Tattoo Wednesday!

This weeks tattoo is a personal little favorite of mine. There are two kinds of ladies, bag hags and shoe whores. I LOVE shoes! Always have. My shoe obsession all started years ago when my Grams went on vacation and sent me a post card of the Ruby Slippers. For some reason, I thought that meant she had bought them for me. Mind you I was 5 at the time. So when she got back, I was expecting to have THE Ruby Slippers. Sadly I didnt get them, but later that week, my mom ended up making me a pair! I made her do that for years. Ever since that post card, I can always remember loving shoes. I honestly cant remember anymore what made me decide to get them as a tattoo, but I love them!

This tattoo was done sometime last year, by Krystal Ralph at KnuckleDown Tattoos in Clearwater, FL. (She currently works at Ybor City Tattoo Company in Tampa, FL)

We later added the Tin Man's heart and the cyclone with Dorthy's house. We were suppose to add a few more things, but then I moved to Boston. I have a couple of tattoos by Krystal, and they are all my cool colorful ones.

Tell me about your tattoos!

Xoxo

Tattoo Wednesday!

Im so happy to be on top of things and have a new post out for Tattoo Wednesday! Last week, while Ronnie was away, I got a steak and cake tattoo. Here's the scoop. A few weeks ago, my roommate Ben caught my eating steak 4 times in one week and Id typically had a piece of cake after. He called me steak and cake one night, and it stuck from there. He told Simon, who told everyone at the Behan, which Ronnie (Adam) heard and now everyone calls me Steak and Cake. Because its so silly, Adam dared me to get it as a tattoo, and he'd pay for it. This is now my second tattoo Ronnie has paid for. That's what Kimmie likes!

Lucky was the only man to do it! I must have over 15 tattoos by him alone. I even got a custom steak color! Where I put the tattoo is also a big deal. Ronnie had to pick out everything, where it was going to go, who was going to do it, what the tattoo should look like. It had to go in my most visible spot... which left was my right forearm. I finally went past my invisible line.

Steak & Cake.

Tattoo by Lucky Mathews at Fat Rams Pumkpin Tattoo in Jamaica Plain, MA.

I dont know what number this tattoo is, but Im pretty sure I have more than Adam!

Also, THANK YOU RONNIE FOR MY TATTOO!

Ronnie Plaid.

Theres no real such thing as "Ronnie Plaid" haha, but in our little (lovely) world of Jamaica Plain, there is a man. A man who wears red and black flannel. We call him Ronnie. I was Ronnie for Halloween as a big joke, and it was really funny. Well, I just so happen to have loved the two colors red and black together for years. I have acquired 3 red and black plaid dresses, BEFORE I moved to Boston. The other day, I was trying to find something to wear to Bethany's birthday brunch and I grabbed one of my red and black plaid dresses while Ronnie was around. Well.... needless to say that didnt go over well. "Ah Kimmie! You cant wear that!" SO, I had to grab something else to wear.

Well in honor of Ronnie, I decided to do this lovely post just to mess with him haha! Here is my collection of red and black plaid dresses.
Dress 1: A Forever21 dress, I found at Sunshine Thirft for $2!




Dress 2: Bought on sale at Forever21 for $8






Eaton Beef hat curiosity of Ronnie himself.


Dress 3: Found at Goodwill for $4




So there you have it! All my red and black plaid. I think its funny, Ive been wearing this stuff for a few years now and its all of the sudden a big deal haha. I have to be careful what I wear and when haha! I really got a kick out of doing this post. It was so spur of the moment too. I miss doing that, just getting inspired by an outfit quickly, setting up my camera and taking blog photos! Im actually getting a blog post out in the same day! I hope you've enjoyed these as much as I have. Xoxo! Wheres your red and black plaid?!?!

Stuff.

Back to Mt. Auburn

I think this is going to be a twice a year thing. This spring Simon took me to the Mt. Auburn cemetery to see the flowers bloom and it was beautiful. The cemetery itself is soooo old and gorgeous. Last timewe went he offered to take me picture for my blog and they came out great. Some of my favorite photos were taken there. We had talked about going back to see the leaves change for some time now but my schedule just got to full and it has been hard to find time. Even on days when I thought it wouldve been good to go, the weather wasnt nice. Last Thursday the weather was amazing and it was the perfect day to go back to Mt. Auburn.

Now I obviously wore jeans and a shirt to the cemetery, but the dress I choose to photograph was given to me by my friend Liz who recently moved away. It is an amazing vintage maxi DVF! (Diane Von Furstenberg). I threw on my vintage "Carrie" hat with a vail and we found some really cool mausoleums in a isolated spot.

Simon did such a great job. Its always nice not to have to take my own photo sometimes. I know you can hardly see but I did wear those amazing tassel earrings from Forever21. I wanted to add a belt to the dress, but its just so great on its own. Something like that, with a lot of print shouldnt be over accessorized.

Again thank you Simon for taking my picture! Well in the world of Lovely I think Im all caught up with stuff. I added all my photos on the Face but sometimes its hard to sit down for 2 hours and do everything, including blogging. I havent been to busy lately, but enough to keep busy. Ive been adding to my room slowly. Im still in dire need for hangers, I have a ton of stuff I brought back from Florida still folded and laying around. I got a new tattoo this week! I got a steak and cake tattoo. Ill have to post that next week for Tattoo Wednesday. Hope you all are doing well! Arent you just loving this weather? XOXO!

One crazy Halloween weekend.

So I dont know about you, but I had a crazy Halloween! It was one hell of a weekend. The weekend before, I threw a party at my house, and it was a huge success! I dressed up as a six year old, it was priceless. All four of us in the house cleaned and it was the best our apartment has looked, and will for awhile haha. Im glad a lot of my friends came out and everyone had a good time.







The morning after...

9:30am with a cold beer, hungover, and yeh... I wore that tacky outfit all day.

Friday Halloween weekend I went to BadVille South for their party! I dressed up as Ronnie (Adam) all weekend haha, it was the best idea I had. It was pretty easy to, especially after I got the JFK tattoo on my hand.
Adam and Me as Ronnie






The morning after BadVille South's party.

It was a Ronnie kind of morning.

Saturday night we all went to The Behan for the big party there. What a boozy night.
Thats me as Ronnie (Adam) a sock monkey (Brant) a drunk, zombie punk rock Santa (Brandon) and Miles.


Here is me as Adam, with Adam as a zombie, eating my BRAINS!


HALLOWEEN NIGHT!
Was CRAZY! No words can really describe it. What a long day it was too because we had brunch at Jannea's house earlier than I went to Adam's tattoo which was 2 hours about. We were all pretty boozy.

Sophy!


The Devil and Ronnie!


A Flamingo and a Cockatoo


Kimmie as a Flamingo, and Ronnie.


So yeh, a crazy bunch of days. I had the most fun Ive had in a while though. I have to say this is a top 5 Halloween for me thats for sure. I didnt get tattooed this year, but those days were fun when we hung out at the tattoo shop on Halloween. I hope everyone has a safe and fun Halloween. Next will should be just as good!

Florida part 2

So after I spent the first few days with my moms side of the family, over the weekend I saw all my dads side of the family and stayed with Aunt Dee over the weekend. I also did manage to sneak in some friend time and stayed one night with Jennifer Lynn, who stayed with my in Boston. It was great to see her, shes such a role model to me. Well friday I had beers and lunch with Grandpop and Mary! Finally some relaxing time haha. It was great to see both of them and Aunt Dee.


I hung out with my cat a lot, I miss her so much! Shes still the prettiest thing ever. My little panther cat.




Me and Aunt Dee


I got back to my moms house for my last night in town. I tried on all the crazy awesome vintage I bought over the week and we had some fried chicken.


My $3 flamingo costume


Since my brother got off work, we all could take one more family photo! We're a crazy bunch.


It was a great time, but all good things must come to an end and alas, I returned to Jamaica Plain. It was great to see all my family and go thrifting, but I am happy with my life in Boston. Hopefully, they can come see me next year! That would be something.


Dont let my mom near Adam hahaha! Omg so funny!

Florida part 1

So in October, I took a week off and went down to Florida, to see my family and do some serious thrifting. Its never a real vacation because I always end up exhausted from running all over town. This was the last time Ill see everyone before next year so Im glad I got to see all my grandparents, I finally got to meet little CJ and I got to see my baby girl Betty (the cat).

Of course the whole reason I went the week I did was because one of my favorite thrift stores, Sunshine Thirft, was having their 50% off day! Stuff that is already $3 and $4, only for $1 and $2! If by far one of my favorite stores.




Later that day, I had asked if we could all have a lunch date again. I loved going to lunches with Grams and Uncle Doug. We all got together and had lunch at Capital Grill.








Then later that night, my Aunt Becky came over with Steph, and Uncle Steve, and little baby CJ! He was born after I left FL last time so I hadnt met him yet. He is just the cutest thing ever.






That was just the first two days! When my mom picked me up from the airport, she brought me a cold PBR hahaha, that grams bought. That was awesome, a good welcome back. It was fun getting to see my mom and go shopping with her.