poppies will put them to sleep...

soooo... a quick word about my new layout...

poppies are my favorite flower by a longshot. it sucks that you never see poppies in flower arrangements, because if they were easy to keep in vases, my room would be full of them all the time.

they're so delicate and papery, and fields of poppies look so gorgeous with the orangey red up against the green of the stems and the blue of the sky. i first fell in love with poppies as a tiny, tiny girl watching The Wizard of Oz - I always wanted to go curl up in that poppy field and fall asleep (not realizing how morbid that scene kind of was...).  it was compounded by my first trip to europe, where my family took a train through the countryside and we flew through field after field of beautiful poppies in france...

someday, if i ever get married, i'm going to find a way to have a bouquet of poppies. then, if i have a daughter, i bet you can guess what my first choice of names would be...

when i move out of my parents' house, i want to have a whole wall of poppy prints - here are some of my favorites...

red poppy: georgia o'keefe

poppies: jean picton

red poppy abstract: margaret little

boys, take note: never send me roses, always send me poppies

Night on the Town (in my Dreams!)

so I started experimenting on polyvore for the first time today, and decided to create the ultimate going-out look for when my friends come down from Cleveland to visit this weekend. The items I picked are vaguely similar (but infinitely more amazing) than the ones I have in my closet.

Anyway, I'm totally digging the skull trend - especially when it's done unusually, without the regular chunky silver design. And I always like a clutch that's going to add a pop of color, so I'm pretty happy about my creation. Also a little bit jealous that I can't ACTUALLY pull these clothes out of the computer and wear them

Inspirations are Inspirations for a Reason...

So, one of my favorite bloggers is Jessica from What I Wore. I like Jessica because she's a normal girl (well, very pretty, but normal other than that). She's not super wealthy and finds amazing ways to style affordable clothes. Plus she's an alum from the school my little brother goes to (and I'm hoping to go there for Grad school...) so that's always a plus.

I started a personal blog a few months ago to document my adventures with lymphoma (I got tired of telling the same stories over and over again) and soon got tired of posting ONLY about the hospital, etc. so I started posting little bits about fashion. I kind of realized that cancer and fashion don't always go together so well, and lots of times my immune system is too low for me to go out with my friends (even though mostly I feel fine). I still dress up a LOT for class or to hang around the house, so I made the executive decision to start a fashion blog. I started reading LOTS of them for inspiration, and kind of got an idea of what I wanted to do.

Anyway, Jessica posted an entry about starting a fashion blog, and I'm so happy to have the advice! I'm hoping to start posting better pictures soon and see where everything goes. But in the meantime, thanks to Jessica (among many, many others) for inspiring me to start posting on my own!