Little Prayer

celebrity-gossip

Few days I came across the picture of Ashley Olsen wearing a string of prayer beads. Something about it was really awesome, I loved how the tassel hung. I forgot about the until thing until a few days later when I passed by a souvenir store in Chinatown selling various Chinese items along with Buddhist prayer beads. I asked myself why it is that such traditional Chinese fashion items such as a cheongsam or prayer beads come across as tacky when Asians try to pull it off? (Remember Parent Trap and young innocent Lindsay wearing that baby pink qipao. I was jealous.)

Out of boredom, I dug through my jewelry making supplies today I decided to make my own prayer beads inspired necklace. To reinterpret the Buddhist inspired necklace, I used neon string (on trend with this season's accessories) and quartz beads at the ends of the necklace. The neon pink string is just something I got at Home depot, it's mason's line. Excuse terrible photo quality, I can't seem to locate my camera cord.

Early Shopper

Anthropologie

I know I'm in the wrong season to be shopping for fall/winter outerwear. But this NYC heat is making me wish for a cooler temperature (especially seeing bloggers on the West Coast wearing layers). I've already collected a few nice outerwear pieces from spring sales/thrift stores that would carry me nicely through Fall.

Lately, I've been craving a nicely quilted leather jacket. Surprisingly, searching through ShopStyle.com, I came across an almost perfect version of what I wanted. Now I just need to start a piggy bank fund...