Check it! new stuff up in da shoppe!

new stuff up in my shoppe :)  all crop tees are $20 with free domestic shipping!

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xo

bravegrrl

half wet hair and a dress with a hot glue gunned hem

dress-goodwill, cardigan-bravegrrl, shoes-little raisin vintage/etsy, choker-fitchbace/etsy, sunnies-miracle eye

it's been awhile

i'm unmotivated

but trying

i made this cardi

well i thrifted it and tie dyed it in my kitchen

it's a small kitchen

but i like my small apartment

i sleep on a futon in the living room

and somehow still believe i'm a princess of the deep sea even though logic tells everyone else otherwise

good day to you

this sweet cardigan will be available here after i have a few more sips of coffee

xo

china town on cinco de mayo

we really are spacey and kinda out of it.  whatever "it" is.  the boyfriend and i are trying to think of something different to do over saturday morning (not really morning) coffee... and he comes up with the great idea of taking the metro to downtown.  oh yeah.  that sounds fun.  being the only los angeles native that hasn't taken the metro this sounds like an adventure.  we pack up and go... grab some more coffee in south pasadena and jump on.  at every stop it gets more and more packed.  and some people have sombreros...hmmmm... this is gonna be good.  we get off at union station and QUICKLY realize it's cinco de mayo!  hahaha.  the streets were packed.  it was hot.  this was quickly going down down down... until we took refuge at philippes, shared a lemonade, some coleslaw and soup and became engrossed in our safe house strangely decorated with circus memorabilia.  we decided to play around china town where it was much much calmer even though it is was only a few blocks away from the festivities.  fun times.  we are space cadets, but we have fun...

so my photos aren't great cuz i'm not really making that any kind of priority.  i've been trying to live instead of document living.  that doesn't always produce the best photos, but whatever....

i've been into a kind minimal 90s thing for a while now... not that you would ever know that cuz i am not very minimal.  yesterday i was looking through some old photos and i think i dressed better in highschool.  i don't think the internet has helped that... i love reading blogs and getting lost in tumblr, but i really need to stop spending so much time surfing shops... it just makes me want stuff, save for it and then not look as good as when i had $10 to spend at salvation army.  so that is a current goal... to spend less time lusting in online shops.  that being said, i adore this look, it felt very me :)  and that is always a good thing as far as clothes go.  i mean they are clothes not rocket science.  speaking of science.  i bought the history channels ancient aliens at target the other day... dang i love that shit.

xo

oops almost forgot....

wearing top-young captive (etsy), slip-goodwill, boots-retrovintage123 (etsy) bday present from the bf, socks- olld nastygal, sunnies-old focals,  chocker-molten relic, buffalo nickel ring-chickamaugaBill (etsy) bday gift from daddy

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take it or leave it.

just trying to get down to business.

no frills.  no gimmicks.  

here i am world...

yeah, i know you have bigger fish to fry...

i really need some live music

wearing vintage dress-tarantulasisters etsy, vintage silver necklace-find of the week from goodwill, earrings-from da bf, headband-bravegrrl etsy

here is my favorite of my recent creations...

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i'm losing a dang hour of sleep!

how awesome is this jacket?  it's reversible.  yes.  i know.  i just adore thrifting.  i actually hit quite the jackpot the last few goodwill visits.  since i've last blogged i've scored a pair of black ksubi jeans & theory trousers (santa monica goodwill), this jacket & the fairy tale world of arthur rackham (pasadena goodwill) and these bum equipment overalls (glendale goodwill).  i think i have a goodwill problem haha...

so shopping edition...

after scoring this jacket i decided to do a post on shopping... but alas madeline beat me to it so i will just expound a little.  here is my shopping breakdown:

85% secondhand

this includes thrifting, online vintage shopping, trading and high end used ebay goods

10% new

mainly socks, tights, bras/undies, the occasional shoe splurge and the occasional luxury item (this is mainly a birthday thing haha)

5% handmade/small business

mainly etsy and small homegrown (online) boutiques

my shopping philosophy is very similar to madeline's... i really recommend reading her post on it here.  i'm using her post as a point of reference because 1/i am too lazy at the moment 2/i agree with her wholeheartedly and 3/i couldn't have said it better myself.  but i do have a few other things to add...

sell things that you aren't using.  one grrl's trash is another grrl's treasure :)  i am kinda ocd... so i clean out my closet A LOT.  living in a small apartment kinda helps me keep this a ritual and i highly recommend it to all you bloggers/fashionistas.  being a thrift junky (or shopping junky for that matter) really keeps a closet nice and full and often enough we have things we don't really wear.  i take my vintage pieces to squaresville/wasteland/buffalo exchange and the more contemporary pieces and name brands to crossroads/buffalo exchange to sell/trade.  you will often find something that fits into your current aesthetic.  and the best part is it's affordable if you are trading and it's secondhand so you aren't contributing to the demand for creating more things for people to buy.

i also really recommend buying high end and designer items on ebay.  there is always someone selling things that they barely wore.  that is where i get a lot of my shoes and sometimes you can even get a deal.

buy handmade, local and from small businesses.  it is just all around a great experience... you get unique things made with love and passion AND you are supporting the artist lifestyle.  supply and demand... an artist can only survive on their art if there is a demand for it.  i find it easier to swallow spending a chunk of change on an amazing unif piece than shopping at f21.  i would love to buy more handmade items... if i could buy 95% secondhand, handmade and small business i would be veryvery happy :)

and lastly donate.  because it's time to stop abusing our planet and because there are people who shop at thrift stores because they can't afford to shop anywhere else.

xo

ps... all those trade/sell shops i mentioned above are in l.a.  i think you can google or yelp places in your area  pretty easily though :)

wearing vintage jacket, diyed bum equipment overalls & tee-goodwill, aa thigh highs, harley davidson boots-tunnel vision, sunnies-etsy

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