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Dress - Modcloth // Shoes - Hot Cakes // Necklace - Zulily

Busy weekend. Not much to say. The day these photos were taken I think I went to the flea market and maybe an auction.

Perspectives

Dress - Blue Platypus // Belt - Old Navy // Tights - Walmart // Shoes - Hotcakes

It's fun to do photoshoots and I owe I huge thank you to my friends Dominic Iudiciani (first four photos) and Jenn Shaw (last two photos--although I edited them) for letting me use these pictures on my blog! Didn't they do a great job? We're all in a portrait lighting class together and we often model for each other. And hey, I get some interesting blog photos! These are from last week, but we got some really, well, interesting ones today! Also, you get a glimpse of the University of Akron's art building in the background of these photos.

Dreaming of Florida

Shirt - Old Navy // Skirt - GAP (Thrifted) // Necklace - Forever21 // Shoes - Hot Cakes

I like to keep little icons on my laptop of what the weather is in Akron and Geneva since I tend to spend a lot of time in both cities. This summer I added a weather icon for Ocala, FL while I was down there. It just makes me sad to see that it's like 80-something in Florida...and it's generally really cold here. (Oddly enough, right now they all say 70 degrees, although the window is open right now and I'm pretty sure it is not 70 outside). As much as I love cardigans, it was so nice to not have to worry about bringing a cardigan with me everywhere in Florida! Anyways, I just thought of that 'cause these are pictures from Florida.

On a completely different note, I've really been enjoying my illustration class and I may post some of my work at some point. I'm really excited this semester 'cause I don't have any classes I absolutely hate. There are, obviously, some I like better than others. But for the most part, I'm enjoying the semester!

Micanopy

Dress - Lace Affair // Scarf - Cato's // Shoes - Hot Cakes

I'm still really tired after flying back from Florida yesterday and I actually typed "Hot Pockets" instead of "Hot Cakes." Ha. Yeah, I need sleep. Anywho, I'm back. Unfortunately. And it is DANG cold here! The past several weeks I've been in 95+ degree weather and it was only in the 60s today. (My mom even had on fuzzy socks!)

Well, these are pictures from Florida--I still have a few sets left to post. These are from Micanopy, a very very cute town in Florida. It's full of antique shops and art galleries! The funny thing is I really wanted to go back to Micanopy (I went several years ago), but I couldn't remember the name of the town. When we arrived at our destination I looked out the window and realized . . . this was the place I wanted to visit again! How convenient.

Anyways, like I said, I'm super tired. So, I'm off to bed!

Tarpon Springs

Shirt - Merona (Thrifted) // Skirt - Maurices // Shoes - Hot Cakes // Necklace - Claire's
Thanks, Catherine for taking the photos of me!

So yeah, these are pictures from Florida (My sister and I are visiting my Papaw). Know what that means? I'm all caught up on old photos!! At least I'm assuming I am. You know, at this point I'm not going back to check. I've really wanted to improve the quality of the photos on my blog, so I'm really excited to be done with the older photos and start posting new, hopefully better, ones!

Anyways, these are from Tarpon Springs in Florida--a rather fun, beautiful, place. This was the one place I was really looking forward to visiting on this trip since the last time I went was 10 years ago! Tarpon Springs is a beautiful little tourist town with dolphin watching, sponge diving, and the largest Greek population compared to any other city in the US.

We went out on a boat to watch a guy sponge dive--very fun. After that we just walked around the town and visited a bunch of family owned shops. I bought some lilac goat's milk soap which, I must add, smells amazing. Later, we drove to the less touristy area and walked through several antique shops. One in particular had a very large WWII section with uniforms, weapons, letter...etc. Busy day! But very fun :) Hope summer's going well for all of you!

Tall Ships

Skirt - Agenda // Shirt - KDS Spring (Thrifted) // Belt - Vintage // Shoes - Hot Cakes

And yet another boat related activity! When I heard about the Cleveland Tall Ships Festival I knew I had to go! I've always been fascinated with ships and sailing, and seeing these ships in person and actually getting to tour them....amazing. I've never had so much fun!

We almost went to the Titanic exhibit in the Science Center instead, but I suggested (vehemently suggested, I might add) that since the Titanic exhibit is here until January and the Tall Ships Festival is only this weekend (well, ya know, the weekend I wrote this)...we should see the Tall Ships today. Not that I don't want to see the Titanic exhibit--I'm definitely going to see that. But, I'm so glad that I got the opportunity to go see the Tall Ships!

There were several ships there, but we only toured the STV Unicorn (Yes...Unicorn. Who was in charge of naming that ship, I don't know...) and the Sorlandet. There were also a ton of people walking around in pirate costumes--I wish I could have gone in pirate gear! That would have been fun.

Anyways, the Unicorn is crewed only by women and offers programs for teens and women who want to learn to sail and gain leadership skills. It was a smaller ship, but it was still fun to tour. It was also constructed from the remains of old German U-Boats that were abandoned after the war.

Lastly we toured the Sorlandet. The Sorlandet is the oldest fully functional tall ship in the world! It was also very beautiful. It was a pretty large ship as well--over 200 ft long. I wish we could have stayed on the ship longer though. It's actually a school as well and offers high school and freshman college classes. I really wish I'd known about that before...sounds awesome! And I would have loved to do that :)

Oh, and we also got to tour a custom bus, The Peacemaker, custom made from parts of a '49 and '55 bus. It was beautiful inside, as you can see from the pictures. It sleeps up to 24 people and even has a kitchen on the inside!

Anyways, hope you enjoyed the pictures! Have you ever toured or wanted to tour a ship?