SF Tourist Day, Pt. 2

Here are the rest of the photos of me and Sonja's SF tourist day date! Lots and lots of photos from the Musée!!!

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Unfortunately one of my favorite games to look at was out of order, a woodland animal shoot 'em up type thing that's really hard to play - but the bunnies and foxes are so cute it totally doesn't matter. One of the nicest parts about of all the places we visited was that everything was free! Well, besides our burgers and fries... and the games we played at the Musée... But even so, most of the games are only 1-2 quarters, and there's so many people putting quarters into different machines you can totally stand off to the side and watch and then use your quarters on the really good stuff, like pinball!

If you're interested in visiting the Musée and plan on using the photobooth, my only advice is to make sure you set aside some of your dollar bills before cashing them in for quarters, there's 2 film booths and they don't take quarters! (It's $3 per strip of 4 photos)

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SF Tourist Day, pt. 1

Just before New Years, Sonja and I went on a little SF tourist day trip! It was really nice wandering around with her and snapping silly photos.

First up, Grace Cathedral:

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Then we walked over to the Cable Car Museum:








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Stopped for pictures in front of an excellent yellow wall in North Beach:






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Made our way to the piers for In-N-Out:




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Ate our burgers on Hyde Street Pier:








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More pics, this time at Ghiradelli Square:





And then we made our way back to the Piers for some pinball and antique carnival games! Tomorrow I'll share our photos from the Musée Mécanique!!

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Alice and Studio Choo

These flowers were a surprise from my best girl, Alice. I was sick with a stupid cold a few weeks back and missing family something terrible and then I got a mysterious call from Studio Choo one morning and the next thing I knew, these were at my door!

Thy came in a big mason jar with a green velvet and lace ribbon. And to top it off, a cursive typewritten note!!

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Sausalito

This outfit is from last week - a little afternoon trip to Sausalito. The main street was so crowded with tourists we decided to drive up to the hills and walk around the neighborhoods instead. It felt like we were in Europe!





I'm wearing a 60s gold tassel necklace that used to belong to my grandmother - whenever I visit the East Coat my mum always sends me back to California with little things she has stashed away. I brought this back from my last visit home! The sailor sweater coat was from Zara a few months back. I love how different versions of this coat keep going down the Retail chain - A.P.C. started things off, then Top Shop made a version, next was Zara... Forevs 21 it's your turn now! The antique crocheted blouse/sweater was a Christmas gift from my boyfriend. I'd been staring at it on ebay for months and months - considering cashing out my life insurance policy to buy it (well, no not really... but maybe just a little) and well, I'm not quite sure what I did to deserve it, but here it is! And the early 40s pleated skirt was a Christmas gift from Emily. (it's actually a slip dress - there's a sheer nylon bodice attached that goes perfectly under sheer blouses, like that sweater!) The shoes are probably my all time favorites, from sweet Maria's shop Adelaide Homesewn. And my tote, from the loveliest Field Guided.

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Legion of Honor, pt. 2

Some digital photos I took from me and Sonja's day trip to the Legion of Honor a few weekends ago! The fog and the sky were so crazy! This is how the light was when we first got there...

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And then as we were getting ready to leave ...










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And driving away...



And I didn't even spruce those up in photoshop one bit!! I really wish the Legion of Honor was a teeny bit closer to my apartment - I have a feeling I'd be there a lot taking pictures.

Speaking of pictures - Sonja and I had a little SF tourist extravaganza day date last week and I'm excited to share the lomo/photobooth/digital pictures! Probably later in the week!

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Fancy Fine party!

Happy New Year!!!
I hope the start of 2011 has been good to everyone so far!! I spent last night in an extra shiny gold wiggle dress and I'm excited for whatever the new year has in store - even though it's an odd number (and I truly prefer even)

I'm very, very behind on updating about 2010 things so you'll have to bear with the mini-time warp over the next few posts... I've never been one for making or keeping resolutions, but I'm hoping to try and be generally better about things ... keeping this blog regularly updated is one of them!

Here are some photos from Ashley's vintage extravaganza shopping party she hosted a few weeks back! Ashley did a pretty great job with supplying the Holiday cheer (and pretty clothes!) and there were a whole lot of sweet people who came out.... some faces I bet you recognize!

and these last two pictures I stole from Ashley's!

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