Katie Daily Style – Cherry Pickin’

• Shirt – thrifted
• Shorts – thrifted
• Necklace – The Rocket Scientist
• Sandals – Target

I wore this outfit to pick cherries in my friend’s backyard. At first I was concerned that I’d end up with more cherries than I knew what to do with (due to my mad cherry picking skillz), but the dog that kept snatching half the cherries out of my hand before I could get them into my bag solved that problem.

Later, I applied the same cherry picking talents with great success to a tub of Neapolitan ice cream from the freezer section of the grocery store. I sense a future in this fruit gathering business…

Currently reading: Shore Thing by Nicole “Snookie” Polizzi. It’s wrong how much I’m enjoying it.

Millie Daily Style: Birthday Suit!

First up, thanks so much Katie for the tribute post! I would totally wear that skirt, unlaundered probably too. I love that T. Rex!

I took a page from my Aunt and took the day off, and then went shoe shopping (my aunt is also a shoe maven, so this is doubly appropriate). It was a bright, hot day out, so something comfy and easy to walk in was in order. Olive green and earth tones ended up being the order of the day:

Earth tones, earth tones, earth tones, red!

I do love a non-sequitur shoe! I bought the necklace today from a very enthusiastic guy with an incredibly crowded store. Apparently the beads are 1950′s Lucite, though it’s been restrung. Isn’t it pretty?

It has a lovely weight to it too.

Oh, time to go! A.’s taking me out for dinner, and we need to catch a bus.

Katie Daily Pretty – Ticking

We’ve had three days of temperatures in the 50s this week, and it’s definitely put me in the springtime mood. This mood will be crushed this weekend when we get another snowstorm but, at least for today, I live in blissful denial.

Since my brain tends to work on fast forward, my current springtime mood has me thinking about summer clothes. The thing I’m craving the most? Ticking.

Old French Ticking

Ticking is a strong, woven fabric made from cotton or linen, usually twilled, with a pattern of a dark stripe on a light background. Traditionally, ticking was used as a mattress and pillow cover, in part because it was easy to produce and relatively cheap, and in part because the tight weave helped keep creepy crawly unwanteds like bedbugs away from the sleeper. According to Dictionary.com (because everyone’s an etymology nerd, right?), the word “ticking” probably comes from the word “tyke” (pronounced “tick”), which comes from the Latin “theca” and the Greek “theke,” both of which mean to case/cover/sheath. Moving on with our lives, look how pretty ticking is when it’s taken off the bed and put on your body:

Hilfiger Denim Ticking Stripe Shirt Dress (or tunic. You know, potato po-tah-to.  Shirt dress, indecent exposure)

Ticking Stripe Pocket Dress

Bliss Ticking Shorts

Ted Baker Ticking Stripes Skirt

Kate Spade Ticking Stripe Carson Tote (isn’t it the rule that when something’s named after you, you get it for free? Hey, Kate, I think I have a lot of purses coming my way)

ASOS Ticking Stripe Bag

The Rocket Scientist and I are planning a road trip this summer to the Great White North, and I think a journal like this would be the perfect thing to chronicle our wacky adventures in:

julieboyle’s

And I’ll carry the journal is this:

DNTX *

*$195.00 is perfectly reasonable to pay for something that will carry memories. Memories, people!