I’m feeling a little more drawn to colorful things lately – maybe it’s the weather getting warmer, or the fact that when I packed for Coachella I realized pretty much everything I own is grey? Whatever it is, here are some picks more on the fun side than my usual neutrals.

1. Alfred Brehm by Carolin Loebbert
2. Hello Jenuine 3D Cat Tote
3. Tuesday Bassen The Nose Ring Holder (I’m not really a ring wearer – but I use a ring holder for my washi tape!)
4. Geijo Swimsuit - top + bottoms
5. Sud de Sur Mader Mini

I’m excited to announce that I will be taking For Me, For You jewelry to my very first in-person event in Austin, TX this fall – Feliz! Put together by the talented minds of Abby Powell (who you may remember as half of the brains behind Portland’s Little Winter) and Natalie Davis, I decided to take this show on the road because I think what these ladies are putting together sounds fantastic and perfect for my line. Plus, who needs an excuse to go to Austin? I’ve never been but it’s been high on my list of places to visit.

The event will take place on November 2-4th at the Palm Door (which looks amazing) in downtown Austin – see you there? They’re taking applications for the remaining vendor spots, so you can apply for the sale here.

Photos by Kate Miss, taken on a Canon A-1 with Kodak Portra 160 film

A couple weeks ago we had a little indoor picnic at Myrtle and shot some of the Spring clothing that Whitney has in stock right now with the help of two of Whitney’s lovely friends – Abbe and Lindsey. It was meant to be an outdoor picnic, but did you know that calling LA the land of eternal sunshine isn’t 100% accurate? It rained, so we had to move it indoors, which worked out just fine – I highly suggest an indoor picnic in your near future. These are some of my favorite shots – a mix of digital and medium format film. Whitney posted more photos that they took on the disposable cameras and what Abbe took on her camera. Even I modeled a little.

Top to bottom:
Abbe in A PEACE TREATY earrings, MCTEGA necklace, CURATOR top
Lindsey in ALEXANDRA GRECCO dress, reading WORN JOURNAL
Abbe in GRETCHEN JONES silk blouse, ABK leather bag; Lindsey in HETTERSON sweater, CURATOR skirt, 31 BITS necklace
Whitney in WRK-SHOP blouse, RAVEN DENIM pants
Abbe in GRETCHEN JONES blouse
Lindsey in DUSEN DUSEN dress, AMBIT hat 

On Easter we decided to drive up to Ojai to hit the hot springs that the internet informed me were fantastic and a must-visit. But because we have some kind of terrible driving far to cool stuff luck lately, the road to the hot springs was fenced off and closed. So we turned around and drove to Ventura and stopped at the beach and watched dolphins frolic around in the ocean instead. I wish I’d had one of the telephoto lenses I’d never had a need for prior to this with me at the time as the dolphins are just tiny black specks in these photos. The ocean was such an amazing green color that almost made up for the hot springs let down. California is full of magical wonders and my urge to explore is quite strong lately.

That being said, does anyone have any other hot springs recommendations? Seems like there are a lot in the desert but hiking for an hour to one does not sound particularly …in my wheelhouse.

all photos taken with a Canon A-1 with Kodak Portra 160 film

my Instagram photos

You’re probably sick of hearing about it, but we’re back from Coachella and I figured it was worth a little Bits Of My Weekend reunion. We could only take one work day off and afford a hotel for two nights, and in hindsight we both wish we’d skipped Friday (rainy, freezing, meh lineup) and stayed Sunday night because we had to miss some amazing acts to leave at five that day. The experience overall was interesting – all weekend we kept going back and forth between “I am never doing this again” and “this is amazing”. At first I was so annoyed with everything – the ridiculous amount of people, the half naked teenagers, the frat boy crowds – but I when St. Vincent played I decided I’d get there super early and put my claustrophobia aside and worm my way up as close as I could get. This proved to be an excellent idea because the show was life changing it was so amazing (seriously) and being that close and feeling everyone around me excited was such a high. I did that for two other shows - tUnE-yArDs and First Aid Kit – and had the best time. But I didn’t have the energy for that every time and when you’re far away and people are stomping on your fingers it’s not particularly pleasant. So I guess it’s just what you make of it and how much energy you want to put into having a good time and trying best to be zen about all the BS. Plus, we had a Shields date shake every day, so that helped.

I’m going to sign off of this mediocre at best blogging week because tomorrow we head off to Coachella. The most common response to me telling friends that we’re going is “YOU guys are going?” Yes. We hate crowds, blazing sun, drunk people, people in general honestly, and spending ridiculous amounts of money on an experience, but I do love music more than most things in life and it seems like something you have to do at least once when you live in LA. Though I’m nervous that I’ll be annoyed beyond belief, going through the set times that were just released and figuring out who we’ll see has me so pumped up. I’m going to OD on good music. Here’s who I’m excited to see, below. We probably won’t see them all, but hopefully many of them.

The Black Angels

Neon Indian

Mazzy Star

M83

Feist

Radiohead

Andrew Bird

tUnE-yArDs

St Vincent (who were both most excited to see!)

The Head and The Heart (playing at the same time as tUnE-yArDs, arrrggg)

Beirut (playing at the same time as the only show Will cares about all weekend, Company Flow. Bummer, they put on such a good show.)

Gotye (I only like half of the new album, but I figure he probably puts on a good show)

First Aid Kit (most excited about #2)

Have a great weekend, everyone!

After much consideration and stomach aches, I’ve decided to put an end to Pinners Be Crazy. It was short lived and I still have tons of submissions that never were published, but I have my reasons. For the most part people gave me positive feedback and it made a lot of people laugh. I love making people laugh so that made me feel awesome. Some people even told me I was doing good work at calling people out for the terrible things they said to strangers on Pinterest, which also made me feel awesome. But slowly (or quickly? the internet distorts my sense of time) people came forward to express their qualms with the site, and slowly I started to agree with them to some degree. Some people were kind enough to email me and have an honest, private discussion about it, and some chose to voice their opinion about the site in the comments on other blogs that I came across. To each his own, either way I became aware of the issues some people had with it and it didn’t sit well with my conscience. The biggest argument that I came to agree with is that I’m being a hypocrite by making fun of people who are making fun of people. Another is that it serves no real purpose and my motivations are fuzzy – is the point to make people laugh, or make a stand against cruelty? In the end I couldn’t answer that completely, so I decided to stand down. Also, it was SO DEPRESSING going through submissions. People are so awful, you guys.

Maybe this is more explanation for a stupid tumblr than seems necessary, but I want to make it clear that I’m not stopping because someone hurt my feelings or that I can’t handle some people disagreeing with me. I don’t take criticism well, I’ve stated that before here, and not everyone needs to agree with me and be into the things I do in life, but it’s much more than that.

I also want to make it clear that I really, truly am sick and tired of the way some people treat each other in the comment sections online and I think that saying it’s just the nature of the beast is a cop-out. When I read vile, disgusting things in the comment section on Pinterest it makes my blood boil. I hope to explore other ways to take a stand against this, so stay tuned.

Thank you for being so awesome, my dear blog readers. And omg, did you know that some people didn’t know that the Titanic was real?? Corgis reenact these tweets. Sorry, I needed to end this heavy post with something lighthearted.

UPDATE: I’m closing the comment section because I just feel that this conversation is over and we don’t need to weigh the pros and cons of the blog anymore, but thank you for all of your input!

Ok, I’m making up for Friday a little late. Did you have a good weekend? I hope so. Internet goodies:

1. A wonderful workspace.
2. Been waiting for these for a while: Light As A Feather, gorgeous new silk scarves from Fieldguided. A perfect photo shoot from Anja and Megan.
3. An excellent use of Pinterest: Hair Chests I Want To Cry On. (via Tamera)
4. Pretty Caitlin Mociun on Backyard Bill.
5. This amazing necklace at Ship & Shape.
6. Has anyone tried out the app Picle? It’s basically Instagram with sound – you take a photo and then record the sound for a few seconds so people can experience them together. I’m not a big app users, but this is such a cool idea.

So, you guys, instead of doing Friday Bits today I made a tumblr blog that has been stewing in my head for months now. The topic: crazy/mean/hilarious comments on Pinterest. I’ve seen a lot of blogs cropping up lately on the topic of crazy things people pin, but I’m not interested in that as the gold mine for me is the comment section. Therefore I give you: Pinners Be Crazy. Please send me any good submissions as dragging through Pinterest for two hours has left me with no faith in humanity for at least another three days. I was going to be anonymous in my creation of this, but I’m not trying to be a mean girl, I’m really trying to focus on things we can all agree are downright mean or ridiculous, or insane overreactions, not make fun of people who are just from a different world than me.