Friday Favorites: Don't You Know?

1970's Turquoise Dangle Bracelet, $2175 (apparently negotiable)




Rebecca Norman Turquoise Ring, $220





Baby Bar Necklace by Saundra Messinger, $275





Gold (or Silver) Trojan Earrings by Janna Connor, $93


Now, I'd like to tag the following lucky bloggers for that Basic Wardrobe meme that's been making that rounds, which I wrote about yesterday:
(Into) The Fray
The Clothes Horse
Jewel Box Dreams
I'm sorry! And you totally don't have to if you don't want to. But it would be nice if you did.

Two more things:
1. Fashion Tidbits requested in my comments from the last post that I write about my make up and such. This will happen on Tuesday, because pictures are really necessary and my camera is in a coma. (And I have an all day meeting in... wait for it.... Staten Island (!) on Monday.)

2. Happy Easter and/ or have a lovely weekend everyone! (I will, because my birthday is next week and my family is celebrating it on Sunday. A week of birthday! Woo! Birthdays are a big deal in my family.)

Steven Shein Acrylic Bunny Necklace at the Whitney Museum Store, $110
(If you click on Shein's name, it'll take you to his crazy/ awesome website)

My Wardrobe Basics

Positive: I finally got out of the house today! Negative: It was awful and rainy out.
Another positive: I've been tagged by the super awesome Wendy Brandes to discuss my basic wardrobe. Go look at her post about it, which will put my wardrobe to such shame that I refuse to even link it.


Okay, where to start?
1. Jeans: As a tall lady, I always had trouble finding jeans that didn't give me the whole "yes, I just stepped out of a flood zone" vibe. Then my salary got larger and Diesel floated on to my brand awareness radar and well, the rest is history. Skinny, wise leg, straight, whatever. I'll probably like 'em.
My favorite black Diesels with leather pockets that maybe get way more face time than they should:
(I am far too lazy to go put these on and take a proper photo, so you'll just have to deal with an accidental picture)

2. Black. Like Wendy, I am an eternal fan of the black t-shirt. Also, the black sweater, black button-up, black v-neck, black blouse, uh... the list goes on. If it's black and in shirt form, I will probably buy it.
(Black sweatshirt! with black jeans!)

3. Dresses and skirts: Once the weather turns a bit warmer, I'm a dress fiend. A little more than half of my closet is filled with just dresses--everything from vintage to Anthropologie to Betsey Johnson to Forever 21. I can't stop myself and will gladly bore you to tears if you'd like to talk frocks:
(Part of my closet)

(Some recent lovelies: hot pink is vintage, dotted is Betsey Johnson and button bib is Delia's)

One of my all time best ebay buys....
(An obscure 70's or 80's brand that I obsessively hunt for. Not telling.)


...which looks so much like this Betsey Johnson dress I am wondering if there should be some litigation happening:


But I am also branching out into skirt territory:
(Skirt, which my boyfriend described as "If roses were a video game"--apparently a good thing--from Anthropologie)


4. Make up, hair and nails: Technically not classic wardrobe pieces, but ultimately just as important as clothes. My skin isn't perfect, so I almost never leave the house without make-up. (To be honest, part of this is habit: the skin thing used to be worse and made me verrrry self-conscious.) Any and all kinds of lip things are welcome in my home, but lip things be warned: if you are flavored or smell like fruit, I will probably never wear you. Sorry. Thems the breaks.
(The actual cosmetics differ depending on the seasons and my mood, but if you want to know what I use, leave a comment.)


As for nails, hey, who doesn't like getting a manicure? Look! Weird holographic polish that nobody had ever dared try at the salon before!
(Hard to see, but, man, I stared at that polish for hours when I had it. Nope, not high.)


5. Flats: Need I say more?

Okay, normal jewelry-oriented scheduling resumes tomorrow! Unless I remember something I forgot to post here. Oh, and I will tag three peeps tomorrow--as soon as I go catch up on blogs and figure out who has not been tagged.

Tagged Again!

The kind and wonderful Jewel Box Dreams tagged me for another round of "Seven Things." Like Wendy, I never tire of talking about myself, so even though I was recently tagged, I can happily manage another couple of items.


Sigh.
1. I really want to move to...: Seattle, WA. BF and I went there on vacation in May, and we both sort of fell in love with it. Clean, beautiful, hip... what an amazing little city.





My little nightmares.
2. I am constantly...: Defending the cats. They drive the BF CRAZY. He is forever threatening to make cat stew. Don't worry, PETA: he doesn't know how to cook.





Pom Pom and Pom Pom. Do you see the resemblance?
3. Speaking of cats...: We each had our own coming into the relationship. Stella is mine. She's named after Estella from Great Expectations. If you remember, Estella was a snooty bitch. Never has such a name suited a cat. Pom Pom, the BF's cat, came into his life on a Brooklyn fire escape. My BF blames him for the Yankees downfall. We have never called him Pom Pom (named after a Homestar Runner character), and instead call him any of the following:
-Fattie
-Fattie Pork-Pie
-Prince Fatty-pants
-Colonel Fat Muffin
-The Fatscicle (when it's cold)
-Mister Fatty Foo

Yes, these names are embarrassing.





My comic book boyfriend, Sandman
4. I am a huge...: Comic book nerd. Most people are really, really surprised at this. I guess that's a good thing? Watchmen, Chris Ware, Dan Clowes, Batman, Neil Gaiman. Love 'em all.





Physician lancing a bubo, or lymph node swollen by infection with bubonic plague bacteria; from a Flemish illumination, 14th century from EB.
5. No, seriously...: I am obsessed with the Bubonic Plague. What's up with that? Right now I am reading The Great Mortality by John Kelly. Did you know one of the first (alleged) uses of biological warfare occurred during the plague? In 1347, the Tarters were trying to invade Genoa. The Genoans had locked themselves up inside town, so the Tarters started catapulting the bodies of plague victims over the fence to sort of "smoke them out." It didn't really work; the Tarters got sick too, from handling the disease-ridden body. Nice try though, right? The most fascinating part? The article detailing this potential warfare in 1347 was published in a 2002 journal of Emerging Infectious Disease, which is interesting because...




6. I work in the medical journal field and I can tell you right now that no major corporation is gonna buy reprints for an article on the Tartan Invasion of 1347. I love that EID went with it anyhow.






7. Dream job?: Photographer.


(Except for 4 & 5, all pictures are mine)