Last Night I Dreamt I Went To Manderley Again

Ah, what a busy, but wonderful day! I woke up this morning and went with my mom to bible study as usual. Then I went with her to a clients house while she gave her a massage and boy was I glad I did! She had the most beautiful house, with the most lovely yard! I sat out in the front, lounging on a porch swing reading Dorian Gray, looking out on the beautiful yard until it was too much! I snapped the book shut and went exploring. Walking through the front and back yard made me feel like I was at Manderley and Maxim should be on my arm, I just kept waiting to end up at the beach or bump into Mrs. Danvers and kill the mood. I love that about books I've read without a movie because the setting stays forever exactly as I want it, it's my own unique place in my mind that no one else has. And if you're lost and have no clue what piece of literature I'm referencing, go to your nearest bookstore and pick up a copy of Rebecca. You won't be sorry! Its one of my favorite books of all time. So good! Anyway, I took my outfit pictures in the yard so you can see a tiny bit of my Manderley but there's so much more I didn't get pictures of, like inside the house, gorgeous vintage photos of her parents from the 30s and 40s right here in San Antonio! Ohhh, I could've died.






(lol @ my still slightly puffy cheeks!)

Anyway, onto the next order of business. My day didn't end at Manderley! Today is actually my dad's 50th birthday. He insisted that we couldn't have a big party to celebrate his aging, but my mom, sister, and I still wanted his birthday to be special. So we made him his favorite dinner, salmon patties, corn, and mashed potatos (luckily all things I could eat with my healing gums!) and a dump cake for dessert. The cake came out so cute and tasted delicious! After dinner he got his cards and opened his presents, Mario Kart and Mario Brothers for our Wii. Mom thought we were giving a present to ourselves too, but I said to view it as giving him the gift of family bonding time. Hehe, good one eh? I think Dad was pleased and we had a lot of fun trying out the new games together. No more golf tournaments, we're racing now!





One last thing I want to share about my outfit. It may seem like a plain, everyday outfit but it's so special to me! This Alen Rench t-shirt is an old vintage band tee from back in my dad's rock and roll days. I'm actually wearing a t-shirt from his band. He was the drummer in the Alen Rench Band back in the early 80s. He's moved on from that dream now, but he's still a drummer at our church and remains friends with his old bandmates. I have some old pictures of him in the band I'll have to scan and put on here one day. They're so cool! This shirt and those pictures are some of my most prized possesions, things I'm so glad my dad passed on to me that I can one day give to his grandchildren and no matter how old he gets, he'll always be remembered as the guy in the band. And I'm sure that's the way he'd want it!

T-shirt: Dad's vintage band tee
Skirt: Target
Belt: vintage
Oxfords: Steve Madden (yeah all I wear are oxfords, get over it. hehe)

Easter Sunday

How was everyone's weekends? Mine was rather busy, but nice. Yesterday was especially nice, being Easter Sunday. I started the day off at church and then my family in San Antonio, consisting of me my parents and sister, my mom's brother, and a close family friend, drove to Gruene, Texas one of my favorite little towns to eat at the Gristmill with my grandparents, aunt and uncle and little cousins. It was such a great, relaxing day.

I ate a wonderful grilled chicken sandwich with honey dijon sauce, oh soo good. After lunch we went to some wonderful Antique stores and little boutiques, where I could've spent hours, but the men were impatient. Though I do think I found the dress I'll wear to my graduation ceremony in June. It's so pretty and perfect, I'm definitely keeping it in mind. My mom and I will go back to Gruene soon and spend the real amount of time I'd like to spend in the little shops. I can't wait.







After lunch and shopping we headed back to my aunt and uncle's house in San Marcos for a little easter egg hunt and a lot of relaxation. My mom and I went with my uncle to tour some of the houses in his neighborhood since he lives in the historic district. I fell in love with just about every house I saw. I don't understand everyone's fixation with brand new, modern architecture and houses. I want to take an old house and flip it to make it exactly what I want. A big white or blue house, with ivy growing up the front, old creaky stairs, and some sort of history, with many owners before me. Unfortunately, after such a wonderful day, towards the end I started to feel sick and by the time I got home I was so sick with fever I couldn't move from bed. So I've spent my entire Monday in bed, sick as a dog. Great way to end the weekend, eh?

And now, outfit photos of my Easter dress. I remember as a little girl, buying a new dress meant more to me on Easter than chocolate bunnies or egg hunting. This year was no different, though I did appreciate my mom's wonderful basket of candy, especially my hollow white chocolate bunny. Yummm! I found this dress weeks ago at Forever 21 and thought the colors were so perfect for Spring. I didn't wear it when I bought it, due to the wintry weather, and eventually decided it would make a perfect Easter dress.









I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend and a lovely holiday, if you celebrate it. Hopefully soon I'll be feeling better and be able to get back to regular programming on the blog. I've been so out of it style-wise lately and now this cold. See you soon..

Dress: Forever 21
Socks: Target
Flats: Target
Headband: Forever 21

Jock Girl Chic

Remember those jock girls in high school who played all kinds of sports and always had wet hair and t-shirts on in class, who you secretly kind of envied because they got to get away with no make-up, plain hair, and sweatpants in class? I sort of felt like a more chic version of those girls today. I really had no idea what to put on today and so I went digging through my little sister's closet to get some inspiration, hehe. I ended up finding one of MY old t-shirts hidden away deep in her closet. I'll have to talk to her about this later. I completely forgot about this shirt I got about two years ago at Urban Outfitters. It's an Urban Renewal piece where they've taken an old t-shirt and made it into sort of a blouse with another vintage shirt. I love it because it's like a little more stylish take on the old t-shirt. I just sort of built my outfit around this shirt and knew I wanted to wear my new shoes I'm so madly in love with. I tried on several combos but nothing really felt like "me" so I ended up wearing this outfit and feeling like a high school jock girl. (Hence why I drove to the basketball court to get outfit shots, hahaha.)







The warm weather is back (hopefully to stay for a long time!) and it was so much fun taking outfit pictures today. My sister and I went and got strawberry limeades and tots from sonic and headed over the the elementary school by our house (where we both attended) and took our pictures. I had so much fun running around and acting a fool. There were all these little middle school skater boys around laughing at me but I didn't care, I was having fun. So apologies for the awkward/funny pictures today, I guess I was having a little too much fun in the sun hehe.

Cardigan: Target
Shirt: Urban Renewal via UO
Shorts: Hollister
Socks: ??
Shoes: Aldo
Headband: Target

Hairy Situation

So, with warmer weather arriving I expect to be spending a lot more time in the sun. Being in the sun makes my hair lighter and being a natural blonde, I don't know how well I'll be able to keep up with my brown locks all summer. That said, I'm thinking of going lighter. I don't want to go all the way back blonde again, as I plan on going back dark in the Fall anyway, so I'm thinking a nice light red. I've posted a few pictures of hair inspiration, maybe you lovely bloggers could tell me which is your favorite? Thanks so much! I hope everyone had a lovely day!


Isla Fisher


Melanie Laurent


Hannah Metz


Mandy Moore


Sally Jane Vintage

Not My Reality Girl, My Dreams Come True Girl

Today is another lovely day here in Texas and I think I can finally say it, SPRING HAS SPRUNG! It's here, full blown. Spring is such a wonderful season because it's all about new growth and new beginnings. Everything from the winter is in the past and we've got new experiences and new beginnings sprouting up left and right.




That's why I feel like it's the perfect time to go hunting for a new job, that's long over due. I've been looking for awhile and NOTHING has worked out. In fact, I just got a card in the mail of Urban Outfitters informing me that while my application was great, they chose to go with someone else. Just my luck. I'm not trying to sound like Negative Nancy or anything, but it's just so annoying. I've applied several places, some even twice, and I never get the job. I don't really know where else to look. I know I don't want to work in fast food again, Papa John's for two years was enough for me. I've tried so many places in retail because I love clothes and I want to work around others who feel the same way, but nobody seems to want me. I've also tried three times at Barnes and Noble and each time they're "not hiring at the moment, but will keep my application on file for later." Yeah, right. I know that means, "Sorry, you're never getting this job because we're going to stick this application in a big pile of other hopefuls and never look at it again." So, I don't know what else to do. I'm going to stop complaining now because this is the longest paragraph on this blog thus far and it's all negativity. But seriously, any tips on how to make your application stand out from the others?



It's funny how everyone is so excited to get rid of tights, and quite honestly, I don't really mind them. Yes, I love bare legs, but tights just make outfits so fun in a way bare legs never could. All winter, I've let my tights be my statement piece in many of my outfits and without them I feel rather boring. I guess I'll have to go hunting for some new spring/summer accessories to spruce up my outfits. I think I could use some more hats and maybe my love of giant flowers, feathers, and bows for headware can grow during Spring. Even if I do get called Minnie Mouse.

Dress: Kimchi Blue via UO
Tights: Wal-mart
Shoes: Urban Outfitters
Belt: Vintage

Also, I recently saw these at Adored Austin and fell madly in love. I can't wait to rock these little babies in the summer. I love Toms, I really do.

Props To Regina

Isn't it funny how sometimes you can just listen to CD and get inspiration for what to wear? I woke up this morning and oddly enough, all I wanted to do was throw on a pair of jeans (I NEVER do this!), but I have to work today so I'm not allowed to wear jeans. I put on one of my favorites, Regina Spektor, while I took my shower and did my hair and the way the music made me feel lead me straight to this outfit. And it's actually one of my favorites I've worn in awhile. It's so spring, and let's my poor, pasty legs get a little sun. Though I must admit, these pasty legs are going to stay this pasty all through the spring and summer because I am Casper and I cannot get a tan, though I could probably easily be cast in a Tim Burton film, hehe. But that's beside the point, the point is, I love this outfit and just want to say, Thank you, Regina, I owe you one!





So next week is SPRING BREAK! It's so close and I can't wait. Since I graduated high school a semester early, most of my friends are either busy at high school or in college and during the week if I'm not working, which my job rarely let's me do ughh but that's a whole other post, I have nothing to do. I'm really looking forward to spending time with all my lovely ladies and gents during the week. Also, TWO exciting things: I may go to my ranch, and I'm going to SXSW in Austin! Go check out the site and if you'll be in the area during the week, at least go check out some of the free stuff, it should be fun. Soo exciting. I'm totally pumped!



Sweater & Skirt: F21
Belt: Target
Heels: Thrifted

I'll leave you with this cute little video for one of my favorite Regina songs that helped me to get dressed this morning..

Good Day Sunshine

I want to start this post by apologizing for these horrid photographs that follow. I know they're terrible, but I have too much to do and no time to find a better spot. Besides, the sun was so bright and warm, it felt like a wonderful spot and I don't care that I look like it makes me look like a corpse.



This wasn't the outfit I planned on wearing today, with the exception of the shoes and socks. I'd had a more wintery (is that a word?) outfit planned but when I stepped outside, there was far too much sun and warmth. Honestly, I put no thought into this outfit whatsoever. My mom was waiting on me and I had literally two minutes to change into this, so I grabbed whatever was on my bed that matched with the boots and socks I already had on. Though, I am quite happy with what I picked. I think it turned out nicely and felt so SPRING! It was a very comfortable outfit for my busy day.

And though today was busy, it was an exceptionally good day. I woke up at 7 am for no reason at all, except that I just couldn't stay asleep. This is especially odd for me because, sleep being one of my favorite activities, I usually have no problem sleeping in and am rarely seen awake before 9 or 10. But, this morning I woke up early and even made breakfast for myself and my parents. I even brought Dad's up to his bed on a tray. Why not get on his good side, eh? Then I joined my mom at her bible study which was actually a great way to start off the day and I am quite glad I went. Mom and I followed it up with a lovely lunch together and a little grocery shopping before heading home for a nap. I'm now tidying up my messy, messy room and going thrifting with my sister. I'll say it again, today is an exceptionally good day!







Blouse: Thrifted
Shorts: Rodarte For Target
Socks: Target
Boots: Thrifted
Necklace: American Eagle