If you haven’t donated any money to a fund for Haiti just yet, we have two perfect suggestions for you this week.

If you are a local, join us for Decatur For Haiti. A number of shops and restaurants around town are donating a percentage of their profits to the Red Cross. For a full list of participants, see TheDecaturMinute.com.

Not in the Decatur area tomorrow? There are of course a number of ways you can contribute, but I’ve just discovered that one of the charities Moxsie donates to is Wyclef Jean’s yele.org. Moxsie is an online shopping site for independent designer labels (at very reasonable prices) and they donate a percentage of every sale to a charity of your choice from their list. It’s one of the many reasons we love having them as an affiliate sponsor of AsianCajuns (in case you were wondering about that ad in our side bar ). So they support independent designers and donate to charity at the same time. Le swoon.

I will donate to YeleHati when I get this gorgeous purse:

Happy Monday, lovelies! We hope you have a marvelous week!

xoxo,

Lar

Photo by the talented Mr. Andy J Scott.

So we’re still getting used to this whole self-promotion thing. First up? Make a Facebook page! And we have! Click the FB icon in the left bar to become a fan. We love to see all your pretty, smily faces peeking out of your thumbnail photos at us.

For those of you new readers that have found us through Facebook, welcome, welcome! We hope you enjoy your stay (and many repeat visits) to AsianCajun land!

The Constellations – it doesn’t get more Atlanta than this. Check out their song Step Right Up if you really want to get to know ATL.

• Fashionistas/Anna Wintour fans can now pre-order The September Issue on Amazon. The two disc set includes an additional hour of deleted scenes.
• Jinah has a great list of ways to donate to Haiti
• Ediot has the perfect Valentine’s tee available at her Etsy Shop, and it’s neither pink nor red
• Ashley has the secret to making salads not only palatable, but down-right delicious!
• Tired of the cold weather lately? So are we! Cath and I have this Dolce Vita spring/summer dress on our wishlists.
• A shout-out to Scoutmob for featuring us. Thanks, Liza! Read our interview here.
• We just met the lovely lady behind Chowdown Atlanta. Read her blog for the best foodie advice in the ATL.
• Locals, find out the latest news on local eateries and retailers all over the Atlanta area at EZ’s blog, Tomorrow’s News Today.

We know a lot of you aren’t interested in seeing photos of haggis or even hear us babble more about our love for rainy weather and kilts, but we thought you might like a little peak at our Rabbie Burns supper.

Above: Cath and I prepping the neeps (mashed turnips) and tatties (mashed potatoes) in our kitchen. We both had delusions of tartan that we had planned to wear, but realized we didn’t have the funds to spend money on a dress we would wear only once a year. Tartan isn’t the most flattering thing on us. We’re still working on getting our bfs into kilts though .

Our fridge fully stocked with one actual Scottish beer and some other Scottish-looking beers. We still have plenty left over. If you’re in our neck of the woods, stop on over for a tipple- we’d love to have you!

Cath made this awesome sketchbook when we lived in Scotland. It’s full of maps (Cath loves maps) and her awesome drawings which are very much like Eric Chase Anderson‘s illustrations (brother to Wes Anderson).

We hope you guys had a wonderful weekend too- full of good food, good friends and rousing bag pipe music!

All photos but the beer photos by Troy Cono. Thanks, Troy, for the delicious meatloaf and the photography!

So the other week when Cath was in New York she was a sweet heart and bought us matching (yes, matching!) Uniqlo sweaters. I haven’t had the pleasure of going into a Uniqlo store, but I’m been wanting to since it opened up north. This is definitely the next best thing! It also gives us the perfect opportunity to do another “The Same Thing Worn Differently… by the AsianCajuns” segment (we are working on that name).

Here’s Cath’s take (and my personal favorite):

Looking very Frenchie with my old H&M trench coat to keep her dry.

I love how she layered all her bright royal blues together. She was worried she looked smurfy- I think she just looks divine.

The necklace she’s wearing (yet another present she gave me after a business trip) is from Sarah Jessica Parker’s now defunct Bitten line. Was anyone else a fan? The price-points were amazing, the clothes were generally better made than most things you can pick up at the mall, and the designs were classic, but cute, not stogy.

I paired by blue sweater with black Blank cords, a DIY studded tee,  a Proenza Schouler for Target scarf and Asos boots.

The red plastic ring is shaped in the silhouette of a diamond ring– my kind of jewelry! Once again, Cath got it for me as a present from another NYC trip. This is from the MoMA store -le swoon. If I were Capote I would have called it “Breakfast at MoMA.” It’s definitely a place where “me and things go together.”

I tied the sweater in the front. Cath tied her’s in the back (see the top pic).

We hope you guys have a wonderful weekend!!! What do you have in store?

xoxo, Lar

This Saturday from 3-7 p.m.head over to Barneys Co-op in Phipps Plaza to customize your jeans with Current Elliott.

The Current Elliott team will have a station set up where they will stud and customize your same day Current Elliott denim purchase (jeans, vest, jackets and dresses). Studding is free and you’ll get your choice of black, gold and silver studs.

Let us know if you get a pair customized – we’d love to see your creations!

Cath and I have repeatedly babbled alluded to our love of Scotland in previous posts. We don’t even have a drop of Scottish blood in us (Irish, English, French, Danish, German, Chinese but no Scottish). Our Scot-o-phile-ness stems from living/studying in Edinburgh and traveling around Scotland for six months back in 2004.

We haven’t been back for – eesh! – six years, but Cath and I always say we would move there in a heartbeat given the opportunity.

One way for us to maintain our connection to our Scottish “roots” is to celebrate Robert Burns Night every January 25. Who is/was Robert Burns, you ask?! Why he was the fellow who wrote “My love is like a red, red rose…” and “Auld Lang Syne”- so in a nutshell he is a famous Scottish poet from the 19th century.

And how does one celebrate Robert Burns Night? By drinking whiskey, eating haggis (it’s really good, I swear!) and attending a (digital) ceilidh (pronounced “kay-lee”). Here we are at the ceilidh doing a traditional Scottish jig in traditional Scottish tartan (click here to see us “dance”!):

Cheesy, we know. We thank you for sticking with us, lovely readers, through our fashion loves and more eccentric tastes.

Hurray! It’s suppose to get warmer in Atlanta this week and I’m going to enjoy it while I can (who knows when the next cold snap is coming). We’ll have a couple of rainy days, but I’m not going to complain since the high this week is going to reach 61 F.

I created a very spring-friendly outfit, and similarly to what Lar did last week, tried to keep everything under $100. The Longchamp bag is the only ridiculously over-priced item in the bunch, but I love the punch of orange with the purple umbrella and relatively neutral outfit. Lar and I are really into lace tights with boots this season, so expect to see that pairing in upcoming outfit posts.

Happy Monday, Everyone!

Atlanta Forecast by AsianCajuns featuring Juicy Couture accessories

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Ahh the winter staple, our good friends black leggings and black blazer. Black shirt is there too, cozying up to black scarf and gazing down at black boots. We love you black, but lately we feel like we are cheating the rest of the color wheel.

Cath is showing you how to avoid black in your outerwear–and in interior decor (that’s a bit of kitchen and dining room behind her).

She is wearing black gloves and a scarf, but I think the burst of red in her coat totally overpowers it-in a good way. The gloves are thrifted, the hat is from our mom circa 1980-something, the coat is Nordstrom and the scarf is by (local Atlantans) We Are the Process.

I only own black coats and jackets, so I couldn’t do brilliantly colored outerwear like Cath. Instead I broke out my neglected Ramona West dress. (Have you guys been to the Ramona West online shop? She has the best selection of vintage dresses and outerwear- and sells out of nearly everything right after it’s posted). I love how bright red/orange it is- it’s nearly neon.

I toned down the brightness of the red/orange with an olive color shirt (H&M), beige fringe scarf (H&M), brown tights (forget where!) and brown boots (about 7 years old from AE).

How many of you are guilty of the black uniform? How do you work on injecting more color into your closet and outfits?

We hope you guys have a wonderful, wonderful weekend! Cath and I will be pitching in at our local Martin Luther King Jr. Service Project. We hope to see some of you locals there!

We’ll also be donating to CARE and/or Red Cross this weekend. Our hearts and prayers go out to the earthquake survivors in Haiti. If you guys have any other secure organizations you know of that are helping out, please feel free to leave them in the comments section and we’ll post them here!

Updates:
The Clinton Bush Haiti Fund
Check the Women for Women International page for their donation suggestions