luluving

figawi-wear.

a little while back I won the cutest baseball tee from an All Women Stalk facebook contest (yes AWS, great blog, great apps, great giveaways.... blah blah blah). Now that I am overwearing the shirt I won I want more & based on the nautical inspiration of the brand I feel as though the time to stock up will be Pre-Figawi weekend :D

the brand... The Printed Palette

here is me rocking my current adorbs t *live life anchored*:

side note, the brand runs true to size so I would say for the slouchy look, order up a size

other side note, they frequently run Instagram / Twitter sales so watch out!

bff arm bling.

Money can buy happiness. It can buy ::

Treasure. The best treasure.

& because I am so altruistic I am sharing the details of my treasure. 

One day I was perusing Saucy Glossie and saw the awesomest bracelets (and thought, how nice more shiz I cannot afford nor will I ever remember to purchase... #firstworldprobz).

Serendipitiously I found myself in the SOWA Market in Boston that Sunday and saw a little booth with the *same* bracelets... no joke, same brand! There I met Lana and her mother and bought one, and it was love (especially the magnetic metal clasp and tiny logo charm)!!!

I even bought more cheap-o friendship bracelets to complete my look!

Lo and behold I lost it in Lake George.  Then I bought another at Flock... another water victim, this time to the Jaw's bridge in Martha's Vineyard. Damn my bridge jumping vanity!

Luckily, Lana reached out to me and we connected. The icing on the cake was an invite to her awesome workshop in South Boston & meeting her precious little Fiona <3

xoxo thanks Lana!

there is no contest.

It's pretty easy to play the comparison game because there is always someone better/more qualified/prettier/younger/wiser/more correct/at peace... Always. At some point you need to take a deep breath and let that all go. It's you v. you and the only obstacles are complacency & distraction from your big picture.

How to avoid those distractions? Umm I dunno?!?! But recently (and after some catastrophically dumb decisions) I made the conscious decision to *try to* avoid toxic connections, I guess I was drawn to them for excitement to escape boredom. Some examples:

• the girl that slept with athletes
• the drug dealer guy
• the married guy (found out after/during the fact when she walked in)
• the girl who was paranoid
• the loudmouth funny rude guy
• the depressed girl
• etc.
• etc.
• etc.

As with any lifestyle change it's felt unnatural at times on top of a pretty ongoing level of second-guessing, but ultimately not without some seriously awesome benefits.

1. Give up disaster guys? End up dating a thoughtful & sweet guy who keeps me smiling
2. Take a step back from *the scene*? Discover some awesome people who were already over it that are already in my life
3. Decide when enough is enough in a work environment that wasn't working anymore? Get a call from my dream job within hours
4. (this may seem stupid but it has parallels in my mind) When Olive was sick again a few weeks ago, the vet urged a ton of extensive extra tests ($$$), I pulled myself back a bit mentally and told her I would monitor Olive but that we weren't going that route... Olive rebounded in a couple days, and if she is dying she is pretty frisky and stoked about it

All this being said, I've made my mistakes and some people have walked away from me for the right reasons, but at the end of the day (as in this day, right here, right now) I am calm and happy and excited about the direction things are going in. Oh and by the wayyyy now that I have that work/life balance that I was dying for I have time for important things, like painting my nails, yeah that's right 2 sizes of sparkles&dark plum in 1 polish (Scandalous/Revlon) :: 

 

 

blogging can be for fun too :)

I have updated my goals! But I am not posting them... Way too personal and timeline oriented. Rest assured, I am still holding myself to them. In the meantime I will write about vapid things like Christmas lists and fashion blogs :D

For my new job in Marketing at TJX, I play a role in Social Media and blogging. One of the best parts of the job is the fact that I *must* stay abreast of fashion blogs. They don't look so hard, so I've decided to merge some of my (often misguided) style choices into this blog. For example, my Christmas list (which I am not inserting a hyperlinked list for, as these are material items and I am so personally fulfilled without them that it's an exercise more than anything) ::

Yes. the Nike Free iD does say "LULU" and "OLIVE" <3

My list is better than last year's list though. Oh wait. They're the same.

On another note. here are some excellent fashion blogs to follow:

Kendi Everyday

Shabby, Chic, and Cheap

Kitten Lounge

Saucy Glossie

Keiko Lynn

Merry Christmas, from Cindy Lu Hoo!