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If you’ve been keeping up with my personal blog and my tweets then you probably understand that I have a deep love for The Eagles. How could you not? There’s so much to love—Hotel California, Heartache Tonight, Desperado, Lyin’ Eyes, Peaceful Easy Feeling and of course Witchy Woman or in Seinfeld talk Witchaaay Woman. Of course, all music is subjective and Witchy Woman is about everybody’s particular dream woman. My Witchy Woman is different from your Witchy Woman. Not to say that the above is mine, but you get the idea. For this post I went with a little more of a literal understanding of the song and went after a hexing vibe. Enjoy it. Don’t forget to listen to the song below.

1. Raven hair

Dress by Gucci, shoes by Emilio Pucci

2. Ruby lips

Cape by Lanvin, dress by Meadham Kirchoff, shoes and tights by Prabal Gurung

3. Sparks fly from her fingertipssss

Dress by Prabal Gurung, boots by Rodarte

Don’t mind the AWFUL music video below, enjoy the song…

Hey everybody,

So Textbook just hit 25,000 followers. I can’t thank you enough for your support over the past year and a half. There’s some exciting stuff coming in the next few weeks so stay tuned. Once I get the hang of my new job I’ll be able to post more often. Thanks again, you’re swell.

Fair warning to you all, now that The Borgias has started on Showtime I’ll probably be rediscovering my love for Italian Renaissance history. I’ve done a few before, Catherine Medici is around here somewhere but anyway, I digress. The Borgia family is notorious for their corruption and power plays in Rome during the late 1400’s. The patriarch of the family famously bought his Papal throne at the Vatican and played his family accordingly. Of course, for any young woman in a powerful family was used as a token of alliance by marriage. Enter Lucrezia Borgia who married into another powerful Catholic family and then another and then another, all surrounded by a little mystery. There are very few surviving portraits of the Borgia heiress but she was allegedly quite beautiful, cunning and at one time as corrupt as the rest of her family. Although, as she became older and raised her children her image did clean up a bit. But I dare to say she was far from angelic. By today’s standards she’d be you know, totally normal. Not sure why I put her in all black but damn she fine.

1. “I don’t think my father, the guardian of the Catholic faith, would be too pleased to hear about this”

Dress by Alberta Feretti, shoes by Bottega Veneta

2. “You know who’s looking fine tonight?” “Cesare Borgia” “Okay, you did not just say that, he is your brother” “What? He’s a good kisser.”

Dress by Emilio Pucci, coat by Fendi, shoes by Lanvin

3. “She has two painted portraits and a silver carriage”

Dress by Versace, shoes by Gucci

Weird how relevant Mean Girls is to her. Ha.

Bella is perhaps the most heroic of all the characters I’ve posted before. She tempts fate, she dances with vampires and werewolves and manages to find some meaning for existence in the pacific northwest. I mean, how could you not be impressed? She’s just so strong and I remember when I read the books the first six times I thought, “Wow, I wish I could be that strong” but we all know I never will be. I’m just vampire food. Whatever, she’s way better than Hermione Granger and she could probably kick her ass. We all know Hermione is just a joke.

1. EDWARD!!!!!!

Dress by Mary Katrantzou, shoes by Valentino

2. JACOB!!!!!!!!!

Coat by Oscar de la Renta, dress by Miu Miu, shoes by Band of Outsiders

3. DAKOTA FANNING!!!!!

Jumpsuit by Tory Burch, coat by Prada, shoes by Giambattista Valli