just wanted to take a moment to share a few things that i’ve been up to lately around the web and in real life!

for those of you who didn’t catch it, i was featured in an article on refinery29 sharing my top drugstore beauty buys along with some other awesome bay area bloggers. you can check out the post here!

i also shared a guest post over at honey kennedy, one of my favorite fashion blogs! it features a few bits of my vintage ephemera collection along with a guest appearance from my kitty friend, momo.

photo via robert koo.

last week, i had the honor of speaking on a panel for a writing and publicity course at city college of san francisco. i used to teach 5th graders art and journalism and things, but it really didn’t compare to sitting in front of 50+ college students! i was a bit nervous at first, but the class was actually really nice and it was a wonderful experience to be able to talk about working as a professional blog writer to such a bright and enthusiastic class!

and tonight, i will be speaking on another panel. this time, at the fashion institute of design and merchandising. this event is public, so if you’re interested in the topic, “why blog? ask experts how to amplify your online presence,” then you can swing by from 6 – 8pm! a networking session and refreshments will follow!

last week, i had the pleasure of being invited to a san francisco winter-themed shoot for local publication, the san francisco bay guardian. if you live in sf, then you know what a stand-by it is: usually strewn about on muni seats or scattered around in bart trains, it’s the perfect thing to sit and read while waiting for a friend at a cafe or riding the bus home after work. so you can imagine how delighted i was to wake up this morning to my boyfriend handing me the paper with my mug right there on the cover! that’s right, all of san francisco will see me looking like a total goofball on the cover. and i’m beyond delighted and honored to have been included!

if you open it up to pages 28 – 29, then you can see the full spread featuring myself along with two local trendsetters, justin haeger of welcome stranger boutique, and local stylist, leah perloff. it was a pleasure to meet them both and to be photographed by the talented mathew reamer. if you’re not in the area and want to take a peek, you can click here to read the digital version or here to see the online article. thank you so much to everyone at the san francisco bay guardian for such a lovely feature!

yesterday i had the pleasure of meeting up with forever 21 as part of a san francisco city guide series they’re sharing on the forever 21 blog. we met up at fourbarrel for good conversation and delicious coffee before heading out into the mission district for a bit of thrifting and vintage fun! naturally, our first stop was at one of my favorite thrift store chains, thrift town. the san francisco location is always packed full with new inventory, so it was a pretty good bet. i walked away with a beautiful vintage cream coat, two pairs of vintage salvatore ferragamo flats, a brown suede skirt, and a beautiful vintage wool cardigan!

after that, we quickly stopped into clothes contact nearby before heading out to painted bird where i scored a beautiful floral ’60s dress and ogled at their beautiful selection of silk blouses. there are a million more shops in the area that i highly recommend but we only had a limited amount of time, so i listed a few more options in the post over at forever 21.

i also wanted to let you know that i’ll be at the new forever 21 store opening at 2 stockton street in san francisco on saturday, january 7 at 9:30am. i’ll be there along with a little section featuring my favorite picks from the store! the first 500 customers in line will get a free gift card and everyone can enjoy 15% off with this coupon. hope to see you there!

good morning! i hope you are all feeling jolly and well-fed on this glorious day after thanksgiving! i have to head to work, but it was nice to have a short break from the week to celebrate family and food. and my morning was made just a little bit brighter when i discovered that yesterday i was featured as day 66 on 365 lucky days! the incredibly talented lucky jackson embroidered my portrait as part of “blog crush” week in her year-long project to create a new piece of embroidered art every day for 365 days. i first discovered her work through a few of my favorite blogs, so when she approached me about creating my portrait, i nearly died. i mean, seriously, how awesome is that? she even found a fabric that is almost identical to the print on my vintage dress!

in addition to this crazy beautiful piece, which i am so honored to be a part of, she has already created quite a line-up of of impressive portraits. i rounded up a few of my favorites for you to enjoy, but you really have to visit her site to get the full scope. thank you so much, lucky!

your eyes are not deceiving you! it’s yet another video! and as you can tell, i’m still warming up to the whole talking and moving on camera bit, but i’m making my most valiant effort. i think i said this after i did the dvf video, but oh my, i have a lot more respect for people who are on camera all of the time! it really is quite a skill!

anyway, enough of my early morning rambling! this video was shot by the lovely claudia escobar of the nbc bay area website, the feast! she came to my apartment to take a peek in my closet and i held her captive for two hours while i showed off my collection! and i believe this might be one of the first times that i’m sharing the inside of my home with you guys. there aren’t many panned out shots, but now you have an idea of what my closet looks like (yes, it’s an entire room). i know i’ve gotten quite a few requests over the past few years from people curious to see what it looks like, so here’s a little look at what i’ve got!