She dances.

dear world,
i would just like to say that i love you.
i love the way your people smile and laugh, i love the way glasses fall to the ends of sweaty noses.  i love the feeling of burrowing under layers of blankets, wool and cotton and fleece.  i love the sounds in a forest, walking on dry leaves, birds wings when they leap from branches, a flower pushing out of the earth. i love the darkness, the still silence of the night when only the stars are screaming. i love the feeling of your toes entering the freezing ocean water, the momentary shock and the seemingly infinite numbness. i love the feeling of hot sand burning the soft skin between my toes.  i love hot chocolate with cream, and coffee when it's scarcely past the point of burning your tongue. i love people who aren't afraid to open up, and make you a part of their life. i love woody allen movies and their awkward romances. i love falling in love.  i love walking in chilly morning air, and the refreshing scent of dew. i love mint leaves in my lemonade. i love learning new things.
i love you.

she's ripping wings off of butterflies

vogue italia march 2010
lady grey

by tim walker

Passion or Perfection?

Sometimes, don't you just need intensity?  Don't you get tired of the mundane, of the homework and tests and facebook and television? I say, forget it all. Put on a new shirt. Now add something that sparkles. And something that clashes.  Do your hair differently and throw some feathers into the mix.  Dust your eyes with glitter. Pout at your reflection. And then walk around barefoot, and say hello to strangers. The confines of suburbia are cracking, and you can break them. You can punch down the walls and awaken the city. Scream it out, shout it out, I say, live now, now, NOW! Stop waiting. Stop wasting time. Life is too short to sleep, life is too short to bother doing anything half way, because you'll never finish. Find something to care about. I mean, something to truly care about. Something that makes you want to cry, something that makes you want to climb the walls, something that makes you want to wake up in the morning. Don't do what makes other people like you, do what makes you happy. There are 6 billion people to like you, but maybe only one thing that truly makes you happy. Do it. The people who are worth knowing will come to you, the ones who want you to be happy. Even if you aren't perfect. Because being perfect isn't human. Being passionate is.

zippidy doo da, zippidy dayyy

  

ummmmm....what can I even say except I am obsessed?

I love the zipper trend (I have a zipper headband from urban outfitters I wear all the time, and I just love the funky metal anywhere I can get it!), and

These are definitely my new favorite thing.

Alexander Wang Zipper Frame Sunglasses

via nymag

all the dirty details

(well, not quite "dirty" details)

to continue on my last post,
Marchesa Fall 2010 up close

I'm so in love with these tattoo tights!
I found something similar on etsy...

some of us need structure

What a neckline!

exactly as you are

Photos via The Satorialist

the world is yours

QUEEN OF THE JUNGLE

Glamour Queen

Sequins, frills, one shoulder,

& stacked bracelets

who says you can't have it all?

Brilliant.

I have nothing else to say...
except this is amazing and brilliant and hillarious and my new guide to getting dressed in the morning (just kidding!)


THANK YOU REFINERY 29!

P.S. If you don't know who the satorialist is, check him out HERE

Trendsetter

I basically love everything about this outfit.

Image via The Satorialist

"Once a King or Queen in Narnia, always a King or Queen"

These pictures bring back childhood memories of that magical place beyond the back of your closet...
though I think these pieces would definitely be front and center.

(photos courtesy of The Moldy Doily and WWD)

sequins are the new black

Topshop

Free People

Betsey Johnson

they're like glitter only....not.