Garance Doré Named her Bicycle Chuck Bass!

This is a very recent photo Garance Doré took of a lovely Amsterdam girl and her bicycle.

Garance Doré is one of my all time favorite sources for fashion inspiration. I love her photography, illustrations, and the superb writing she does in her blog...So imagine when I discovered she also loves riding bicycles, plus tweets about it! By the way I've learned that Garance has named her own bicycle Chuck Bass...

p.s. I am just crazy for those green boots in this photo

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update: The day following this post Garance posted a (rare) photo herself with her bicycle; "Me & my bike"

like a bird

fashiongonerogue

waves

stockholmstreetstyle

balmain... are you tired of it yet?

super.fantastic.picture.time

i'm not.

weekend ♥

wildfox

The Doe & Her Fawn

Hello friends.
Well, i'm sitting with my fam watching the animated Peter Pan for the second time in three days.
You have no idea how much i love this movie.
Every element, especially Miss Wendy!
She is wonderful! ;)
If only i could figure out how to climb into the tv and live in Neverland.... hmm.. next invention...

Well, i painted this picture today.
It's my own version of Bambi, i guess.
i saw this picture today, and couldn't help but draw it!
i really like how it turned out. Hope you like it!! :)

isabel marant fall 2009 revisited

style.com

bleach/black reminded me of how much i love this collection ♥

Lily & the Plant

Hello my friends! Wow, i am so tired!
Today was a long day.
i'm excited to get back, wake up, and begin drawing again tomorrow!
This drawing above i drew while on a plane flying back from New York fashion week a few years ago..
It's weird to think it was that long ago... mmm..
i have a sweet tooth tonight, so i think my brother and i are about to leave for some ice cream.
Guess i better get ready, but i hope you like the drawing and hope you all are having a great day!

p.s. We have been updating the Dream Walking Society a bunch lately,
almost got it to 24 hour posts going on! haha
i hope you having been enjoying it!

7.22.09 // BOSTON // Private Party

this girl

ontd

{inspiration: white + gold office}

. . . making over the office space and have completely fallen for Aerin Lauder's ultra-glamorous and inspirational combination of mirrored desktop, lucite table lamp, and white and gold desk accessories . . .

{p.s.} is your desk tidy or cluttered + a little messy?

{image: "the good heiress", allure, photo-editing by this is glamorous}

that gap

tfs

orange

stylesightings

Foraging with my Bicycle

(asiya wadud via sanfranciscomag)

Meet Asiya Wadud, that’s her in the photo above. She’s my current favorite lifestyle heroine on a bicycle. She has brought LOTS of attention to urban foraging and she does it all via her bicycle. She wants to win $10,000. She’d use the funds to purchase bicycles, organize a series of walking/ biking tours of Oakland (Oakland, CA is where she urban forages). Recently there was a Forage Dinner. Surprise, surprise the chef was none other then Jerome Wagg who has been a great friend of mine since (dare I say) the late 80’s.

A while back I did a combo post featuring one my chictopia outfits and more relevant in relationship to this post I talked about picking wild berries.

Well I wanted to share the fruits of that foraging foray....

(elderberry perserve photo by ridingpretty)

This is the elderberry preserve I made from the berries. I’ve been making elderberry preserves from wild foraged elderberry going back as many summers as I can remember. My grandfather got me started. He was famous for his chokecherry and elderberry wines and mead. My grandmother thought it was more important to learn to make the preserves so that’s what she taught me. At age 16 I tried making my grandfather’s recipe for chokecherry mead…and it was sort of a disaster, so I stuck with making preserves instead. So there you have it. I’ve been a ‘forager’ forever!

Madrone berries, just picked and ready for a fruit compote.....

(madrone photo by ridingpretty)

The path...

(photo by ridingpretty)

I ride my bicycle very slowly when staking out new areas to forage in. You really have to look and observe the terrain.

Berries in the wild....

(oregon grape photo by ridingpretty)

(elderberry photo by ridingpretty)

Do you use your bicycle in ways that can inspire others like Asiya and her Forage Oakland?
Or do you go foraging yourself with your bicycle?

Home at last after a successful forage... peaceful, contemplative watching the sunset.

dry

manolo campion

puma/sergio rossi

luisaviaroma

black/black

thecobrasnake

Character Sketchbook 7

Hey Friends wow thank you so much for your overwhelming Response
on My new Speed Painting Video!
It really means alot. Had over in 6,000 of you watching it of the last day or so. amazing! :)
thanks again.

The Drawing today is the 7th drawing from my Character Sketckbook.
did it back in 2006 right when i started that book... aw the good ol days...
I really hope you like it! :)

sweet caroline

carolines mode