More Marc Jacobs stuff

Hmmm, total addiction...
Every time I go down on Bleecker Street... My hubby already knows: damage @ Marc Jacobs!

He drops in there and goes to the White Horse Tavern for some relaxation. Myself? I go for another relaxation therapy: buying cute, useful and cheap stuff at MJ's!

Here is more stuff I own and love:

Have this one in dark brown

Love this tote = have exactly this one!

Had one like this in black - I mean HAD one... My hubby is trying to be more eco-friendly... and snagged this out of my hands...

Cute rainboots... Have the blue one. The only problem is: they fall apart pretty fast. Well, what do you expect from only $28?

 Handy for all those Brazil games...

That store only makes me happy! Such cute things at crazy prices!!!

HAVE TO GO BACK THERE ASAP!!!

Wanna have a Grace Kelly moment? Get some Louis Vuitton!

Dressing like a lady in times like this? Yes, count me in...

Grace Kelly was always a style icon for me... Of course me and the rest of the world! Super ladylike, super gorgeous...

Now my dear Marc Jacobs did it again. The Louis Vuitton fall 2010-2011 collection is.to.die.for!

I am so in love with these looks. Have to find some knockoffs, Loulou cannot purchase all of these (LOL!) without selling an arm or a leg, or both!!!

Actresses I love: Vivien Leigh

Who doesn't love Vivien Leigh?

I absolutely adored her as Scarlett O'Hara in that "little unknown movie" called "Gone With The Wind".

And she was married to another fave of mine... Laurence Olivier... What a charming couple!

Such a tragic beauty... her life would make a great movie for sure. But who would play her? Hmmm?

Urban archeology - amazing stuff found on MY CLOSET!!!

Ok, so sometimes you really don't know what you have sitting in your closet for years!

I am fascinated by antiques - sometimes I am made fun by my hubby about this lifelong passion.

At one of our house cleanings... My husband decided to reorganize our big closet and guess what he took out: a box full of really old 78 rpm records. really good music: Benny Goodman, Glenn Miller, Ella Fitzgerald, Bing Crosby, etc...

The treasure was only thought to be the 78 rpm records, but no!!! Look at the wrappers!!!

The records were wrapped in GUESS WHAT???

Newspapers from 1944 to 1946!!!

Incredible...

Tons of pages of fashion, ads and every kind of news. The war was raging on and in some of them, the vets were coming back to face the problems of adjusting back to "normal life". Sounds familiar, huh?

The biggest problem now is to kind of restore them, the pages are super yellow and brittle = falling to pieces at the lightest touch. Another project: find plastic sleeves that fit them.

I am happy though...Another time capsule... laying there for decades, just under my nose. Good surprise indeed!

Currier & Ives

Another amazing Ebay find: my beautiful framed Currier & Ives antique print... became obsessed with these prints some time ago. This amazing one from Ebay came with the original wood frame. Gorgeous. It hangs next to my bed. So I can get up and look at it every day!

The printmaking firm of Currier & Ives produced some of the most iconic and popular American art of the 19th century. The company, headed by Nathaniel Currier (1813-1888) and James Merritt Ives (1824-1895), specialized in publishing hand colored lithographic prints that were sold inexpensively to the growing American middle class. This gallery features a selection of images from Currier & Ives, including images of original prints as well as of later reproductions that are in the public domain.

Currier & Ives did a series of prints for a determinate theme. Hope one day I can find another one!

A good surprise from Trader Joe's

My hubby and I were in line of these days at Trader Joe's and were talking about champagne, Freixenet, etc...

Then suddenly unsolicited advice came from a woman in front of us: try this German bubbly: 

Schloss Biebrich Sekt... One of my greates pet peeves are unsolicited advice from strangers, but I do have to thank that woman. Not only this bubbly was cheap as hell: $4.49, but it was really great!
Thank you whoever you are...
Cheers...

Great discount!!! EMBELLISHED LACE OVERLAY JACKET by Express

And my lace mania doesn't go away! Did an amazing deal at Express.  Could not resist...

Just got this beauty...

OK, so the original price was like $129... hmmm not bad, but then I did see that it went on sale for $77.40 (40% off).  But just WAIT: got a coupon for $30 off!!!

I did get this beauty for JUST $47 bucks!!! Can you believe it?

Of course I had to edit this a little bit - it came with some crazy brooches that made it look like a Michael Jackson reject... But without those unnecessary things, it actually looks like a D&G or maybe even a Chanel inspired jacket. Love it!

Look at the safety pins detail in the shoulder!!!

The turban - an idea from Little Augury

Ok, so I love this blog: Little Augury...

The best of articles, the best of taste, just awesome. I love everything she posts in there.

Saw that she has a series of post called "Turbans" - with shots of the said accessory through the ages.

How happy was I when on a rainy vacation day in Washington DC, we entered an awesome antique shop in Georgetown , Susquehanna Antique Company and I found this AMAZING miniature!

Shame that the girl selling it did not know much about it other than it was an early 1800's watercolor of a woman with a turban. Managed to bargain a little and took her home with me.

Shame we cannot identify the sitter or have any indication of date, but doing some online research, did find a very similar one :

Germaine de Staël

What the Phrygian cap is to Liberty, the turban is to Germaine de Staël. Staël was a novelist, literary critic and theorist, political rabblerouser, Napoleon nemesis, and salon hostess who was active in the 1790s, 1800s and 1810s in France and in exile in Switzerland (at her famous Château de Coppet, where philosophers and other learned folk gathered around her). All biographers take pain to note that Staël wasn't attractive and that she tended to look as though she dressed herself in the dark, but they are as quick to add that her wit and charm were unparalleled in either sex. It was in her talk and in her comportment that her brilliance was expressed.

Hmmmm - SO TRUE!

Life is a combination of magic and pasta

                                                                                               - Federico Fellini

On Mad Men's time... My gorgeous MOM!

Just look at this : my beautiful mother way back when... Mad Men times!!! Gorgeous!!!

Hmmm... Myself as the apple that didn't fall far from the tree!!!

See?

So Mad Men... Look at those hairstyles...

But WAIT, none, absolutely no one looks as good as my MOM!!!

Another chain necklace? Yes Sir!

I am so in love with multi-chain necklaces..

A Dolce & Gabbana choker... not a big fan of the poodles, though. More than $600 bucks for that!

Lulu did it again - the look for less. MUCH less: like... $12.50!!!!

Actually the necklace looks much better in person, I would say!

Saudades da minha vó Nena, Missing my Grandma Nena

My dear Vó Nena, would be 83 years old today...


So many good memories - actually all of my memories from her are good...

Impeccable human being... Beautiful inside and out.

Taken away from us too early.

Love you forever...

She was just 14! What a beauty!

Another one from the 1940's. They had style then!

My grandma, as I remember her, me and my grandpa Ique.