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March 18, 2012

Kawtar's Photography

Kawtar doesn't really showcase that she's a pretty good photographer but I wanted to share some of the stellar pictures she took while we were out last weekend.

This all started a couple of weeks ago when Kawtar and I were cleaning up the house and the conversation of who was most athletic came up. Kawtar was always involved in sports through out her childhood, while I was not, I considered myself more athletic (who knows why really). I mentioned that and she laughed. I've got to say that really, I'm not athletic, just freakishly strong and strangely competitive. Well anyway, we got into a little spat about it and decided that the only way to figure out who was most athletic is to have a SPORTS COMPETITION were we play against each other in ALL SPORTS. Okay, that's a bit ambitious and expensive, but we're going to try our best to do as many as we can.

Yesterday was Day 1 of the Competition. Our challenge was a match of tennis, and honestly, no one won. We're really rusty! I'll be honest, we were a little too ~~more~~ excited when we went shopping for our workout outfits (note the visor and white hat and totally matching outfit -- pink socks + pink shoes + pink shorts + pink sports bra). Oh well!

March 17, 2012

Fishtail Braid

Outfit Details:

Dress: Thrifted

Cardigan: Target

Sandals: Target

Necklace: Gift from Jasmine

Watch: Michael Kors Horn

Copper Bracelet: Vintage

Cheetah Bracelet: F21 (gift from Kawtar)

Sunglasses: Target

Lipstick: Mac - Chili

I wore this yesterday in celebration of the nice weather and the fact that it was finally Friday! Weather in Chicago has been beyond beautiful this week. It's actually pretty confusing. It feel's like the end of May when its actually March. CAN YOU BELIEVE ITS ONLY MARCH? March used to be my least favorite month because it took so long for it to end and Spring to arrive!! Well! Not this year.

Kawtar found this dress while we were thrifting earlier this week, and I can't believe my luck! It's wonderful. So light and comfortable with a great chevron tribal print. It is a little long for me (surprising as I'm 5'9!) but otherwise its perfect. I also tried my hand at a fishtail braid and I'm pretty surprised at how easy it was! I could never understand how it worked when watching video tutorials but I finally found one that made sense to me.

Tonight I will be staying in and [hopefully] avoiding all the dummy tourists and drunkards of Chicago.

Happy St Patrick's Day to those celebrating! Stay safe!

March 16, 2012

Beach Photoshoot

Melinda sent me the final images from the photoshoot yesterday and they were phenomenal to say the least. I was so excited to be working with such a great team. The models looked amazing and everyone had such a different look to them. The model's did a great job not looking cold in these pictures, don't you think?

These are just a few of the final images, look for more later this week.

Credit:

Photography: Melinda Myers

Models: Anna Gorman, Caitlin Schriner, Gillian West, Presley ONeil

Jewelry: Bunny's Trunk Show

Clothes: Zzouzi Vintage

Hats: Zzouzi Hats