Your Nautical and Coffee Obsessed Best Friend: From Travel to Fashion and Everything in between
"People keep asking me if I am having more fun, being blonde, but I always have fun! Whether I'm blonde, redhead, or brunette! I always have fun." ~ Kelly Clarkson Some links are affiliated on no extra cost to you, but I do receive a small commission that helps my coffee addiction and keeps this [...]
"For me, my favorite trends of summer are lots of color, wedges, rompers and bright lipstick." ~ Janel Parrish Shopping For Rompers I have mentioned before about my albite first world struggles, but you would think as a vertically challenged woman, I would have no problems finding a romper that fits. Alas rompers apparently hate [...]
"Polka dots are fabulous." ~ Yayoi Kusama Power of Polka Dots I am not a pattern gal. I typically shy away from them. The prints are to bold, and there is not enough versatility in my opinion. I like clothes that are essentially colorful blank spaces that I can accessorize to my hearts content. BUT. [...]
"Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower." ~ Hans Christian Andersen Spring Has Sprung Guys, I think finally, FINALLY, Spring is here! While I have been in a battle of epic proportions for all that is good and just to wear Summer dresses and espadrilles, over the evil [...]
"I would wear a full-length cape if I could get away with it - I do love a good swirl in a fog." ~ Martin Freeman The Cape Kimonos, vests, ponchos and capes, are my go to fashion accessories. If it is flowy and offers a semblance of warmth while still being fashionable, I am [...]
"Never give up. And most importantly, be true to yourself. Write from your heart, in your own voice, and about what you believe in." ~ Louise Brown Ten Years First, Holy Expletive! Ten years! Ten years I have put myself through this torture. Ten years of word sprints, hundreds upon thousands of words, (over five [...]
"Designers want me to dress like Spring, in billowing things. I don't feel like Spring. I feel like a warm red Autumn." ~ Marilyn Monroe Fall Fashion Guys it finally FINALLY feels like Fall. (okay I am getting ahead of myself because it went back to the eighties this week, but beggars can not be [...]
"He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who dresses fashionably but wears no vest." ~ Walter Benjamin Not the sweater vest! Before you gasp in horror and start lambasting me because oh. em. gee. Sweater vests? and asking if this is the nineties (according to designers yes yes it is) or [...]
"Everyone should have a great leather jacket in their wardrobe. It is perfect to wear with a T-shirt and jeans and great pair of high tops." ~ Brad Goreski It gets colder and the leather breaks out. As a kid wearing leather was always edgy. It was the rule-breakers who wore it. Bikers and motorcyclists. [...]
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. Marcel Proust Philly Philly is a delightful smorgasbord of old and new which is shown in the stunning melding of it's architecture. Since I had explored the commercial side of Philly the day before, I could not wait to [...]