• ✔ orange gingham top
  • with colors: navy, white, pink
  • seasons: spring/summer
  • layering: not really
  • material: rayon/cotton blend
  • navy kick crop pants, nude espadrilles
  • white kick crop pants, red ballet heels
  • light wash jeans, sneakers
  • white peasant skirt, sneakers
  • denim dad shorts, sneakers
  • pink pants, sneakers
• ✔ vintage yellow Lilly top
  • seasons: spring/summer
  • with colors: navy, lavender, white, red
  • layering: under a jacket
  • material: cotton/silk blend
  • navy kick crop pants, navy blazer, nude espadrilles
  • black slip skirt, nude heels

• kate
• she/her; late twenties; east coast, usa
• lawyer, community theatre adult, hobbyist
• loves: the Jersey shore, springtime, fashion & styling, Maggie Rogers, pineapple cocktails, the Nutcracker ballet, historical fiction, pearls, oysters, iced tea, Bridgerton, journaling, podcasts

• fresh cut grass
• wood smoke
• lilacs
• peppermint oil
• orange zest
• musk
• cannabis
• bergamot
• box hedges
• cedar chips
• leather
• white copal
• coconut sunscreen
• crisp air
• bug spray
• tomato leaves
• dawn dish soap

• live more by the seasons than the calendar
• alcohol is not a toy
• done is better than perfect; perfect is the enemy of good
• leap and the net will appear
• how they speak about others to you is how they speak about you to others
• cramming doesn't work
• work won't love you back
• run your own race

to ponder before purchasing

• pastel blue, pastel yellow
• ✔ Ganni buckle flats
• colored gum-sole sneakers (espezial, samba, etc.)
  • pink, green, light blue, navy blue?
  • J Crew silver gumsole shoes
  • ✔ adidas breaknet navy and pink
• orange for summer
• vests
• bag charms/decorations
  • cute, but aggressively kitsch
  • silk scarves & needlepoint
• colorful acetate sunglasses
  • got rid of my first cheap pair...
• baguette bags
• trucker hats
• striped athletic socks

inspired by birdie

• animal: sea otter
• artist: Henri Matisse
• author: Barbara Kingsolver
• band: Death Cab for Cutie
• beer: Guinness in winter, Corona with lime in summer
• bird: great blue heron
• book: Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery
• cake: marbled chocolate + vanilla
• cat: calico
• cheese: feta
• chocolate: milk chocolate with caramel; white chocolate with raspberry ganache
• classical piece: Tchaikovsky, Nutcracker Op. 71, Act 1, 8-9
• cocktail: Aperol spritz in summer, extra dirty martini in winter or a painkiller year round
• coffee: hot with a splash of half-and-half; iced with hazelnut syrup and cream

• Passing by Nella Larsen
• The Rose Code by Kate Quinn
• Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery ♥
• Circe by Madeline Miller
• Sirens and Muses by Antonia Angress
• The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver ♥
• We Ride Upon Sticks by Quan Barry
• Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
• Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
• Birds of California by Katie Cotugno
• Red Sky at Morning by Richard Bradford

• So You've Been Publicly Shamed - Jon Ronson
• A Walk in the Woods - Bill Bryson ♥

• The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde ♥
  • played Cecily Cardew, 2015
• Angels in America: Millennium Approaches by Tony Kushner
• Our Town by Thornton Wilder
• Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams

Devotions by Mary Oliver

• Evidence
• At The River Clarion
• Hum
• Black Oaks ♥
• The Sun
• Rice
• The Summer Day ♥
• Strawberry Moon

Faithful and Virtuous Night by Louise Glück

• Theory of Memory

The Peace of Wild Things by Wendell Berry

2024

• ✔ Washington State - August
• Colorado - October

2025 (ideas)

• Shenandoah NP / Lexington, VA / New River Gorge NP

in

• pearl necklaces
• dental hygiene
• long form news articles
• stout beer
• turn signals
• eating any food for breakfast
• carolyn bessette kennedy
• themed house parties
• old fashioned southern sayings
• dips
• award winning movies, books, etc.
• “thanks I made it”
• using people’s names
• handwritten notes

out

• amazon
• wine
• texting and driving
• undertones

• Middle Child
• Middle Child Clubhouse
• Suraya
• ✔ Parc - 02/25/2024
• Ranstead Room
• Angelo’s
• Laser Wolf
• Tulip Pasta
• Cuba Libre
• Fiorella
• El Vez
• Giuseppe and Sons
• Giorgio on Pine
• Wilder
• Her Place Supper Club
• Tria
• Tattooed Mom's
• Rodin Sculpture Garden (summer pop-up bar)

• Iceland
• Italy
• Australia
• New Zealand
• Bali
• France
• Switzerland
• Banff National Park, Canada
• Seattle
• Portland
• Acadia National Park, Maine
• Greece
• Prince Edward Island, Canada
• Copenhagen, Denmark
• Chile
• Olympic National Park, Washington
• Juneau, Alaska
• USVI National Park
• Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Colorado
• Amsterdam, Netherlands
• Japan