oh hey! and a playlist

Oh hey! I'm back! 

I've been plotting my return to blogging for a few weeks, and I have to say, I'm REALLY excited about putting some new ideas into work in 2013. I'll be posting a few things for you every week, so feel free to stop by more often! 

Without further ado, the inaugural post of 2013: 

I'm always looking for some good tunes to listen to post-brunch. The sun is shining, caffeine is pulsing through my veins and I'm donning my brunchiest outfit. I never seem to have a happy, bouncy playlist at the ready for car dancing, so I put this one together to use on Saturday morning. Enjoy! 

a lesson in air travel

Once I was in an airport looking like a mess - my purse was overflowing with magazines and snack food, I hadn't bothered putting on any makeup and I was looking unabashedly American in a pair of leggings and Uggs. Then, sometime between being told that, yes, Harrod's blackberry jam is considered a liquid and, yes, I'll have to throw it away (all three jars! gah!) and kneeling on the ground frantically digging through my purse trying to find my passport, I saw a girl breezing through customs wearing a grey cashmere sweater and a light jacket, carrying only an ivory quilted Chanel bag. Since then, I've strived to travel lightly and pack only the most versatile of necessities.

The past few times I've travelled I've happily hopped through security while secretly laughing at all the dolts who schlep everything but the kitchen sink around with them. If you pack strategically you can travel a lot lighter than you'd think! 

I'm headed home for some much-needed R&R with my fam - I hope you all manage to breeze through airports and have a fabulous holiday! See you back here in 2012!

the day I finally out-hipstered myself

This weekend I went to a place in San Francisco that does tintype portrait sessions...

Isn't the result incredible? Tintype photography was the first type of "film" - it uses an aluminum plate coated in some chemicals to capture an image. Photobooth does a quick portrait session with you, processes the image on-site and you walk out with the actual plate that your portrait was captured on.

My portrait in the drying box. I spy some hipsters...

Once the image is done they make a digital copy so that you can order enlargements. If I had a kid I would totally blow up a portrait like this. It's hard to tell, but these are at least 4 feet tall.

After growing up in a town where the only thing to do on a Sunday afternoon was to watch some kind of lame sporting event on TV, it's been totally blissful to live in San Francisco where interesting places like this seem to lie around every corner.

Sunday Snaps

From my Sunday afternoon stroll around the Mission:

Speaking of edibles...a few weeks ago I was hanging out in Dolores Park and a woman who looked like a Toyota Sienna-driving, cupcake-making soccer mom was walking around with a wicker basket full of brownies yelling "hash edibles!" This city is so absurd.

red sweater, purple pants

I just wrapped up a big project at work, so tonight I rewarded myself with chocolate cheesecake and a laaaarge glass o' wine and came up with this little Photoshop effect that I'm finding pretty hilarious. Excuse me while I go change my Facebook profile pic.

Like my sweater? It reminds me of something someone on That '70's Show would wear. Pairing it with some purple cords was one of the better ideas I had last week.

Forever 21 sweater ($12!!), Gap cord jeggings