Stripes, Straps, Swirly Lace, and Curly Locks

Only one more week of classes left and then it's finals!! And you all should know what that means... procrastination! So I have not one, but two outfits to post today!

The first one is from a couple weeks ago...

 

I've wanted to wear these suspenders fro the longest time, but they're the button kind and the only thing that I had to go with them were a pair of old jean knickers that were my dad's when he was in college. The problem was that when I wear them I look like Tom Sawyer. So I ended up sewing buttons into this skirt the morning these were taken!

 

Also, the suspenders happen to be a perfect match with my great grandma's old Sunday hat!

striped shirt: thrifted

skirt: thrifted from Savers

suspenders: thrifted from DAV

hat: great grandma's

bag: thrifted from DAV

shoes: Urban Outfitters

scarf: taken from mom's closet

The next outfit marks a new chapter in my life known as "Animal Crackers In My Soup" or "Brenna Curls Her Hair And Everyone Calls Her Shirley Temple." 

I decided that my hair was getting to that awkward middle of the neck length stage, so I am currently on day 5 of curling my hair every day. This outfit is what I wore last Thursday...

 and then of course, I found a pine cone on the walk back to my room

blouse: Urban Outfitters "urban renewal"

skirt: thrifted from Savers

belt: no idea

shoes: Urban Outfitters

There you go!!! fashion! I have actually been wearing very cute outfits on a regular basis, but life is busy, and by the time my photographer and I have time it's late and natural light is gone. drat. 

Speaking of my lovely and wonderful photographer, I only have two more weeks with Jojo until she's gone for Christmas and then to study abroad in DC next semester. I don't know what that will do to my fashion posting. Half a year of bad macbook camera pictures? 

Maybe I can squeeze another fashion post in  before Jo leaves :]

-Brenna Kathleen

She & Him Paper Art

I know I haven't updated in a while, mostly because I've been working on school things like this:

I made this gig poster for She & Him in my illustration class. I've been getting closer and closer to getting the paper art things right, and developing my own style. I'm also trying to work paper into my next project for sculpture class, a kinetic sculpture.
That's it for now, more will be updated when these next two weeks are over and I have Christmas break.
toodles!
-Brenna Kathleen

Life, it will get the better of you

I haven't updated in quite a while. I also haven't finished my "Geek Chic" series, but I have drafts saved, so more will come in due time.

I've gotten caught up in school and life. It's exciting in some parts, not so in others.
I did turn 21 in October! It was my golden birthday, and lived up to that title.

I've been thinking about how your life opens up after college. You can go anywhere and do anything. My ideas so far were to go straight into work, or grad school. But I've grown tired of where I am. The new and shiny aspect of California. Everything is up to date, and the here-and-now. I want old and worn. A place with a history that goes back far longer than my own.

I think that's why I loved Germany so much. All those enchanting forests have been there for hundreds of years, and civilization has sprung up around it, but the aged feeling still lingers.

I've joked about with plans of moving to England and taking week or weekend trips to Paris, Amsterdam, and Berlin. Of visiting not only museums, but all the old libraries and bookshops as well as cafés.

And it doesn't help that my dearest roommate, Jojo, directed me to this website.
Now I want nothing more than to relocate my living quarters to a cramped room filled to the brim with books, and I also long to go to Paris for the sole purpose of visiting Shakespeare & Co. A little independent bookstore located on Paris' left bank that has quite an interesting history to it.

I wonder if such a life will ever be possible. Another option I've been thinking over is owning my own little bookshop someday. I could make art on the side, and build up my own land of literary whimsy. I doubt it will be able to happen, starting your own business sounds like it takes a lot of money. But it's my dream.

Until I once again feel compelled to write and/or complete what I have already started, I hope your lives are filled with enchantment and whimsy
-Brenna Kathleen