Today, it feels like summer. It feels like juicy melons and the sweet sweet sun.
Dress: Michael Stars via Mabel & Zora
Bracelet: Mama’s drawer (can’t seem to take it off)
Leggings: H&M
Boots: Frye via Johnny Sole
Earrings: new locket earrings by yours truly
I love my new space. Can you tell?
What does one say on a Thursday? Happy tip of the weekend to you?
As my good friends over at Radish Underground say,
LOVIES~betsy
***Song of the Moment: Summer is the Champion, by Laura Veirs***
This post feels like sitting down for coffee with a good friend I haven’t seen in a while…
Available: $69
With the new shop, the new website and store launch (coming soon), new before & after shots, loads of new designs, and b & i being featured on a national television show—Model Latina NYC: Season 3 (airs on August 2nd)—there’s so much to tell!
Deep breath, people.
Let’s start with a glimpse into just a *few* of the new designs I’ve been cranking out:
These are still part of the collaboration between Isaac and me; we continue to sell many, but we keep adding new designs and we’re adding these to our online shops very soon! If you see any that you want to snatch up, feel free to email me and put in a request.
And introducing, the STUDS:
More to come, my friends. So much more…
***Song of the Moment: Flourescent Half Dome, by the Dirty Projectors***
It’s been awhile since my last OOTD. In an effort to catch up, I’m about to blow your minds with clips from several outfits of the days.
I go through clusters of days (sometimes weeks), when the last thing I want to think about is what my OOTD will be. I wake up, sloth my way towards the shower, and if I’m lucky, there’s a cup of coffee in my hands before my first wet foot brushes the cushy bathroom mat (yeah, I told you W was awesome). By the time that’s all finished? …it’s probably time to be leaving for the studio, so you better believe that quality time for cohesive thoughts on what outfit might make me feel swanky for the day is loooong gone. If I’m super lucky, I will have dreamed it up in the shower—pre-coffee. And then I’ll use the coffee to fast forward all of it. No time for questions, just time for doing, blinders ON…go coffee, go!
Sometimes it’s one word: chucks. Then the outfit blooms around it.
Sometimes a brand: Noa Noa or Stewart & Brown.
Sometimes a challenge: stay comfortable all day.
Sometimes a theme: local.
Sometimes a game: what colors can’t I fit in this outfit?
Mostly, though, it’s super simple: belt? (ding.) …little belt?? (double ding.) …the cheap one from the estate sale??? (ding ding ding!!!) …and then the shower has ended, I’m dry, coffee is in my hand, blinders are on, and it’s all smooth sailing from there, baby.
If all else fails, accentuate the parts you love about yourself. And RUN with it!
It’s Friday already!!??! What the!?
I hope you all have marvelous weekends.
Shop will be open from 11 to 4ish tomorrow. Come by and see me! xoxo~betsy
***Song of the Moment: 57821, by Janelle Monae***
Hi, friends!! Dag Nabbit (channeling the grandaddy), I’ve missed you guys!!
I wanted to let you know that we’ll be in the shop this weekend! We’ve had so many shows this month that I know several shoppers have popped by on Saturday only to find an empty shop. But…NO MORE…well, at least for this weekend and next. We’ll be here from noon to at least 4 tomorrow.
The shop is still on the up and up. We plan on having a grand opening by the end of the summer (shwew!). Little by little, my friends. This weekend, we’re planning on finishing the miscellaneous drawer front counter wrap and the sliding door! My design friends were in town last weekend and we took some huge steps forward. We’ve been running with this white on white on white theme with rustic wood to offset it all. Courtney called it Scandinavian. When she said the words, my heart melted. Some of my most favorite people in the world live there (or near there).
Come by and see us sweating through it all this weekend, say hello, drink a glass of wine, and shop your little hearts out.
big huge love.
-betsy
