Saturday Morning Vibes

I don't know about you, but Winter, for me, is soul crushing. I have a hard time with the early darkness, subzero temperatures and the overall feeling of gloom. By that, you would never know I grew up in the Midwest, raised in these conditions.

I've said it time and time again, but I always need to come up with different ways to boost my spirits until Spring comes and I don't have to feel like, as The Smashing Pumpkins would say, a rat in a cage. Luckily, my boyfriend is more that willing to work with me on this. He's what I would call a humble photographer. He's really great at it with an amazing eye, but he doesn't see it that way. I figured why not dust off the good ol' camera and have a little fun.

If you can't already tell, we don't do subtle :) I was on my way to a holiday party, a very delayed one I might add, and I thought, why the hell not! As a side note, my cat, Dante, needed to upstage me. I feel that this is a good time to display that my cat is secretly a demon and intends to kill us in our sleep... just have to get that out there.

Moving on from this little demon, lately between balancing now just two jobs, I've decided to help a coworker out taking pictures of her stock of jewelry. She was kind enough to let me raid her jewelry stash and needless to say I had a little too much fun ;)

Necklace: Crystal's Body Bling
1940'a Chartreuse Blouse: Revolver on Etsy

This necklace is STUNNING, but very sharp! I have the scratches to prove it :) As they say, pain is beauty... right?

1940's Blouse from Butchwaxvintage on Etsy

Early 1960's "Low Plunge" bra by Warner's

Since it's tax season, I felt the need to treat myself after doing returns for FOUR jobs that I've held this past year.... three of which I held at the same time. I felt like treating myself to the above items was completely necessary.

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