May obessions

Hello loves! Hope you are all having a great weekend so far :-) I spent my friday night shopping after work & then watching Vicki Cristina Barcelona. Such a good movie. I've also spent entirely too much time shopping online, and since I can't afford to buy all these things, I figured I would at least share them all with you here (along with other random things i'm obesessing over currently):

adorable ruffled boots from free people (ruffles are detachable too!)


vintage owl necklace from candyshopvintage on etsy

desert boot also from Free People



leather tassel fringe bag from topshop <3>found magazine (foundmagazine.com)

handmade deerskin fringe bag from RainbowMoonDreams on etsy

vintage Anna Sui dress from ingeniusrehab on etsy



in love with the music & lyrics of delta spirit
"To look down from the hill
And howl at the moon
All the tears I cried never salted any wounds
Well the earth is so tender and cruel
Well if you're not there it's still so beautiful "-delta spirit

LA Lifestyle

So I've been in LA for about a month now and can't say i'm living the typical LA lifestyle, considering i'm renting out a living room and am still broke until I pay off all my debts, BUT I can say that I enjoy seeing all the different types of people who live here. LA is like no other place I have been to & I still have so much of it to see! You meet people from all over the country here and everyone has a different story, and lots of aspirations out here. Its inspiring meeting all these passionate people who moved to LA to pursue their dreams, and reminds me how many opportunities are here. I plan to post my own photographs soon, but for now here are some of my favorite LA images...



-D

credits: laurengreenfield fabrik magazine guest of a guest open pr ben miller

independent woman

Sorry for not posting recently, but I've been so busy getting myself settled in LA! I have decided to end my roadtrip for now, and I'll be working in the city of angels for a while as I have gotten a full time job here. I had no plans of doing this, but everything happens for a reason & everything has been falling into place for me out here.

Right around the time I got to Austin, I was running out of money QUICKLY and was just about ready to find a job in Austin after SXSW, when I met someone who needed a ride to Los Angeles. So we put our money together & drove here from Austin in about 4 days, visiting some sights along the way (check out the travel blog for pics: http://vintagevagabonds.wordpress.com).

Once arriving in LA, I started to search for jobs vigilantly & after about 2 weeks or so, landed a full time job that will allow me to actually afford living here, my first real job ever! So here I am, settling down in LA. Who would have thought!!

After talking to a lot of people out here, I realized that what I've done out here is pretty amazing. I mean I just came here with no plans, no job prospects & no friends, living in my van for the first week or so! Now all the sudden I've found a sublet & a job. It was really scary at first and I still wake up some days and question what I'm doing out here but things have come together pretty well and I feel like a much stronger person, having done this all alone (I've never been in a city by myself before!).

So on that note, I'm dedicating this blog to all the strong, independent women out there, the women who persevere, get sh*t done, and don't depend on anyone else.


I'm tough, I'm ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay. ~Madonna Ciccone

"Well-behaved women seldom make history."
—Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

womens suffragists in 1913


"Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got." —Janis Joplin





"I think the key is for women not to set any limits."

— Martina Navratilova

-D

Life in a VAN!

OK, so Casey and I have been living out of our van since January 21, and also shipping most of the vintage orders from the van as well! We have bins under the bed in the back of the van that store all the vintage clothing.

We are currently in Corpus Christi, TX and getting ready to head to Austin for SXSW next week :-) We have been doing lots of thrift shopping too and we are currentlyalways adding new items on Etsy also!

Here's some photos of the van we are traveling in:

As you can see the van is packed out! We needed to bring tons of stuff to take photos with for the site, since this trip will be about a total of 6 months! We plan to get back to upstate NY in mid July.

Here are some highlights of our trip so far!

GORGEOUS Miami Beach! this was in February! i wanna go back <3

setting up a picnic in a park outside Miami

texas state line! we had fun here, our first time in texas!

casey inside the texas cutout

the lone star state

on the ferry from crystal beach to galveston!

the seawall in galveston

casey & i at the seawall

galveston

downtown galveston, the Strand district

our van amidst a sea of RVs camping on Padre Island, off Corpus Christi, TX

Corpus Christi

seagull! testing out my zoom lens while tanning in CC

Well that's all i got for now! Make sure you become our fan on facebook to see more updates on our travels :-)

We also have a specific blog just for this road trip which you can see on wordpress!

http://www.vintagevagabonds.wordpress.com

hope you all have a good St Patty's Day!

XOXO

-D