Adrienne Landau Hat | Dylan's Candy Bar Christmas Paint Can
It's tiiiiiiiime.
I am doing literally (and I do mean literally) all of my shopping right here on my couch this year, because despite the fact that I no longer have to brave icy roads and navigate my way through ten-thousand degree stores while wearing marshmallow-shaped coats, I have two children who enter stores and...well...do this.
Photographing holiday cocktails...on my bed. Of course.
(Recipe coming soon!)
Whenever I see bloggers post their beautifully framed shots of food or their jeans arranged just-so against white bedsheets on Instagram or wherever, I like to imagine what the scene *really* looked like when they were shooting it. Especially the food shots, because you know that they're literally standing up on a chair in a restaurant to get that perfect top-down angle - but really: it's interesting to imagine pulling back on just about any photo.
{ Orenchi Ramen | Santa Clara, California }
J. Crew Shirt | Zac Posen Bag c/o | Rebecca Minkoff Shoes (similar)
Everlane Turtleneck | Free People Jeans
I write a lot about how annoying my dogs are. There’s even an entire chapter in my second book dedicated to this subject.
They are. They're totally annoying. After experiencing the mailman coming to the door approximately 20,000 times over the course of his life, Virgil still does not believe that he is not trying to kill him. And Lucy licks my toes. Not in an aw-that-tickles way; in an obsessive way.
Grey Knit Hat (for women) | Smile Hat (for kids)
I was playing around with lighting and props for a shoot I have coming up, and took these test photos, and...I don't know, I just thought they came out well, so I wanted to show them to you. Sometimes it's nice to just look at a pretty photograph of flowers and pom poms.
On my drive down to LA, I started listening to a podcast - Elizabeth Gilbert's Magic Lessons, in which she discusses the process of exploring (and hopefully unleashing) your creativity. (I'm aware that this does not appear to have anything at all to do with the aforementioned flowers and hats, but bear with me, because I do have a point here.)
It's the most wonderful caaaarb of the yearrrr.
(Seriously this sweatshirt is my everything.)
It's been about a month and a half since Erin and I opened glam | camp's metaphorical doors, and it's going...surprisingly well, actually. E-commerce, as I was told by virtually everyone who I mentioned the shop to, is a notoriously hard (verging-on-impossible) arena to break into, mostly because there's just so much stuff out there on the Internet to buy - and so many options for where to buy it - that in order for someone to decide to buy *your* product on *your* site a whole lot of pieces have to fall into place.
I finally (finally fiiiiinally) went ahead and threw out the bra that left my best friend traumatized. (It had to happen; if I went to visit her one more time with that sad, sad bra situation I had going on I think she might have disowned me.)
Anyway, it's all better now! Whew. Head over to SheKnows to check out the three gorgeous (like, gorgeous) sets that I keep in constant rotation these days (and to enter to win a beautiful - and comfortable! - Embrace Lace T-Shirt Bra).
P.S. The bra pictured in these photos - Wacoal's Embrace Lace Underwire Bra in black and gold - is my absolute favorite. More shots here.
In my family, "pie" means "apple pie." Especially on holidays: an apple pie (specifically my unscrewupable version, which was handed down from my mom) is just what's getting made. Except more pie is good pie, and so I always make a second pie that's...something else. Usually pumpkin, because pumpkin seems obvious. But this year, for our Friendsgiving, I wanted to make something a little more decadent and fancy-looking...except given my history with baking, I figured a test-run was in order so as not to leave our friends who braved holiday traffic sitting around our dinner table all pie-less because I effed something up.
Little confession: I didn't actually make this pie; my son (who - heart swell heart swell - has announced that the "wants to cook things" when he grows up) did. (Minus the actual reading-of-instructions part, because he is four.)
And CHECK IT OUT.
I discovered this bronzer-and-blush duo on Francesca's makeup table and fell in love. Mostly love that you can get it at the drugstore (or here) for around $25.
Madewell's gift guide is a good one, if you're looking to get an early (well, earlyish) start.
I've been following Yale's Halloween Costume Drama obsessively. It highlights so much of exactly what's wrong with activist culture today. (The New Intolerance Of Student Activism, via The Atlantic.)
