5am Wakeup Call

Gotta love the magic of photoshop! Setting up a tripod and snapping my 2 go-to poses gets old real fast so I thought I'd do something a little different for these outfit photos, and have some editing fun. I don't know what's with my blog drought lately, but I don't like it. I can tell that it's affecting my style too. Usually when I don't blog as much, I'm not reading as many blogs either. Which ultimately leads to feeling a lack of inspiration when I get dressed. Enough I say! I'm so over it. Funny how lacking a bit of style for a week makes you realize how good it feels to absolute love an outfit.

Okay, enough rambling! I wore this outfit to class in Chicago. I've noticed that my Milwaukee > Chicago commute outfits are all about layers. The weather can be totally different even though they're really not all that far apart. This outfit was all about mixing patterns/textures. Lace+Denim+Pattern = a super easy throw-on-at-5am outfit(yes, 5am. I wish I was kidding about that).

Denim Button-Up: H&M

Top: Urban Outfitters

Leggings/Pants: TJ Maxx

Shoes: TOMS Shoes

Jewelry: Forever 21

And now a random shot I took while taking these in my backyard. I just love how everything looks after it rains.

Subtly Feathered

These photos are from me and Mary's second downtown outfit shoot/apartment hunting/general summer fun day. I probably could've made that less confusing but I'm on the verge of falling asleep and I set today as my deadline for getting this post up. Must. Blog. Not that it's not something I don't love doing, it just tends to fall to the wayside(what does that even mean?) when life gets a bit too hectic. I'm sure lots of you know what I mean. :)

As you can see it was a beautiful day, so an outfit photo shoot was definitely necessary. Oh, and you might be wondering about the name of this post. My necklace and shirt have feathers on them, so 'subtly feathered' it was. I swear, naming posts can be the hardest part of getting a blog post up. 

Quick note about summer dressing: it's HARD. I find that it's so much harder to be creative and fun with my fashion in the summer, since well..I'm wearing less articles of clothing. I might have to start wearing *gasp* dresses! Nothing against them, it's just never been my thing. But since I'm itching to expand my summer clothes options, I may just have to dust off the dresses I have.

One more thing and I'm off to bed: I would kill for this weather again(okay, not quite). Today I'm wearing pants, long sleeves, a scarf, and a jacket...come ON, it's JUNE! Coldest summer ever. Okay, I'm done now. Not blogging for awhile leads to some long posts!

Super pretty flowers at our favorite lakefront coffee shop :)

Mary in her adorably summery getup!

The cute little path we shot our photos at..although there was some sketchy yelling and whatnot further down so we stayed near the top haha.

Top: Forever 21

Shorts: Gap Outlet

Shoes: TOMS Shoes

Necklace: Forever 21

Bolts

 So this outfit isn't anything all that innovative or exciting, but I just really like this necklace..and it was super nice out. :) I got this necklace in Milwaukee a while ago, but this is the first time I've worn it. I just couldn't figure out what to wear it with for some reason. And then I threw on this outfit without much thought(finals have drained my brain), and knew it needed something, so voila! Bolt necklace.

Speaking of finals, I'm done with this semester!!! IT'S SUMMER! Finally. Now I just have a week off until my summer classes start...greaaat. Oh well, anything's better than full time school right now ha.

Oh, and how nice is this location? It's right next to the Chicago Art Institute(you can see in the background of the picture below), and it suddenly got really pretty with spring. SO happy Chicago's no longer so gray :)

Top: Anthropologie

Jeans: Levi's

Shoes: TOMS

Necklace: Milwaukee boutique

Photos by Alex! :)