You are now looking at the face of a 23 year old! Yup, my birthday was on Friday and I am now the age that will be forever immortalized by Mark, Tom and Travis.

I had an absolutely wonderful, jam-packed birthday weekend! On Friday night I went down to Providence, RI to see my friend's band play their first show. They were great! Saturday, I went out with several of my girlfriends and then they all slept over my apartment and on Sunday I got a manicure and then went thrifting. AKA basically had a dream weekend. The thrift gods were gooood to me too. I'm a bit sleepy on this Monday though as I stayed up pretty late watching TV last night, but what can you do?
Here's a bit of a casual Summer outfit for you today. With Fall just around the corner (tears), I am trying to get as much last minute wear out of my Summer clothes as possible... hence these floral shorts. I love the pattern on these ones, and I also love the fact that they are not too short. I paired 'em with a vintage top for some good old fashion print mixing; the fact that there are similar blue tones in both the top and shorts keeps the pairing from looking too disjointed. The look is topped off with some vintage woven flats, my basket bag and a chunky vintage necklace and a bunch of bracelets (an "arm party" as my friend Sarah would call it). My friend Kaitlin actually made several of the bracelets as a birthday gift. They are lovely and I am lucky to have so many great friends in my life!

Hiya! It's Thursday, which is cool, for one because the weekend is just around the corner, and two because tomorrow is my birthday. Woohoo! I feel like mine totally snuck up on me this year!

These photos are from this weekend; this is what I wore to go see my friend's band (and a bunch of other bands) play a basement show. Thus, a pretty casual outfit here. The top is from American Apparel and one I've had for close to 5 years... one of those pieces that never seems to leave my wardrobe somehow and pretty much everything else is thrifted or vintage in some form.

I have also been really into amping up my jewelry collection as of late. All the sudden, I just want to adorn my neck and arms with interesting and unique items. Traditionally, I've never been the biggest jewelry person, but lately I'm really digging the look and I love experimenting with different necklace combos. It's a fun way to breathe some new life into an old outfit. I got the long copper necklace this weekend from a cute little boutique in the South End called December Thieves. It was a bit of a splurge for me, but I've worn it pretty much every day since so I think it was worth it.

There's also been quite a bit of chatter about Dana from Do The Hotpants posting her pre-photoshopped blog pictures, something that I think is brave, commendable and overall just wonderful. I was a little skiddish about posing in these shorts (they are super short!), and sometimes in general feel a bit awkward when posting pictures on here. I don't photoshop my pictures beyond fixing up any dark lighting, but you can bet that there are tons of outtakes where I think I look weird, bizarre, etc and therefore don't make it on to this space. I think that Dana's post is an important reminder that we should feel comfortable to share on these spaces and not to feel as though we need to change or alter ourselves -- easier said than done, of course! I'm not trying to turn this post into a spiel about body acceptance or whatnot, but just thought her post was very worthwhile and wanted to share.

Hey! I've been a very bad keeper of this blog lately, haven't I? Although it's certainly not excusable, I have a semi-good reason? I've moved back to Boston! So yeah, sadly the whole moving and starting a new job-thing has been taking over my life for the past month. That, and I just didn't feeeel like posting pictures of myself on the internet. Sigh.

I'm finally starting to feel settled in though and have been feeling tons of blog and vintage related inspiration, so hopefully I can keep those creative juices flowing.

Since it has been a little while since I've written on here, here's a little list of some things I've been up to in the meantime:

• Started a new job
• Been to a bunch of shows including Guided By Voices, A Sunny Day In Glasgow and The Wytches, all of which were excellent. I'm going to try and go see Twin Peaks tonight too provided that I'm not too tired!
• Vacationed down the Cape (twice!) 
• Was featured on the French blog, Miss Buttoned-Up! So cool!
• Started taking a sewing class. We're making pants!
• Went thrifting a bunch of times, heh