Appropriate

{gap jeans (similar) | pacsun tank | target cardi & wedge sneaker | ON hat (similar) | inpink ring (so similar)}

As the weather continues to be just....weird....I actually find myself having more fun putting outfits together.  Because it's hot, then chilly; warm, then freezing, I don't get to miss any one aspect of dressing.  Usually sometime around month two of a season, I'll begin longing for the pieces that I haven't been able to wear in a while.  But this schizophrenic spring pretty much requires my entire wardrobe to be on call so I'm ready to throw on a maxi dress or shorts for those warm, sunshiney days, while also being prepared to bundle up, say for example in wide leg jeans & a cardi the very next day...when we're sitting around a bonfire in the yard to warm up a bit.  Note: the hat is appropriate anytime, but is most useful for covering up lazy and/or bad hair days.


Linking here today.

  

Crop Circles & Stripes

{f21 cardi (cute option) | whoop tee (giveaway win) | gap jeans (similar) | target shoes | vintage necklace (similar)}

I'm doing it again.  Wearing the same thing in less than a week.  When I get a new item that I really like, I tend to do that.  It's like my brain literally can't remember anything else that's in my wardrobe, and it forces me to keep turning back to the same piece I haven't stopped thinking about since the day it arrived.  This tee is that piece.  Its simple bold, graphic print just goes with everything.  And really, it's a b&w screenprint of a nautilus/crop circle hybrid that Tara dreamed up.  Can you blame me for wanting to live in it?  


Linking up today. 

Polka Dot & Peach

 

 {target sweatshirt | f21 blouse (similar) | gap jeans (similar) | fossil watch | groopdealz bracelet (similar)}

Even though winter's being stubborn about letting spring have a turn, I can't help but feel like warmer weather is just around the corner when I'm wearing peach and gold polka dots. It's a combination created as if to say "Oh god, I'm still cold", with a gentle undertone of "Alright already winter, enough is enough.  I'm ready for spring now.  Thanks."

These photos were taken by my sweet friend, Natalie.  (Can you believe this was her first time?  She's a natural!)
Linking up with these peeps.

All Business

{target blazer & chambray | gap jeans (similar) | gifted sweater (sewn into vest) | aldo booties}

I've got a bone to pick with Mr. Groundhog.  He promised an early spring, but winter's still got us in its icy grip.  The rat straight up lied.  Even though we're now in March, we're still getting temperatures that are dipping below freezing.  At the rate this season's going, I'll be surprised if spring even starts on March 20.  In fact, taking these photos was one of the coldest moments I spent outside all season.  I could think of nothing but finishing and getting back inside.  With the temperature hovering around 25 degrees with lots of obnoxious wind, there was no time for messing around.  It was all business for those 4 1/2 minutes we spent shooting these.


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Happy Little Dots

{gap sweater (similar) & jeans (similar) | f21 button up (similar), rings, & necklace (lookalike)}

Well, it looks like I've begun unconsciously matching my outfits to the weather.  That's great when it's sunny and bright outside, but can look a little depressing when it's cold and grey.  I don't want to look cold and grey...or depressed.  At least my small dose of gold polka dots make up for it.  It's tough to look blue while wearing grey if I've got happy little dots peeking out from underneath.  Remember that.  They are words to live by, kids.

Come join me here.

Of Sunshine & Smiles

{target cardi (similar) | joyce leslie top (old) | gap jeans (so similar) | old navy booties (crazy similar) | handmade hat (cute option)}

There's always something about a bright, sunshiny day that makes my heart smile.  No matter if it's 80 degrees or 5 below.  Luckily this day hovered around a sunny 35, which if you're native to any colder climate you'll know is actually possible to survive without a coat in for short periods of time so long as the sun is shining, most skin is covered, and there is absolutely, positively not even the slightest hint of movement in the air.  A few fantasies of sun-drenched beaches and pina colodas usually don't hurt, either.

Find me over here today.

Loosey Goosey

{top: f21  |  jeans: gap  |  shoes: payless (similar)  |  necklace: diy  |  earrings: gift (similar) }

You know that rule of dressing where if it's loose on top, then it should be tight on the bottom, and vice versa?

Well, I ignored that rule when I got dressed yesterday.

I say, go ahead and pair loose with loose!

Because as a wise, quirky, hilarious, bow-tied man-child once said, "I'm a loner, Dottie.  A rebel."

You don't want to get mixed up with a girl like me.

Come party with me here!

Highlights & Lowlights #4

{top, wedges (similar): target  // jeans  //  bracelets  //  sunnies: harmon}

Lowlights:

• Having to spend some time at the DMV.  I don't know what kind of witchcraft voodoo they've got going on, but no matter what the temperature is outside, it's always stiflingly hot inside.  It's quite remarkable, really.
• Picnik (my love, my editor of choice, my best friend blogging tool) closed.  It was such an easy, fun, user-friendly photo editor.  It will be missed.
• Spray on self-tanner.  I look like some strange Snooki-zebra-leopard hybrid.  I'm now tan, striped, and spotted.

Highlights:

• That one time I looked like Zooey Deschanel.  Yes, I just wrote an entire post about it, but it's just a little too awesome not to mention again.  Fair warning, I'll probably mention it about 5,683 more times...this week.
• I just discovered a new, healthy snack - cover half an apple with a couple slices of cheddar cheese and broil for a few minutes. I may have been lazy enough to make this for dinner twice this week.
• And speaking of tasty snacks, I've also been loving on this dessert: banana mixed with nutella and toasted walnuts.  I'm a fan of the easy.
• Getting to borrow my dad's sweet Audi while he was on vacation last week.  I love my pretty little Scion tC, but I just felt uber cool driving that baby around for a little while.  So what if there were so many controls, buttons, and dials in there that the console was in Spanish and I had heat blowing from the left vents, and AC blowing from the right?
•  Always finding it easier to think of highlights than lowlights.  That's pretty great.

It's party time.

7th Grade Boys

{sweater vest: diy hand-me-down  //  button up: jcp  //  tee: 5below  //  jeans: gap  //  boots: old navy  //  watch: sprout, via pure citizen}

 When I think back to the fashions of middle school, images of my locker neighbors wearing tee shirt-topped plaid button ups swirl in my mind.  (My locker neighbors were all boys).

So, thank you Jay, John, Glenn, & Mike for sporting the fashions that would inspire my outfit a mere 19 years later.

Today I'm linking to:

What I Wore Wednesday at Transatlantic Blonde

Whatever Whenever Wednesday at Rolled Up Pretty

What I Wednesday at Captivated by Grace

What I Wore at The Letter 4

Real Style  at Momma Go Round

What I Wore Wednesday at the Pleated Poppy

Hard to Hear

{top, jacket: target  //  jeans: gap  //  boots: old navy  //  belt: delias  //  watch: sprout  //  bangle: f21}

I struggled writing this post today.  My boyfriend and I got some terrible news over the weekend and  I wasn't sure if I should share it here, or just go on as if everything is ok.
But pretending that bad things don't happen is not real life.  Everything is not always ok.  And acting happy when I'm not has never been my forte.  (These photos were taken before we got the news).

We found out on Saturday that my boyfriend's sister has a brain tumor.

We are devastated.
What's worse is that she and the rest of my boyfriend's family live in Switzerland, so we can't be there to visit her, speak with the doctors, or take comfort with his family.  We just have to wait for news.
Her doctors think it's operable.  They're still running tests.  But they're being cautious because she's pregnant.
We are trying to be hopeful.
We find out today if and when the doctors will operate.
But for now all we can do is wait, hope, and have faith that Sarah will pull through.

Today I'm linking to:

Monday Mingle

Visible Monday