stop this train

dress/leggings/sunglasses: forever 21 // shoes: target




I have this pet peeve where I hate wearing an entire outfit comprised of clothes from the same store in the same shopping trip. But it simply cannot be helped with this outfit. With leaving in a mere five days for college, the rest of my wardrobe is packed and there's no way I could find an outfit and come out of that suitcase alive. So it's up to my back-to-school shopping trip with my friend from a few days ago to save the day. Seriously though, thrifting has made me really frugal with my money (or maybe being poor has made me frugal), but even things at forever 21 are starting to be expensive! Thankfully this dress was only $9 and the leggings were $4 ... score!





I imagine I will be wearing these two things a lot during college, especially towards the winter months. When I first started reading blogs, I couldn't understand why bloggers were so excited for the fall and winter. But now I know. It's so much more fun to create an outfit with layers. Plus when you're in school, you kind of have to get dressed every day, unlike this summer where 90% of the time I stayed in my pjs all day (and consequently had infinitely fewer outfit posts than during the school-filled months). Hopefully I won't get too scared to take pictures of myself at college!





Well, I best be off to pack some more. I have to figure out how to best transport my fog machine and cotton and giant crayon and all my other weird props. My poor roommate (and everyone else at college) will think I'm insane. Oh well.





Hope you all have a fantastic day!

opposites

day 230

My photographic plans didn't work out, so after watching way too many episodes of Extreme Homes and dreaming of building a house in the trees, I decided to actually get out and take some pictures. My days have been filled with stressing out about last minute things, but actually not doing very much. We're in that in between moment; my life is about to change forever and I'm not quite sure what to do to prepare for it. But for now I have my favorite cat sleeping at my side and I'm dreaming of the future (thanks to Say Yes to the Dress ... gosh that show makes me cry so much), and life is good.

last days

Eddie, me, Emmie, and Ezra

day 229



Today was one of those days where I really wanted a documentation type of photo instead of a creative type of photo. It was the last day I get to babysit my kids (at least for a few months). Even though they have way too much energy and independence and stubbornness for their own good, they are the cutest bunch of kids around and I am going to miss spending time with them.




Other than my family and Matt, I have hung out with these little munchkins the most this summer. Since it was my last time with them, I figured I'd bring my camera to take a few photos. I've done this a couple times in the past and have always come home with hundreds of photos of random objects shot by the kids. Thankfully this time my camera died so they weren't itching to take any pictures. :) They did however agree to pose in front of the camera with me (and had way too much fun doing it, might I add).





Aren't they just the cutest? I'm going to miss them so much.

this is the gloaming

day 228

Well I did it, I went a full week taking photos of someone other than myself for this 365 project! That is the most awesome thing to me, you don't even know.

I had a cool (and super creepy and totally unlike me) idea for today's photo, which my brother Nicholas agreed to do, but then he told me about this cool area and I decided we should just take his portrait with the cool broken down car instead. Maybe one day I'll do my super creepy idea though. ;)

Today I also got to go shopping with my friend Shannon, and I spent way too much money, but hey, back to school shopping, right?