My friend Jinny is in town, and we spent a happy afternoon shopping. After months of solo shopping (or shopping with a foot-dragging partner, which is infinitely worse), it was very, very enjoyable to go out with a friend. 🙂 She took this pic of me, enjoying organic tea and sporting a new orange hat with which I am in love. You can’t see much of in the pic, but it’s basically a shaped felt cloche with a funny folded bit on one side. A little saucy and 1920s.
In other news, we are going to Hawaii at the end of January, and will fly from there to Kyoto at the end of February. So the ball is rolling on continued travels in 2013. 🙂
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Better look at the hat, please.
And yes, I can’t bring my man shopping. He sucks out all the fun. He never “oohs” and “aahs” or wants anything. Instead of looking at stuff, he watches me, like my face is a clock.
Voilà le chapeau:
Hahah, that is the BEST description of shopping with a bored man!!! There must be (straight) men out there who enjoy shopping, or who can at least get into the spirit of it for short periods. Where are they?!
My god, that is DARLING. xxxxxxxx
Hee, why thank you. *flutter*
sean is easy to shop with! 😀 and i’ve become a bit dependent on his style opinions…
Lucky you!! 🙂 Sean does seem like he’d be fun to shop with, I must say. And a guy who gives style opinions is just gold. 🙂 Erik has good aesthetic sense but no interest in fashion, so we disagree on some things but I hit him up for general “does this look okay” input.
I love your new hat!! And yay for a willing shopping partner-in-crime. 😉
Thanks, Mo! 🙂 I’ve been eagerly wanting to buy a hat here, so I was delighted to find one I like at a reasonable price. (Needless to say, beautiful hats at unreasonable — for me — prices are a dime a dozen… or, at the current exchange of dimes for dozens, 200€ each. ;b )
lovely photo. So smiley and happy. I am so glad you are enjoying yourself. Have a safe journey home.
Thank you so much, dear Aga! I wish you could be here to explore the museums and go life drawing with me. ❤