Like that face?

Here are a couple of outfits from our uncharacteristically balmy February!
I'm trying to experiment with different ways of cute-clothes-documentation, and I was just a little self conscious being photographed by my patient boyfriend while people were outside to see me.
We'll see we'll see.

Most of my clothes here are thrifted, but the tights, purse, and beret are from Target, the red shirt with the foral thing that I think is a cabbage of some sort is from Old Navy, the boots are Wanted, and my unicorn necklace is from Forever 21.

Watercolors

 I got this fabulous new dress on sale at shopruche! It was even cheaper when I ordered it. It's kindof a hassle to get on, because it comes with this sheer slip that's like, buttoned into the sleeves of it, but it's very worth it, I think!

 My Mom took these pictures for me with her new Sony point-and-shoot camera. I tried to convince her to splurge on a DSLR for herself but she's pretty stubbornly frugal! They came out in a really weird wide-screen format, as you can see with the real long skinny photos that I didn't crop.

 My hair looks silly partially because I'm a lazy bum with minimal know-how, and partially because I got caught in the rain! It was so hot out, and then this shower came out of nowhere! I got drenched and then we went straight into the air-conditioned mall and suddenly I was freezing! Sorry weather, you can't make me happy no matter how you try!

 I also had a meeting at work where we had to try on jeans, and I looked real stylish tuckin' this thing into jeans. Pfft.

dress-Ruche, $20

socks- Walmart, like $5 for a pack of three

shoes- Goodwill, $4.25

necklace- family heirloom

headband and jewelry-gift and flea market

I'm trying to brag about my thrifty prices, and I can't even remember half of 'em.

Cut It Out

 So I got a little carried away with drawing on these pictures. But it was so much fun, I'm going to try and do stuff like this more often!

I made this dress recently, or shirt and skirt, because it's really two pieces. It was a pretty blatant copy of that dress from topshop with the swans on it. You know the one. Anyway, I'm pretty happy with how it turned out, even though it needs some tweaking. The cutout part is looking pretty rough.

 My neighbors are being lazy and haven't mowed their lawn in ages. Their yard is full of dandelions! I figured if they can't bother to mow, they should have no problem with my tromping through their yard and taking pictures!

 If I could only make shoes, this would be a pretty thoroughly diy'd outfit!

necklace-made by me

dress thing-made by me

shoes-thrifted

bow-made by me

 Hope you guys (the American ones) had a happy holiday! It was so great seeing everyone's super festive outfits! I basically wore some red and white stripes around the house haha.

Primary

 I was going for a retro-looking outfit with primary colors this time! I got this Crayola shirt from my sister, free free free! I'm not huge on Tshirts, but I'm kinda glad I kept this one. It actually says "banana split" on the side. And whatever "banana split" is in Spanish! Authentic!

 I really only wore this around the house, though. These socks were way too big, and here is proof for you that I don't know how to tie a frickin head scarf! Either I'm doing something wrong or my head is just weirdly shaped. I wouldn't doubt that, really.

 So how about we talk about this heat! I know it's hot everywhere, but in South Carolina, it's been breaking 100 daily. Seriously, this was the only time I even walked out. I was like snap snap, pose pose, run inside. Or crawl.

 shirt-free gift woo!

shorts-thrifted calvin kleins, $4

socks-old navy, $2

heels-thrifted from sid&nancy, $17

scarf-thrifted, $1

necklace-diy

Postsecret

I've been wanting to add some variety to this blog. So today I thought I'd share one of my favorite things with you!

I know this isn't news or anything, but if you haven't heard of postsecret, it's a project started by Frank Warren, where you send in your anonymous secret. He posts them ever sunday on postsecret.com, and he's made books filled with 'em. I always save my favorites to my hard drive. Here are a few of them.

 There's this girl I kindof know. And she really bugs me. She's smart, beautiful, funny, talented at everything, and to top it off, she's really nice. So I can't hate her!

Recently, she shared a postsecret with someone over facebook, and it was one of the ones I saved to my computer! At first I was annoyed to have anything in common with her. But then I thought, I have a lot in common with her. I'm smart and talented! Though probably not as saintly, we're really not all that different. And that, I think, is the beauty of postsecret. Not only is it interesting, it unifies us. We realize the things we share with anonymous people from all over the world who have the same secrets we do, or the similar tastes we have with people who we think we don't like.

Messy Hair

 Hey! Here is my butt.

You guys, I need a camera so bad. I hate waiting to see my boyfriend who lives 2 hours away, just to get to a camera. It does give me an excuse to go see him, though! Not that I need another.

 My hair looks a mess here. I'm trying to weasel my way into a free cut, but I don't even know what I'd want!

 I'm really self centered.

And I don't mean that in a bad way or in a good way, just in a true way.

star shirt-f21

vest-f21

shorts-thrifted

ribbon-part of a dress from dillards

shoes-kohls

socks-old navy

Kneedy

 Got this vest awhile back and just wore it this week! Because I just altered it to fit me last week.

Also digging how well my nails match a couple of the stones in my necklace. It's Sally Hanson, and this shade also perfectly matches the green chewey Sweetart flavor. No joke.

 Since I have this picture here, I thought this would be a good opportunity to talk (or ramble) about insecurities. I've got a few, as I think most people do, and one of them is my knees! This is a really recent insecurity of mine, which has really emerged due to seeing all these skinny ladies with their skinny legs on the internet. I don't mind my thighs, but for some reason, my knees freak me out! I guess they're not the prettiest body part in general, haha!

I also really hate my forehead. Whenever I forget my curling iron, and my bangs are curly, I have to pin them back. Sometimes people will say I look weird with my bangs back. Once when this happened, I told my class "Hey I'm insecure about my forehead, don't tell me I look weird, please!" and it resulted in the whole class scrutinizing my forehead and saying "Oh, silly Rachel, it's not so bad!" And I was like "Ugh just stop looking at it!"

 Some insecurities, like my forehead, I cover up. But I'm not going to let my knees stop me from wearing shorts and skirts, especially in this Carolina weather! How do you handle your least favorite body parts?

shirt-$4 old navy

vest-$1 goodwill

shorts-old navy

necklace and socks-made by me!

shoes-$4.25 goodwill

I Can't Get No

 I really liked these pictures. That's why there are a lot of them! Here's a fun fact: My natural face when I'm relaxed looks really sad. People are always asking me what's wrong, and I have to say "Oh nothing, it's just my face!"

 Something I've been thinking about is satisfaction. And why can't I get it? I spend a lot of my time drawing and painting and sewing and not letting my hands go idle. And when I finish a project, there's this brief moment of "Oh hey this is great I am proud" before I get bored again and feel like I'm wasting my time. It might be a product of a life-is-short mentality, or I might be just be too type A. Okay I know I'm too type A. But maybe I'm not the only person out there that can't just sit back and be happy with where they are in life, and even if I am, maybe it's a good thing? Maybe if I let myself sit still, I'd never create anything.

There's probably a balance to this that I just haven't discovered.

shorts-aerie

shirt-thrifted
hat-thrifted
shoes-thrifted