Sabina Style!

This is Sabina.  Though I have many years on her, she is truly my fashion doppelganger.  She is quite the style icon of the Bay Area, already light years ahead of her peers.  Imagine where she will be in 20 years... and what she will be wearing?!  I know I'm going to stay tuned.  This kid's going places!

Our style relationship basically hinges on our love of socks and sandals.  And she loves skirts and dresses, just like me!  We eschew jeans as much as we can, Sabina and I.  Sabina once changed her favorite Disney princess because she no longer liked the shoes that particular princess wore.  I would totally do something like that.  And if you let her try on your Louboutins, she does everything not to have to give them back.  Or so I've heard.  See, we are birds of a feather!

I keep trying to convince Sabina's dad to do a blog of her outfits.  Tavi ain't got nothin' on her!

I mean, she's got the poses down.

Loving the striped leggings/socks/sandals combo.

A moody indoor shot, still with her signature socks and sandals.

And THIS.  It's simply too good.  

Shoe Kid

Dress and collar, Something Else by Natalie Wood, leggings Gap, sweater Gap, necklace Digby & Iona, shoes New Kid.

LOVE these.  Suede, embroidery, embossed croco... what's not to love?!

Two Kids and A Dog

...and a person made of prosciutto!

Debbie and Ben and their two pretty little girls came over last night, along with Katie and Jonathan and Katie's mom's dog, Bo.  Needless to say, things got a little rowdy (there was Hilde hissing, some crayon art on the windows, and a bucking bronco display on the couch).  But we cleaned it all up and headed out to the Village Bar for old times' sake.

No Costume This Year...

So here's last year's.

One of my all-time favorite costumes.

Totoro!

Obsessed with this Totoro cake!

From here.

Happy Halloween!

Creepy, no?

Life lesson:  when the cat wants down, let her down.  Immediately.

At least the gore is timely.  Happy Halloween, y'all!

Wears

Amazing bejeweled purple sweater!  It's like regal grand ole opry!  I am wearing those yellow pants again here, so don't even worry about it.

Today... vintage mohair jacket from Wilbur, vintage Levi's blouse, vintage Levi's cut-offs, tights from Anthro, shoes Rachel Comey.

Look at these tights!  They have foxes on them!  I got some with horses, too....

Fuzzy mohair.

Childhood Finds

Cleaning out things in the basement today, I found some old faves!

Merlin, Speak&Spell, and a "Touch Me" Atari handheld.  The Speak&Spell's batteries still had juice!  I want to hang these on my wall.

Magical Japanese kaleidoscope.

Mix tapes!  The one with the heart in the middle is from Dana.  Cool!

The Realistic Concertmate 200.  Sweet beats... a la Trio's "Da Da Da" jam.  heh.  New batteries provided an afternoon of fun!

Ger's old hikers are right on trend.  Beautiful made-in-Italy boots.  Gorge!

Favorite reads.

XL-ing for your illustrated pleasure.  So good!

Outfit and cat-mackin'

Streeeeeeeetching out the wardrobe.... These neon beauts are the only pants I have here in St. Lou.  Three months, no jeans?  Is it a personal record?  Actually, I think not.  Yay for no jeans!

Yallow pants from Mon/Nicki, vintage Puerto Rico tee (trust me), bellhop jacket H&M, shoes Rachel Comey, vintage bracelets and sunny g's.

She puts a move on him!  Right in front of me!  That trollop!

Springfield, Illinois

Big Ger's been dying to take us to the new Lincoln Museum (OK, it's not that new... but new to us) in Springfield, Illinois.  We packed Aunts Helen and Louise into the car and headed for the land of, uh, Lincoln.

The museum is really well-done and quite moving.  I sorta don't really feel like going into all of it, but it does that amazing man justice.  And it's quite modern and still bright and shiny.  A *new* museum--imagine!

Here's one of me and that dastardly John Wilkes Booth.  Looks kinda like Byron, hmm?  Too bad he was such a bad seed because that cape is alll-right!

Me and the fam.  Yeah, we totally waited our turn to take this picture.

Look!  It's Frank Lloyd Wright's Dana Thomas House!

It's real nice.

What was left of caramelized brussels sprouts with bacon and pecans.

A cat taco!

Norf City

We always find ourselves in South St. Louis City, where my dad is from, and not so much in North St. Louis City, where my mom is from.  North City has lots of issues, if you will, which are pretty much summed up here.  These issues aren't unlike the problems in the north part of Philly or, um, most of Detroit, but seeing what's become of a once-vibrant part of town is pretty depressing.  Here's a really interesting capture from my pretend-boyfriend over at Built St. Louis:  The Slow Death of a City Block. I think one of the things that struck me about North City was all of the open space where homes once stood.

And... I took all of these shots from the car because, well, we didn't get out.  So sad.

Witness:

Lots of that.  Lots of piles.

This is my mom's old grade school, the former Perpetual Help.

The old Carter Carburetor  plant.

Then we went to Piekutowski's Sausage Shop, a vestige on N. Florissant Avenue.

Their Krakow was off the proverbial chain!  Oh lordies!  Must.  Find.  More.  Krakow.

A crooked photo of Eliot School on Grove, which I had an inkling was an Ittner school... and I was right!  Apparently, it was his first school.  You can read more about William B. Ittner here and a list of his schools is here.

The water tower on North Grand.  Here's a better photo.  It was designed by George Barnett and finished in 1871.  (By the way, St. Louis still has three victorian-era water towers standing.  Each is glorious in its own way.  These towers were built to control surges in water pressure--not to store water.)

Found this guy selling "SNOOT" (yes, in the singular) near the entrance to I-70.

Tete du moine, aged gouda, some dijon, and that wonderful krakow!  Y-U-M!