{Photography} toi et moi Lookbook

via Daydream Lily.

I love everything about the Toi et Moi lookbook. The styling, the lighting... I want to be able to take photos like this... hmmm inspiration

Blog Changes, Goals and {Music} Still Corners

So beginning next week, I want to incorporate mor structure to this little blog o' mine. Things to look forward to: designated days for fuller posts on music, my personal photography, and food and new posts of "On the Town," which will be both about the places I've travelled and legit places in SoCal. Also, because I'm rather proud of my overflowing closet, I will also be integrating outfit posts. Yay! Also, the blog layout will change a little, as will the tags, to make the blog more reader friendly.

So that's my goal for this week and next week: To restructure both this blog and BohoBeat (which is in the works with Carrie). I've been trying to integrate one new goal a week since school started as a way to better manage my time and keep myself sane. So two weeks ago, it was working out five days a week, this week it was finishing my reading and notes by Tuesday, and now the blog goal. Other goals to add will be pre-posting for the blogs, incorporating yoga in my weekly fitness routine, building a Twitter following, and participating in a photo challenge.

So with those little updates out of the way - some music for your ears:

{Wedding} I never liked Kate Moss that much...

but then I saw these wedding photos in Vogue. The perfect mix of bohemian and elegance. Breathtaking.

{Music} Slow Club... And a Slow Day

I'm still so groggy despite a run and several cups of coffee. My body is moving, but my head feels stuffed of wool. I'm going to blame it on my bad eating over the weekend, which included deliciously wonderful banana pudding, organic wheat beer, pulled pork sandwiches, Spanish frittatas and chocolate cake. Yeah, be jealous :-). I finally caught up on True Blood - Lafayette has to be the funniest character ever. Love him. It was great to just kick it with my brother this weekend and I got to walk the trails with Kels - it's been too long since we did that. Anyway, this song is lovely and is getting me a little pepped up. Although, I need to bring in a caffeine-IV asap.

My goals for this week:
1. finish my reading and reading notes by tonight :-)
2. run everyday
3. redoing my CV for future use

Looking forward to:
1. dinner with Benji, Seda and Baran tonight.
2. Downtown Art walk on Thurs with Steph (my first time!)
3. Larissa's bachelorette party on Saturday (!)
4. Starting yoga next week

I want to go camping...

before the weather gets too cold, especially after seeing these photos from junkaholique:

{Poetry} Louise Bogan

via Ill Seen, Ill Said:

After The Persian

1

I have wept with the spring storm
Burned with the brutal summer.
Now, hearing the wind and the twanging bow-strings
I know what winter brings.

The hunt sweeps out upon the plain
And the garden darkens.
They will bring the trophies home
To bleed and perish
Beside the trellis and the lattices,
Beside the fountain, still flinging diamond water,
Beside the pool
(Which is eight-sided, like my heart).

2

All has been translated into treasure:
Weightless as amber,
Translucent as the currant on the branch,
Dark as the rose's thorn.

Where is the shimmer of evil?
This is the shell's iridescence
And the wild bird's wing.

3

Ignorant, I took up my burden in the wilderness.
Wise with great wisdom, I shall lay it down upon flowers.

4

Goodbye, goodbye!
There was so much to love, I could not love it all;
I could not love it enough.

Some things I overlooked, and some I could not find.
Let the crystal clasp them
When you drink your wine, in autumn.


Books: The Blue Estuaries: Poems: 1923-1968
Poets Prose: Selected Writings Of Louise Bogan
Image: Louise Bogan via Poetry Foundation

Weekend Inspiration

1. My mom's garden:


2. This article on how to brew beer at home: new goal by the end of the year.

3. Yoga Month started on Sept. 1 - I'm going to try out YogaCircle in DTLA next week for free! Who wants to join me?

4. This photo by Sarah Longworth



5. This cute video from Nicki Bluhm singing with her hubby. (She performed at Outside Lands this year FYI).