Easter Sunday

Well friends another Easter has come and gone and an abundance of nougat filled chocolate eggs will soon be half price for the taking. I myself just purchased a surplus of Peeps. I am always fascinated at how religious people seem to get this time of year. People who are normally hungover til 3 in the afternoon on Sundays are surprisingly up bright and bushy tailed at the sunrise service. Those who normally only speak God's name with a dammit after it spend hours preparing the perfect Passover meal. Now don't get me wrong I'm not judging anyone for drinking or cursing because I am one who enjoys a glass of wine every now and again and I have been known to utter an F-bomb once or twice a month under my breath. I mean I work in Human Resources so that's kind of expected no?

Anyways I have a friend who was raised in a very religious Catholic family and married a Jewish man a few years ago. Neither one of them are particularly religious now as adults so they didn't make any plans to go to church with either family since they don't attend church with any regularity. I could understand that. I know that each family has an Easter tradition so showing up for church on Easter and Christmas to appease an ailing grandmother or persistent father is part of the game that some of us have to play to keep the peace. I'm not at all suggesting that those who go to church regularly are super spiritual or better than anyone else. There are people I know who are in a pew everytime the church doors are open but they are horrible human beings. I'm just saying that it's amusing to sit back and watch the show in a packed sanctuary that normally has an abundance of open seats on Sunday morning.

No one is perfect and you will never hear me claim to be. I do consider myself a Christian and for me that means following a very simple rule that is extremely difficult to do sometimes. For my people we believe that Jesus died on a cross and rose from the dead on this day as a symbol of God's unconditional love and forgiveness. I know it sounds a little far fetched and even a little like voodoo magic or something but that's the story. Since He did that for us we are also supposed to show the same kind of love and compassion to others regardless of how they treat us or what they believe. I'm not a Bible scholar and this blog is meant to be fun so I'm not going to change the regular subject matter away from fashion and vanity but I just made some observations that I felt like blogging about.

This week's obsession hardly needs an introduction. Jenna Lyon's J.Crew Creative Director & my fashion role model took the time to give us a 2 minute look at her coveted shoe collection. Above is a snapshot from a short video she took talking about where she gets the inspiration for J. Crew collections. Isn't this beautiful? It's like candy for the feet. I actually own one pair that is shown and it makes me feel like a real fashionista. They of course are far too nice to actually wear outdoors so really that just makes me a fool for buying them but they look great as I prance around my room in them.