I got a job!

For which I have to leave in about fifteen minutes, so I can’t say much other than it’s one of my secret dream-jobs… as a receptionist. Given… it’s at a construction office, where the dress code is nonexistent and everyone wears jeans (except me, ha!), but it should be a good job. It’s part time, and I’m most excited about the facts that a) it’s where my daddy works, and b) I will never have to work on the weekends. And also, no more getting up at 2:45am to go to work.

I don’t have time to put the pricing in my pictures, either, but my tights, watch, cardigan, and shoes were from Target, and my skirt and belt were thrifted.

I hope you all have a beautiful Tuesday!

I’m taking a little break from fashion posts to share a few pictures I’ve taken with Mr. Owl’s super-fancy camera. Mostly because it’s almost eleven and I’m not even dressed yet… but also because I have extreme camera-jealousy, and I’ve decided that all of my outfit pictures should be taken with Mr. Owl’s camera.

Which means… I have to steal it.

This day, we had an adventure in the deep woods, and it was glorious! I took a lot of pictures of mushrooms.  I also discovered that I am just allergic to the world, and it wants to kill me.

Learning to take pictures on a real camera (with manual focus, adjustable lighting settings, etc…), and not one like mine (which is autofocus, preset lighting settings) is fantastic. I love how much more I can do with the lighting (if I had a camera like this, my whites would never be washed out again!) and the focus (manual focusing things is not as scary as I thought it would be), and the quality of the pictures is so much better.

I definitely need to steal his camera.

That’s all I have for now, but you can expect many more random pretty pictures (most of them might be of Mr. Owl. Just warning you. I have an obsession with his face. ) in the future, whenever I can steal his camera away from him to take my own snapshots of life.

I hope you all have a beautiful Thursday!

Happy Valentine’s Day!

This, as I said yesterday, is the first Valentine’s day that I’ve had a special someone to share it with, and I wanted to wear something that was definitely Valentine’s-Day-esque… but the dress I was going to wear didn’t work out. Nor did any of the other inspiration ideas I had. They didn’t quite feel right. So I ended up with this– one of my favorite skirts, my favorite shoes, and a sweater that I love but rarely wear.

Of course, being me, and seeing as this skirt is twirly… I spent most of the pictures twirling.

What can I say? It’s all about love today, and I love twirly skirts.

And I was going to have my Valentine be in pictures with me for today’s post, until I realized that he won’t get here for a few more hours and I never write very good blog posts when he’s here.

Also, it’s raining. And I’m pretty sure he’d protest taking pictures in the rain by my fence. So there’s that.

Today, we plan to watch a very, very romantic show called… *ahem* The Walking Dead. It’s about zombies.

I know, I know. We’re too mushy for our own good.

I have decided that I should do this hair more often. Other than the fact that my hair is generally a little crazy  no matter what I do to it– crazy in the “I will do whatever I want to do no matter how many times you try to tame me” kind of way– so I have a few random flyaways and pieces that want to stick straight up… I quite like it. It’s a good style right now, since my hair is starting to go into that awkward phase again while I grow it out. Plus, it was easy. I did some pin-curls, slept on it, pulled out the pins, brushed it a bit… and voila! One or two hairpins, and this is where it goes.

Two things: I’ve created pinterest-board archives for my outfits, since I no longer have the outfit-archive blog page. So, to see all of the outfits I wore in 2011, click here. There are a few missing that I probably only posted on Chictopia, but those are all of the blog post outfits that I did from 2011… and it took SO much longer than I thought it would. But it was worth it. I’m fascinated by the transformation from my first 2011 outfit post– which was SO not me– into my outfit posts today. I look so different. I’m much more confident. And I’ve found my style, finally.

And for the outfit archives of 2012, click here.

I’ll be making little sidebar texts for both of them soon.

I hope you all have a beautiful Valentine’s day, whether you have someone to share it with or not. Remember, Valentine’s day doesn’t have to be about a significant other. Find someone you love, be it a family member, a best friend, or your cat, and show them that you love them.

And also, eat lots of chocolate. Because that’s what this day is really about.

This look has no pink in it, but I think it would work well for Valentine’s day. It’s girly, there are polkadots galore, and the curly hair (which I might do) tops it off as very romantic-looking. Besides, I’ve always been rebellious and gone with non-holiday themed outfits for holidays.

Then again, it’s the first time I’ve had a man on Valentine’s day (or ever…), so I should go all-out and paint myself pink. Right?

This one doesn’t feel very Valentine-y to me, but it IS very floral. And very striped. And very pink. And ultimately girly. Which works.

Suffice it to say… I felt overtly feminine on this day– I even painted my fingernails, which only happens like twice a year!– and it would work very well for Valentine’s day. There’s pink, purple, painted nails, shiny things, fabulous shoes… it’s becoming one of my favorite old outfits.

This dress is a strong possibility for me. Pair it with red tights, some heart earrings, and keep the red lipstick… and I’m sold. I have only ever worn this dress once, which is a very sad thing to say.

And lastly, a dress I’ve never worn on the blog OR in real life, despite having owned it for at least a year. I may be selling this dress, simply because I could never style it to my liking until now, when I finally bought some red tights and also have those maroon shoes that would work marvelously well with the colors in this dress.

I just can’t quite bear to part with it. It’s so delicate and pretty.

So what do you all think? What will you be wearing for Valentine’s day? Do you like the holiday? I personally have always loved Valentine’s day even though I’ve never had someone until now (squee!) to celebrate it with. I mean, seriously… people give me chocolate galore on this day. How could I not love it?

 I will hopefully be posting my Valentine’s day outfit tomorrow… with my Valentine, if I can convince him to do a photoshoot with me (which isn’t hard. He likes doing them), but still… I wish you all a beautiful Valentine’s day full of chocolate and loved ones.

Filed under: Fashion Tagged: Inspiration, Love, old outfits, Sick, Valentine's Day ]]> http://eccentricowl.wordpress.com/2012/02/13/valentines-day-outfit-inspiration/feed/ 11 Mara 050 http://eccentricowl.wordpress.com/2012/02/10/owl-inspired/ http://eccentricowl.wordpress.com/2012/02/10/owl-inspired/#comments Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:30:20 +0000 Mara http://eccentricowl.wordpress.com/?p=7545 ]]> I’m feeling a bit under the weather today (speaking of which, the weather is terrible…), so I thought I’d share a few bloggers and outfits that have been inspiring me lately when I get dressed. If you want more of my style inspiration, you can go to my Pinterest and find lots of pretty things there.

Click on the pictures to be taken to the original post.

Sydney, from The Daybook

Kendi, from Kendi Everyday

Kitsune-Kun

Naomi, from Rockstar Diaries

Michelle, from Love, Meesh

 I hope you are all having a good Friday! Happy weekend!