts in the park, berry-picking, water-wading, walk-taking, flower-gathering, book-reading, sun-tanning, toe-nail-painting, mountain-hiking, and a plethora of other mirthful things.
Adoringly,
Yours
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