Disco, disco

This vintage cardigan came with a matching sleeveless sweater dress and I'm trying to decide if I should sell them together as a set or just sell the dress and selfishly keep the cardigan even though I have a million-billion cardigans already. So I'm taking it out for a test drive today to see what I think! 

Cardigan - thrifted vintage International Boutique

Shirt - Julie Brown

Pants - Gap

Loafers - Enzo Angiolini

This shirt always gives me a case of what I'm going to call "Disco Ball Neck"...

Two more Post-It note sketches from the 30 day drawing challenge...

Day 18, draw a plant. I drew a Dahlia which are one of my favorite flowers (along with Ranunculus and Zinnias.)

Day 19, draw a doodle. I teach kids to draw these frogs all the time when they are sick and waiting to be picked up by a parent.  The distraction usually makes them forget about the fact that they have a fever and thus are an emotional mess. 

Toodles, kiddos! Have a fabulous weekend (because I know I won't... I'm working an 8 hour shift for the photo booth for a corporate holiday party tomorrow. Oh joy.)

Animal sweatshirts

I feel like this outfit belongs on a 5 year old, but I don't do the twee thing too often, so I figure it's okay once in a while. Besides, it got cold here and all I want to do is wear sweatshirts and jeans every day so today I'm going to. I found this sweatshirt in Marshall when I was there for Thanksgiving. I also got a matching one with a frog on it. They also had one that had a huge caterpillar wearing a hat on a leaf and another one with bowling pins and a bowling ball. I left those two behind though, they were just too crazy, even for me. It was pretty awesome though - I got 2 sweatshirts, a sheepskin vest, and a bomber jacket for $8 total. Gotta love those small town prices!

Polo - from when I was a bev cart girl at a golf course

Sweatshirt - thrifted vintage

Jeans - Bitten by SJP

Shoes - thrifted vintage Santorini

Fuzzy koala...

More Post-It Note sketches from the 30 day drawing challenge (I'm still way behind in posting them! Ahhhh!)

Day 13, draw a comic. I stole this one from an episode of Seinfeld because it always makes me laugh hysterically.

Day 14, draw your fave fairy tale. I don't really have one so I cheated and picked the musical Into the Woods because it has alllllll the fairy tales in it and it's hilarious!

I cheated even MORE and skipped day 15 (at least for now) because it was to draw a family portrait and that's hard! And the last one I could find was from my sister's wedding six years ago... hmm, I'll have to look around for some newer ones and get back to you...

Day 16, draw inspiration. I love looking through National Geographics, especially the old ones!

The Whos

I feel like a Who down in Whoville... for some reason stripes always remind me of Dr. Suess.

Sweater - J.Crew outlet

Polo - from when I was a bev cart girl at a golf course

String tie - thrifted vintage

Bracelet - thrifted

Skirt - thrifted Ann Tjian for Kenar

Boots - Timberland

I've gotta play catch-up for a few days for postings of the 30 Day Drawing Challenge... so here's the next three.

Day 10, draw your favorite candy. Gummi bears are surprisingly hard to draw. I should have picked Reese's Pieces because they're just circles (and are a close second fave.)

Day 11, draw a turning point in your life. I picked moving 6 hours away from home to go to the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. I almost went to Ohio State because they offered me a scholarship. I often wonder what would have happened if I'd gone there instead... I would have a whole different life!

Day 12, draw your most recent accomplishment. Hmm, at the time I hadn't just renewed my Professional Rescuer certification so I picked my bike! I recently found a non-working vintage Schwinn Breeze and took bike repair classes to learn to fix it. I took the whole thing apart, repaired it, and now it works! Woo!

The birds

Today...

Blazer - thrifted little boys

Blouse - vintage via eBay

Jeans - Gap

Clogs - Zigi Soho

Details...

I'm playing catch-up on some Post-It Note sketches from the 30 day drawing challenge... I didn't want to overwhelm you with photos yesterday, so here's the next three (which kinda all go together, theme-wise!) 

Day 7, draw your favorite movie. This one was hard because I didn't know what to draw to represent the movie. So I drew the ground, with a bellbottom, a rugby sock, an egg from the freshman girls hazing scene, and of course a beer can and cigarette butt.

Day 8, draw your favorite animated character. I was torn, King of the Hill is my fave, but I couldn't decide which character to pick. I went with Hank but I also love Bobby and Dale. (For animated shows, I also love Bob's Burgers and Aqua Teen Hunger Force.)

Day 9, draw your favorite TV show. I picked Parks and Rec (and Ron Swanson, duh!) but I also love 30 Rock and Happy Endings (and some dramas like Breaking Bad and Dexter but they aren't favorites since I only wanna watch them one time, not over and over like comedies). Also, I guess Seinfeld would be my all time fave, but I went with something that's still currently showing new episodes.

Last night Nate and I made dinner, watched The Walking Dead from Sunday, and then went to volunteer at Cycles for Change. It was super easy and fun (except for when we had to repair a chain - my least favorite thing to do - it's so messy and you have to be so precise!)  Then we had to double check fixed bikes to make sure all the necessary repairs were done and everything was in working order and shifting and braking smoothly before they get rented out in the "bike library." Then we installed a bunch of rear racks on the finished bikes. Today was day two of getting up early and exercising before work. So far, so good! 

So many things

Saturday... worked a wedding for the photo booth.

Dress - Target GO International

Watch - Billabong

Shoes - Michael Kors

I had an excellent weekend. My friend's brother was in town for the weekend so we had a big bonfire on Saturday (luckily I got done with the booth at 10pm). Sunday, we watched a ton of football and made fondue. I had the day off yesterday, which I spent making t-shirts and went to a few thrift stores.

Today...

Sweater - thrifted vintage Amaretto by Jon Michel

Necklace - thrifted

Skirt - Target

Tights - Target

Shoes - thrifted Enzo Angiolini

I've gotta quick go vote after school then go pick up my mom from the bus station since she's in town this week to help my sister. I've mentioned before that my brother-in-law is a pilot and he was stuck in NYC all last week after the storm. He finally got home and now has to go do some international flights so my mom is visiting to help with Henrik so Kim doesn't feel like a single mom.

Here's day two and three of the 30 day Post-It Note challenge:

Day two, draw your fave animal! I don't really have a favorite animal. It's always changing. Giraffes. Seahorses. Whales. Right now I've been on the lookout at estate sales for a vintage mounted Marlin because they are awesome.

Day three, draw your fave food!

Ugly duckling

Sweater - thrifted vintage (no tags)

Jeans - Gap

Shoes - Bongo

Woooooooooooo! I made it to Friday! It was a busy week! I'm going to my friend Erik's for his birthday party tonight and I'm ready for a beer. Or three.

I saw over on Orchid Grey that she's doing a 30 day drawing challenge and thought it would be fun to join in:

I'm pretty mediocre at drawing and I enjoy it, but I get busy and then I forget to do it. So hopefully having "assignments" every day will help. However,  I don't want to put tooooo much time and effort into it so I'm doing a post-it note sketch every day rather than a big ol' drawing. Of course, the first day is the hardest - drawing yourself. Stupid self-portraits, kills me every time. So here ya go, day 1:

Let me know if anyone else decides to do it, you only missed day one so now's the time to start!