coco

I forgot to report back re. "coco before chanel" so I thought I'd do that while I wait for the chocolate pecan pie with caramel sauce to finish baking. Yep. You heard right. Sounds yummy, no? It's my dessert contribution for Thanksgiving dinner tomorrow. It will probably be the most sought after dessert and I will feel just a little sad for all the other dessert makers who will have just one slice taken out of their cakes and pies. Ah well.

And I liked the movie pretty well. This is what I came away from it thinking...

-I didn't much care for her love interests. And the only time I felt at all affected by the romance part of the movie was at the very end during the flashback scenes. And this had to do with identifying with her sense of loss and getting older and loneliness, not the particular men she remembered.

-I did not know anything about her prior and I do not know about the history of fashion and it was awe inspiring to see how ahead of her time she was and how much she influenced fashion then and now.

-The clothes I really responded to were the earliest ones she made and her philosophy of simple and sort of rustic and austere. You could see the influence of the orphanage.

-She was portrayed as incredibly confident in her vision. This was the best part of the movie.

800 club

Hello sweet darling people who visit my fledgling blog. I love you. I do. And I just wanted to pop in and say that I'm on the cusp (hate that word) of 800 sales in my etsy shop. I know, it's not 500 or 1000 or some number that seems like, WOO HOO, let's celebrate. But still, it's EIGHT HUNDRED!! Honestly, I never thought my shop would be successful. Not that I thought it wouldn't be. I guess I really didn't think. But here we are. And it's almost Thanksgiving. And I really DO feel thankful this year. It's not that everything is perfect here in my little life. But it is that I am happy to be alive. With all the trials and tribulations and hurdles and beautiful moments that bring tears to my eyes I most days wake up and think, MY GOD. I"M ALIVE. What a hoot.

So anyway, Happy Thanksgiving to you. I really do hope that you have a great day tomorrow. Even if you fight with your sister try to make up before the day is over. Even if you don't get to be with your Dad, call him. Tell him he rocks. You get the picture.

If you wanna get a pressie for yourself or someone else in my shop today it's 20% off for the rest of the day. Just mention "800" in the note to seller.

luv ya,
liane

PS- are you dying to see a detailed and complete list of all the words I hate? Do you even know I have such a list?? Well I most certainly do. And if you really really want to see said list I will be publishing it here on this very blog, an enhabiten exclusive, if you will. Next week. Be here. And be prepared to laugh and be grossed out. Two of my favorite things.

old house sunday drive-by

sunshiney back road sunday drive. i stuck my head out the moon roof to take some pictures. old house. click to see it big.

hi bye

On my way to hopefully see "coco before chanel". I gotta see it and stop talking about it. And here's my little fashion post...I like clothes. But I haven't done a lot of clothes shopping these past several years. I did, however, go to Marshalls with my 17 yr old daughter recently and now I keep thinking about clothes. Not that I didn't think about it before in the "I like clothes but don't have any and wish I had better stuff" way. I bought this jacket there. The hat is (well, was) my daughter's. She bought it for a dollar at the mall. I generally think I look like a major doofus in hats but whaddya think about this one? Not bad, right? I really hate the mall. But I gotta admit, I'm a wanting to go back to Marshalls. The scarf is from http://www.uniform-studio.com/index.html.
OK, that paragraph was not genius writing, but I gotta get out of here and get to the movies.
See ya!

i want this look

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no one does it like you

found via http://prettygingham.blogspot.com/.

one more cuz i love me some avetts