you're smarter than you think

Hello everyone and welcome Spring! Today is the first day of Spring, and it's sure been feeling like it. Okay, okay, I seem to always start my blog post off with the weather. It's the Minnesota in me! Let's skip over that and onto better things, like these shorts! My plan for spring break was to sew the entire time. Of course this, ahem...didn't really happen. I was bedridden (& watching Harry Potter) most of the week and spent my "healthy" bits either at work or chasing the butterflies. Thus, these shorts are the only product of this planned week of sewing. I'm pretty proud of them, though!

The best part of these shorts is that you can fully see Charlie's hat! I have so many shorts that cut just his hat off, which causes some head scratching about whether or not I have a tat of Hitler. I do not! The shorts were pretty simple to make. I had the fabric already, which I had bought at Treadle Yard Goods a couple summers ago. It's a very thick, sturdy fuzzy fabric, almost like courdoroy but not. The shorts only took a yard of fabric - even better! The pattern was an old pattern from the '60s for some very loose, flowy shorts. This purple stuff isn't the right fabric for that of course, so I altered the pattern a bit. Furthermore, the pattern was for a size too big, so I already had to nip it in a bit. All in all, I love the shorts & cannot wait to wear them this summer!



They bring out my inner pin-up! I am also wearing my favourite shirt, my favourite heels (Steve Madden, Raleigh booties), and a bowler hat which I found at H&M for cheap. Hats add so much to outfits. Why don't people wear them more? And I don't mean those cheap pinstripe fedoras...in fact, please don't wear those!



I'm such a bad winker!


Now that spring has sprung, school feels like it should be winding down (but it's not) and so I've started yet another "spring resolution" list. I seem to do this every year when the weather gets nice. Last year my springtime resolution was to start running (Remember that?!) but that didn't go very far, except for a new collection of cute running gear. Working out is still something that I'm trying to cram into my schedule but I have several new spring resolutions. But that's a different matter for a different blog post (wink, wink).

I've checked out My Week with Marilyn to watch tonight, and also have a Design Thinking essay due (guess which will come first?) so I better scurry on. Don't forget that I'm newly registered for Pinterest and am, of course, obsessed! Follow me here and I'd love to check out your boards as well. Toodles xx