The Tiny Closet

It's been one year since Theo and I decided to make it official.  Yesterday, while celebrating our anniversary, we decided to spend the day driving up the coast - making stops wherever we pleased.

One stop in particular was at the beautifully simplistic Malibu Pier.

 These heels are are now the 3rd pair of shoes I've uncovered during my routine walks through Santee Alley. They were perfect for the conference I went to in Miami, which I can't wait to share about.  And they were also perfect for our day trip in Malibu.  Simple, nude, single-strap heels - they go with everything I own.

 Taking photos underneath the boardwalk, I was growing suspicious of the rising waves.  

Sure enough...

After being blasted with waves, I just dove right in leaving Theo speechless.

 Needless to say, my beautiful leather sandals are still air drying...

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During routine thrift run to Value Village, I came across this awesome, but dated 100% silk dress by Liz Claiborne.  What was intriguing about this dress, other than the pattern of pink blown up peonies against a black background, was the slim fitting arms and crew neckline.  A fitted crew neck dress... in silk?  Cool.  

Although the pattern is definitely not indicative of A/W 2012, the design of the dress most certainly is!

And that was precisely why I ended up buying this dress.  I've been intending to copy the design exactly and sew it's clone using some really zany patterns I recently found at the fabric store.  I have yet to embark on this adventure, but since the dress fits so well and is probably one of the most unique items I have in my Tiny Closet, I decided to wear it out on Tuesday with my booties and I had a blast :)

And now for a slice of recent-musings pie: 

These days, I have been knee deep into, StyleBook.  It's an iPhone app that allows you to basically take  your wardrobe, one item at a time and mix and match looks.  Like Polyvore for your closet, ya dig?  Basically, what I'm trying to say is

It's Amazing.

And as I tweeted earlier, "this is Tiny Closet gold!" I actually put together the above ensemble using the app.  Check it out:

 I know, I know, it's not the prettiest of presentations - you can probably tell I didn't go to design school but the point is, I was able to take items from my own Tiny Closet and put them together however I wanted to create a "look".  One my phone!  Creatively putting together outfits without all the physical digging through drawers, well that's indeed a sign of the times.  Brilliant.  

But more on this later!