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My Latest Snags.
A great shopping week! I treated myself to new jeans and this pre-loved Celine phone sling this week. It holds a phone and has slots for two credit cards. Will be perfect for driving the kids to school / running a quick errand.
Kule also sent me a couple of cheerful items this week, including this cheerful striped tee, and Nike sent me this parcel of cheerful fitness pieces! I am pinching myself. Cannot wait to wear these!
Bestsellers.
MANGO TWEED JACKET // 02. LILY AND BEAN HETTIE BAG* // 03. VERONICA BEARD NALIDA COAT (MORE SIZES HERE) // 04. DORSEY CRAWFORD EARRINGS // 05. ADIDAS SNEAKERS // 06. NORDSTROM RIB KNIT // 07. MADEWELL BALLET FLATS // 08. J. CREW TISSUE TURTLENECK // 09. KINGMAS FOUNDATION BRUSH // 10. BODEN SWEATSHIRT // 11. DIOR LIP OIL // 12. TARGET SPORTS BRA // 13. OXICLEAN WASHING MACHINE CLEANER // 14. BODEN RAIN COAT // 15. TOWER28 MASCARA // 16. TARGET TEE
*15% off with code JEN15
Weekend Musing: Don’t Look at Your Feet.
Earlier this week, my friend Alex shared this quote from Anne Lamott in her lovely newsletter:
“Don’t look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.”
The words clung to me all week and inspired me to play around with adapting one of my recent musings to video format, with a green and unvarnished result here. Text is my medium (“the pen fits snugly in my hand”), and it is much more forgiving from an editing standpoint, but it felt bracingly good to flex new creative muscles.
As if peering into my soul, a Magpie reader sent me a message that included the following quote on the same day:
“You can do it, you just have not done it yet.”
I was also thinking of Mary Oliver (of course – my intellectual headwaters), and Herman Hesse, who wrote, respectively:
“Let me keep my mind on what matters, which is my work, which is mostly standing still and learning to be astonished….which is gratitude, to be given a mind and a heart and these body-clothes, a mouth with which to give shouts of joy.”
“Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.”
Somewhere between the rejoinders to “give shouts of joy,” dance without looking at my feet, and not take myself too seriously, I found a little creative pocket. Why not try something new? What, after all, is the risk? An hour spent tinkering? In a metatextual sense, too, for someone who spends much of her day in a creative mindspace, this is the job. I am meant to play with the language, to reflect on its proportions and flow. Video introduced a different aperture.
Anyway, hoping these plucky sentiments nudge you to pick up the pen, or the pickle ball paddle, or what have you, and not look at your feet.
P.S. If you’re a writer, you will enjoy Anne Lamott’s Bird by Bird. Beautiful instructions for writing, and life.
P.P.S. Some of my own thoughts on getting started with writing.
Post-Scripts.
+I ordered a few items to try for my upcoming warm weather getaway: this caftan and this spectacular cocktail dress for the dressiest night.
+Adore this well-priced wavy mirror. Great for an entryway.
+Big vault sale happening at Dagne Dover! I think these backpacks would be great for travel with kids, and I know many of you love their phone slings (on sale for under $60 in select colors).
+Petite Plume is offering us 15% off with code JEN15. I love mini’s new sheets (more importantly, so does she!) and of course their jammies are the sweetest.
+This switch plate for a little one’s room! More adorable finds for a little one’s room here, to which I would add this fabulous bed?!
+These are the pendants our interior designer selected and had installed in our kitchen – I just noticed they are on sale!
+If you want to be the coolest girl in the room, treat yourself to this denim jacket.
+Best sippy cups. We’ve retired these now (!!!) and just use the cups.
+Pretty gift tags! Love the script. On the subject of gift tags, though, I am still obsessed with these sticker ones from Joy Creative Shop. I use these mainly for gifts from the kids – so easy to just tag one; I feel like you don’t need a ribbon when you affix one of these to a corner!
+Speaking of gifts, if you’re looking for something unusual and very special, you might consider a John Derian tray. I have a few of these that look gorgeous on a coffee table / shelf / on top of a stack of books / as a jewelry dish. How beautiful is this peony one?
+Cutest personalized tote.
+$60 scalloped shade!
+Adorable cherry print jammies for littles.
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