spring OOTD ❀

happy tuesday! 

here's an OOTD post from the dorm room ft. megan. today was finally sunny enough to justify slightly summery clothing and we took advantage of it! 

long sweater - nordstrom

shirt - ross

necklace - forever 21

vest - forever 21

shirt - aeropostale

mirror selfie oops

red nails + white keds

my succulent slowly wasting away:( need new plants for spring!

three words & wishful thinking

the weather i want

where i want to be

i love three-word writing prompts. i actually think i love writing them more than i love being prompted (?) by them.

here are some three-word prompts i wrote for my story golden:

unused wedding dress

picked-apart pastry

almost-empty pantry

splitting frozen logs

snipping paper snowflakes

spoonful of cream

thick wool hat

patterned oriental rugs

dented candy tins

lipstick blotting paper

dusty film reels

one got away

never-read books

fingers weave strands

military man posture

broad, stretching shoulders

shears in hand

lost in brick

empty, smoky courtyard

- - - - 

currently: feeling lazy and 100% done with being a responsible adult, cheers!

i wish it was late summer, early fall already. 

and in other news, i've just discovered panic! at the disco's album too weird to live, too rare to die! and it is addictive and i'm overplaying it and i'm perfectly fine with that.

have a lovely evening!

floral film

sad but true: i used to hate spending time in nature. nothing about it really appealed to me. even the beautiful views didn't really strike me as extraordinary. i preferred photos of the view or words describing it.

now: i've grown more and more drawn to nature. i love the freshness, the feeling of new and natural and growing and raw. i have several plants in my room now and i love them so much. i wish i had a car so i could drive myself to beautiful, remote places and just center. 

i think: i'm going to be a crazy plant lady when i get older. i'm okay with it.

so, for you: some of my photos of flora + favorite nature quotes.

nature is a haunted house--but art--is a house that tries to be haunted.

emily dickinson

the poetry of the earth is never dead.

john keats

“is the spring coming?" he said. "what is it like?"...

"it is the sun shining on the rain and the rain falling on the sunshine...”

frances hodgson burnett, the secret garden

the mountains are calling and i must go.

john muir

everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.

john muir

i too am not a bit tamed, i too am untranslatable

walt whitman, leaves of grass

good night. x

new places, new spaces

dorm room (note adorable terrariums to your right) (yes our curtains could potentially belong to a twelve-year-old girl) (we enjoy the sparkliness)

went on a weekend trip to spokane with some friends! on friday megan and i woke up to this beautiful sunlight streaming through our window. in washington, sun = shot of instant happiness (for me, anyway). 

gonzaga university

we explored gonzaga's beautiful campus and somehow made it to riverfront park and the radio flyer  slide (that's one thing to cross off my bucket list: slide down the handle of giant red wagon. YESSSS).

spokane river

the river was a grey, somber sort of pretty (wish it had been sunnier) and i took so many pictures (rivers bring out my shutter-happy side, what can i say). 

megan + i

me trying to control my bratty hair

megan, melanie, + i on the bridge (oh hi, granny shoes)

exploring the river

my canadian kinsmen on the riverbank

friends on the steps

we walked around the city a bit and played laser tag (came in 21st, no big deal) and ate chipotle (aka food of the gods) and i bought some new jeans at the mall (in that white girl flow). 

other ways i spent the weekend:

losing at ping pong

watching youtube videos (including laughing shamelessly hard at this one)

playing an impressive amount of board games, card games, and other assorted games (my favorite was this one)

listened to hours on hours on hours of music

having deep (and some not so deep) talks with friends

mourning my split ends (srsly a haircut is in order)

now i'm writing and avoiding homework and editing photos and may or may not be listening to the twilight: new moon soundtrack (cue haters). 

anyway here's my procrastination playlist.

also, the ride home was beautiful

i love the pnw but, as one of my friends pointed out, california is sounding pretty good right now. 

petitioning for a sunnier washington,

mac

hello

welcome to my blog! 

thanks for visiting +  i hope you stay for a while :)

wow, first post. such pressure.

well, here's me summed up in a twitter bio-esque list:

18 

redhead/bedhead

penchant for caramel macchiatos

love new music, new books, new ways of thinking

ink, paint, film

here is me being comfy (note the blatant disregard for standard cropping).

sweater: forever 21

i'll post things that i find lovely or fun or generally noteworthy from daily life. expect anything. for example, this cat. it's basically the queen of an adorable green house/nursery i visited on a weekend home leave. it was far too fabulous to turn around but condescended to vaguely swish its tail a bit so i took what i could get.

shorty's nursery

my mom and sisters and i made terrariums here (highly recommended. hello new obsession.) and basically just spent too much on succulents, pots, organic honey, tea, and quirky chocolates.

here's part of their succulent collection and i want it. i want it all.

shorty's nursery

i also love taking pictures with an actual camera (not hating on iphoneography--i dabble in that as well). i'll post some of that on here, too! here's a photo of my best friend + roommate, megan, who shares my love of gossip girl, babybel cheese, and taking snapchat selfies that push the limits of "unflattering."

sweater, dress, necklace - forever 21

and of course, to finish it all off, the classic coffee cup shot. subtly showcasing my cool nail stickers (that i would just like to point out that i got for a freaking dollar fifty #bestillmythrifyheart).

atlas coffee shop

nail stickers - charlotte russe

i promise to be slightly more organized next time.

thanks for reading!

--mac