july, july

never felt so strange.

thrift store & yard sale finds!

I've been looking for a brownie camera ever since I heard that my grandma took pictures with one. I'd stumble across one at an antique store or a second hand shop every once in a while, but they were always kind of pricey for me...but one fine day I decided not to get a diet coke & fruit snacks from the vending machine at work & lo & behold, I come across a yard sale (on a friday afternoon at 3:00?!) & the first thing I see is this beauty for the same price as those fruit snacks & diet coke. SUCCESS! & As much as I would love to use it, the guy at West Side Camera pretty much convinced me I'd have an easier time going to Mordoor than to come across 620 film, load it & use it. I think it's do-able, though, I'll keep my eyes open.
Besides the camera, I also got this pink dress & the white belt in the picture above for just 1.5o! & although you can't see it very well, I'm also wearing a pink & blue scarf that I got from a cute old lady's yard sale for .50! yayyy.

Other things recently purchased for real cheap
~a ceramic leaf dish with an adorable squirell on it. It's cuter than it sounds, I should probably take a picture of it. 1$
~mildy high (saddle shoe-like) heels. 1$
~Owl shirt
~purple shirt for clinic in the fall
~seafoam green with blossoms swimming suit!

p.s. this is my first post in a really long time! If anyone is reading this, I hope you find some good finds at soon :)

lovely Laurie!: Annie Laurie's Antiques

This is Laurie, the owner & creative genius behind Annie Laurie's Antiques...she is a total sweetheart & her shop is one of my all time favorite places :) I get so many dresses and things from her shop! Plus, when you shop there you might get to run into her cat Dan (pictured above), which I always love <3

actually honestly

I've been thinking about this idea for a while--doing a project about acceptance & honesty.

So I've photographed the imperfections and marks and scars that I acquried.

I miss summertime

I love these kids :)

So much has been going on lately I don't know where to begin, so I'm just going to post some photos instead. :)

epic summer adventure!

It's been far too long since I've made a post, which is ridiculous, because I've actually been having more fun and doing more things these past few weeks of summertime than I usually do.

The best thing by far that has happened this summer was that I my friend Mattie & I got to meet the wonderful Cari Ann Wayman (yyellowbird on flickr) and Jon (jonapc123). It's probably a good thing that I let some time pass before I made this post, because had I tried to post it sooner it would just be a longwinded run-on sentence of gushing and exitedness. It was amazing! We spent the day exploring abandoned houses and taking pictures and it was just wonderful--Cari is honestly my favorite photographer of all time, and I feel so lucky to have met her and Jon both! They were both super sweet and fun to be around and had a lot of awesome stories about their travels. =) It was such an amazing experience, I could ramble on about it for a long time, haha. So instead I am going to upload some photos!