lover of loving love

I love Alexa Chung! And Madewell. So this collaboration is a dream for me. As I said in an earlier post, I went to the event in LA for her debut collection last year and got a few choice pieces. This year is an even more lethal collection and I already have my eyes set on a couple pieces: The rust colored long sleeve dress (click the link below to see Alexa frolicking around in it!), the polka dot peter pan collar button up, the green plaid coat, and the navy chunky ribbed knit sweater! Not to mention the pouch (I have last year's as well).

Can't wait! I'm going to the event this year, too! Will I see you there?

Watch "Alexa Chung in 2011 Madewell Campaign" at New York Magazine




Also, I pretty recently got a tumblr going, though I don't go on as much as most. It's just for pretty little things I find, books I like, literary quotes, funny gifs... Friend me if you have one too! Denouement.

havin' a ball

I thought I'd let you all see what I have in my makeup bag, which isn't much in the way of makeup, since I suck at applying it and don't know what I'm doing. Mostly it's tinted lip balms and matches because you never know when you might need a match, right? And pain reliever because I get headaches a lot. The main feature is my Moleskine that I use for everything from short story ideas, shopping lists, doodles, notes, driving directions, etc. It's probably my tenth one and I just recently decided to keep it in my makeup bag because they always get messed up when they're just rolling around free in my satchel.

In my makeup bag:
pocket unlined leather Moleskine, Vanille eu de toilette (J's nieces say I smell like cotton candy/M&Ms), Bare Minerals lipstick in Sweet Apricot, MAC matte lipstick in Chili, Esse polish in Mambo, generic aspirin, Neutrogena tinted moisturizer with SPF 30 in light to medium (I don't use powder or foundation so this balances me out a bit), Carmex, eos lip balm in summer fruit (smells like apricot and is in a cute egg shape!), matches from a cute cafe in New York (the one that was in You've Got Mail!, Cafe Lalo), a Goody Ouchless hair tie, Neutrogena Rapid Clear blemish treater, Revlon Colorstay eyeliner in black brown (when I have work or somewhere fancy to go), honey lemon Ricola (I have a pesky cough right now), Neutrogena revitalizing lip balm in fresh plum, e.l.f. brow kit in medium (to fill in my gap in my brows; looks natural still though which I like)



Also, the makeup bag is the other standout feature because it was part of my free gift for going to the Alexa Chung for Madewell debut collection last fall at Century City Westfield Mall in LA. I'm planning on going to the next one this coming September, and I'm on the list for the event at the South Coast Plaza shopping center (if I don't win the contest for the event in LA, that is!)






Sally Jane Vintage

Here are the dresses I got last year! The Tennessee Velvet Dress and the Betty Tea Dress, and then a dress I didn't end up getting but wish I did. :) I love Madewell! And Alexa Chung.



Yesterday, I went to Fullerton to hang out with J's family, but before that we met up with my sisters to walk around downtown Fullerton and check out the home decor in the vintage shops down there. THEN, we went to Porto's in Downey to get some delicious baked treats, potato balls and cheese rolls! Both are amazing and tasty and pretty cheap too. My sisters got sandwiches as well, which were equally good.





Afterward, J and I were supposed to go to the beach with his nieces but just ended up going to the pool and swimming until it got dark, which I think is better than the beach anyway. The water was perfect and I played Marco Polo and Colors with the girls, and Parker, the youngest, gave me half of a best friends necklace, which fits me like a choker but I'm going to put it on a chain that's not meant for a 6 year old girl. :) She likes to call me Mimi, which J doesn't really like but I love it. She is such a doll. I love all of them.

yo la tengo + yo gabba gabba :)

I might just be the only one with a crush on Jason Sudeikis. I think it has a lot to do with the fact that he's the Jim Halpert of SNL. I guess I have a type (sometimes).


Record Store Day was kind of a bust this year because I really really wanted to see Yo La Tengo perform up close and personal (I'd seen them in SF last year, but at the Treasure Island Music Festival). I didn't make it in time because my coworker flaked out on me, very rudely only hours before :( I got to Rhino Records in Claremont in time to see them right after the performance though. They stuck around to sign albums and talk to the fans. So that's something. There was a really sweet lady I helped to pick out her first Yo La album, too. I was only a little bitter she got to see them play. Also I got two Prince records on the cheap. And this lithograph. Pretty good weekend all in all.


Oh, oh, so I know I am notorious for saying I hate the wind, but there's something to be said in its defense. Well, one word to be said, at least: KITES! I like me some kite action. Yesterday, we flew kites but the wind deserted us before we could take advantage of it. We got pretty winded-- pun!-- running up and down and around, before any real kiting could commence. I shoulda taken some pictures of the Yo Gabba Gabba kite. <3 I can't wait for next time, though. Kites and record-listening and, hopefully, bikes and picnics! Springtime, yah!


I love old antique-y mirrors, and I love that the thing reflected in this one set off by pretty antique-y wallpaper is a big stack of books!


Something I have been waiting for, cannot wait much longer for. . . Alexa Chung for Madewell. Alexa is great. I used to work for J.Crew and so I had a pretty sweet little discount that applied at Madewell as well. Gone are those days, though.


Yes, please.


I mostly want the bike in this one.