Spring Sass a la Marc Jacobs

I pretty much love everything that Marc Jacobs does and his Spring/Summer 2011 collection for Marc by Marc Jacobs is no exception. This season is choc full of  vintage shapes with cinched waists, thick stacks of bangles with each look, and silk tie ankle platform sandals. 

Everything is seriously gorgeous!

Dancing Nancie

I have a secret, and I don't want you to judge me because in nearly all other aspects of my life I'm pretty cool.  I really am. 

I just happen to have a mild (read: serious) obsession with the Dave Matthews Band. 

I know, how very late 90s of me. I have seen them live every summer since I was 14. 

I may have dated a guy because he looked like Dave Matthews. Yes, Seriously. 

And last Saturday night my sister and I stood in the horrible Texas heat for 4 hours to get a good spot in the pit so we could stand really close to the stage. It was absolutely positively worth it. 

What are YOU a total dork about?

Fun with Fashion

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I love fashion. I do. I think it's beautiful and amazing and wonderful. BUT I also realize that we're not saving lives by any means, so I always find it funny when magazines take themselves a little too seriously and call things that are totally silly, high fashion. This is, what I fear, happened in the September issue of Vogue. If the editors were taking a little jab at themselves BRAVO, but I seriously doubt it. This editorial made me laugh out loud.

In Love with Akris

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I'm feeling much better today even with almost all the odds against me (torrential rain, power out at my house all morning, and terrible traffic) but it's always uplifting to work with fabulous designer clothes. Today was some of the best. I got to style the Fall/Winter 2010/11 & Resort 2011 collection by Akris with the designers assistant the fabulous Serge (he appeared very Russian, but spoke mostly French...) and fell in love with the line. These seasons seems to have been amped up a little bit and I think it will appeal to a younger, more contemporary audience. Seriously, such good clothes.

Under the weather and guest posts

Hello blog friends, I apologize for the lack of posts but I've been really under the weather since Sunday. A sinus infection on a holiday weekend? Not fun at all.

The good news is that I have two guests posts that are up today so I won't be totally missing.

Check out a music post on fellow blogger and friend Hello, Splendor.

Also, check out the story of my and Mr. Social Threads love on the wonderful So about what I said...

I hope to be back tomorrow all bright and shiny. XOXO

Friday 5

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I've decided to follow the lead of the lovely Hello, Splendor and Fabulous K and list five things about my week every Friday. Here's my first stab at it.

1. Last night my husband, Jeff, and I went to a fancy dinner at Craft in the W and went and listened to the Dallas Symphony Orchestra play the music of Michael Jackson. We had such a great time! Everybody was standing up dancing and there were even little kids on stage doing their best moonwalks. Going to see the DSO may be our new thing.

2. I was on set styling guys this week and had a blast working with the handsome Tommy Dunn and Brad Kroenig. It's a tough job, but somebody has to do it...

3. I CANNOT believe that this is the last weekend of summer? Seriously, where did the time go. I'm going to paint my fingers and toes hot pink in protest.

4. I'm excited to see the new Drew Barrymore movie Going The Distance this weekend. I have a major girl crush on her, but more on that later...

5. The weather seems to have finally cooled here, I'm going to miss summer but I'm excited for the fall fashions. I pulled out my first pair of tights yesterday. Looks like it might be closet switch-out time. Yesssssss!

How are you planning on spending this lovely long weekend?

Pretty Girl Chic

 

How great are these pieces by Emmersonmade.? I stumbled upon this website and fell in love with this small fashion line. I'm loving the EM Old School's jeans and the Ribbons Blouses are the perfect transition pieces for fall. The gorgeous girl in all the photos is the designer. I'm trying not to hate her.

It's a new day!

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At my blogging boot camp with the one and only Fabulous K, I added a bit of new sassyness to my blog and I also, much to my delight, learned that I wasn't just writing to myself as I had assumed. You guys are actually reading my blog! I can't be more excited and grateful. Thank you! So, today is a new day (or night). I promise to be better about posts so that you, my blogging friends, have something to read. XOXO

blogger bootcamp

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Guess who learned how to post larger photos...more improvements to come.

Yay, me.

I'm Obsessed

I was blog surfing during lunch and came upon this website called The Selby. It's a website filled with Tom Selby's photography that catch creative types in their personal spaces. I LOVE this concept because I think that a person's home says so much about them and these pictures give you such great snapshots into their lives. I also love that the website was started by Selby doing test photos of friends in their homes, a little grass roots effort if you will. I've been paging through the website and I can't get enough, each picture is so interesting. Check it out!