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Kaitlin soft-core rocking her flower crown/headband in elegant afternoon light. If that description didn't just tickle your sweet tooth, and nor did that mixed metaphor, then I can't help you. 

The Doors Pt. 2

{East and West and Green}

Flowahs

Kaitlin and I threw together some flower crowns, which was ridiculously simple. Seeing as they cost around $15 at H&M and were in the most awful colors, making these clean and pretty white ones for only around $4 was definitely the way to go! I'll show you how they turned out later this week. 

Bedside

Considering I've been on bed rest for almost two weeks now--wait make that officially two weeks! congratulate me! blehhh--I'm struggling to come up with what to post when all I see is the messy contents of my bedroom and occasionally wobble out to the living room (on Saturday I even went and sat on the porch, it was a big day). Looking around, I realized the only thing I was interested in photographing was my bedside table because it is in a constant flux of books, candles, and notebooks. Soon I'll do a break-down of the books for you :)

Happy reading and rest rest rest, I've done more than enough!

Spring-sta-gram

A collection of photos from my personal, @lakenlinnea, and the official @girlsforpearls Instagram from March to May.

 Food

{All descriptions clock-wise from top-left: frying donuts, breakfast as a parfait in an orange skin, hibiscus tea at wild honey, and baked grapefruit with brown sugar}

  Projects

{Flower crown}

  Style

{Nathalie's Marc Jacobs watch, an outfit of the day that makes a top 5 in the month of April, Kaitlin and I dress up for spring at Topshop, and sunnies on a sunny day}

   Home

{Inspiration for a future bedroom, my current room in the early a.m. with a light and flowiness on par with Tom and Daisy's Gatsby-era living room, pool times making me realize how much I'll need water in any future home endeavors, and cactus shopping for the bedside table}

 Inspiration

 Milestones

{My first time at the infinity pool of Marina Bay Sands Singapore!, my lsat dance performance of high school, Ellie got her kitty the Duke of Manhattan, and senior prom!}

Rando

{A rose paper crane at a picnic in May, a March sky, a bored in-class doodle, and an April sky}

Sassy Saturday

Just a casual reminder. When is Seinfeld ever not relevant? 

Happy Saturday!

Well Dressed Animals

Find the rest of these adorable illustrations (featured in surfing x4) here!

The Doors pt. 1

Inspiration in blue!

Where I'd Rather Be

I have some kinda crummy news, I dislocated my knee last Monday and am getting surgery to repair the muscle and tissue this Wednesday. Not my favorite thing to be happening but there are worse things and it's given me time to sleep, read, paint, and write so I can't complain. As I contemplate spending more time in a hospital than I'd like, I've collected these bedroom photos so I can close my eyes and pretend I'm there instead of a sterile white room with a t.v. playing Asian soap operas I don't want to understand.

I hope these photos can do for you what they do for me!

all photos from tumblr

Faites moi une robe le couleur du soleil

Peau d'Âne (Donkey Skin) is one of my all time favorite French fairytales, and in movie form it is utter perfection. Here is its synopsis:

"A king had a beautiful wife and a rich castle, including a marvelous donkey whose droppings were gold. One day his wife died, after making him promise not to marry except to a woman whose beauty and attributes equaled hers. The king grieved, but was, in time, persuaded to seek another wife. It became clear that the only woman who would fit the promise was his own daughter.

She went to her fairy godmother who advised her to make impossible demands as a condition of her consent: a dress the color of the sky, a dress the color of the moon, a dress as bright as the sun, and finally, the hide of his marvelous donkey. Such was the king's desire to marry her that he granted all of them. The fairy godmother gave her a marvelous chest to contain all she owned and told her that the donkeyskin would make an excellent disguise.

The princess fled and eventually found a royal farm where they let her work in the kitchen, despite her ugliness in the donkeyskin. On feast days, she would dress herself in the fine gowns her father had given her, and one such day, the prince came by her room and peeped through the keyhole. He fell in love at once, fell ill with his longing, and declared that nothing would cure him but a cake baked by Donkeyskin, and nothing they could say of what a dirty creature she was dissuaded him.

When Donkeyskin baked the cake, a ring of hers fell in it. The prince found it and declared that he would marry only the woman whose finger it fit. Every other woman having failed, he insisted that Donkeyskin try, and it fit. When she had dressed herself in her fine gowns, his parents were reconciled with the match. Donkey-skin later found that her father had remarried to a beautiful widow and everyone lived happily ever after."

What I have shared with you in the images above is the dress as bright as the sun, by far my favorite of the dresses created for the princess by her creepy and desperate father. The photo below is of a piece I made this past Tuesday at my AP art lock-in where we spend the night locked in the art room making, well, art. As a 3D student, I've worked with fashion but this was a bit more of a conventional route than what I've been working on all year. I knew we had a ton of gold fabric laying around and I went into this with no plan. I stacked about 6 stools on top of each other, placing my mannequin on top, and started throwing stuff at it (kinda literally). The dress that resulted feels like a mix between Peau d'Âne's dress and maybe something from the hunger games...but in golden wedding dress form. Regardless, I'm very proud of how it turned out and wanted to share it with you all! 

Keep creating x