if you follow us at all, you know I’m totally obsessed with cutting my jeans. It’s one of the many perks of thrifting! I’m much more adventurous on my “alterations” when I’ve spent less than $20 on a pair of jeans. Usually less than $15! I went through a distressing my own jeans phase.
Now, I’m all about chopping off the bottom of all my jeans. You see the raw hem trend EVERYWHERE, which is TOTALLY helpful when you have a short inseam!
And also….striped button down tops! I had to have an extension to my striped tee obsession haha.
But back to the cutting of the jeans…
It’s to the point that it’s getting a little out of control-ha! Yet…not?
It’s like I’m giving new life to jeans I was NEVER wearing! AND…now I LOVE them.
So, is that wrong? I think not.
I had to admit to myself. Long jeans with heels are not happening anymore. SO, all my beloved “date night” long jeans….chop chop!
And I’m now I want to wear them all the time!
And they will just get better with every wash…
And I’m late in posting this. Like…really late.
BUT, I’ve said it before. One of my favorite things to thrift is vintage wool coats. You can find AMAZING coats with details you can’t even imagine for less than $30! This one was $16, and I have to be honest…I was cranky about that hahaha.
YET…if you were to buy a true camel hair coat of this quality in the stores, you’d be paying $200 minimum, and upwards of $500!) . SO, again, go thrifting! Even if you are in a small town! Go to vintage/antique stores or malls! I’ve found some GEMS visiting random little towns.
On me…
Gah!!! Love HER FACE!
And then….hahaha.
Some of my new favs…
These are both now GONE!! I really need to capture her gap toothed smile more before the teeth grow back in!
She ran back and forth jumping over this puddle about 87 times… 🙂
I’ll be doing a blog post on just how easy it is to do your own released hem that’s all the rage right now.
LOVE!
Funny story. Maya had this idea in her head of what she wanted us to do. I could NOT figure out what she meant!
This was NOT it. Her face…haha.
Singing her little heart out!
Gah….I will be so sad when her teeth come in!!
Yeah…she was NOT feeling it at first.
And then…WHY DO I KEEP THINKING BALLOONS ARE A GOOD IDEA!??!!
It was SUPER windy on this evening. Maya was actually waiting in the car by the side of the road.
Then, she came out, but insisted I hold her the whole time because she was too cold…
LOVE this next one!!!!
Ok, I love ALL these!!!
I could lie and say this next one was a super sweet shot of her holding my face, but…
Another favorite!! The symmetrical nerd in me loves how my leg mimics the curve of the grass!
I convinced her to get down on her own for a few saying she could dance to keep warm…
DYING!! 
She clearly gets into it when she dances 🙂
One minute…super sweet looking shot (above), then….reality.
And….then she decides to look down my shirt???
She REEEEEAALLY gets into her dancing haha.
I’m sure most people wouldn’t think of playing on the beach in the waves when it’s 44 degrees and super windy outside, but we had so much fun!
Of course she thought it was hilarious trying to get ME into the water!
I looooove that this almost looks like she’s playing in the snow in these next ones!
Her face!! LOVE!
Not really an outtake, but her pose!! KILLS ME!
Looking back on these pictures, I needed to roll the cuff once more or a little bigger…I don’t really like where they hit me at the ankle.
GAH!! Her smile and laugh are just about my favorite thing to see!!
This smile now is very GAP TOOTHED!! I have a loooooot of posts I need to do with her old teeth still in. I cannot WAIT to start posting her new smile!!
Her classic face… 🙂
LOVING this next one in black and white!!!
Ok….I might start posting more black and whites! In my home, that’s mostly what I print, but for some reason I rarely post them here.
Yes, we clash stubborn whits at times, but…gah. I feel SO lucky that she’s my daughter!
Another shot by Maya pushing the shutter…
Those missing teeth!!!
Her face!
Noooo idea what was going on here, but I want to squeeze Maya’s belly!! Actually, I think it was a piggy back dismount that didn’t go smoothly and wasn’t meant to be captured 😉 . I can’t hear the shutter when we are that far away though, so I honestly can’t tell when it’s going off or stopping haha.
And this is the ONE shot I got of us together in this look. WAY after the sun had set, and only lit by the street lamp!
This cozy cardigan? Handknit by my dad! He made it from himself, and then it was in one of their “donation bags” that I intercepted haha. SO GLAD-love it!!
Her face!! DYING!
Ok, I’m dying NOW! At the moment…well… My remote trigger had died, so taking these was with the self timer. And, I kept running back and forth and looking down…
Oh, but then….I wore her down!!!
And these next few are some of my FAVORITES of us!!
LOOOOOVE!!
She was trying to capture bugs that were flying in the sunlight!
And lastly….singing. As she does.
This is what the majority of our outings look like haha. I try to squeeze in pics of us here and there in the break of dog walkers…
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