I Made a Dress!

 Okay so there are so many things I love about this outfit.

First of all, I designed and made this dress! If you recall my DIY wave skirt tutorial, this is what I did with it! The cloudy print is flannel. When I bought it, I saw it was marked "Do Not Use for Children's Pajamas" and I was like "OK fabric whatever you say!"

Second, I found this great bow pendant at Hobby Lobby. I love little gold bow necklaces because they're like a girlier bowtie! Yes pleeaasse. 

 Third! Check out my great wonderful awesome perfect new shoes from Modcloth! They are even comfy and they make me feel super tall and make my legs look way longer than they are, which you can really see when I wear shorts with them.

 And the final thing I love about this outfit is the cool new flower wreath I made for my hat! Stay tuned, because I'll be posting a DIY for it soon so you guys can fill the whole world with floral hat wreaths! I expect you to carry out my request.

LWD

 I've gone most of my life without a little white dress. Or a little black dress, for that matter! I was telling my roomate, Laura, the story behind this outfit in an elevator. The other girl in there probably thought I was a weirdo, because this is a combination of lingerie from Goodwill and my Mom's slip. I bought some lingerie from my neighbor's estate sale, too, that I'm going to wear as a dress, which is even creepier, since it belonged to his recently late wife. Vintage is all about wearing old people's clothes, right?

I thought I'd dress this lacey number down with my America backpack and my fake leather boots.

 I guess I wore this cardigan 2 days in a row, but I don't care. I'd wear it all the time if I my other clothes didn't get jealous (they do).

Oh hey this is it before I shortened it!

 My shoes came from Modcloth! You'll be seeing them soon. But here's my roomate Laura, wearing her new Modcloth dress that I demanded she buy! What a stud. 

dress, backpack-Goodwill

necklace-vintage from my oma

boots-delias

Got a DIY coming soon!

Southern Charm

 I had a really nice weekend. I got to go home and see my family, go to Goodwill, and to the Apple Festival. I ate this caramel apple and it was sticky and delicious and wonderful. Sometimes it's nice to look dorky with curly, rained-on bangs and a sticky caramel face and just not care how put together you are, walking around downtown while banjo music plays.

 Speaking of banjo-music, I'd like to talk a little bit about South Carolina. I was born in the DC area, and moved here when I was 6. I spent the first half of my life rejecting all things southern. I'd say I was a northerner, even though I was technically from Virginia. But lately I've really started embracing the state I live in. There are a lot of nice things about the south. A lot of weird things, but a lot of nice things. Like sweet tea, hospitality, and folk music. It's normal to want to move as far away as you can from your hometown when you're a teenager, but now I'm focusing on the positive!

 So, that connects to my outfit because kitten heels and a sweet knee-length dress seems southern to me? Maybe it's just me.

 That was a lot of pictures.

dress-dillards

shoes-plato's closet

socks-walmart

hat,vest-goodwill

necklace, triangle ring-forever 21
mood ring-flea market

Hurried

 This was a hurriedly photographed outfit, but I really liked it, so here it is in all of it's poorly-lit glory!

 I got this super sweet buttoned cardigan at Forever 21 last weekend. I'm a sucker for cute buttons!

I really don't have much else to say about this one. Oh, I have since these photos cut my bangs a little too short. So I've been looking a bit puffy haha.

I also won Annika's little giveaway over at her blog! I'm so flattered because she's one of my biggest inspirations here in the blogosphere. So I'm really excited!

dress (worn as top) and necklace: target

skirt and cardigan: forever 21

shoes: american eagle via goodwill

In This Day and Age

I'm really lucky to be alive during this time. Technology, medicine, and indoor plumbing, I mean, cmon. And I have so much, all of human history to look back at and draw inspiration from. So many decades of fashion and art contribute to the way I dress and what I draw. But sometimes I get really sad and think "Everything's been done." I feel like anything I do and call "creative" is just a rehash of what's already happened. Wouldn't it be neat to think they're is an entire world to explore?

That is just a thought and really has nothing to do with this outfit.

Got this dress pretty recently, and the first time I washed it, the dryer in my dorm tore two buttons off! And I mean, violently! The actual buttons were broken off, not just pulled from the dress. So that was a bummer. That dryer doesn't even dry our clothes properly. I hate it when things don't do their job.

 On a more positive note, on this day Travis and I ate pizza in the park. Those are three things I love, especially together!

I don't know if you guys have noticed my lack of accessories, but it's because I just don't know how to accessorize properly. True story.

dress and shoes-f21

bag-Goodwill

Redesign

Hey guys! As you probably noticed, I redesigned my blog. Hopefully I'll be content with it this way for awhile and not change things up all over the place.

Hey Check Out My Tights!

 Aren't my tights cool? Why yes, I think so too!

I wore this to see ParaNorman with my sister at a secret hidden movie theater that was bascially deserted. It was really good, go see it!

 Here is a pinecone.

I feel like a lame-o because when I got my camera I was all "THINK OF ALL THE DIYs I CAN DOCUMENT" and now that I'm at school away from my sewing machine I'm pretty DIY-less. I'll try and think of something I can do to shake up the monotony on here of outfit post after outfit post.

 In other news, I got my first hate-mail on the internet yesterday. It totally hurt my feelings, so whoever you are, I hope you feel at least a little bit bad about it! 

Here is me with half-closed eyes:

 Shirt and tights: target

socks: walmart

shoes: kohls

necklace: diy by me

bag, shorts, headscarf: Goodwill, Miracle Hill