I heart Canvas Wedges

 

After searching everywhere, I finally found my fall pair of every day casual shoes at Payless. They are a combination of canvas comfort and my favorite wedges. Also they were really cheap, only $25.

Fall Break

With J gone, its been a dull few days around here, but I’m finally all cheered up because I leave for Freeport Maine today. I am really excited for this little quick getaway and to see the beautiful Maine fall. I am also really excited about Maine’s coast and I’m planning on taking a little ferry ride to see some seals and birds. I’ll post photos when I’m back!

Vintage Harlequin Romances- Finds for September

 

 

 

I fell in love(pun, ha ha) with Harlequin/Mills and Boon covers when I discovered my mom’s old books from the 1970s. Since then I have a very strict time period for which I collect 1980 or earlier and I usually only focus on a few authors because they make for an entertaining read every now and then.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not a big fan of the typical romance genre, in fact I don’t think I have read any contemporary Harlequin romances, what I love like my passion for other vintage books is the language, and settings. I like really convuluted sexist (I know, I know shame on me as a feminist and I am a feminist) plots and I love that the heroines aren’t imagined, or spunkier or different from their times, which I think is the case with a lot of historical fiction. The vintage books actually have a more accurate representation of that current society. I love reading especially the books from the 1960’s and 1970’s where you see the conflict between traditional women’s roles and the new modern roles and of course its a fantasy, so there is always a happy ending and the woman gets both.

As for the covers, I love the old school illustrations, in fact the style of the first one is actually my favorite, its so pulpy and awesome and I wish I had a better vocabulary to describe it.  I’ll try to do a monthly post about my collections. Its going to be harder and I have to be more selective because my local thrift store has raised prices for old paperbacks from $.25 to $1.99

Fab Fall Finds

Things are that making me drool this week: 

 

Orange Pea Coat from Forever21 

Mustard Clutch from Forever21

 

Pineapple Mango Bar with exfoliating strawberry seeds by LoveLee Soaps. $4.50

Fall in Maine

 

It turns out I won’t be going to UT in september with J after all but I didn’t want to spend two weekends all alone in Durham so my parents have taken pity on me and taking me to Maine with them for a weekend. We wont’ be travelling a lot since we’ll be visiting with my aunt and since she is not very well at the moment, we’ll probably keep things on the quieter end,but I’m really excited about fall in Maine. I’m sad J won’t be able to go though, because Fall in New England seems like one of those classic romantic moments but I’m sure we’ll go together some day. I’m just excited that I’ll be getting a little fall trip.