Items of Interest, Vol. 1
Current hyperfixations, obsessions, needs, and wants from week 05.05 - 05.09
Blame it on the weather, but I’ve been very intro/outro-spective lately. It’s springtime in Denver, which means a damp, rainy Thursday followed by the most glorious warm, dry sunshine, a climate ideal to both meditate on Joan Didion’s newest (to us) thoughts on love and life, and also online shop for the perfect patio cocktail strappy heels.
But actually, scratch that, because the entire point of this newsletter is luxuriating in the intro-outro, the high-low, the many tabs I use as mounting evidence against chronic digital niching.
And thus I give you: Items of Interest, Vol. 1
Inspired by my e-friend Lily’s curated lists of cool shit (everyone, go subscribe, Lily makes GOOD lists), I want to make my own list of cool shit - of things I’m just generally thinking about this week.
Let’s do this.
If chicness were a field of study, I’d be the kind of student who gets an A on every paper, but I mean that in the most literal possible sense. I get the A because I’m very good at researching chicness and verbalizing chicness, but personifying chicness is an on-going journey** (like, an art history student? You could read a really genius essay on Renaissance literature from an art history student, but wouldn’t expect a literal Renaissance painting to be painted by said student, right?)
Anyway - this week in chic: wearing jewelry in the shower. How sumptuous to towel off and lotion up with a neck stack? I’m thinking the perfect formula would be tennis necklace, nameplate, snake chain, and charms.**Yes, I am fishing.
My secret formula for looking kind of put together is merely “fun shoe”. These Charlotte Stone Belle sandals in Columbia Stripe are fun shoe.
The What’s Your Issue podcast has been playing on repeat in this house after a friend recommended it last week. The issue? Magazine culture from the ‘aughts. I love a cultural take that balances good vibes with insight and hosts Troy and Dara strike that balance perfectly.
I’m ready for a return to monogram culture. I’ve been thinking a lot about ritual-making, and I think establishing a personal stamp that signifies who you are, what you value, and what you love is really special. (Maybe it’s the branding girlie in me.)
In particular, I’m chewing on designing a lil monogram for me’n’my husband and getting it printed on one of these silicon molds because look. Monogrammed soap? Monogrammed butter???? Monogrammed ice…clod? The cherry-on-top is that I basically live on Canva, so this won’t be your 2007-beflowered-letter initial stamp. (I’m thinking Magic 8 ball, Vegas dice, lucky rabbit’s foot…stay tuned.)
Filofaxes. I can’t stop pinning Filofaxes stuffed with polaroids and printed quotes and stickers and loyalty cards. Really, I’m into Girl Mess right now, and a Filofax just feels like a perfect distillation of what I want to be: everything, with the ability to shed anything at any time, or add in more as needed.
my literal pins. I told you I was having a moment. Perhaps along the same line as shower-jewelry or monogramed butter…glassware.
Glassware feels like one of the singularly most-and-least important moments of my day. I don’t particularly notice when I’m drinking out of your standard, well, glass, but I do exceptionally notice when I use my special glasses (my World Market Cost Plus Bubble Dot glasses because this is 2025, I am a Millennial, and special to me means World Market.) It elevates the entire experience, whether that’s a glass of water or orange wine.
Like a hefty pepper mill, burning a candle, and strawberry shaped pushpins, the epitome of “luxury” to me is not price tag, but a moment that goes against utilitarianism.
Printing. I don’t know. I think it’s the Filofax thing because one of my pinned Filofax inspo images is a printed page and suddenly - Times New Roman is everything.
With that, I’m off to set up my printer.
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