inspiration monday no. 1

Sweater: Target; shirt: Charlotte Russe; pants: thrifted; shoes (seen later): thrifted

I finally got around to participating in an Inspiration Monday Challenge by Two Birds! I want to get more connected to the blogosphere at large, so this seems like a nice, easy way to ease in.


This was the inspiration image. Katie Holmes, and I'm only just now realizing how almost exact my "interpretation" is.


I wore this on Saturday (so much for being inspired on Monday?) to go yard saling with Don, and we made out like bandits! I'm thinking about doing a post dedicated to our haul from just one perfect yard sale. The woman whose yard sale it was had recently gotten her Dutch mother's (grandmother's maybe) old things out of storage and was getting rid of some of them. It was a total goldmine, I'm lucky I only brought so much money with me or else I would have had a car full of things and no idea what to do with them.

I don't think we got anything from any of the other yard sales we went to. At one point I even said that I wished the signs for one of them had said "Garbage Sale" instead of "Garage Sale." Maybe that's a bit rough, but really so many people's mindset in getting rid of things is, "I know this is junk that's why I'm getting rid of it, but you should buy it from me."


I'm also getting a better at posing for pictures in a way that doesn't look like I'm super posing for them. Don pointed out that he liked this round much better than others because I don't look like a weird girl who isn't me. I also like them better.



Though this is also what happens when looking less posed. I make this face a lot. It's definitely a "Really?!?" face.