Wearable Fashion History
Historically I’ve tried not to post too many shop updates (besides announcing sales!), but it’s been ages since I’ve posted one! These were all listed yesterday – including a his & hers matching set! Today and tomorrow some purple and gold items will be listed.
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Saturday afternoon I met up with Merl and her sister for a stroll around the Renegade Craft Fair. It was unexpectedly hot, humid and extremely crowded. It had been a few years since I’d attended the twice a year fair, and am sad to say it was a total snoozefest. In the past, there were some great artisans with unique offerings; I remember wanting to shell out all of my earnings on the goods available!
This time around, there was so much repetition, simply put – it was seriously boring. The lack of variety in vendors was extremely disappointing. Lots of felt, crochet, letterpress greeting cards and screenprinted everything. If I never see another letterpress poster in my life, it will be WAY too soon.
However, there were a few booths with some very beautiful designs that really stood out:
Courtney makes some incredibly swoon-worthy patina jewelry. They were flying off the tables, and rightfully so! 
I fell head over heels for this amazing shop. I grew up with a birch tree in my front yard and have a not so secret deep love for this tree. Merl snagged one of their bracelets and I was intensely jealous! When I finally have spending money one day, you can bet I’ll make one of these handcrafted beauties my own. (And likely a birch tree tattoo somewhere on my bod as well.)
More birch! These tiny little forests are beyond cute. And very affordable as well!
Map art. Of course I love it!
I’ve totally hit the summer doldrums. Vacation is over, it’s the hottest month of the year, I’m over my summer clothes, am miserably money poor (but life rich?), and wonderful, chilly fall seems so close but sooooo far away. First world problems, eh?
How do you all power through the last weeks of summer?
Wearing: Dress – Vintage, Shoes – MIA, Belt – Gift, Bracelets – Vintage, JewelMint via giveaway from MoneySmartFashion and F21. Why: Werkin.
I had every intention of posting throughout my vacation last week! However, I managed to misplace my glasses, which rendered me nearly blind! So now, I present a massive photo dump / summary of our week in the U.P.!
Little Atlas, very stressed out on the car ride.
The dishware in our cabin! I LOVED IT. Every mug, bowl and plate had this motif on it. WANT.
Mark built many a fire, which we relaxed and sipped wine by. On our list of must haves for our next place: fireplace. Non-negotiable.
For Amanda and Stephanie: we tried opening a wine bottle via the shoe method, which Amanda suggested when I tweeted our cabin had no wine bottle opener. Sad to say the results were poor.
Atlas enjoyed sniffing the fresh air and basking in the sun.
As previously mentioned, we went to the rodeo. It was kind of everything and nothing I expected at the same time. I’m not a preachy vegetarian, but due to the unfairly harsh treatment of animals (which I was not aware of before attending), it was definitely my first and last rodeo.
Even Mark got tossed around!
My dudes.
I recently upgraded my camera, and am trying to use the manual settings most of the time. Mark knows way more than me about photography, and was able to finagle the settings to get a decent shot of the stars! This is about .000000000001 of the stars visible up there!
Driving down the longest, scariest road late at night. We’re talking dense woods, no lights, towns or anything for at least 50 miles. Except deer. No lack of deer.
Atlas discovered he enjoys surfing the net on the ol’ iPad.
This is my boyfriend on vacation.
Crazy small town museums are seriously the best. Appendix or tonsils, anyone?
Uhhhh…..?
We spent a day driving around in search of vintage (mission accomplished, like woah). This antique store was closed by the time we arrived. Gone fishin’. No joke.
For relaxing times. Do you see it?
Waterfalls!
Duck and ducklings!
Can’t wait till next year.
Hello from the Upper Peninsula! The air is cool, crisp and fresh, unlike back home in steamy Chicago!
I grew up visiting the Northwoods once every summer, as did Mark. Little did we know we were vacationing about an hour from each other for most of our lives! My family stopped coming up here a few years ago, but Mark’s family continues the tradition, and I’m so happy to have been able to join them these last few summers. Pretty sure this is one of the most beautiful and relaxing places in the midwest.
We’ve been on long walks, enjoyed a glass of wine or three by the fire, seen some deer and even on one unfortunate occasion….a bat. And it’s only Monday! Oh, did I mention the rodeo?! Yesterday we caught the last day of the rodeo before it packed up and left town (more on that tomorrow!). Of course, I had to wear something appropriate for my first rodeo experience. A vintage square dancing skirt and my Texan cowgirl boots did just the trick.
Wearing: Top: H&M, Skirt: Vintage (thrifted), Scarf worn as a belt: Mo Vintage, Boots: New Bohemia in Austin, TX
Why: RODEO! Photos: By Mark
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