going to the chapel

Phew! This week has been kind of crazy.  I left Tacoma last Thursday and spent two days driving down to Oakland to go to my cousin's wedding, and since then I've been over to Sacramento to visit family, and now I'm up just north of Crater Lake with no cell service but good enough internet to squeeze in a blog post before tomorrow morning.  This outfit is from last Saturday, when we went to the wedding.  I got this dress quite a while ago in 2011, and I don't really wear it that much, but it's a great summer dress, so I like to keep it around for just such an occasion as a fun summer wedding.
It was really fun to go to a family wedding and get to see all my family.  At my own wedding I barely even got to say "hi" to my family members, so it was nice to have that opportunity to connect with family who were at my wedding, but as a non-bride.  The wedding ceremony itself was very traditional, with hymns playing as the wedding party walked down the aisle, which was a different experience from my own wedding and the wedding I attended last Sunday, which had "Over the Rainbow" play as they came down the aisle and I had Bon Iver and Fleet Foxes for my wedding party processional.  Seeing lots of blogger weddings I forget how traditional weddings can be, having seen so many eclectic and modern unique weddings.  It was a beautiful wedding, though, and the reception was a blast.

 

dress/target :: shoes/courtesy of modcloth :: bag/courtesy of hearts necklace/courtesy of adorn by sarah lewis :: photos by my mom
I've been kind of stressed out about how off the grid I am.  I have a lot of things I need to be doing that I simply can't do, and so I'm trying to tell myself to stop being anxious and stressed because I really can't do anything to solve that problem and I'll just have to catch up when I get home.  And to not be pre-stressed about how stressed I might be when I'm back home playing catch up.  Because then I'm stressed now and later, when really I'm just choosing to be stressed now about a situation I can't do anything about, so I might as well chill and put off the stress till later when I can do something.  Ya dig?

puppy sundays

The past few months Dan and I have been visiting a litter of Corgi puppies in the hopes that soon we'll be Corgi parents!  I don't know if we'll be able to get one from this litter, but it's been super fun to spend time with the cutest balls of fluff on the planet!  These photos were from about a month ago and we went last Sunday and they were so much bigger and running around like crazy!  So full of energy.  Right up until they all instantly fall asleep.  They move so fast that if you try to take photos when they're running around, you just have a bunch of pictures of brown blurs.  So here are sleeping Corgi puppies because they're cuter than blurs.  Even if we don't end up getting one, it's been really fun spending a couple hours every Sunday getting my puppy fix.

Being in the Winnebago makes me miss Little Bit.  She used to sleep next to my feet while I drove, or on the passenger seat, and there's still tons of Little Bit fur covering the floor and seat where she used to lay.  Driving down here by myself made me realize how much company she really was on my big trip. I think it would've been much more lonely without her, and I'm glad my parents let me take her with me.  The companionship of a dog is such a special thing.  Little Bit was really my Dad's dog.  She used to jump up on him while he was sitting and with her feet on his chest would press her face onto his.  I'd love to have a loving canine companion like that someday!

reunited

Because I'm really great at planning ahead I totally spaced that I would be busy driving and have no time for blogging whatsoever.  I'm currently in Southern Oregon, though only for a few more minutes as I grab some internet at the campground before gassing up and heading down to California!  It's been so great being on the road in the Brave again.  It's like all the world is aligned when we're driving together.  Despite being neglected and having sat stationary for about a year and a half (sorry love!), she seems to be running like a champ.  We had a weird engine hiccup for a second, but it hasn't returned, so hopefully the remainder of the trip will go off without a hitch.  

She'd been sitting under a tree for a year at our old place and the front end was coated in thick organic gunk, so the day before I left I decided it would be embarrassing for her to have to be seen in such a state, and even though it was raining outside, I gave her a scrub down.  It's amazing how well she cleans up!  She looks almost new again!  Her forehead crunch looked so much worse with the grime accentuating, it, but when she's clean it's barely noticeable (a couple owners ago she was driven into the roof of a garage or something...).

Okay, well, we're off to the wild blue yonder!

goin' mobile

I spent most of yesterday editing photos and wearing sweats, but it was such a nice day it felt like a waste to spend the whole day indoors, so I threw on some shorts and went for a bike ride before the sun went down.  I've worn a very similar outfit before, but decided to tie the shirt this time.  Lately, tying shirts has been my go-to way to make things a bit more summer-y.  It's a fun way to give a different look to tops I've worn many times in the past.
I'm getting excited about my road trip this week.  I'm still debating whether to take the Winne or not.  The poor girl has been stationary since we got married in 2011, save a couple drives when we moved (she was our moving van), and her battery hasn't been holding a charge very well, despite being brand new.  I never had problems with her on my trip in 2010, which totaled about 11,000 miles, so I know she's a good rig, but it is a bit nerve wracking taking her out on a big trip after such a long time sitting.  I think I'll take her to the ol' Jiffy Lube to get a bit of a tune up and make sure all her fluids are good to go before I leave.  We're thinking making a permanent spot for the Winne in our backyard so we can have people visit and use it as a little guest "house" or maybe even an Airbnb rental.  And I still can't let go of the idea of turning her into a mobile vintage shop!  
Either way, I'm excited to get to hang out with my mom.  Originally we were going to road trip with my little brother, who is finishing his first year at college this week, but now he's flying home so he can start looking for a summer job, so it'll just be me and my mom!  I was remembering yesterday how when I was little I would dream about when I turned 16 and had my license.  I had a plan to go on a road trip with my mom when I turned 16, but it never happened, though we did go on a big family RV trip back in 2007.  So I'm a decade late on the mother-daughter RV trip thing, but it's finally happening!



top/courtesy of ruche :: shorts (similar)/target :: shoes (similar)/thrifted
 

skansonia

Man!  This weekend was crazy, yo!  On Friday I drove up to Seattle for my friend's bachelorette party, and since I was also shooting her wedding I went up early for the rehearsal to get a feel for the space.  The wedding was on the Skansonia Ferry, which is such a fun venue!  Before heading to the bachelorette party after the rehearsal I snagged some outfit shots on the ferry.  I figured a heart skirt was appropriate for wedding festivities.  Oh, and speaking of hearts, this bag is from an awesome shop called Hearts, which sells lovely things that are all fair trade/sustainable/eco friendly!  This bag comes in a few different prints, and I had a terrible time deciding which one to get because they're all so great. But anyway, the wedding was wonderful.  It's the first wedding I've been to since my own and it was so interesting to see a wedding having been on the other side of things.  I wish ours hadn't gone by so quickly but I don't think there's much to be done about wedding days feeling like they go by in a flash.  Pretty much everyone I talk to says theirs went by in a blink.  


top (similar)/forever 21 :: skirt/courtesy of modcloth shoes (similar)/courtesy of blowfish :: shades/vintage :: bag/courtesy of hearts