Fantastic (Miss) Fox

Something I'm currently in love with...

Oracle Fox for Billabong

I've read the

Oracle Fox blog 

for quite a while & was so

excited when I came across this collaboration!

The pieces are beautiful & comfy & very

reasonably priced! Check it out!

Currently I've purchased two items...

Totally Stoked tank top

Just Like Us mini tank dress

(the print on this dress is amazing!)

Bikes Bars & Betties Behind the Scenes

In September I participated in

& assisted with a calendar photo shoot 

called Bikes Bars & Betties.

The concept was developed by a

friend of mine who is highly involved

in the Dallas bicycling community & realized 

how many of his friends who ride bikes are also

frequenters of the downtown Dallas pubs 

& friends with so many of the servers & bartenders 

who work at the pubs. There is definitely

a strong tie between the bicycle, artist, & bar community.

When I did this shoot I was surprised at how many of us all

knew one another.

The concept was pretty simple- to cast many of the women 

involved in this close knit community 

in classic vintage pinup & have them pose with 

their bicycles at the downtown Dallas pubs

for a calendar.

Here is a selection of a few of the 

photos from that day.

I was cast as October.

Tee Shirt Win

This might be the softest tee shirt 

I've ever owned,

as documented by the fact that I've

worn it every single day since I bought it.

Sure - it's not baseball season & I'm not 

in the movie Dazed & Confused, but who cares.

New Peas for the New Year

Happy 2012!

To ring in the New Year I made some Good Luck 

Black Eyed Peas.

I simply got ingredients that 

sounded good at the time for this recipe.

Thankfully the recipe worked!

4 cans of black eyed peas

1/2 jar of pickled jalapenos

(However much spicy you can handle can be your gauge)

3/4 cup cilantro

1/2 lb. Boar's Head honey cured ham 

cayenne pepper

cracked black pepper

* Loosely chop or pull apart the cilantro.

I friggin' love cilantro so I could probably use the whole

bunch & be content

* Chop the ham to desired size

* Throw all ingredients into a pot & simmer on low 

for 1-2 hours. The cayenne & black pepper can be used

to attain desired level of flavor, but once again I 

probably use more than any normal person should. For me the more more flavor the better!

I also bought one small baguette of 

a honey oat bread, sliced it & warmed it 

up for about 20 seconds in the microwave

to serve with the peas.

For the beverage selection (small but workable),

 I got a cheap bottle of champagne,

a bottle of Martini & Rossi Rosato (leftover), 

 some bourbon I'd used over the holidays for another recipe

& a couple of pears & apples.

I sliced the fruit & put it in the champagne with a splash of the Martini Rosato.

AND FINALLY after spending a whole fifteen minutes in the kitchen

I had some time to throw on a little party dress

(an Anna Sui for Anthropologie dress I've had for about 5 years).

We ate our peas, drank our champagne

& still had enough time to walk to my 

favorite tiny Irish pub 2 streets from my house to 

ring in 2012!

Short- Sweet - & Simple!

Cheers!!