I love how these pictures turned out. Apparently the trick is to shoot in the morning, before the sun starts hitting, in the shade, and on manual mode with a low aperture. I knew these things in theory but I didn’t realize they’d work so well given my mom’s lack of skill (and enthusiasm) as a photographer.

Really happy with the outfit, too! It was really comfortable but it didn’t feel boring or incomplete. The teal leather jacket makes a splash and the accessories made me feel a bit like a reporter, especially when I held up my camera in front of the mirror.

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These pictures are awful and grainy and this outfit is very simple, but I’m posting anyway because the hat is adorable. Big bow! Which you may recognize from my sidebar picture, among other social media profiles. Comfiest, prettiest, most wonderfully fitting hat that it is. I put it on and I feel complete.

…look, I’ve had a weird day, I’m allowed to wax poetic about my cloche for a bit.

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Don’t let the sunlight fool you: I froze my little shins off. I may or may not have been holed up for over a week (this is not even a record) and I didn’t believe my mom when she said I should put on an actual jacket. It was nowhere near as bad as the time I went out to shoot a blue knit dress — with jeans under it and my coat on — last January, but my Raynaud’s syndrome did rear its ugly little head a bit.

Anyway, yay, outfit post! Yay, four outfits down and still twenty-six (ha ha ha) to go on that 30×30 challenge I wanted to be done with by the end of October. Ah well, I have multiple pairs of jeans on the list. And leg warmers in my sock drawer. I’ll deal.

The standout piece in this outfit is obviously the black and white rose-patterned dress by Gina Louise, which can be found on her website or here on Etsy. It’s a lovely, super flattering dress made in a slightly stretchy heavy cotton fabric, and it slips on like a glove.

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I always feel a bit weird posting videos because there’s such a striking contrast in quality between them and the rest of the content of my blog — I like to think I’m a pretty good writer, but I know I write well at the very least, and all my photos are taken with my DSLR and carefully edited. Then I post a video I filmed with the built-in camera on my laptop (the only one I have available, and iMovie won’t recognize it now so I have to shoot in Photo Booth) and the questionable quality hits me in the face. And I feel like it drags the whole blog down with it. Is that weird? Either way I don’t want my only post on a given day to be one I feel drags the quality of my blog down, so I’m posting something else as well. Helps that I had it shot and edited already!

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I have an overshooting problem. I’m sorry! I just can’t help myself. For some reason, when I’m editing photos, I always feel like there aren’t enough good ones, and then I go rename the files something meaningful and I realize I wound up with 21, and I love them all. Or at least I like them all about the same. Narrowing them down, however minimally, is a painful process.

Anyway, this is my second outfit for the 30×30 remix challenge! I can already tell I’m going to be relying quite heavily on accessories to inspire me. Where Ready to Fall had a braided floral crown from The Evergreen Nest, The Roaring Blues features a beautiful made-to-measure cloche hat by the amazing Nadine of hiddenNZ. I’m obsessed with cloche hats, and I’m still over the moon about having not one but two (sidebar pic!) that are gorgeous and season-nonspecific (warm for winter — and deliberately warm over the ears — but completely comfortable in September, too!) and fit my tiny head perfectly.

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