Don't care what others may say...

the first set of pictures:
I was at dinner with my parents about a week ago (last Friday, I believe) and we went to the desert and it was COLD. But when we went back home, it was still pretty cold, at least I had my jacket with me.

the second set of pictures:
This was right after a speech meet that I participated in (school thing) and it was supposed to be something dressy, but after realizing I didn't do laundry, I pretty much just threw something on and called it a day.


I had some fun with Picnik and such, so, yeah.

Gifted coat (first picture), Forever 21 t-shirt, Charlotte Russe vest, Banana Republic skirt, Forever 21 leggings, Claire's gloves, gifted necklace

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Cozy sweater (literally the brand name), Converse for Target dress, thrifted necklace (though you can't really see it)

plaid is SO overrated

says the girl who's wearing plaid at the moment.

Whew. For a second there, my camera gave me a scare. As I moved my photos to my desktop, I accidentally closed the window, got distracted by a shiny set on Polyvore, and promptly freaked out. When my dad came to help after I screamed, I realized that I had just closed out the window and, in fact, did not accidentally delete all my hard-taken photos. Yes, it's hard to balance on the head of my bed (rhyme!) and pose in 10-seconds as the self-timer begins to tick. And it took about a whole hour to produce these three photos (one of which is not taken in dangerous situations), but they turned out to be favorites of mine (out of all other pictures I've taken before). Actually, the second picture was taken just as I fell off...curse my lack of balance! (I actually did wear this outfit before - to church, I know, not so traditional - but never took a picture. So I did. Today.)

These were edited using Microsoft Office Picture Manager (came with my laptop) and taken with my same-old, trusty Nikon S8100, slightly-broken tripod, and a handy self-timer. And yes, I'm wearing two different (fingerless, obviously) gloves. One's a purple, mesh one (on the left hand) and the other one's a black one with sequins sewed on and two chains.

Plaid Forever 21 shirt, gray Forever 21 shirt underneath, Papaya necklace, Anchor Blue jeans, two separate pairs of Claire's gloves

And hope all you people are enjoying the cold weather! (I'm not...I'm a summer girl, Mr. Sunshine is my best friend, along with Mrs. Sunscreen, how else do I keep my fair - coughcoughPALEcoughcough - complexion? Besides I hate wearing thick jackets or coats, you can't really do anything about with it, you can't decorate it as much as you can with just shirts and bottoms...but that's just me.)

Rainy Day Fun/Boredom...

last night:
...take your pick. It's mostly boredom for me, internet/Twitter-stalking designers, stylists, magazines, and various others and, of course, clothes. In the process of digging up an old shirt for dinner with parents, I just about took every single piece of clothing off of its proper hanger and tossed them on the floor. Lovely image, no? Anyways, this was last night, so the product of hours of messiness + cleaning up was this simple outfit. Which my mother professed to be weird - then added that it worked as a side note.

Hollister thermal shirt, Charlotte Russe vest, Papaya necklace, Refuge jeans, Claire's bracelet
today:
All this rain was getting to my head, so I went out exploring thrift shops (with parent in tow, of course), and came back with a military-ish green backpack that is currently now being adorned with various pins and patches obtained through my mom's jewelry box and my enormous pin collection. Of course, there are all those Girl Scout patches I never bothered to sew onto my vest from 3rd grade...

And I also came back with a pair of shoes for my dinner dance (to match with the simple, appropriate 13-year-old version of a LBD) as I waited out the rain in a store.