I love verticle stripes. They add a different dimension to the whole stripe craze at the moment.
Judy Garland is my inspiration for basically everything! Except ya know... emotional things... Plus that baby has the fattest cheeks!
This next picture is just for your sweet enjoyment since I haven't uploaded any outfit pictures yet BUT they are coming tomorrow! Wohooo!! The Return of Nancy!
And right now I really want to go back to this place
That thing that looks suspiciously like a flower made out of hair? Yes, that is just my hair rolled into a little fluffy thing...
Outfit details:
shirt-gifted
skirt-thrifted
shoes-thrifted
Young Women's Medallion-earned ;)
Hat-borrowed from the drama department...
Wolf Shirt-thrifted
Maxi dress-Celeste
Belt-mom
wedges-Nancy
Shirt-Lynelle
Pants-Forever 21
SHOES-Cutter :)
This week has been insane! My computer crashed due to nasty viruses, I wore those crazy ridiculous lovely shoes to SCHOOL, the school play ended (cue sniffles and tissues), I grabbed that perfect hat out of the costume room because I love it, and I earned my medallion!
So I kinda forgot how to do my hair like I did it in the first pictures...that was for church today, and for some reason, it just happened and I didn't pay attention to how I did it because I wasn't going to keep it that way! I curl my hair in sections sometimes, and when I pinned this section up haphazardly, I decided it looked cool in a vintagey way :)
And that lovely gold medallion? I earned it a while ago, but I just got it today at church :) I'm mighty happy!
I wore the shoes to school...surprisingly not painful :) And this is the hilarious conversation I overheard as I was walking to third period:
Girl 1: Wow, she's brave for wearing THOSE shoes
Girl 2: Just let her wear what she waaants GUURL!
Girl 1: I like her shoes! I'm just saying she's brave!
So awesome.
And the name of this post has to do with this song:
It's so beautiful, and whenever I hear it, I think of a certain person, and it gets me all nostalgic like! But that's okay :) What is romance for if not to teach us how to be happy?
In these cobalt blue babies, I am five foot seven inches tall! Normally, of course I'm five one...but put these six inch ladies on my feet and I'm singing a different tune ;)
Anyways, here's the story behind these shoes, which I sadly don't own :(
My drama teacher (I'm not in the class, just in the play, and she's the director), went to Rome last summer, and bought these shoes. She wore them around the store, and loved them, but then come time to actually wear them in public, they KILLED her feet. Disastrous, I know. So fastfoward to a few weeks ago, she mentions her fabulous shoes when we get to talking about how much we both love shoes. I gush at the idea of Italian shoes, and so on saturday, she brought them for me to borrow until the end of the school year! I'm absolutely excited, and I just wish I actually owned them :(
This is my outfit from Sunday, and tomorrow I'm wearing the shoes for the first time to school! I'm terrified I'll take a tumble down or even up the stairs, but the price we pay for beauty ;)
And on to other things...I rediscovered this lovely wonderful rendition of one of my favorite hymns today, and I just have to say, why is Carrie Underwood so radiant? I adore her, and this dress is magnificent! And her lovely voice doesn't hurt :) I'm not into country, I'm more an alt-indie girl, but I gotta love my darling blonde country singers, now don't I? ;)
Well folks, it's been far too long! I've had AP testing these last two weeks, and I honestly have slept maybe half the time I normally sleep, and I've missed more school than I planned on :P
But in the meantime, I've gotten a PINTEREST account :) i've had it for a week or two, and it's so fun! It's nice to be able to save things I like online rather than in a file on my computer :)
Also, did you notice my SHORT hair in the second set of pictures??! That's my latest and greatest hair achievement! A fake bob! I thought my hair was too long for that! But it definitely happened, and worked well, which is delightful!
And midi skirts! I can't get enough of how lovely perfect they are! They make me feel oh-so-ladylike :)
Tomorrow I have to speak in church about mother's and the role of women in His Plan of Happiness. While trying to get the juices flowing I found a song on my best friend's older sister's blog about motherhood. It's called "Hourglass" by Mindy Gledhill (look it up). So of course I loved it and looked her up on youtube and found that she recorded my favorite hymn. Here it is. It calms me in times of heartache and panic. I hope it does you the same.
-Nancy
Hello friends! Sorry I haven't been around here for like a MONTH! Thank goodness Sarai can keep this thing going. But here is my new not so new hair! Sometimes I will catch my reflection in a window from far away and not recognize myself because of the bangs... Yes, this does make me feel really stupid but hey, it's a good story.
Anyway, things are crazy around here with work (i'm nanny. best job ever!) and crazy amounts of studying for IB testing (first test was today. i kicked that things butt!) so I can get freaking college credit. It might be a few more weeks until I start regularly posting again but there are hopefully some good things to come!
Just a little side note: that there below is a SUH-WEET! picture of my cousins (the two on the ends. Tyler and Alex) at Tyler's missionary farewell in Boise, ID. He's going to the Phillippines and will be speaking Tagalog (which i just recently learned how to pronounce right. it's like Ta-gol-ig). And Alex, yeah he wants to go to Columbia University which he'll totally get into because he's a genius and is already going there for some business school thing this summer for a few weeks. Did I mention he's only a junior in high school? Yeah, genius.
Clip-on earring clipped to necklace??? My teacher stuck that on me randomly....
Anyways, I went to Saturday Market in Portland this weekend....filled with crazy people and sunshine, I had a good time with new friends...and one old :)
It was so fun! I don't know when I've felt so relaxed! Also, it was hot. A rarity it seems, but somehow the sun showed itself! It was a resolute shock to all!
But here's the thing about hot weather...it makes me angry at long hair...because I hate washing my hair, but it gets gross...solution? tie a hippie scarf into curled hair, go to gelato with Nancy, fall asleep at Mozelle's with hair STILL LIKE THAT, then wake up and go to the market with hair STILL LIKE THAT! Disgusting? you betcha ;) but that's okay with me!
This is Johnny Flynn. I've decided he's my future husband....
listen to his beautiful english voice, bask in his flawed yet lovely facial scars...I'm in love ;) Also, I love that he plays the violin....
