Posts tagged shoes

1/29/12: spent the day up on the roof, reading girl with the dragon tattoo while the chicken marinated in the crock pot. 

1/30/12: biked to the beach! let me tell you, it has been quite some time since my last biking adventure and i am out. of. shape. i literally felt like i had been used as a punching bag by the time we were done. but its good, i just need to get back in the habit. 

1/31/12: sick in bed = pedicure and friends on dvd. 

2/1/12: keeping warm before heading out to see the mister and some friends. 

2/2/12: dress up day for photos and dinner with the ladies.

2/3/12: feet up friday! happy happy hour!

2/4/12: a little lunchtime fresh air before i’m done with work for the week. weee!

side note - i really liked having a theme for the week. it was nice knowing what i was going to photograph every day. i know i started out with the easiest subject ever, but bear with me. 

last weeks photos

1/8/12: i took a bunch of pictures today, but this one just kind of encompasses the whole day. we walked down to the farmers market cause i was craving empanadas and it was just a gorgeous day. this leaning tree made me giggle. 

1/9/12: trees two days in a row! eep! today was super awesome. woke up early and got some errands done - got ink for my printer so i can start putting these photos in my album, got a bunch of canvases so i have no excuse to get behind on a painting a week, went grocery shopping (gasp!). then came back and had some beef stew for lunch and walked to the beach and back. the four miles wore me out and gave me blisters the size of quarters - but nothin a sushi burrito for dinner cant cure. 

1/10/12: playing around with new editing techniques. i have such a hard time taking photos in my apartment because its just so dark and yellow. thats the point of this project though, i guess, to learn new things and get better. so i finally got around to framing and hanging the bag that my secret santa gift came in! i love it. its so pretty. 

1/11/12: wednesday we had the sweets truck come to work to celebrate january birthdays. yum. 

1/12/12: i admit, i had to kind of stretch with this one. it was late and i hadn’t taken my photo yet. but i did want to talk about these shoes eventually anyway, so here goes. these were my first pair of expensive shoes. fifty dollars! they’re from the wild pair, remember that store? i was in seventh grade. my mom was so pissed. she didn’t think i would wear them. but let me tell you, i wore the shit out of these babies. eventually i got tired of them, but somehow they managed to survive every fit of feng shui madness i’ve had since then (and there have been plenty) because i just loved them so much. i left them at home when i moved to la, but every once in awhile i think about them and in my head they are so amazing that i wished i had them with me here. so finally when i went home this time for christmas, i had my mom dig them out and i brought them back with me. they’re hideous, right? i tried wearing them the other day with my pajama pants for like a seventies vibe, but it didn’t work. i have to keep them though. i know the instant i would get rid of them, i would immediately want them back because bell bottoms came back into style or something.

1/13/12: marshall and i have had a longstanding rain check for another double date with josie and joe for sausages at wurstkuche venice. friday we finally cashed it in. 

1/14/12: i met marshall and his roommates in santa monica tonight for a walk and some sushi. thank god because the sunset was effing amazing. 

see january week one here

make that five, actually, counting last night. i wasn’t able to get a ton of time off work for this visit home, so while i’m here i needed to make sure i see every extension of my crazy family and squeeze in as many traditions as possible. i am fat and exhausted, but if those are the worst of my problems, consider me one lucky girl. 

top, pants, belt: jcrew

vest: borrowed from gramma

necklace: gift from nontra

ring: f21

socks: target

shoes: toms

with the craziness of the holidays and the long hours of (self-imposed) overtime i work, its important to me that my workspace makes me happy. when i first got hired on at toms a little over a year ago, it was as seasonal help. i wasn’t sure if i would be there after my contract ended, so i didn’t put any effort into decorating in fear i would just have to take it all down. but now, my little cube definitely feels homey to me, and i love it. 

{clockwise from top} photo booths with friends are my favorite; the best email ever received: “if i’m not a hipster can i still wear these shoes?,” mustaches galore and my shrinky dink garland; my century club bell, postcards and trinkets; toms flag, zappos delivering happiness winky face, gramma’s advent calendar. 

i’ve started this book before but didnt get a chance to finish it, let alone get very far. but i’m halfway through it this time and i love the noir and the drama. 

i somehow almost always end up with a collection of pretty things on my dresser. 

new glasses. obsessed. 

a pretty little kitty in my neighborhood. 

flowers brighten up my desk at work. 

i seem to be having an la themed entertainment week. 

the man friend and i went on a sushi date and i forgot to take a picture of this adorable sushi cat until he was all messy. 

holiday shoes!

we had a “thankful day” at work, and gave each other thank you notes. i got this little love letter from miss josie. 

months ago, a friend gave me this vintage shrinky dink paper and i’ve been dying to use it since, i just didnt know what to make. then it hit me - little shoe garland for my desk at work! 

i wanted to use colored pencils, so i had to sand down the paper first so the color would stick. 

i had nontra make me a pattern cause she’s better at free-handing than me, then i went to town. 

after i drew them all, i cut them out and punched holes in the tops to string them up.

line the baking sheet with parchment paper so they dont stick. (i dont have any fun in-the-oven shots because i covered them with parchment too so they wouldnt curl and stick to themselves. 

after! 

string them up…

and voila!