Time has just been flying by for me lately, although in way it also feels like it’s standing still! I started to sit down to write this post and thought “You know, for how busy I’ve been, I’ve really been keeping up with the blog! I just did a post a few days ago…” Um, no. If by a “few days” I meant more than 10, maybe! So time is clearly whizzing by, even if I feel like I’m barely moving.

To celebrate this new quick pace, I’m wearing my newly acquired Trashy Diva Sci-Fi Rockets bolero. The Sci-Fi Rockets print is pretty much my favorite print from Trashy Diva to date, and definitely my favorite space-themed novelty print. I missed it when it was originally released (I was too poor and student-y) and I’ve been stalking it ever since. When my friend Sara told me she’d be willing to part with her bolero I jumped on the opportunity immediately!

I’m still holding out for a chance to purchase one of the dresses some day, but I’m thrilled to have this piece in my collection for now!

I often feel a lot of pressure as a blogger (real or imagined? I don’t know…) to avoid repeating dresses or outfits on the blog. I feel like as a good blogger I should always try to show something “new”, and often I avoid wearing favorite outfits on multiple outings because I’ve already photographed them for the blog.

Which is to say… this is a repeat. I’ve worn this dress before here, and I even paired it with the same hat! Horrors. I did manage to swap out the belt, shoes, and earrings at least!

So I guess this makes me a bad blogger or something, but I must say, I like this hat with this dress, and I’m absolutely sure I’ll be wearing them together again. Will I take pictures for the blog? Maybe, maybe not…

Whoo… it’s been quite a week. I have some other posts to share with you, and a new finished sewing project, but my brain is completely fried so right now you’re getting a picture of an outfit I wore a couple weekends back and a little babbling… you’re all here for the pretty pictures, right?

Doug and I went out for lunch and to look around shops, so I took my newest deep sea coral dress out for a whirl. I think the Trashy Diva 1940s dress is probably the most wearable style I’ve tried so far in this print, and I like that it gives me an excuse to wear this silly little navy 1940s tilt hat.

Two weekends ago, Doug and I spent Saturday and Sunday stuffed into a small lecture hall with about a hundred other people for the required Catholic wedding prep classes. It wasn’t exactly the most exciting way to spend a weekend, but at least it got us out of the house and gave me an excuse to get properly dressed for a change.

I posted Saturday’s outfit a few days ago. For Sunday I knew I wanted to wear another hat and something relatively comfortable for sitting all day. I decided to add the cherry brooch and a black belt to break up the red and purple theme a bit. I admit that wearing purple with red always makes me feel a little Red Hat Society… Fortunately, nobody made any comments about my color choices while I was out and about.

I have been holding on to this tiny 1940s hat for a good two years, since I went to Rhode Island to visit Whitney and picked up a sad little stained and discolored black and natural straw tilt hat with a lot of potential and a low price tag.

I tried a couple times to clean the hat up, but the staining wouldn’t come out and it was too discolored to be wearable. I even tried dyeing it green once (I’ve got a picture of it here… it wasn’t great) but the dye didn’t cover well and it didn’t really set either.

I’d been lamenting a few gaps in my 40s hat color wheel, and so I decided to take one more stab at fixing this hat. I posted the progress on Instagram while I was working on it, and I took the new and improved version on its inaugural spin with my new red-and-black 40s dress… a perfect match!