thursday is the new friday

i have tomorrow off, thank goodness. it has been a hard week.

here's a fun little "chill out" outfit inspired by items from the delias catalog that came this week   :) {with a few additions... and i worked a shot-sleeved cardi in there, hey!}   i thought i had outgrown delias, guess not. nice.

sources {here}

don't drink and text

found these on etsy. SO HILARIOUS. and exactly the kind of thing I want to design/market someday.

in other news, ate at black river this morning (the restaurant i work in) and danny devito and rita pearlman came in to eat. why is it that i have never seen a celebrity in nyc, and i've seen several in oberlin, oh? we were really good about not paying attention to them, cause i hate when people bother celebs... except when we started playing snaps and juliana snapped out "d-a-n-n" and i was like... subtle.

{found tags here}

shorty

totally into short-sleeved cardigans right now. especially this sweet little jcrew gem (granted, i love just about anything jcrew dishes out...) they'd be great for light spring layers, don't you think? or is a short-sleeved sweater just silly?

{anthropologie}

{forever 21}

tuesday treasures

i'm loving the earrings in MAYA & RUHI's etsy shop, especially these:



she also has a pretty cute blog. check it out: http://www.mayaruhi.blogspot.com/

bad day

woke up to snow. in APRIL.  showered. coffee got burnt. hair looked really good and curly. trekked through sleet and snow to doctor. doctor appt. had been cancelled and they had failed to call me. could not reschedule for 10 days even though had waited 4 weeks for this appt. trekked back in rain/sleet/snow.

hair ruined. coffee cold. clothes soaking wet.



found print on etsy to match my mood.

cannot wait to leave oberlin, oh.

sunday best

here is my spring inspired look for the week :) the bag reminded me of an Easter egg hehe, that was my starting point for this one. i still need an actual Easter outfit though... and sadly it will not include Valentino shoes. {sources here}

color splash!

i have been realizing recently how boring i am with colors, or my lack-there-of. so i've been trying to add a little color to my style. starting with a beautiful new target bag: (on sale for 11 dollars!!!)

and also, some very springy tanks from american eagle:

also, on sale. and in shameless plugs for my college-town, check out the book: happens every day by isabel gillies. it's on the best seller list and is a true story about a a professor here leaving his wife for another professor.

{count it: 1 target 2 american eagle outfitters}

amazing read. (and, all of it occurred when I was a sophomore.)

happy friday!

this made me smile. maybe because there have been similar pictures of me and K... well, in so much as the pictures included 2 girls and an Amtrak train. we would never have been quite that stylish...



from {here} found {here}

and in honor of the opening weekend of Baseball (wonderful baseball!):

sunny

saw this post and pic on coco+kelley today:



exactly my inspiration for my spring graduation wear (Kelsey's and Meghan's...) this is what i have so far:



the dress is mine-- i got it on sale, with a sale on sale discount. which was thrilling to me. the shoes are still just a dream. these are at the top of the list:

and although i am head over heels  they may be a little over budget. no worries, i have a cost saving option as well: however i can't show you right now b/c the payless website is down.

(yes payless is the reason i can own so many pairs of shoes and still put food on the table...) :)

serena van der woodsen: it's called a hairbrush.

sorry. i know this blog is about inspiration and design, but i wanted to post about something that is the opposite of inspiring.

it's called: Serena Van Der Woodsen: BRUSH YOUR HAIR

here is a sreencap from the 3/30 episode of Gossip Girl: Remains of the J--



nope. she was not just in a car accident. nor did she just have sex, or fall from a 5-story building. THIS WAS AN INTENTIONAL HAIR-DO.

But I think I may know where the inspiration came from:

only difference: drew barrymore actually stuck her finger in an outlet before attending the golden globes 2009 (or so one would be led to believe)

{images:  1 gossipgirlonline 2 beautyprodivision }