Places: San Francisco 2011: Day Two

We started the day off at the Japanese Tea Garden at Golden Gate Park.

Then we bussed it to Haight-Ashbury. This is one of my favorite areas of San Francisco. There are great shops and tons of art, which I'll feature in my next post.

My absolute favorite shop was Loved To Death. They have awesome taxidermy, art, curiosities, and creepy little things.

And of course we loved seeing the rows of Victorian homes.

Here are more links to our favorite stores in Haight-Ashbury:

FTC - For the City: Skate design store

Super 7: Japanese influenced toys, art and design

Villians: Great men's and women's clothing

Wasteland: New and vintage clothing

Three Twins Ice Cream: Delicious organic ice cream (we got the burnt caramel and lemon cookie flavors)

Such a fantastic trip. Wish we had more time, but we'll definitely be back soon.

Places: San Francisco 2011: Day One

Wow! San Francisco was AMAZING as usual. Thanks for all the patience while Kevin and I recovered from our trip. It was wonderful, tiring and so, so fun.

On our first day we went to Alcatraz and took the audio tour. It was my third time taking the tour, but Kevin's first. It's so good that I enjoy it every time.

Waiting for the cable car in Union Square.

On the ferry to Alcatraz.

Alcatraz view from the ferry.

We hung around Fisherman's Wharf and ate delicious clam chowder from Boudin's.

After lunch we took the BART to the Mission District.

We had crazy good cookies and milk at Anthony's Cookies.

There were TONS of vintage/thrift stores like Painted Bird.

And there were unique little shops with oddities and specialties like Paxton Gate.

They carry things like taxidermy, insect specimens, plants and nature art. We bought a framed butterfly specimen for our apartment.

Also in the Mission District, is skate/street designer Benny Gold's shop. Kevin is a big fan and got to meet him in person.

It was definitely one of the highlights of the trip for him.

Here are some more links to a few of the stores we liked in the Mission:

Self Edge: Denim and clothing with tons of Japanese brands.

Aquarius Records: Vinyl and CDs

The Curiosity Shoppe: Great jewelry and little things for your home.

Shoe Biz: Awesome shoes!

That was our first day in San Francisco. Stay tuned for day two.

Wednesday Weekly Geek

This week's Weekly Geek is a tribute to that classic accesory, nerd glasses!

I found tons of awesome things on Etsy that feature those super specs.

Glasses patterned pouch from CutOutAndCollect

This romantic Ira Glass card from MerryBluesArt

Cute little nerdy otter from BiteTheHippo

Glasses tray from blancoynegro. You could put your glasses on it!

This great art print is from thepairabirds

There was all this and so much more!

And that's this week's Weekly Geek.

Pretty Headbands

Now that it's spring, I see more and more pretty headbands around, especially ones with flowers. I thought I'd give them a try; I don't usually wear headbands or pins.

I've been searching for some nice ones and found a bunch on Etsy.

(StudioElenus)

(kpgrubb)

(jenta2b)

(BeSomethingNew)

(PeacockPixys)

So many cute headbands. How do I choose!?

What I Wore: Folklife Edition

Here's what I wore to the Folklife Festival this weekend:

As you can tell, I like green a lot.

The top is a vintage Christian Dior sweater I found at Red Light Vintage.

My jeans are Levi's. Pretty much all of my pants are Levi's.

Shoes are Vans (represent!).

And my purse is from Spotted Moth.

Kevin calls it my Bowser bag because of the spikes. A very fitting name!

What I Wore Today 5/27/11

Here's a little look at what I wore today:

Top from Anthropologie

Skinny black pants & necklace from Urban Outfitters

Shoes are Sam Edelman

And nails to match my favorite turquoise and silver ring from my grandma

What I Wore Today

Apparently, these types of posts are super popular in the blog-o-sphere, so I thought I'd give it a go. Here's what I wore today.

The office I work in is pretty casual. I love that I can wear jeans to work!

Top from Anthropologie.

Jeans are Levi's.

My favorite boots are by Steve Madden.

Topped off with my clock hands necklace by Lucky Brand.

Wore my hair in a bun today, but say goodbye to those locks. It's haircut day tomorrow! Wish me luck!

dangly earring kind of gal?

I've never really worn dangly earrings, but I do think a lot of them are pretty. If I say I wish I were into dangly earrings, does that mean I am into them? Maybe I'm just not used to them, so it seems like they would look odd on me.

Here are some I'd really like to try sometime.

Victorian button earrings from Betsy & Iya.

Leaf earrings from Alisha Louise Designs.

Brass spike earrings from Lumafina.

The awesome thing is that all these sellers are going to be at the Urban Craft Uprising's Summer Show at Seattle Center in July. So excited. Might have to buy me some!

fremont market sunday

Sunday was such a beautiful day! There was as much sun and warmth as this little pale face could wish for. I decided to go to the Fremont open market with a couple of pals, Jess and Jenine (we're the J.Crew - get it?) to do some Mother's Day/vintage shopping.

Of course we sampled many fine foods, including these awesome pork nachos:

We also tried some brick oven pizza, thai iced tea, lemon bars and this great Danish dessert called ebelskiver. They taste like crepes, but in ball form with the filling inside.

All three of us got some great vintage buys. I found myself an awesome 1970s macrame owl to hang on our wall. I had just mentioned to Kevin about how I'd like to find one and, lo and behold, there it was at the market for $10. Woohoo!

Isn't it cute? It actually makes the apartment seem more homey for some reason.

lolita style

I've always liked the Lolita fashion trend in Japan. I'm not a super girly person, but there's just something about it that I love. There's a great brand called BABY, THE STARS SHINE BRIGHT that makes awesome Lolita fashions. Their U.S. store is in Japantown in San Francisco, so Kevin and I will definitely have to pay it a visit when we go in July.

And the outfit would not be complete without a great Lolita manicure.

I wish I could dress like this and not look like a crazy person walking down the street.

I guess I'll just have to visit Harajuku!

it's been a while.

wowsers. it's been about a month since my last post.

i was back home in hawaii practically all september, so i took a little break from the blog. but at the urging of my awesome friend, denise, i'm back in the saddle again.

since i was still in seattle at the beginning of september and kevin was in hawaii we didn't get to spend my birthday together, which was on september 3rd. it was sad, but the fact that he bought me an awesome present made it okay.

presenting my brand new digital camera!

this is the samsung TL110. my previous camera was very, VERY old with 4.1 megapixels. little did i know that nowadays digital cameras have no less than 10 megapixels. this new one has 14.2 mp. in the words of kevin, "you poor girl."

i love it! here a a couple of pictures i took to test it out:

flowers at pike's market

kevin at pike's

hooray for clearer pictures!

happy chair day!

kevin and i decided to go to goodwill today to look for a chair to go with my craft desk/area, and boy did we do good! as soon as we neared the chair section my eyes went straight for this retro-flower, vinyl dinette chair:

i had to have it. the year on the label read 1968 AND it was $5.

kevin found a chair too. he's always looking for more seating for our living room and he fell in love with this brown leather 1975 chair:

it's now proudly sitting in our living room. yay for chairs!