Embrace the mess is like when life gives you lemons on a different level because there’s no way life is perfect.

I HATE

Being photographed, the more you ask me to pose, let’s do it again but do this or don’t do that, the worse of me you’ll get.

Milk chocolate.

That we lost the freedom to be without phones and not having to document everything.

An “all you can eat” buffet.

I LOVE

Suede gloves in the spring.

Any small little town in the Hudson Valley with Victorian houses or Greek Revival anything (oh, I can go OCD specific). And I guess I am not alone.

Long-haired Angora bunnies, but I still have many questions unanswered: Is there a bunnies sanctuary where we can adopt one? How do people manage the mini-poops at home? Do they crawl in the home plants? Do they need to be crate-trained?

The street market super early in the morning, half set up, when the flowers and the tomatoes are still fresh, the snow peas with their flowers, and the aprons of the cheese and prosciutto stands still clean and crisp.

A good tall pinky cocktail ring.

WHAT’S ON MY SHOPPING LIST

A) I am not being paid, just genuinely sharing since I am always asked for suggestions.

B) But if you buy anything that I list here, I would love to know, just out of curiosity.

C) Some rules: I am not buying anything new, unless it’s beauty products or something that I have been wanting long enough that I keep going back to it. That also means I have vetted the brand/designer and made sure that no greenwashing or dubitable practices are performed. Preferably I tend to lean towards new upcoming designers, small enterprises, vintage digs.

And by that I mean something like this (read below):

Fridays are good days to sit in the corner of a bar and while you’re asking for your caffè you think about what you’ve done. Sì ! we love Fridays and we love caffè.
Zatebe has a good heart, il gesticolare italiano plus ex-Jugoslavija family aesthetics heritage. We are from i palazzi brutalisti & we live in Italia by the Mare Adriatico. Zatebe is human connection small business with a sustainable & ethical vision. All the stuff are designed by Maja e Sijana and handcrafted in little tailoring labs in Abruzzo & Umbria. Our recovered fabrics are from Italian deadstock. The circular fabric standard gives a second life to quality leftovers fabrics. The environmental impact is significantly reduced. We try to do our best.

And you bet I bought a bag right away. It sits somewhere at my mom’s waiting for the next good soul flying to Miami.

The P E R F E C T white Tshirt of all times

L.A.C. Milano is having a PRIVATE SALE, so you saw it here first. Their name stands for Limited Artisanal Collections. You may have seen me wearing their friulane slippers in navy velvet and khaki corduroy. I may, or may not, add powder blue and satin something.

How about Dauphinette and Lessico Familiare

Also, and unrelated, I don’t own shorts, not one pair. Here’s the thing: I live in Miami and there are plenty shorts, like … a lot, and every time I see a grown ass woman wearing shorts I would wear something else, hence I wouldn’t even have any occasion to need shorts.