Concerts at the Park

Concerts at the Park by albeelucky featuring nickel free jewelry

Bandeau dress, £24
Quiksilver beach bag tote, $50
Wildfox Couture locket ring, $45
Nickel free jewelry, $9.99
Ray-Ban wayfarer shades, $150

We live near a beautiful city park that holds Sunday summer concerts. You are able to meet your family and friends for a wonderful picnic accompanied by live music. It's a great way to carve out some time and reconnect with everyone. 

This would be an outfit I would choose to wear for such an event. The wedges might be a challenge to traverse the rolling hill-side, but the cuteness factor compensates for that. Small jewelry pieces need to make a come back. The kissing lip earrings and the locket ring are a perfect match for the sweetheart floral dress. For these lady-like pieces, a heavy leather bag takes a back seat to this woven one that's big enough to stash all your personal items, i.e. a sweater. I can't step a foot outside without eye protection and these classic wayfarers never go out of style they practically go with everything. 

Just building this post, makes me pine for those Sunday summers.

LP's... What?

Have you noticed the renewed interest of vinyl records? Growing up I remember sitting in my father's bass guitar case as he was practicing along with a record playing. As I got older I have other memories of scouring stand after stand of albums with my dad, to find The One he didn't have. Time passes and new tech is born, CD's, then MP3 players.   

 

We have chosen physical space over sound quality. We have tucked away our past into garages, basements, to see the light of day in yard sales and swap meets. It's a little sad that we don't value the past as we should.
 

A.J. and I have rediscovered our love of vinyl. For the past 10+ years, we've been sitting on a player and records in the garage. So what made me dig them out again? That my friend did happen because of the trend. I saw the Crosley CR249 Portable USB Turntable, previously posted here. I fell in love with the vintage portable look. What good was a new player if I never played the records I own now.
 

A.J. was spying over my shoulder and took it upon himself to do a bit of research. With so many brands and features to take into a count for a new player, and for both of us to give a thumbs up it took awhile to find one. I gave up the vintage look for quality. We ended up with the Audio Technica ATLP120. For reasons that I can understand, (because I'm not a techie) the stylist cartridge is interchangeable, and the weight of the arm can be adjusted. With these functions, the turntable will have less wear and tear on my vinyl, and we will be able to get a better sound quality off of it.

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 Lo and behold A.J. was right. O.k., that was unfair for me to say. He is the tech genius around here. Listening to our old and new vinyl has been a treat. The sound coming off the vinyl does have a richer and warmer quality, dare I say human? I didn't realized how much I've missed that, or that I was even missing it all these years listening to MP3's. 

Now, do I recommend vinyl? If you have a player and LP's lying around, give it a whirl. Dig them up out of boxes and dust off that player. If it can bring back good memories, and help you create new ones why not invest?

 

Just Me

I know that posts have been none existent for what seems like forever. I needed some time to settle into my life. In what was a short period of time I had big changes to deal with. I have shared a little here and there about them. The new house for one, and two- a new job.

I also felt a little lost when it came to this blog. What did I want to accomplish with it, where did I see this all going. I've really felt that I was looking for guidance, but in doing so I lost myself and started following the trends a bit too much. It just wasn't me, or who I wanted to be. 

I want to get back to me- good, bad, funny, angry, sad. All of the emotional mess, that comes with being human. So I will no longer be keeping to a time schedule, or a format of any kind. If I come across something awesome, I'll share it. If I need moments to vent, I will. If something amazing happens in my personal life, you'll get to share that too. This blog will no longer be a place to brag or sugar coat my life. I promise to have it be as honest as I can make it.

Thank you for checking out this post.

w/<3 Albee