spooktacular

othing about the pieces of this outfit seems particularly halloween-y, but for some reason the outfit as a whole definitely gives me a spooky halloween vibe.  People keep thinking my green hair was done for a halloween costume, haha.  Back in the day, Kelly from The Glamourai used to call her daily outfit posts "costume of the day," which I rather liked.  Getting dressed is kind of like putting on a costume, trying to decide what you want to look like on any given day.  So I suppose my hair is for a costume, but it's just my everyday costume.  
This week has been... strange.  A lot has been going on in life that I just haven't wanted to talk about here on the blog.  The next couple months are going to be pretty busy, but I'm excited.  I feel like I'm going to blink and it'll be 2015.  Every year I'm amazed how fast the time flies.  November!  I mean, what??  Guess I'd better start brainstorming my Christmas gifts, eh?  And our Anniversary is on Wednesday!  So much fun stuff happens this time of year.  

 
top(similar) + shoes/thrifted :: cardigan/courtesy of dear creatures  shades/moorea seal:: jacket(similar)/modcloth  jeans/courtesy of modcloth :: necklaces/courtesy of adorn by sarah lewis

a truly outrageous halloween

o, I was planning on being Wonder Woman for Halloween, but as I lay in bed the night before Halloween, I remembered that I had the perfect Jem-pink wig and that a Jem costume could be pretty easy to pull together last minute.  Dan and I went to Value Village yesterday and I found a pink night gown and shoes that were the perfect pink, and I grabbed a slip which I cut into Jem's fringe belt and then painted with the blue design.  We found the microphone at Goodwill and I was set!  The make up was super fun, I used Lime Crime's Centrifuchsia for both my lips and for Jem's signature eye makeup.  On top of the lipstick I brushed on some of Sugarpill's Magentric loose eyeshadow and then some loose MAC glitter all over.  A little black liner and some dark bold brows and the make up was done!  It was a really fun costume and I'm glad I decided to go for Jem.  I'm still itching to wear my Wonder Woman costume, though!  A friend has a Halloween party up in Seattle tonight, so I might end up going to that, which will give me the perfect excuse to dress up again.

Oh, and Dan was a cowboy!

 

happy halloween!

appy Halloween from Monster Dust!  Martha Stewart Pets sent Dusty this little costume and monster toy for Halloween!  I changed my mind and decided to dress up as Jem for halloween, so hopefully I'll get some shots of my truly outrageous costume before the night is over.  

don't stop believin'

eah, teal.  I'd been getting super antsy about my hair color and after doing some test runs in photoshop to decide which color I liked best, I decided to go back to green!  My friend Bailey is kind of to blame, she always has the best hair colors (it's currently a steel grey which. is. awesome.).  If you've been around the blog for a long time, like really long, you might remember Bailey from the fashion shoot I did for my grad school portfolio.  I keep begging her to start a blog because her style is ON POINT.  I kind of want to steal every outfit she posts on Instagram.  Anyway, before she dyed her hair grey it was black-to-green ombre and I sorta fell in love.  Eleanor at Embellish, who did my red, took me green.  Originally I had planned to go from natural red, to "Ariel" red, to purple, to green, but I decided to just skip straight to green.  I kinda like how perfect it is for the halloween season! I was thinking of being Gamora for Halloween, but after cosplaying Gamora for BurlyCon I realized what a pain in the ass it was to paint yourself green, so I think instead I'll do Wonder Woman.  I got this amazing Wonder Woman onesie from Booty and the Geek at BurlyCon, so I'll probably just make myself a gold headband, put on my black wig and some tall boots and call it good.  Do you have any Halloween costume plans for this weekend?  

  top + jeans/courtesy of modcloth :: boots(similar)/thrifted necklace/handmade :: jacket(similar)/modcloth

WED // aaron + riki's chambers bay tacoma wedding

his past summer I had a booth at Art On The Ave, a super fun arts festival on Tacoma's 6th Ave every summer.  During the festival I did giveaways for some photo sessions and one super special giveaway for an entire wedding package.  Aaron and Riki were the winners and I'm so excited they ended up winning.  I got to shoot their engagement photos back in August and they ended up being some of my favorite photos ever.  I knew that their wedding was going to be super fun after meeting them at the engagement shoot.  I mean, they brought their dog and he was wearing a little shirt collar.  SO cute.

Their wedding was so laid back and lighthearted, it was a pleasure to be a part of their day.  Aaron's daughter gave an unexpected toast at the reception that had everyone in the room, including myself, with tears in their eyes.  So special, so meaningful.  The wedding was held at the Pierce County Environmental Services Building, which despite sounding unromantic, has an amazing view of the sound and we were able to zoom down to the waterfront in a golf cart to do some bride + groom portraits down on the beach.  We also got an incredible sunset that night that was mind blowing!  Nature FTW.