Daily Dose of Green

I am sitting here thinking about how I cannot wait for it to be warm outside, how excited I am to see things turning green. And speaking of green the Philadelphia Flower Show is next week. I always look forward to the show, not because I have the time to attend, but because my aunt and her crazy friends come into town for a week and take me out. Thinking about plants and such reminded me of a TRKFLD story… about aloe plants. Here’s to the warm weather on its way.

Bryan (TRKFLD owner) and Lauren (Creative Director extraordinaire) planted aloe plants on the roof of our Old City office last spring. When it started to get cold out this past fall, Lauren and I quickly rushed to IKEA to buy pots to replant the aloe and transfer them inside the office. Months passed and the aloe plants survived just fine. After a while Lauren and I each took a small plant home and mine is still growing! So much so that it inspired me to acquire a few more green friends.
And all the aloe plants lived happily ever after, the end.

Wu-Tang + Sour Cream + Synthesizers Equals…

We got to talk to Rick Mitchell of YMD and Instamatic about the TRKFLD gear he owns and all the ways he uses it.

Name: Rick Mitchell
Job: Marketing
Bag: Tara bag in Grey Black White Stripe

Tell us about yourself:
I love Wu-Tang and Tofutti Sour Cream.

What do you use your TRKFLD bag for? 
I use my Tara everyday for work.  And as an overnight bag.  I used it as a pillow once.  Also, I have a Bob bag that I use for band junk.  It matches my synth cases.
I also have a T+F Mahon that a homeless lady tried to steal from me once. Then she offered sexual congress for the contents. It was disturbing.

Happy Fasnacht Day!

Fasnachts, Fastnachts or Faschnachts are donuts and although I don’t usually celebrate Mardi Gras, and I never celebrate Lent, I do celebrate this day. Where I come from, we all celebrate Fasnacht Day, because when a holiday involves pastry you really have no reason not to celebrate it. So grab a Fastnacht, gobble it down and think to yourself “I am so Pennsylvania Dutch right now”.

Where My Boys At?

We’ve been posting a lot of girly stuff lately with fashion week, nail polish and such. Well this one if for all the guys out there.
We’ve matched some of the Fall ’09 looks with TRKFLD bags, consider it a sorta look book.

A look from 1909 VICTORINOX matched with Maile bag in Canvas Mccaw.

A look from Tommy Hilfiger matched with a Tara bag in Armanda Citrus.

A look from Tommy Hilfiger matched with a Bob bag in Coastal Brick.

A look from Tommy Hilfiger matched with a Kole bag in Bay Brown/Wheat.

A look from 3.1 Phillip Lim matched with a Benjamin bag in Grey Black White Stripe.

So there you go, some fall looks for you fellas out there. Just some fashion advice for everyone, try not to look like this guy:

(Alexander McQueen)

TRKFLD at NYFW ’09

A past TRKFLD intern, Kristin Gavin, is enjoying New York Fall Fashion Week and telling us all about it. Lucky girl!

“It’s 2009 Fall Fashion Week and I have been walking around the tents at Bryant Park looking smashing with my TRKFLD Marty bag all the while spotting everyone from Anna Wintour to Marc Jacobs! I am enjoying the atmosphere and attending a few shows that I have been invited to through being a student at NYC’s Fashion Institute of Technology. Its been quite exciting to see the upcoming looks for fall and so far I have seen color trends consisting of three must haves: black, deep red, and bubble gum pink.

Piazza Preview Party!

Last night the TRKFLD crew attended the Artists’ Piazza Preview Party at the Tower Gallery in Northern Liberties. It was a good time! We ate some sushi, sipped some wine and made some new friends. We really didn’t know what to expect when we showed up, but the spaces are really beautiful and blew us away. Pictures and such…

Fall ’09 NYFW: Nail Polish Edition

Fashion week pictures are drenching the internet and although I wish I had the budget and status to find myself in the tents, I am left admiring from afar. Luckily I can find comfort in the fact that not all of the new looks are thousands of dollars, I am talking about nail polish. In the past few season nail polish has been getting a lot of buzz. There was the comeback of neon colors and that short-lived trend of flesh-colored nails. The fall shows are displaying gray nails, dark green nails, blue, red, golden nails on the Chris Benz runway, and even gradient nails at the Akiko Ogawa show!

(picture from the NYLON blogs)

Of all the crazy nail trends emerging, my favorite so far is the reverse french manicure:

(picture from the NYLON blogs)
I love having dark nails, especially OPI’s shade ‘Lincoln Park After Dark’. The reverse french manicure is the perfect to mix up the dark nail look.

Also, in nail news, Lily Allen posted this picture on her Twitter just the other day:

Fierce!

100 Days of Dance, Dance, Dance

Doing a dance a day keeps the doctor away…..or something like that.

Faces In The Hall

Happy Monday everyone!
Today is the first post of our new feature, all about the people who own our bags and how they use them. We have a couple more TRKFLD faces lined up after today, but we want to get more people involved. If you own a bag, or know someone who does send them this link or tweet this on Twitter. The more the merrier.
If you are interested in being a part of the feature please send me an e-mail at lauryn.goldberg@trkfld.com. Thanks!
And now the new feature:

Name: Taylor Goldberg
Job: High School Student
Bag: Benjamin bag, Grey/Beige Stripe

What do you use your TRKFLD bag for?
At the moment I only use my bag for school or if a go somewhere after school, for example, walking to a cafe with my friends. It’s usually with me.

How does your Benjamin bag differ from other back packs?
It’s original. I don’t see anything like it anywhere else. The lable and washing instructions are on the outside, which I think is so cool. It’s bigger then it looks and it’s sturdy.

Lovers and Haters

We’ve got a few ideas for you on how to spend your Valentine’s day no matter what your relationship status is.

For the Lovers:
Super Easy V-Day Treats Recipe:
Every year my mom sends me a miniature heart-shaped box of chocolates in the mail, and usually I scarf down the mini chocolates and dispose of the box. This year I decided to get creative.

I was inspired by Zoë Lukas, who makes her own cookie cutters, to turn these empty cardboard hearts into my own heart-shaped cookie cutters.

Simple eat all the chocolates inside, roll out some dough and use the empty box parts as a cookie cutter. Bake!


After you bake the cookies let them cool and make colored icing. Then decorate your heart cookies however you’d like, maybe even add some sprinkles. I mixed neon food coloring with vanilla icing to get some crazy colors, but you can use any flavor you want. How about ginger bread hearts with cream cheese icing? Or chocolate hearts with strawberry icing?

For the Haters:
For whatever reason you are wearing some black clothing and pretending that Valentine’s day does not exist, and I hear you. But that doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t celebrate. Just broke up? Read the Shmitten Kitten Break-Up Guide. It will have you laughing and inspire you to hit the town with your pals.

Get back at a no-good ex by posting your story and their picture to Sorry Mom, I Bang The Worst Dudes. Or just watch the 30 Rock Valentine’s Day episode on repeat and drink a bottle of wine, because Tine Fey is amazing. Whatever you do, remember, it’s just one day, it’ll be over soon.