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I love shopbop just as much as any other girl, but some of the things they post make me laugh out loud. So a couple months ago I left a link to one particularly hideous item on my friend’s Facebook wall suggesting that she buy that item (obviously kidding). She replied with a link to another awful piece on my wall. This little war has continued over the past couple months. Whenever we are bored, or see something horrible on ShopBop, we leave it for eachother. Apparently, we are entertaining way more people than just ourselves because when I mentioned to some people last night that I was going to do a post on “ShopBop Wars” they knew exactly what I was talking about. So here it is, a little taste of the battle:

This stuff is just ridiculous. And the price tags on some of it are an absolute joke. Those bell bottoms were $1400, before they sold out (SOLD OUT).

The best part… every once in a while there will be an item that we post and one of our friends will actually like it. Apparently the ShopBop buyers know what they are doing, because someone out there likes this stuff.

While I am finishing my apartment, the final touches, and to me the most important, are the pieces of art that I have picked. One is a piece my mom “gave” me, another is a special investment I made myself. And then there are a lot of other smaller pieces that are incredibly special to me. I really think that art should mean something. It doesn’t have to be expensive, or a family heirloom, but it is such a great opportunity to have something you love to look at. Sure, I have a Warhol print from Posters.com that I love, but in general, I try to maintain a collection of pieces with some meaning.

My mom inherited one of the most amazing, meaningful, beautiful pieces of art: an oil portrait of her mom, my grandmother, from when she was only 26 years old (done in 1946). My grandma is no longer with us but we have this keepsake that will always hang in our house. One day maybe, I’ll even have it in mine.

you can’t tell from this picture, but the portrait is massive. probably 6′x3′

What is your most meaningful piece of art?