obsessing over this

so lately a lot of my free time has been spent looking around tumblr for tattoo ideas. but then i find all of these other things to obsess over, too. tumblr is weird and i always forget how much of a bottomless pit it can be until i end up staying awake until 3 am clicking around (whoops).

a couple of nights ago, someone posted a picture from this blog, and i was immediately obsessed. what my daughter wore is comprised of drawings of the author's ten year old daughter, sons, and their friends. the drawings are so pretty and the kids dress better than i do, so i mean. obsessed.

i thought i'd share some of my favorites here.

cat and mouse vintage skirt

flowers

al pacino t-shirt over vintage dress

boy scout shirt as dress

summer

bon lapin

star wars t-shirt and tropical scene dress

i hope you guys like this blog as much as i do! any other hidden gems of blogs you can share with me? <3

a thing that i don't understand really

so, as i was editing all of the pictures for the last couple of days' blog posts, i noticed that i've worn literally every item in my outfit, except for the tights and boots, at least once already in an outfit post. and this isn't even the first time that that has happened! at first i was kind of embarrassed but then i thought about how totally different each outfit has been, and also how completely weird it is that i would be embarrassed about that. seriously.

i think reading so many fashion blogs has made me think that an item of clothing is for one wear on the blog and then never heard from again, which is so goofy and unrealistic. i own clothes that i haven't posted on this blog (i'm trying to get better about outfit posts.. i have an inkling of a feeling that more will come when i can layer), but i wouldn't be ashamed or embarrassed if these were all of my clothes, because it's way fun to "remix" them. i kind of hate using that word, which is another thing that i feel like was made up by bloggers, because isn't "remixing" just.. wearing?

i wear my clothes. i wear my mint green jeans like once or twice a week and i haven't worn them the same way twice yet. to me, that's the fun part about clothes. not owning a trillion million articles and making one outfit each. so even though now i'll make a conscious effort to not continue showing off my wooden beaded necklace, my floral shorts, my virginia werewoolf tshirt, my dolly parton tshirt, my heart cardigan, and my floral socks, i'm pretty proud that my first few outfit posts were an inadvertant remix challenge of sorts (i always loved when kendi everyday did those).

anyway, that was a silly rant accompanied by photos of one of the silliest/happiest moments of last week. let me know how you feel, if your heart desires.

<3

inspired by

when i put on this outfit, i was surprised by my use of the tights. okay - i wear tights pretty religiously in the fall/winter, so it wasn't that WEARING them was a shock, it was how i was wearing them. i bought these two years ago when i went to visit becca in chicago, and have literally never worn them because i could never figure out how. they were either too blue or too lacy or not blue enough or not lacy enough or whatever. but today it was like the most obvious thing in the world to put them on. in fact, i got dressed in like 5 minutes.

then i realized why. one of my coworkers, lindsey (she has her own fashion blog. i basically love her), mixes patterns, especially lacy floral tights, every day PERFECTLY. she's such a huge inspiration. i feel like this entire outfit was an homage to her. it is definitely a little more ~out there~ than i usually get with my clothes, but i really liked it and didn't feel weird or uncomfortable or like the three floral patterns, one heart print, and kitty band tee overpowered me at all.

do you ever catch yourself putting on an outfit that is so obviously inspired by someone in your day-to-day? i really tend to only play copy cat when it comes to outfits that other fashion bloggers or even sometimes celebrities wear, so i was surprised to see this inspiration of a girl i see in real life come out of me with such a force. :) i'm hoping lindsey's pattern mixing abilities continue to rub off on me, as the weather starts cooling down here.

necklace: cm via local honey in nashville, tn
sweater: kirra via pacsun (oldddd)
tshirt: austin's band's tshirt c/o bentley & austin
shorts: pacsun
tights: forever 21
socks: ae
boots: tj maxx (for literally $9.. luckiest girl)
tote: rob ryan for alphabet bags

<3

less than one month to pumpkin spice lattes

you know how in gilmore girls, lorelei is OBSESSED with snow? and winter? and she goes around screaming about how such and such is "winter's gift" to her?

that's how i am with fall. don't get me wrong, i can go crazy for some snow. but fall just GETS me. i can be outside for more than ten minutes without complaining, i can wear pretty much whatever i want and not be uncomfortable one way or the other, i get to eat nonstop candy and basically blame it on halloween, pumpkiny things are EVERYWHERE, and cute things like corn mazes and haunted houses open up all over the place.

last week, austin and i bought pumpkin and apple scented car fresheners for our cars. SO exciting. in 2009, austin asked me on our first date in the fall (and yes, i did call a fellow gilmore girls obsessed friend and scream "this is fall's gift to me!"), so we get to celebrate our anniversary right in the thick of all of the fun fall-themed activities. one year we went to howl-o-scream, one year we went to our favorite corn maze, and who knows what we'll do this year (i can't lie, i'm hoping for both..)? and that's not all i have to look forward to. renegade chicago is in early september, which means a weekend with two of my favorite girls, and then it's basically 3 months of straight holiday celebrating. it's hard not to love this time of year.

i remembered last week that pumpkin spice lattes come back on september 9th every year, which, even though it's usually still warm outside here in southern virginia, means IT'S FALL to me. ;) i've already started layering, and i can't wait to go layering crazy in the next few months. this is some inspiration i've been hoarding recently:

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this was probably a pretty dramatic outpouring of excitement, but eep! i can't wait for summer to be over. i just don't have the attachment to it like i do the other 3 seasons of the year. :) <3