the gram, pt. 2

Again, I've been a lazy blogger, and lazy in terms of fashion, and the only thing I have to post on here anymore seems to be something from my ever-growing instagram feed.... summer is quite a dull time for outfits, at least for me, as I feel much more comfortable in sweaters and tights and wool skirts and capes and so on, and far less comfortable in anything sleeve-less or too short (the struggles of being six feet tall...). Thus, my favorite outfits are mostly nonexistent, and, with dwindling funds, I haven't made too many fantastic clothing-related purchases in the past couple of months.

But to me, summer means fresh fruit and late-morning breakfasts and lots and lots of flowers, so at least something has kept me clicking my camera (even if it is just a phone camera right now...)

I have some photo-shoots to post shortly as well, so stay tuned!

San Francisco Conservatory of Flowers.

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Packin'.

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Thrift store finds.

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Junk store finds!

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Pretending to be Amelie for the day...

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framboise

The other day (all clad in my new-but-vintage pink polka-dot skirt from the darling Ms. Ashley Ording)   I met up with my lovely friend Sonja, to have a macaron-baking adventure (she hadn't ever made them, and I hadn't in nearly a year). Our original plan was to bake rose-flavoured macarons with homemade lychee-raspberry jam in the middle, but our end result turned out to be a plain shell with a mostly-raspberry (and slightly lychee flavoured) center. They were still utterly beautiful, though, and were well worth the five plus hours of baking!

Sonja, after it all. x

Me, mixing! x

A few were messed up, but most of them looked perfect. x

(And on a gorgeous little French plate). x

The most delicious organic raspberries; I was almost sad to mash them into a jelly. x

the gram

I told myself I wouldn't, but I too have been sucked into the all-too-lovely world of instagram. I've been doing a lot of photo-shoots lately (hooray!) and haven't had quite as much daily-life related stuff to blog about. However, I have been purchasing plenty of clothes (and other random trinkets) and have been using my phone to document all the little, marginally-insignificant moments that I find beautiful and that are keeping me going through a rather gloomy summer. (I do have adventures planned for the next few days, however! Don't fear!) x

Below is a mixture of instagram photographs and other little purchases and finds (un-edited in any way). x

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