Only After All the Fog Has Long Dissolved

Details: Jacket-Levi's Vintage, Shirt-UNIF, Pants-J Brand Jeans via Jeremy's, Shoes-ASOS, Bag-Fossil

I'm so excited about these pants! I wrote about them a few posts ago when I was talking about Jeremy's, my new favorite store. They're velvet J Brand bellbottoms and I got them at such a bargain. I've been looking for a pair of bellbottoms for a while and now that I have my ASOS platform boots that I wrote about in my last post I can finally wear them without tripping over myself! Also, when paired with the boots they make my legs look miles long, which is awesome. This mural that my friend Adam and I stumbled upon in Oakland last Thursday seemed like the perfect backdrop for my look. I really need to get out and explore Oakland more, and I think Nick and I are going to make it a goal to go there next weekend for a change of scenery.

However, this weekend, I (surprise!) spent my time in San Francisco. It was Nick's birthday so we went to Golden Gate Park and the De Young Museum, drove up to Twin Peaks to take in the view, and had a delicious dinner at Nopalito in the Inner Sunset. I'm hoping to go into San Francisco with my roommates one day during dead week because there really is so much to see there once you get away from the BART stops. I love the city more and more with every visit, and I can't wait to start working there in the summer!

Just LOOK at this city!

Today's song comes from Hundred Waters, a band that Nick got me into when he invited me to go to their concert with him shortly after we started dating. They were apparently the opener for Interpol on their East Coast leg of the tour I went to last semester, but Nick couldn't go because the show was canceled due to snow. Regardless, he looked up the band thinking that anyone related to Interpol in any way MUST be perfect. I'm glad he did so because they're great. I really recommend everyone check them out; their sound is a little difficult to describe: kinda ambient, electronic, slow and romantic at times but a bit creepy at other times. The singer has a really beautiful but interesting voice. A song by them that I've really been digging lately is called "Down From the Rafters" so that's the one I'm going to post today. Enjoy and have a great week!

xoxo

Karis the Baybonnet

Baby Let Me In

Details: Dress-Urban Outfitters, Boots-ASOS, Necklace-House of Harlow via Rocksbox, Socks-IDK my mom won them as part of a raffle???

Hello everyone! I'm here today to talk about two of my absolute favorite new clothing items that I just so happen to be wearing together in this post: this Urban Outfitters dress and these ASOS boots! First of all, I found this dress the other day when I was doing a "I just finished a lot of stuff I had to do for school and tax returns are a thing" trip to Urban Outfitters. I had picked out a few items and told myself that I was only allowed to buy one thing. I had originally picked up this dress not thinking it would be as bodycon as it actually is, but when I tried it on I instantly fell in love. I think the cut is so flattering for my body type, and it allows me to show off my curves without being too revealing. It's a moderate length, it's not low cut, but it still manages to show off my body in a way that I'm comfortable with. Also, it can be easily dressed up and down, which makes it super versatile. If anyone is looking for that perfect LBD, I highly recommend this dress! You can click the link to it in my details section. I'm also absolutely in love with these platform chelsea boots I purchased recently from ASOS. I've been wanting a pair of boots like this for a while but finally took the plunge because these were on sale (and still are!) and I had just found the PERFECT pair of bell bottoms at Jeremy's and really needed a shoe of this exact height to be able to wear them without tripping over myself. They're a but more heeled than I'm used to, but after wearing them around for a few days, I'm relatively used to walking in them now. This is also a shoe that I would absolutely recommend to anyone because they're pretty comfortable, affordable, and are also really versatile and can go with casual outfits or something a bit nicer. It feels so great to know that the purchases I make for my closet are really going to go a long way. I think that's something I've been getting better at - making purchases that really make sense. I think more now when I think about buying something about how many times I would wear the item, how many things could I pair it with, is it really a sound investment? I guess I'm maturing.

If you've been reading my blog for a while now, you'll know that last semester around dead week and finals week I went through this really weird stage of only listening to pop punk music that I listened to in middle school and early high school. It really kept me motivated to do my work for whatever reason. Maybe I was transporting myself back to a less stressful time in my life or maybe there really is just something about Patrick Stump's voice that inspired me to keep those statistics practice problems going into the wee hours of the night. Whatever the reasoning, it's happening again? This year's pop punk breakdown star is My Chemical Romance, and I've been really feeling the nostalgia the past few days. Gerard Way just gets my teen heart beating faster, faster, ya know? Anyways, I've been listening to this real throwback from their first album (before Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge), mainly because the video is just so...Gerard. Anyways, here is "Honey, This Mirror Isn't Big Enough for the Two of us" (also can we just talk about how ridiculous early 2000s pop punk song titles were? It made making mix CDs so difficult!)

May death never stop you,

Karis the Baybonnet

Don't Mind if Everybody's Far Behind

Details: Pants-American Apparel, Shirt-Urban Outfitters via Jeremy's, Flannel-Vintage, Necklaces-Forever 21 and Dailylook.com, Shoes-Freebird via LF

The weather here has been so indecisive lately, which I guess is pretty normal for the Bay Area.  Yesterday I really couldn't decide if I was cold or warm all day, hence the loose and cool shirt paired with the warmer flannel to pull out during gusts of wind. I absolutely love this backless black shirt and almost bought it while it was at Urban Outfitters, but I'm glad I didn't because I found it a few weeks ago at Jeremy's for over half off! Jeremy's is literally the greatest place on Earth, and I feel so bad for all of you not from the Bay Area who have to live life without it. It's a discounted retail store and they have such great stuff from Urban Outfitters, Free People, For Love and Lemons, Alexander Wang, ect...you get the picture. On my last trip there I found this shirt, some black bell bottoms from Joe's Jeans, and a Free People bralette for $5. #winning

I had a very busy weekend and am now catching up on all the schoolwork I have due in the upcoming weeks. On Friday I went into the city for an internship interview, which was nice because I love going to San Francisco whenever I can (not that it's hard now that I have an excuse to because of Nick). Then I went to a karaoke social I had planned for WYSE, a club I'm in on campus. I spent the night horribly belting out "Helena" by My Chemical Romance and reliving my middle school years and also that weird post-punk meltdown I had before finals last semester. On Saturday I went into the city with Mackenzie, one of my roommates, to get brunch and go shopping. Nick and I met up after Mackenzie went back to Berkeley and we went to the Exploratorium, which I've been wanting to go to for ages! It was pretty cool I suppose; some of the stuff was kind of hit or miss and there were children everywhere, but it was fun exploring all the little science things with Nick. I was very much that person that just walked up to a thing without reading the instructions and just starting pressing buttons and Nick would have to stop me and say "omg no you have to turn this thing first and then touch this metal to this other thing and then you can press the button". We ended the night here in Berkeley hanging out with some of my floormates from last year playing Mario Kart (which I used to be good at and am apparently now just AWFUL at). 

I've been working much harder during the week than I have in past semesters since I spend my weekends doing fun stuff with Nick. Still, I don't think I've become a "weekend warrior" or anything because I still manage to set aside time in the week to grab coffee or dinner with my friends just so that I'm not overwhelmed with studying always. I have some pretty great stuff planned for the next few upcoming weekends, and I can't wait to take pictures and blog about it all! Til then, here is the song for the day. It's by Banks, who I've been listening to a lot lately. Her music is so beautiful and it was hard to pick just one song to feature today! I've chosen F*** Em Only We Know because I feel like a lot of her songs are about lost love or anger towards a loved one, and that's really not what I'm feeling right now. This song is definitely about that Bonnie & Clyde Ride or Die kind of love, and the lyrics are actually really sweet, so enjoy!

xoxo

Karis the Baybonnet

Break Me Into Bigger Pieces

Details: Jacket-Vintage Levis, Shirt-Urban Outfitters, Skort-Free People, Boots-Aldo, Choker-Forever 21, Sunglasses-Urban Outfitters

PC-Nick

Nick and I are getting into a nice routine of alternating between Berkeley and San Francisco on the weekends, and this was a San Fran week. We did a lot of tourist-ey things that he hadn't done yet like go to Union Square, Westfield mall, and the Piers. We (and by we I mean I) really wanted to go to the Exploratorim, but by the time we got there it was close to closing. We ended up just walking through the swarms of tourists at Pier 39 and Fisherman's Wharf which was honestly kinda miserable. We have plans to do the whole Exploratorium thing next weekend though so I'm not complaining. The weather in San Francisco is rather weird because how the temperature feels is really dependent on whether or not it's windy or sunny. It was both of these things on Saturday which was super confusing.  This outfit was a pretty good compromise for the sometimes cold and sometimes warm temperatures. However, this morning it was actually a bit rainy which was nice since we really need that here. Also, this resulted in me having to borrow Nick's super nice mustard-colored rain jacket that I am now in possession of until the end of the week (mwahahaha).

This semester has been flying by so quickly and it's crazy to think that it's already April and I only have a few weeks of classes left! There's a lot of (arguably unnecessary) stress occurring in my life because of this. I'm spending rather large chunks of my time looking a summer internship, and I've found a select few that I really like. Still, not knowing precisely what I'm doing with my summer is a little scary. Then of course there's Nick and I's impending post-summer LDR which is something that I try not to think of. I'm working on living in the moment and being happy with the way my life is going right now, which isn't difficult since I am actually really happy right now. I just know that everything is going to work out. Here is a nice song by LCD Soundsystem because I tend to listen to them when big things are happening in my life. Most of their songs progress a lot from start to finish and I like to imagine my life passing by in some great cinematic montage when listening to them.

xoxo

Karis the Baybonnet