Evanston Days

Capture The Moment - Evanston Days

6/10/10

So me and one of my friends, Emma, decided to go to a near by town, Evanston and check out the stores, restaurant and everything else. I've been to Evanston plenty of times but I decided to take photos.

 
We ate at this AMAZING place named Red Mango, this flavor is Tangomonium topped with strawberry and chocolate- yummy !

 










I love this tutu... American Apparel is the funnest place in the world clothing wise ! You can go crazy ! This is a black belly shirt paired with a silk white tutu.

Back to my shoe obsession !! All the shoe, all the other photos are also from urban outfitters ! Love this store !

 
We were searching for some kind of thrift store in which we could find cute clothes for a bargain, well we found this great place in which you can sell your clothes and then buy new ones !! We found coach purses for $20! And free people jeans for $16 !! It was brilliant !! The name of the place was Crossroads Trading Co. Be sure to check it out ! Here are some of our finds:

There is an adorable quaint alley names Bookman's Alley, down this alley is an old bookstore and paint store. Its very cute ! We also found a tarot reader ! My friend brought a great hat (unfortunately we found the same hat for half the price later!) And a store that sold really nice scarf's from India ! All these are photographed below:

Hope you enjoyed the post ! I'm going to do another India one next... I've been a bit lazy and not blogging as much but I do check comments and followers everyday ! So be sure to leave comments and follow ! I love reading them and getting new followers !

Here are the websites from the places I visited:

Red Mango: http://www.redmangousa.com/default.html

American Apparel: http://store.americanapparel.net/

Crossroads Trading Co.: http://www.crossroadstrading.com/cm/Home.html

Urban Outfitters: http://www.urbanoutfitters.com/urban/index.jsp

Bookman's Alley: http://evanstonillinois.net/booksmansalley.html

Hope you visit some of these places !!

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Alice H

xoxo

First Week Of Summer Photos && Winner of the Give Away !

First Week Of Summer

All Photos Taken by Alice H (Me!)

6/5/10

Going for a spy theme here: (Sorry for the bad quality - my camera broke and I had to use photobooth !)

The other day I did a mini photoshoot with my friend Charlotte; here are some of the results. (Photo credit goes to my friend charlotte; her blog: dontacceptlimits.blogspot.com)

Weirdly a lot of the theme in this is Alice in Wonderland type photos. Also my obsession with shoes are also covered in this post. My friend found these shoes in a garage sale, originally from Germany !

Love them. The spy photos from the top are kind of a slick spy operation feel... mostly because of the black leather gloves. Talking about boots I found this great pair at lavintage.com ,  from the '80's and I am slightly in love with them.

http://www.lavintage.com/What-I-Should-Boots-6-1/2.htm

Right now I am watching (500) Days of Summer. Its such a cute adorable movie, the main character (Summer), is played by Zooey Deschanel. She is a brilliant actress and the way she plays Summer is brilliant. The band, The Smiths is also featured. I looove this band !! My favorite song by them is definitely unloveable. I also love Vampire Weekend, Pheonix, all those Indie type bands.

Well I got to be going, my favorite part of the movie is noww !

Winner Of The Giveaway
So as my blogger wasn't working earlier here are the results of the giveaway.
The scarf and perfume go to.....

THECLOUDSAREALICE


A coincidence we share the same name !! Congrats honey!! Your gift will be arriving shortly !

Peace,

Alice H

xoxo


p.s - be sure to check out this ultra cool giveaway : http://makeupbykim-porter.com/2010/06/review-corioliss-pro-ceramic-flatiron-giveaway/#comments


and makeupbykim-porter.com

India Photography Part 2

Capture the Moment - India Style.

6/1/10

So Im lazy and I havent been bothered to do one of my India blogs lately ! So here one is.

So basically I showed you some photos last time of Kerala, and here are a few more. 

So there is something highly wrong with my computer, and it wont allow me to comment under my photos. So I have to talk about them here at the bottom !

Well basically I went with my father on his business trip, as you might be able to tell by the photo of wine glass (with water in!). You can see in the background blackberry's and laptops ! This is from when we ate lunch with his colleagues. So I was overall amazed by the culture and religion and the differences between the states and India. One thing that really struck me was the poverty and the lives that the kids there have to leave. Orphans on the streets, no food , no drink, alone. Working for hours. In Kerala there wasn't much but as I move onto later blogs you can really see. Also not alone children , mothers with young kids trying to provide, the elderly. There are hundreds of great websites you can go to if you want to help out the people in developing countries. One is http://www.foodrelief.org/ . Basically they help children around the world, by giving them a meal, or a few toys. If you look at the photos they can be really touching. 

My favorite website is 

http://www.kiva.org/

With this website you lend money to people to help them start there business. If you click the button "Lend" You can see all the people that really need a boost to help start. These loans can be anything from $25 to $100. 

Sorry to go on and on about charities but it is something that is really close to my heart and any little amount can help!

Stay tuned for more photos, 

Follow !

Alice H

xoxo

P.S - I was recently browsing around blogs and I found this great one,


http://slumberdesigns.blogspot.com/


Its adorable and I am totally in love with her posts !
Be sure to check out this blog when you have time !!

Giveaway !

Hello Everyone !
I decided to give away two items (both freshly brought) that I loooove !


The first one is this awesome peace scarf, its a pale pink color made of cotton, and decorated with lovely peace signs. (worth $40)

The second giveaway is my favorite scent, Sophia by Benefit. Its light, cute and flirty. A scent anyone would die for !! (worth $36)

TO WIN YOU MUST:

1) BE A FOLLOWER

2) INCLUDE THIS CONTEST ON YOUR BLOG

3) COMMENT ON THIS BLOG.

The winner will be chosen by random.org, on a random number generator on June 7.

GOOD LUCK ! 

Alice H

xoxo