Thanksgiving (and stuff)
Today I'm sort of tired and under the weather, and it's my (real!) birthday eve, so I'm going to be lazy and take a break from thinking up blog posts and put up this portrait instead. Isn't it lovely? It's by Emily Harper, who has a great blog full of whimsical little illustrations and pretty things.  Emily said she tried to make this portrait like a silent film star one which just makes me like it even more . . . Portraits that make you look better than you are in real life are the nicest.  Plus this one ma

A forest through the trees . . .
 Photos from Church & State's Fall 09 Collection, A Forest Through the TreesThe Portland label Church & State always makes me think of Elizabeth Hawes, for some reason.  I think that it's because the clothes they design are always the good, simple American clothes that Elizabeth Hawes was always talking up in her books.  They're pretty clothes that don't try to be anything they're not . . . they look perfectly at h

November things . . .
Pictures by Drew'50s blouse: EbayWool shorts and Dooney and Bourke bag: EtsyShoes and jacket: thrift storesHat: Urban OutfittersWe spent this weekend doing holiday sorts of things like celebrating late November birthdays and scrambling to get gifts bought and things ready for the Thanksgiving trip we're taking Wednesday.  I always forget how tiring this time of yea

Estate sale dresses . . .
Before this week I hadn't gone to an estate sale in a while just because they're sort of nerve-wracking events.  For one thing they're hard to wake up for, especially when you know you have to deal with Atlanta traffic (the worst!) and maybe even worse, pushy fellow estate sale shoppers  And once you manage to push your way to the clothes closet you're probably 78% likely to find it stuffed with '80s power suits and '70s maxi dresses.But this week I didn't have a good enough excuse not to go to the two I found, so I went, and I actually found

New this week . . .
1. 1970s wine party dress . . . . . . . . . 2. 1970s cardigan, Villa