Sunny days are here again (and hopefully to stay)

The sun has finally graced us with warm weather here in SF. It's been SO GORGEOUS outside. That means it's time for some major wardrobe revamping. I'm doing a little spring cleaning today and clearing my closet of winter things. Next week, my mom and I are planning on scouring San Francisco to find every clothing sale known to mankind. I hope to find more dresses (even though i may or may not have too many already). I used to be a fan of cold weather, but now I'm just a warm weather mouse. Here's some spring inspiration from lookbook.nu (my spring inspiration happens to come in the form of many floral dresses).





(one: lilian larrañaga; two: rachel-marie; three: mayo wo; four: wilma harju; five: nora alexa)

Audrey Audrey Audrey

So I just came across this Flickr entirely devoted to pictures of Audrey Hepburn. Best thing ever! Audrey, you are my fave.

Dagg & Stacey Spring 2011 by Angela Lewis

I found Angela Lewis' work through Grasshopper, a photographer collective based in Canada. Immediately, her work for Dagg & Stacey's Spring Summer 2011 collection caught my eye. Ahhh spring here we come!

Rain of a thousand years

Last Friday, I made a short film with my friend Jessica. It's my first film, so be nice! I know I still have a lot to learn and there's already things I would do differently if I could redo it, but here it is nonetheless. I hope it inspires you in one way or another.

Twigs and Honey New 2011

The new 2011 collection (and lookbook) from Twigs and Honey by Myra Callan is all sorts of gorgeous. I love the damask background and the delicate face of the model (those eyes!). So elegant.







(photography by elizabeth messina)

A garden daydream

So I have pretty much resigned myself to blogging Ruche's lookbooks whenever they come out. Too good, I tell you, too good.







photography and art direction by stephanie williams
set styling by jessica haack and sovy designs
wardrobe styling by ruche

The queen of diptychs

Pat Ramos is seriously the queen of diptychs. I love her use of colors, textures, and pairing fashion images with fine art images.

A Collection a Day at The Curiosity Shoppe

Last Friday, I went to my friend Lisa Congdon's book signing at The Curiosity Shoppe in SF. The Collection a Day book is just as lovely in person as online and I am really really happy to have it sitting on my bookshelf now.






If you didn't get a chance to make it down to Lisa's book signing, fear not! You can still get yourself a signed copy of her book here and check out her "Cabinet of Curiosities" installation on display for the next few weeks at The Curiosity Shoppe.

It's Symmetrical

I have a new blog love. It's called It's Symmetrical and it's penned by Seattle-based Chloe Scheffe. Chloe is a graphic designer/fashion photographer and sure knows how to play up minimalism at its finest. Her blog is a perfect conglomeration of curated fashion and original outfit posts. I can definitely see Chloe's personal style transcend into her photography and graphic design work. I am also insanely jealous of her long locks.

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GIVEAWAY: Favor Jewelry - CLOSED

Today's giveaway is in conjunction with the launch of Favor Jewelry's Spring Summer 2011 collection. As the winner, you get to choose any piece from the SS11 collection. Portland-based Monika Reed, the designer behind Favor, is inspired by "the shapes, stones, and metals found in the natural world." She works with goldfill, recycled sterling silver, and semiprecious gems to create pieces with the reoccurring theme of circles and organic shapes.

3 WAYS TO ENTER:

Leave a comment on this post.

Get an extra entry if you tweet about the giveaway or mention it on your blog. Be sure to leave a 2nd comment saying you tweeted and/or featured it on your blog. (note: if you featured this giveaway on your blog AND tweeted, you get ONE comment for the tweet and ONE comment for the blog feature, making it a total of TWO extra ways to win.)

**Open to all readers, international included**

I will draw a winner Friday, March 25th via random.org.

(tape strips via pugly pixel)

The winner of this giveaway is comment #117: Mallory from The Chronicles of Mallorina. Congrats! Please send me your address and the jewelry item you would like so that I can forward that information to Monika :)

Tatiana in Paris

Can I live here please? One day, I will visit Paris.

(photos by vivienne mok)

SF with the pops

With my mom off jet setting to Florida for one week (visiting her mom), my dad and I spent a rainy afternoon together this past weekend. We walked around Noe Valley and one of my absolute favorite streets, Liberty Street. If I could live on any street in San Francisco, it would probably be this one. The houses are so sweet and cheery.


The hill we walked up:

I don't think you can live in San Francisco and not be fit.


We ended the day with eating Peruvian food at this awesome restaurant, Limón. Unfortunately, they didn't have too many vegetarian options (to my dismay only two), but that was okay because their food was crazy good and I could have eaten five orders of the same thing.