This Girl Jane

wilderness

2012-03-20T17:29:00.003-07:00

dress- urban outfitters $10, sunnies- forever 21 $5

details

2012-03-20T17:27:00.002-07:00

it's all about the details........

striped shirt- jcrew $15, skirt- zara $30, boots- $70

miss donut

2011-10-20T18:34:00.001-07:00

can't nobody hold us down

2011-10-20T18:32:00.000-07:00

2ne1 x jeremy scott x adidas originals !!!

caught in between

2011-10-20T18:27:00.000-07:00

dress- h&m $20, necklace- h&m $7

photo by: vic wang

stable

2011-09-29T17:20:00.000-07:00

outfit: jacket- gap kids $30, denim shirt- levis $15, striped shirt- jcrew $13

lovely day in pittsburgh

2011-09-27T11:41:00.000-07:00

outfit details: dress- vintage $15, sandals- bakers $40

friendship bracelet love

2011-08-24T14:21:00.000-07:00

via: refinery 29

my favorite books while growing up

2011-08-10T14:11:00.001-07:00

for as long as i can remember i have loved to read. some of my fondest memories from my childhood involve going to the local library or the bookstore. i thought that it might be fun to be transported back to the 1980-90's & reminisce about some of the books that i so dearly loved & cherished while growing up.

babysitter's club
boxcar children
the berenstain bears
sideways stories from the wayside school
little house on the prairie
island of the blue dolphins
ramona & beezus
matilda
anne of green gables
mr. popper's penguins
the witch of blackbird pond
pippi longstocking
american girls
nancy drew
the giver

eat real fest

2011-08-10T13:38:00.000-07:00

a few weeks ago i headed to Culver City with a few friends to go to the Eat Real Festival, a food festival that promotes & teaches food craft. there were local vendors selling freshly made garlic pickles, various types of hot sauce, & so much more. it was definitely a feast for the eyes & of course the stomach! :)

photo: vic wang. see more of his photos here!

our mode of transportation to the festival? a yellow school bus of course.

alas, it wasn't a magic yellow school bus..... i used to love reading the magic school bus books.

ms. frizzle & her class never failed to disappoint. they had the wildest adventures whether it exploring the inside of a human body or the ocean floor.

the beer tasted extra delicious because it was in a mason jar :)

outfit details: top- h&m, skirt- zara, sunnies- forever 21

vintage but not really

2011-08-10T01:25:00.000-07:00

photo or painting?

painting or photo?

via: christopher stott

if merely having vintage suitcases isn't enough for you then you can also buy paintings of vintage suitcases, vintage fans, vintage books, & so much more !!

Check out artist Christopher Stott's amazing work here: http://www.chrisstott.com/index.html

beach ball chandelier

2011-08-10T00:16:00.000-07:00

via: apartment therapy

2NE1

2011-08-09T00:15:00.000-07:00

via: 1st look magazine

my absolute favorite kpop girl group-the 2NE1 girls modeling jeremy scott x adidas originals for 1st look magazine.

m&m's = free movie tickets?

2011-08-08T17:37:00.000-07:00

be on the look out for specially marked bags of M&M's that say "Win Movie Tickets"! each bag contains a unique code that when entered online will either give you $0 (very low odds of this happening), $3 off, $5 off, 1 free movie ticket, or 2 free movie tickets redeemable at most theaters!! luckily i found a good amount of these specially marked bags & i have already won quite a few $3 off coupons & 2 free movie tickets!

modern hanbok

2011-08-02T13:48:00.001-07:00

cool consoles

2011-07-22T00:12:00.000-07:00

via: apartment therapy

i love the idea of updating a vintage console & when i'm lucky enough to have a place to call my own i will definitely be adorning my living room with a vintage console.

vic & i saw this at the flea market a few months ago & we talked about how awesome it would be if it were to be modernized. the console would probably lose some character, but it would be much more functional and don't we all love functionality? replacing the old tv with a new flat screen tv & removing the record player and installing an ipod connector would turn this already beautiful piece of furniture into a highly functional beautiful piece of furniture. the best of both worlds i think.

hello? hola? yoboseyo? moshi moshi?

2011-07-20T17:36:00.000-07:00

i saw this awesome phone booth at the goodwill a few weeks ago. how i wished that i had a good enough reason to buy it & take it home with me!

DIY vintage suitcase

2011-07-12T23:21:00.001-07:00

this past weekend vic & i made our monthly trek to the rose bowl flea market in lovely pasadena. we usually meander throughout the flea market stopping to look at whatever happens to catch our eye & at the end of the day i usually go home with a few vintage dresses & vic leaves with an old painting or framed print. however, this past weekend we had a list of things that we really wanted to find. we were looking for old mason jars, old books, vintage globes, and most importantly vintage fans. we foolishly assumed that we would have no problem finding vintage fans. we were naive. we walked down every single row in the flea market in the 85+ weather (getting massive sunburns in the process. forgot to put on sunblock. oops!) trying in vain to find a vintage fan. the only fans that we found, which weren't that many (less than 5), were either $150+ (out of our price range) or dog-gone ugly. so the hunt continues for vintage fans. hopefully next month's flea market will be more successful!

on another note, although we didn't walk away with a vintage fan we did leave with a really cool 1950's suitcase for only $10! literally a minute after i told vic that i was thinking about adding to my suitcase collection we spotted this really great suitcase with old stickers. most of the stickers are Canadian stickers so we're assuming that the suitcase made its way all the way from Canada! i love imagining the former lives that all my vintage objects had before they found their way to me.

the exterior of the suitcase was great, but the interior was a hot mess! so vic suggested that we rehab the interior. we went to ikea & found fabric for only $1.50 & a spray on adhesive for $7. the fabric that we used was actually a pack of baby cloths and although it isn't conventional fabric we thought that the material would work perfectly for this project so we decided to buy them over spending more money for the conventional $5+/yard fabric at ikea.

i have to admit that vic did most of the work in rehabbing this suitcase & i more or less assisted.

the suitcase

i forgot to take a picture of the original lining, but imagine an old silky sort of fabric that was badly stained & ripped. this is a picture of the suitcase after we ripped out all the lining.

i'm "supervising" the work. ha ha.

covering the original pieces of the suitcase with new fabric.

lining the suitcase.

so in total we only spent $18 and about 2 hrs of our time for this amazing one-of-a-kind suitcase!

paper RV

2011-07-08T00:09:00.000-07:00

Curiosity Wonderment & Exploration Co. offer a free 3D calendar every month that you can print out & assemble yourself !!

print one out !

via: apartment therapy

indoor camping

2011-07-07T23:53:00.000-07:00

via: apartment therapy

i am now officially adding camper on my wishlist. how great would it be to park this in your backyard?? i'm giddy just thinking about it !!

chanel fall 2012

2011-07-06T23:55:00.000-07:00

kung fu fighting

2011-07-01T23:49:00.001-07:00

jeremy scott x adidas

one scoop of Chanel ice cream please

2011-07-01T01:12:00.000-07:00

faking it

2011-07-01T01:05:00.000-07:00

the Wall Street Journal article, "The Finer Art of Faking it" discusses how its becoming more difficult to differentiate between a fake luxury good & a real luxury good.

this is why i never buy the vintage Chanel handbags that i see at the flea markets & vintage stores. i probably see at least 10 Chanel bags on average during every flea market trip & although the vendors always insist that its a real Chanel purse I know that a real vintage Chanel anything would never be that cheap. i'm sure that its entirely possible for someone to happen upon a real Chanel purse & buy it for a ridiculously low price, but i think that the odds of that happening are about 1 to 1,000,000,000,000 and that you're better off saving your money to buy a real Chanel purse from a trustworthy vintage store, Decades Two for instance, or from the actual Chanel store.

i'm assuming that her Chanel is real? :)

what i want today

2011-06-29T00:15:00.000-07:00

super sunglasses - $153

you can buy it here.