Wear more jewelry (New Year's Resolution II)

As I have mentioned before, I tend to accumulate a lot of costume jewelry and then never wear much of it. Just today I managed to wear a necklace AND a bracelet (a modern day miracle, I assure you), but then I got to work and began typing and the bracelet hurt my wrist while rubbing on the keyboard and then it came off and got shoved hastily into my purse and...well, you get the picture. Speaking of pictures, here are some beauties for today:

New Year's Resolution: Wear More Jewelry by thesweetjellybean

Out of everything in this collage, my favorite thing has to be the "diamond" ring in red acrylic. Although I originally saw this lovely at the online shop over at MOMA (Museum of Modern Art), I liked it enough to track down the original artist, Alissia Melka-Teichroew. Self described as a "new world-old world mashup" Alissia was raised in the Netherlands by a French mother and American father, and now resides in NYC. Alissia's playful take on the popular Tiffany diamond ring is available for $12 in a variety of colors including the ruby red seen here, black, clear, ivory, yellow, smoke, and is also available in (ever so slightly more expensive) silver and gold.

It never ceases to amaze me how many talented artists and shops there are out there. I do realize that buying more jewelry won't actually help me achieve my goal of remembering to wear more jewelry, but it sure as hell is fun to look for some new baubles (and it beats the desk job)!

4 lunch totes to keep your diet on track (New Year's Resolution I: eat out less)

I am at work eating my lunch. As in I actually had the foresight to make something at home and bring it to work. This is harder than it sounds as I probably have a medically sound condition called Fastfoodadia or some such illness when I crave fast food, be it Taco Bell, Subway, or the like. As a New Year's resolution, I vowed to eat out less, especially when it would be when I was alone and couldn't turn the meal into a social occasion.

So while sitting here eating my grilled chicken salad (I ACTUALLY cooked this..in a pan..on the stove!) and 100 calorie Twinkie, I thought, "what better time to blog about interesting meal totes? I've been dragging along the same pink Igloo lunch bag for years - could it be the reason I hate bringing my lunch? Let's step things up a bit and go on the hunt for a new lunch sack (paper free, of course!). Here are 4 picks:

#1: Chinese Take-Out Lunch Box

#2: Built NY Gourmet Getaway Tote

#3: Bento Box

#4: Neiman Marcus Lunch Tote

So if I get one of these pretties, do you think it'll inspire me to bring a Lean Cuisine to work? I'm not sold, but it might help spur me on.