Well here goes my next paycheck:

Anthropologie Babergh Dress, $188

The price makes me cringe, but the material and details make the dress worth it. Thoughts?

By the way, I've been great! Perhaps too busy, but my filled up schedule just makes the week go by faster, and I feel like I earn more after working so hard. I'm learning so much from Tom Carr, the School of Music's new sound engineering guy, who taught at Berklee College of Music. I've been managing the recording studio here and have been working many concerts -- I finally feel like I am getting the education I expected when I first got to college, and this happy feeling couldn't have come soon enough! I am right where I want to be. ^_^

I am now co-principle of Symphony's viola section, working on Bach's 2nd violin partita (arr. for viola) and Miklos Rozsa's Intermezzo for viola. I've been taking lots of pastoral pictures of some great scenery, and I've been working on some new dresses that I think will go great this Fall. Grisha and I are doing well, and my friends are so good to me.

I used to think that I was growing up too fast, but now I think I am doing okay. But it's also my favorite time of the year, and I'm probably just falling in love all over again. Ah, Fall!

Kimchi Blue, I love you

Kimchi Blue Chantilly Dress - Ivory $98

This dress is absolutely beautiful, I am in love with the small details and care put into the creation of this piece. From the adorable fabric buttons to the lace designs to the puffy sleeves, this dress would be perfect paired with two-tone oxfords and perhaps some cable knit tights in the fall. This dress is versatile, could be worn in any season, dressed up or down. I like how this is very 1930s-bride-like -- it recalls a sense of innocence and playfulness, with a hint of purity.

With that said, I can't wait for this to go on sale. =[

Money, the bane of my existence

Tiny Windows Dress - Lavender $118

I have been -- or trying to be at least -- so well-behaved with not spending money, really I have. I've adopted a conscience that accompanies my thought-process when debating my purchases. And then this dress comes along and everything goes all downhill from there. I literally can't afford to be so irresponsible, so why can't I just grow up?

Fresh blogging

Hope you like the new layout! I am finally done with May-mester (and gen-eds for that matter), and now have all the time I want to do whatever I want. What better way to spend my time on a Saturday night than create a new template/CCS layout for my blog? Yes, this is my life.

Anyway, today I took apart an old Mennonite dress I picked up at the thrift store a few weeks ago. Going to tailor it up a bit so that the fit is more flattering and A-line in structure.

My house is now completely empty, and being a 100+ year old Victorian house, it is also quite eerie. The doors creak so much louder now that everyone is gone, and this afternoon, Grisha and I found a possibly dead bat up in the attic?? Not sure what to make of this, because we also found a ton of bat poop (guano) so I am afraid we have a colony of bats living in Camelot. I screamed as high as I could because I've never seen a bat, and this caused Katie to run upstairs. Probably not the best thing to do when your attic is the host of a colony of bats...