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Sorry that I've been a little MIA these past few days.

First, I lost the cord for my laptop so it died (+ no internet)  

Second, I've just been too busy living up the last few days before school starts up again.

Hanging out with some fantastic people (you can see them here, here, here, and here!)

Also, celebrated my birthday early (it's not till late January) with friends back home

which included a wonderful party complete with mustaches on sticks.

(they're my fav.)

So until next year, wishing all of you a Happy New Year!

Happy New Year, lovelies!

love me some chocolate.

(the title has absolutely nothing to do with the following post.)

I hope you all had a marvelous Christmas! I most definitely did!

My parents surprised my sibs and I with a trip to Williamsburg and Busch Gardens so I'm currently sitting on a heavily comforted, bleached white bed in a beautiful Hilton Garden Inn (room 204 to be exact. Please don't come visit me.) 

Busch Gardens was stunning. There were Christmas lights absolutely everywhere and it was breathtaking.  

We're planning to go visit Colonial Williamsburg tomorrow. 

Because I've lived so close my entire life, I've visited it many times but I love it more every time I come. 

History nut? I think yes. 

I hope you all had lovely Christmases (get anything especially good?) and will have splendid New Years!

Happy Monday, lovelies!

p.s. isn't my sister, Sara Maria, just the cutest? 

We have the most fantastic, impromptu photo booth sessions ever. 

the art of pretending (bum bum bummmm...it's not that bad. I promise.)

So I decided I better not die and make this little bloggy (err maybe not) live on by itself so here I am, not fully dead, but not quite back to my usual self. That may be a good thing but we shall not dwell on that and instead let's dwell about why in the world someone would create words like dwell and shall.

(ticktockticktockticktock...)

ok. now that we have thought on that for a bit, let's practice the art of pretending you're not sick and how that all goes down while shooting an outfit for your blog. or just shooting in general.

With a camera. Leave the guns shoved up on top of your incredibly dirty shelf where they belong.

Sounds good? excellent! 

Let's get started...

1. Sit down for at least some of the pictures.

This way people don't see you about to fall down because your legs are too tired to hold you up any longer. I tried to tell mine that I wasn't that heavy. They didn't listen to me.

2. Take photos of your beautiful new shoes (so you can sit down just a wee bit longer).

Aren't they just the bombdiggity? (Thanks Nana <3)

3. Zone out. That vacant stare? yes. That's me. I was thinking about cotton candy and puppies.

Just kidding. I was hating on myself for letting myself endure the absolute torture of having myself photographed so myself could post them on a blog and write all about the photos of myself. 

4. Repeat! (just with a full body shot. You can tell your photographer Addie said so.

That probably won't mean a thing to them but that's beside the point.

And if you take your own photos...I'm pretty jealous of your fancy schmancy remote

or your incredibly ability of being able to post in front of a tripod with self timer.

I just find that much too awkward to handle.

Because posing in front of your all-too-cool, teenage little brother isn't awkward at all.)  

5. Dance a little bit and than promptly pass out on the wet grass that is wet and not snow covered because it's a disgusting 67 degrees outside.

. . .

I didn't really pass out. I'm not that graceful. I just sat down rather hardly on that wet grass and succeeded in wetting my pants in a rather unfortunate place.

(me: 'No, really! I didn't pee in my pants. gosh.')

6. Enjoy the wonderfulness of your wool poncho that you paid nothing for and than creep your way back inside and promptly pass out on your bed because who knew all that was so exhausting?

 Happy Eve of the Eve of Christmas Eve!

(me? excited? nawww.)

rag doll. (that's me!)

As I mentioned in this post, I was out of town (visiting friends back home in Charlottesville, VA) from Friday until mid Monday (which was excellent).

I was hoping to get a post up Monday afternoon but decided to get super sick instead.

Great idea, right? And I figured the timing couldn't possibly be even better, it being 4 days till Christmas and all (that was all sarcasm, of course).

I've been running a fairly consistent 102 fever for the past two days and it's been absolutely horrible.

That and a sore everything possible. and headaches. and I can't swallow hardly anything.

The pain I can handle. It's annoying but it's not that bad. It's this complete weakness that is miserable.

Every time I get up I feel like I'm going to pass out.

I can't even lift a milk jug out of the refrigerator.

As long as this is all gone by Christmas, I'll be fine.

And I've got quite a few new clothing pieces I can't wait to show you.

But that will have to wait until I don't look like I was run over by a truck, chewed up by a mad Dr. Seuss creation, and swung around like a rag doll.

And with that lovely ending note,

Happy Wednesday, pretties!

don't you worry...

...about a thing.

Hey pretties!

I took a really short notice trip back home to Charlottesville, Va

so I promise I'm still quite alive and here.

I'm not truly sure what this post is all about.

You know what I mean? I feel like I should leave y'all (eww I said y'all) a post but I'm not sure what this is all about.

So we're just going to leave it at that. Lot's of lovely things to tell y'all (eww I said it again) about

and you're just going to have to check back soon to hear all about it!

Happy Saturday, lovelies!

i'm a bit of a grandma

(go check out her shop! it's adorable!)

This was my first year participating in the Cold Hands, Warm Hearts swap (hosted by Sandy a la Mode and Much Love, Illy) and I absolutely loved it!

I'm a bit of a grandma when it comes to snail mail. It's my favorite. There's just something about receiving a letter or even better, a package, that is just excellent.

My swap partner is the lovely Caroline from Good Times Never Sew Good (cute name, right?)

Her adorable package, complete with the beautiful scarf, gloves, boots seen above and the lovely necklace seen here, dark chocolate (she completely won my heart with this), a crazy fun card that she made, and it was all wrapped up in cloth! I love it when people wrap surprises in cloth because I can 'recycle' it - which I did. See that mustard yellow headband hanging out on my forehead? Yup. I made that. From the wrapping.

Pretty proud of myself too.

Go check out Caroline and leave her some love!

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100 years in under 2 minutes

I'm in complete and utter love with the early to mid 1900's. and the 70's. gota love the 70's.
What's your favorite fashion era?

Happy Monday, Lovelies!

P.S. check out the fantastic giveaway going on over at Much Love, Illy. Oooh I wanna win!

those darn contagious fashion diseases

top: brother's (old navy), skirt: ny and company, tights: thrifted, shoes: toms, necklaces: assorted - thrifted, gifts, target, earrings: gift, bow: made.

I thought I'd try a 'snooki poof' and to be honest, I think I'm too white to pull it off well.

You get what I mean. There's white and there's white. I'm white.

But I did have a bunch of fun with it yesterday. I felt all sassy and confident like mmmmm gurrrl.

Anyone else loving knotting their shirts? It completely rids your outfit of all those awkward lumps. wonderful.

So if you haven't jumped on the bandwagon yet, just beware, it's addictive.

I keep finding myself wanting to knot shirts that shouldn't be knotted and wanting to pair them with skirts, pants, and dresses that really shouldn't be worn with a shirt that shouldn't be knotted.

So when you come running back to me crying because you've caught the 'i-have-to-knot-every-shirt-and-pair-it-with-everything disease,' I warned you.

And while you're watching out for the 'i-have-to-knot-every-shirt-and-pair-it-with-everything disease,' also keep an eye out for the highly contagious 'omg-it's-another-pair-of-colored-tights disease.'

I have both and am enjoying it ever so much.

Happy Sunday, lovelies!

fifty five colors.

I've got a serious love affair with Joe's bun- huggin' jeans.

This colored jeans trend is probably my favorite since the whole jean shirt thing (but I'm still loving on my silly attempt on my jeans shirt...which you'll be seeing more of later today!)

I'm in complete love with the colors...and her poses. (i sat and stared at each one trying to figure out what she was impersonating/thinking. 5th row, sea blue...'I'm a little penguin, short and stout.')



bring. it. on.

Dear exams,

bring it on!

You've got nothing on

my nerd glasses and dark chocolate

xo,

bloggity-blog-blog

shirt: target ($5!), necklace: forever21 (cold hands, warm hearts), leggings: target, boots: hand-me-downs,

boot socks: forever21 (cold hands, warm hearts)

I think I'm going to let my bangs grow out. I liked them on other people and kinda hoped

they would look as awesome on me as they did on Sydney...or Zooey Deschanel...but they really didn't and cramped my already small face so they're gonna go.

And isn't this outfit pretty amazing?

I'll let you in on a little secret: I actually wore this yesterday.

And most of my outfit are from the day before. I usually have my 'photoshoots' in the late afternoon-evening,

edit them at night, write the post either that same night or early the next morning and post it in the morning.

(this is where you say 'great story bro!')

This is what I'm dubbing as exam attire (I know, I know. all i talk about around here now are exams but I'm done Friday! And after exams I'm throwing myself a little party because I deserve it.

And yes. I'm usually this humble.)

This made me feel like I was totally wearing my pj's which is pretty excellent. Comfy comfy comfy.

Maybe it's not the most fashionably creative thing I've ever worn but it's

definitely something that this here bloggity-blog-blog will be seeing again.

(ha! I said bloggity-blog-blog.)

Happy Thursday, beauties!