Photo a Day #6: Family Jewels

I finally got the Internet in my new apartment up and running, which means I can actually get stuff on to the blog with some regularity. I hate that it's the 18th and this is only my sixth photo a day post, but onwards!

For the first time in years, I'm using this jewelry box that belonged to my grandmother. She was married to an army man and this little box came all the way from Japan in the late 50s.

Though I always liked this jewelry box, it never made it to college with me because my parents were so worried someone would steal my jewelry, they insisted I put all my jewelry in a little lock box. Irony of ironies--one summer, when I was home, almost all of my jewelry was stolen in a break-in. So much for the lock box.

But I'm really glad to have this box in my grown-up life. It's a lot more elegant than a lock box and it reminds me of my family.

Everybody, Everywear: I don't really wear green

It's true. I'm not sure why not. Green's not so bad. I have a like and white dress I love for summer but it's not warm enough to include it in this challenge.
I had no idea what to do until I remembered Cabaret. The film has been on my mind lately because I was supposed to go to the Weimar cabaret-themed Scorpion's Kiss but something came up. In planning my outfit I thought of Liza Minnelli and her nails in the movie jumped out at me. She's all excited to show off her the emerald lacquer on her long pointy nails. How anachronistic, I thought. Wrong. I later read that bold young women of the 1930s eschewed red and pink polishes in favor of deep, serpentine greens. So consider this a) my subversion of the mint green nail polish trend I hate and b) a nod to Miss Sally Bowles.

This Is Not an Outfit Post

Because I'm a lady and a lady would never post pictures of herself wearing her new deadstock 1950s garter belt on the Internet, would she?

Photo a Day #5: Geeking Out at the Brooklyn Flea

I've said it before and I'll say it again: I love the Brooklyn Flea. People say the Flea is more expensive than other events of its kind, and that's true sometimes. but it's so perfect for browsing that I can't really be upset. I love to just wander through the Flea, especially during the winter when it's held in the Williamsburg Savings Bank. Finished during the Great Depression, the Williamsburg Savings Bank is the tallest building in Brooklyn and one of the most impressive. I feel so teeny tiny under these vaulted ceilings and I'd love to be able to stare at the ceiling mosaic but I'd get stepped on.

I wish I had a mantle to put this one

Womp, womp

I just moved and I'm having a time getting Internet set up in my house. So in the meantime, check out my photos of the day on Instagram and Twitter.

Cheers.

Photo a Day #4: wheels

Photo a Day #3: Moving Day