summer/roadtrip fashion ideas.

because i'm too excited about summer/roadtrip fashion (and my wallet can't keep up), here are the things that are floating around in my mind:

1. oh, hobo bag.  i can't wait until i can toss my structured, professional-looking, neutral colored work purses to the back of my closet and wear something more buttery, bright, and sloppy by my side:



2. brown leather flip flops. no more patent pointy-toe flats. no more black heels. no more tights. just feet. and leather. and summer:



3. one bohemian skirt. in taupe. perfect for laying in fields. or picnics:



4. in exchange for sweater dresses: sun dresses. the reigning champion of fashion; the article of clothing that has captured my heart for life. cotton, lightweight, vintage, pretty, summery, cool.







while we're on sundresses, i should mention the maxi dress. they're everywhere. and i've started to take a second look at them. at first, i just passed them by. they were like 6-foot tall giants; evil villains waiting to swallow me into their bold and assertive patterns. but the more i thought about them, the more i can visualize how nice it would be to have a full length, solid colored maxi. hemmed to my ankles. completely comfortable and carefree.



it'll take some searching...but i think the rewards will be well worth it.

5. lightweight scarves. for knotting, draping, tying, wrapping. in florals and cottons. not plaids and cashmeres.



6. jersey-knit genie pants. the new gauchos. way better. too bad these don't translate as well as gauchos did for work. but they do work perfectly for everything else...



7. enough said. can't you just picture it?



8. french braids as headbands. hopefully mine will look as glamorous as these:



9. peasant shirt. i got one at the goodwill already, so it's not on the "i need it" list. but nonetheless, it should be recognized in this blog. peasant shirt, meet skinny capris. skinny capris, meet peasant shirt. you two will be getting along quite well, i presume...



10. beige flats. to replace the black ones (and to ease the blow...i'll be mourning the black ones). these are really pretty, but also more expensive than the pointy-toed versions i already bought from payless. but you get the idea...



ten things. out of my head and chronicled. categorized. a checklist (i already have numbers 9 and 10!).
so hopefully i can get some work done now (cause i still haven't done ANYTHING).

how i've stayed entertained:

another lazy day of spring break is here.  i think this one needs to be different though.  i think it's time to get some cleaning and organizing done.  i have been slowly doing the laundry over the past two days.  it sucks because our dryer is pretty much broken.  it only dries about five thin articles of clothing and doesn't really heat up.  so that's why it's taken awhile to get the laundry done.  only a little more to go.  and then i have a mountain - yes, mountain - of clothes to put away.  boo.

but getting cleaned up and organized will make me feel less guilty about lounging around.  and since i plan on doing a lot more lounging in the next 4 days, i've gotta do some chores.  

onto some news:

kyle and i took one look at the gloomy, drizzly rain yesterday and deemed it worthy to spend our afternoon inside at the movies.  coraline in 3D it was.

i went with no expectations.  kyle knew more about the movie than i did; i had only watched the preview one time, deciding it looked pretty imaginative.  i figured it would be just another kid movie like all of those movies they're cranking out nowadays.  but, having nothing to lose, i took my chances.

first, let me warn you that since it's in 3D, you gotta pay for the 3D glasses.  so much for the 5-buck club.  so instead of $10 for a tuesday afternoon matinee, it cost kyle and i $17.  we had a $6 gift card, so that softened the blow a little.

and we entered the world of coraline, a tough and imaginative pre-adolescent girl who craves excitement in her boring, monotonous world.  she's attention-starved and lonely, and just moved into a 100 year old house with her parents, who are too busy to deal with her.

eventually she finds her excitement by finding a mysterious, glowing rabbit hole and crawling to an alternate universe.  i won't spoil the ending, because you have to go see it!

as i watched this movie in curiously realistic 3D (it's subtle, not in-your-face), i really felt that i had crawled through coraline's rabbit hole and into her world.  it's SO artistic.  i couldn't stop thinking about the art and colors the whole time.  i am amazed at what people can do.

as for the plot, it was dark and eery, but not in a weird way.   it was like a hauntingly mysterious fairy tale, where the lines between good and evil are thin and magic feels both good and bad at the same time.

i encourage you all to go see this movie.  this is one you'll regret not seeing in theaters because of how much detail you will see and how the experience pulls you into that world.  if you saw it, comment and tell me what you thought about it!

so after coraline i felt a little over-stimulated so kyle and i just went home.  had some leftover pizza and beer, and then decided it was time to watch more WEEDS.

dude, the show is freaking awesome. mary louise parker is like a goddess to me. she is one of the most talented actresses i've ever seen. her nuances and gestures are matchless. kyle and i are in the middle of season 3 somewhere, so DON'T spoil anything for us!! so the rest of our day was pretty much spend eating snacks and watching episode after episode of WEEDS.

the only thing left to talk about is our beer cap collection! we've been collecting all of our beer caps for almost a year and we totally filled up the pitcher we were using to collect them in. eventually they are going to turn into "mosaic tiles" to cover the top of a table, so i think we might need a few more. anyway, last night my curiosity finally got the best of me, and so i emptied out the pitcher, sorting the caps by name and color.  i never got a full head count on how many we had total, but it was really interesting to see all of the different colors and designs and to see which beer we had drunk the most of.  i started creating a mosaic pattern on the floor, but i realized that idea was going nowhere (i hadn't measure the table top, and i don't have any supplies ready for gluing.  the table still needs to be sanded and stained!) so that was enough for now.  it gave me some things to think about.  i think that will have to be a summer project.  that will give us some time to collect some more caps (and to look for some more cool ones!).  so i found a bigger container to house our collection for now.

well enough laying around in bed. i said i have stuff to do, so off to work i go.