Yesterday morning it looked like it was going to be a nice day and then in the evening it was all, "just kidding!" Well played, weather. With all the rain, my mom broke down and bought an umbrella since she's outside training the new puppy all the time. She thought it was just a plain black one, but then took it out of the cover and it was this gaudy, huge black and white one. Oh well. I actually saw some adorable umbrellas at Sears yesterday. I'm probably going to go get one today, since I'm headed to the air show in the afternoon and the forecast is for rain. Again. I totally love the rain though. It's strange, I never thought I'd be a rain person. It's not that I'm not a sun person, but I do love the rain.
dress/forever 21 :: vest(dress) & wedges/courtesy of modcloth
I went to the house yesterday to check in on the Brave, and maybe do some stuff, but I saw what happened next door and couldn't bear staying. Someone bought the lot next to our house and cleared nearly all the trees in order to build on it. That whole area where I used to take my pictures is completely gone. The side of our house feels completely naked with out those trees there. I cried a bit. I grew up playing in those woods! It's hard seeing things change which were so constant for so long. Now some big gaudy house will take the place of all those magical places. It's like, jeez! We move out for a couple months and everything changes! I'm glad I'm moving out in September, it would be weird living there seeing all the changes happening next door.
43 musings:
and you look super sweet!!! I love the last photo!
is it sad that I actually really like that umbrella?? I know its tough to see changes, especially when they seem so negative now. but maybe the people that move in will be super friendly or something! ♥
i love how you wore the dress as a vest! really clever.
& ugh, that is awful. i hate changes like those, we're getting this massive new highway and they've ripped up so many trees. but i guess change is inevitable & we just have to roll with it
Oh no! Not the trees! That's awful! I am a bit of a hippie forest-dwelling type so that really upsets me. And your older forest pictures were beautiful.
That's kind of rough, finding your old surroundings being completely changed in just a short time.
Well, at least you have your brave! You'll be finding new surrounding everywhere you go! I hope you hear something from Road Trip Nation soon.
I love the layering dress idea. You look adorable!
www.adayinthelifeofonegirl.blogspot.com
I love this outfit, that vest is really cute.
Yeah - it's hard to see changes for sure in places you've grown up loving. We sold our country home a few years ago and the guy who bought it has sold off lots and made a mini subdivision out of the field where we used to play and ride our horse.. so crazy.
The vest layered over the dress is so cute! Love the mixed patterns (you always mix patterns in the best ways possible!).
Ugh, I hate when changes like that happen. In my town, there used to be fields for days. In the past 5 years, they've built a toll road straight through it and I think about 5 new neighborhoods. It's not as aesthetically pleasing and there are too many people now. Sucks.
that umbrella is really cute!!thank god it wasn;t just black!when the weather is rainy it is fun to hold a cheerfull umbrella!!
http://fashionablylonely.blogspot.com/
The floral vest looks so great and quite different from anything I've seen before :)
L x
WHAT A FANTASTIC LOOK!!
Love your blog - it is sensational :)
Love,
xoxoxo
The Beckerman Girls
http://www.beckermanbiteplate.com
I love the layering here..and those adorable shoes! Good post :D
i love your outfit!
the vest is adorable
and its really sad about the trees
it gets on my nerves when beautiful things are knocked down/cut down to make room for ugly houses grrr
lol
http://vintageaurora.blogspot.com/
xoxo
First: the use of the dress as a vest is awesome, love how it turned out.
Second: I know how you feel about change. I get more attached to places or properties than most people. It was so sad to me when my grandparents sold their farmhouse. I spent all my summers there as a kid.
Just found your blog! You are gorgeous! Love the photos and the look!
I'm sorry bout the house it's really hard seeing changes like that. My best friend moved awhile back and I have so much memories at her house. Now a young family lives there.
http://fashionstatement101.blogspot.com/
ohh Rain is fun, except when you're umbrella-less and soaked.
The vest/dress is very cool. I love the look it creates.
Christy of Dress Rehearsal
People from miles around will be able to fit under your giant umbrella.
i absolutely loveeee love love the way you had the print on print. its fantastic! and the belt was a great accessory!
http://meninaelegante.blogspot.com/
Finally I've found another blog worth looking at!
HELLO you're hair is just beaut...as is yuor style
Am looking forward to seeing more, so following you from this point onwards!
♥
And bless your mum with that brolly!
cute outfit! I remember when my family moved out of our old house where we'd been for 11 years, the next family moved in and straight away bulldozed the garden and turned it into one of those modern "landscaped" ones. The biggest crime ever, because our garden was 120 years old and had been designed by the man who designed our city's botanic gardens, so you can imagine how nice it was. It's really hard to drive past there now. So stark.
just found your blog today....LOVES IT!! I like your pretty red hair...
come stop by and check me out....
jen
http://blankwhiteframes.blogspot.com
ps now following....
I love the rain, personally. :) Probably because here in Southern California we hardly get any at all so its always kind of exciting when it does happen to rain.
Great outfit, I love how you layered the two dresses together, I like the mixed patterns too.
That's such a bummer about the trees next door! Hopefully the house won't be gaudy but really a cute looking place that has character.
Your hair is super awesome!
I really like this umbrella, and it's so large that you look so teensy underneath it! Such a cute outfit!
xoxo, Ashley
Hey!!! So I wanted to invite you to follow my blog. Where I developed the idea for "Featured Followers by Elle © " This is how I promote all my followers. Check out my blog @ www.edkdolce.blogspot.com to find out more!
♥ Elle
the umbrella isn't that bad! recently my area of british columbia has been hit with a beetle infestation that causes all the trees to die. my town is like a giant forest with houses in it and a gazillion of the trees had to be cut down and everything looks so wrong an naked, i totally understand how you feel.
I just did a post with an umbrella, too :) I love that you wore that dress as a vest, it looks amazing!
X
wow you got a very nice blog!!
thats so sad about the woods by your house. i can't imagine how heartbroken i would be to see the trees I grew up climbing and playing underneath destroyed.
i love your little floral print shrug thing. so cute! a nice contrast to the grey drizzley atmosphere.
lovelove,
Betty Noir
you have gorgeous hair and such cute style, i'm following (:
that has got to be the most and cute outfit i've seen today! x
i loveee thiss outfitt! uberrr cutee!! :) nice umberellaaa!!
xoxo
Love your outfit :)
xx
That kind of nostalgic sadness overpowered me when the area around the house I grew up in was demolished, all the trees were cut down, animals were displaced and new shiny apartment buildings were built within the span of a year. It's best to not see these changes and move on with your undisturbed memory.
i love this outfit. I will have to try that dress as a vest... it looks great that way. And as always you are the queen of mixing patterns!
When I was in high school the cleared the entirety of about 12 lots behind my house to put in cookie cutter houses and paved the gravel road. It broke my heart. I find humor in the fact that one of those house in particular is built on the burial ground of all our dogs and cats and if it wasn't a sweet old lady that lived there... I'd hope they haunted the resident. It's heartbreaking to see your childhood chopped down and built over with mediocrity.
Oh no, sorry to hear about the land clearing. I lived in that house for sooooooo many years, I'd be heartbroken if someone came through and ripped through all the trees behind my folks house in Palmer. Was just out there yesterday and I loved just sitting out in the yard again, and a few of the noticable trees that were so small when we moved in, are now so massive!
I absolutely love the way you mixed these prints. Looks great!
www.poolovesboo.blogspot.com
I like the umbrella.
it looks huge, I think it's gonna match with the dark colored outfit :)
you know, you have such a sweet smirk on your face. it is adorable.
What a melancholy post. :( I'm sorry to hear about those trees. It's tragic when childhood memories and magic is just destroyed like that in the blink of eye. That said, I do like your outfit here, the mix of florals and stripes, and how nicely they play off the black and white umbrella. Sometimes the rain can be soothing. :)
So cute! What a great idea to make a dress more versatile! I love the belt too.
I like the button up... dress?
Post a Comment