sunny days & short hair

I cut my hair! and it turned into summer! 

Well, not exactly like that. It was actually already a beautiful summer day when I cut my hair and for about a week (or two?) after. Since then it's been mostly rainy. Hey, Mother Nature? My straw fedora looks a little silly in the rain. 

Anyway, these were sunny day outfits!

This dress? The more than your money's worth, once Mom's, always receive compliments dress. It's by go to for a hot, summer day - I'm a big fan of guaranteed comfort & guaranteed compliments, you know? 

In other exciting summer news, 3 of my 4 herbs have sprouted and my tomato plants look great (though little yet)! And the farmer's market starts this weekend:-)

Final thoughts for the evening, if you haven't read Keiko and Gala's posts about body image and blogging, you should check them out:
Keiko: On Body Image
Gala: Blogger Beautiful?...
Gala: Body Pressure...

my turn

Ok, time to play catch up. Here are some more outfits from my mini hiatus.

First up is another version of my Free People shirt, remember the one with the birdies? When I saw this one (also on sale, thank you Macy's!) I kind of knew I had to get it.

I've pretty much been rocking this hairstyle every day that I don't wash my hair, which I probably embarrassingly more often than it should be. I always wanted to be one of those cool girls who wore a bun on top of her head, and my hair is finally long enough to be one! Goal accomplished. One step closer to self actualization.

(sorry about my messiness of my room! I can't get it together and be clean...not that close to self-actualization after all...)

Next is an outfit made possibly by the wonderfulness of H&M. Maxi skirt + scarf = easy summer weekend outfit! I've been wearing this skirt a lot. I can get away with it at work and it's so easy on the weekend, I can't help myself!

I hope everyone who might be reading this is having a great summer so far, involving lots of lovely summer clothes and enjoying of sunshine. I certainly am enjoying the easy-going nature of summer clothes, and finally getting used to the fact that I just can't wear layers in Florida heat. I'm also enjoying silly summer TV shows, So You Think You Can Dance, anyone??

kind of a long time ago

Good things

-women's leadership conference with my mom

-walk to celebrate world refugee day this morning

No so good thing
-it rained on my strawberry picking plans! didn't the weather know that today was a particularly bad day to rain?

No story for this outfit, just something I wore sometime in the last couple of months when I wasn't blogging much. 

fancy pantsy

Hi blog! Miss me? I missed you. I did some stuff while I was neglecting you though, and that was fun. I went to a wedding and I got to dress up. Wanna see? Ok!

Spain is lovely

Not all that long ago, before many busy weeks at work and fun weekends and a delightful busy spring, my parents and I went to Spain to visit my sister!

Jet-lagged in Madrid and o-so-happy to see Nadia

yum.

botanic gardens in Madrid

desperately in need of spring after a long New England winter

jamón, so much jamón

churros & chocolate. yum.

garden wall at La Caixa in Madrid

Cuena y las casas colgadas, houses literally hanging over the gorge

driving from city to city and taking in the beautiful country

"Love Milk, Love Fruit, Love Chocolate"

more yum.

Granada was so pretty.

♥

Semana Santa

Flamenco!

La Mezquita in Cordoba

so much luggage. and I actually wore pretty much everything I brought. 

So, um, I'm back? I have a bunch of stuff to post, since it's been a couple of months...