Best Friends and Faberge Eggs

One of my best friends from high school was in town and stayed with me for a week! One of the best things we did was going to the Faberge egg exhibit at the VMFA! If anyone lives near Richmond, Virginia, I highly recommend going to see it! It will be there until October 2. I was expecting to see nothing but fancy looking eggs, but there were things like jewelry boxes, cigarette holders, animal carvings, etc. A lot of the items on display had an art deco feel. For whatever reason, I always thought of those eggs as being much older than they actually are. These were some of my favorite things:

100 years of fashion in 100 seconds

My mom posted this on my facebook page this morning, and I just thought it was so great! It makes me wonder what fashion of today will end up being the "iconic" look people remember 100 years later.



And just a hurricane update: I made it through the storm fine, but there was no power for a week. No fun! I'm also still having computer issues on my school computer, so I'm not sure how much posting I'll be doing for a while :(