white dress + the perfect wedges

I picked this dress up at Nordstrom at a ridiculously good sale price - $25 or something - earlier this summer and it has been worth every penny!  It has little pom poms on each tier, which is a detail I'm obsessed with, and is nicely lined (not nearly enough white dresses are!)   What is it about the heat that just makes you want to wear a white dress, always?  We snuck into the side yard to take these pics while Claire napped Sunday morning, before heading off to brunch with a cheerful and well-rested kiddo.   

Dress: Sun & Shadow, also comes in navy and less then $50!  (I'm wearing size small) 

Wedges: Jeffrey Campbell

Earrings: Kendra Scott - over half off! 

Sunglasses: Ray-Ban

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own.

So despite the autumnal nature of these photos, I spent all day today thinking about Christmas. I made Christmas music playlists for my iPod, my office was decorated for Christmas today, and I actually made my Christmas shopping lists! I love to buy presents, and half the fun is trolling around for the perfect gift on the internet - I am not a mall gift shopper.

What will I be going to the mall for? A sparkly frock. I'm going to two Christmas parties for sure, and I'm going to have to find the perfect dress - it will ideally be totally covered in sequins.

wearing: dress-charlotterusse, aviator-forever21, boots-jeffreycampbelllitas

"Maybe if they all could be combined - art, rock and fashion. Those were always my favorite things."-Stephen Sprouse

life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs

So to say these shoes got a few stares yesterday would be a lie - they command attention. But the statement they make is interesting & pretty. The color of the suede is actually pretty hard to nail down in person, because it veers between rosy and a mousy grayish tan. Of course, the ambiguous nature of the color means these go with just about everything in my closet, so expect to see them a lot because the comfort level is kind of remarkable. If you were lucky enough to get a pair, I commend you: I was on the phone with Solestruck several times to find out when exactly they'd go up, and I'm glad I was because about 2 hours later they were completely gone. To be honest, I hadn't cared much for the Lita before seeing it in this shade.

Today we had our TV unhooked because we're getting set up for DirecTV tomorrow, so I'm enjoying Jane Eyre once more on my Kindle - although I have to say, I feel like I'm enjoying it for the first time. This book was never meant for children's eyes - not that it's inappropriate, but Bronte's language was meant for those who would savor it rather than suffer through it.

These are just a few of my highlighted passages:

"What a singularly deep impression her injustice seems to have made on your heart... Would you not be happier if you tried to forget her severity, together with the passionate emotions it excited? Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs."

"I sometimes have a queer feeling with regard to you--especially when you are near me, as now: it is as if I had a string somewhere under my left ribs, tightly and inextricably knotted to a similar string situated in the corresponding quarter of your little frame. And if that boisterous channel, and two hundred miles or so of land come broad between us, I am afraid that cord of communion will be snapt; and then I've a nervous notion I should take to bleeding inwardly."

Sorry to go all 'dorky english major' on you, but I just couldn't keep from sharing - I highly recommend it.

on to the clothes: dress,cardigan,tights,necklace,hat-forever21, shoes-jeffrey campbell

"Maybe if they all could be combined - art, rock and fashion. Those were always my favorite things."-Stephen Sprouse