Last week as I walked into Arboretum, the beautiful boutique in Healdsburg, Ca, I saw what can only be described as the best window display I’ve seen. Behold the bumblebee yellow antique BMW smart car:

See what I mean? If you are in the Bay Area, stop by Healdsburg to try wines from the Alexander and Dry Creek valleys (so, so good!) and Arboretum for some Hare+Hart and this amazing little car.

My new haircut

It has been such perfect cool crisp fall weather in New York that it’s been making me miss going back to school – the new back-to-school clothes, the back-to-school lunchbox, the back-to-school supplies…  I even bought some file folders yesterday at Staples, but it just wasn’t the same.

But since my look has been pretty much one bad hair day for the past month, I decided to get a back-to-school haircut.  I went in with the intention of getting a long collar-bone length bob and somehow walked out with a true just-below-the-chin length bob.  It was not my usual stylist and I think perhaps he misunderstood long bob with long layers for short blunt bob.  Or perhaps I was just missing Emily so much that subconsciously I willed the stylist to make my hair short and swingy like hers.

Unfortunately, the blunt bob is not a good look on me (think me as an Asian soccer mom or the Joy Luck Club) and so I came home and hacked at it with the kitchen shears for a while.  In the end I think it’s actually a nice change, and I have high hopes for the long bob it will become in a couple of months.  And I have to admit, the swishiness is pretty fun.