Beautiful Easter Sunday

Loft button down; Vintage necklace; Gap jeans; Banana Republic flats

 

 As my time at home draws to a close, I decided to take advantage of the lovely scenery an Easter Sunday spent at my uncle's house affords and made Natalie take a few photos of me - and while those didn't turn out too hot, I think the scenery shots I snapped afterward are quite pretty.

It's been a restful time at home, I've watched some TV, played some piano, done a little shoe shopping... and I love seeing my family, if only for a few days. Now we're sitting down to a little television and homemade popcorn (the amount of food I eat at home is borderline but actually really ridiculous). Hope you all had a lovely weekend!

serendipity

So normally I don't do life-related posts (I generally just keep it to clothing) but since I failed at taking photos of my outfit for dinner last night, and it was a good outfit, you get to see it via random photos of me and all of my friends! We went to Serendipity as a late celebration of my roommate Nicole's birthday - so here you go!

loft button down

forever21 skirt

street market pendant

target boots

So when our friend Jess made the reservations, we were told that we had to wear pink, to fit in with the decor of the restaurant (which was absolutely adorable by the way - besides the dessert, it was the only thing I really liked about that restaurant, unfortunately). But then when we all met up, Nicole and I were the only ones in pink! And do you know how difficult it was for me to find a pink outfit? You are actually looking at just about everything pink I own.  Though I must say I like the juxtaposition of the red skirt and the pale pink blouse.

And here's an adorable group shot of (almost) everyone in front of the John Carroll statue at Georgetown - just ignore the giant dog stuffed animal.

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 And since I failed at taking photos of the interior myself, here is a picture of one of the rooms inside the restaurant - don't you love all the pretty lamps? The room we were in also had a chair hanging from the ceiling, and all of these pretty gilt  mirrors.

I have to say, the food wasn't my favorite, and they lost our reservation (and were completely unapologetic about it). But its an adorable place, the desserts are fantastic, and it was so lovely to be out with all of my friends - we rarely get all together like this, it's so hard to schedule time when everyone is free. As in, we literally made a doodle poll to see when this would work. So it's been a great weekend so far, hope you all agree!

big fuzzy scarf

Sorry for once again failing at posting on weekends! I worked Friday, Saturday and, you guessed it, Sunday too - awesome Homecoming, right? The good news is I just quit! I mean, I am most definitely going to miss all the nice people I met and being around clothes all the time, but it was honestly going to be the death of me...

loft button down

h&m scarf

old navy pants (yes, they were only 97 cents. and yes, I am going to say that every time I post them)

coach bookbag

frye boots

various rings

bracelet was a present from Beth (originally jewelmint I believe?)

 So when I suggested I post here I was thinking how I wanted a different setting, and didn't really consider the golf cart in the background - sorry about that? (Also, sidenote: I've been really bitter about all the golf carts on campus ever since I was crippled and didn't get one. Mark my words one of these days I will take one on a joyride as revenge...) Ignoring my insanity Regardless, really like the colors of this outfit! I've worn the blouse and pants together, but throwing on the burgundy scarf and the black boots really brings it into fall I think. And the weather in Georgetown today was gorgeous! Yay for fall.

Ewwww. Just noticed in the close-up photo that this scarf is a bit prone to dust-collecting. Also it leaves red fuzzies on everything. But I still wear it! It's just so fluffy and the perfect fall color. 

My mom comes into town on Wednesday! I can't wait to see her, it's been wayyyy too long since I last saw my family - and I don't even get to see the rest of them until Thanksgiving! The difficulties of going away to school... Now I need to do some homework, and then actually get some sleep tonight - apparently chai lattes keep me awake at night? Not really what I needed, to be honest. But guess what? We all survived Monday! Have a good night :)

cord skirt

After finding this skirt in a consignment shop in Fort Collins (on my aforementioned trip to take the lovely Mckenna back to college) for only $3, I'd been waiting for the weather to sufficiently cool down so that I could pull it out... and today was perfect! Not the freezing wasteland of yesterday, not the sweltering heat that defined Georgetown fall for me last year. This is the fall I enjoy.

loft button down

vintage necklace

thrifted old navy skirt

aldo boots

unknown tights? (though I wish I knew where they were from, they have a nice texture to them...)

 I'm quite a fan of this outfit! I've been sporting these boots quite a lot lately, but they are just so perfect for fall! Soft, felted, won't die if it starts spontaneously pouring (a very important quality in D.C.).

One problem with carrying a bookbag and wearing a short skirt - the movement of the bookbag tends to push said skirt up towards scandalous lengths. Is this something that only happens to me? Because I swear I spent all day making sure my skirt was in the same place, breaking my cardinal rule of never adjusting clothing in public. By that I don't mean that I'll just ignore things horribly wrong with my clothing, but you can't constantly adjust because you're uncomfortable! It just brings attention to whatever you're uncomfortable with - a.k.a. everyone probably was noticing how unhappy I was with my skirt all day... 

Just to let you know, if I don't post in the next few days, it's because I've dropped dead of stress. Honestly though. Tomorrow I have a midterm, a quiz, and a paper due! As I'm sure you've read before, I never have this much work. Seriously don't know what to do with myself. I'd just like to fast forward to 10 pm tomorrow night, when I'll go over to my friend's apartment to watch Glee with the girls! So what do you say? Can we skip the next 24 hours or so? Sounds good to me.

out and about

loft button down

vintage necklace

jcrew belt

gap shorts

sperry topsiders

thrifted coach satchel

Sorry for the quick and awkward photos here, but as you will read below we were on a little excursion and I don't like people looking at me while I have photos taken. So we were very sneaky...

I just realized looking back at these photos that my belt is most definitely not in place! Ignore that please, as I hope everyone else who saw me today did.

 

Photos in today's post were taken at the Textile Museum! Nicole, Colleen (my other Colleen, who goes to Georgetown with me) and I went on this trip sponsored by a Georgetown group called "Breaking the Bubble" and got to explore a bit of the city today! A lot of students really never leave our campus and the surrounding M street area (there's shopping, restaurants, cupcakes - what else do you need, really?), in what is colloquially called the "Georgetown Bubble." So this group received a grant from the school to subsidize trips for students to get food, see music, explore galleries all around the District! We went to the farmer's market (so. many. free samples.), ate dozens of empanadas, explored a used book shop, walked up embassy row, and went to the textile museum! It was a fun little trip, and definitely inspired me to get out into the city more often from now on! Oh, and I took a city bus for the first time. Pretty proud.

But now I'm getting some work together and headed to the library for a muffin. And to do work, you ask? I mean yes, I suppose I may do some work at the library. Mostly just there for the pastries. Hope you all had a lovely weekend!