the ants go marching

good moooorning! how is everyone this fine wednesday? for some reason, despite not being able to fall asleep until about 1 am, i woke up at 7 fresh as a daisy and had plenty of time to get ready, and take some photos.







blouse: charlotte taylor
pants: on sale at zara
shoes: vintage ferragamos, ebay
necklace: thrifted (a gift from sam)

i've been wanting a pair of ferragamos forever, but i've heard they're sizing is tricky, and i couldn't find a pair that was just right (and just the right price) - i put about a million on my watch list on ebay and got a real steal on these, which are a full size bigger than my usual shoe but AAAs, and fit absolutely perfectly. i'm pretty delighted with them.

tonight i'm heading to the seychelles garden party to hangout with keiko and eat some candy. hopefully some of you guys will be there! please say hello!

xo audrey

bonne bastille!

bonjour! happy bastille day everyone! i happened to (not planned, i swear,) manage to wear red, white and blue both to bake in this am and now to continue my day in. it's a full one, too; home for a quick post, then heading to the new museum to see what's what, then to a friend's going away party this evening. my weekend has been planned for months - a couple of my best friends are getting married, and i have the honor of not only baking the cake and making the dinner, but i also get to revise my roll as reverend audrey of the universal church of life. it should be a wonderful few days.

and where the hell have i been? everywhere, it feels, except home! i've been working tons, and in a hot bakery at that- and with the summer we've been having in new york, working in a hot kitchen wears you out faster than any workout i've tried. the last couple of weekends have been spent with sam, upstate at a bed and breakfast, relaxing and fishing and swimming. . . all without internet access. this is my last weekend out of town for a couple of weeks, at least, so hopefully i'll be a bit more prolific.



shirt: urban outfitters
skirt: american apparel
belt: little boutique in claremont, california
necklace: ebay
shoes: urban outfitters

i find myself gravitating much more towards this sort of outfit this summer. last summer i was all about the vintage dresses, the silk, the heels - but i'll be damned if it doesn't feel good to be this comfy.



this is a quick one, but i have another lined up for later, i promise!

be well, stay cool!

xo audrey

the one that got away

aw, man! i found my dream dress on ebay this week and i've been watching it like a hawk. . . only to watch it slip away after the bidding price went past my limit.






okay. it's on. any one know of any good vintage wedding shops? i think i need to try one of these babies on.

xo audrey

broadcasting live from portland

i'm here, it is gorgeous, so this is going to be a quick one. sushi dinner tonight, and i think i'll walk around until then. have a wonderful weekend, everyone!





dress/shirt: anthropologie
skirt: forever 21
tights: HUE
hat: ebay (it came!)
shoes: devotte purr
necklaces: ebay
gloves: etsy

xo audrey

hepburn

i have a completely predictable semi-obsession with audrey hepburn. up until about 3 minutes before i popped out of my mom back in the mid-eighties, i was supposed to be named lauren; after watching my mom caterwaul for a few hours, my dad conceded naming rights to my mom, who wanted to call me audrey. thank god. i love my name, and i love my namesake; i'm not one of those fans who has her bedroom wallpapered in breakfast at tiffanys posters or anything, but i'm a huge fan of her movies, her activism, and her style.

someone asked me the other day who i would "be," if i could be someone famous. i said audrey hepburn in love in the afternoon: gary cooper, paris, fabulous clothes, faux escapades.



having to think about this got me looking at photos of audrey, and all of her fabulous hats, and i decided to look into getting some of my own. i've never been a big hat person - i dread hat hair, and for a long time my hair's been too short to show from underneath a hat - but now that it's getting longer, and the sort of hats she wore aren't the sort you take off once you've reached your destination, i'm going to give it a try. everything vintage seems to be coming back into style, but i haven't seen any hats coming back - we'll see if that changes.



all above hats can be found on ebay, except the middle one, which is on its way to me as we speak!

i've been sick the last couple of days and not up to much. . . hopefully that changes this weekend and i have some new things to post.

happy friday!

xo audrey

marni lovin'

i am not knowledgeable about labels, nor do i pretend to be. nor, really, do i want to be - since i've started paying more attention to other fashion blogs, i've started to see things i like and think, wow, that's cute, maybe i could find something by that designer i like! . . . and then experience [virtual] sticker shock when i find out that those shoes/that dress/these earrings are $900 or so. but i've seen two different blog posts mentioning the marni runway show, and i LOVED what i saw, so i had to check it out for myself.





i saw this first on glamorai's site - she made it into a nice little DIY, which i am attempting myself. this has meant scouring etsy and ebay for lots of brooches (and losing two bids on them in the process.) i'm hoping to make it out of work in time to stop in the salvation army before heading home to see what i can scrape together there.

i'm working on another DIY that i'll post soon. i'm having a sick day (wearing pajama shirt with some wide leg pants, verrry cozy) so no photos today.

xo audrey