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Tonal Tuesday: dusty daydreams

These colors are for laying in fields & braiding flower crowns in vintage dresses. Wistful, a little dusty & worn but beautiful nonetheless.

Tonal Tuesday: float on a dream

Saccharine sweet & childish dreaming. Cotton candy, blue skies, green grass, yellow sun & vanilla ice cream. Children’s stories with happy endings. Perfect nursery rhyme color scheme.

ooh…headers!

Tonal Tuesday: Tart 'n' Tangy

Let’s combat some stormy weather with acid brights. I generally wear black, white & grey but have been adding bright yellow rainboots, my lime green purse & a hot pink umbrella to counteract the grey skies. Sort of like a candy bomb.

Tonal Tuesday: Sanctuary Sanctuary

Oh green, I think you’re my favorite even though I try not to play favorites! Think soft & cozy, warm domestic bliss. Think your own secret world. I think that these colors resonant with comfort for me is due to my childhood love of wandering in the woods by my parents house. I wasn’t really supposed to but I would pull on some boots and go off tromping through the woods. I would build little nests and move rocks, swing on branches, you know those things that children do. It was always so quiet and the light soft. I’m glad I’ve brought this palette to our living room. Cozy, calm & clean.

Friday5: Week 1. Apparently it was a mostly green week. & a chopping week. I decided to do a modified 365, I guess? Only with my mac photobooth & 5 times a week, updated once a week. This is the first round but I’m guessing I’ll get more creative with it as I go along. It does look like I’m starting to run away as of Thursday though, ha!

Julie & Scott get hitched.

I think this was the most enjoyable part about wedding planning (other than tasting cupcakes, of course!).

Scott & I have fairly different aesthetics so it was a fun challenge to mesh them together. Obviously, I lean towards the retro-adorable side and he leans more toward modern-awesome.

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Despite the snow earlier this week, Spring is starting to roll into Chicago! And with all the birdies singing & the flowers popping, I’ve got candy-colored pastels on the brain. This color scheme has got me thinking about the dance scene in Grease; you know, when Frenchie looks like a banana? All those creamy, dreamy, frothy confections of dresses are dancing around in my head!