fantasy tour – the desert sequence

Going home for the holidays in a week’s time has got me fantasizing about vanning around the USA… through the desert, up the west coast and back over the mid west. I’ve decided to create getup installments of a winter fantasy tour. Here’s the first installment, The Desert Sequence:

Shopping: rome frames, blackbird necklace, spitalfields belted coat, blue corduroy dress, tassled ikat scarf, english satchel.

(green) gifts under $50

If you’d like to shop consciously this holiday season, try Patagonia. This fantastic outdoor clothing company takes econciousness to the next level. Here are just a FEW of the programs they initiated or currently take part in (see more here):

Freedom to Roam: Currently Patagonia’s priority environmental campaign. Its goal is to create, restore and protect “wildways” or corridors between habitats so animals can survive

Conservacion Patagonica: A long-term effort by the company and its employees to create a new national park in (where else?) Patagonia, Chile

Common Threads: A garment recycling program where certain fabrics can be returned to the company for recycling

Organic Exchange: A non-profit organization committed to expanding organic agriculture, with a specific focus on increasing the production and use of organically grown fibers such as cotton.

Most of their garb is puffy jacket related for skiing and whatnot, but they actually have some sweet and colorfully cozy socks, long johns, tees (all made from either chlorine free wool or 100% organic cotton).

Here’s my Green Gifts under $50 Roundup:

Shopping: stripy socks, organic cotton Gaucho tee, organic & recyclable live simply tee, turquoise long johns,

ruffled feathers

More giant creature neck flare! Amazing necklace from anthropologie:

partyparty by confettisystem party

Moseyman’s birthday and of course the holidays, are creeping closer and closer. While I wouldn’t scare moseyman with a surprise birthday in this type of decor, I’m tempted to throw a couple of these hanging pinata’s around the house for those desperate days where you just need to pummel something and receive a rainfall of candy in return…

marimekko color explosion

I’ve always had a thing for Marimekko’s bold explosions of color. And after a long, bleak, day, cooped up indoors, a jolt of color is just what I need…

great patterned tights

Gotta get out of the default skinny jeans, sweater and booties look. I’m a lazy dresser on rushed weekday mornings. Unlike my organized mum, I don’t plan my outfits the night before. It’s possible that these great patterned tights would only end up getting yanked out for weekend prancing usage (fair enough) but I’d love to try them out for workwear. Note to self: must. get. organized.

nantucket necklace

Perhaps you’re tired of me posting these giant creature necklaces by now but er, I can’t help it. Just look at the shiny mug on “Nantucket“

here comes the sessun

I normally don’t like being accosted by music when I open a website but Sessun seems to accost me with music I keep wanting to return to. Their collection, their winter photo shoot aesthetic, their entire urban-nature vibe, and yes, their site music, is like slipping into a warm bubble bath. Feel for yourself…

boy’s boyblazers

Boy by Band of Outsiders just came out with a few new boyblazers to add to their already great little collection. Here are my two favorites.

neck flair

Ostriches in head kerchiefs and bejeweled dinosaurs make for interesting necklaces: