Goodwill I love you

Went to my local Goodwill shop yesterday and was so happy to find a couple great things. I finally found a (cheap) pair of cutoffs and several interesting books - including the New Moosewood Cookbook, a lovely sight for a new vegetarian like me! And everything was so reasonably priced I didn't even feel bad when I looked at the total on my receipt, which means more thrift store trips in the future! I know there are a ton of good ones in the Bay Area and plan on doing some reconaissance trips soon.

Similar to my new cutoffs. Hopefully it will soon be warm enough to wear them!

Yay for Moosewood!

Souffle Sunday - Movie inspiration on a Sunday

Souffle Sunday by stellatogelato featuring claire's accessories

Items in this set:
Shirts and Blouses - Tops - Topshop
UrbanOutfitters.com >
Women's
Apparel >
Pants
Women's Tall Apparel: Art deco earring: drops earrings jewelry |...
Rainy Day Umbrella - Accessories - Crewcuts - JCrew.com
claire's accessories

In honor of the recent cold, rainy weather (what's up with that!it's supposed to almost be summer!) I'd like to channel Audrey Hepburn in Sabrina (the scene where she tells Humphrey Bogart she'll make a souffle out of crackers) with these cropped pants, flats, and button-up.

In honor of National Bike to Work Day 5/13

May 13 is National Bike to Work Day. I have a bike, but no work, but that won't stop me from getting my old cruiser out of the garage today!

Singles - Bridget Fonda/Janet Livermore

Really loving Bridget Fonda's style in Cameron Crowe's Singles, especially the hats (Matt Dillon's hair, not so much...).

Trouve

Great new line at Nordstrom - Trouve (insert pun about "finding" great new pieces, haha thank you French degree)
It seems to be lots of simple, unfussy pieces that make great basics.
Check it out!
http://shop.nordstrom.com/C/6028367/0~2376780~6009391~6028363~6028367?origin=leftnav

Rope bracelets

As much as I love the handmade friendship bracelet I've been sporting for 4 months, I'm thinking about upgrading a woven rope bracelet. Here are some cute options.


Silentmint's handwoven bracelet, on Etsy. So pretty with that slim flash of silver.



J. Crew kids nautical-inspired bracelet (and on sale too!)

Mother's Day and their icon-worthy status

Moms are awesome and the ultimate style icons. So, Urban Outfitters' Orginal Icon contest is only fitting. Here's a link to the winners of the contest!
http://stylealchemy.com/ruminations/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/singles.jpg

Mother's Day card

Finding myself with a lot of free time and not a lot of money at my disposal I decided to go diy and make Mother's Day cards for my mom and grandmas. This turned out to be harder than expected (as my craft-type projects always do)I'm determined to actually finish this craft projects, since I usually give up halfway when I realize, yet again, that I'm not as creative or patient as I thought I was.
I got some inspiration from rosydesignonline's adorable etsy cards (http://www.etsy.com/shop/rosydesignsonline) and decided to try and replicate the cut-out style for my mom's card.

Anthropologie

Anthropologie always has the most beautiful, dreamily romantic clothes. I got their latest catalog in the mail yesterday and was awing over all the awesome pictures in their India-inspired collection.

passage to india by stellatogelato featuring Anthropologie

Here's a link to their India slideshow:
http://www.anthropologie.com/anthro/catalog/category.jsp?navAction=jump&id=CLOTHES-INDIAFB&cm_mmc=Email-_-Anthro_10-_-050510AnthroNewsL-_-india

Lessons from "Julie & Julia"

I started reading the wonderful book Julie and Julia (good book and even better movie)a few days after I started the blog and came upon a nice bit of wisdom, which I'll share below.

"Today, when we blog about our weight-loss problems and out knitting and our opinion of the president's IQ level, we do it on the blithe assumption that someone gives a shit...Nowadays anyone with a crap laptop and Internet acess can sound their barbaric yawp, whatever it may be. But the surprise is that for every person who's got something to say, it seems there are at least a few people who are interested. Some of them aren't even related" (Julie and Julia, p.96).

I can't say I even expect anyone to read my blog, but here I am, my attempt at sounding my own barbaric yawp.

SF MOMA

SF MOMA exterior

I took advantage of SF MOMA's free admission and the gorgeous weather on Tuesday and poked around the museum for a couple of hours. I've never been a big fan of modern art, but figured I'd probably like it more if I knew more about. I enjoyed the paintings the most and the street photography (I even recognized one photo, by Pirkle Jones, from an environmental history seminar I'd taken, which made me feel very art-knowledgeable!).


Photo: "House Being Moved" by Pirkle Jones from "Death of a Valley"


View from staircase

Real life scavenger hunt!

Check out this SF Chronicle story about the new book, "The Clock Without a Face."

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/04/30/DDC31D64TU.DTL

Sounds pretty awesome to me!

Mid August Lunch

This Italian movie (Pranzo di Ferragosto in Italian) was really quite pleasant and charming. At only 75 minutes it was pretty short too, and let out just in time to grab some dinner. The movie follows a middle-aged Italian man, Gianni, as he reluctantly agrees to take in several elderly ladies for the Ferragosto holiday. Lots of funny scenes and it was great to see it with my Italian grandma and several of her friends. They all joked about the Italian-ness of the characters and how great all the food looked. And they explained what Ferragosto is - basically a holiday in the middle of August (akin to Labor Day maybe) where everyone deserts the city and goes on vacation. The movie has a limited release but is definitely worth seeing!

Birth of a Blog

I'm sure the last thing the internet world needs is another blog, but here I go anyways. I've got the time (read: not working right now), and will hopefully be able to scrounge up the will, to start a blog. I'll be able to share the interesting books, fashion, photography and any other pretty things I come across!

It's a beautiful day in the San Francisco Bay area and the perfect day to start blogging!

(photo by me, it wasn't taken today, but it pretty much looks like that today!)