Feeling vintage.

(pearls: antique shop // white sleeveless button-up, & shoes: mom's closet // dress, & snake print belt: goodwill)

Hey there! I feel like it's been a while. I really missed this! Gosh. I'm already quite addicted to this nonsense. :) Today I really did not do anything, honestly. I worked on some summer AP homework, and I practiced driving by going with my mom to get some food for dinner. Literally nothing significant. Haha. I mean, I didn't plan on doing anything, really - but still.

At first today, I just wore this dress alone. Thinking on it some more as the day went on, I added this sleeveless button-up of my mom's from the 90s(?) and this snake skin belt that I got from GoodWill in Santa Barbara. I felt oddly vintage; buttoning this shirt up to the top... with a skirt that's not super short like most skirts these days. Oh, and these pearls! Haha, perfect.

I almost can't wait for school to start up again, which is further odd. I am not looking forward to the school work, as Junior Year is supposedly the most difficult. Plus I'm taking two Advanced Placement classes. Sigh. However, I can't wait to style up this fall and winter! I'm rather excited. I have some things in mind especially that I want to do...Also, things that I want to buy. We'll see what comes out of that notion, though...heh.

I'm hoping to jump back into my normal blogging schedule, but I am slightly fearing how I'm going to blog when I go back to school on the 23rd (a Monday - crazy right?!). I'll have to ask around the blogging community to see how others do it. Hopefully all will be alright and I'll be able to update at least a few times a week.

Anyway! Hope everyone is having a good week...!
xoxo Elanor

currently listening to... Lily Allen - Cheryl Tweedy

Goodbye, again?

Unfortunately and fortunately, I'm going on another trip tomorrow! To Calistoga, California, with my boyfriend Derek's family. I thought I would be able to get an outfit post in before, but alas, I did not. I apologize, but I will be back the 3rd!

About the photos: Derek and I adventured a bit today and I managed to get a few pretty pictures. Not too much photo-success though. I'm hoping there will be many-a-opportunity for photos in Calistoga. :) edit: i took no photos... i am lazy! but i'll be back to my normal schedule soon~

Talk to you next week!
xoxo Elanor

currently listening to... Nothing.

Santa Barbara Roadtrip! Part IV

My final post on my Santa Barbara roadtrip. :) From now on, my posts won't likely be this long or photo full! Haha. I had so many photos from this day, too! These were my favorites. Enjoy...!

Sunday was our last day in Santa Barbara; not even a full day, though - we were driving home around 11:30ish. So we woke up, dressed and packed up, then went off to the beach. I hadn't been there yet the whole trip so I'm glad that we got to finally go! It was beautiful. I've lived in Northern California for the past 5ish years, and our beaches are not like this. Granted, Santa Barbara is sort of Southern California, wouldn't you say? Haha... Let's just say I forgot that beaches could be somewhat warm! I could take off my sweater! It was brilliant. Mmmhmm. :)

(dress: forever 21 // eagle head necklace: national park ?? // purse: antique store // heels: mom's closet // shawl: thrift town)

We walked along the pier for about a half hour, taking pictures of the shore and the wharf. It was early so there was still fog out, but the sun broke through and it was lovely out. I've got to say, I love beach photos. Almost every shot we got out in the sand looked amazing and I was so excited to make this blog post with them in it!
You've seen this dress before, but this time, NO SKIRT! Just the dress. It's kind of short, but I still think it's a very cute summer dress. With my odd-ball shawl from Thrift Town, well, I'm good to go! Not to forgot these shoes again. I'll have to put a bandaid or something over the spot that these heels rub against. Cause I certainly think they are cute & want to keep wearing them.
I hope you enjoyed my 4 day posts about my trip! I certainly had a good time, and I can't wait to go on another roadtrip next summer with my motherdearr. :) We always have fun together.

As for future posts and such, expect back to normal - everyday or every other day. And oh dear! I'm almost at 10 followers. This is so exciting! Hahaha, thanks to you all. ♥

Talk to you soon!
xoxo Elanor

currently listening to... Modest Mouse - Grey Ice Water

Santa Barbara Roadtrip! Part III

Part III! Out of IV Parts. Hope you guys are enjoying my rambles about this past weekend...!

Saturday my mom and I had a nice breakfast at this cafe downtown. She had an omelet and I had pancakes. Ah, delicious. Next, we went to the Santa Barbara natural history museum! We learned about the natives of SB, as well as all the past/current mammals, birds, insects et cetera!
The museum had an outside area where we took some pictures of us in wilderness! Haha, well not really, but sorta. I had a lot of pictures from this day, but I had to pick only a choice few...else this post would be very long! I really like this next photo of my mom and me. I love my mom's outfit, too. :)
You guys thought there wasn't going to be a complete outfit shot, didn't you? Haha, never! We found this cool little stone step area where we took some outfit pictures. This scarf, shirt, and belt are all new! Well, new to me. The scarf my mom got from The Closet, the second-hand trading store that I mentioned from yesterday's post. The shirt and belt are from GoodWill, of course! I tried out mixing the stripes from the shirt with the flowers from the belt. I thought it was a mix well done. ;)

I stuck with wearing sandals, because my feet are getting so beat up these days with the shoes I'm wearing...It's really bad. :( I need shoes that don't hurt my feet.

As for the rest of the day, we went to these "sunken gardens" that turned out to not really be anything interesting...and after that, we did some more shopping and I bought some new shoes! To be shown later. That night we were supposed to go to Mieko concert, but we accidentally didn't...! Haha... So we went to The Kids Are All Right, instead. It was...interesting. Haha...

I'd better wrap it up...! Thanks for reading! Tomorrow is the last post from my Santa Barbara roadtrip and I have really great beach and pier pictures from it...! Stay tuned. :)

xoxo Elanor

(scarf: the closet // pocket watch necklace: etsy //striped shirt, belt, & skirt: goodwill // purse: antique shop // sandals: mom's closet)
(i got this awesome humming bird skull necklace at the museum! i love it.)

currently listening to... Ra Ra Riot - Suspended In Gaffa

Santa Barbara Roadtrip! Part II

Happy Monday! I hope you guys won't mind post after post after post until I get through all the photos we took from our roadtrip...! Today's update is Part II of my roadtrip to Santa Barbara. Friday, we were actually there and ready to check out the city.

(sweater, & shirt: costco // skirt: shop in new mexico // shoes: mom's closet// necklace: tillys // purse: antique shop)

(left: my mother dear is stylin' too. ;) // right: even the atm machines in santa barbara were beautiful! haha)

Friday we started the day off by walking a bit, just looking around. By noonish, we were beginning to starve because we didn't have any breakfast, so we found this nice little restaurant. Joes! We got two meals to split, but it turned out to be too much! From that point we figured we might as well split one meal between us, and then maybe get deserts. ;) Yum! Below is us, with our choice beverages - sipping away! Heheh. And, of course, the restaurant. I thought it was a cute little place, and the food was great.After lunch, we walked around more. Santa Barbara's downtown is brilliant. It has every shop you could possibly think of, and a lot of great food places too (not to mention the beach is only a few blocks down from all that, as well...) We found this trading clothes store called The Closet, and I grabbed this cute gold tank top for pretty cheap, since the store is secondhand. I decided to wear it out of the store because it matched my lovely New Mexican skirt so well! :)

After that, we discovered where the local GoodWill was and scurried on over there. Two or so hours later... Let's just say I found a lot of great stuff. :) The prices were a lot better than the GoodWill where I live. I'll be sure to point out the clothes when I've got an update with them in it!
Finally, that night we went to a fancy Italian/Mediterranean cuisine restaurant! It was called Neo Chase. We split some yummy steak dish with a baked potato. It was delicious! The place was very pretty too. Although it was expensive, I would probably go there again, given the chance. :)
Thanks for reading, everyone! Part III will be out tomorrow, me thinks. Also! Today, Derek and I have been together for 10 months. :) ♥ I never would have expected this, but I am so glad! The months have literally just flown by. I think we are going to plan to do something fun hopefully soon, seeing as we can't today. But that's a different story. I'm so happy I'm with him, it's a great feeling. ♥♥

Have a nice day!
xoxo Elanor

currently listening to... Hey Monday - Obvious