The Adventure Continues…

We have so much to tell you! We're not even sure where to begin.

Let's see: If you were at the Singapore airport at approximately 4:30 Wednesday morning and noticed a very tall girl in leggings, slouchy boots, the best vintage trench coat ever discovered in Harajuku and two sweet little kitties being dragged onto the plane bound for D.C., then that was me. As of yesterday, I'm back to being an American resident (in celebration, D.C. decided to greet me with the first major snowstorm of the year during my arrival. Which was kind of awesome and kind of upsetting. Waaaah! I miss palm trees!)

In any case, things have been majorly hectic over the last month or so as Mike and I (and the wee kitties) started prepping for a return to America. I am terribly, terribly sad to go, and didn't even get to do all the last things I wanted to in Singapore (though I did go to Topshop approximately 14 times in the past week. Naturally, they had very few cute things that I wanted to buy.) I don't think this is the end of my time in Singapore – I vow to be back, I'm just considering this a temporary break in which we will wear a lot of sweaters and layer as much as possible, a la the ubiquitous but cutely cozy Giles scarf (above) – but things will be changing around here for awhile. Including – we hope – the return of daily posts and new and improved content! But before we jump into that, we have some thank yous we'd like to offer for making our time in Singapore so utterly hard to leave behind.

First, we have to thank many of you in Singapore for being such awesome and extra-supportive readers. We hope just because we live in another country that you will still stick with us, even if there's less of a chance you'll be bumping into me in the Topshop dressing room line (hiya Jodie!). Many of you came out for the Fashion Film Series, or sent news and suggestions about events and stores, and just generally inspired me by coming back here every day. (You like us, you really like us!) So, truly, thank you.

The kids at Pitch Black were amazing co-hosts for the Fashion is Spinach film series, which really just got it start by me saying one day, "hmmm… I wonder if other people would like to get together and watch obscure movies featuring great clothes?" It exceeded all my wildest expectations – and got so big in the end, I couldn't even keep up! – so thanks to them for being so awesome and also making very good popcorn.

My girls at Project Smitten and BeautyBlackBook cannot be thanked enough for being so genuinely wonderful, teaching me how to line the upper lid, feeding me pig's organs for a proper local experience, discussing Katie Holmes' evolving hairstyles with all seriousness (love the bangs!) and making my time in Singapore about a million times more fun than if I hadn't met them. I miss you all already. You rock.

The lovely Gina at Vive Salon in the Paragon was the best hairstylist a girl with hair that goes crazy in the humidity could ever hope to have.

And the equally lovely Elaine at Paws Haven was a fabulous pet sitter, allowing me to go on so many adventures without worrying about my babies. And while we're at it, Singapore's Cat Welfare Society should be commended for bringing the wee Commander Robot and Peeve to us in the first place.

You will not find a better nail person than Tina at Pinc Nails in Centrepoint. Book in advance.

I met so many awesome and inspiring shop owners during my time in Singapore, many of which I didn't have a chance to offer a proper goodbye. My wardrobe owes some serious gratitude to the following amazing entrepreneurs: Wei Loong and Sharon of Soon Lee; Kenny and Karen of Books Actually; Evelyn and Suzanne of Swirl; Grace of WoodWould; Vivian of 2cm in Far East; Kelly of Déjà Vu Vintage; the kids at Billet Doux; and, gosh, so many more. Best of luck to all of you.

There are plenty of Singapore bloggers popping up to take over where we're leaving off. Dottie and Stephie of Fashion Nation have been blogging gangbusters lately, and we always love The Clothes Project for local street style and plenty of stuff to do. The ever-inspiring Imelda gets special mention for just being so sweet and darn awesome.

We are making ourselves waaaay too sad right now, and are going to go placate ourselves with episodes of The Hills (so. fantasically. ridiculous!) and lots and lots of delicious coffee. And a box or two of tissues. And then I am totally going to Sephora. If rows and rows of fabulous beauty products can't cheer me up, I'm afraid I might be a lost cause.

{Image from December Marie Claire knitwear story, via Jezebel}