Not much to say on this Black Friday, except these thoughts from Thoreau:
"A lake is the landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature. It is Earth's eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature."
Sorry I've been so MIA the last couple of days. Things got incredibly busy and I couldn't keep up with all of it.
About this outfit. This is Dress #9 for The Dress Project and I love it a lot. I thrifted it at the Salvation Army and it's such a lightweight dress in a tropical pattern. I think one day I'll hack off a couple inches because right now I think the length is a bit dowdy.
Here are the last few outfits from the Project:
Here my thoughts on the Project so far:
1) I wear a dress every day, but it's become incredibly difficult some days to take a photo of what I'm wearing. It becomes too late in the day, or we can't make it for an outdoor photo. Must. Work. On. This. It might be 45 dresses in 48 days or something to that effect. I'm trying.
2) My favorite outfit is the red dress in the second row. What a lovely day that was.
I'm really excited about today because it's Part 2 of the AMC Best Picture Showcase (you can read my synopsis of Part 1 here). Are any of you doing it today? I'm really ridiculously excited to see "An Education," and hang out in the theater for about 13 hours. Food coma, here I come :)
Hope all of you lovelies have a wonderful Saturday, and I will catch up on all my blog reading soon. I just wanted to say that I have the best readers ever and you make writing and this whole blogging experiment joyful.
I almost didn't post these photos because I didn't really like how I felt in this outfit. I love the ruffly top, but I'm not sure how I feel about wearing it with jeans again. It was cold outside and I wanted to be casual, so I threw this on but I felt off all day about it. And then I thought I looked awkward in the photos. Seriously, I need to figure out what poses those models from Altamira use to look natural. Does anyone else feel silly posing sometimes?
On another note, I've decided I'm not really a jeans person anymore. I used to be a jeans-all-the-time person, back when I used to be self-conscious of the eczema on my arms and the mosquito bites and scars on my legs (I was outdoors throughout most of my childhood and it showed). I wanted to hide my skin all the time. And then in college, something clicked. I think it was a) discovering "What Not to Wear" and b) being surrounded by thousands of women on campus and having different interpretations of beauty and style to look to for inspiration. I definitely discovered what I really loved to wear, and that was anything romantic or girly. I definitely think I am going to wear all my dresses in sequence starting this month.
I owe you a Trivia Tuesday for yesterday, so here are three. As always, you can play along too by posting something random about yourself in the comments. I love finding out more about our readers!
1) I really enjoy taking photos of food. I love finding color and texture inspiration in nature. Here's a sampling of my farmer's market visit today:
Yum yum.
2) I'm left-handed. I always find it funny when someone is freaked out when they find this fact out. Seriously, something like 10 percent of the population is left-handed, so I'm not that uncommon.
3) Our wedding photographer loved this photo so much, he ended up using on his business card.
Hope you have a great night -- hopefully I'll feel model-y tomorrow.
Usually Jeremiah is very obliging when it comes to taking outfit photos in the outdoors, even in the blistery cold. Today he punked out at the 22 degree weather, so I had to relent a bit and we ended up taking them very quickly at a strip mall.
Hopefully I can convince him tomorrow that the gazebo isn't so bad...
About the outfit. Something about this scarf inspires confidence in me. I bought it on my very first visit to H&M when I was in NYC (this was before there were any H&Ms in Georgia) two years ago, and I've worn it on the first day of work at my last two jobs. I love the color scheme in it. The dress is full of memories too -- it's what I wore to our rehearsal dinner.
It's been a busy week, but I promise to catch up on reading my blogroll. Hope you have a good night!
This was my Super Bowl outfit -- I wanted to be as comfortable as possible while sitting on a couch, so I wore my recent thrifting finds.The coat is my favorite part of the ensemble. It reminds me of a Navy peacoat, so I played that up with my nautical accessories. I can't wait to restyle it.
The best laid schemes of mice and men often get screwed up -- I had every intention of getting these photos posted last night, but my computer was going slow. The best way to combat an irksome computer? Taking a little cat nap on my bed. The nap turned into full-on sleep and I ended up forgetting the photos and missing the last 10 minutes of the Super Bowl. Oh, well.
I am not a big fan of pro football. I can get excited about college football and basketball, but I just never got into pro sports. I am one of those people who gets excited over commercials. I took an advertising class one year and my professor kept talking about how wonderful it is to study advertising in the spring semester because you are required to watch Super Bowl and Oscars commercials for class. Tough assignment for sure, haha.
I wasn't really into most of the commercials from this year, because it seemed like a lot of them were about men complaining about the women that are ruining their given rights to be 'manly men.' I understand the Super Bowl is supposed to cater to mostly male interests because of its supposed testosterone-driven audience, but millions of women watch as well and many are passionate fans of the game. I found a couple of these ads offensive, alienating and most of all, embarrassing to the companies using them. Some of you might disagree and think I'm missing the humor in a few of them, and that's totally fine and I respect your opinion if you do. But I think these commercials didn't make either gender look so great and the advertisers missed an opportunity. Jezebel has a good gallery here of some of those ads.
End rant.
I did, however, really like Google's 'Parisian Love' commercial. Simple, to the point and sweet.
Did you watch the Super Bowl, and if so, did you have any favorite moments from the game or the commercials?
