The Cold Shoulder

Thanks again for being awesome Kim!

F21 shirt, Silence & Noise jeans, Coach Men's belt, Restricted boots, Jcrew bag, Eye ring from Etsy

I can barely begin to tell y'all how long I was looking for a cold shoulder shirt! Unsurprisingly, Forever 21 was in supply and it has become one of those no-brainer pieces that I can just throw over a more constructed piece to make it more down to earth, or just wear to make something less boring, which is kind of the approach I took here. Another fantastique afternoon was spent with Natalie & Kim, you really can't have a bad afternoon if it's full of Vietnamese food, friends and laughs!

Eventing: Rebecca Minkoff & Coach

So I've been embarrassingly behind on this, but this summer has been jam-packed with some great events that I've been wanting to share with you guys! So happy to report that Fall is lookin' mighty fantastic and we've all got a lot to look forward to! Click below to see just what I've been up to!

Heading Out

Thanks for the photo skills, Kim!

Upson Downes shirt (Having a moment with how epic that Label name is!), Lucca Couture shorts, Pilcro and the Letterpress (also an epic name) acorn flats c/o Anthropologie

As I'm typing this post out, I'm seated on my bus returning to Buffalo for one last week before I move all my things to NYC. Fun fact, a bus with internet and power strips is called a "neon bus"evidently. This last week has been an absolute blast! I loved every second of event hopping around and seeing so many familiar faces in the process. I wore this today after hitting up a morning breakfast event with Doc Martens. If I seriously could I'd wear this every day, weather pending of course! The shirt and shorts are brand new additions that were quickly purchased however I toooottally can see myself keeping them forever. After I had gotten them,I had noticed that the shorts reminded me of a dress I wore as a little girl with the double layers and black wriggle ribbon detailing, so that just maks me love them a little bit more.

After the Rain

Outfit photo props to Natalie!

Cheap Monday blouse, vintahhhge silk slip (borrowed from my roomie Jenny), Zara boots, BDG satchel

Oh surprise, surprise this blouse is back! I'm in the city for events, and I made damn sure this thing was packed. I caught up with miss Natalie, off duty of course, and we spent an evening stuffing our faces with Malasian food, rattling around SoHo and Chinatown like fools and conversatin' about it all. It had DOWNPOUREDDDD like crazy cakes just an hour before we met up, so the city had that lovely after-the-rain clearness about it.

More events to hit up and more adventures to be had, until then, peace out my lovelies!

Something to Enjoy

I figured I'd go a little bit off the radar and discuss something I really, truly love: Tea.

I have a little bit of an iron deficiency, so I get cold pretty easily, even in the summer I can be a pain to be around when I'm wrapped in a blanket and it's 86 degrees out. Fairly often, you can see me clutching a mug of tea that is hotter than life, which is how I like it...call it an addiction. 

So you should've seen my face when my friend noticed the butterfly bush in my backyard and told me you could make tea from the flowers! It ended up being SO delicious that I had to share the experience. This can be made hot or cold.

Butterfly Bushes, also known as Buddlejas, have sweet flowers that attract both butterflies and hummingbirds with all the nectar the plant produces. We gathered about 10-12 fresh flower panicles (the term for flower clusters that are branched together), using the ones that were the least dried out.

We also added some fresh sage from my garden, flowers et al, to the mix, about the same amount of sprigs as the Butterfly Bush.The Sage adds an herby kick to the floral and sweet flavor of the Butterfly Bush flowers. It's one of my favorite herbs for tea especially because it calms inflammation, calms achey pains and is really invigorating. 

The rest is pretty simple, I just arranged the Butterfly Bush and Sage flowers together with some individual Sage leaves. 

I then just bound the leaves together with some thread and...

Voilá! Fresh, organic tea to pour hot water over!

This tastes perfect unsweetened, but I found it tasted best with a syrupy-sweet flavor from brown sugar or honey.

There are other common garden flowers you can use to make really delicious tea like Clover, Chrysanthemums, Cornflower, Dandelions (if picked young, mature ones are kinda bitter), lavender (AMAZING for headaches, my room mate Jenny turned me on to it), Impatiens and Roses. There's something so great about just throwing some herbs and flowers into a pot and brewing something so homey, healing and comforting. Maybe I'm just obsessive. And yes, no worries, using fresh flowers totally works. I suggest investing in a gorgy glass tea infuser pot like this one so you can see how awesome your tea is coming along.

Hope everyone's week has been beautiful so far! Happy weekend!

One Hot Minute

F21 Blouse, vintage blazer, vintage Levi's cutoffs, Steven loafers, assorted vintage jewelry, formerly my Dad's belt, Marc Jacobs sunglasses borrowed from my pal Moishe

(Well aware that the first shot is kind of creeptastic, gotta love it)
((You know what else I love? What this humidity is doing to my hair- NOT))

I know, I know, it's been a hot second or five since my last post. I've been watching my parent's house here in Buffalo for about a week while they're on vaycay in the Adirondacks and it is a tiring process making sure it has remained up to their standards. I've only been hanging around with my guy-friends lately so I'm either ultra-girlie or running with the pack and throwing on some tomboyish staples.