constant changes

LOVE your dress!

veronicalovesarchie:

I have a friend’s birthday dinner tonight - this calls for wearing something other than havaianas and shorts. I think I will go with this. Head to toe brought to you by recent Singapore holiday purchases.

i kind of feel the same.  maybe i’m wrong - in that case, i need to make a pronto H&M stop - but aren’t you losing one of the best jimmy choo features with the discount line, the comfort?  for ex, i love manolos (manolos!  does anyone wear those anymore?  i’m so freaking old.) not for style - mine are conservative work shoes - but because they are super comfortable.  i guess this is why i never understood the target GO line — i love anna sui, for ex, for the stitching and gorgeous textiles.  how can they maintain that quality at $39.99?

but what do i know.  today is Day 4 in tank top and leggings.

and those zebra flats?  i’m kind of drooling over them.  a little.

sarazucker:

géraldine of café mode reviewed the jimmy choo for h&m collection that everyone has been talking about. racked attended the opening and documented what seemed to be ultimate chaos. to be honest, i could care less about yet another diffusion line of crap quality and inflated prices. i’m sick and cranky.

Used to be a plate of sweet potato (oven-baked) fries with olive oil, sea salt, and paprika, a.k.a. I just ate TWO sweet potatoes! (I make no claims on this plate - it came with the Sean package.).

Not much to look at now but used to be filled with yogurt, apple bits, and homemade granola (courtesy of M-I-L - thanks!!). Yummy in my tummy.

while looking for an air purifier the other week, i came across a design award-winning contraption which was basically a plastic container with a houseplant inside and an air filter that pulls air in towards the houseplant.  the idea being that the CO2 in the air is converted to O2 by the plant.

oh, i thought it was so so cool and quickly went through most of the purchasing steps until i realized, wait, wouldn’t a room full of plants do the same thing?  o, clever tricksters.

these pocket wall planters are pretty rad.  and $49 as opposed to $199.

-via sprout home

BONUS - just realized that there is a camouflage cat in the picture.  how cool is that?

you’d think with two elders* as parents we’d be more christmas-y, but nope, as christ followers, my parents eschew over-consuming and try to live a frugal life full of charity.  i know, booooring.

so, no new trees with a ton of presents for us.  our plastic tree, if it’s still around, is about 1.5 feet tall, prepackaged with fiber optic-y lights, ready to plug-n-play.  the neon wonder made an annual appearance for about 10 years before we decided to cut the charade of christmas being a huge deal in our family outside of the religious significance.  presents?  hahahaha - don’t you know that’s not a big part of the christian holiday?

actually, i’m on board with a lot of that — the sharing and caring, that’s cool, but the i-want christmas lists, the buying, buying, buying, that’s kind of gross, no?  my parents attend service, have coffee with friends, and call it a day.

nice, but not a good source for a new nintendo game.  man, i used to be so jealous of the hanukkah kids with EIGHT days of presents.

but sean’s family, the anti-establishment yogaville hippies?  LOVES christmas.  not the christ was born to die for your sins so you may gain everlasting life part, no, the brunch and opening presents part.  so funny.  and really nice, too.  (except when the present opening part lasts 3 hours in addition to the 2 hours of brunch, which can be nerve-wracking when you have to meet a billable requirement by 12/31.  then it’s an odd mixture of lovely!-argh!.)  soon, when there are diaper poopers in the mix, o, christmas with the fjords will be it.

if sean and i do a tree next year, these would be cool ornaments.

-via etsy

* an elder is a position in the methodist church.

dearest sean,

if our plan A doesn’t work out, this little mini piggy would make a great plan B.

love,

yours truly

via science blogs

a new bar, the passenger, opens tonight - which would be non-news for our household except that the joint serves a must-try food item: kimchi hot dogs.

yummmm.

so lovely, especially the rectangley door that matches the wallpaper i’ve picked out for our bathroom.  but at 2475 pounds, the price tag has one too many digits.  could even remove the smallest number, 2, and rearrange the rest to get the highest number, 754 pounds, and i would be okay.  maybe the store has a suggestion box.

via pinch

“competition yoga” — miss the point much?

-via ny times

Helping our contractor pick out stuff for the basement apartment bathroom renovation. Made sure to pick out makeup application-friendly lights in case Drew feels like going drag.

sorry for your loss, bethenny.

- obituary of bobby frankel via ny times

Package from M-I-L!!! Cookies, cupcakes, and other goodies. Yay!! (Do I have to share if the box was addressed only to me?)