nude dress + red lips= amazing

how do you keep a nude-colored dress from being boring? behold the awesome power of red lipstick. i think you could wear a members-only jacket and a permed side ponytail, and no one would notice if you had on red lipstick.

i bought a nude dress from goodwill last month... and i have red lipstick. too bad i don't have any where to wear these amazing things.... is that too much for church?

the happiest little bonsai tree (and friend)

on the way home from church last week, daniel and i saw a little old man selling various sizes of bonsai trees on the side of the road. um, awesome! why is it that anything miniature is cute? bonsai trees, babies, travel-size bottles of shampoo.... 

i acquired the bamboo plant yesterday at another estate sale i worked at. the irony is that this lady was selling all of her earthly possessions in order to rid herself of the threat of materialism. which of course transferred the materialism to me. i wanted everything in her house.

new acquisition: floppy hat!!

ok, so i didn't end up buying the wine-colored floppy hat that i've had my eye on for weeks. i think i like mine much better though, because it's not wool, which means i can wear it whenever. summer or winter. maybe. i don't know about the winter part, but my hat has a much better chance since it's not straw. i'm not really feeling the straw.

cute, right? target, $14.99

the flower is my favorite part!

lucky me, my parents (and my friend eleni- thanks eleni!) got me a target gift card for my birthday, and there are just so many possibilities! clothes, jewelry, shoes, makeup, house goods, electronics..... ahhh! what to choose, what to choose. the first $14.99 was easy to spend, though.

oh, just for good measure, here's yet another inspiration picture of a girl in an awesome floppy hat. this is the last one, i promise.

 this hat makes me want to sing, "doe, a deer, a female deer...."

photo: luckymag.com

outfit post: ugly vintage shirt

shirt: vintage thrifted

skirt: thrifted

boots: tokyo circa 2006! still love them.

belt: thrifted (from little boys' section!)

mood ring: vintage from ebay

this is an outfit i wore a few weeks ago when it was still nice outside. now it's freakishly hot. sometimes i hate nashville. i like to call this shirt my "so ugly it's cute" shirt. i think you can see why:

see? the colors are kind of ugly, but the pattern is sweet.

obsession: pastel flowy dresses

 dress: alberta ferretti

the cherry blossom girl

instyle

dress: donna karan

so many trends at once!

i saw this outfit on college fashion in a post about clothes from the movie "clueless." regardless of how i feel about the movie, this outfit i love. for one, you know i'm all about the nude/blush/pale pink color right now. never thought i'd say that, but i am. plus, for some strange reason, i'm insanely attracted the idea of a small fashionable backpack. who would've thought? haven't seen too many cute ones yet, but asos.com has a few. so does ebay. i think i might need one someday soon.

oh, lest i forget.... those earrings! they're like what a mermaid from the 80s would've worn. ha.

ruche favorites

shopruche.com

i love it all, especially the hats! they're just so elegant. ok, it's really time to quit pining over hats and actually buy one, dang it!

obsession: green dresses

they're green and they're dresses. enough said.

 allure

 3.1 phillip lim- $595

on sale for $14.40 at gojane.com

bellasugar.com

i hit the forever 21 jackpot

some things i purchased online recently.... who knew forever 21 had such posh pieces?

 i've been looking for these pieces forever. they're basically my dream clothes. isn't it uncanny that i found them all in one place at one time? weird.

obsession: vertical stripes

so, i really don't care for horizontal stripes. too preppy or nautical or french-girl for me. but vertical stripes, i love. why? not sure.

behind the seams

ruche

sea of shoes

arden b

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