Fedora | Mascara or Motoroil

one last time before winter

This Ohio weather is killing me- one day it’s 80 degrees and the next it’s 50! This was one of my favorite summer outfits, and I threw it on yesterday morning when it seemed nice and warm. However, by 7 o’clock when I was closing up the shop I was freezing! I was glad to finally document this outfit though since I wore it all summer but was without a camera.

I just love the crap out of my Orange Fuzz brooch- the artists live above Chicken Lays An Egg, where they also make soap! Check out their Etsy shop!

(I’m definitely not engaged folks- it’s just a vintage ring that only fits that finger)

WHAT: green straw fedora, forever 21

blazer/vest, h&m

brooch, orange fuzz

chain, thrift

gold ring, my gramma

watch, chicken lays an egg

jeans shorts, hand-me-downs

old lady shoes, street fair

WHERE: work at chicken

WHEN: monday, october 5

new camera day one

What a fantastic week it’s been! I don’t know about you, but I had a really rough summer. I was broke constantly (like, I have 50 cents to my name kind of broke) and I was just in a slump. Every year, as soon as the smell of fall hits then air I get reinvigorated; and this year has been no exception. I have to say that it also doesn’t hurt that my luck has seriously changed in the last few weeks. As I mentioned in my last post, my mom did the most awesome, generous thing ever and bought me not only a camera, but a sewing machine as well! I’m almost overwhelmed by how much this is going to do for everything in my life: my blog, online sales for Chicken Lays An Egg, learning how to do more serious alterations, and just the fun factor! I feel like I can finally throw myself back into my blog, which makes me really happy. Aaaaaannyway, here are some of the shots Jacob and I took today! These first few are just some that I took around our apartment last night.

Murderface the alligator attacks a Cabbage Patch Kid

Have I ever mentioned that we have four dogs in our apartment? Maya (roommate/business partner extraordinaire) has two and Jacob and I have two.

Maya’s Jack Russel, Dexter

Lady, Maya’s other dog is a beagle/shih tzu mix.

Charlie is the puppy that I got Jacob for Christmas last year. Supposedly she’s a boxer/collie mix, but she looks nothing like either of those. She actually looks like a tiny bloodhound or something. Whatever she is, she’s very sweet and a master of looking sad.

Chopper has the extra-sad face going on because she had just gotten in trouble for growling at one of our friends. She’s a little skittish sometimes because she was abused so badly by her original owners, so we are forgiving when she freaks out. It kills me when she looks that sad, but she also knows that and also has it down to a fine art.

Jacob took this earlier today at the shop, and it’s my favorite picture that’s been taken with my camera so far. The entire brick wall of the building next door to us is covered in ivy but it’s starting to die off for the season, hence the black base. This picture hasn’t been enhanced or anything, that’s just how it came out! Oh wait, this is a style blog right? I guess I should show you what I was wearing.

I love these fucking jeans so much. I don’t know what I’d do if something happened to them.

That is a real horseshoe crab, covered in gold and made into a brooch. I got it from my friend who sold me the sweet parrot necklace from a few entries ago.

And I’ll leave you with a little emoface.

WHAT: vintage brown fedora, borrowed from Chicken Lays An Egg

striped sweater, Chicken Lays An Egg

horseshoe crab, yard sale

jeans, urban outiftters

socks, yard sale

high heel brogues, macy’s

WHERE: work at Chicken

WHEN: friday, october 1

birthdays galore

Maybe it’s due to the fact that my birthday is in August, but I feel like it’s non-stop birthday month! The trend of me being a total summer slacker continues; I am just now posting the pics from my birthday which was August 5. Not that I’m behind or anything.

This year my birthday fell on a Thursday, and I was crazy busy and stressed getting ready for the fashion show we were participating in that weekend. So the Monday of my birthday week, my boy and I took a mini road trip to Indiana and spent the day driving around in the country. When I was first out of high school I joined my brother and some of our friends working at a summer camp out there for a few years, so it is kind of like going home for me. Although I only worked there for 3 years and it’s just a summer program, I feel like I’m home when I go back. It’s definitely the same kind of rolling countryside that I grew up in too. It makes me so happy to finally get out to those wooded areas where you can feel the temperature drop 5 degrees automatically; I can just feel my whole body relax.

Fun side story: my boy and I thoroughly enjoy driving around listening to music, and this trip is definitely no exception. Unfortunately, someone ripped the stereo out of his car about a week before. Surprisingly, we didn’t have a boombox around the house so we were starting to get really bummed about not having tunes all day. That’s when my MacGyver of a boyfriend fashioned this!

One cell phone, one camera tripod, and one gaping hole

What a man! :) AND since his phone has a navigation function, it also served us very well as a GPS! Anyway, back to our trip…

Hope you weren't in a hurry, cause you're not going anywhere soon!

Look at that gorgeous corn! We spent a few hours just driving aimlessly around looking at the countryside and stopping at little shops. I could spend days doing just that.

One of my absolute favorite things ever are abandoned buildings, especially houses like these. There are so many out in the country too.

One of many Amish homes in that area; it reminded me how amazing sun-dried sheets smell. I swear, there’s nothing in the world like it.

At some point during the day I absolutely had to be in a creek at some point during the day. Originally we had planned to go to a swimming hole that I used to know about, but we never did find it.

Ahhhhhh….

Our next big stop was in Madison, this cute little river town in southeastern Indiana.

I’m a total sucker for old movie theaters, I wish there was one around me that played classic movies.

This is what I really came to Madison for. Hinkle’s is a must if you are ever near there!

They have the best milkshakes there too, and everything is supercheap. What more could anyone ask for?

After we gorged ourselves on mini burgers and milkshakes, we decided to walk around the town a little. It was just getting to be sunset so it was perfect for a stroll.