Happy Thoughts.

Good thoughts + sunbeams.

Happy Wednesday, y'all!

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Get In My Closet.

Are you feeling the pressure that fall + sweaters + boots are right around the corner like I am?  I'm definitely looking forward to warm layers, but the weeks leading up to Labor Day always make me want to wear head-to-toe white every day!  Savor every last moment of summertime.

I am so obsessed with these two ensembles that I am going to shamelessly copy them before summer is over ... which, since I live in Texas, gives me until January to nail these looks ...
 
[both via my girls got style board on pinterest]

Remember Me?

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You can go ahead and call off the search party.  I know y'all are relieved to know that I have not died nor fallen off the face of the earth.  I've simply been taking trips like crazy and reveling in my last month of early-twenties-dom.  Quarter-life crisis?  Maybe so.  One thing is for certain though:  I am so happy with the possibility of what twenty-five brings me.  You see, here's my theory in a nutshell:  Shiz gets real at twenty-five.  I'm going to go ahead and copyright that.  Profound, I know, and also confirmed by older wiser friends.  Like most, the majority of my early twenties was consumed by school and getting experience and becoming independent.  And now I'm here.  I've graduated (not once, but twice.  I can almost hear my parents' sigh of relief...).  I've got a whole twenty-four and some change's worth of life experience.  I've been fully supporting myself for over a year now (i-n-d-e-p-e-n-d-e-n-t, do you know what that mean, mayne?)  I'm finally here.  And by here, I mean at the beginning.  I have reached the point where the future really is my very own (and if you've had this epiphany much earlier than myself, you. go. girl.)

During my hiatus, I spent a lot of time thinking about what I want this little blog to be for/to me ... and I've come to the conclusion that I simply want it to be more personal.  More moi.  So with that, I'm backkkkkkk!

Weekend Recap.

1.  Welcome to New Orleans!  2.  Frog legs?  Check.  (and they really do taste like chicken.)  3.  Pedi-cabbing it to the French Quarter  5.  My tour guides taking me off the beaten path to local bars.  In.  Love.

1.  Impromptu dance parade + we hopped in!  2.  Lotus flower on our swamp tour.  3.  Alligator.  rawr.  4.  Abita beer is amazing and my new beer of choice.

I am convinced that I am moving to New Orleans.

I cannot remember the last time I had this much fun!

We ate, we drank, we sang, we danced in the street.

I fell in love with the jazz band on the street corner + the carefree vibe of the city.

When I was in Europe last summer, I was a total tourist.  I took so many pictures that I wasn't able to savor the moment; enjoy where I was and who I was with.   I was completely successful in being present in the moment this weekend and I kind of want to high five myself.  

New Orleans is so rich ... rich in everything from culture to food + I took in everything it had to offer - the sights, sounds, smells (at times a bit funky;), the people.  

So if you haven't been yet, you must go.  And take me back with you!

What You Know About NOLA?

 

This time next week, my best friend and I will be road trippin' it to New.Orleans.Loo-see-ana!

I'm beyond excited and mentally planning my NOLA wardrobe.  I'm forseeing breezy fabrics, maxi dresses, and, according to these pictures, I'm digging the black tube top.  If it's versatile + cool (in the most literal sense) it's going with me.

Have you been to New Orleans?  I'd love must-see + do recommendations!

PS.  Thoughts on fedoras?  Please share.  Personally, they intimidate me.  Only cool girls wear them in my mind ... but I may get brave in the Cajun state...

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Words for Your Wednesday.

Just a bit of perspective.

Listen Up.

A little diddy x 2 for your Tuesday.  

Hope you love them as much as I do!  

[read:  endlessly on repeat]