It's personal

I usually don't write about my private life, at least not often, but during my blogging hiatus I did some things I still consider a bit unusual for me and I'm still going through all of this. My birthday will be in two months, and this year it will mark a turning point. I don't know exactly what is happening but lately I feel so different from the old faithful me. As soon as I started realizing it I thought it was a sort early - hey, I'm just turning 30! - middle age crisis and I was a bit worried about it, but now...well I'm starting to enjoy this new me.

I'm still the girl people can count on, but I wanna have fun and for the first time in my life I don't feel too guilty for this.

Weird to say, but all this started when I decided to buy...a bike!

Just because this is usually considered a sort of fashion blog (and after almost three years I'm still quite skeptical) and I don't feel confortable with posts without photos, bust most of all because I guess you don't want to hear my silly ramblings without a visual reward, here are some inspirational pics of stylish ladies on a bike. All from The Sartorialist, of course.




I don't know what will happen this summer, but I'm so looking forward to discover it...

Not For Tourists Roma

So I'm back from this marvellous, relaxing (very long) weekend in Roma that involved sunbathing in Villa Borghese, to die for wine tasting, good and not so good movies - dear Atom (Egoyan), what's happening to you?! - sushi eating on a lovely roof terrace and lot of shopping. I already miss all of that!

I'll write more about purchases and nice stores in another post, here I want to show some crazy and fun pictures I took in the city. Definitely a not for tourists view...

Enjoy!



Do not place anything on top of this box...


The boxes are empty. All the bulbs are broken.


Warning. Questionable but realistic gift packages that exalt the contents.

Roman Holiday

Hoping in a Spring like weather - this week it snowed in Italy, again... - I'm going to Roma for a few days.


See you next week. Have a great weekend :-)

Santa Claus Brought Me Tons Of Bras

Being a flat chested girl could be really painful if you live in a country where bras don't go by cup and bust measurements but, most of the time, there are only a few standard sizes - and the smallest is often too big - that leave you with lot of extra empty space.

Considering I don't like to fill my bra with Kleenex, I finally decided to try a different path and once again a bit of online shopping has saved me. Just one week -the time of my latest order from ASOS to be delivered - and now my lingerie drawer is full of bras that finally fit me. Literally, an invasion of A cups!





I regularly look at new arrivals on Asos and I must say I also place regular orders, but I don't know why I've never considered the lingerie section (and the outlet lingerie section) till last week.
By the way, I finally did it and I immediately turned into a lingerie addicted. Seriously: I want to buy almost everything and looking for a single bra I ended buying...six. And knickers too! A sort of "auto Christmas present". Well deserved and much appreciated.





The pics show just a selection of some of my favorites + something I bought... :-)

The Name Game

It's funny how since I have this blog and my jewelry line - Alice Pleasance Accessories - many people tend to call me Alice, thinking it is my name. And I'm sure some of my readers still ignore that my real name is Anna!

Yesterday I received a little package from CollanaConNome.com


and when I opened the adorable box I found they sent me a perfect nameplate necklace, something that have actually been on my wish list for a very long time!


It's definitely an amazing piece, and would surely be a perfect Christmas present!



Do you like it? Order yours here :-)

Missed Connections

I have a real addiction to missed connections. I could spend hours on Craigslist reading each message - skipping all the creepy/indecent proposals... - looking for the perfect ones. I always wonder if they will find an answer or will just die in the cyberworld...

Sophie Blackall went one step further with her blog where, with her beautiful illustrations, she tries to pin a few of those "funny, sad, beautiful, hopeful, hopeless, poetic posts" down.






Look at this adorable video too!



Sophie's illustrations are also available for sale in her Etsy store.

Where I Have Been

So, many of you were wondering where I spent my weekend of shopping - which by way was proficuous and fun as expected - and here's the answer...


Not so far away indeed, it's only two hours away from where I live, but hey, that's MY City and it looks so different in every sense from what I reluctantly use to call home now!



I lived and spent there my university years and I so miss it.
Even if the biggest part of the people I met and loved during that time is not living there anymore, even if some of them are thousand miles away, other countries, other stories, I still can feel everything.


And yesterday I realized I so miss this place that everytime I arrive there and look around I feel like I'm visiting one of the most beautiful places in the whole world... I guess this is what they call homesickness!

Like A Holiday

I'm gonna have an hopefully relaxing and fun pre-weekend of shopping &Co.


See you on Sunday :-)

September 10th

Born today:

Elsa Schiapparelli


Karl Lagerfeld


Yma Sumac


...and me :-)

Tags and Awards

Tags. I'm really bad with this kind of things! Lately I was tagged two times and I also received an award from two lovely ladies, Polly Farthing and Poke Salad Annie.


The first tag was about listing six things that make me happy, the second one about listing 10 things you don't [and might not want to] know about me.
I feel a bit guilty, but I think I'll break the rules a little (as per usual...) and list just three things "of each kind".

So, the odd numbers are things that I love/make me happy, the even numbers are for things you don't know about me...

1.
This picture, surely my favorite, of Anna Karina and Jean Luc Godard:


2.
My favorite english word is "dandelion", followed by "knickers".

3.
This city:


Photo: Scott Schuman.

4.
My grand-grandfather had six siblings and three of them moved to US at the beginning of 20th century. At today, I know I have some long lost cousins in Rochester, NY.

5.
This video/song, cause melancholy could be a nice feeling and Kermit is a genius:



6.
There are four people with my same name on Facebook.

Red & Turquoise

Days ago I read this post on Christina's blog and it was so inspirational that I decided to build an outfit around these two colors: turquoise and red.


I like color block effects and quite unexpectly this two shades work fine together, so juicy and fun!


I handsewn the skirt and the leotard is from American Apparel. It come in red, but when I bought mine it was out of stock, so I decided to buy it in white, trying with a DIY dye . It ended looking better than expected: not a bloody red but a nice coral/orange shade.



And the deep scoop back is so nice and refreshing!!

My Boyfriend's Back And The Saffron Wall Too

Yes! I have a new laptop! A working one!!! And this means I can connect my camera (not my scanner yet, but this is another story...) and share again some pictures of my daily outfits with you :-)


Today is so hot here, possibly the hottest day so far and there's nothing better than a light vintage floral dress to wear...



Belt is ye old faithful one from Asos and shoes are a new favorite of mine: cheap yet comfy punps with nice wooden heels.



I missed so much my yellow wall ;-)

April Fools

Oh my, a two weeks hiatus is never a good thing! I'm really sorry...I had a family emergency and a dead pc to deal with: not a really great time indeed and I missed so much my blog and you(rs)! I hope to be definitely back on a regular basis from now on, even if my pc is still almost dead (i.e. I still can't connect anything but my Ipod to it..).

Oh, and I had to put my comments under moderation for a while due to a crazy spammer...I know a lot of you are having the same problem with this person. I reported the thing to Blogger and I really hope they will be able to stop him.


Photo by Kosmodisk

Be back with a real post in the afternoon :-)

This Is an Emergency Call!

This is officially an obsession, so I think I'll share it with my faithful readers too...!

Two years ago, when I was in New York, I bought a small bottle of White Tea Body Mist from The Healing Garden and I fell in love with this fresh and flowery fragrance.


Sadly it was a really short love story, cause when I came back to Italy and looked for more White Tea I suddendly discovered that this line from The Healing Garden is not available anywhere: neither in stores, nor online. Apparently at today it is discontinued or something even in US...
I searched on American websites and from international Ebay sellers, and I saw some stores still carry this item, but again none of them ship to Italy :-( (Maybe...could someone here buy it for me...?!)

I'm really desperate: it's not a diamond I'm looking for, it's just a stupid cheap small bottle of White Tea Body Mist and this is really painful!

The Healing Garden calls it "comforting body mist". Well, I need to be comforted...