My Chanel Dream

I do believe I have found my Dream Shoes....

I saw Jane, from Sea of Shoes, wearing these incredible beauties and almost fell out of my chair...

Yes, please!

I Long to be Alice in Wonderland

I'm a little obsessed with Alice as of late.  The movie was wonderful, and I saw it in 3D, which I think was really necessary, at least once (my first 3D movie ever...I know!) 

 I wanted to reach out and touch all the little, adorable animated flowers and animals, but the theater was quite full, so I managed some self-control **le sigh**.

Karla at Karla's Cottage has the cutest Alice Tag contest/event. 

 Look at the tags, how adorable they are!

Songbird is hard at work making tags as well...oh to be so creative!

Isn't Mia Wasikowska, from Austrialia, adorable?

Pictures are all from the New York Times online:

The characters are enchanting! Anne Hatheway was gorgeous...

Mia

I would love this dress.  Actually, I loved all of the dresses, sigh, what do you think?  Would you wear them?  Oh, those little, delicate blue gloves.  I'm going on a quest for them.  I adore them.

They are so delicate, I adore gloves (and it doesn't hurt that they do warm perpetually cold hands...)

A Craft Attic of One's Own

How I long to have one....Hello, I've been hanging out on Facebook as of late and discovered Songbird, a wonderful new friend a couple of days ago.
Her creative blog is incredible! She has a craft attic; it just sounds delightful. I'm 1/4 dutch, and I think it is wonderful that she writes both in English and Dutch. I really know nothing of my culture, to my detriment, but I intend to learn. I often mention that I deeply aspire to live in Europe once I retire (I'll retire relatively early) and then start a new career of sort, hopefully in academia as I am an avid reader,writer, thinker and pontificater! Ok, I do like numbers, I'm a bit of a nerd, albeit a fashion afficianda!

Oh, the Netherlands just evokes such a warm, wonderful, whimsical place in my mind. I would love to travel there. I look forward to learning about culture and all about her crafting ideas. I'm trying to get back into crafting, it is a wonderful outlet after working with numbers all day and studying (MBA). I'm torturing my home at the moment and a few scrapbooks.

After meeting Songbird, I had to read a bit about the 12th annual Amerstdam Fashion Week. 

Isn't Mirte Maas lovely?  Those eyes.  She's a new favorite of mine!

She is so tiny and cute!

Jimmy Choos!  They feel like slippers!  Oh how I long for my poor sprained foot(yes, STILL, I know....) to be healed for these...

layers...my favorite look

Happy Tuesday dear friends!

Welcome Spring!

happy March!  Its almost Spring, which I adore, but I'm not a fan of summer, so I'm trying not to think about it.  All the work I'm doing to my skin and the horrid non-UV'd sun will ruin it, just driving home from work.  With tinted windows. and SPF 105.  Sigh.  For now I'm going to enjoy spring!

This blog that I've discovered reminds me of spring; Its fresh, inspiring. Written by a 13-year old girl!  Wow, that's inspiring. Aspire. by Ms. Hannah.  You have to visit this blog!

Her love for our Lord is amazing. I'm impressed and aspire to have more of that myself.  Again.  Life tends to get the best of us at times, doesn't it?  And her love of beauty.  Beautiful things are our to enjoy and tend to and adore. 

So enjoy spring!  And all the adorable little bunny things that we see everywhere! 

This is a site that I received via email.  Many beautiful spring things here.  Oh, and her HAIR!  I love it!  I can't wait for mine to grow!

Happy Wednesday!

I'm going to visit my mom for her birthday! Spend the night, watch Shopaholic and have some quality girly time with her!

I've decided to merge both of my blogs into one because as much as I'd love to, I just don't have the time to maintain both of them. I'm going to divide the fashion posts and the home decorating posts and any other randomness by tabs, as opposed to labels. That's proving fun to learn. For all the programming I do, I've never done this! Although I've contacted a couple of people who do this, everyone is busy. If you know of anyone who does blog sites, who might make my tabs, please let me know!

Happy Wednesday and maybe I can sneak in a picture of my mom. She's very camera shy!

I'll leave you with a couple of hair styles that I'm obsessing over, as I wait for my hair to grow...

look of bangs without really being bangs...

 

so long and lush!

I love this hair color.

Saturday in a sweet little town

I hope everyone had a lovely weekend!  I had planned to prepare documents to submit to the CPA for taxes (eeek), but the weather was nice and rain, very cool, just the way I like it, so I had to spend time out of doors and enjoy wearing scarves, hats, jackets, boots, ***sigh***.  I have been horrible about take pictures lately, but I will do better! 

Saturday Edgar and I went to a cute little town called Julian. Known for its apple pies and a weekend destination, cute little shops and great hiking.  The plan was to hike after I bought Edgar a valentine sugar-free apple pie (I'm converting him, little by little, haha!) to take home and we walked around the town in the rain, however a little detour down an out-of-the-way road caused the time to get away from (me!). 

I met the sweetest lady, Debbie, at Funky Spun, who raises angora rabbits and she sells spun angora wool hats, cloches, scarves, gloves, wraps.  The web site doesn't have nearly all of the beautiful products she has. She had her 8 pound angora in the shop with her, with whom I fell IN LOVE!  He was HUGE and so sweet and adorable.  So we spent about 1 1/2 hours talking bunnies.  And exchaning information.  In the event one of her lovely angoras needs a new home.  Just in case.  I love big bunnies, they are like little dogs, following you around!  Of course I bought a cute wooley cloche in spring mint green, with pink; looks like something that ETSY would have and it is so nice to support a small business.

Sunday was a 6-7 mile hike in Rancho Bernardo, again in the light rain, so nice and refreshing.  The hike was great, first time out since the whole foot injury thing in December.  Yes, I'm wearing a foot and ankle wrap today under FLAT boots (I think that's why I've not had any desire to the pictures...I've been wearing flat shoes for 2 months!)  I like my boots, but a girl needs HEELS! ;)

Simliar hat here:

And here:

The French Love of Dogs

**My sweet friend Princess Freckles gave me some information about this photo.  It was taken by Avedon and these photos are on tour in the U.S.  I'm hoping they will come to California because they would so devine to see up close

I've discoverd a wonderful blog in my online wanderings, French Sampler.  I love the French culture and Ms. Dash takes her readers on her adventures with her in the most charming way. 

I've fallen in love with one of the photos* she posted:

by Avedon

As a child, I longed for an Afghan Hound!  I had intended to groom her hair like Barbie: clips, barrettes, food coloring to make some pink strands; sigh, how how lovely she would have been.  Perhaps that's the reason my parents said NO, and instead I had a fiesty little silky terrier who tore a chunk out of my nose!  {I still have the little scar; I really believe the immediate action for medical care was key here!}