texas-tastic

I think it's time for some more Texas pictures! Today was kind of grey and boring so I thought I'd cheer up with some pure summer in the form of tie-dye, cutoffs, braids, and vintage sunglasses. Not to mention the pool behind me and that gorgeous blue sky!

shirt - diy, shorts - diy, sandals - somewhere online, sunglasses - vintage

I do wish I'd gotten to do more Texas-y sorts of things while I was there. Not that I know what those things would be. But it seems to me that Dallas, and the suburb of Dallas I was staying in are pretty . . . generic. I didn't feel a real sense of place while I was there, which is disappointing. I still loved the time I spent there. It was a perfect lazy vacation and I got to see a neat documentary with my cousin and found a cute dress at a second hand store. As well as, you know, seeing my cousin graduate and spending time with my family.

bracelets - thrifted, random, diy, ring - found

bracelet - christmas gift, rings - antique

In that first picture, you can see the bracelet I bought at a thriftstore just a little while before I left. I've worn it a lot and I really really like it. It's silver (in color anyways, it might just be a base metal but it doesn't turn my skin green) with this great inlaid picture of a mountain, sun, bird, and rainbow. It's kind of goofy really but I love it. That beaded bracelet is also a favorite of mine. My mom made it ages ago and it's peyote stitch. I think the ring is amber and I'm pretty sure it was found in our garden or something like that. The chunkiness of it appeals to me. The bracelet in the bottom picture is one my grandma got me and it's extra hippie-ish but I'm ok with that. I mean, I was a hippie child, I can't escape it entirely. Tie-dye and peace signs will always be natural.

luau in a warehouse

sweater - urban outfitters, shirt - pacsun, skirt - thrifted, tights - target, boots - thrifted, lei - from a luau in a warehouse

This I wore over a week ago, I believe. I am wearing a lot more skirts because the only pants I own that are work appropriate have died. They had so many holes. I need to go shopping, but I have the WORST time finding pants I like. Especially when jeans are not an option. I held onto those long past when I should have let them go, but finally tossed them last time I did laundry. So now, work days = skirts.

Which is cool really. I mean, I like that I'm being forced to dress a little better. It's hard to just say fuck it and not care when you're wearing a skirt. Which I did a lot for work before.

SEATAC to DFW

Ok, so I'm finally getting around to these Texas pictures. Not going to do anything crazy and post them all at once, so maybe I'll end up sprinkling them in between regular posts as well. If I ever get back to regular posts that is!

jean jacket - thrifted levis, hoodie - old navy, tee - pacsun, jeans - gap, moccasins - minnetonka

I don't know about you, but I love airports and airplanes. Really, anything about traveling kind of gets me excited, even if I'm not going anywhere cool. I definitely wanted to snap an outfit picture in the airport, but didn't realize just how awkward it was going to be. People were looking at me, like wondering if they should report "suspicious activity" while I was balancing my camera on a pile of books on my seat and setting the self timer so I could run over to the windows. Everyone's so nervous now!

This is a pretty perfect travel outfit for me. There's no way I'm going to wear something complicated or a skirt or something on an airplane. It needs to be comfortable. But I would also never EVER in a million years, wear sweats or pajama pants or something like that. Seeing that makes me so depressed. So jeans and a tshirt, with easy to slip off shoes, are definitely the best choice for me. I also tried to wear my bulkiest items of clothing so I had more room in my bag. Which, by the way, I went two weeks on what I could fit in a backpack. I'm just a little proud of that. The jacket I'm wearing, which I found at a thrift store not too long ago, was pretty much unnecessary in the Texas heat. I think I wore it one day, in a movie theater. It was nice to have on the plane though, since they're always cold. I'll try to get some better pictures of it sometime, it's the most perfectly beat up denim jacket I have ever seen. Definitely a favorite now.

I will leave you with a few shots from out the window on the airplane. This was one of the prettiest flights I've ever been on and I just couldn't resist taking some pictures, especially when we were flying over awesome mountains.

my so-called life

coat - old navy, purse - thrifted coach, cardigan - urban outfitters, flannel - gap, skirt - urban outfitters, tights - somewhere, boots - thrifted rockport

Wow, I am definitely back in Seattle. Talk about a typical Washington day. It rained like crazy today, but I kind of like it because it makes everything seem so lush. The light is really beautiful on these sorts of days. I've been watching a ton of My So-Called Life lately and loving it. I actually never watched it when it was on TV (pretty sure I was way too young and we didn't even HAVE a TV in the nineties) so this is actually my first time seeing all the episodes. Man, I love it. I know I'm not 15 anymore and I really shouldn't be identifying so strongly with a fictional character who is, but I do. That whole desperately liking a boy and not knowing how to interpret the way he acts around you? I am so there right now. It's like, one minute you're sure, he has to like me, and then he acts totally different the next. God, I really should not be feeling this show so strongly. Oh, but the clothes. Also dying loving them. The episode where Rayanne sings for Jordan Catalano's band (Frozen Embryos, although in that episode they're "between names"), she wears the most hilarious metallic, shiny, fringed, layered, craziness of an outfit. And I love her super long flannel shirt. Or is it a bathrobe? Whatever, she wears it in multiple episodes.

As it so happens, today was all sorts of nineties-rrific. My outfit, for one, which started out inspired a little by all the flannel and boots on My So-Called Life, but then I just started having fun with pattern mixing. Which seriously, I'm proud of. I'm usually no good at it, but I really really liked my outfit today. Then, after eating Thai food with a friend I haven't seen for months (welcome home from Spain buddy!), we drove to the thiftstore where I bought some boots that are the exact same ones I wore today, but black. Definitely a good find, since I don't have any black boots right now and sometimes brown just looks weird. And, we also listened to Nirvana, on TAPE no less, on the way there and back. I didn't even pick it, my friend did. He said it went with the rain and the two together made it feel like home. Yeah, that's what Seattle boils down to, even for people from here. Rain and Nirvana.

by the way, i did take lots of pictures while in texas and they will be coming soon. just really felt like posting this today. i've missed blogging. so look forward to some sunny weather, hardly any clothes posts, which should be a nice change from the rainy day stuff right now.

adventurin' in oly

shirt - thrifted alternative apparel, sweatshirt - old navy, jeans - gap, shoes - thrifted, purse - thrifted coach

On Saturday I drove down to Olympia to return a shirt and hang out with the boy who the shirt belonged to. We listened to records and then went to this cool place in the woods with all these amazing grown over, falling down, brick and concrete buildings. It was really cool, even though it was muddy and we got really dirty crawling into some tight spaces. He also took me up to the highest point in Thurston County and it was windy and very very cold. I thought I was going to blown off the mountain!

p.s. I'm in Texas right now, and will be for the next two weeks. Blogging may be sparse but I'm taking lots of pictures and hopefully will get right back to it when I get back. I didn't bring my laptop, so editing photos is probably not going to happen. But be ready for total summery-ness when I get back. It's HOT here.

streetfair bookclub

tee - vintage depeche mode, flannel shirt - borrowed viyella by gant, jeans - old navy, moccasins - minnetonka, bracelets - thrifted and random leather cord, rings - vintage

Ok, this outfit is crazy simple and maybe kind of boring but I kind of love it. Maybe just because the day I wore this, last weekend at the street fair, was really great, maybe because the flannel belongs to a boy I like, maybe because I'm wearing a Depeche Mode tee, or because I finally got some sweet moccasins. Or maybe a little of each! I guess it's a combination of actually really liking what I wore, despite it's simplicity, and just being happy about that day.

I think it's rather funny that I was not wearing two of these items at the start of the day. One, as I mentioned, is the flannel, which the boy I was hanging out with lent me since I left my jacket in my car and we ended up in an entirely different part of the city. The other is this amazing bracelet I found at a thrift shop we went to. Yeah, wearing rainbows on my wrist makes me all kinds of happy. It was made in Mexico and I'm not sure what the metal is. It may be sterling, but then again, it may just be a base metal. We'll see if my skin turns green or has any weird reactions. I also ALMOST bought an Argus C3 at the same thrift store but couldn't figure out if it was functional or not so I left it behind. Kind of regretting that since it was priced so well, but I have confidence another will find me. I did pick up this great red-orange kind of futuristic dress at another thriftstore (where I saw a girl get arrested! I felt bad, she looked like she might have been pregnant) but it's made of a pretty heavy fabric so I think I'll be waiting until the fall to wear it. It's very cute though.

woah, I'm back?

wow, sorry I've been MIA for awhile. I don't know what happened exactly, just blogging wasn't on my mind I guess. I'm definitely not sick of it or planning on quitting or deleting my blog or anything. Maybe sometimes we all need a bit of a break. Work has also been kind of crazy, and I'm getting ready to go on vacation in a week. Well anyways, last weekend we went up to B-ham and here are some pictures.

dress - thrifted, tights - target, hoodie - american eagle, purse - thrifted coach, shoes - converse sneakers and jeffrey campbell heels

That was a lot. But looking at them makes me happy. That was a good day. There is a boy, who I like, who was up there too, and things were, and still are, cute. And Whatcom Falls, where most of these were taken was just beautiful. I had to switch to sneakers for our hike, but I am loving these heels. I got a compliment from a hippie at the Farmer's Market and they were comfortable even while standing at a show later that night. The dress is a new addition to my growing collection of little 90s dresses. So easy to find in thrift stores! I'm also loving messy braids and red lipstick (which I'm only actually wearing in one of these pictures).