How To Survive Texas Summers

photo via Blood Is The New Black

 

Checklist of how to survive Texas summers:

1. Water to sit in or put one's feet.
2. Beverage of one's liking.  I suggest Lone Star, a personal favorite complete with a kuzi.
3. Friends.  To whom else is one going to bemoan the blistering heat?

Wooden Shades: First Attempt

My man Conner made a pair of sunglasses this past weekend.  It's our first attempt at making a pair of sunglasses and I'm hoping there will be more soon!  Wooden glasses seem to be all the rage these days and we had to try our hand at it. 

Portland Garment Factory

Portland Garment Factory is a "lady-owned manufacturing house"; they do everything from helping you design your clothing, to making it, to marketing the finished products.  It all sounds pretty cool, especially the manufacturing bit since that's the part that I always get stuck on; if I can't make it myself I seem to get lost on how get my idea get made on a large scale and therefore make a buisness out of it all.  This manufacturing mess is what I'm currently trying to figure out with my eyeglasses idea.

The photo above is from a fashion show the Portland Garment Factory did several years ago and I especially love the colors.  I wish I could have been there!
Via Honey Kennedy

Daily Outfit: 13

I went out to cocktail hour with the ladies on Friday and didn't get home in time to take photographs with that nice golden evening sun.  All the photos I took with the flash ended up being terrible, although I did try.  In lieu of my failed photographs, I've posted a previous one taken with the same Cupcake Princess dress that I wore on Friday.

Honestly WTF: DIY Gold Tube Bracelets

 

The ladies at Honestly WTF have some of the better DIY tutorials I've been around the web.  This one posted recently for DIY Gold Tube Bracelets caught my eye and I may have to make these soon.  A girl can never have too many bracelets, right? 

Daily Outfit: 12

Easy Tiger

 On the hunt for the best Bloody Mary in Austin, we checked out a new bakery & beer garden on 6th street called Easy Tiger...so cute!  I walked by this place during SXSW and made a mental note to come back and try it out.  The bakery is on the top floor (which smells amazing!) and the beer garden is on the bottom floor near the canal.  While the canal looks like it's seen better days and couldn't possibly support any life, it does-so many cute little turtle families.

 The highlight of their Bloody Mary's is the garnish; pickled brussel sprouts and cauliflower.  Brussel sprouts have to be the new hipster veggie.  All of a sudden I see them everywhere and after getting over my childhood phobia of the mini-cabbages, I've found that I love them.

Nothing better than having some afternoon cocktails in the sun.

Daily Outfit: 12

Cathy Cooper: Stylist

 

Cathy Cooper, a stylist, living in Echo Park, CA.  I totally wish I had her hair. 
via Closet Visit

Daily Outfit: 11

Oh man, I cheated again!  I got rid of my gray loafers and added these brown brogues from JCrew and added some gray pants.  There are some days that a girl just does not want to wear white pants.