Point Judith/Scarborough Beach

First off sorry for the lack of posts within the past couple of weeks and  I am upset about missing a few blogging opportunities these past weeks as well. But I have been relaxing and enjoying the rest of summer and also stressing to finish my summer reading before school starts in less than a week! Anyways I recently took a trip to my family's usual fourth of July spot my great aunt Joan's house and Scarborough beach  which is down the street. And for dinner we had clam cakes( which were probably 90% fried dough and  10% or less of clam) from a restaurant around the corner.

Cataldo is my grandmother on my dad's sides maiden name

Oliver!

So way back when through like February to April I read this book that I don't doubt that many of you have probably read called Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens. And if you've read this book or only heard of it you probably know of the musical(Oliver!) or the 1968 movie version of the musical that won Best Picture and more at the Oscars. I LOVE musicals and the songs in Oliver! are just the catchiest tunes I've  heard as a show tune lover and they are probably just as catchy to someone who hates musicals. Except the difference is that I think the songs are catchy and fun and someone who doesn't like musicals would find them terribly annoying. While I was reading Oliver Twist back in  February the Trinity Rep theater in Providence was putting on performances of Oliver! from the end of February through the end of March. But my dad didn't think that the musical and book peaked my interest enough to take me. Getting to the actual point of this blog post luckily this weekend I was lucky enough to see Oliver! just not at Trinity Rep. On Friday the fifteenth my mom and I headed to see Oliver! at the Steps Theatre in Bellingham. The Steps Theatre is a part of Steps Off Broadway, a company that teaches kids about acting and singing and dancing and all types of theater things so the cast had kids of various ages and adults as well. But that doesn't mean it's not a show worth seeing. The theater is very small and the set was great for the amount of room they had. There were minimal changes made to the set throughout the play but they made the set work very well for every scene. I would also like to add that the acting for the characters of Nancy and Fagin was done very well and every song that Nancy sang sounded incredible.  The Steps Theatre is having one more performance of Oliver! on August 24th so if you like musicals then I recommend you check this one out on 799 South Main Street Bellingham, Massachusetts the tickets are $18 and the show starts at 7:30 PM.

This was the tiny but nice snack bar at the theater with a nice Oliver! touch with the Food Glorious Food sign.

This is the newspaper article that helped me find out about the show.

This is an old retro I guess you could say comic book version of Oliver Twist that my dad gave me from when he was a kid.

Fashion Inspiration

So I know that this isn't really a fashion blog, but since I haven't posted in awhile I thought i'd share with you some of the people whose style I admire the most. Now if you've seen my only fashion post which is my inspiration board you might think my fashion sense is a little all over the place with red carpet gowns and then overalls but the fashion icons that I look up to are probably much similar to your own. All of them being classics and well know women. Now before I proceed to tell you who these people are I would like to say in no way do I dress like these people now, I would just like to in the nearest future possible.

First Audrey Hepburn,
Now growing up I haven't always known exactly who Audrey Hepburn was. I remember being at stores that sell big posters and always seeing the classic Breakfast at Tiffany's photo of Audrey with a long cigarette in her mouth and Cat on her shoulders. That picture is currently in my room behind me leaning against my wall, missing a side of its plastic frame which one of my brothers was using as a sword once. Also as I write this I have my Breakfast at Tiffany's glass placed next to me on my desk. But when I first saw that picture I thought it was some sort of old Chanel ad with the little black dress and black gloves and I thought that maybe Audrey was the young Coco Chanel. Of course when I didn't know who she was I asked my mom and she told me then I did what anyone now a days does when they don't know something. Googled it. And now I am an Audrey Hepburn lover as much of the fashion world and real world are. I love her elegance, class and beauty on the inside and out. I actually did a short summer reading essay on her the summer before I started seventh grade because I had to read a biography and I could choose anyone I wanted to and she was the first person I had in mind.

"Paris is always a good idea"-Audrey Hepburn

Second Jackie Kennedy Onasis,
Now being a US citizen and being enrolled in school where you learn US history and about all the presidents and first ladies are I've known about Jackie Kennedy. What first drew me to Jackie Kennedy? Well I've taken a good look at all the first ladies and well Jackie is the prettiest( Sorry Michelle Obama your a close second) and she is the first first lady to have a noticeable interest in fashion. I did an oral report on Jackie in 6th grade and realized that we had a lot more in common than I thought like a love of dance and other arts and French culture. She like Audrey also has great class and elegance.

"Pearls are always appropriate"-Jackie O

Third Brigitte Bardot,
Once when I was younger I asked my dad who I looked like and I was looking for an answer that was like a family member and my dad said Brigitte Bardot. He obviously wasn't really serious with his answer or just wanted to make me feel better even though I didn't know who she was. So I looked her up online and Figured out she was beautiful and French! I think that Brigitte is more of a beauty inspiration to me because I absolutely love her hair. Who doesn't,right? It's so big!I remember that a girl who was a senior at my school last year painted the most beautiful picture of Brigitte and I was really irritated when everybody thought that it was Jennifer Lawrence in American Hustle but if you knew what Brigitte looked like you'd know its her. I was so upset that I asked the art teacher to ask the artist who the portrait was really of and it was of Brigitte. The artist was also annoyed people not being able to recognize Brigitte as well and said some people thought it was Rihanna.

"I like useful gifts. For example,I buy him handkerchiefs and he buys me a mink coat"-Brigitte Bardot

A Bit of Boston

On Saturday, the second of August, my younger brother, my dad and I took a little walk through a little bit of Boston while visiting my older brother after surgery. We hit a few places along the way such as Copperfield's Bar, Tasty Burger and Fenway Park just hours before a Red Sox game.

This is my dad giving a thumbs up because this is where he met my mom way back in like the early 1980s

My burger from Tasty Burger was good but the line was long and I don't know if it was really worth the wait but it was still good