Spring colors

Slowly but steadily, the "summer" colors in my wardrobe have been replaced by "spring" colors. The interesting thing is that it's so much easier to find nice things in "summer" colors than "spring" colors. Especially when it comes to t-shirts.

My favorite "spring" colors are apricot, peach, and green apple. Followed by coral, turquoise, yellow and orange.

Here are some of my t-shirts i especially favored this summer in those colors:



As for the t-shirt brands, I prefer Banana Republic, Gap, Ann Taylor, Bebe, and Lilly Pulitzer.

Trench coat for a baby

I got this itch to get my son a trench coat so that this fall we both could be wearing trench coats, the mother and son. Turns out it's not that easy to find one in infant size. The only one I liked was a Burberry one and it was very expensive, I felt bad buying him something he might not be able to appreciate while there are so many things he might enjoy that I could spend this money on, so I was hesitating to get the Burberry one and kept on lookng.

And finally today, when I went to get sushi at lunch time, I stopped at this store and saw the cutest baby trench coat for 6 month (He will turn 6 this fall!) and I absolutely fell in love.

Here it is:

Summer wardrobe for the baby

The other day I posted a question on some baby forum on what should constitute basic baby wardrobe for the fall-winter. Basically asking what is the minimum needed to suffice and to cover any occasion. I guess I was not understood completely because the answer was "depends on how much laundry are you planning on doing".

Well, that lead me to put together a basic summer wardrobe for the baby. I swear, if I did not have anything else, my son would suffice this past summer.

Here it goes:

1) 2 short-sleeved sun suits



2) 2 bright polo onesies



3) 2 shirt-like, more dressy onesies


4) 2 casual onesies, one striped, one solid


5) 2 light-colored onesies for sleeping


6) 2 t-shirts


7) 1 pair of pants


8) 1 pair of shorts


9) 1 pair of overalls

Viviene Westwood

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I LOVE this dress!

My shoe closet

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Here is the shoe closet my husband built for me when we moved to our new condo. On the top shelf I keep smaller purses and the rest of the shelves are filled with shoes. These are the photos before my postpartum cleanup

The Gospel According to Coco Chanel: Life Lessons from the World's MostElegant Woman

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You will enjoy this one if you are a fan of Chanel and are interested to know more than just about fashion side of Chanel's life. I have purchased this book after watching the movie "Coco before Chanel" and found out many interesting facts about Chanel's biography. It was very enlightening to find out exactly how Chanel developed her style by simpy accomodating her needs. It was fascinating to find out that she came up with idea of belted cardigan simply by not wanting to put on a pullover lended to her by a boyfriend over her head. She had a hat on and she didn't want to go through the trouble of taking the hat off and messing up her hair, so she cut the pullover open, put it on and tied a belt around it.

I found out a lot interesting facts not only about Chanel's style, but also her personality and her social life. I would highly recommend this book.

P.S. This book somehow reminded me of "I love your style" by Amanda Brooks, which I absolutely LOVED. I prefer books on style that do not force things upon youor force you to choose a "category" for your personal style, but instead help you to discover your individual style by showing you how others have developed theirs

Trench coats

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I have a strong passion for trench coats. I really don't feel a need to have more than one, but I could never pass by a cute trench without taking a closer look. I just can't...

The other day my husband took me to the mall and as we were walking through Bloomingdales, I've noticed a cute trench coat. So I dragged my husband to go check it out.

-"I don't like it that much" he said "and anyways, why are you even bothering yourself with it, you already have a perfect trench coat"

I took a moment coming up with a perfect analogy (I tend to use analogies whenever I need to explain something to a man).

-"You see, trench coat for a woman is the same as women for a man. You can spend your life searching for the perfect one and if you are lucky you won't be too old to enjoy it. So if you are a man who found your perfect woman, you marry her (and if you are a woman who found your perfect trench coat, you buy it), but it does not mean that from that moment on you will ignore every other woman for the rest of your life.

Sometimes you will just take a look, sometimes more than that... Sometimes you will look and think to yourself "mine is so mucvh better", and sometimes you will be tempted to "try it on", sometimes you will think that certain one is almost as good as yours and you will be tempted to add to your "wardrobe", but then again, you will always come back to your perfect one and ralize that once you have one, there is no real need for a second one. But even after that realization, you will now and then, you will at least glance at what's out there."

My husband enjoyed that analogy :)