Kate Spade Earrings

Earrings by Kate Spade NY | Rocksbox.com

Hi loves! Well, an instagram ad for Rocksbox got me last week with a photo of this Kate Spade collection. Rocksbox is a subscription jewelry company that lends you jewelry for the month and all the money you pay can be put towards buying anything you don’t want to send back. Most of my jewelry is thrifted and so I don’t often ad to my collection. I thought this would be a fun way to play with more accessories. This month I chose these earrings plus a couple items that I wore to the Pride Parade on Sunday. I like everything I got a little too much though, so we’ll see how I do with sending it back.

Yesterday Liv and I finalized some very exciting travel plans. It will be our first time traveling internationally together and I am so excited. If you watched my last video, my birthday vlog, you saw that I got a VERY legit camera for filming and I am so excited to use it on this upcoming trip. I had a bit of a weird day yesterday; I woke up just feeling a bit off and then my computer crashed and I had to head to an Apple store in Queens for a last minute tech appointment. They got it all sorted but I had to completely erase and re-download everything. The good news is that I have plenty of storage space now, but the bad news is that I forgot to backup my Lightroom presets so I edited these photos from scratch. Not a bad job right?! It’s nice to see that I have gained some real skill and I don’t need to rely so heavily on things I used to feel were a necessity.

I hope you are all having a great start to the week. I have about an hour until I have to head home for therapy online so I’m going to dive into editing the Pride Parade photos

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Oi amores! Bem, um anúncio no instagram da Rocksbox me trouxe semana passada com uma foto dessa coleção da Kate Spade. A Rocksbox é uma empresa de joias por assinatura que empresta joias para você durante o mês e todo o dinheiro que você paga pode ser usado para comprar qualquer coisa que você não queira devolver. A maioria das minhas joias é barata e, portanto, não costumo adicionar à minha coleção. Achei que seria uma forma divertida de brincar com mais acessórios. Este mês escolhi estes brincos mais algumas peças que usei na Pride Parade no domingo. Eu gosto de tudo que tenho um pouco demais, então vamos ver como me saio com o envio de volta.

Ontem Liv e eu finalizamos alguns planos de viagem muito emocionantes. Será nossa primeira viagem internacional juntos e estou muito animado. Se você assistiu ao meu último vídeo, meu vlog de aniversário, viu que ganhei uma câmera MUITO legítima para filmar e estou muito animado para usá-la nesta próxima viagem. Tive um dia meio estranho ontem; Acordei me sentindo um pouco mal e então meu computador travou e tive que ir a uma loja da Apple no Queens para um compromisso técnico de última hora. Eles resolveram tudo, mas eu tive que apagar completamente e baixar tudo novamente. A boa notícia é que tenho muito espaço de armazenamento agora, mas a má notícia é que esqueci de fazer backup das minhas predefinições do Lightroom, então editei essas fotos do zero. Não é um trabalho ruim, certo?! É bom ver que ganhei alguma habilidade real e não preciso confiar tanto em coisas que costumava sentir que eram uma necessidade.

Espero que todos tenham um ótimo começo de semana. Tenho cerca de uma hora até voltar para casa para a terapia online, então vou mergulhar na edição das fotos da Parada do Orgulho

xoxo

Mariamma

And P.S. If you are having an off-day like I did yesterday, I highly recommend listening to a guided affirmation meditation. I just found one on Spotify and partook for 15 minutes and it made me feel so much better <3

Ivy

Bom dia babes! Today is my Monday so to speak but I have begun working more at night rather than in the morning so I've had a very leisurely morning. I went to the gym yesterday and am so sore today. I had trouble crouching down to get something from a bottom drawer in my dresser this morning haha. I love being sore though. It lets me know that I actually worked yesterday! With a work schedule that fluctuates, so does the rest of my schedule ... but so far it's working well for me. It's nice to sometimes have mornings off, and sometimes be done by noon. It's a nice balance. Plus, working so close to where I live means that no time is wasted on commuting so I still feel like have a lot of free time. Last year I felt like my life revolved around working ... making sure I got enough sleep for work, that my car had gas in it, and I didn't have a lot of time to grocery shop and focus on what I was feeding myself. I am so grateful for where I'm at. 

xx 

Mariamma

Spring Mood Board

The new Instagram feature where you can save photos has quickly turned into a mood board. Scrolling through, I started to realize how cohesive my photos and interests are and thought they would make a nice collage to share. I hope these images inspire you as they've inspired me! There is a lot about social media that doesn't sit right with me but the ability to share and have access to inspirational art is undeniable. 

Enjoy 

Mariamma

Time

Time is beautiful, 

A figment of our imagination or not, 

It passes as it wishes, 

Fast then slow, through your wading fingertips

A burst of movement 

Right before a slow crawl

 

Time heals and that is beautiful, 

Slowly painting layers over once raw wounds

She lays glistening medicinal sap along your back

And your scrape is transformed 

You catch a glimpse of yourself - over your shoulder

Perhaps when you throw some salt over the left side

And it is gone, fresh skin, glowing and hopeful

Stronger too

Has taken its place in the destiny of your freckled skin

Mapped out before birth,

Each hiccup of melanin planned and carefully placed

By the decisive hand of The Universe

 

Time will tell where the map will take you, 

Which sun rays will have their way with you,

Where the wounds will be inflicted and how they'll heal 

But they will heal, 

Because time is beautiful and she is on your side

At your side

Fingers intertwined 

She has your back

And a forest full of tree sap

Flea Market Finds

I'm a woman of my word! Here are photos of my 2 flea market finds. I know, not a ton of stuff, but quality over quantity ;). I have been wanting a good sized purple geode but they are often expensive or just not exactly what I'm looking for. I feel like it has to speak to me haha. It has to have good juju, and this one does. I love how it wraps around to the back and it's cut so it can lay in a lot of different ways. The earrings were only $4 and they hang really nicely and are very light. I definitely want to go back to the flea market. There are always such unique things! 

xo 

Mariamma

That New New

New earrings from Nasty Gal and new top from Fore Collection

<3