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My Celebrity Crushes
14 years ago
Day 12 of the 30-day Blogging Challenge asks that I share my celebrity crushes.
Regular readers my remember an earlier post I wrote about my main celebrity crush, Joseph Gordon-Levitt. He will continue to be my main celebrity crush. Everything about him is just dreamy. He’s a great actor, he’s directed a short film that was selected for the Sundance Film Festival in 2009. He runs hitRECord.org, an online collaborative production company that shares its profits with contributing artists. He just sounds like a cool guy, doesn’t he?
My other main actor musician crush is Jason Schwartzman. He first won my heart in Rushmore in 1998. I think I’ve liked everything he’s been in, including Phantom Planet and Coconut Records.
I guess I have a thing for smaller, dark haired dudes…maybe it’s becuase I’m so blonde.
Check Out OhThatsYou.com
14 years ago
We’ve all been there before – seen great fashion or beauty tips in magazines we want to copy, but in reality, we just know we won’t be able to pull them off!
OhThatsYou.com is a new online platform that gives friends a place to give and get fashion and beauty advice from their trusted social circle. OhThatsYou.com allows users to interact with their trusted circle to make style and purchasing decisions, as well as receive personal fashion and beauty recommendations on items that ork with their face and body type.
OhThatsYou.com puts users in more control over their style through integrated tools that enables users to:
- Interact with their trusted circle–including their friends and other members with similar attributes and lifestyles–to make style and purchasing decisions
- Use the OTY Window-Shopper to collect fashion images that suit their tastes
- Mix and match these items to create different looks
- Receive OTY generated personal fashion and beauty recommendations on items that suit their face and body type
Our personal style is a combination of our unique physical attributes, the sum total of our experiences and our environment…..Oh That’s You! OhThatsYou.com enables members to find their own unique personal style, whether they want to fit in or stand out. Stated Azita Gandjei, founder of Oh That’s You!
I signed up last night and completely updated my profile within minutes.
Options for body shape include: pear, hourglass, v-shaped or straight-line shape (no doubt I’m straight-lined).
Skin Type gets fairly detailed, options here include: Environmentally Damaged and Hyper-pigmentation. I considered selecting environmentally damaged skin since I have a sunspot on my cheek that is cramping my style, but decided on combination skin.
This new site is definitely a place to hang out and lose track of time in. There are tons of products to look at, and buy. You can also upload your current closet to keep track of your clothing and outfits digitally. I think this is the perfect place to go an learn more about fashion, trends and beauty.
Something I Ate Today
14 years ago
I ended my day with one of my favorite desserts, homemade Pecan, Caramel & Fudge Pie (it’s delicious with ice cream).
I made this pie on Sunday since we were having a dinner guest. Note: I dislike cooking & baking…sad I know, but I get absolutely no pleasure in the kitchen. The only time I really attempt to make tasty food is when we have guests over. So in hopes of getting better at this domesticated eating style, I’ll be inviting more friends over for dinner to gain the skills and maybe force myself into liking this whole homemaker lifestyle.
This Pecan, Caramel & Fudge Pie is super easy to make (I buy the crust rather than make it myself). You can find the recipe here on Epicurious.
Focusing on Fall
14 years ago
For me, Fall is the best time of year – I love the unpredictable weather, the early sunsets, and of course Fall fashion!
Cooler temperatures and shorter days are a sign that it’s time to start putting together some cold weather ensembles.
Here are some of the pieces that I hope to get my hands on this Fall:
1. Talk about cozy. This Bodkin sweater will look great paired with flare leg denim this Fall.
2. During the sunless months – the LORAC luminizer adds the right amount sheen.
3. Gotta love a knitted midi length dress for Fall – perfect for a windy San Francisco day.
4. I love the liquid-look of this Iosselliani bracelet. Adds just the right amount of bling without looking over-the-top.
5. Trouser pants are back in a big way. I love the look of these cropped high-waisted trousers (I’ll be wearing mine with a full-length top though).
6. My closet is definitely lacking a good button down shirt. Although this top is simple, the unexpected sheerness at the shoulders adds just the right amount of edge.
7. This Funktional jacket is my dream jacket! I absolutely love the shawl collar, the camel color and the slouchiness of the jacket.
8. Probably won’t need these sunglasses much this Fall, but I love the shape and I’m a sucker for tortoise shell.
9. This is a great small briefcase bag – I like having a handle (for me, clutches can sometimes be a nuisance).
10. These Jenni Kayne flats are really all I need for Fall. The shape is amazing – and they look perfect with a cigarette jean.
A Book I Love
14 years ago
Day 10 of the 30 Day Lifestyle Blogging Challenge is about a book that I love.
I read Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen during my honeymoon last month. It was a fun and easy beach read about a man named Jacob Jankowski, and his experience with the circus. I can’t remember the last time I read novel so quickly, you must go get it! Also, I just learned that there is a movie out based on the book starring Reese Witherspoon and Robert Pattinson…I’ll have to add this to my Netflix queue!
Another book I read this year that I absolutely loved was Patti Smith’s Just Kids, which I covered in 10 Books To Add To Your Reading List back in January. This book was also hard to put down because the story of Robert Mapplethorpe and Patti Smith’s life together is so compelling. They were out rubbing shoulders with the next ‘it’ group of artists, musicians and actors during the 60’s and 70’s.
My Weekly Rituals
14 years ago
Day 9 of the 30 Day Lifestyle Blogging Challenge is about my weekly rituals. Aside from doing laundry on the weekends, working out at least 4 times a week and bringing lunch to work at least once a week, my rituals are pretty minimal.
I guess I have to admit I usually have at least 4 online shopping carts going at a time – so this is a bit of a ritual as I can’t imagine life without these open carts. They’re usually on Urban Outfitters, J.Crew, Amazon, Beauty.com and Running Warehouse. Usually once a week I will push one of the carts through to an order, so I have a constant influx of weekly deliveries of clothing and accessories.
Today I received my order from last week, Gap was having a 30% off Sale Items Sale…and I just can’t resist a good bargain. Tyler just shakes his head in disgust. Luckily, we’ve decided that even though we’re married we don’t need to share bank accounts. This has worked out extremely well for me because I can just throw out random amounts each package is worth, and he’ll never know!
Favorite Band For The Moment: tUnE-yArDs
14 years ago
Day seven of my 30 Day Lifestyle Blogging Challenge is about my favorite band of the moment. This one is tricky because I have so many short term obsessions when it comes to music. Hands down, I have to say that the best band I’ve listened to in weeks is tUnE-yArDs out of Oakland, CA. The band is the music project ofMerrill Garbus. I haven’t seen the live show yet, but when performing live, Garbus creates drum loops on the spot, and layers these with ukulele, voice, and electric bass.
The second tUnE-yArDs album, w h o k i l l, was released on April 19, 2011 (2 days after my birthday)
A single from it, “Bizness”, came out in February 2011. It was produced by Garbus and engineered by Eli Crews at New, Improved Studios in Oakland, California. Check out the music video here:
Check out this live performance of Gangsta live on KEXP.
Greatest Accomplishment Today
14 years ago
Day six of my 30 Day Lifestyle Blogging Challenge is about my greatest accomplishment of the day. I was feeling a bit sluggish and disappointed in myself today. At work new projects keep piling up and I feel like I won’t get ahead of the workflow until Holiday is over, and I really hate not being on top of my business because I’m playing catch up on random side projects.
SO – I have to say that my greatest accomplishment today was my five-mile run. I’ve run five miles a day for about a week now. I’m really trying to get my time down (I’m a very slow runner). Today I finally came in at a decent time and that made me feel great. Hopefully I can keep making progress and move onto more mileage early next week (I’m running a half marathon 11/6 – and I’m extremely behind on my running program).
Here’s the outfit that got me through my greatest accomplishment of the day.
