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!