Our Girl Indigo

 Outfit Details: 

Jacket & Skirt: TJ Maxx

Eyelet top & Belt: Charlotte Russe

Purse: Forever21

Tights & Shoes: Target

Vintage ring, mood ring, and black ring from Belgium

Puppies: Indigo & Ollie

We recently lost our eleven year old dog, Indigo, who I've photographed several times. It was rough, but she had been having some health problems so it wasn't a terrible shock. She was such a beauty and a happy dog. She had bad hips for the last couple of years, but she didn't let it tear her down. More recently we had noticed that she wasn't feeling well, she moved less and less and tended to be in the way of the car more and more. A few days before she passed we found out she was diabetic, which explained her lose of weight and fatigue. She went peacefully in her sleep, there isn't much more to ask for than that. This will be the last post with her as a special guest. 

These were taken before we were aware of her sickness, and strangely, as the last pictures I was able to capture of her, they happen to be some of the cutest I have, especially the first one with both of the darlings. 

A Little Boho

Outfit Details: 

Dress: Kohl's

Shoes: Hottopic

Necklace: Vintage

Ring: France
Purse: gift

I'm not a nail polish kind of girl, I tend to kept it on forever or forget to ever paint them. But I decided I really needed TARDIS blue nail polish, this was the closest color I found which is made by Revlon. I actually really like the nail polish, it dries quickly which is perfect for those of us that can't keep our hands still for any amount of time. 

The dress was something that I had no intention of buying, but its crochet detailing and off-white color won me over. I played up the boho look, leaving my hair loose and messy, with minimum jewelry. Plus, my purse is awesome. How can you go wrong with an outfit with an accessory like that?

The Curve of Technology

It's funny how attached we can get to inanimate objects. For instance, I'm typing this out on my laptop. She has a name and stickers that I put on when she arrived at my house on July 2010. She has a few scratches and a funny mark on the screen where once I spilled tea on her. Her name is Octavia, in case you're curious. In the three years I've owned her I've learned to accept her quirks, like how, sometimes, the mouse won't work when I first sign in or how the task bar won't disappear on occasion, and the scary noise she makes when she's trying to read a disc. It's silly though, you know, to feel this attached to a piece of metal that sits on my lap from time to time. 

Sometimes, much of the time, I find it necessary to get far away from technology. Ask almost anyone, I have a bad habit of forgetting that I have a phone people try to contact me on. I prefer the quiet wind on a shady day to the hum of electronics. But far too often, I forget to step away and turn off all these battery sucking bugs. It might seem strange but taking outfit pictures, where I use a five year old camera (she feels older than that), takes me out of the modern day. Often enough, to take these pictures, I wander into scarcely habituated areas and sit for a moment, soaking in the lighting and the breath of the wind. 

As I get older and wiser, as we all know that at twenty a girl is as wise as can be, I have to wonder what these little gadgets really give us. They might simplify some things, but don't they make others more complicated? Isn't it that much harder to enjoy a night out when it seems that your company is sucked into the world evolving on these little things. Believe me, I get the irony that I'm writing about this on my blog. But sometimes the thoughts stuck inside one's head must be tossed to be heard by those that are willing to listen.

Outfit Details:

Shirt: my mom's

Tank: Kohl's

Shorts: Thrifted

Shoes: Macy's

Necklace: Hottopic

I think this (long) post matches this outfit. Its Indiana Jones theme-hopefully by now you've realized that I like to dress in themes-speaks of a character who tends to stick more to his wits and his hat, than technology-granted he is from the 30's so they didn't have cell phones back then., but still.

I think I need a hat like his, it would complete the outfit. I had wanted to take these pictures in a park close by, where there would have rocks to climb and a more Indiana Jones feel, however it rained that day and the lighting was awful. So, instead, I settled for the pack of trees by our pond and I think they worked nicely in the end.