Top: Wild Fable, Target; Skirt: So, Kohl's
Shoes: LC Lauren Conrad, Kohl's
Bag: Gifted
Top and Skirt: Nine West, Kohl's
Shoes: ALDO, Macy's
Bag: Amazon
It's June 21, and you know what that means: tropical fits and summer reading lists. And I don't mean Tolstoy, Shakespeare, and Hemingway (unless you're into depressing stuff by dead guys). I mean light-hearted love stories by ladies like Elin Hilderbrand. I marked the first unofficial day of summer with her Endless Summer, so it's only fitting to commemorate the first official day with her The Hotel Nantucket. And it might just be her beachiest -- and most hopeful -- book yet.
Everyone at the newly remodeled, possibly haunted, and incredibly luxe Hotel Nantucket is looking for something, be it love, redemption, fame, or revenge. Reading about it is half the fun. The other half is Hilderbrand's lush writing, especially when it comes to her characters. She tells the tale of a sweet but steely Minnesota transplant as convincingly as she voices a prep school prince, a glam grifter, and an eager-to-please ingenue as well as a colorful cast of others. Disappearing into her stories is like, well, taking a vacation. Minus the bill and the sunburn.
Of course, making jewelry is a little like taking a vacation too. Which is how I ended up with this Parrot Paradise Necklace:
In addition to parrots, it's got flowers and even an anchor. Also, it's big. Really big. Maybe a little too big. That's why I decided not to list it. Something tells me that I may be the only one to appreciate the way it takes up the entire front of a shirt, like a Hawaiian breastplate or an aggressively festive reverse dickey.
It's just you and me against the world, Parrot Paradise Necklace -- offering up one awkward aloha at a time. 😏🌺