Violently Happy

Friday, March 30, 2012

My Favorite Things

So it's been an entire week since I perused my 5 fave shopping sites (Anthropologie, Gap, Nordstrom, ASOS & Mod Cloth) *because I have absolutely zero will power and I buy everything I see* so yesterday I proceeded with extreme caution when I took a quick peek while my girl was napping.

**Bri (DesignLoveFest) posted about the Anthropologie event!! *why can't my photos come out this awesome?* How did I miss Joy & Emily Henderson? We were at the store for like 2 hours. Oh well, I signed up for the Oh Joy! event at Kate Spade in April so I'm see her there.

Tell me, how can you resist this skirt?

Field of Vision Skirt *Boo, it's sold out online but I've seen it stores*

I love the vibrant colors and I have no maxi skirts....super practical!!

Speaking of maxi skirts...yes please!

Crinkle maxi skirt

I would wear this top with it.

Embroidered floral top

OMG, I almost died when I saw these! They will make me look 7 feet tall but...

I am dying over how amazing these are, but of course they only have 1 left in my size!

Angelic Houston Wedge

Ridiculously adorable!

I have mentioned the Bossi camera bag before but in black. I kinda NEED it in nude.

The Bossi Camera bag

I really must have it for our Paris trip, really!

Here are a few other items I find to be necessary for Paris. Does anyone have any suggestions for fun things to do in Helsinki? I will be with my friend Aura who will be our host but I'm not up on fun things to do there besides sauna and the beer trolley.

Like this adorable tote for souvenir shopping.

Thursday Friday Black Diamonds Tote

I think these would be comfy for all day walking and will go with everything.

Børn Ibis Oxford

Asos is killing it with this romper. I love how Puritan it looks. I would totally wear it with those wing wedges and these tights.

Playsuit with Collar

I am obsessed with playsuits!!!

This model is adorable! Floral Playsuit in 40s Print

FABulous!

OMG! I have been wanting a scarf from this etsy shop for over a year now.

Puffins Circle Scarf by Yokoo

This hat is too much for Disneyland Paris

I adore this model, so androgynous.

Liv's sparkly blue Toms are starting to lose their sparkle, so I'm considering these as a replacement.

Toms Cruz Slip On

or these so we can be twinsies?

Toms Glitter Slip On

I am not giving up finding Liv an agent. It's harder than I thought but we put together a new comp card. I love it!!

Contact Momager Elizabeth

I'm submitting her to a bunch of new agencies today. *Fingers crossed!!*

And lastly, I am normally not a fan of the oldies. They are slow, grouchy and can't drive *I'm such a bitch!* but this memaw is all kinds of awesome. I usually don't give a shit about sports but when it comes to gymnastics, I'll all about it. Get it Granny!!

She wins at life!!

It's quite sad I can't do most of what she's doing at 86. I am on the verge of my sore throat leaving me, still have that damn ringing in my ears. Note to self; wear ear plugs next time I go to a show!

Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Happy Doing Nothing

Occasionally, I enjoy having to run around in a chaotic state. I have absolutely nothing planned this week and I am so grateful. I can recover from the awesome CSS show *my throat is sore and my ears are still ringing* how's that for an old lady? My phone is not alerting me of any appointments and I have nothing on my agenda except playing with Olivia, cleaning and late night Draw Something *I only play the third word cause I'm hardcore, bring it!!* sessions. I really need this week off. We have been going out everyday for the past 3 months!

Check out how huge this guy is!!

While playing in the backyard with Liv yesterday, I noticed the house behind ours is getting some work done.

I would die if this was a Steve Jones *he's my blog crush at Better Shelter* flip

It appears to be a flip because so far they have sandblasted the awful stucco and are building a lovely little deck. Only investor money can afford fancy doors and windows like that. Before it was two craptastic little shacks. Thank heavens the neighborhood is emerging. Antz & I are both hoping they may even throw in a new privacy fence and we get some more awesome people moving on the block. Our 4 year old bamboo is looking pretty shredded from the rain. I am planning to use my free time to work on refinancing our mortgage. If this HARP program is legit, I am going to roll our second into our first mortgage and somehow bring down our payments by $500. We can use that to boost our new house savings. As well as we've been doing with our Etsy shop *we are averaging 1-2 orders a week now* it's not enough to hit our target savings for Paris in 2 years. It doesn't help that banks are offering the lowest interest rates ever for savings acoounts. We are savings Liv's tuition in a yearly CD but it's earning so little, it would take a 60 month CD to make anything substantial *like a whooping $60 annually*. Okay, enough boring money talk. We are excited about all this building in the hood, Antz is going to clean out our garage this weekend. I am going to work on de-cluttering, particularly the kid's too many toys and outgrown clothes *we have 2 bebe friends who can use them* I may even work in the garden if the weather stays nice. Sunday I've got a date with some ~~stuffed mushrooms~~, I mean, Story & Chris.

We may possibly be going to the Nickelodeon Kid's Choice Awards this Saturday. I am not as excited as I've been previous years cause the venue isn't as fun as UCLA. It's enormous and we were sitting in the ceiling section so it gave me vertigo most of the time.

Spazzing out over Mr. Johnny Depp

I also still have ringing in my ears and I'm certain a bunch of screaming tweens will not be pleasant. However, we are hoping to invite our friends and I would love Kieran & Liv to have a kiddie fun time.

May the odds be ever in your favor!!

Yeah, We Wore It 3/12

Made it just under the gun. I wasn't going to use this photo but we literally took hundreds of shots and it wasn't happening that day. I was using the camera tripod and the remote but I couldn't get a decent shot no matter what. We were on our way somewhere and Antz was over it so I had to use what we had. It's incredible that this shot *with Antz face covered and Liv not jumping* was the best of the bunch. I do love how sinister and spooky the sky looks, it ended up pouring the next day. Next month I'll strive for a more flattering shot.

So about 90% of what we are wearing is from Gap. They really need to hire us as a spokes-family because we rock that shit every day. Our shoes are from Nordstrom and Liv's hat is from the boys section at Target. You have seen my hat in a cuter photo here, which was $12 from Mod Cloth. We were celebrating daylight savings *love more sun when Papa comes home* and welcome to spring!

Here are some outtakes...I suck at the new camera remote!

50% of them came out like this

Monday, March 26, 2012

Tired of Being Sexy

Don't worry, I'm not tired of being sexy at all, that is the translation of the Brazilian band CSS *Cansei de Ser Sexy* that Aimee, her son Holden and I saw last night at The Observatory. They were amazing!

The venue was deep in the OC *yuck* and the first 2 opening bands sucked. Aimee and I went apeshit when CSS was on. We danced and dorked out. I filled up my iphone with pictures and video and of course, it wouldn't be Liz fashion to have non-blurry photos. I actually have to take credit, I was dancing and jumping around so much I didn't have much of a steady hand. Enjoy