much, much to do

Much like my fellow collegiate-bloggers I have been a busy bee with schoolwork. I try to make time to blog daily because it's relaxing and it makes me happy. I have some grander posts in mind and hopefully I will have a few minutes to put them together in the near future. Meanwhile. . .

I registered and was accepted as an Independent Fashion Blogger. My blog gets some flair and I have access to an inspiring community of people full of advice on everything from style to html. It's all very exciting!

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Quotes & Links:

"Keys. There are keys in there that haven’t opened up anything in decades. But you think it’s not nice to throw away keys. They’re heavy and make a clanking noise when they hit the bottom of the wastebasket. Never mind. Throw them out. Throw it all out."

-An article about paring down your life by Gail Blanke.

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"You are so young, so much before all beginning, and I would like to beg you, dear Sir, as well as I can, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don't search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer."
-Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke

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101 Small Pleasures for Everyday

hey there blogger friends...

It's me, Sarah Yvonne, your top hat wearing, clothes loving, blogger! I'm here to ask you a favor. The favor isn't for me, it's for my friend Korey and classmate Tory (hi Tory) who are in a Group Dynamics class. They were assigned a project which involved making a youtube video (awesome right?). A bunch of us got together to do a chatroulette dance party! Woohoo. The video needs 2500 hits by the middle of April so if you could please CLICK HERE and watch it that would be great. If you are amused, or moved to dance, please feel free to pass it onto your friends.

Not only are Boyfriend and I in the video dancing like loons (which is rare--for Boyfriend anyway), you'll also see Alice, the Mad Hatter, a zombie, a stormtrooper, a Stranger, and quite a few other characters.



Lots of thanks from all of us!

if i were a rich girl

Dresses are a fairly new love for me; in high school I was mostly a jeans and t-shirt girl and as a kid I was a tomboy through and through. But now, I love dresses. I really do. I also love ModCloth. Except, ModCloth is expensive for a poor college student like me. So tonight I have mentally planned three outfits using ModCloth dresses, dresses I will never own, and accouterments that sit in or on my dresser.

1st. A Dress for the University

Modern Angel Dress $62.99

I would wear this dress to class tomorrow if I could. I love the t-shirt like v-neck combined with the flirty ruffle.I would wear this dress with a simple necklace, black flats, and my purple tights (for some fun color). I would (ask Boyfriend to) braid my hair down the back for a simple, classic look. The weather is finally cooperating so I would throw on my new not-quite white pea coat to keep from being chilled on my walk across campus. I think this outfit would be classic.

2nd. A Dress for the Theater (& what I wish I was wearing for Halloween)

Sleepy Hollow Dress &54.99

This dress is beautiful and I probably would wear it every day. However, I also think it would be perfect for going to a evening play at the Kennedy Center (or for Halloween, but it does not work with my costume--a post on that to come). If I wore a necklace at all it would be a simple and short silver pendent on a silver chain (or if I felt like totally camping it up a huge ruby cross on a thick silver chain). I would wear my vintage (thank you Grandmother) knee high boots with a two inch heel and my urban outfitter's flower pattern fishnets in black.I would wear my hair down with my black flower headband. If I owned a cape I would throw that on top but since I don't I would have to wear my gray and purple houndstooth coat.

3. A Dress for a Dinner Date

Plum-struck Dress $72.99

This dress is the perfect dinner date dress because it is lovely and elegant; what every woman wants to feel when she is being romanced! I love that it comes with a little black belt (less accessorizing that I have to do :D). I think if I were to own this purple beauty I would go all out with purple! I would pair it with my slightly lighter purple, but not quite lavender, tights and my purple and gray coat mentioned above. I would not wear a necklace (I can't think of anything I own to would go perfectly) but I would change my earrings (from the orange stars I've been wearing for months) to my silver double twirls (that's the only photo I seem to have right now). I would add my black booties with zippers on both sides for a little bit of toughness. To not detract from the sweetness of the look I would pull my hair back in a bun and add a tiny bow clip on the side. Add my charming Boyfriend and a lovely Thai restaurant and my evening is complete.

fun stuff to look at

natural disaster photography --> amazing photos of disasters; the kinds of photos I dream of taking. Photos that are a combination of pure luck and skill.

the wild years --> a blog with polaroids (check out her etsy shop too). It's a lot of reading but beautiful photos that are somber but delicate.

defaced series --> a flickr series by the Polaroid Blog (link on the side). If I had a huge stockpile of film I would love to do things like that; combining words and photos creates a much more meaningful image.