I’m an idiot.
Listen, I’ve been altering, sewing, and saving clothes for how many years now, and I only just realized that I can easily (eas·i·ly) turn an awkward sweater into an adorable cropped sweater.
Why have I not done this before?? I feel like there have been multiple cute sweaters in my past that I could have saved with this method.
Looking like a baddie, but my bumper sticker gives me away 🖤
(9.5 years of driving, and what has changed?)
I spent most of Saturday at my sewing machine altering my latest thrifted finds. It’s amazing what a few darts, tucks, and carefully-placed seams can do to an outfit. Also, how did I go so long before realizing that I can alter the length and fit of any sweater!?
(more on that in a later post)
bumper sticker from SensitiveByAndi on Etsy
When it comes clothing color schemes, for many years I’ve been a brown+cream combo kinda girl, but lately I’ve gone back to my roots and have wanted more of the stark black+white combos again. Now I’m in desperate need of some black boots.
Also very happy to be bringing the mushroom purse back out, because it’s her time of the year to shine. A couple years ago Instagram targeted me with this purse in an ad, and I’m embarrassed to admit that they knew exactly what they were doing. I bought it as a Christmas gift for myself. I love it, and it’s held up really well 🍄✨
although my baby monstera has grown considerably, she has yet to produce a split leaf
I finished flipping this thrifted dress a few weeks back, but then life got so crazy that I simply did not have the energy to get the photos I wanted of the finished project. Although I did succeed in finally getting out to the garden with my camera last week, life is still crazy, and I definitely haven’t been feeling like my best self lately. Last night I was laying in bed watching a show and I just thought: oh my god, I am not who I want to be at all right now. Physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually. At the end of most of the recent days I’ve felt like I’ve done nothing but wait for bedtime, just to simply have to start over again the next day. The audacity! It’s exhausting and a little lonely.
I kinda feel like getting a haircut, overhauling my wardrobe, downloading all the dating apps again, and changing my entire personality, but I just don’t know if any of those things are the right thing to do when I’m in the midst of feeling so unsettled (we’ll see, maybe I’ll just do all of the above).
Anyways, right now I’m gonna sit back and give this little blue dress her much-deserved moment 💙 I think this might’ve been the sundress Caamp was talking about when he sang:
I found out yesterday / that I’m in love / and I don’t know what else to say / but thank you, Lord / for that sundress on that Saturday / walkin barefoot down the beach
the garden is doing splendidly, by the way
art by jordan rae 