Three Day Weekend

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I'm stupendously excited because myself and seven friends are all going upstate for the three day weekend to Stephentown, where I went last fall and had a blast (the photo above is from that trip). As you can guess I'm most excited to take 10,000 pictures, relax, and be away from my computer. But of course, my iPhone came today so I can't escape that completely:) Knowing my recent twitter addiction I probably won't be able to resist...

I'm leaving tonight and won't be blogging tomorrow, so have a wonderful weekend! Monday I'll be back with a massive Bits of My Weekend post, for sure.

Email Updates Sign Up

Hello everyone! Someday I will post about things other than the shop, but for now I just wanted to let everyone know that if you want to receive emails about when I update the Etsy shop with more necklaces (and other goodies) you can now sign up here, or in the field over yonder on the right side of the blog underneath the etsy widget. If you already emailed me about being on a list, I put you on it already! I'm just so unorganized with my gmail account and it's getting a bit overwhelming, so I thought I'd be a grown up and start a newsletter. Ooohhh, ahhhh! While I would like to make all the requested necklaces and put them on reserve for certain people, something tells me that might backfire and I don't want a whole shop of reserved necklaces. So I'll give you a good heads up and then you can all duke it out for them.

Minimalist Love

Some things I love at Cataci...


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Giveaway!

I'm excited to announce my first ever giveaway here at For Me, For You! Chickdowntown.com is offering one of you lucky readers this super awesome Elizabeth & James deconstructed tee in grey. Elizabeth and James is a line designed by Ashley and Mark-Kate Olsen, and it's one of the rare celebrity fashion lines I really like. Also, I live in plain tees and thought you guys would like this unique one.

So to enter, just comment below and tell me where you'd wear the shirt. A date? Out with friends? Make sure that you leave your email address if your profile or blog doesn't have it! Also, this giveaway is for US residents only. Giveaway ends July 15th.

Check out all the other awesomeness at Chickdowntown.com. My personal favorite is the Vintage dresses! You can also follow them on twitter, and facebook.

You crazy kids cleaned me out

Wow you guys, I am floored. Thank you to everyone who bought a necklace today, there is only one left! Along with the extra requests I have no materials left for more necklaces. I'm hoping to get supplies back in soon to restock the shop late next week, and I will let you know when that happens for sure! If you have your heart set on one, let me know and I will email you when it's remade. katemiss at gmail dot com

Again, thank you, I'm so incredibly grateful for your support! I have to enlist the help of my trusty assistant Billy to help me get these orders out the door tomorrow.

Introducing For Me, For You Jewelry

I am very, very excited today to announce the addition of my jewelry to my etsy shop!

This collection of jewelry is inspired by the friendship bracelets of my childhood with a grown-up twist. I've been working so hard to get these done and hope you love them as much as I do.

I also have to thank my dear friend Anneliis for modeling some of the jewelry for me over the weekend. I wish I could have found a way to use her pretty face more!

Also, if any sell out that you want to purchase, take a look at my sold orders and let me know if you want that one, because I might have the materials to remake that one, or at least in the color with a similar chain (because some of the chains are vintage and I may not be able to get again!).

Bike Aid Poster

I just wanted to share a poster I recently created for the lovely Andrea of miel et cannelle. I spent a whole Saturday drawing bikes for this one, which was quite a different experience than I'm used to with drawing!

vintage lamps

I'm so in love with these vintage double gooseneck brass desk lamps. Top from here and bottom from here.

Bits Of My Weekend

This weekend I finally got the sun I was asking for. Friday Billy worked overnight so I went to Brooklyn and had a date night with Lauren, who is quite a good date and talked me into dessert and gave me my tv fix while we made jewelry. Saturday was a trip to Governor's Island with Anneliis and we took lots of photos (that I can't show you yet!) for my jewelry. Saw some friends in town from Poland and watched the sun set from an amazing 20th floor apartment in Brooklyn. Sunday I had lots of boring sitting at my computer work to do, but we managed to go to take a stroll to Soho to get Billy's beard trimmed at his barbershop (best thing to watch ever) and fall asleep to Star Wars. Thank you, sunshine, for giving me two days of your splendor.

Have a (hopefully) sunny weekend!

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I'm having a little déjà vu writing this, but this weekend I'm hoping and praying for just one day without rain. And that day better be tomorrow. I'm going to Governor's Island to take pictures of my pretty friend Anneliis, and if it rains I DON'T GIVE A DAMN. I will just hold an umbrella over my camera and we'll just get wet and I will spend a day outside for once.

A few random things I didn't have time to blog about this week:

Though a total luxury, I'm so in love with this Chandelier (you were right, Mandi!)

White Hart Lane is a super cute online Aussie magazine. I like their bit on men with beards, swoon Bon Ivar! Can I add Robin Pecknold to that list? Mmmmmm. Speaking of, download a new Fleet Foxes song recorded live.

I want this jade colored nail polish!

Have a great weekend everyone!

leather necklace

I love this gorgeous leather necklace by Bare Collection. Available at Anthropologie.

"shorts" is a funny word

These shorts are so Laura Dern in Jurassic Park and I'm pretty sure I love that.

A bad day for icons

When I was a tot my mom would put Michael Jackson on the record player, and no matter where I was in the house I'd drop what I was doing and dance. Apparently it was like a party trick for my parents. Watch Kate dance to Michael Jackson. I don't dare dance in public these days, but if he comes on when I have itunes on random, I will indeed drop everything to dance. Ask Billy. So while it honestly felt like he had been gone for a long time already, I'm saddened by his departure from this world, and sad that Farrah had to go on the same day. I'm blown away by the massive instant reaction from everyone - people everywhere on the streets were talking about it on my walk home. Let's all just drop what we're doing and dance to my favorite Michael Jackson song on earth. Farrah would have, I bet.

You can't embed the music video, so here's the mp3 to crank up. But seriously, go watch the video. How sexy was he?

Broken

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Today, at the end of week 3, I broke the shopping ban and bought an iPhone. I agonized over needing a new phone for a month, and at the same time, my ipod battery started only lasting for two hours. I looked at every phone in existence. I can probably tell you more about cellphones that you will ever need to know now. But when it came down to it, my next billing cycle with T-Mobile was coming up, and I just WENT for it because this is the phone I've wanted all along. I thought of you, dear readers, and your support and nice comments about how you too were going to go on a ban, and I felt bad.

But, I will say that I have not purchased a single piece of clothing or accessories (which was the problem in the first place) and the phone was kind of a necessity because my current one requires me to hit the 7 key 3 times before it registers. But I still feel bad, so I'm extending the ban through July, and really my goal is to not buy any clothing all summer if I can stand it.

I'm going to an event for work now so this is my only (lame) post for today, tomorrow I'll make up for it!

DIY awesome

There's a super awesome tutorial on Refinery29 today with Caitlin Mociun (of the amazing Mociun clothing line) on how to turn a cheap dress into something amazing with potato printing. The results make me want to try this asap! I think a potato printing party would be flipping awesome, no? It would be less old lady as the name suggests.

Sisyphus Office

David Fullarton, you are my hero.

I was actually 3 hours late for work this morning because I had a migraine, but I wish I had been drawing animals.

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Navajo Rugs

Ever since Lena posted about searching for navajo rugs on Ebay, I've had them on my mind. Louie Ewing's Navajo Blankets Portfolio is making me love that look even more. I think I need one for my next apartment with good floorspace. I think they'd look good in a room with dark grey walls and lots of vintage furniture.

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Live Now collaboration

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I was pretty dang excited when Eric Smith contacted me to do a collaboration with him for his Live Now project. If you're not familiar with it, Live Now is "a project consisting of a growing collection of artwork, quotes, thoughts, experiences and ideas, powerfully pursuing the notion of 'living now'. Engaging participants to grow, live meaningful lives & be happy!" which all came about after Eric was diagnosed with cancer and his perspective on life was changed.

So Eric gave me this quote to work with, and I'm pretty excited about the results. I'm honored to be a part of a project that some amazing artists that I admire, like Mike Perry and Will Bryant, have also contributed to. I can't wait to see what becomes of the project and who else contributes!

Did anyone else see that?

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A ray of sunshine just came in through my window onto my desk. What the what? Sprinting to go bask in it before it's gone again....

I warn you I am completely uninspired to blog today! Maybe that sun will help. Some adorable puppies might too, but who knows where I can wrangle some up right now at work.

LM London Bowls

Beautiful handmade bowls by LM London. I want to fill them with yummy things and take pictures.

The Avett Brothers Tiny Desk Concert

The Avett Brothers are on the latest band to play NPR's Tiny Desk Concert, and it does not disappoint. I would love to see these guys live, they're amazing. Even better I would like them to play at my desk!

Bedroom swoon

Design*Sponge's sneak peek's are my favorite thing ever, but today I'm especially in love with this house tour with Morgan Satterfield. I couldn't be trusted with all that white, but I wish I could. I'm swooning over this bedroom. I love that brass lamp and the painting above the bed. My grandparents have this hilarious awesome portrait of them in their bedroom my aunt gave them as a gift that I hope to inherit someday. They would probably be so baffled as to why on earth I'd want it.
Morgan has an awesome vintage shop on Etsy, too, called Brick House Vintage.

An Apple A Day

I love this Apple A Day letterpress poster from VikDesign. You put the little variety sticker from your apple on it each day. We get free apples at work and I think I actually do eat one every day, it would be funny to have this on my wall at work:)

Bits Of My Weekend

Foodtastic weekend: currywurst, berry crepes, homemade tortilla chips & mango guacamole were highlights. My first extremely successful self-bang cutting experience (3rd photo), a wine-filled evening at Elise's and playing with some masks she had (I know, they're creepy), and a visit to The Met. The roof right now is amazing (Roxy Paine installation), and we got lucky with a few hours of blue sky. I didn't even notice that I didn't take very many photos this weekend until now! But, I have a good excuse as it just rained and rained and only let up for a few hours here and there, so I just holed up inside when it did.

Happy Father's Day

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I hope all the poppa's in the world had a wonderful father's day, including mine. I owe my creativity, kindness, fast metabolism, and weirdness to you, dad. You need to come back to New York because I've discovered so much more bratwurst.

Obama is my flickr friend.

andrea here:

This may be old news, but did you know that the White House has an official photostream on flickr? Well, it's pretty amazing and updated quite frequently. Check in on the White House goings-on and the see the Obamas in all their style and grace, here.

TGIF

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I'm not going to lie, this week totally ate away at my sanity. I'm sure that if you hear one more New Yorker bitch about the rain you are going to shove an umbrella down someone's throat to shut them up - but OH MY GOD not only the rain, but the endless grey skies! I cant even enjoy green lushness during the rain like I could in the Northwest. So while I have not really snapped out of it yet, I'm going to try with all my might this weekend.

I leave you with this video, which I have Emily to thank for finding it on hulu. I was searching youtube like a crazy person a few weeks ago for it, and magically she tweeted it (good lord I hate that adjective) today. It's my favorite snl skit of all time. This helps me snap out of it a bit! And so do these little guys right here.

(non-US peeps: the skit is Gap Girls! You might be able to find it elsewhere if you google it)

Need Supply (and the art of resistance)

Need Supply is trying very hard to destroy the shopping ban.

Sugar Skull Vintage

Sugar Skull Vintage Etsy shop. Those red shorts are taunting me!

film scans - part 3

Paul Tebbott

I love Paul Tebbott's very clean, vintage-feel design style. You can see his work on flickr right now.





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How I'd Wear It

Roberta of Camp Comfort asked me to join in on her awesome "How I'd Wear It" series this week with some other fabulous bloggers. Our mission was to all create an outfit revolving around the same pair of shorts. Check out my outfit here!

My Bedroom on Apartment Therapy

Speaking of tiny apartments, my wee little bedroom is on Apartment Therapy today! Thanks to Beth for posting about my wood accent wall!

Dark Grey Walls

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I know it could never work in my current tiny apartment, but in the dream apartment in my head that we would be moving to when our lease is up, dark grey walls look amazing.


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