Portland--The City of Roses

4/5/10

Dear Readers,
I'm sitting at our place in Portland, enjoying the fantabulous (fantastic/fabulous) view of the city out the clear--slightly dirty--windows.  Gosh, it's a nice view over la ville (aka "the city").  Nonetheless, it's spitting rain like heck and that's about the only thing I DON'T like about Portland.  The rest....is history.  What I really mean is that the rest is great.  The Tri-Met, train-of-sorts, goes all over the city and its surroundings (Lake Oswego, Gresham, Beaverton, etc.) and the price is GREAT (even though no one ever checks and sees if you buy a ticket).  An awesome thing (another, I know!) about Portland is that there are so so many Minis tootling about.  They're made by BMW, they're sticks and they're cute and brightly-colored.  Oh boy I love Nordstrom.  I mean Nordstrom Rack...I can't afford full-priced Dolce & Gabanna clothing (or half-price) or ditto with BCBG clothingwear.  There's a Norstrom and Nordstrom Rack really close to us and we can get off the Tri-Met right where it is.
Good grief, I'm running out of words to type... here's a car like the bug i saw...

(This picture is from speedace.info.com)

A Note on Makeup...

The point of makeup is to make a person look younger.  So why do 11, 12, 13, 14 year olds wear like, an inch of eyeshadow?  I humbly admit that I wear eye shadow on special occasions, a lot of girls do, but I do try to wear it in short.  Sure, I wear mascara when I can find my tube and get around to it.  I like the ULTA brand of this swell sparkly eye pencil.  I like makeup...and don't.  I like it when people wear it right.  Consider these tips:


--If you are light-haired, wear a brown or colored mascara.  Sometimes, black is a wee bit overpowering, unless you're going for a "stare-at-my-eyes-only" look.  
--I personally think that a purple-ish-blue eyeshadow looks gorgeous on a tan or darker skinned eye/person.  
When my grandma died, we got all of her makeup and there is this gorgeous eyeshadow compact by Princess Morcella Borghese.  


My favorite brand of makeup brushes are the Eco-Tools.  I've found that a lot of people are beginning to really like these...they're soft, well-prices and easy to find.  I bought a set of five brushes in a cute case with a mirror for $10 at ULTA.  I Love 'em!

New Jeans

Like my mom often says, I can go into a clothing store and try on 20 pairs of jeans and not ONE of them will fit.  They're either too flipping short or too flipping big in the waist and barely long enough... Thanks to my cousin, I have three pairs of perfectly-perfect jeans, that I simply adore, and a pair of brown cords (essential) and a pair of black Hudson jeans.

I am so very truly lucky and spoiled and all.  The most recent pair of pants are Genetic Denim jeans... Woohoo! I love them...They are absotootely perfect in every possible way.  I know you're jealous.  I know I'm spoiled. :)