Pastels are being seen everywhere! Rock this trend with one of these amazing pastel purses below.
House of Harlow 1960
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I’m not really sure when I first discovered House of Harlow 1960, but I am oh so glad I did. I’m a huge fan of black and gold jewelry, and a lot of House of Harlow’s accessories are a combination of the two. Not to mention, its vibe is very native/tribal/ethnic, which I love! After doing a bit of investigating, I found out that House of Harlow is Nicole Richie’s brand. Below is an excerpt, taken from House of Harlow 1960′s website, which describes the inspiration behind the brand.
A native Californian, Nicole was born and raised in Los Angeles and has always had a fascination with creating her own look. Having always been surrounded by entertainers, costumes, and designers Nicole developed an appreciation for fashion at an early age. “Fashion gives you the ability to express yourself, your mood; it’s a creative outlet in many ways.” Which is one of the primary reasons the Winter Kate & House of Harlow 1960 collections were born.
“I’ve always loved the possibility of being able to transform yourself through the way of dress.” This is the foundation for the Winter Kate & House of Harlow 1960 brands, where everyday dressing is an integral part of a person’s frame of mind. Nicole’s love and influence of costume dressing are apparent in the collections, whether incorporated in a print or manifested through a unique addition to a fabric or style, they are the essence of the Winter Kate & House of Harlow 1960 identity.
The lines launched in 2009, with Spring 2010 being the debut season. Nicole has been the creative force behind the brands since day one, immersing herself in every step of the brands’ creative and strategic decision-making process.
The Winter Kate & House of Harlow 1960 brands have evolved into full-fledged collections, offering ready-to-wear, jewelry, eyewear, footwear, and handbags. Since its inception, the collections have received rave reviews and tremendous celebrity following. The collections are available globally at high-end department and specialty stores including Bergdorf Goodman, Neiman Marcus, Nordstrom, Selfridges, and ShopBop.
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xXo, Lex
Canopy of Dreams
On May 1st, I will finally be moving into my apartment in Southie. I am so excited to live in the city, and cannot wait for the move. One thing I’m not looking so forward to is purchasing all of my furniture and what not…Smell ya later paycheck! Although I’m not looking forward to dishing out all that cash, I can’t deny that I’m thoroughly enjoying my online fantasy furniture hunt. I think I’ve actually spent more time looking at things that are waaaay out of my price range and not even practical, than I have searching for items that I truly need and can afford. Go figure. During one of my fantasy searches, I decided to take a look at canopy beds. For some reason, ever since I was little and had a portrait taken in a canopy bed, I have always dreamed of having one. The curtains that hung from the four posters of the bed captivated me, and made me think of something whimsical and romantic. Twenty something years later, I still have a profound love for canopy beds, and am still dreaming of the day I finally buy one. Here are a collection of canopy beds that I will one day look back to when purchasing my dream bed.
interesting and fresh take on a canopy bed { via canopyironbeds }
very whimsical { via startribune }
simple { via decorpad }
i’m not sure if i love the idea of the bed being in the middle of the room, but still cool, nonetheless { via luxury-idea }
cheap version! { via ikea }
very elegant { via eclectricrevisited }
so fresh and so clean { via thedecorista }
dainty { via musingsofanightowl }
this almost reminds me of a stage, with the curtains being drawn to reveal the magic { via musingsofanightowl }
girly { via ikea }
rustic and cozy { via shelterness }
clean and simple { via shelterness }
i love the zen-like take on this { via shelterness }
interesting concept–more like a divider { via ikea }
modern and sleek { via styleofdesign }
this is pretty awesome. i don’t know if i’d ever leave my bed { via styleofdesign }
clean and cozy { via cococozy }
very outdoorsy { via blackbathroom }
this is amazing. love the antique feel { via interiorstyledesign }
amazing for a summer home next to a lake { via gapinteriors }
bright lights and night lights { via framestheworld }
xXo, Lex
Coach Hella Good
The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival is a yearly event that takes places over the course of three days and is located in Indio, California at the Empire Polo Club. The event consists of multiple stages and tents that host continuous live music throughout the day and night. For the first time ever, this spring, Coachella will be held on two separate weekends. In the past, Coachella has been best known for its many genres of music (rock, indie, hip hop, and electronic), but recently it has also been seen as an event that boasts the latest fashion trends. I am extremely jealous of everyone who has tickets to this incredible event. If you end up having any great/memorable stories, please notify me immediately, as I would love to live vicariously through you!
Countdown: 3 days.
Lineup
A$AP Rocky
Abe Vigoda
Afrojack
Alesso
Amon Tobin : ISAM Live
Andrew Bird
AraabMUZIK
Arctic Monkeys
At The Drive-In
Atari Teenage Riot
AVICII
AWOLNATION
Azealia Banks
Band of Skulls
Beats Antique
Beirut
Black Lips
Bon Iver
Borgore
Breakbot
Buzzcocks
Calvin Harris
Childish Gambino
Company Flow
Dada Life
Datsik
David Guetta
Dawes
Death Grips
Destroyer
Destructo
DJ Shadow
Dr. Dre & Snoop Dogg
Dragonette
EMA
Explosions in the Sky
Fanfarlo
Feed Me
Feist
fIREHOSE
First Aid Kit
Fitz and the Tantrums
Florence and the Machine
Flux Pavilion & Dr. P
Flying Lotus
Frank Ocean
Gardens & Villa
Gary Clark Jr.
Girl Talk
GIRLS
GIVERS
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Gotye
Grace Potter and the Nocturnals
Greg Ginn and The Royal We
Grouplove
Hello Seahorse!
honeyhoney
Housse de Racket
Jacques Lu Cont
James
Jeff Mangum
Jimmy Cliff with Tim Armstrong and the Engine Band
Justice
Kaiser Chiefs
Kasabian
Kaskade
Keep Shelly in Athens
Kendrick Lamar
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
LA Riots
Laura Marling
Le Butcherettes
Lissie
M. Ward
M83
Madeon
Madness
Manchester Orchestra
Martin Solveig
Mazzy Star
Méa
Metronomy
Miike Snow
Modeselektor
Morgan Page
Mt Eden
Neon Indian
Nero
Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds
NOISIΛ
Oberhofer
Other Lives
Porter Robinson
Pulp
Pure Filth Sound
R3hab
Radiohead
Real Estate
Refused
Santigold
SBTRKT
SebastiAn
Sebastian Ingrosso
Seun Kuti & Egypt 80
Sleeper Agent
Spector
Squeeze
St. Vincent
Sub Focus
Suedehead
Swedish House Mafia
The Airplane Boys
The Big Pink
The Black Angels
The Black Keys
The Dear Hunter
The Gaslamp Killer
The Growlers
The Head and the Heart
The Hives
The Horrors
The Rapture
The Sheepdogs
The Shins
The Vaccines
The Weeknd
Thundercat
Tijuana Panthers
tUnE-yArDs
Wallpaper
We are Augustines
We Were Promised Jetpacks
Wild Beasts
Wild Flag
Wolf Gang
WU LYF
Ximena Sarinana
Yuck
Zedd
Zeds Dead
{ youtube video documenting coachella 2011 }
xXo, Lex
Spring Shoes: Crystal Clear, Floral Fever & Metallic Mania
There are so many fresh, fun spring shoe trends out at the moment. Designers seem to be pushing the envelop and are trying out new shapes and materials. Some of my favorite blossoming shoe trends are the transparent, floral, and metallic trends. Check them out below! { click on the images to view shoe designers and prices }
Stumble Upon Friday
Last night, when I was trying to think about what to post about, I came up with the idea of checking out stumbleupon to get the creative juices flowing. Instead of finding a specific thing to inspire me to write about, I created a little game for myself. I decided that I would post five things that I stumbled upon. The twist: I had to choose five of the first seven things I stumbled upon to blog about. So, without further ado, I give you my stumbleupon Friday findings!
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*image of a bubble popping
i love the vivid colors and the moment that has been captured here. i think it is very cool how half of the bubble has maintained its shape, while the other half has begun to shatter into the air. beautiful image.
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this is a very fun site. essentially, you type in the artist you’re listening to, and they suggest the drink that should accompany it. here are some songs i plugged in, and the recommendations i received:
lmfao
“10 oz. rum. serve neat. garnish with fresh berries.”
one direction
“8 oz. mezcal, 8 oz. coco lópez, 10 oz. bitters. combine in highball glass and serve. garnish with pickled carrot sticks.”
carrie underwood
“one miller high life. serve cold.”
nicki minaj
“10 oz. vodka, 10 oz. fassionola, 8 oz. orange juice. combine in highball glass and serve. garnish with sugar.”
foster the people
“1 PBR. serve cold.”
Bernadette Mayer's List of Journal Ideas: Journals of: * dreams * food * finances * writing ideas * love * ideas for architects * city design ideas * beautiful and/or ugly sights * a history of one's own writing life, written daily * reading/music/art, etc. encountered each day * rooms * elaborations on weather * people one sees-description * subway, bus, car or other trips (e.g., the same bus trip written about every day) * pleasures and/or pain * life's everyday machinery: phones, stoves, computers, etc. * answering machine messages * round or rectangular things, other shapes * color * light * daily changes, e.g., a journal of one's desk, table, etc. * the body and its parts * clocks/time-keeping * tenant-landlord situations * telephone calls (taped?) * skies * dangers * mail * sounds * coincidences & connections * times of solitude Other journal ideas: * Write once a day in minute detail about one thing * Write every day at the same time, e.g. lunch poems, waking ideas, etc. * Write minimally: one line or sentence per day * Create a collaborative journal: musical notation and poetry; two writers alternating days; two writing about the same subject each day, etc. * Instead of using a book, write on paper and put it up on the wall (public journal). * and so on ... Bernadette Mayer's Writing Experiments * Pick a word or phrase at random, let mind play freely around it until a few ideas have come up, then seize on one and begin to write. Try this with a non- connotative word, like "so" etc. * Systematically eliminate the use of certain kinds of words or phrases from a piece of writing: eliminate all adjectives from a poem of your own, or take out all words beginning with 's' in Shakespeare's sonnets. * Rewrite someone else's writing. Experiment with theft and plagiarism. * Systematically derange the language: write a work consisting only of prepositional phrases, or, add a gerund to every line of an already existing work. * Get a group of words, either randomly selected or thought up, then form these words (only) into a piece of writing-whatever the words allow. Let them demand their own form, or, use some words in a predetermined way. Design words. * Eliminate material systematically from a piece of your own writing until it is "ultimately" reduced, or, read or write it backwards, line by line or word by word. Read a novel backwards. * Using phrases relating to one subject or idea, write about another, pushing metaphor and simile as far as you can. For example, use science terms to write about childhood or philosophic language to describe a shirt. * Take an idea, anything that interests you, or an object, then spend a few days looking and noticing, perhaps making notes on what comes up about that idea, or, try to create a situation or surrounding where everything that happens is in relation. * Construct a poem as if the words were three-dimensional objects to be handled in space. Print them on large cards or bricks if necessary. * Write as you think, as close as you can come to this, that is, put pen to paper and don't stop. Experiment writing fast and writing slow. * Attempt tape recorder work, that is, recording without a text, perhaps at specific times. * Make notes on what happens or occurs to you for a limited amount of time, then make something of it in writing. * Get someone to write for you, pretending they are you. * Write in a strict form, or, transform prose into a poetic form. * Write a poem that reflects another poem, as in a mirror. * Read or write a story or myth, then put it aside and, trying to remember it, write it five or ten times at intervals from memory. Or, make a work out of continuously saying, in a column or list, one sentence or line, over and over in different ways, until you get it "right." * Make a pattern of repetitions. * Take an already written work of your own and insert, at random or by choice, a paragraph or section from, for example, a psychology book or a seed catalogue. Then study the possibilities of rearranging this work or rewriting the "source." * Experiment with writing in every person and tense every day. * Explore the possibilities of lists, puzzles, riddles, dictionaries, almanacs, etc. Consult the thesaurus where categories for the word "word" include: word as news, word as message, word as information, word as story, word as order or command, word as vocable, word as instruction, promise, vow, contract. * Write what cannot be written; for example, compose an index. * The possibilities of synesthesia in relation to language and words: the word and the letter as sensations, colors evoked by letters, sensations caused by the sound of a word as apart from its meaning, etc. And the effect of this phenomenon on you; for example, write in the water, on a moving vehicle. * Attempt writing in a state of mind that seems least congenial. * Consider word and letter as forms-the concretistic distortion of a text, a mutiplicity of o's or ea's, or a pleasing visual arrangement: "the mill pond of chill doubt." * Do experiments with sensory memory: record all sense images that remain from breakfast, study which senses engage you, escape you. * Write, taking off from visual projections, whether mental or mechanical, without thought to the word in the ordinary sense, no craft. * Make writing experiments over a long period of time. For example, plan how much you will write for a particular work each day, perhaps one word or one page. * Write on a piece of paper where something is already printed or written. * Attempt to eliminate all connotation from a piece of writing and vice versa. * Experiment with writing in a group, collaborative work: a group writing individually off of each other's work over a long period of time in the same room; a group contributing to the same work, sentence by sentence or line by line; one writer being fed information and ideas while the other writes; writing, leaving instructions for another writer to fill in what you can't describe; compiling a book or work structured by your own language around the writings of others; or a group working and writing off of each other's dream writing. * Dream work: record dreams daily, experiment with translation or transcription of dream thought, attempt to approach the tense and incongruity appropriate to the dream, work with the dream until a poem or song emerges from it, use the dream as an alert form of the mind's activity or consciousness, consider the dream a problem-solving device, change dream characters into fictional characters, accept dream's language as a gift. * Structure a poem or prose writing according to city streets, miles, walks, drives. For example: Take a fourteen-block walk, writing one line per block to create a sonnet; choose a city street familiar to you, walk it, make notes and use them to create a work; take a long walk with a group of writers, observe, make notes and create works, then compare them; take a long walk or drive-write one line or sentence per mile. Variations on this. * The uses of journals. Keep a journal that is restricted to one set of ideas, for instance, a food or dream journal, a journal that is only written in when it is raining, a journal of ideas about writing, a weather journal. Remember that journals do not have to involve "good" writing-they are to be made use of. Simple one-line entries like "No snow today" can be inspiring later. Have 3 or 4 journals going at once, each with a different purpose. Create a journal that is meant to be shared and commented on by another writer--leave half of each page blank for the comments of the other. * Type out a Shakespeare sonnet or other poem you would like to learn about/imitate double-spaced on a page. Rewrite it in between the lines. * Find the poems you think are the worst poems ever written, either by your own self or other poets. Study them, then write a bad poem. * Choose a subject you would like to write "about." Then attempt to write a piece that absolutely avoids any relationship to that subject. Get someone to grade you. * Write a series of titles for as yet unwritten poems or proses. * Work with a number of objects, moving them around on a field or surface-describe their shifting relationships, resonances, associations. Or, write a series of poems that have only to do with what you see in the place where you most often write. Or, write a poem in each room of your house or apartment. Experiment with doing this in the home you grew up in, if possible. * Write a bestiary (a poem about real and mythical animals). * Write five short expressions of the most adamant anger; make a work out of them. * Write a work gazing into a mirror without using the pronoun I. * A shocking experiment: Rip pages out of books at random (I guess you could xerox them) and study them as if they were a collection of poetic/literary material. Use this method on your old high school or college notebooks, if possible, then create an epistemological work based on the randomly chosen notebook pages. * Meditate on a word, sound or list of ideas before beginning to write. * Take a book of poetry you love and make a list, going through it poem by poem, of the experiments, innovations, methods, intentions, etc. involved in the creation of the works in the book. * Write what is secret. Then write what is shared. Experiment with writing each in two different ways: veiled language, direct language. * Write a soothing novel in twelve short paragraphs. * Write a work that attempts to include the names of all the physical contents of the terrestrial world that you know. * Take a piece of prose writing and turn it into poetic lines. Then, without remembering that you were planning to do this, make a poem of the first and last words of each line to see what happens. For instance, the lines (from Einstein) * When at the reception * Of sense-impressions, memory pictures * Emerge this is not yet thinking * And when. . . * Would become: * When reception * Of pictures * Emerge thinking * And when * And so on. Form the original prose, poetic lines, and first-and-last word poem into three columns on a page. Study their relationships. * If you have an answering machine, record all messages received for one month, then turn them into a best-selling novella. * Write a macaronic poem (making use of as many languages as you are conversant with). * Attempt to speak for a day only in questions; write only in questions. * Attempt to become in a state where the mind is flooded with ideas; attempt to keep as many thoughts in mind simultaneously as possible. Then write without looking at the page, typescript or computer screen (This is "called" invisible writing). * Choose a period of time, perhaps five or nine months. Every day, write a letter that will never be sent to a person who does or does not exist, or to a number of people who do or do not exist. Create a title for each letter and don't send them. Pile them up as a book. * Etymological work. Experiment with investigating the etymologies of all words that interest you, including your own name(s). Approaches to etymologies: Take a work you've already written, preferably something short, look up the etymological meanings of every word in that work including words like "the" and "a". Study the histories of the words used, then rewrite the work on the basis of the etymological information found out. Another approach: Build poems and writings form the etymological families based on the Indo-European language constructs, for instance, the BHEL family: bulge, bowl, belly, boulder, billow, ball, balloon; or the OINO family: one, alone, lonely, unique, unite, unison, union; not to speak of one of the GEN families: kin, king, kindergarten, genteel, gender, generous, genius, genital, gingerly, pregnant, cognate, renaissance, and innate! * Write a brief bibliography of the science and philosophy texts that interest you. Create a file of newspaper articles that seem to relate to the chances of writing poetry. * Write the poem: Ways of Making Love. List them. * Diagram a sentence in the old-fashioned way. If you don't know how, I'll be happy to show you; if you do know how, try a really long sentence, for instance from Melville. * Turn a list of the objects that have something to do with a person who has died into a poem or poem form, in homage to that person. * Write the same poem over and over again, in different forms, until you are weary. Another experiment: Set yourself the task of writing for four hours at a time, perhaps once, twice or seven times a week. Don't stop until hunger and/or fatigue take over. At the very least, always set aside a four-hour period once a month in which to write. This is always possible and will result in one book of poems or prose writing for each year. Then we begin to know something. * Attempt as a writer to win the Nobel Prize in Science by finding out how thought becomes language, or does not. * Take a traditional text like the pledge of allegiance to the flag. For every noun, replace it with one that is seventh or ninth down from the original one in the dictionary. For instance, the word "honesty" would be replaced by "honey dew melon." Investigate what happens; different dictionaries will produce different results. * Attempt to write a poem or series of poems that will change the world. Does everything written or dreamed of do this? * Write occasional poems for weddings, for rivers, for birthdays, for other poets' beauty, for movie stars maybe, for the anniversaries of all kinds of loving meetings, for births, for moments of knowledge, for deaths. Writing for the "occasion" is part of our purpose as poets in being-this is our work in the community wherein we belong and work as speakers for others. * Experiment with every traditional form, so as to know it. * Write poems and proses in which you set yourself the task of using particular words, chosen at random like the spelling exercises of children: intelligence, amazing, weigh, weight, camel, camel's, foresight, through, threw, never, now, snow, rein, rain. Make a story of that! * Plan, structure, and write a long work. Consider what is the work now needed by the culture to cure and exact even if by accident the great exorcism of its 1998 sort-of- seeming-not-being. What do we need? What is the poem of the future? * What is communicable now? What more is communicable? * Compose a list of familiar phrases, or phrases that have stayed in your mind for a long time--from songs, from poems, from conversation: * What's in a name? That which we call a rose * By any other name would smell as sweet * (Romeo and Juliet) * A rose is a rose is a rose * (Gertrude Stein) * A raisin in the sun * (Langston Hughes) * The king was in the counting house * Counting out his money. . . * (Nursery rhyme) * I sing the body electric. . . * These United States. . . * (Walt Whitman) * A thing of beauty is a joy forever * (Keats) * (I summon up) remembrance of things past * (WS) * Ask not for whom the bell tolls * It tolls for thee * (Donne) * Look homeward, Angel * (Milton) * For fools rush in where angels fear to tread * (Pope) * All's well that ends well * (WS) * I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness * (Allen Ginsberg) * I think therefore I am * (Descartes) * It was the best of times, it was the worst of times,. . . * (Dickens) * brave new world has such people in it * (Shakespeare, The Tempest, later Huxley) * Odi et amo (I hate and I love) * (Catullus) * Water water everywhere * Nor any drop to drink * (Coleridge) * Curiouser and curiouser * (Alice in Wonderland) * Don't worry be happy. Here's a little song I wrote. . . * Write the longest most beautiful sentence you can imagine-make it be a whole page. * Set yourself the task of writing in a way you've never written before, no matter who you are. * What is the value of autobiography? * Attempt to write in a way that's never been written before. * Invent a new form. * Write a perfect poem. * Write a work that intersperses love with landlords. * In a poem, list what you know. * Address the poem to the reader. * Write household poems-about cooking, shopping, eating and sleeping. * Write dream collabortations in the lune form. * Write poems that only make use of the words included in Basic English. * Attempt to write about jobs and how they affect the writing of poetry. * Write while being read to from science texts, or, write while being read to by one's lover from any text. * Trade poems with others and do not consider them your own. * Exercises in style: Write twenty-five or more different versions of one event. * Review the statement: "What is happening to me, allowing for lies and exaggerations which I try to avoid, goes into my poems."
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*bernadette miller’s list of journal ideas
i actually found these ideas very interesting and inspiring, and am definitely going to try some out. if you’re a writer or have any interest in writing i highly suggest that you read through these ideas!
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*whichbook
being an avid bookworm, i was thrilled to stumbleupon this. aside from the preferences shown in the picture above, you can also change the settings to find a book that matches character (you choose the race, age, sexuality, and gender), plot (conflict, lots of twists and turns, open, quest, revelation, generations, success against the odds), and setting (provides a map and you click a place, or you can choose imaginary). i can’t wait to try this site out!
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*hysterical roommate posts
i can definitely recall some memorable notes being written on our whiteboard when my roommates and i lived in the mods at boston college. most of the time the notes were about cleaning up crap, or angry tirades about someone stealing food.
I Want Candy
With springtime just around the corner, things are looking a bit brighter. Or are they? One of spring’s biggest trends is candy colored pastels. It’s a very sweet, simple, and feminine look. Spruce up a basic outfit with some pastel accessories, or go crazy like a kid in a candy shop and allow your ensemble to sneak a taste of multiple pastel shades. Most importantly, have fun with this trend! Reach inside of you and find that six year-old self for some inspiration. I’m talking unicorns, cotton candy, rainbows, lollipops, seashells, bunnies, bubblicious gum…okay, you get the idea. Just let your imagination run wild.
Ready, set, go!
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top: FOREVER 21, pants: ZARA, shoes: CONVERSE, sunglasses: RAY BAN, watch: MICHAEL KORS { via cheyennemeetschanel }
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Current/Elliott Mint Leopard Print Jeans { via denimology }
Stella McCartney Round Sunglass { via nordstrom }
Parker Dress – Ruffle Racer { via bloomingdales }
Botkier Valentina Shoulder Bag { via fabsugar }
shorts: SIWY { via singer22 }
Moschino Cheap and Chic Wedges – Kigelia { via bloomingdales }
IvoryCove Feather Necklace { via etsy }
Ella Moss Tee- Ellasentials Flutter Sleeve { via bloomingdales }
Ice-Watch Classic Pastels { via watches2u }
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