Sol Mare Stilo

I just moved back to my home town, a place they happily call "The Quiet Resorts", from Chicago. This is a record of all the things I'm doing to keep me busy in this sleepy little beach 'burb.

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Nicole Miller Magic Carpet Flare Pants ❤ liked on Polyvore (see more flared pants)

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Boho Flare Livin' the High Five Life Pants by ModCloth ❤ liked on Polyvore (see more boho flare pants)

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Goddis Foster Bell Bottom Pants Pants ❤ liked on Polyvore (see more elastic waist pants)

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American Eagle Tapered Soft Pants ❤ liked on Polyvore (see more tapered pants)

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Bop Basics Knit Flare Pants ❤ liked on Polyvore (see more patterned trousers)

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Classic French Eclairs w/ Makeover

the humble 19th-century éclair has surpassed the macaron as the most buzzed about Parisian bonbon of the moment, in no small part thanks to a redesign.

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Yes to all of this!

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image by danilo agutoli

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So I can wear my tastes on my sleeve (or chest more specifically)...

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These two are my fall fashion inspiration...

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Sid Vicious & Nancy Spungen

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Sid & Nancy

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25 Hot Chocolate Recipes!

Pumpkin Spice White Hot Chocolate / Tatertots and Jello

S’mores Hot Chocolate / Minimalist Baker

Cookies and Cream Hot Chocolate / The Recipe Critic

Bourbon Spiked Hot Chocolate / Chasing Delicious

Spiked Pumpkin Pie White Hot Chocolate / Diethood

Spicy Hot Chocolate Mocha / Diethood

Kahlua Peppermint Mocha Hot Chocolate / Dine and Dish

Mint White Hot Chocolate / Babble

Nutella Hot Chocolate / KitchMe

Salted Caramel Hot Chocolate / A Beautiful Mess

White Chocolate Hot Cocoa / Lil Luna

Mexican Hot Chocolate with Dulce de Leche Spiced Cream / Babble

Coconut Tres Leches Hot Chocolate / Mel’s Kitchen Cafe

Crock Pot Hot Cocoa / Get Crocked

Caramel Corn Hot Chocolate / Recipe Girl

Peanut Butter Hot Chocolate / Ready Set Eat

White Peppermint Hot Chocolate / Mel’s Kitchen Cafe

Mexican Spiced Hot Chocolate / Gimme Some Oven

Rich Dutch Hot Chocolate / Pixi Wishes

Lavender Hot Chocolate / Because I’m Addicted

Mayan Hot Chocolate / Latinaish

Butterscotch Hot Chocolate / The Hopeless Housewife

Cinammon Orange Hot Chocolate / Joy the  Baker

Gingerbread Hot Chocolate / My Recipes

Oreo Hot Chocolate / Sweet C’s Designs

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To go with that marshmallow recipe...it looks like this weekend will be good weather (read: really shitty and rainy) to try some of these out...

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Vanilla Bean Marshmallows Recipe

for rainy days in autumn? YES!

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Can't wait for hot cocoa days and I've always wanted to make my own marshmallows, maybe I'll cut them into different shapes...

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Getting Away

So I just returned from a trip overseas. I say this not to highlight how much I'm #YOLOing or to stoke anyone's FOMO, but as a segway to get to my actual point. This is clearly my first post in ages, and its not that I really haven't had any thing to share with however few of you are listening. I've actually gotten really excited about a lot of projects, plans, and experiences. I have actively documented the steps for DIY projects, cocktail recipes, festival campsite packing lists that I over zealously undertook. I have no real excuse for not putting all of this out there. I belong to the mass of iPhone owners with all the requsite over sharing apps that make it easier to post something than to actually do it. Somehow, I went on in the analog world, completely forgetting my attempt to keep a digital diary. All the evidence of these activities (proof I suppose that I was being an active participant in life) rested, confined to my phone, not even so much as being lifted up into the cloud. Someday, I kept reminding myself, i would post some of these things, if only for posterity and my own reflecting. As anyone could tell from my posting history, that hasn't happened. Now back to that trip I mentioned earlier. It was a beautiful, exciting family vacation, captured in video snippets and pictures on that nearly full phone of mine. I figured this could be as good a place as any to jump start my posting habits, maybe even start a throwback Thursday series of post about things that I've already done/seen/tasted/heard. Even if it wasn't in chronological order it would still be an effective journal. Unfortunately for me and my recently wounded bank account, as I was boarding the train away from JFK my suitcase wheel got caught on the platform and tipped over, with my bag spilling its contents. The only thing of mine that slid away from my reach was my phone, and it slipped perfectly in between the platform and the train. So much for my new posting idea. While the opportunity to post figuratively got away from me all summer, I literally watched it get away from me yesterday. As I thought more about it on the long ride home my frustration ebbed away. I still retain all those memories and I can still record and share them. It didn't change the fact that I was present, the photos are not responsible for the friendships and misadventures, and great times. I'll continue to reflect on the experiences, washing them in a warmer filter than anything Instagram has, and if I choose to share them I guess you'll just have to use your imagination too.

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Independence Day!! by solmarestilo featuring pendant jewelry

Joie chambray shirt dress / Dorothy Perkins gladiator sandals / By Malene Birger set of bangle, $84 / Pendant jewelry, $69 / COWBOYSBELT real leather belt, $38 / Floppy hat

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Independence Day!! by solmarestilo featuring set of bangles

Joie chambray shirt dress / Dorothy Perkins gladiator sandals / By Malene Birger set of bangle, $84 / Pendant jewelry, $69 / COWBOYSBELT real leather belt, $38 / Floppy hat