Backpacks, Boy Shorts, Baby Dress, & Poetry

As this week is winding down and I don't have any outfit pics in the hopper, I wanted to share a few retailers, books, and thoughts that have been swirling around in my outfitting and reading life...

First up, a new retailer that I'm online flirting with Cuyana

Their catalog is so elegant, and low-key, very much playing in the chic neutral pond that I enjoy. Plus I'm slowly falling in love with this bag--

This Leather Backpack can also be a shoulder bag, how versatile. This has gone up on my Pinterest Board "Things I Crave"!!!!

Also currently hanging out on that board are these men's pleather shorts from Zara!

These shorts are kind of ridic, but I also kind of love them... they are sold out, but the idea of browsing in the men's department isn't ridiculous at all. I'm a big fan of both Zara and Forever 21's male section.

But enough about retail fantasies for myself, let's move on to baby girl!

Notch Baby Dress

Chambray Baby Dress

Recently received a catalog for Tea Collection out of Australia. How adorbs are these embroidered dresses!!!!!? I have to be very careful when shopping for baby girl. I can easily get caught up in the preciousness. So, I've implemented some ground rules, first and foremost never pay full price, 2nd nothing "branded", and 3rd never buy anything that's not machine washable.

I don't often HAVE to buy clothes for the baby, her grandmothers and aunts are always getting her things, so it's not like the child is going to go naked anytime soon.

From the body to the mind--BOOKS!

Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls

I'm waiting to buy this story book for my baby until she's a bit older. This volume contains bedtime stories of 100 (!!!) extraordinary women. I can't wait to share this one with Little Miss in a few years.

Speaking of extraordinary women I've been spending time with "Jackknife: New and Selected Poems" by my teacher Jan Beatty.

Jackknife

This brilliant collection has all of my poetry cylinders pounding. The emotion, energy, language, raw power is just amazing. I don't have the space or words here to go into the in-depth praise this books deserves, but trust this work will change you, for the better!

Have a great rest of your week. I'll be back with outfits on Monday!

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Two Things

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Nasty Gal

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40 Year Old Cottagecore

dress-Anthropologie(more options here ), sunnies- DIFF Eyewear , necklace- Benevolence LA , bag-- Shiraleah , sandals- Born I first became aware of Cottagecore earlier this summer and found it to be an aesthetic I can appreciate and find aspirational , but was not necessarily a style that aligned with my wheelhouse. Well as I've been growing my hair during covid quarantine and having picked up this dress as seen here , I felt that I was ready to tackle #cottagecore here on my 40th birthday!!! Yep, that's right today I turn 40 (but I don't look it). And while it's been a year like no other, I feel excited for my next year, decade, chapter of my life. I think it's fair to say I'm done having babies and ready to move on from the chaos of very little children to the chaos of big kids. I no longer feel like I have something to proof in my work, writing, sense of self. I'm just going to enjoy and be grateful for the many blessings of family, friends, health, a...

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