Summertime and the living is breezy.

Even though *I’ve* been complaining about it for months now, we can all agree that summer is here. And if you can’t, please tell me where you live so I can buy a one-way ticket immediately to your city and plan to spend the next three months living on your couch.

This is my official summer outfit most days:

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Cotton Skirt + T-shirt + Denim Jacket = Winner

Even though I have to deal with sweltering temperatures, I spend most of my time in frigid offices/movie theaters/restaurants (thanks, Florida!), so a jacket is more necessary than you might think.

I also dig a lot of natural materials when it comes to summer accessories, too. I whipped up the brooch and bought the bracelets at a local boutique, but they would require little skill or time if you had extra fabric and were feeling particularly crafty.

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Even though I am not a big t-shirt girl I have grown to love them with a simple, full skirt.They are easy to mix and match and it’s my favorite go-t0 weekend outfit.

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Jacket, Target

T-shirt, Old Navy

Skirt, Thrifted

Sandals, Old Navy

I know this outfit is probably a little out of what most of you would normally wear, but I think it’s easily recreatable in your own wardrobe and it will look cute on any chick (I know this because there is this one restaurant I go to where every waitress does it and I find it so summery and feminine). So, y’know, mix and match colors and patterns and show me what you’ve got!

Here is some inspiration to help:

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Photobooth Keepsakes

Even though I would like to think of myself as a fairly  organized and neat person, I know a truly organized person would have an anxiety attack in my house (I’m looking at you, Amanda).

It’s not that I’m messy. It’s just a little…cluttered?

Maybe it doesn’t seem so bad to me because my collections are shoved into their own shelves or corners and those shelves and corners are spread throughout the house, sometimes in rooms I only visit to get to the mailbox. Thus, I only think I am organized and neat because I rarely have to see my STUFF all day, every day.

The real culprit, the real tell-tale sign that I have no idea how to organize other than to stick dusty objects next to objects of the same dustiness together, is my fridge.

Exhibit A:

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And this, fine folks, is only a small fraction of the fridge (but it holds the point of this post so let’s keep going).

Among my many collections is a small but impressive stack of photobooth pictures. Ben and I have thankfully captured the important moments in our relationship – first date, anniversary, wedding day – because that only sounds like a great idea and all when I see it in a Real Simple project but I never think about applying it in my own life until it’s too late.

It was fine for the first couple of photo strips to live on the fridge, but as our collection grew I realized they needed a more permanent home when the Pet Smart coupons began to overcrowd them. This collection was somehow, miraculously, a really good one that showed I actually remembered to remember the occasion since DAY ONE, people.

So I bought a frame and scrounged up a few supplies around the house:

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1. Posterboard

2. 11″ x 17″ frame

3. Gift tags from The Gilded Bee

4. Photo strips

And then I set about to memorializing our silliest moments.

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I really should have used (one of our five) typewriters for the tags, but if I didn’t think of this project at 10pm and demand that I complete it RIGHT AT THE VERY MOMENT…I would have cleaned them up. And I still might, one day, when I get an itch at 3am to fix it.

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That picture looks a little crooked but I’ll have to wait for Amanda to come over to fix it.

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