23rd Birthday!

best birthday cake ever, made my a friend of my mom's when I was three





guess this is what 23 looks like. I need a haircut. Lookit that sour patch kid and geode earrings. necklace made by some friends' mother, tee shirt from a thrift store sale for about 10¢ it has a sweet shirt waist sort of curved hem.


woke up this morning to awesome birthday dinner leftovers (home made country fried steak, mashed potatoes, gravy, biscuits, glazed carrots and home made peach cobbler omgyum) and a big package from my family! (made me cry bunches cause they're so sweet/I haven't seen them in a while)



books and stationary from mom & dad (so excited for new books I can't decide what to read first! probably the autobiography of red I started that one in a book store a while ago and never finished it)



party in a bag from my sister with little aspects of all our party classics; chalk, noisemaker balloons, bubbles in lil champagne bottles, amazing elastic plastic, candles, glitter



everyone knows I love old broken jewelry to make new things out of my mom & nana picked out some unused things. I'm guessing this cigarette holder belonged to my grandmother because my mother wasn't ever a smoker (nana used to smoke a carton every other day whew). those geode earrings need to become something great. (also makes me wish I had a way to saw/cut the unbroken geodes I have in my glove box)



my mother and sister and I tend to trade clothes back and forth a lot (that and the fact that one of my mom's best friends worked for betsey johnson for forever and gave us a lifetime supply of hand me downs is why you'll see lots of betsey things around here) this along with some other tops (one I bought in london years ago and hand handed down to my sister, a couple floral blouses of my sister's from h&m) I don't know if/how I'll wear this, it has a sort of tuxedo tails back but I never wear orange and the sleeves are a little weird. this one might end up in the shop at some point.



cards and drawings by kyler and aaron and shannon and a big box of superhero gummies

home made pop up card from chemise ugh I love this lady so much

currently enjoying a glass of wine and photographing some more things for etsy and people are suddenly buying some of my prints (it's a pretty good deal none of my prints are over $8 and some are two for $8 and I'll be putting more up there tomorrow along with a bunch of other amazing goodies and everytime you buy a photography print from me you're also supporting my film habit.)


some travel sketchbook things I'm working on