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I just passed the 100th post mark! And I have 13 followers!! <3>

Thanks for checking out Just a Girl With Ideas. I know my posts aren't exactly ground breaking but I just love sharing the things I find interesting with others. :)

And on that note..

Thanks to [my dear friend] Scotti from Campaign for a More Beautiful Life, I have fallen in love with the website

www.fashionserved.com

Alexander Kozhevnikov

O. M. G

Sometimes all the bells and whistles of the large studio shoots that I envy make me forget how much I really adore the simplistic and emotional approach of a SIMPLE, smudged idea. I really enjoy his work.

Reflection of the Weekend.

Happy Sam in the happy weather

Fall leaves!

This weekend was lovely. Other than me desperately wishing to cut and dye my hair and perhaps throw my downstairs neighbor's speakers out the window, it was great.

Friday: Recovery from a hangover. Yes, Sam went out Thursday night with some classmates, reunited with old friends and proceeded to get sloshed. My head paid for it the next day. I woke up early, chugged water/coffee alternatively, ate a bacon/egg whole wheat bagel before shuffling back to bed defeated. Awoke at 2.30 feeling like new. Hustled to Dallas to retrieve a rented lens [nom, 24mm-70mm] and a pretty flash. Then I skedaddled to see my amor, who took me + friends and a baby to the most interesting place: Trail Dust. How to explain - it's a barn that's a restaurant and dance hall, with long tables you sit at with everyone, and eat southern food. It was packed and I've never had so much fun watched old people line dance! I wish I had my camera! Absolutely great. Watched this little boy get his first kiss from a little girl on the dance floor. Precious. Totally going back.

Saturday: PHOTO SHOOT! The lovely southern bell Kat Moore came over and we did a series of portraits before taking the shoot outdoors on a lovely sunny fall day. She's not a fan of being in front of a camera but I was thrilled to see she absolutely loved the photos. I love making people feel good about themselves!! Saturday night was a birthday dinner at Buca de Peppe with friends, yummy Italian before booking it home with my boy to call it a night early. <3

Country girl Kat Moore.

Sunday: Coffee + cupcakes in bed!! Chinese food + watching Goonies. Walking around Denton in the beautiful weather. Afternoon nap! Glorious day with my man, I wish we didn't have to part ways during the week! :(

He took photos of me waking up.

Music Artist of my Week

KURT VILE

Really loving the acoustic guitar layers and feedback he plays with. Beautiful music. My favorite is Blackberry Song. Makes me want to be driving through the countryside.

Kurt Vile - Blackberry Song

mid-week ponderings

sailor fashion

old lingerie

fairy lights.

this top. [and her hair]

This photo

this bedroom.

heidi braids.

TWIGGY's make-up. [going to attempt this]

photography [shoot this weekend. I'm so excited]

Tights. :)

Dark lips

My images for the week. I seem to want to paint on lashes and wear sailor pants.

[all images courtesy of weheartit.com]

love love love

Halloween Recap.

H A L L O W E E N 2009

I went to Austin for Halloween to meet my lovely friend Alex whom I met previously at SXSW earlier this year. We had a blast hitting the MSTRKRFT show [disappointing music, drunken adventures on the streets] and I spent the Saturday wandering the stores around West Campus, enjoying the weather and a good vanilla latte. Halloween night, we went downtown but my tummy was a bit tender from the previous night's epic drinking and I didn't remain out too late but I enjoyed the wonderful pageantry of Halloween and the choice of music by the DJ at The Ranch [lots of Halloween-y tracks, mostly the late Michael Jackson].

Here are some photos from my adventures.

The owl rolled his eyes too!

SCARY MASK!

Alex + Me

Dancin'

The CAPTAIN. my face says it all.

The group at MSTRKRFT

Dancin' again.

Captain + Sailor.

another Halloween over!

Here's A Halloween Fact

photo by: Ian, my dad, circa 1980s. Small turnips "neeps" and potatoes "tatties"

Pumpkins are a typical association with Halloween and Fall here in the United States, and as per the U.S influence, worldwide. However, in Scotland and parts of Ireland, we still traditionally carve TURNIPS. Now, why we bother to carve turnips/pumpkins at all people guess but what I was taught was also what I found on this website.

Source : http://www.tairis.co.uk/index.php/festivals/turnip-carving

Known as a neep or tumshie in Scotland, the type of turnip used for carving at Samhainn is the swede, yellow turnip, or rutabaga as it's commonly known elsewhere. They are skull-like in shape and the two-tone purple and off-white skin helps to accentuate the similarities with a skull once it's been carved and lit. The flesh is quite tough to cut through, but scooping out the insides isn't quite as hard as you might think - white turnips are a lot softer and easier to scoop out, but being smaller, you're not likely to be able to put a lid on without the candle going out.

The tumshie heads would have been hung from a pole and carried around on Hallowe'en night by guisers, but more usually these days they're simply put in the window or on the doorstep of the house. Either way, the purpose of them is to ward off spirits that are supposed to be about on the night, so the aim of them is to look as sinister and threatening as possible.

From a young age, my mum would carve me and my brother turnip lanterns, usually a basic scary face and spray them black, looping a wire through them so they would become transportable lanterns. As a kid I had [still do] have a bit of a veneration for All Hallows Eve. Growing up in the small village on the North East coast, it wasn't hard to imagine that mischief was afoot on a cold windy night.

Having a lantern was comforting visiting the remote edges of the village and when you ventured close to the graveyard by the old church. I think the respect for Halloween has been lost - I am guilty of this myself. I look to party and have fun the older I have become but I do long for the traditions I enjoyed as a kid. I miss having to tell a joke [halloween appropriate] to earn my treat from whichever house I visited. Kids don't do that here. It's sad.