THE MET

Last you heard from me I was packing up my things to trek out to New York. I've now been here for a month and it's been a whirlwind. I'm working at an office two days a week and at a gallery another two days a week, so for four days each week what I can wear is quite restricted. My days off are really important because I'm not just able to do whatever I want, I'm also able to wear whatever I want. Here, I'm wearing this sort of Gucci school teacher-inspired outfit: over-sized sweater, green corduroy skirt worn backwards (buttons down the back), red leather belt with gold stud detailing, knee high wool socks, and my black sandals, along with a vintage Coach handbag and (in some images) a barrette and neckerchief.

I wore this outfit to the Met, which is a place I hold dear to my heart. Nothing lifts the spirits like some good oil paintings!

MOVING

Hey there friends! It's been a second. School's finally out and boy, the end of this semester couldn't have come sooner. Now, after a slew of friends' graduations and parties and final dinners, I'm packing up my things and preparing to move out to New York for the summer. I am feeling so ready to get away from the school work and projects and start my internship, hit the ground running, and live it up in the summer tiiiiime! 

Today (as I expect will be the case for many days this summer) I'm wearing one of my favorite dresses. This lil guy is from Gap, and it is a fun sort of denim-patch-collage type print. This dress is the ultimate summer livin' get-up. It is so easy to throw on, it's hugely comfortable, it has POCKETS. What's not to love!?

Also, thank y'all so much for you nice comments on my last post, I really loved that one and am glad you did, too! 

Have a great day and see you in the Big Apple! If you've got recommendations, put those babies in the comments! 

FRESH

Goooood morning everybody! Happy Monday! I hope it's treating you well.

This is my outfit from yesterday afternoon. I had a slow start and a lazy morning, impacted by the fact that I accidentally stayed up until 2 am goofing off with my housemates. This was really just one of those days that took forever to get started. It was beautiful outside, but I was feeling sort of trapped by work and anxiety. I did have plans for the early evening to go to a production of Heathers: the Musical (which, by the way, was amazing), though, so I decided that getting dressed was the best way to get me out of my funk.

Side note: For me, getting dressed is almost always the best way to get out of a funk. Unless, of course, I'm in a style rut, in which case it sort of adds fuel to the fire. 

Anyway, spending the time to get dressed and then playing around with flowers and props and backdrops and stuff made me feel significantly better. And though these photos elicited a call from my mom asking if I was doing okay and eating enough (I am), I'm really happy with these images because it was really empowering to turn my living room into a very make-shift photo area.

Last thing: music is a really integral part of how I get dressed and experience my day, so I've decided that I'm going to include links to songs that I was listening to while getting dressed that made me feel really good. This time around it's "I Can't Stand It" by The Velvet Underground. Enjoy!