happy day...err..morning. kind of.

THIS is the face of a girl who booked her flight to Texas today.

What am I going to do in Texas, you ask?

Oh, nothing big..just totally going to spend spring break with my best friend ever. 

I mean, no big deal or anything.

Just kidding. Kind of beyond excited.

This was basically the only good part about my day, as almost immediately following me booking my flight, everything got sour.

No school got done, I needed to run errands between a friend coming over and my algebra tutor...friend was late...didn't leave til after my tutor showed up...you know. One of those days.

But I did get a workout from scraping up the sheet of 2-3" thick ice rink that covered our driveway up until 2pm today. Bonussss! My arms are still sore and I have blisters on my hands to prove it.

Anyway. I'm going to bed. Sweet dreams, sweet friends. 

xoxo, 

Ruthanne

Kickin' it in Alaska!

Well! I am in Alaska! I don't have any guest posts lined up for you, cause I'm lame about planning. But. I will try and get on here to post stuff - pictures and things for y'all. Here are a couple just from today...beautiful, isn't it?

For those who are curious.....These pictures were both taken on my iphone - I'm constantly blown away by the quality of iPhone pictures. The panoramic one was taken with the app Photosynth. Faaaaantastic app. And then I edited them with snapseed, which is probably the best photo editing app ever.

hello seattle.

 oh, Seattle. how I love you. I feel like I should be listening to "hello, Seattle" by Adam Young right now....but I'm not...ha! anyway.

I don't have time to write up a full post now - you'll get all the details later, but I wanted to share my favorite instagrams of the past couple days.

 flight; happy; pastry; market; chocolate; gyro; city mountains; windy; cloudy; harbor.

xoxo,

Ruthanne

ps.

have you been reading the guest posts? mckenzie jean posted yesterday, and miss hannah today! and I have one more coming up for you tomorrow!

seattle bound: t-minus five days

Guess who's taking a trip to Seattle, with her favorite men ever? Yes! that's right! :) So incredibly excited, y'all. Next week my dad, uncle, grandfather, brother and I hop on a plane and head to Seattle for a fun filled four day weekend in the city of rain! I am, as I previously stated, so excited.

While the whole reason we're going is to go to the Seattle boat show, I of course have a few other stops planned. I want to hit up at least one or two of the amazing thrift/antique stores that inhabit the city - I have looked a few up, but if you know of any that I just cannot miss, please let me know!

I also started a new coat last night - and I am so in love. I was so worried at the first snip of fabric, because, for one, I've never made something like this before in my life. Dresses are so easy to make, in my opinion. And secondly, I. Don't. Have. A pattern.

I know what you're thinking, I'm crazy, silly, irrationally clueless, I know, I know. But. I knew what I wanted. I sketched it out. And I did the bodice part of an old pattern to get the general shape - but the rest is just solely by guessing...and I'm seriously hoping it all works out - so far I have the jacket/coat part done, and fully lined, with the exception of the sleeves....it's such a pretty color! I can't wait till it's done, and I can show you all :) It will be lovely.

My favorite part though, I think, will be the fact that I'm using my great grandmother's buttons for it. They're so cute, and totally give it that quirky/unique/vintage spin.

Annnnnnyway....just wanted to share all that stuff....now I'm back to finishing the coat! have a wonderful evening!