Dress: BCBGMAXAZARIA | Sweater: Anthropologie | Shoes: Kensie Girl | Necklace: World Market (similar) | Wind Machine: Pure Oklahoma.
May 24th 2012
I know this outfit isn’t very exciting, so to make up for it, I’ll tell you exciting news.
I got a freaking job you guys!
Back story: Nearly a year ago, I was gifted the freedom via my hard working husband to quit my job in the medical field. I won’t get into specifics today, but if you watch Grey’s Anatomy or House — it was almost exactly like that, except not.
Once we moved here, I decided I wasn’t going back into that career unless somebody tied my toes to a gurney and gave it a good shove through the hospital doors. Even then, you’d have trouble getting me to work legally since I might have accidentally on purpose let my license expire a few months ago. Whoops.
I consider myself a fairly creative person. I enjoy all aspects of art and design, so I hadn’t put much thought into it (and I wasn’t in a hurry to work, can you blame me?), but really I needed to thrush out a career in that direction. I hadn’t realized that it was sitting under my nose this whole time on this very blog. Short of being an amateur self-photographer for this little blog, I also have designed most of the elements you see.
Okay, that’s a lie. What you see is by Style Hatch mostly, the Atlantic Noir theme. In fact, what you DON’T see is a hidden wordpress site underneath this tumblr blog that is essentially unfinished. Fully designed by myself at this point, hence the unfinished part.
After years of living and breathing this stuff, I guess I just slapped that button on my chest and wore it proudly. So when my friend Erin mentioned that Cooper-House (run exclusively by her and her husband, Tim.) was looking to hire an intern to help with website design, I perked up, stepped forward and asked if I would fit.
Crazy fools, they said SURE!
I’ve been saying (to myself mostly, yeah I do that.) that I’d like to add more design and art aspects to my blog. I know this is probably coming out of left field for most of you — you probably had no idea I was creatively inclined. And by inclined, I mean to say that I think I’m the next big thing, when in reality I’m just terribly misguided.
I was recently introduced to a new app for iPad called “Paper 53” — and it appeals to me in ways I’m not sure even a Wang heel would. It’s a beautiful app, right down to the icon. It’s free to try, but if you want all the fancy tools, you need to be prepared to fork over $8 to ye old App Store.
You’re essentially given virtual notebooks (that you can customize the covers of) with sparkling bright white pages to use at your disposal. Once in a page, you can muddy it up however you please with 6 different tools; a calligraphy pen that responds to the velocity of your touch, a sketch pencil, a marker pen, a writing pen and finally (and clearly my favorite) a watercolor brush.
So why am I telling you all about this app? Has RR suddenly become a tech blog? No my darlings, I just wanted you to know that in lew of forking over cash for a Wacom Tablet and Adobe Illustrator, I’ll be using this new app to add a little artistic flare to le bleg and slowly transform this space into a more cozy spot.
Here are a few more sketches/paintings I’ve done with the app this weekend. I realize now that I should have signed these, but I’ve already tightened up the drawstring on my lazy pants. So if you do reblog, pin or do whatever with my werk, please credit back. If you want a larger version for personal use, send me magic air mail, as I do have larger versions.
Dress: Bailey 44 via Anthropologie (out of stock online, but check your local store) | Shoes: Sole Society — Odette (invite here) | Necklace: Urban Outfitters | Earrings: World Market | Penny Cuff & Najavo Cuff: Souvenirs | Watch: Nixon Spur in Rosegold | Lips: Embrace Me MAC Pencil | Tips: Gelish Nail Harmony in Shake it Til You Samba
May 17th 2012
Last night I attended a cute little fashion show with a few friends, put on by Anthropologie OKC.
Let’s give a big round of applause for Sarah who jumped right in and took to my camera like a pro. You know I like you a lot if I hand my baby to you and trust you enough to take my outfit photos.
In other news, since my “woe-is-me” post about being a loser baby cry face in regards to making friends; I’ve had brunch, coffee, lunch, dinner and a fashion show with 4 different people. If this were dating, well — I’m sure an intervention involving hand santizer and blood tests would be looming.
I did want to take a moment to thank you for commenting, tweeting and just plain ol’ reading my post Wednesday. To hear your ideas, common complaints and suggestions was so refreshing.
So, next step — everyone move to Oklahoma City. Right. Now.
(I feel like I need to point out, there’s a sock in my hair.)
Dress: Gabriella Rocha | Shoes: Madeline Girl | Necklace: The Vault Jewels | Bangle: Kate Spade | Watch: Michael Kors | Toes: Trout Pout by Butter London
May 14th 2012
Can we just talk about making friends as an adult? I would have been perfectly content to grow old on a porch somewhere with my California bitties. Instead, I moved to a new school.
It’s more complicated than it was in high school — a statement that is almost never made. One of my favorite bloggers, Rachel Wilkerson, once wrote an awesome post about making female friends as an adult. Basically she talks about approaching the situation like you did with dating. Problem for me is, I never really had to date. My husband sort of swooped in before I knew apples from oranges and never left my side.
Since moving to Oklahoma City, I’ve been a bit lazy about securing close female friends. I’ve been hanging on tight to my online/texting relationships with the friends I have out of state and clinging to Twitter like a rabid teenager. I’ve attended a few parties, a few blogging related events — but in the end I still sit at home alone each night picking out a new series to follow on Netflix.
It’s really hard for me to admit this, because ultimately I feel it makes me look like a lonely stage five clinger — but with my husband gone 85% of the time, I’m about to go bat shit crazy.
I met Sarah on this day, she and I have a mutual friend back in California and oddly enough, we both graduated from the same tiny high school. Like me, she is married without kids and we’re basically the same age. Most importantly, she likes food and alcohol — as we downed two drinks and some serious grub at Republic.
So, how do you feel about making close female friends after the college years? Do you already have a tight knit group or do you find yourself relying on your significant other to occupy your downtime? Can I show up randomly at your door on a Tuesday night for wine, cookies and a movie marathon?
I figured you wouldn’t mind a few extra pictures of the awesome shoes. Which I might add, I wore for hours without a single shoe related pain.
Before it was even certain I would be getting an iPad, it was certain what case I would be ordering. Rachel Shingleton of Pencil Shavings not only sells beautiful iPhone cases, lucite trays, melamine plates and adorable lunch boxes — but now she has amazing iPad cases. It only took a few clicks to decide that I had to have polka dots (well duh.) and then only a few more clicks to chose the color of the moment, mint. It’s actually called “pool” in her etsy shop, but I’m too smart to be fooled. You can’t call a cookie a macaroon and expect me not to eat it.
Since using the case for a few weeks now, I can say with affirmation that I love it to pieces. It couldn’t be more perfect had I designed it myself. Besides being so cute that it ellicts a response of “Oh my gosh, I love that case!” from everyone — it does tricks.
Like for instance, it’s stands up on it’s hind legs. It also has a soft inner lining to protect the screen (okay, the dog reference fell flat on that one.) — but most importantly, it’s cute.
During my last weekly conjugal visit to my husband (let’s not dance around the fact.) he looked around the camper and asked where my new ipad was. I pointed to my little polka-dotted friend on the bench and asked him what he thought THAT was. His response, “a book?” — men.
So you like this case, right? You want one of your very own, right? Well I guess this is your lucky week, because Rachel is doing a giveaway on her own (newly remodeled!) blog for an iPad case of your choice AND a lucite tray AND an iPhone cover. Whew! Hurry over and enter before Friday May 18th!
I am in no way affiliated with Pencil Shavings Studio or Rachel Shingleton (other than the fact that she’s awesome-sauce and maybe sometimes I hang out with her) — I paid for this case with my own money and this review contains my own thoughts and opinions, it is also part of a complete breakfast.
