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5 Fantastic Things // August & September

5 FANTASTIC THINGS

I want to remember…

1 // Taking the long way home from Raleigh to watch the sun set over the Shenandoah Mountains.
2 // Sharing hot pastrami and cheesecake with my parents on a makeshift concrete picnic table (otherwise known as a sidewalk) in Newark. My parents and a flock of pushy pigeons…
3 // The best little progressive dinner party ever, with some of my favorite friends.
4 // Hearing that two of my favorite people in the whole wide world are engaged.
5 // Coming home to the sweetest little concrete diamond… Mark said I asked, so he did. (Where did I find this wonderful man?)

I’m looking forward to…

1 // Halloween decorating, hot cider, falling leaves… all the good things.
2 // Celebrating Mark’s birthday (and very soon after that, our first anniversary)!
3 // Getting a little more organized… fall always feels like a good time to purge and start again.
4 // Using this little program to up my writing productivity, and filing away a few more bits and pieces that might one day, by some stroke of luck, become a book.
5 // I hope – maybe, don’t quote me on this one – finishing off our bedroom. Then at least one room in the house will be done (and then I can share!).

10 Comments | Posted on: September 30, 2013 | Category: Life, Ramblings, Style

Brands That Give Back // Oliberté

A Thousand Threads is all about finding meaning in the little things in life, so I’m excited to announce a brand new column focusing on the best brands that take the most advantage of their unique opportunity to bring a little more meaning to the world. In this column, we’ll focus on brands that give back in interesting ways, and I can’t think of a better company to kick us off.

Oliberté is a lifestyle brand with a mission to support workers’ rights and sustainable manufacturing in sub-Saharan Africa.

5 Comments | Posted on: September 25, 2013 | Category: Style

Hopscotch Festival Street Style

When the folks at Lenovo mentioned that Mark and I might want to scout out some street style shots while in Raleigh, I have to admit… I was a little skeptical. It’s not exactly your run-of-the-mill 3-day field party at the Hopscotch Festival… and there’s such an eclectic mix of music. Was it going to be a crowd full of metalheads and fans of this guy? Was it ever going to live up to the standards set by the bigger, more well-known shows? I wasn’t so sure.

But I couldn’t have been more wrong…

9 Comments | Posted on: September 12, 2013 | Category: Style

Back to School Night

I refuse to believe that the summer is almost over — how is it already time to go back to school?

The sun is still shining, the tomatoes are still growing…

But apparently the schools don’t care what I think, because Austin has been back in for a week (a week!) and last night we had the chance to meet his new second grade teacher, see his classroom (2nd grade!) and — because why not? — take a few pictures next to this very cool little barn…

7 Comments | Posted on: August 27, 2013 | Category: Style

A Tree Grows in Harrisburg

Sunday night, Mark and I drove up to Harrisburg to see Spirit Family Reunion and Black Prairie. Harrisburg isn’t far from where we live, but I’ve never been, so I was excited to have the chance to wander around the city a little before the show.

Of course, everything doesn’t always work out as planned. When we arrived early we realized pretty quick that the whole ‘wander around the city’ thing wasn’t going to happen. We were pretty far from downtown, with nothing much in sight but a brewery (our destination) a few vacant buildings, and one little tree on a roof.

(A tree on a roof?)

6 Comments | Posted on: August 22, 2013 | Category: Style

Happiness

A few nights ago, Mark and I found ourselves watching a documentary about happiness, and I’ve been thinking about it ever since. It made the important point that our wants and our needs tend to work in opposition. Say, the want for new things vs. the need to explore and feel personally fulfilled. Most of the time, the things we think we need don’t make us happier in the end.

… something I try to remember every time I have a desperate desire to go on a shopping binge.

Luckily this jean jacket cost me just $15, and I think I can say with fairly high confidence that when the sale is that good… the happiness gets to stay.

13 Comments | Posted on: August 14, 2013 | Category: Style

A Beautiful August

I must be in the twilight zone… because so far August has been gorgeous. Cool, 80s, no humidity… just the perfect weather for spending the evenings outdoors…

It couldn’t possibly be real, but just in case… don’t pinch me.

If I’m dreaming, I never want to leave.

4 Comments | Posted on: August 5, 2013 | Category: Style

She Wears the Pants

Or maybe they wear her? Judging by the reaction I got at the dry cleaner, I’m guessing the color is a little overwhelming.

In fact I’m pretty sure the woman who works at the desk is now convinced that I moonlight as Bozo’s kid sister. She’ll be calling the next time her granddaughter needs a laugh (or a scare — fun fact — my sister, who is 16 years older, actually dressed up as a clown one birthday when I was small and I was so scared that I hid under a bench… she had to take off the wig to coax me out…).

But enough about killer clowns (thanks Stephen King) what do you think? I’m kind of in love with their crazy brightness, myself.

1 Comment | Posted on: July 18, 2013 | Category: Style

5 Fantastic Things // June

Five things, times two, once a month — it’s a journaling revolution, folks.

I want to remember…

1 // Meeting up with (and just plain meeting) so many awesome, amazing, wonderful folks at Alt (like Gloria and Audrey above!). How great is it that things like blogging conferences exist to pull us all away from our computers and into a room together?
2 // Entering the last year of my 20s… and swearing to make it count.
3 // Laughing as hard as I think I ever have on a long-ass drive home from NYC that included a hot dog with a pitchfork and a trip to the Jersey state line.
4 // Dreaming of bakery-plans-to-be over an Intelligentsia (finally on the east coast!) latte in the sun.
5 // Pool days and stormy nights. I know I resist, but there’s something about summer on the east coast that really gets me. I’m lookin’ at you, fireflies.

I’m looking forward to…

1 // Come on, July is just the best… barbecues, fireworks, hot sweaty days in the sun (what can I say, I like vitamin D). I can’t wait to get this party started. The one and only sad thing about July is that it brings us one month closer to winter’s return.
2 // So actually, the 4th will be Mark’s and my sixth anniversary. We’ve been married just under a year, but this thing goes way back. I’m looking forward to a little celebration, even if it is the unofficial kind.
3 // Pasta and pastries in upstate NY — my mouth is already watering.
4 // Chipping away at our little project to spruce up the house. Little by very very little, it’s starting to come together — sometime next year I should be ready to share.
5 // Seeing Jim James, Father John Misty, Frank Turner, Phosphorescent and So. Many. Others. at Folk Fest (I’m counting down the days).

7 Comments | Posted on: June 27, 2013 | Category: Life, Style

Blame My Dad

For raising the ornery little punk that jumped at the chance to buy this “polite as fuck” t-shirt — how could I pass it up?

… I made sure Mark would still be seen in public with me, of course. He’s used to it, he’s been hanging out with my “New Mexico shit kickers” (if you ain’t a New Mexico Cowboy, apparently “you ain’t shit”) shirt for years.

2 Comments | Posted on: June 18, 2013 | Category: Style

Category Archives: Style

5 Fantastic Things // August & September

Brands That Give Back // Oliberté

Hopscotch Festival Street Style

Back to School Night

A Tree Grows in Harrisburg

Happiness

A Beautiful August

She Wears the Pants

5 Fantastic Things // June

Blame My Dad

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