I recently was given the most buttery pair of brogues from the beautiful Australian brand, Skin and Threads. I always love seeing the Oxford trend on others, but I’ve never been so sure of how to make them look flattering on me. I picture wearing them with rolled up jeans, but I wanted some more tips for how to wear these classically-men’s shoes.
Immediately I wrote to Jen Pinkston of The Effortless Chic for advice. (Jen is a wardrobe stylist–who started out on The Ellen DeGeneres Show!) There are three keys, she said, to styling the trend this spring. Keep Reading >
Saw this gorgeous photo of the Blue Lagoon—Iceland’s large, geothermal, man-made spa—on Akhmatova and wished I could wade in. Wouldn’t it be amazing to go there? It’s just 20 minutes from the airport… not a bad way to get over jet lag.
Where in the world would you like to jet off to right now? Hopefully some of you are going there (wherever “there” may be) this weekend! Have a good one!
P.S. Last week I answered some questions for Elizabeth Street. A few silly things I might take with me when they drop me on a desert island (equipped with a dvd and CD player, of course).
Last year, for Mother’s Day, we gave each of our moms a personalized 8-photo brag book from Pinhole Press. They were a big hit and we’re making them again.
The thing is, we had them shipped directly to their homes and so I didn’t see them until much later–when I realized how badly I wished that I’d ordered one for myself for that very first Mother’s Day!
This is the one that I made for my mom, with pictures of each of us holding our newborn baby on the day she and he came home from the hospital. (By the way, I think Hudson looks so much like me as a toddler, which of course makes me unreasonably proud… as if it’s some sort of big surprise or something I could control.)
Fortunately, Pinhole saves your previous orders for you, so I was able to simply push “re-order” on this one and then create three new ones. The hardest part was choosing which photos to include out of the entire year’s.
I’ll keep the rest a surprise.
Can you believe we’re already talking about Mother’s Day? Order by the end of April to get a gift to yours in time! Update: 25% off all photo books through April 16 with the code booklove.
More gift ideas to come…
NB: Pinhole Press is a featured sponsor, but all of the opinions expressed are my own. Interested in sponsoring Hither and Thither? Contact me at amuirbruhn [at] gmail [dot] com.
