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Comfort Zone

August 17, 2015

Los Gatos, CA | Photo by Mom

Here's something I never expected to happen when I started blogging all those years ago: I love taking photos. Not "having photos taken" - I mean, I love that occasionally, but other times it's something that I do because I have a post I'm excited to write and, well, I'm right there, making the most convenient model to illustrate said post...me. It's fun sometimes, and embarrassing sometimes (okay, a lot), but I always love shooting other people. LOVE. Like these photos of our trip to the LACMA? And these? So much fun to take (I'm referring, of course, to the shots in those posts that I'm not in).

I didn't really used to love photographing friends, because it made me nervous: I felt pressure to give the person I was taking a photo of the image that they "wanted," and didn't feel like I was an especially good photographer...but I don't know what happened. Either I feel better about my ability level now, or I've gotten better at making people feel comfortable in front of my camera, or maybe it's a bit of both - because taking photos is without question one of my favorite things to do.

Style

The D’Orsay

August 17, 2015

What, you ask, is a d'Orsay shoe?

Excellent question; I know them when I see them, but wasn't sure what the exact description was, so: google. Apparently they're a style of shoe in which the part of the shoe that covers the top of your foot is cut very close to the toe box, and in which the sides are cut away, revealing the instep.

In other words: they're very bare-looking. And even though my feet leave much to be desired, I happen to find the style really pretty. Jenni Kayne's flats are kind of the gold standard, but they're so popular at the moment that pretty much everyone makes them, so you can find them in virtually every price range. My own pick: the J.Crew Sloan flats pictured above (which I love, but which also started looking worn - on the tips of the toes - immediately, so if you buy them I'd recommend taking them to a tailor and having the toe reinforced before, say, spending all day wandering around Carmel in them).

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Second Time Around

August 14, 2015

If you had asked me a few years ago if I liked Los Angeles, you would have gotten massive eye-rolls and "GOD NO"s. But you know what I realized, once I had a little distance from the place (like six years' worth) and started visiting again, just to spend time with my friends and family who live there?

I love Los Angeles.

I hated it when I lived there because I was miserable, not because the place is miserable.

Decor

Pretty Little Things

August 13, 2015

Lulu & Georgia Pillow and Lamp | Pendleton Blanket

OK, so the renovation projects I've been doing have been SO much fun...but now that the majority of them (not all of them, no no, but the majority of them) are sort of winding down, I'm in finishing-touches mode. I've always decorated in a sort of mishmosh way - a lamp that my parents were going to toss, a blanket that I bought for my dorm room and have dragged back and forth across the country ever since, whatever light fixture was already present when I moved into wherever I'm living at the moment, et cetera.

But this house is so special to me - I've been putting so much work into it - that it's exciting to look at each room, take a step back, and see if there's any last little touch that might make it feel...perfect.

Lifestyle

These Shoes Though

August 13, 2015

Alright, Francesca. Hand over the shoes.

...Anytime. Really.

When you have a friend who is Italian and is always running off to Italy to see her Italian relatives, you get to hear stories like this: "So I found these gorgeous Prada platforms that I really liked but they were a fortune, and then I was in this little boutique in Italy and stumbled across a man forging handmade shoes from ancient wooden shipwrecks and linen woven by nuns, and he made me a pair exactly like the Prada ones I'd been wanting except they cost three dollars, and then he fed me prosciutto and sparkling rose in the sunbaked piazza and we fell in love."

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Presenting: The Great Barn Door Makeover (Video)

August 12, 2015

OK, so THIS was an exciting one.

See, the master bedroom in our new place was kind of weird. I mean, I loved most of it when I first saw it - the windows, the breeze, the proximity to the pool, et cetera - but what I did not love about it was the fact that the bathroom was kind of...in it.

You'll see what I mean in that video up there. Our sink was basically next to my head. It gave me the icks.

Lifestyle

In The Air

August 11, 2015

Oh, hello there! I'm in New York City. Sort of. I'm in a hotel preparing for a meeting, and then I will be in that meeting, and then I will be on a plane back to San Jose. So I'm not "in New York," exactly, I'm more "moving through New York at very rapid speeds."

I stood under the Empire State Building this morning, though, so that was something.

MAN, have the past five days ever involved a lot of travel. A seven-hour drive to Los Angeles, a seven-hour drive back, a quick emptying and repacking of my duffle, a six-hour flight to New York, and now (or at least later today) a six-hour flight back. I'm ready for life to be slightly less boring for a couple of days, but in the meantime something I am feeling extremely expert-y about is travel wear.

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One Place To The Next

August 10, 2015

Soooo I just got back from a weekend in LA - I drove down with Indy to see Paige and Francesca and to spend time with my dad (sidenote: although I very much enjoy road trips, WOW is interstate 5 extremely long and not very interesting when you're the one doing all the driving) - and now I'm back and have all this fun stuff to write about, but I just found out that I have to go to New York right now for work. Like, right now (the car to the airport just pulled up outside my place, so let's forgive any typos this morning because #gottago).

So in the meantime, here are ridiculous photos that we took on Saturday night (also pictured: RG reader and new friend Cassidy), just because.

See you in the city!

Lifestyle

All About Those Images

August 7, 2015

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Q. Hey Jordan,

I've been reading your blog from just after you announced you were pregnant with Indy [and I had a question] about your new blog design and your photos - they are looking incredible! I just did a redesign of my blog, and now that I've "fancied" it up a bit, my photos are looking really...dull.

Decor

The Palette

August 6, 2015

Noritake Teacup

I have a palette.

I don't mean to have a palette, exactly; it sounds like a silly thing to consciously cultivate ("oh dahhling no, I couldn't possibly purchase that table, no no, that's not my palette"). I just have one, for the simple reason that there are certain colors that make me really happy, and so those are what I surround myself with. It started with my wedding, when the florist asked me what my "colors" were, and despite the fact that I had been more focused on panicking over the fact that we could barely afford wedding rings - let alone any kind of thematic floral arrangements - than my bouquet, I answered without even a second of hesitation:

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