1. J.Crew's color choices for summer. Couldn't love that second outfit any more… it's so sweet!
3. This amazing pattern (via Claire Coles)
3. I always love a splash of yellow (via Topshop)
4. Cute little vintage dress in the perfect summer teal.
5. Summer sunnies. I love this color combination. reminds me of pink lemonade.
6. My two favorite polish colors this season… Tart Deco and Braziliant by Essie. (I wore Tart Deco in my bridal portraits)
7. Summer cocktails in the perfect colors (via my sweet friend Betsey J.)
8. This dress is perfect in every way. Marc Jacobs does it right.
9. I love this colorful necklace (via Leif)
10. and a few more pretty things (via Jonathan Adler)
So far, my summer hasn't flown by. It's been nice and steady with a mostly healthy balance of work, play and just-for-fun. How is your summer and what colors are you loving this season?
xo. elsie
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Love your cute favorites – they pop with color and are so fun to look at!
My summer has flown by so far this year…I feel like I missed June entirely – it’s sad since we had such a brutal winter and this beautiful weather is what I’ve been longing for!
My favorite nail polish colors so far this summer are OPI’s “Dress to Empress,” Essie’s “Lapis of Luxury,” and Essie’s “Sew Psyched” (blogged here: http://hello-dear-wind.blogspot.com/2011/07/three-more-diys-other-stuff.html). I love finding fun new colors to wear!
xo
Oops – for some reason that link didn’t work! http://hello-dear-wind.blogspot.com/2011/07/three-more-diys-other-stuff.html
I am crazy about that gorgeous pattern!
x
Lost in the Haze
So many pretty colours! I love that pattern!
I’ve been experimenting with different nail polish colours lately, my favourite right now is mint green 🙂
Those cocktails are making my mouth water.
♥ sécia
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FUN stuff. Love that rocking necklace.
That blue chair is fantastic! I am very much so enjoying muted blues and bright oranges this season. My summer is going very well so far, a lot of travel the first half, but now my hubby is coming home tomorrow from 6 weeks in Nashville and so I am greatly looking forward to my second half of my summer, less travel and a lot more of the simple-summer backyard fun with Dustin! 🙂 mK
I am enjoying an incredibly lazy summer, but I am kind of ready to get back into the swing of things. Summers always drag on for me. I am loving basically all colors this summer, but especially bright orange, pale aqua, daffodil yellow, navy, and Jadeite green.
-Bekah
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love the cocktails and sunglasses 🙂
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Those nail polishes are so pretty, they look perfect for summer! I also love J.Crews color choices as well, they are perfect. I must get some of those nail polishes though 🙂
Ooo Ohh! thanks for sharing the cute picks 🙂
Such cute picks! I love the nail polishes and all the pretty summer dresses! Lovely! <3
Wow this is some incredible eye candy!! Those nail polishes colors are perfection. My summer has been flying by, I’m going to be heart-broken when it’s over.
Love that Tart Deco hue. James from Bleubird just blogged about it too!
Oh gosh, love all those dresses. And just brought a pair of the 1920s sunglasses in brown (care of eBay).
Kelly @
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I love that Marc Jacobs. And those cocktails are so boss! I want themmmmm. I think I have the same colors, considering the things I keep buying.
Ahhhhh! I think this may be one of my favorite posts ever! I love all of these colors and beautiful items:) I am loving lace of any color this summer, and also loving coral:)
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Looove the topshop dress. Looks like lemon cream cake. 😀 Personally, I’m loving the peach/mint combination of colors this summer. All hail pastels and cupcake colors. 😀
I love everything on here so much, my wallet is groaning a little bit! So pretty. Those Leif necklaces have been on the top of my inspiration list lately. I love her process for choosing a color palette!
i bought some fabric almost exactly the same as the Claire Coles pattern there! but its not Claire Coles. it was from a sidewalk sale. i’m really into mustard this season. Don’t have any mustard pieces yet..but i do plan on having some!
I am more excited about the fall colors – jade, plum, poppy, buttery browns – than I was about this spring/summer, but this summer I’ve been wearing a lot of teal blues, vermiliion, and neutral cream. I think my summer essential this year was a cream handbag. I was lucky enough to pick one up at a department store sale in just the shade I wanted, too!
love all of those pictures! everything is so perfectly colored and cute!
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I’m so loving J. Crew right now. The summer collection is fantastic.
I’m really in love with the nail polishes from Forever 21 right now…I can’t stop buying them! <3
I love Tart Deco, I just bought some today. 🙂
So jealous right now! It is freezing cold down here in New Zealand! 🙁
The cocktails look AMAZING!!!!
– Ana
My (Newly)Wed Life
The colors of th cocktails are so pretty. And that little lion is too cute!
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Love the nail polish!
Kisses from Hong Kong,
Nicole
Ooooh, you’ll probably like these then!
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Thanks for sharing, and you’re right, that second outfit is totally perfect!
Px
I’m loving golden yellow wool, which I’m about to start knitting a cardie with. my Summer has been lots of fun so far, visiting friends for long weekends,a super cool festival weekend and baking loads of new recipes.Next on my list of is crystalising edible flowers from our garden for my cupcakes:)
Looove the second outfit too!
love the marc jacobs dress and this seasons jcrew collection, damn..
Primrose yellow.
For the first time in my life I am coveting all that is yellow. It fills my with joy.
Wow, these are all incredible. Especially the vintage teal dress, I love, love, LOVE teal! And that yellow dress!!!
I’m loving: Blue and purple, light pink and light green, satin-y blue with black and lots more. But those are the main colors! I’m also loving dusty light grays with pops of pink!
I actually tried that TopShop dress on today! It is perfect, and the yellow works so well… I couldn’t really justify the spend, so just enjoyed posing in the dressing room!
LOVE the MbMJ dress! [i had just blogged it a couple days ago.] It’s so pretty! I absolutely love everything you’ve rounded up! 🙂
tart deco has been my go-to nail polish all summer! i’m even wearing it right now – its bright color is perfect!
Are you reading my mind? I seriously love all of this, especially the print (#2)!!!
I love color year-around, but I do still tend to celebrate the brighter stuff in the sunny weather. I did an outfit post over on my blog featuring one of my favorite color combos…I’ll link it below in case you’re interested.
http://www.myowleyes.net/2011/07/turquoise-dress-and-coral-lips.html
oh, and the Marc Jacobs dress? Yes, please!!
xo
toridawn
Great choices! I love that Marc Jacobs dress and that beautiful beaded necklace!
♥ Gina Michele
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love those first outfits!
love it all!
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couldn’t love the third outfit any more (j.crew) and all the other things u posted 🙂
the j crew outfits are all so lovely! the oversized flower/bow could easily overwhelm the outfit, but it just looks perfect, with the glasses, & the cropped pants & the orange heels..
Katie x
I love the first photo and the essie nail polish is great.
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I also have that first picture from Jcrew saved, i love it!
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every single one of the j.crew outfits are amazing! nice pick.
So much prettiness in one spot! I love the splash of yellow Top Shop dress too!
Loving pink/white combinations (with some golden jewelry) this summer, especially when tanned!
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I’m totes magotes digging that pattern. Loaf it.
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eee!!! that lion pic!! THAT LION PIC!!! tooo cute
I love that yellow Topshop dress but I’m not seeing it anywhere on their site…is it recent?
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I love your picks! I’m a huge fan of mustard yellow this summer, and I agree about Essie’s tart deco–I have it on my fingers and toes right now!
I am in love with Coral this summer, teal, and a navy + white tie dye dress. I even bought a black and white patterned mini, w/puffed shoulders and a scrunchy texture to it – LOVE.
This summer is going by at a regular pace… which I love and don’t want to end.
Those cocktails and necklace and sunglasses are so adorable! <3 Great picks!
Love that necklace! And I would love that pattern on a fabric for a chair I’m restoring- it would be PERFECT.
your vintage finds are to die for! exceptional! now, im inspired to do my own hunt for great vintage. I’ll post it once im done. =)
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love all those dresses.