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More Ways Cheap Asian Stores Can Change Your Life

Author Violet Date February 6, 2014
Let’s — per usual procedure — invoke the muse: This song goes out to...
Tagged change your life, cheap asian stores, daiso japan, discount asian store, iggy azalea, iphone car mount, official monogram, phablet, proclip usa, regular type melamine sponge, valentine's day, vampire academy, warby parker vs. zenni, wooden japanese doll, zenni optical | Leave a comment |
boyfriend, frugality, home, shopping, Uncategorized

Daiso Needed That! I Dare You To Get Out of Daiso For Less Than $10

Author Violet Date February 6, 2014
I’ve written previously about my delight with the store Daiso. Deepak and I made...
Tagged $1.50 store, california girl bronzer, chinese new year, convenience store, cressida bonas scrunchie, cute japanese products, daiso japan, haul, hold my closer tiny portmanteau, iphone 5 case, japanese lunchbox, jesus in toast, kawaii, phone suitcase, shroud of turin, silicon jacket, year of the horse | Leave a comment |
boyfriend, home, Uncategorized, wedding

Plan Your Honeymoon Before You Plan Your Wedding!

Author Violet Date February 4, 2014
OK. It’s time for some good, hard self-assessment: I, Violet on Orange, put the...
Tagged België, brussels sprouts, buy your wedding dress before you get engaged, drunk in london, drunk in love, exigent travel situation, honeymoon planning, human condition, i do now i don't, mid-noughties, monique lhullier wedding gown, mushroom mochi potsticker dumpling, orangutan, prenuptial prepurchase, princess cut white gold floating halo ring, putting the cart before the horse, saving the date, setting the date, wedding dress shopping, wedding dress tulle with pickups, wedding planning | Leave a comment |
boyfriend, cooking, home, recipes, Uncategorized

Recipe: Hummus-Guacamole — Why Choose Between Dips?

Author Violet Date February 4, 2014
Did everyone have a good Super Bowl weekend? I’m not the biggest natural football...
Tagged avocados, broccoli, broncos seahawks, cauliflower, chickpeas, cruciferous vegetables, frozen desserts setting, garlic, guava mojito, hummus guacamole recipe, low oil, new england patriots, salty, spicy, super bowl, tahini, vitamix blender, why choose between dips | Leave a comment |
friends, Hollywood, Invoking the Muse, Pop Starlets, Uncategorized, yale

Forbes 30 Under 30 is Yalie Kryptonite

Author Violet Date January 30, 2014
Previously, I discussed the vagaries of my age-rage. I started thinking about this topic...
Tagged 202 york st, 50 most, 50bp, briton hadden building, folded newspaper hat, forbes 30 under 30, happy hour, harvard business school, hbs, hbs hks joint degree, heeler, heeling, lorde, morgue, pray to the lorde for forgiveness, pu sandwich, pure heroine, ranking list, rebel wilson real age, remedial media, ribs, rumpus 50 most beautiful people, yale daily news, yale university, yalie kryptonite, ydn building | Leave a comment |
Pop Starlets, Uncategorized

It Feels So Scary Getting Old

Author Violet Date January 30, 2014
Title excerpted from the Lorde’s work. I’d like register my befuddlement with the trend...
Tagged a-list celebrity wife, alec baldwin, antipodean hustle, australian actresses, felicity writer lied about her age, female celebrity, hilaria baldwin, hillary hayward-thomas, it feels so scary getting old, kangaroo pouch, lorde, lorde is 40, lyrical motifs, margot robbie, neighbours, outback, preternaturally eloquent, pure heroine, rebel wilson, ribs, riley weston | 1 Comment |
boyfriend, Dates, friends, Hollywood, Uncategorized

Absolutely Do Not Take Photos at Cirque du Soleil Shows

Author Violet Date January 28, 2014
“Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!” –Percy Bysshe Shelley “Photograph my Cirque,...
Tagged big top, billionaire bruno mars, ceo guy Laliberté, circus wedding, cirque du soleil, cirque du soleil umbrellas, cirque siri, cirque totem, cirus, due to copyright issues, engagement photo shoot, everyday i'm hustlin', forbes billionaire list, grand chapiteau, intellectual property theft, ip theft, iphone selfie, look on my works ye mighty and despair, los angeles drought state of emergency, manips, no flash photography, no photography allowed, perch pole act, percy bysshe shelley, photographic medusa, popcorn tub, portable circus toilet, round top, round-top roundup, santa monica pier, something about mary hair, umbrella display, wanna be a billionaire so frickin' bad, zengo | Leave a comment |
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Daiso My Gosh! You’ve Died and Gone to $1.50 Store Heaven

Author Violet Date January 23, 2014
In my last post, discussing Deepak’s and my love for Asian cuisine, I was...
Tagged angel on your shoulder, asian cuisine, awkward house party, best by food dates, couch of my faves, daikokuya, daiso japan, daiso my gosh, earth's molten core, engrish bad translation, facebook update zeitgeist, hot as a blast furnace, japanese convience store, klieg like fluorescent glow, lauren and chang, leave facebook, little osaka, monogrammed tote, most delightful sms, muscle shirt, orange drive apartments courtyard, publicly mediated life updates, ramen, sawtelle, subtle earrings, sushi stop, tight uniqlo jeans, uniqlo, uniqlo tank top, what city should you actually live in, wife beater | 2 Comments |
boyfriend, Dates, friends, Travels, Uncategorized

Covered-Up Cuisine: Dressing Conservatively for Street Eats in Vietnam

Author Violet Date January 23, 2014
It’s no secret that Deepak and I love Asian food. We’re both from the...
Tagged adventurous palate, asian food, capsaicin, cherubino, chinese food, covered up cuisine, dressing conversatively abroad, en travestie, geisha house hollywood, hanoi, hanoi alleyway, imitating statues, japanese food, korean food, koreatown los angeles, lau pa sat hawker centre, little osaka, mary j. blige, mozart opera, mtv vj kennedy, park's bbq, pho, roc kitchen, sawtelle, singapore airlines flight, singapore hawker centre, spice preference, street food, the marriage of figaro, vietnam food tour, vietnamese food | 1 Comment |
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The Exciting Conclusion of My Premature Wedding Dress Purchase Saga

Author Violet Date January 22, 2014
I’d like to conclude the saga of Buying My Wedding Dress Early. When we...
Tagged baby bird dress, bridal fever, caught red handed, chaotic communal dressing room, eastern european guardian women, eating like a bird, fallacious reasoning, forget it jake it's chinatown, fortune doesn't favor the small-minded, hope is the thing with feathers, i don't need a man, i just saved hundreds, if the glove does not fit you must acquit, johnny cochran, loehmann's is closing, loehmann's larceny, maldives sandbank, meet alarmingly cheap, nicole scherzinger, oj simpson trial, pussycat dolls, sea plane, sitcom-inspiring dead end job, special ostrich relationship, sunset cruise, thousand yard stare, vabbinfaru maldives, visualize success, wedding dress is the thing with feathers, wedding dress shopping, where to buy loehmann's clothes | 1 Comment |
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