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.