Sail Away with Me

Ext. The Marina - Day
Sitting on the ledge of the dock, she stares through her wind blown hair as ships roll in and out of the harbor. From her distance she was still able to hear the sounds of music and watched shadows move about the top level in swaying movements. As usual, she let herself being carried off with the sound of the rippling water dreaming of the day she'd have her own chance to board the ship.

Fun fact: I have a weird paranoia of wearing an outfit on the wrong day. These shorts for example, were a Christmas gift...and here I am just now posting a style story in them. Granted, I have worn them once or twice, but always with a different top than the one here. I must be pretty ok at the process of elimination, because this nautical shorts and peter pan collar top combo is my favorite, it just took me a couple months to figure that out. You live and you learn, right? 

Hope you all are not just surviving your week, but enjoying it! I'm pretty happy right now because I got the good news today that I can move into my new apartment this Saturday! Better step up my antiquing game, cause I need some furniture.

In even more other news, I can't remember if I mentioned that I was recently featured on Whim Magazine's website, which left me glowing all day! I scroll through their postings daily and find them incredibly inspiring, so when Melanie asked me to do an interview with them I was all kinds of honored. You can read the whole thing HERE!

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Top, Shorts, Shoes: Forever 21 

Darlin' Put on that Party Dress

Int. Dressing Room - Day
It's August the ninth, and today she is 23. She clutches her party dress tight to her chest and begins to spin, laughing as she watches the tulle swirl around her knees. Carefully, she steps into the sea of yellow and zips it up the side. Leaning into the mirror she coats her eyelashes with dark mascara and paints her lips red. With a sigh she falls back onto her bed wondering what the night might hold.

That's right everybody, happy birthday to me! Even though I feel like 23 is so old, I still get pretty excited about my birthday. This year, it was spent with a vintage/antiquing trip to Atlanta with two of my best friends, during which I laid my eyes upon this pretty yellow party dress. As soon as I saw it hanging up on the little store's wall, I knew I wanted to see it doing the same thing in my own closet everyday. Plus, I couldn't imagine anything more lovely to spend my birthday in. I wonder what the parties were like that it was worn to in the past? To finish the night off, I went to dinner at one of my favorite Italian restaurants, consumed a week's worth of sugar, and caught up on the latest episode of Mr. Robot, which is in fact my latest binge watch. Computer coding hasn't held much of an interest within me since the MySpace days when you needed to know the basics to pimp out your profile, but this show is so brilliantly done that it can make anyone wish they were a bad a hacker girl (or dude). Even me.

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Dress: The Lucky Exchange