One night when I was trying to fall asleep, I started thinking up this outfit and tonight I’ve spent an hour or so trying to work it out with items I found online.  This is what I’ve come up with:

Burgundy blazer is from Wet Seal,  $24.50

Ruffled neck top from Forever 21, $22.80

Tweed pants from Wet Seal, $19.50

Skinny belt from Target, $14.99 (to be worn around pants through belt loops)

Black boots from Steve Madden,  $119.95

I’m not the biggest Federer fan (but I still appreciate/admire him and his talent), and this is adorable.  I want one!

The Feder-bear also has a blog.

This is too cute!  It’s Jovovich-Hawk, found here.

Okay, so I realize I’m a bit late in saying this for anyone who celebrates Christmas.. but the holidays aren’t technically over, New Years is still in the near future. Hope everyone had a great holiday, no matter what you celebrate.

Oh, and isn’t this just the cutest thing? This particular bag with red straps has already sold, but there’s another one with black straps here (and the lining – skeletons on motorcycles – is just adorable)!

I’ve been wearing boots lately because of the cold, but mixing in a few skirts on the warmer days.

I haven’t worn this yet, just looking forward to summer.

Oh my gosh.
That’s about all I have to say about that right now.

I like to read. I didn’t used to.. when I was younger I despised it. I’d much rather play a video game or watch cartoons than sit down and read quietly. When I grew older, Harry Potter was such an interesting series that I would open one and not put it down until I was finished. It was kind of incredible.. actually having an interest in reading.

Lately I’ve read romance novels. I had a stack to move through , and I started with Jennifer Crusie’s “Bet Me”, which like Harry Potter I had a hard time putting down. It had romance, suspense, a bit of a mystery.. and I was surprised to realize I actually enjoyed it.

Once it was time to move on to the next book, I searched the stack for another Crusie novel and found “Getting Rid of Bradley”. It had the same pull, the mystery and romance, as well as the suspense that scared me just a bit. Good book, but I was getting used to her style and almost bored with it as well. I wasn’t sure what I’d want to read next.

My next few books were all Crusie novels.. “What the Lady Wants”, “Charlie All Night”, “Tell Me Lies”, “Welcome To Temptation”, “Fast Women”, and “Faking It”. Since I wasn’t sure I even liked her writing, I’m somewhat surprised I was able to make it through so many of her novels so fast.. even almost knowing what was going to happen next, or how things might play out.

Now, I’ve read all of the Jennifer Crusie novels from the stack, and I’m trying to move onto the other authors, getting too bored one by one. When you read as little as I do, I guess it takes a lot to prove what ‘liking’ an author really is.

If you haven’t read one of her novels, do it! They’re lots of fun. I think I might just throw the rest of the stack out and buy the rest of her books.

PS:
I’ve updated my Flickr! Ebraunnagel also has a Flickr. Add us as contacts.

I’ve been playing with the clothes in my closet, trying to come up with something interesting. These are recent experiments (some have made it out of the house, others haven’t):More outfit pictures can be found at MSD.

New World Ballet
“Nutcracker in a Nutshell”
Featured Guest Artists Karen Hirst and Paul Thrussell
This shortened production is perfect for younger children and “squirmy” dads yet still captures the magic and beauty of the full length “Nutcracker”. Don’t wait to buy tickets. All performances have sold out the past two years. Sugar Plum Party (after the Sunday Dec. 3 matinee) tickets are $5 and sold separately from performance tickets through the Eisemann Center Ticket Office.
Countrywide Theatre
Tickets: $9-$25
Eisemann Center Ticket Office 972-744-4650
Web Site: www.newworldballet.org
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Information is from the Eisemann website.

It is the condensed version, but I don’t know anyone who’s into ballet and I don’t want to go alone, so I’ll deal. I’ve always loved ballet but never been to one, I’m excited!

Sorry. I’m bad at keeping up with things.. like blogging. We’ve kept ourselves busy. I play Guild Wars a lot, I still make cards, posting pictures in my Style Diary, watching hours of tennis, but mainly I’m just working on getting my life on track.

Ebraunnagel is making several bags, working with vinyl for the first time. She’s busy experimenting with new styles of bags, projects old and new. Also, she’s making more wearable items too – if you haven’t seen her skirts, you’re missing out! She made me a gorgeous one a few months ago, I’ll have to take pictures later. I really like this one also.

Crafts aside, I really want to move to Boston! I’m sick of living in the same place I grew up, I want to experience something different for awhile.. something that will terrify me and make me grow up and know what it really is to be an adult. I feel like I’m not really learning anything about life here at home, and if I were to move out I wouldn’t learn anything still because if I ever got in trouble or lost or something, my mom’s here to save me. Although I love her, I need to be on my own.

And tennis.. tennis has been surprising me just a bit lately. I’ve watched a ton of it, hours and hours, and half the time the people I expect to win don’t come out on top. Yet.. Safin’s making this amazing comeback and I’m really looking forward to seeing how he’ll be playing next year. I love Safin. I’m so into it we even have the Tennis Channel, hah.

For awhile, I wanted to go to college to be something interesting and different like an anthropologist. Of course I was interested in the subject, but it wasn’t enough to keep me enrolled. I’ve changed my major several times, and I’ve grown tired with watching the list grow. I figure I should go back and get that boring (and useful) business degree so many other people end up with.