Entries from February 2009

February 27, 2009

Let’s Run Away Lovelies…

{I think we should make a run for it this weekend…}

{..pack our bags..}
{…tuck our hair up in beautiful, messy buns…}

{…wear our beautiful vintage clothes with new aplomb and style..}

{…eat delicious apple galette with vanilla ice cream…}

{…tell each other some secrets…}

{…sing silly duets to each other in the car and laugh [...]

February 26, 2009

SEE Andrea write..

Hello lovelies! Just stopping into say…. My first monthly installment of fashion articles came out today in SEE mag!  If you click on the photo above it will link you to the site, if you’re in the city you can pick up the magazine just about.. everywhere!  Our spring fashion issue will be out mid-next [...]

February 26, 2009

Inspiration – Her Morning Elegance

Happy Thursday everyone! It’s going to be kinda a crazy day today – I’ve got an exam this morning, and I’m kinda still recovering from the Andrea vs. Thesis Advisers panel thing I went through last night. But, I’m focusing on the positive, which is, as far as I can tell, [...]

February 25, 2009

Wanted Wednesday – Carefully Worn

(In a far away time, long ago, I lived in far away a place. And in a very platonic way fell head over heels for a very tall, very married, very Russian “attache” who was about 10 feet tall and dashing. He would come to cocktail parties that would invariably end in my mother tenderly [...]

February 24, 2009

“I didn’t need that coffee anyway” and other white lies I tell myself.*

When I was little I thought I could see particles. Atoms actually.You know when you have those dots drift in your eyes, and they aren’t quite there, but they still are? Those. I was certain that I was some magic, scientific seeing machine. I never told anyone because I was afraid that they would take [...]

February 23, 2009

Monday Must Have – Lauren Haupt

Alright, since I’ve confessed my financial guilt, then I’m totally.. absolved right? Sure. We’ll go with that. However, it is a little less intimidating to feature a Monday Must Have that comes from a fabulous independent artist such as Lauren Haupt.  I regularly visit her website and Etsy shop and picture myself in her elegant, [...]

February 22, 2009

A Sunday Kind of Love – Hollywood Edition

My dearest readers – I am at a loss. I know. Go figure. Me. Nothing to say. Jared is very excited.
Last night, as I knew Gina – The Internet Sensation -was working on her Sunday Kind of Love post, I was trying to come up with an introduction to her post. Which really, if we [...]

February 21, 2009

The light that goes out. And on.

There are those strange moments where the universe sends you a sign, and you are actually there, staring at the sign, reading it correctly, and you get it.
And last night, Jared and I met in the kitchen with sad faces to look into our fridge. We’ve been eating Reeses Pieces breakfast cereal and a weeks [...]

February 19, 2009

A Picture: It’s worth a thousand words. Boy. Ironic.

Is that irony? Irony that there are way more than a thousand words that I have to slog through? Probably not. But, if you are wondering where I am for the next day and a half? I’m sitting behind this stack of books, sobbing. Reading, but sobbing. Out of happiness Mom. Happiness that I get [...]

February 18, 2009

Inspiration: No sad face. I have all the cures.

Sometimes, when I’m listening to tunes, perusing Lookbook or Refinery29, all I can think is really.. do you all have to look so sad? (Well, that, and “Damn. Eat something.”) I think it explains why I’ve been so drawn to simple landscapes and such lately. Well, that and I never envy a landscape their Loubs. [...]

February 17, 2009

Style Inspiration

{The Sartorialist}
{Fashionologie – The only look I liked from the Marc Jacobs fall show..}
I’m not sure how I felt about the MJ show last night…a lot of neon, 80’s, super individual looks for every model.. I don’t know. I’m not really fond of any of those things (save maybe Eye of the Tiger) and had [...]

February 16, 2009

However, we did skip a case of the Mondays.

I suppose this means my “weekend” of “leisure” has ended – somehow working every day doesn’t translate to rest and relaxation – though this conversation helped -
BBerry Messenger:

Jared: How’s work/ I love you.
Andrea: Good. I have a strange urge to get drunk.
Jared: Random, but good call.
Andrea: I may be intoxicated alone in our living room [...]

February 16, 2009

Monday Must Have – Vacation for your Brain

Hello all and happy Monday! As previously mentioned, I’ve got the week off for reading week, so I’m spending serious time at the library and the school. But I’ve been spending the weekend taking a brain break, wandering about the internet and through books and magazines.. Thought I’d take you on my brain vacation…
P.S. – [...]

February 15, 2009

A Sunday Kind of Love- Code Word “Rusticate”

Happy Sunday my lovelies. I’ve taken the weekend off from doing anything productive, from thinking about school, from reading anything academic.. Just…off. It’s reading week next week and we’ve got the whole time off of classes, in which I plan to spend most of the time at the bibliotechque playing get ahead/catch up (a tricky [...]

February 14, 2009

I don’t know you, but I’d like to.

I figured since it was Valentines Day I’d tell you a funny story, the best funny story I know, about how I met Mr. Jared. Then, if he’s willing, he can tell you the story too. Because there are two sides to everything.
Andrea: Jared and I both used to live in Residence here in our [...]

February 13, 2009

Friday Jams.

Happy Shabbas everyone.. It’s Friday. And next week is reading week. (see: Subdued spring break). And, to celebrate, I’ve been listening to this great little band from Ohio all morning and disregarding the thumping on my roof to dance like Uma Thurman via Pulp Fiction in my living room. Minus the milkshake and overdose. Check [...]

February 12, 2009

God is on my roof. And He thinks I’m a bad person.

I think one of the best ways to describe my disposition is “skittish”. Because I’m so often lost in my own head, coupled with the fact I don’t have the worlds best hearing, I often get..surprised. (Ok. And I also have the memory of a goldfish and a lot of mirrors in my house. I [...]

February 11, 2009

Inspiration: Filiadavidus

{To Slumber}

{The Black Bow Flats}
Check out this incredible artist here. Beautiful, smooth, creamy, soft portraits… *sigh*

February 11, 2009

Wanted Wednesday – 3 Pieces of Inspiration

1.{2 or 3 Things I Know}
2.
{Vain and Vapid}
3.
{The Moment}
Happy Wednesday! It’s a little busy this week as I try to play catch up after missing so much school. We’ll play catch up later and I’ll tell you all about how God may or may not be living on my roof. You know. The usual. xo

February 9, 2009

Monday Must Have

{Rabbit On The Run}
I’m not going to pretend there is a stylish way to wear this. And I’m also not going to pretend that I don’t love it. Because I do. Happy Monday! xoxo

February 9, 2009

Corporate Snakes and Ladders

There really aren’t that many opportunities in life where I’m offered the high road and I take it. There. I said it. I can be vindictive and calculating, and I know how to make it look like I did the work when I didn’t, and more importantly, I know how to make it look like [...]

February 7, 2009

A Sunday Kind of Love – Dear Mr. Postman

Happy Sunday Everyone! I hope that everyone is having a truly wonderful weekend. A little bit of bad news – our featured blogger today is a little bit under the weather, so we’re letting her rest up for another Sunday when she’s feeling up to it. So, that means you’re all stuck with me.
Since I’ve [...]

February 6, 2009

A Week of Wants

I’m here! *cough sneeze wheeze* Truly! I’m feeling so much better. Still slightly jaundiced and channeling the Olsens dirtier hair choices, and sure, I haven’t put actual pants on in a while, but I’m here and I’m better. And let me tell you, I am bored as all get out. Which is a good sign. [...]

February 5, 2009

Is this gonna be forever?

This may be the only thing that made me laugh this week….so I watched it about ten times. I feel your pain buddy. Thanks to For Me, For You.

February 5, 2009

A Quiet Corner

That’s where I’ll be dear bloggers until this sickness rolls over me and away – I’m sorry. I have neither the energy nor the inspiration to do anything but watch re-runs of Mad Men and drink Gatorade. This virus is the root canal of the soul. xo

February 3, 2009

A is For…

Do you know, dearest readers, what A is NOT for? Effing pneumonia. I’ve been laying on my couch for the past two days (interspersed with a sudden and surely cough syrup induced delirium where I go to school for a few hours) basically just repeating “I’m soooooooo sick….” and whimpering. That’s great world. Because [...]

February 2, 2009

Come away with me..

I’ve been escaping a little bit in my head lately, to various places and spaces Far from the Madding Crowds as it were…(and co-incedentally all sheep). Here is where I’ve been going…
{Debi Treloar}

{Janne Peters}

{Rune Guneriussen}

{RoseTung}

{Katya de Grunwald}

{Christine Tillman}

February 2, 2009

Monday Must Have

There is something so beautiful and slightly unsettling, eerie and strange in Frank Jeury’s work that just pulls me in. I warn you.. once you click here you won’t be able to stop until you’ve gone through every picture and you’ll feel very.. wary…after.

February 1, 2009

A Sunday Kind of Love – Guest Blogger J from RoseTung

Hello my dearests! I am so honored to introduce an incredible artist, traveler, commenter and fellow blogger J. I encourage you to check out both her Etsy Shop for the most incredible creations, and her blog for equally as much inspiration – that, and she’s one of the funniest damn e-mailers out there. (Also [...]