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Anything eggplant at Cafe Maharani, please.


Dyeing with beets, purple cabbage and onion skins.


A lilikoi! Oh, and my EPIC bracelet find from a little Thai store.

taxco

Sigi Pineda, circa 1950's - 1970's


Antonio Pineda, circa 1950's - 1960's


William Spratling, circa 1940's


Erika Hult de Corral, circa 1968 - 1977


Los Castillo, circa 1950's


Sigi Pineda, circa 1950s - 1970s

via Silver Huntress

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Friday afternoons


Inversion top from Take Off Your Clothes



Checking off the list with Holly


Sasha just finished her first film and commercial and is now going to be in her first play


Rainbows


TRUNNK


No pudge brownies = pseudo chocolate mochi


Le Baron rides



Loafing life <3

slip and slide

One of the most interesting mysteries of Death Valley National Park is the sliding rocks at Racetrack Playa (a playa is a dry lake bed). These rocks can be found on the floor of the playa with long trails behind them. Somehow these rocks slide across the playa, cutting a furrow in the sediment as they move. - Geology.com

Also, who knew cracked mud could look so pretty and cobblestone-esque?

charging

Siki Im Spring 2010

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wasteland

Plastic trash vortex TWICE the size of Texas. Floating in the Pacific Ocean between Hawai'i and California.

Reduce people, REDUCE.

(Since this is mostly a fashion blog, you'd think I'd be a wasteful person, especially with my last post of just STUFF, but I'm really not. I hardly shop and buy only what speaks to me and what I can afford.)

gianni barbato

Gianni Barbato



It's so wrong that I don't eat land animals, but I wear them.

knits in my VPL

Aran Baik, who has her MFA in Fashion and Knitwear Design from San Francisco's Academy of Art, created these knitted wonders for VPL's Spring 2010 show. Her cream and gray pieces cradle and climb around the body in such an awesome way and pretty much need to be on MY body. Let's hope Aran does a Urban Outfitters capsule collection like VPL's go-to jewelry designer Lizzie Fortunato did.

s/s 2010 accessories - new york

rag and bone | Cynthia Steffe


Dennis Basso | Doo.Ri


Tory Burch | Willow


Marchesa | Prabal Gurung


Karen Walker | Vena Cava


Alexander Wang | Tory Burch


Thom Browne | DKNY

sporty spice

Alexandre Herchcovitch | Alexander Wang

albert paley

Recumbent (forged and fabricated steel, stainless steel, glass)


Hunter Fence (forged and fabricated iron)


Sideboard with granite (formed and fabricated steel, stainless steel, copper and granite, glass top)

Albert Paley



Bend and twist me in ways I can't force myself to.

ca-ca-colors

Back from Cali, back to school.

google yields great results

Awhile back I wanted a tattoo of a lion with octopus tentacles for its mane because I'm a Leo and I love the number eight. My brother was too lazy to draw it for me, so I Googled 'lion octopus' and this amazing creation was brought to my attention.

And because I love this fine illustration so much, I'm leaving it up while I'll be away in Los Angeles and San Diego! See you in a week, dudes.

with these hands

Knotted up this skinny scarf in the car on the way to eat sushi. Spur of the moment creations are always the best. After sushi I felt like making jewelry so I laid my findings out and put this necklace together for Sasha. First time using actual tools! All necklaces before that were forcibly linked and knotted haphazardly together when chains were lying around. It was not good for my nails.

put a rubber on

Not a material you'd associate with jewelry or comfort, but rubber creates an interesting texture when molded as a chain like the Eddie Borgo bracelets at top and appealing juxtaposition when paired with chains as seen in the Oak cuff in the bottom image.

transitioning

Summer was nice and lazy, so having to do lists makes me feel productive.
Though I'll probably be biting my tongue in a few weeks.

Also just realized that was my last full Hawai'i summer I might get in awhile.
WHOA.