Fair way to Leave

It was my last day in Minnesota today. I'm leaving with my dad to move into my dorm in Chicago in the morning! I had a great last week though. It was topped by the State fair, which I attended with some of the best friends a girl could ever hope to have. Photo credit to Alicia. Thank you dear for helping make my day so wonderful.

Wearing: ultra un--attractive backpack for fair going, thrifted blouse tied,  meteorite necklace from M, Black knit dress from I don't even remember, and Converse shoes because of Doctor who.

I'm sitting on a giant caterpillar outside the butterfly house

I'm a juggler, I spent most of the day playing with my lunastix, they're great! You can also see the cool shoulder detail on this shirt.

My favorite part of the fair, however was these four AMAZING, lovely ladies. They are lebanese belly dancers from the Festival of Nations which was performing at the international bazar in the fair. They were gorgeous, talented, and extremely friendly. I love seeing proof that you don't have to be thin as a rail to be totally beautiful. These four were perfect examples.

A last hurrah at the fireworks. In the rain. Beautiful.

Bonfire

Hello Pretty! this is the casual outfit I wore for a beach party. thrifted everything except the butterfly top and the necklace, and those were on sale. Quick!post because my laptop is running out of battery. I'm currently in the waiting room at the hospital cause my sister broke her shoulder (see x-ray photo at the bottom) More later! send good mojo for Emily.

Lazy Summer

Hello! Haven't been on here much because of summer getting to me. no reason to leave the house usually means I'm hanging out in my underwear. Yesterday it was a leotard....all day. I DID throw on a skirt though to make a quick trip to the dollar store. I am a cheapskate, so finding a nail polish brand that does a "good enough" job for only a dollar made me really happy, especially their white! I'm talking about L.A. Colors. My dollar store apparently carries all of their shades, and between my sister and I, I think we do too! I just can't justify spending 8+ dollars one one color when I can spend 5 on 5 colors!

Here is the L.A. colors section of my nail polish collection. The sisters and I did manicures while watching the olympics last night!

here's what I came up with, a slightly modified version of the french mani that TBD posted a fwe days ago. I used L.A. colors's top/base coat, nude, and white. I also added a little blue heart accent. You may notice I have ridiculously tiny nails. it's cause I have really far back nail beds, so even growing them to the tips of my fingers can result in chipping. Plus, not having nails makes picking for guitar much, MUCH easier.

that's the news from lake woebegone! More performances this weekend. OH! And one of my favorite people in the world is coming to visit me, we haven't seen each other in 2 years! more on that later. ciao!

Cut offs and Ukuleles

Cutoffs and my new Ukulele, Beatrice, are my favorite items this week! for a guitar player, suddenly only having only 4 strings you have to play at any given point sounds amazingly easy, and beatrice was a cheap find too! I'm wearing a thrifted silk blouse, tucked into cut and rolled jeans with a strip of lace as a belt. 

 excuse my deep but hey! No makeup days are fun :) my skin can breathe before our show tonight

feathery earrings from the claire's haul a while back with my mom's vintage earrings...

and matching cameo necklace!

DIY lace shorts

Hello all! I promise next time I get around to doing a DIY I will take photos, but as I did this by hand sewing all the lace on the bus to Chicago, it simply didn't work to make a tutorial. BUT, I can show you the finished result! Here they are, inspired by pinterest, I cut up an old lady curtain from the thrift store and a pair of old navy jorts that were the wrong length, and now I have a new favorite pair!

Side panels are see through on both sides, cutoff is frayed. I accented with one lace trimmed front pocket, and a lace bow on the opposite back pocket. I'm really really pleased with how they look! and the lace panels gave me some room in the legs I didn't have before.

I hope you all are enjoying your summer, I haven't updated very much because I am in rehearsals for a show that opens this weekend. May I break ALL my limbs!

Chicago! Land of the Maxi Skirt

Hello! Guess why I haven't posted recently... I was in Chicago! I don't know the title may have given it away or something. I wanted to talk about travel clothes! It's so hard to know what to travel in. you want to be comfortable, but you don't want to show up at your destination looking like you rolled out of bed. well I have to tell you, my go to is the maxi skirt. preferably with shorts underneath. it's comfy, covering, and can provide a bit of warmth if the air conditioning is overly "helpful". I wore pleated white one from THIS post, and felt airy and chic even for 8 hours on a bus. The Megabus, by the way, is my new favorite mode of cheap travel, 25 dollar round trip!

And now for some maxi skirt inspo

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I'm liking the sheer thing going on, but I want to just wear a slip under mine, none of this underwear nonsense. ;) Source

This multi layered muted color semi sheer skirt is just the BEST. I need to get something like this going on in my closet ASAP.
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Claire's haul

Today I went to claire's and they were having another of their 10 for ten dollars things, so I decided I was in need of earrings. (This is a lie. I have tons of earrings. But none like these!)

Several pairs of feather earrings, I also got black and white, and I'm already wearing those!

This faux-wood hair clip!

orange studs. I'm on an orange kick lately!

These orange sunglasses with green speckles. They match my nails!