Sasha Darling & The BellJar Blog — Uncategorized

Bay Trppin at BellJar A Portland Vintage Pop-up Shop Saturday September 22nd, 2012 11-7 PM Backtalk, Portland premier Vintage Boutique sets up shop in BellJar for one day only. BackTalk is the vision of Elissa Hall and Katie Freedle, long time collectors and full time besties. Elissa is the primary vintage collector and Katie creates her vintage inspired line RillRill Jewelry. They will be showcasing their vintage clothing collection that focuses on autumn-in-the-northwest inspired pieces for men & women. Think rustic, Americana meets indie-hip, pdx. Throw in a bit of SF street style and what you have is the perfect collection. They will also be presenting Elissas brand new jewelry line Punk Broke featuring jewelry with an updated organic feel, with an eerie edge. We will be serving cocktails all day and as usual it will be filled with glamour and loveliness.

Or rather, I should say Brooklyn- Headed to New York for market week, but staying in Brooklym with Miss Scarlett. Hitting up Capsule, Enk, and Coterie to find some fancy new items for the lovely little BellJar. I'm such a space case. My flight was actually set for today at 1;30 but I got my dates messed up and missed my flight. I talked to the airlines and they assured me the only thing I could do was head down to LAX tonight at 4 am and try to get on the morning flights, standby. Ugh. So I spent the day trying to get organized. I did laundry, a quick shopping for the store (check out new immediates in the store Friday!), and tried to figure out the dog situation. My dog sitter was not set to come until tomorrow night. I decided to just be calm about it all, take each issue one step at a time and pray that it would all work out. So I worked on getting everything done, found a one day dog walker and scheduled a shuttle to pick me up at 2:30 am tonight. Done. But, I was still feeling really uneasy about leaving..I was worried about the pooches. There were still a few store things I needed to deal with, and I just felt stressed. I decided to call the airline one more time to see if I could somehow leave Friday. When I spoke to them earlier they informed me that it would be $700 smackers to fly out Friday, but I just hoped I would get a nice person on the phone that would take pity on me. And, what do you know? I got it!! Everyone else I talked to said no, but this agent just said, "Why yes, Miss Darling, you are all set to fly out Friday morning at 8:30." Yay!!!! So the lesson here is, and it's big, big lesson for me: approach stressful situations calmly, take each problem one step at a time, don't get angry, don't freak out, and muster up the faith that it will all work out as it's supposed to. I yammer on all the time about positivity, the power of visualization and attracting what you want out of life by acting accordingly, but sometimes find it difficult to put my word to good use during stressful situations. I have really, really been working on this. Working on not getting spun out and automatically taking my head to the dark-side of the situation, and it's really working. I'm really starting to find peace in my life. I have had a few blog-readers, ask my why I have not been writing on the BellJar blog as much, and I think that is the reason why. I usually write when I'm stressed. I find it cathartic, but lately I have just felt so much more calm in my own skin and I have just been really, really busy focusing on this beautiful new site as well as on myself. Slowly it's all starting to pay off. S0 to you, my lovelies, I say thank you. Thanks for all your support, love and devotion. I promise to post some exciting updates form my New York adventures. And in the meantime check out some pretty pictures form one of my Favorite New York blog duos- Hannah and Landon. Such a cute couple. Designer/Fashionista and amazing artist. They give me hope that love does exist. Their life sure does look dreamy, no? Maybe I'll run into them in NY and we can run through the streets together. XO

We are sponsoring one of our favorite blogs this month! The lovely Miss Ashley Ording of Fancy Fine Vintage dashed of to Philly a few months ago to start an exciting new career. We miss seeing her face around the shop and around town, but luckily we can head over to her beautiful blog and see what she's up to, what she wearing and most importantly how completely lovely she is. So thanks to miss Ashley for letting us sponsor your blog and for being an inspiration to girlie girls everywhere. Xo In her lovely minty room back in SF For Tabisocks Look Book Everyone loves film. Here is a nice shot her boyfriend, Tod Hido took the oldschool way. I really can't get enough of her minty room Love a girl that can mix pink and red. This one reminds me of an old 60's noir thriller. A black and white for good measure Are you kidding me with this cuteness. And her she is playing wedding in a vintage dress from Ver Unica, one of my fav vintage stores in SF.

Who remembers the Biba Girl? I often regret I was not born in time to shop at the magical Biba store. The first store, in Abingdon Road in Kensington, was opened in September 1964 but sadly it closed in around 1979 after a bunch of ups an downs, successes and failures including a bombing by a radical group in 1971. Loved by the likes of Bianca Jager, Twiggy, Mick Jagger, David Bowie and MaryAnne Faithful, Biba was a unique mix of Art Nouveau decor and Rock and Roll decadence. I still covet it's style and try to recapture here at BellJar. Come on be a Biba girl, or at the very least a BellJar Girl™.