Sea It... Love It... - Anthropologie

New nautical arrivals from Anthropologie!

 

Anchor Potholders

Anchor Apron

Coral Necklace

Coral Napkin

All items can be found www.anthropologie.com

Sea It...Love It... - Target

I always get excited to go in Target around Jan/Feb/March (well, really anytime of the year) but specifically then because that's when they put their nautical stuff out.  This year has been no exception.  I had about 38 friends to let me know that their nautical jewelry collection was out in December.  (I had already seen it, but I am so glad that people think to tell me when they see nautical things!)   I can't seem to find any of the jewelry online but below are some other nautical inspired pieces that I am loving. 

 
I really, really want these pillows but can't find them at any Target!!!! Apparently everyone else liked them too...

Target Jewelry Stand

 Maybe some people think this is supposed to be a tree branch, butttt I think it's coral.  I have one like this in white and I love it!

Nate Berkus Cream Pineapple

Nate Berkus Navy Crab

Nate Berkus White Crab

 

Crazy for Coral: Makeup

How beautiful is the face pallette below?!  It might be pretty but I would never pay $79 for one thing of makeup... and two... it's too pretty to use.  I am the girl who hoards pretty notepads in my drawer because they are "too pretty" to write on.  I am trying to get better at this.  Life is too short not to use the pretty makeup or pretty notepads right?

Chantecaille Coral Reef Face Palette

Sea It...Love It... - Old Navy

Old Navy really stepped up their nautical game last year with those sailboat print shirts and shorts.  I'm excited to see they are continuing with some nautical pieces this year!

 

 

Old Navy Anchor Shorts

Old Navy Seahorse Shorts

Old Navy Anchor Cropped Pant

More on Market...

Another perk of market is that, even as an exhibitor, you get some of the same benefits as buyers.  Before my flight on Monday, I headed back into the mart to walk around and to scope out some of my favorite brands.  I also came across some nautical brands that are new to me (more on those to come!)   When I got to the 7th floor, which contains some "cash and carry" jewelry sores, I made a beeline for a store called Golden Stella.  This is one place where a lot of our favorite online boutiques get some of their jewelry from.  Below are some pictures from my day -

Starfish necklace

View of just one little section of this store...

Loads of necklaces and earrings

starfish scarves

coral necklaces!

coral cuff

This was a different store.  Also with very pretty stuff!

I, of course, loved this!

and this...

Below are pictures of the showrooms for some of my favorite brands. I didn't have much time, so I didn't get to very many

This is a little blurry, but this was the Gretchen Scott showroom.  Nautical tunics galore!

The Lilly showroom had already closed down when I made it past there.  But I still had to get some pictures.

This is one of my favorite brands, Malabar Bay.  There is kind of a funny store behind me getting to see their showroom.  It was in a different building than the apparel market is in.  and I wasn't exactly supposed to go to the other buildings.  But, of course, in pursuit of getting to see their new seahorse pattern in person, I ventured over to building two and gave a big smile to the security guard before heading upstairs.  I totally looked out of place, being that the building is basically empty when it's not market time, but I made it!

The seahorse pattern I wanted to see is hanging up top... Loved it!

In the next couple of weeks I will be showing y'all a few new (nautical, of course) brands I came across at market!

Market Re-Cap!

Well, it may be a month overdue, but here is my first recap post on the Atlanta Apparel Market from when I went in January!  To say I had a fabulous time is an understatement...  Six days of being submerged into the world of fashion, clothing, and showrooms.  How could I not love it?  Like I mentioned in my last post, I went with the clothing company that I am a rep for, JV Clothiers.  Below are some handy iPhone pictures.  Since we are a collegiate clothing company, a huge focus of ours is football season and tailgating (again, this is why I love this job) so we went with a tailgate theme for our booth.  Our red checkered table cloth screamed southern and tailgating and we had water and food out for the buyers.

This was our booth.  I think it turned out super cute!

How cute is our clothing?!

Some of the team!

Our name one the door

and this, my friends, was our model.  I was convinced that he was doing The Dougie.  Don't y'all think so too?

We ate at Gladys Knight's restaurant.  It was amazing... They played the best R&B music the whole time. Which I was all about.

Club seats at the Hawks/Celtics game with some new friends we made from England!

I spotted a guy wearing a chain with my initials so I totally had to borrow it. 

This is a picture of the floors and this is literally just half of them. 

Other keys things to note about market that I don't have pictures of - 

I wasn't allowed admission into a bar (after waiting in a mile long line) because I had on cowboy boots... I was like "we're in Georgia! Cowboy boots reign here" But if I'm being honest, it was a hiphop club and I didn't exactly meet the dress code, so not sure why I was shocked....

I met a Seattle Seahwaks player at the Atlanta Hawks game.  I think he was somewhat impressed when I busted out with "I  know Russell Wilson, your quarterback.  He went to my college."  I then proceeded to tell him how upset I was that they lost their final playoff game.  I'm prettttty sure I was no more upset than he was... 

On the way to Atlanta, I set off security at the airport due to my cardigan having metallic thread in it... That was an ordeal.  

I also got to see a lot of my favorite brands up come and personal in their showrooms.  Posts on that to come later this week!

1st Day of March!!

Happy 1st day of March! Daylight savings and spring are justttt around the corner!  I will be back on Monday with new posts!!  I am getting back into the swing of blogging for real!

(this picture has absolutely nothing to do with spring or it being March, but I found it while cleaning out my iPhone and it cracks me up.  Had to share!)

Tom, the cat