becca

becca was in town last week, and i was lucky enough to for real see her like four times. it ruled. it didn't fully pull me out of my never-ending funk over stressful grown-up stuff (could i BE more vague? whoops), but man oh man who knows what kinda mood i would've been in if she hadn't been in town.

every time we see each other we create these silly alternate lives where we live together in chicago and can take each other's outfit photos. ;) considering all i do is take pictures of her while she's talking, i don't know if it'd actually work out.. but it was nice to have her around for mine.

i really like her, and i'm forever the happiest that american eagle introduced us so long ago. :') <3

a little button factory update

i don't know if i've made this clear, but working with the button factory stuff makes me SO. HAPPY. happier than i can put into words. i'm just so glad that bekuh and i found each other, and decided to make this happen.

a couple of weeks ago, we combined our inventory, and were SO excited over how much we had collected. i hung the dresses that we're keeping for our (crossing our fingers) one-day-real-life-store, and i see them every day and swoon and dream over the whole thing. while combining inventory, we realized how many pretty shoes we had! so bekuh uploaded them today for you ladies to snatch up. :)

this pair is my FAVORITE (unfortunately they're a whole size too big, wah):

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someone please buy them and post a million outfit pictures and make me an even happier (albeit jealous) girl?!

on top of THAT, we're gearing up for our first fall update! fall dresses are actually my favorite, which is probably obvious now that you all know me so well. here are some super top secret sneak peeks (and can we talk about bekuh's photography for a second? omg):

and that's only three of them! eep. also, i know you're mostly wondering where we find our pretty models.. first caroline, and now lauren? we're just lucky when it comes to having gorgeous friends.

last, but definitely not least, we're offering free shipping(!!!!) in the shop until october 1st with the code "BACKTOSCHOOL"

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the button factory's first etsy update

this morning, my dear friend and business partner, bekuh, and i opened our online boutique, the button factory. within 30 minutes, we had sold two dresses, and so far, we've had 5 sales. i'm overwhelmed, to say the least. this dream has in the past kinda sorta almost seemed like a pipe dream to me, and no matter how much planning and work we put into both the online launch and our (hopeful) brick and mortar store, we could not have known how much interest there really would be.

this day has just strengthened my passion and my drive.

as bekuh said in her blog entry, the story behind the button factory, all of the sales made through our etsy store are going towards making the button factory bigger, both in it's online presence, but more importantly, towards a store to sell our goods here in our beloved roanoke valley. this picture is becoming more and more clear to me, as our (fairly secretive) hard work pays off today.

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