Into the Spanish Moss We Frolic

Anyone that knows me, knows that I love the desert.

And through Krystal Simpson, my b-day buddy,

I found another killer blog and major inspirational icon

Suzanna Moss of Spanish Moss.

She creates and finds unique Vintage pieces and lives the life of a nomad.

She loves the desert, California, Nashville, whiskey, dive bars, classic rock and country, and well here is her own write up from the Spanish Moss Website:

Suzanne Ford Carafano founded American Gold with the desire to create pieces that document her experiences while traveling all over America. Always made of the finest silks, crochets, and cottons, all of the materials in the American Gold collection are handpicked to construct a supremely soft garment of the highest quality construction and attention to detail. American Gold is designed and manufactured in southern California.

Emboldened by an American girl's love for nostalgia, American Gold is inspired by: Indian summers, sleeping under the stars in Joshua Tree, collections of taxidermy and Southwestern trinkets, roadside flea markets, listening to the Rolling Stone's "Moonlight Mile" on repeat, whiskey soaked nights in Nashville, musing over Marianne Faithful and Anita Pallenberg, sleeping past checkout in old motel rooms, first kisses, discovering Emmylou Harris for the first time, summer flings, wearing sequins in the daytime, humid summers spent lounging on wraparound porches, sleepovers, playing hooky, 4 pm purple thunder storms, re-reading Walt Whitman, living free, and making new best friends wherever you go.

Although having experience only on the journalism side of the fashion industry, Suzanne began American Gold with an addiction to finding rare and on-trend vintage clothing and a promise to herself to never work a job she hated again. When she isn't scouring the back roads of the United States for exquisite vintage or sketching designs for American Gold, you can find Suzanne writing works of fiction or reading books in bed all day, driving through or moving to a new state every few months, sleeping under the stars in the desert, and dancing to classic rock and old country in her favorite dive bars. American Gold has been featured in Lucky Magazine, Nylon Mall, and in Blackbook Magazine. In addition Suzanne was recently featured in H&M's March Styleguide and was lauded by Erin Wasson in the March 2010 issue of VOGUE Australia.