Corks and Caftans

[Maeve stained glass skirt from Anthro + vintage Army t-shirt from VintageTrends.com + Club Monaco hoops (ShopBop) + Motif 99 cuff (ShopBop) + Vanessa Mooney rings and bracelets.] I have started and stopped writing this post so many times over the last 3 months. I’ve written the lines in my head in the shower in [...]

[Sam and Lavi neon button-up + Current/Elliott elephant bells + Vanessa Mooney turquoise & wood bead necklace.] The best neon. Most popular. Best couple (with turquoise). The best drape. Renaissance woman.

[Antique turquoise squash blossom necklace + Lillia's Closet robe + a rare stress-free moment.] I was raised up believing I was somehow unique / Like a snowflake distinct among snowflakes / Unique in each way you can see. And now, after some thinking / I’d say I’d rather be a functioning cog in some great machinery / [...]

[Daughters of the Liberation army jacket + vintage pins + Vanessa Mooney pendant + Deena & Ozzy hat + Title Unknown dashiki t + some bellbottom cords don't remembah.] On the second day of Chris-mas, I waxed poetic about the South and channeled Lieutenant Dan, because that’s rock and roll—the intersection of grit and glory, [...]

It enclosed us in its laceries as we watched the moon spill across the Atlantic like wine from an overturned glass. With the light all around us, we felt secret in that moon-infused water like pearls forming in the soft tissues of oysters. – Pat Conroy, Beach Music Oh, this book… this book. Take me [...]

[J.Crew Panama hat + Made with Love bracelets + Bella Dahl chambray.]

[Finding a moment of sheer happiness alone in the new house: winding down after a party in Leifsdottir dress + Scorah Pattulo heels + Gara Danielle turquoise beads n' things. Note the fish on the dress, not the fish we had yet to hang.] I’m pretty sure there’s a little control room in my brain, [...]

[Brunch gear today: Eloise silk bathrobe, worn as jacket + ShopBop Bop basics dress + antique squash blossom necklace & cuff + Jeffrey Campbell booties + House of Harlow antler ring.]

[Anthropologie silk romper + Sam Edelman booties + Splendid cardi + PONO cuff, Robyn Rhodes pendant.] Getting a little sultrified in the kitchen, apparently. Which seems odd, considering I’m in a ruffly, floral one-piece.

[Urban Outfitters dashiki t-shirt you should get + maxi skirt + Miu Miu platforms + jiffy feet.] Post-work V&Ts on the porch! Can’t emphasize this enough. 

Well, now I have to buy one. Or all. This is pretty rad: local jewelry designer and all around bodacious lady Rachel Albright’s Academy Jewelry dipped coral necklaces are going global via retail monolith, and furnisher of many a C+C moment, Anthropologie. There I was, just fussing around folding shirts, when I saw the sign [...]

[Illia caftan + vintage ring + Minnetonka mocassins.] Just popping out on a warm night to split a burger and a beer around the corner on Strawberry Street. I love the ombre grey on this little baby—helpful in undie-hiding efforts, too. And it makes me want to be seaside on the Mediterranean. Now! God, I [...]