a day without rain

dress/belt: thrifted // cardigan: forever 21 // flower hair clip: diy



What a glorious sunny day it's been! Summer break is a measly sixteen days away and I can practically taste it! I have so many fun things planned for myself and this blog and I'm so excited to share them with you in the upcoming days. :)




It's amazing how fast the snow has been melting these past few days. When these photos were taken, I still had to wear my snow boots to walk to the location because there was still knee high snow in some places (I attempted to avoid those), but in just a few short days I can walk on mostly dry grass. The thing about Alaska is that during break up season when the snow is all melting, everything turns into a muddy messy swamp. But each day it's getting warmer and warmer and soon the snow will be all gone!



D'aaw my nails were all matchy matchy. :)



Hope you all have a wonderful day and be sure to check back tomorrow for a very very special May announcement!!

smile

day 120

Today I got to take some engagement photos for my friends/teachers. Matt came down with a bad cold so I was the sole photographer for the outing, but it was all good. We went to the airport and found some fun locations with not too many people staring at us. I did have a fun conversation with a security guard after I tried (and failed) to cross the no-entry line (I asked first, so no worries!). I should have given him my business card, haha. In the upcoming days I'll post more photos from this shoot. I always love looking at engagement/wedding photos even if I don't know the people because not only does it give me good ideas/lessons, it also is just so darn cute! I'm hopeless ... I just love love.

shake it like a polaroid

dress/skirt: thrifted / shoes: diy




The thing I love most about thrift shopping, even more than finding buried treasure, is the fact that all the clothes have had a previous owner. I wonder what the people were like and why they got rid of their clothes. Every piece of clothing holds a story, and while I'll never know its actual story, it's fun to make it up.

For the dress, I imagine a tall lady with bright red hair and matching red heels wearing this to an art gallery. I bet all the men were intimidated by her because she was so beautiful but sometimes when she sat down at the coffee shop a fine gentleman had the courage to sit down across from her. And now I bet they're living in Paris.

Probably not really the history of this dress, but it's nice to dream, huh?




I'm really loving mixing prints, so I added even more print variation with my nail polish. I really liked how the warm finger nail polish contrasted the cool skirt.



Well I'm off to do a photoshoot. In the meantime, have a great day everyone!

seeker and fetch

day 119

I feel like I've been very neglectful of this blog, even though I'm still posting 365s every day. I just want to say that I apologize for that and to never fear because I will be focusing a ton more on this blog starting May 1st. I am so excited for it. :)

But anyways, this weekend my social life went from non-existent to crazy busy and I love it. Yesterday was Matt's birthday, so I skipped the first part of school to go to my little sister's concert at her school, but before I drove to her school, I snuck around and hid things in Matt's locker. In seventh hour we had cupcakes for him and sang songs and played games. Then I went to Hot Hula (super awesome name, I know! The name made my parents wary but the fact that I was getting physical activity allowed me to go, haha) and then went over to Matt's house to give him more presents and see what everyone else got him. Then we drove to a friend's house to play more games. It was a crazy day filled with a lot of driving, but I really loved it.

And today I woke up bright and early to have a study date for AP English, did some hot hula again, went to the thrift store and signed up to be a cat cuddler (seriously, can there even be a better job?) and finished it off by babysitting awesome kids. Aaah I just love doing things.

But I do also enjoy a little bit of relaxation so tomorrow the only places I need to go to are church and a location that has yet to be decided for some portrait shooting. I am very excited about that but also excited that those are the only places I need to go to. The rest of the day I'll be chilling out at home being sore from hot hula!

There's not much else to report, except that hot hula is really fun to say out loud. Seriously. Go ahead, say it. You know you want to.



Sounded awesome, didn't it?