dash of turquoise (and red)

[wearing]

tank: target (usually gym-ish, but i got really hot in about june and started wearing it like it's real clothes)

shorts: target

turquoise belt: thriftedly awesome

scarf: caesar's palace (no, not an actual historic site, but rather a themed gambling/scarf buying venue)

nails: opi "big apple red"

[going]

on a bajillion errands with my sister (she also happens to be my current blogographer!)

dotty actually goes to work on a friday

[wearing]

top: kenar

jeans: forever21

sandals: sam edelman

[wearing]

dress as top: daryl k-189

jeans: forever21

heels: nine west

dotty manhandles a traffic cone

[wearing]

blazer: theory

stripes: target

pants: j. crew

sandals: dexter

[going]

work, coworker lunch with all the interns, more work, errands and dinner with my sister and the short stack

dotty wears pink

[wearing]

ruffled pinkness: forever21

knit skirt: thrifted

all sorts of brown ribbon: leftover from a hat re-banding

flats: target

[going]

work to pick paint colors + then cereal shopping

+ one month until the boy and i are reunited in a colder climate!

dotty turns for departures

[wearing]

top: forever21

pants: j. crew

flower shoes: target

big flower pin: self-made

[going]

sad trip to the airport, uneventful day calculating daylight

dotty wears a tunic to work

[wearing]

tunic: thrifted ($2!  huzzah!)

jeans: forever21

flats: steve madden

[going]

neapolitan pizza + an afternoon at work 

[wearing]

stripes: target

skirt: half of a forever21 dress

cardigan: old navy

shoes: navid o nadia

ginormous bag: banana republic

peapod necklace: gift from the boy via etsy seller, sudlow

[going]

noooooodle dinner, book browsing, + froyo fo sho

dotty goes to dinner

[wearing]

dress: daryl k-189

shoes: colin stuart

bag: nine west

[going]

fancy pants dinner for six

dotty wears stripes on a saturday

[wearing]

tank: target

skirt: half of a forever21 dress

sandals: sam edelman

flower earrings: gift from the boy (from etsy)

[going]

to an amazing goodbye pool party for me and the boy.  (i'm sticking around for another month, but he flies out this week.) 

dash week #nine @work

the office temp went above 90 every afternoon this week, so i took to wearing gym tanks to work.  i also drank a couple gallons of peach snapple and felt nappish about every twenty minutes. 

dotty on a friday

[wearing]

chambray shirt: gap

jeans: forever21

sandals: sam edelman

[going]

to work on a friday

dotty goes gray

[wearing]

tank that usually only sees the gym: target

knit skirt: thrifted

silver belt: old navy

sunnies: rayban

[going]

work in an office with broken air conditioning

[wearing]

gray tank: target

ruffley skirt: target

sandals: dexter

sunnies: thrifted

[going]

80s party shopping, birthday present shopping, british dinner eating

dotty wears a scarf

 

[wearing]

tank: target

skirt: bottom half of a forever21 dress

flats: steve madden

scarf: thrifted in vegas

today's scarf:

previous scarf adventures:

dash of cake

gill sans mt type, pinks based around #FFB0AC

dotty at the half

[wearing]

dress: collective concepts

wedges: madden girl + gray paint on the wedge

dotty wins

[wearing]

pink ruffles: forever21

cropped pants: j.crew

gray flats: steve madden

the air conditioning broke at work today and someone offered to trade me their gray polo shirt for summer ruffles.  luckily, i wasn't swindled into exchanging ridiculous pink flowers for a business casual staple.  

ruffles: 1

pony game attire: 0

dotty goes to la

[wearing]

shorts: target (similar)

top: forever21

sandals: dexter

big scarf: souvenir from london

flower hairclip: h&m

[going]

watts towers visit (if reyner banham loves them then i do too), lunch at umami burger, window shopping with the boy and his sister, driving back from california

dash week #eight @work

still thirty for thirty-ing, still skipping out on working on fridays, still unable to venture outside without my sunnies.

dotty at the pacific

[wearing]

chambray shirt: gap

navy skirt: the bottom half of a forever21 dress i chopped in half because i liked the bottom better than the top

big hat: liberty of london for target

+no shoes!

[going]

drive across the desert, pickup at LAX, fritto misto in hermosa beach for gorgonzola walnut fusili, beach for sunburning (not me, just the boy because i am the worst sunscreen applier ever apparently), and introducing the boy's ginger sister to self-serve froyo.

p.s.

i just love the two people running into the ocean on the right side of the above photo.   

dash of decisiveness

elephant text.  and it's orange.  yes.

dash of yogurt

swis721 cn bt (one of my top five sans serif fonts) text photo from my 289 project

dash of tailfeathers

leelawadee text, photo from my 289 project 

(okay, some people take a photo every day for a year, but my years have only 289 days)

and we're off to LA again this weekend...third time in two months.