my 1st 4th of july

ever since the 4th of july weekend (my first ever in the states!) i've been superly busy (and yes, ok, my photoshop trial ran out... aaaand i got lazyy but that's not my fault because it's HOT in florider [sic]...)
but here's a catch up! aka, a giant post of photos from the weekend =)

started the weekend out at the bar to celebrate seeing my boyfriend again after....2 months? something unnecessary.

not all my friends are guys... these are just the best photos...

pretty sunset:

and then came the traditional celebrations:

(accidental sparkler dropping = awesome photo)
















and finally some pool time:

this is the only glimpse of an outfit photo i took the whole time... even though i had two (maybe even three?) fantastically appropriately american looking ensembles


i may or may not have made special 4th of july watermarks.....;)

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shoes on the brain

so i was in the middle of making this post when i received a call from some people wanting to look at the place i'm living (we're selling it) in FIVE minutes. 5. fünf. cinq. cinco. etc. And I looked around my room and said "uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh how about thirty?" they showed up twenty minutes later as i was running out the door all panicky and weird. and i locked the door, so when they went to go in, having just seen me, they got all confused about having to unlock it themselves. boof. 


anyway. i haven't been much into taking outfit photos recently. i keep getting bitten by multitudes of bugs and it is not pleasant, even if i do like the photos more...


so insteeeeeead i found some cool art pieces through flickr that i thought i'd put up here because they are pretty to look at. and that is important. 


firstses, all of the following are from andrea joseph's sketchblog

she does a lot of drawings in ballpoint, which i always think is amazing, and a lot of shoes, which are awesome, drawn or not:

aren't they incredible?

i also really enjoy her drawings of pinboards, and collections of letters and things all jumbled together:

and now that i see how long this is, i shall save the other art for later =))))

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