home is wherever i'm with you.

Hey all... Taylor here. I'm not usually one to put on a pretty dress and heels when I can throw on my Converse and get my outdoor adventure on. Being home and surrounded by top notch nature, however, made me want to bring both of my worlds together. So, I put on my version of the pretty dress and heels (obviously plaid, obviously black, obviously boots) and took it to my backyard. This all ended with me trying to climb a tree... something that does not mesh well with wedges. P.S. I also when on a thrifting extravaganza today. Can't wait to share my finds. I may have bought a small treasure chest...

Dress: Charlotte Russe / Boots: Maurice's / Socks: Forever21

"We knew we had to leave this town, but we never 

knew when and we never knew how" -Daughtry

You Scream, I Scream, We All Scream for Glace?

Hi Everyone, It’s Lauren!

Now that I’m home from school for the summer, I need to find fun things to do! Tonight, me and John went and got Glace! Now, I’m sure no one has any idea what I’m talking about when I say that, so let me explain: Glace is this ice-cream like treat that has no carbs or sugar. 

Top: Ann Taylor LOFT; Necklace: Laila Rowe

It’s pretty great, but don’t really exist other than in West Nyack, NY at Cone Zone.  Cone Zone is a local ice cream shop that my brother Anthony works at.  Thanks to him I get my yummy Glace at a discount.

When trying to explain this “Glace” to any of my friends they can never seem to quite understand.  It’s not your typical ice cream texture, but it’s not a crushed ice texture either.  As put by Meg, she described it as fresh snow, like real snow you find outside.  She was lucky enough to try it a few weeks back! I still cannot describe it well, but I can tell you that it is delicious!

If you’re ever in West Nyack, stop by and give it a try!  

“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”

-J.R.R. Tolkien

I've been around the world and i-yi-yi

TAYLOR AGAIN!
Yes, that was a blatant old school Will Smith reference in the title of this post.

No, I am not embarrassed about this.

I finished up my finals yesterday and I am back in my hometown of Litchfield, CT. I've been thinking about unpacking, which translates to I've been staring at all the contents of the boxes in my room. Catching my eye (as usual) is my beat of pair of black high top Converse. My mom has been pressuring me to throw these shoes away for a very long time. Maybe they're not clean enough to be fashionable or even appealing anymore, but they have history. And I see the beauty in a pair of shoes that have traveled the world with me. When I wear my Chucks I'm carrying the best four months of my life with me. Last Spring I spent four months living in London, taking classes, interning, and travelling. My Converse were on my feet for most of these four months and I can't throw that away. I find merit in carrying memories of breath-taking travels and amazing friends with me every place I wear my sneakers. Here's some of the places my Chucks have been:

London, England - taken from the London Eye

Ireland Countryside (as well as Dublin)

Paris, France

Watching football in Hyde Park in London

Venice, Italy

The Colosseum in Rome, Italy

Hiking Holyrood Park in Edinburgh, Scotland (they also went to Loch Ness... no sign of the monster.)

Grizzly Bear concert at the Roundhouse in London (amazing concert by the way!)

Adventure Weekend in Pembrokeshire, Wales (hiking, sea kayaking, and coasteering)

Not all shoes have to be pretty. So... wear them in, get them dirty, put holes in the side
because in the end the memories will be worth it.

"Twenty years from now you will be more
disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the
ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away
from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your
sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." -Mark Twain

Sittin On the Dock of the Bay

Shirt: Gifted / Shorts: H&M / Sandals: Gap

 Hello! I'm Meghan, finishing off our first set of individual posts. I'll just give you a brief insight to who I am and what you can expect to see from me! I've been an avid reader of fashion blogs for awhile now and with the help of some friends got the courage to dive in to our own. I'm not going to classify myself in to a style because I find labels to be limiting - I wear what I like which spans from combat boots to heels and everything in between. The majority of what comes out of my mouth is sarcastic or a lame attempt at a joke. When I'm not spouting out wise cracks or witty comments, I'm generally laughing - often with others, sometimes at myself - I think life overall is easier when you can laugh at yourself.

Here's some things that take up my time: fashion, dance & choreography, photography, kids (preferably the fun kind, not the bratty complaining kind), traveling, car singing, volunteering, plays&musicals, reading, comedy, vegetarianism, PostSecret, mildly entertaining television, and foolish dancing.
My iTunes consists mainly of female singers, all ranging from angsty to sappy emotional and overly joyous -so you can skip over me for party music. Which brings me to the title of this post! Driving back home for the summer from school today, I rediscovered a cover of this song by Sara Bareilles (one of my all time favorites; I'm convinced we'll be friends some day) and forgot how much I loved it. If you haven't heard it - I recommend checking it out... even if female singiers aren't your thing.

"We're taught to remember only the signifcant moments, the rights 

of passage. In truth,  the smaller steps that get us to these momentous occasions 

are just as significant. Looking back we see it's not just the high points, but the 

low points that also define who we are -- who we will become" - Everwood

You can be the king, but watch the queen conquer.

Shirt: H&M / Jeans: Forever21 / Shoes: Forever21 / Glasses: Ray Ban

Hi All! Taylor here, making my first individual post. I'm just going to get my list on so you can get an idea of what to expect from me in the future (other than pictures of me frolicking on the rocks down by the Hudson River).

Things I feel positively about = fashion, sweet kicks, outdoor adventures, London, dance, choreography, flannel shirts, dying my hair, Kanye West, my pet chinchilla, my mainly black & white wardrobe, slam poetry, holidays, so-called indie bands, wooden playgrounds, writing, broadway, piercings, road trips, skiing, hip hop, PostSecret, photography, nonprofits, traveling, Glee, my family, wiffle ball, and literature.

Get ready... hope there is some stuff on this list you can get stoked about!

"Let your children name themselves and claim themselves as the new day for
today we are determined to be the channelers of these changing frequencies into 

songs, paintings, writings, dance, drama, photography, carpentry,crafts, love, and love.
We enlist every instrument: Acoustic, electronic. Every so-called race, gender, 

and sexual preference. Every per-son as beings of sound to acknowledge 

their responsibility to uplift the consciousness of the entire world." -saul williams

Strawberry Mupcakes

Sunday Afternoon on the Hudson River

Dress: Lord & Taylor, Jacket: H&M

Hi! I’m Lauren.  I’m a Fashion Merchandising major at Marist College and an avid baker.  At Marist you are most likely to find me at the gym watching Food Network or marathon watching a TV show with my boyfriend.  I’m pretty new to blogging, but with the help of Meg and Taylor I think I’ll get the hang of it quickly.    

For my first individual post I figured I would show everyone some of my baking!  Since it is the last week of classes, I keep finding myself standing in front of my fridge looking at a variety of random ingredients.  After staring at a completely full container of fresh strawberries for about 10 minutes, I decided I absolutely must use them!  After some online research for a recipe, I found one that included the left over ingredients of my Junior year.  I ended up using Sandra Lee’s recipe for Strawberry Cupcakes, which ended up tasting more like Mupcakes (renamed by my house-mate Angela)! They came out great and were a nice treat to start off finals week.   

"No it won't all go the way it should/ But I know the heart of life is good" - John Mayer

Last Thursday we got to go to the 25th Annual Silver Needle Fashion Show! The fashion program at Marist puts on the show every spring to showcase student work, specifically collections by senior designers. It was an awesome show... here's some of what we got to see:

Winning Collection by Maddy Sasso

 Lauren's favorite piece from Maddy's collection.
All the sequins on this dress were made out of soda cans!

Meg's favorite piece from the Sophomore knit collection.
(Because Meg loves knits)

Taylor's favorite collection by senior Christina Mendez.
(Can't say no to combat boots and plaid.)

Our neighbor, AD Diaz, showing off his runway swag.

Cool collection by a senior designer!

Overall, we had a great time at the show and we can't wait to see what the seniors bring next year. We also can't wait to see Lauren strut her stuff when the senior Fashion Merchandising majors get to walk the runway (she's already practicing). Here's our looks from the show:

"Style is a simple way of saying complicated things." -Jean Cocteau

Welcome to Frame of Mind!

We are Lauren, Meg, and Taylor. We stumbled across each other 3 years ago as awkward freshman at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, New York. The second floor of Leo Hall brought us together for the year. As sophomores, Meg and Taylor were roommates during the Fall before Taylor ran off to London for four months. Lauren basically went missing this entire year. Junior year and U2 (our townhouse number, not the band) has landed us together again. After spending the entire year talking about starting this blog, we're finally doing it! We can't wait to bring everyone through our summers and our senior year ... still awkward, but definitely embracing it.

In the future you may or may not see the following on Frame of Mind:

-Fashion (ours and others)

-Photography
-Tasty Food
-Puppies
-Cool Music

-Our Friends
-Fun Adventures

"I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons.
And maybe we'll never know most of them. But
even if we don't have the power to choose where
we come from, we can still choose where we go
from there." -perks of being a wallflower
 
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