vintage spring lookbook

Here it is.. Blooming Leopold's vintage spring 2011 lookbook! All of my favorite finds of the season, stored away until today. These pieces are all headed to the shop tonight, handpicked vintage from the late 1930s all the way to the early 90s. Eyelet lace, seersucker, madras plaid, chambray, liberty print cotton, creamy silk.

Photos shot by Neil at beautiful Percy Warner Park. This was a fun afternoon to spend outside, the weather was perfect and everywhere we turned was another pastoral setting, right in the middle of Nashville. The little purple weeds dotted an entire hillside, which made me think of visiting the wind-swept moors of Haworth as a kid (although Nashville is not as pretty and quite a bit warmer). All of this scenery makes me miss living in the country.

More photos here. Lookbook items hitting the shop soon!

a birthday celebration

Neil turned 23 yesterday! We began Neil's birthday celebration last night by going out to City House (officially our favorite Nashville restaurant) and enjoying housemade sausage and margherita pizza with arugula. And chocolate bourbon gelato. Today, we spent time in East Nashville shopping for records (new Dead Weather and old Led Zeppelin!) and vintage clothes. We had a late breakfast at Marche (how do I add accents on Blogger?), did some cheese and olives picnicking, and finished the day with dry-aged beef with morels and Westvleteren 12, a Belgian beer that Neil loves.

In other words, a completely food-centered, really romantic, perfectly laid back day.

I found a ruffle sleeved mint green blouse at the Hip Zipper in East Nashville as well as a carpet bag. I'm planning on pairing the green blouse with the chambray bloomers I made last week.

And speaking of chambray.. I didn't have enough time to make the romper I had plans to for Neil's birthday, but I will be making it in the morning for a fun blogger meet up tomorrow night!

Hope you're having a great weekend!