Balance And The Blogger

Wait- i'm not .... oh, for goodness sake - !

Okay, just need to adjust my footing here ....... oh.

Almost there.....
Ta da!

I've worn this outfit, with variations, three or four times this summer but haven't photographed it before now (no reason - i just didn't). It's fun and breezy and i love the shape it makes - kind of a 1920's vibe, maybe.

it's even more fun with a heel and stockings. But i spent most of the day in bed, letting my leg rest up, so these flats and socks were a better choice. I was ticked at having to 'take the day off' so i wore something fun in compensation. The weather is turning around in these parts, and i get the feeling this type of get-up will only be practical a little while longer.......


Dress: April Cornell
Petticoat: own design, inspired by Alisa Burke
Shoes: old Borns
Belt: Betsey Johnson
Ribbon Pin: own design
Hat: gift
Socks: gift (my friend said she thought they were perfect 'reading socks' - you would wear them for lounging around the house and reading on a cool night. it's a new one on me!)

Extremes

This is last Saturday in the Marina district of San Francisco. Yes, that's a wool tweed jacket and wool blend tights. I was comfortably clothed for the weather. It was in the sixties but with mucho wind coming through the Gate. I'm holding onto my hat for real!

This is yesterday in my carport at 5:15pm. It was 105 degrees fahrenheit, down a bit from 106 earlier. I had a short little photo session (but i'm so dedicated - or is that deluded? - that i didn't bug out of it!).

I'd been wanting to take some pix for you all in this spot for weeks but didn't get around to it until last night. When i cropped the photo i was tickled the way the rectangles in it give a little Fibonnaci's spiral feel.

Three days later and maybe twenty five miles away as the crow flies? And you go from brisk fall day to Death Valley summer. This is why you hear people go on and on about the weather around here. Oh, and we may have to cancel a trip to the Sonoma coast Sunday because of rain. In the dry, high-fire danger season.

Thank you for stopping by! I'm off to wallow in the spectacle of my brain poaching gently in a light broth. It WAS a bunch of fun to play 'fall dress up' last weekend......i'll just daydream about that while i put ice cubes down my brassiere....


Raise your hand if you're ready for fall! Here's some tweedy morsels to tempt you, meanwhile:


mmmmm......layers......... (drool).......

Hat: ???
Jacket: vintage J. Crew
Dress: April Cornell
Tights: gift
Shoes: old Borns
Scarf, Flower Pins, Necklace: own design
Belt: vintage coach

Bandanna: Target
Cami top: own design
Skirt: own design
Belt: very vintage
Earrings: liliswan (ooh! she has a bunch of nice new things!)
Necklace: origins lost in the mists of time