Shabby Apple winner!

The Spring semester has officially started, so I just wanted to write a quick post to announce the winner of my Shabby Apple giveaway!

Drum roll please....

Blair! I really loved your ideas for adding some color to the dress! Turquoise would look great! Check your email!

Thanks to all who entered and I'll post more giveaways in the future, so you'll all have your chance to win!

Tropics

sweater: vintage via crossroads trading

tee: h&m via greene street

belt: vintage via my mom

skirt: american apparel via crossroads trading

shoes: nine west via greene street

I just got this vintage sweater at work and I love how such a warm wool sweater has such a fun tropical print.  While what you wear definitely reflects who your are and how you're feeling, I think that sometime what you wear can actively change your mood.  Bright colors and fun patterns can really make you feel more positive and happy.   Like wearing this sweater on a bleak winter day can make your feel a bit more cheerful.

shabby apple giveaway!

In celebration of the new year and me blogging again, the wonderful Shabby Apple has offered the beautiful, Hollywood Hills dress as a giveaway to my readers! If you haven't checked out Shabby Apple before, you should definitely do so! They have just about the prettiest dresses I've seen and they even have maternity and little girls dresses! You can also find vintage inspired swimwear and accessories too!

I'm definitely eyeing some 50s style swimsuits for summertime. 

I think the Hollywood Hills dress is one of the prettiest on their site and in order to win it all you have to do is "like" Shabby Apple on Facebook. Then come on over here and leave a comment saying that you did so and let me know how you'd style this amazing dress! I'll announce the winner next Friday (January 20th) so you have until then to enter.

Shabby Apple is also offering my readers 10% off for the next 30 days! Just enter "aspentree10off" at checkout!

EDIT: Giveaway extended until Monday, January 30th! Get those entries in now!

2012

(not my photo, I found it on google images and altered it)

I have had some major changes in my life in the last half of 2011. Since I last posted anything, I was accepted into the Fashion Institute of Technology's Fashion Merchandising program and just finished my first semester! Going to FIT meant that I would need to move from Philly back to NYC.  This was a really hard decision for me, because Peter was still going to be living in Philly, but I felt like this was the only way I'd be able to get a real, well paying job (my art degree hasn't been helping me much).  So I quit my job at Greene Street Consignment, moved back to Queens, and found a new job at Crossroads Trading in Brooklyn.  

Things have been super crazy lately, with going school full time and working a lot paired with super long commute times.  But I'm Winter break right now, so things have calmed down and now I'm back to blogging! 

I really want to be more organized in 2012, so that I can fit in all of the things that I want to do with becoming overwhelmed like I did this past semester.  I want to blog more, get all of my school work done, work, and visit Peter and all of my Philly friends as much as possible.  I also want 2012 to be the year I find me a career!

What are your goals for the new year?

Good Music: Pet Shop Boys - West End Girls

I can't really think of things to wright about bands... and, to be completely honest, I don't really want to write anything. So, I've decided that I'm just going to share a song I'm like with you every Monday.  And that's that.

This song has been playing a lot at work recently and I kind of forgot how much I love it.  80s at it's best!

Ireland Post: Belfast

So, I'm finally posting my photos from my Ireland trip.  These are from our first day, after so marathon traveling.  After my 7 hour bus ride from Philly to Boston.  My best friend, Kathryn, and I boarded out plane to Dublin. When we landed (at 5am!), we got on a 2 hour bus ride to Belfast.  This was the first time I'd ever been to Belfast and I though it was great! (Although, I wish I was a bit less tired, so I would have known what was going on.) We wound up sleeping until about 2pm the next day (latest I've slept for reals!)

It was really rainy and I was so tired, so my photos weren't that great. (I enhanced them a bit on picnik) The next batch will be better... promise. 

aspen tree spring update

all this and more at the aspen tree!