I love dresses

I basically wear a dress everyday. It seems odd for me to wear jeans these days, occasionally I will put on a pair of skinny jeans and a cute top, But I much rather wear a cute dress some colorful tights. The rain may have returned after yesterdays gorgeous sunny day but that didn't stop me from wearing this adorable floral dress.

excuse the messy/dirty hair I need to invest in some dry shampoo.





Dress: F21
Cardigan: Urban
Tights: Target
Shoes: Vintage

Today myself and Miss autumn did some much needed grocery shopping I find the best time to shop is when your hungry cause then you buy to much and when your hungry you a lot to choose from. If I shopped when I wasn't hungry Id walk about with a water bottle,red bull and something to snack on then be at the store again the next day. Tomorrow though I am pretty stoked to make these with Autumn I thought it would be perfect for a mothers day present for my sister (autumn's momma) and maybe my momma to. After seeing it on miss james of bleubird vintage list of oh so pretty things post over on SRSLYLIZ


That will be our little project for tomorrow I wish it was going to be sunny it would be the perfect outdoor project but oh well it will still be fun.

xoxo

what I wore

Today I wore one of my "new" vintage finds that I found this past weekend. I wish I could of wore it minus leggings but of course I had to get a run in my tights and be to cold to go without. But I love love this "new" dress anyway. Today was a low key day with miss autumn thanks to my awesome cold I have just come down with to mix with my brutal allergies that just the other day made my lips swell up like I got them done that was sure a interesting site to see when waking up. Autumn did help with the taking of these pictures she sat behind the camera and pushed the button it was the cutest thing she would tilt her head and say "AWW" after each picture she took of me. And this is what I wore.









Dress: Red light
Leggings: Victoria secret
Boots: Target

I think I am going to be extra lame tonight and go to bed at 7:30 yes that's right I said it. I wanted to sleep all day my throat and well everything just hurts so hopefully if I sleep a ton at night will get rid of this cold/allergies that have attacked me. Hopefully everyone enjoyed their Tuesday. Also only five days till mothers day I hope everyone got their mommys something special or will be doing something special with them come mothers day they deserve it.

xoxo

What a perfect weekend

Seriously this weekend was just perfect. It was full of sunshine, good friends,vintage goodness and an uh mazing show. Saturday my friend and I went to see Fast five (Fast and the furious five) you may not think I am the typical person to love such a movie. Everyone in the theater was a teenager and looked like they drove a fast car. But I love those movies as ridiculous as it may seem. I guess it came from my dad he raced motorcycles for a living won a ton of trophies to.


He didn't race this beauty but did drive it for shows. It was my great grandpa's and my dad re built it. I love that truck and the engine its like oh so many memories with that truck. So glad that he left it to us I can't even begin to imagine giving it to anyone ever besides in this family when me and my brother and sister pass it will be passed to one of our kids and so on.

Sunday was perfect to a brisk 70 I think it got to yesterday I spent it with my friend Tami eating my very first voodoo donut. Everyone has always said "You live in portland and you've never been to voodoo??" So we waited in the insane line by the time it was our time I felt like we were drooling for one of those.

(Dipped in some kind of icing then topped with captain crunch.

And it was as delicious as I thought and hoped it would be, I will be back but in time I don't need to gain 93483 lbs in donuts. Or I can just walk on the treadmill for a few hours while eating me donut haha. After we stuffed our face we found our way to the wonder ballroom to see the head and the heart. The two openers who I have forgotten their names already but I was just not feeling it I hate when that happens your just thinking the whole time "Is this your last song yet, or is this your last song?" Its very rare for me to like an opening band it seems. I think that happened with Brainstorm they opened for typhoon and they were so so good I would see them again for sure. Then the time came for head and the heart they started setting up their set and checking all their instruments I was getting so anxious. It seemed to take them forever they left for a good 20+ mins after the stage was set and I was getting sleepy it was way past this grandma's bedtime. But then they took the stage and went right into cats and dogs I was instantly awake. The show was amazing i have no other word to describe that. I had goosebumps I sang and danced my little heart out. The whole audience sang every song at the top of their lungs, they are getting big and are seem still so down to earth I am so glad it hasn't gotten to their heads because it easily could have. They are so unbelievably talented and so adorable.






It was so worth the lack of sleep I got SO worth it. That is why caffeine was invented right? I had myself a 5 hour energy this morning and I am good to go. Seriously those things really do work I am hooked. But anyway if you haven't checked them out do it do it NOW and you also must see them live you will not walk away disappointed. I took my friend who had never heard of them and she loved them and was singing their song river and roads after the show. I get so happy when I share new music with someone and they love them it makes me so so happy. I hope you all had a lovely sunny weekend.

xoxo

Oh dear.

Hello hello, Gosh it feels like I haven't blogged properly in ages. I gave my laptop a little breather (since I am to scared to take her in to find out whats wrong and the price tag that could come along with it) And so far so good. So bare with me this post is a little lengthy and photo heavy. Eeek I can't believe a week ago I was getting back from California gosh I miss it the sun the palm trees and the ocean it was just perfect. It was just the vacation I needed I started my vacation off in Seattle to seeing Campfire ok this was my second time seeing them the first time was in a little church in downtown Portland. This was a whole new show so much bigger and there was even smoke. My camera did not want to take flattery pictures I think it's time to invest in a pretty new lens. BUT my lovely friend Lori did since she was there to do what she does best shoot.



She's going to go places and already is she'll be shooting Sasquatch this year as well as putting some of her photos at a music venue to be looked at by concert goers, So excited for her. So these pictures from our trip are mainly by her. I feel like a horrible tourist I didn't snap any photo's in LA what was wrong me?? Also I got the chance to see The head and the heart as well on saturday right before I saw campfire ok I don't think that day could of been anymore perfect. I know I am not from Seattle but the love for the band there was just amazing to experience. And in related news I just by chance looked to see if there was any tickets for their Portland show left since Seattle sold out in like ten mins or so. And today was my lucky day I nabbed two tickets for their show this Sunday night I shouted OMG OMG a whole lot Autumn thought something was wrong. Now I just need to find someone to go with me. Which didn't take long thankfully my lovely friend tami agreed to go. I hope she falls in love with them to. Ok anywhoo after both shows me and Lori got a good maybe two hours of sleep before we had to get on our shuttle our 4:40am shuttle bus to the airport I felt like a zombie but I was so amped up I think people may have thought we were drunk on the plane didn't help we order bloody mary's on the plane but were on vacation so I say do whatever you want :) We flew with virgin airlines should be known as the party airline when we got our boarding passes they had Michael jackson blaring at 5am it was amazing they even had him blasting when we got to our gate it was great. I knew we were on the right plane, they even had mood lighting and detachable keyboards with a pie bottom which I really wanted it to be for a slice of pie but it was just for food. I think we no I know we were those obnoxious plane people I kind of felt bad but then not I was so sleep deprived everything was funny. Another cool thing about this plane it had chat rooms so you could chat with someone on the plane like if you were separated from someone or if you wanted to hit on someone you thought was cute ;) So next time you fly you should fly virgin airlines. We arrived into LA around 9:30 got on our shuttle to go get our rental car the whole time we chugged our five hour energy which works wonders. As soon as we got the car handled we headed to lunch the whole time getting so anxious to make a tattoo appointment at high voltage. I was praying for a walk in appointment. So we headed over there and if you really want to get tattooed there and are on vacation use that you'll have a good chance of getting in. Thankfully Khoi had a appointment for the following day after that I was even more amped up and stoked my vacation was turing out to be even more fantastic. Monday was my favorite day of our trip we had my tattoo appointment lined up which it is finally all healed up and pretty :) Khoi did a amazing job I absolutely love it. Later that night we got to attend another great band Walking sleep which we happened to see a year before this trip I remember when we planned this trip " Ah wouldn't it be amazing if walking sleep played again while we were in town" Then BAM they had a residency at the satellite (previously known as spaceland) I was so excited to see them again I think they just need to tour in Oregon and washington already someday someday. Their very own Sarah Radle has her own band and opened up that night her set was great she has such a amazing voice she still reminds me of rachel mcadams a little bit. There was another opening band before walking sleep took the stage then it was their turn I was getting even more excited and got to hear some new stuff which I am loving, they are also the nicest people. After the show we talked with hunter a bit while we got ourselves some cute walking sleep shirts and tote bags (They put a bird on it to) haha :) I use that tote quite a lot actually it's so cute how can I not. After that show it was setting in that was our last night in LA and it was bumming me out I felt like we had just got there. We really wanted to go to Disneyland on our trip but just couldn't justify spending $75 when we could only spend four hours before we would have to take the rental car back and shuttle it up to the airport because you have to add at least a hour of traveling time. The traffic sucks but I adjusted and just delt with it there isn't anything you can do about it. So sleep deprived again we thought lets explore LA at 1am and just drive and get lots and drive some more haha. Lori did the driving since I had to many drinks to drive. At the spaceland there is a $20 minimum on cards I really wanted a drink so I did it and bought Lori a drink and myself two that doesn't sound like a lot I know but I am such a light weight these days. I did my drinking at 21 then kind of got tired of it by 22. So we drove to disneyland at 1:30 in the morning you cant see much its surrounded by hotels and trees but we can say we "went" haha in our way. We headed back to her friends apartment to crash I don't even remember falling asleep that night I was so tired I slept like a baby that night. The next day we went out to breakfast at the cutest place called auntie em's delish food and a cute little cafe. I always find it difficult on the last day what to do you have to figure out time when to head back and we never got to go to the beach that we wanted to because it was all coin parking and of course we had zero change so we looked at it from the car said our goodbyes and headed into beverly hills for some sprinkles cupcakes, Last year we went and I honestly didn't like them and thought it was all talk. BUT I tried them again because last time I had dark chocolate which I hate but thats all they had that day. This time I went for a milk chocolate with tons of sprinkles of course and it was amazing. It's still not the best cupcake place I have been to that one still goes to Cupcake royal in Seattle. Boy did I feel out of place in beverly hills I saw a lady that clearly just had major face surgery it was so odd to see along with people in clearly a few thousand dollar outfits. While we were in a Starbucks my friend over heard a mom asking if her daughter wanted a sweater cause it was chilly outside. It was 75 outside REALLY LADY? I was getting hot wearing my black skinny jeans and a t shirt. She probably would have a heart attack or melt if she came to oregon. It defiantly made me appreciate my city that much more. The crazy (in a good way) people of Portland. After we had stuffed our faces of chocolatey goodness we made our way on down to the holy grail of music Amoeba. I remember going to the one in san fran last year and was just awe struck. This one was even bigger. You walk in and just hear angels its over whelming I saw people with list trying to find everything. Which I wish I had done myself my brain was trying to think of records I needed. I walked away with attack and release by the black keys, arcade fire neon bible, interpol antics and turn on the bright lights. As well as a import of Joy division cd for my brother. We don't get a long to great but the one thing we can seem to bond on and agree most of the time is on music so I knew that would make him happy. Sadly after Amoeba our LA journey was over we headed off to the car rental and on to our separate jet planes back to Seattle and Portland. Even though I love LA I missed Portland and always get so excited flying in at night looking down at my hometown. I'm sure I am missing some bits and pieces from this trip but I think I covered most of it, I miss you california and I am trying to plan a road trip for this summer (fingers crossed). Congrats if you read through all of that but I did warn you it would be a long and photo heavy post so. Now here comes the photo part of the post enjoy my friends.













The best vegan food in LA was at the veggie grill. Also I saw Ashlee simpson eating there as well one day which was cool.


Spotted the mural of high voltage when stopping at a grocery store it's a sweet mural.



Head and the heart at easy street records doing an in store performance SO GOOD!


Newest tattoo I will do a proper photo of one soon.











my adorable walking sleep tote :)
Also they have some new music (FREE) on their site for download you should go over HERE RIGHT NOW and check it out they are called the tarp sessions there are three number three isn't up yet but will be soon.



Also check out more of Lori's stuff :)
Lori's flickr her blog



Well I hope everyone is enjoying their day hopefully its sunny where you are at. Id kill for some sun right now you hear that Portland let it be sunny for more then one day a week alright?
xoxo

Quick hello

I've been really wanting to blog but my lovely MacBook decided it should act up. I have so much to talk about,my California trip etc etc. And tomorrow being Easter I don't know if stores are open or not. But I was stupid and didn't buy apple care when I got my laptop so im kind of scared to what this is going to run me. Since with my experience AppleCare never has saved me any money. Anywho tomorrow is Easter so I have some baking to do for our family Easter dinner tomorrow. I'm making some candy bars thanks to Elise's recipe on her blog. Todays weather was just beautiful it got up to 70 it was perfect. Sadly it's just supposed to go back to rain next week with one sunny day. What gives Portland why are you taking so long to have our spring weather can we please have more sunshine? Well I must get into the kitchen and make those candy bars. I hope you all have a fantastic Easter.

Xoxo

Vacation time

( Got rid of those icky roots the other day. I feel like its not as RED this time. So next time I am going a little brighter red.)

I felt like this vacation would never come. I am off for a five day vacation not long I really wish I could take a good took week vacation somewhere warm but this will due and is still a great get away. Not just a drive somewhere. I don't feel like I can get a real vacation unless I get on a plane and fly. OH I am so excited about the plane I love flying SO excited haha. This morning I am off on a bus (almost took the train but their seats are like rocks and for 3 1/2 hours no thank you) to Seattle just for the day. Tomorrow morning myself and my friend take a super early shuttle to the airport and catch our flight off to the beautiful sunny Los Angels,California eep! I will return with pictures and such I am kind of bummed that the last few days in LA have been in the 80's then goes to the 70's and 60's I would of loved the 80's but I am not complaining it's so rainy here. It seems like A LOT more then the usual. So it will be great to get out of the rain for a bit. Id love if I returned to sunny weather we shall see (probably not,haha)
Some things I am looking forward to on this trip are seeing Campfire ok tonight in seattle, Walking sleep in LA. I got the chance to see walking sleep last time we were in LA and we got lucky enough they were playing a residency again at the satellite.



So I shall see you all in a few days have a lovely weekend.

xoxo

Music monday.

Music monday. I know I know its Thursday but I didn't want to put it off since I will be in LA monday and I will not be taking my laptop with me. This week we have another Portland based band Brainstorm. Brainstorm is made up of only two guys who take on lots of roles of instruments. Adam Baz (drumkit, keyboard, sound of voice) Patrick Phillips (guitar, tuba, sound of voice)I first heard of them last Friday when they opened up for Typhoon. It just made you want to dance. I can just picture them playing small shows like the doug fir and festivals like bumbershoot and Sasquatch getting the crowd amped up and dancing. I am so glad they opened up for typhoon and I just love finding a new band to fall in love with. I hope you like them to. I see many times of dancing in my car to their tunes.

Battling Giants//BRAINSTORM from Matt Page on Vimeo.

Battling giants

BRAINSTORM | "Split The Lark" from ONTHERECORD.tv on Vimeo.

Split the lark

I hope you enjoyed this week's music monday you can find more of their music on their
myspace

xoxo everyone