found

One of my favorite things in Cincinnati is the Contemporary Arts Center, which has been offering some really amazing shows for years. Last month they hosted Davy Rothbart of Found Magazine and author of The Lone Surfer of Montana Kansas. Occasionally you can catch Davy reading a short story or talking about his family on This American Life (another of my favorite things). Being the little garbage-picker and nosy person that I am, I’m a huge fan of Found. It is a compilation of found things ranging from love notes and pictures to homework assignments sent in by people across the world. Anyway, I’d always really wanted to go to a Found event because Davy reads all the items himself, and has a really great delivery. I have to say, the best part of the evening definitely had to be getting to meet him at the end and give him my big shoebox full of finds. I took some pictures but I felt too awkward using a flash so they didn’t really turn out.

Anyway, on our walk from the CAC to our car, we passed my favorite downtown photo spot, The House of Adam! I was also sporting my fabulous new Jessica Simpson shoes and a sparkly sweater, so what more could you want??

Here’s our fat sleepy pigeon friend.

I should have gotten a close up of my amazing new shoes, but I’m out of practice and forgot.

He didn’t move a muscle the entire time!!

I love the House of Adam so much.

EDIT: I was playing around with photo booth and rediscovered this one of myself playing with my sparkle sweater and new hair!

WHAT: sparkle sweater, my gramma

tan bag, charming charlie

high waisted jeans, urban outfitters

dany platforms, jessica simpson online

WHERE: kick my heart’s ass with davy rothbart, contemporary arts center

WHEN: february 5

really.

Hey ladies and gents! Despite what you may have thought, I didn’t join a nudist colony or get eaten by wolves, I just haven’t been able to set aside time to post lately. I really do wish that I was able to blog on a more regular basis but with all the hours I spend at my shop, my job at Northslice (the awesome pizza place across the street), and babysitting, I barely have time to hang with my boy much less anything else. No matter how busy I am I always end up feeling guilty about the things that I’m not able to do. Oh well, things at Chicken Lays An Egg are going great and I really have nothing to complain about!

I do actually have some more recent pictures to post, but I found these the other day and I can’t believe I never put them up! My brother sent me this AMAZING shirt from Korea and needless to say, I thought it was perfect.

Peekaboo!

WHAT: really shirt, gift from my brother

sweater, tj maxx

mr. t chain, chicken lays an egg

conductor stripe jeans, forever 21

winter heels, rainbow

WHERE: work at northslice

Thankfully the snow is gone here in Cincinnati (hopefully for good) and I am ready for the spring! I’ll get some more recent pictures up soon and you can tell me what you think of me as a blond. Thanks for reading!

human christmas tree

Oy vey, I’m so behind on my bloggin’! I am so very happy that the holidays are over though, that always makes things a little easier. Things have been crazy crazy busy at the shop though which is great- we had our best week ever this month!

Jacob and I were poking around our apartment building the other day when we realized that the vacant apartment on the first floor was unlocked. Of course we had to go check out what it looked like and I thought their beautiful claw foot tub might make a good prop. The shoot didn’t turn out quite how I’d hoped, but I thought you might enjoy it anyway!

So fresh and so clean!

I really can’t express how much I love this outfit, I’m so glad that I unearthed my bow ties! I’ve really been channeling Janelle Monae stylistically a lot lately.

WHAT: vintage bowtie, chicken lays an egg

christmas floral button up, thrift

patent belt, chicken lays an egg

high waisted jeans, urban outfitters

WHERE: work at chicken and family time

WHEN: thursday, december 24