send my love to you

i love browsing blogs and finding things to share with you. just now, i found this amazing artist. her name is angela, and she blogs for pickles on pizza (an incredibly creative blog, if you haven't checked it out yet, do so!). here is her most recent work.

what do you think? i just love it! i think the colors are so opposite, but go so well together. she's thinking of calling it rain... does it remind you of anything else?

hope everyone had a lovely monday, and welcome to september!

xxo.

that boy is mine

when i'm feeling ill or grumpy, my remedy is a steaming hot bath.

courtesy.

something about the heat and water makes me feel so much better.

do you do anything in particular when you're feeling ill and/or grumpy?

xxo.

only half an hour ago

i heard of poladroid, courtesy of the adventures of... (if you haven't seen her blog, check it out.)

nothing can replace polaroids, but here's an example of what it can do.

pretty amazing, isn't it?

xxo.

listening to mozart

this is so beautiful, i needed to post it here. it's not originally from me, but it is absolutely, positively beautiful. i found it at Le Love, which, as the name suggests, is a blog all about love. could anything be more beautiful? if you haven't checked it out already, you really should. it's uplifting, and gives hope that everyone can find love. it helps deal with heartbreak, and the feeling of being alone.

courtesy.

Things I loved about you

The way you stared at me when I close my eyes, then you closed your eyes and I stared at you

How perfectly your hand fit in mine

How you seemed so strong on the outside, but I could tell you were so sweet on the inside

The way you said I love you, because you sounded so shy

How during that first time we were alone, when we held hands and talked for hours and finally kissed after so long

How you were so interested in my life and what I was doing

How you remembered everything I said to you perfectly

When you texted me randomly (as little as that may be)

When you told me I’m one of the most perfect girls you’ve ever met

How you were too shy to hold my hand, in case I didn’t want you to

The awkward moments - because they weren’t really awkward at all

Sitting at the table with your family and enjoying myself and you

Taking photo booth pictures with you and you made the best faces I’ve ever seen

Getting high together and making weird animal sounds as we walked back to your house

The way you made me feel after we made out for an hour

How you told me I looked great every time we saw each other - despite how untrue I thought it was

How I sat on your lap when we went on the computer together, and your legs fell asleep but you didn’t care, as long as I was sitting that close to you

How even on the coldest nights, you lent me your sweater

How much you have passions for things

Your laugh/smile

How you always made fun of me - I secretly loved it

What a loser you are, because I am too

How you admitted defeat and say sorry when I wouldn’t let you win a fight

The way you made the butterflies in my stomach flutter every time I saw your smile

How much you made me love you.

But now they are things of the past, since we broke up. I’m slowly getting over every one of these ways I loved you by replacing them with things I don’t like about you. I don’t think it’s working too well, though, because I know they will each still be in the back of my head because you were my first love and I will never forget you or a single thing that I loved about you. And truthfully, I still love most of those things. I’ll miss every one of them.

-anonymous submission

i hope everyone has a lovely evening.

xxo.

you're about to cry

so, as you may or may not have noticed, i now have an email me option!

darlingyourstruly[at]hotmail[dot]com

if you would like me to post a story for you, or if you'd like me to feature your blog or shop, it would be my pleasure!

since school has started, i really think i'm going to be posting very little troughout the week, and more and more on the weekends. (though, i may be able to post more during the week now because i've made my schedule a lot easier... i now have fridays off!) so we'll see how this week

goes. if there are days where i say not a word, i'll apologize in advance.

i've realised quite recently that i have been posting about anything that comes to mind, when i had originally started this blog to post about fashion, and share my love with the world... but i read somewhere that one way for your blog to accomplish is to write about what you want to write about, and not worry about what others want to read. do you agree?

since i haven't had time to browse online stores looking for lovely things to share, i won't be able to post any today! but when i get a free minute today, i definately will try to find something for you. but for now, take a look at these lovely pictures!

courtesy.courtesy.

aren't they lovely?

xxo.

just maybe...

does your heart skip a beat when you hear a siren?

it makes me want to cry.

knowing that somewhere, someone needs help.

i always hope that help can get there before it's too late.

sirens are something in life that stress me out just a little more than i should.

as i'm writing this, i can hear the siren coming closer and closer.

courtesy.

xxo.

all the time

i feel so bad about now being to post as much as i usually do, but i'm really having trouble coping.

school has just started, and i already have a ton of homework! and, on top of that, i've been sick these last few days. i had to miss class today (luckily, one was cancelled, but i still missed three.), and it's only my third day. i'm going to need to talk to my teachers and explain that because of celiac disease, i get really sick sometimes, on really short notice.

i've tried to catch up reading things today, but i've just missed so much, it's overwhelming. so, i'm just going to apologize to everyone who's blogs i follow! sorry i couldn't see what's been going on in your lives these past few days. i hope everyone is doing well.

this is going to be a relatively short post, since i'm not feeling very well. both physically and emotionally. not only is my stomach killing me, i've been a basketcase most of the day. i cried all morning. i'm not quite sure what is going on!

courtesy.

so, i'll try not to affect you all with my glum mood, i just hope everyone is doing fantastically well!

for those who have started school, i hope things are good, and your teachers and classes and new friends are lovely.

take care, everyone.

xxo.

just a soul i used to know

lovely giveaway over at Let Me Help You Help Me by morgan. the giveaway? one of these lovely frames.

i personally love the solid green frame. what's your favorite?

oh, and go check out her blog, it's fantastic!

i'll post again soon about what i've been doing lately, and since tomorrow is my first day of school (AHHHHH) i'll write about that!

i hope everyone had a lovely weekend!

xxo.

can't walk down the street

sorry i haven't been blogging as much recently, the back to school rush is coming! i'll blog as much as possible as school starts, but the chances are it'll be significantly less than usual.

and i'm afraid to say that i won't be able to write you a long post with adorable pictures and my endless rants, because tonight i am painting my room! or, what is soon to be my room... i'm so excited!

courtesy.

i'm going to be doing three walls an off white, and the third wall a lovely jade color.

i hope everyone has a wonderful friday night and a great weekend!

xxo.

you'll be loved

hello darlings!

i am home from golf and i am exhausted. i can never finish eighteen holes, but today i played all of them! kind of... i only didn't finish three. which is pretty good for me!

i forgot to tell you about my soccer game last night! it was a bad game. if we'd won, we would've gone to regionals... but i was injured (i pulled my groin at the game on monday, so i was running like a dinosaur on crack.) and i really wasn't playing well. so in the end, we lost 2-1 to t

he best team in our region!

my games are at nine o'clock, which is a very random time. you can't eat dinner before, because that doesn't leave enough time for the food to properly digest, and that leaves you with eating after... and after i get home, shower, and get dressed, it's getting close to midnight.

so, what i've started doing is eating around the four o'clock. not a full meal, just something to last me 'til midnight.

my mom was hungry around the same time that i was, so i made a mini meal for us both.

here, i've made something super simple, but absolutely delicious.

i simpled sliced some onions, cut some tomatoes and put them on top, and added some fresh basil from the garden! for extra taste, i added some salt, oil, and vinegar. absolutely delicious!

here is something even simpler. cape cod chips with hummus. quantity control is very important when trying to be healthy (which should be a goal for everybody!) so i tried to make the portions relatively small.

instead of chips, if you're on a more strict diet, cheese rice crackers also go very well with hummus. or the typical pita!

i hope everyone has had a lovely day so far. i will probably post something else before the day is over!

xxo.

stay away from my daughter

oh, late nights and early mornings. up 'til two reading blogs, and up again at six to get ready for golf. it's my first game of golf of the year, and we're playing a course called the challenger. called me masochistic, but i am thrilled.

it'll be interesting how the game turns out, considering;

- it's my first game of the year,

- i'm sore from my game,

- and it's called the challenger. i mean, come on.

courtesy.

my dad is convinced that i can go pro. he rants and raves about my swing. he doesn't seem to notice that i shoot something like, 30 over par. (for those of you who don't play golf, that's bad. it means i take 30 more shots than the 'par', which is kind of another way of saying the 'norm'.)

so, we'll see how today goes. i hope everyone has a lovely day!

i'm ready for a nap already...

xxo.

our summer skin

so, i came across an amazing photographer named jake garn. check out his website by simply clicking on his name!

here are a few of his pieces that i adore.

what do you think? aren't they fabulous?

take care, dears!

damnit, you're so young

i have a few friends who can't stand taking naps. but i just adore them.

courtesy.

during the school year, i have a routine when i got home from school;

have a cup of tea and a snack;

courtesy.

do some homework;

courtesy.

have a nap;

courtesy.

have dinner;

courtesy.

do some more homework;

courtesy.

and finally, have some free time. (depending on how long it took me to do all the other things listed! sometimes i just go straight to bed.)

do you have any after school/after work routines?

xxo.

we were only kids

oh, the joy of preparing for parties...

courtesy.

i attempted making jello shots for the first time today. i've had them elsewhere, and loved them. so i'm thinking, since i'm having my super belated birthday party tonight (my birthday was in april... but i wanted to have a pool party.) i would do some!

i have a soccer game at nine, so i figured my friends could go watch, then come back to my place, and we'll drink/swim the night away! (we'll be careful, don't you worry!) i love swimming at night, have you ever tried?

don't worry, there's a story behind this. my jello shots didn't turn out as beautiful as the ones in the picturem i'm afraid to say... firstly, making them in paper shot glasses is easier, and these seem to be nowhere to be found. secondly, i couldn't find any plastic ones either. so, my solution? you know the paper you put cupcakes in...

courtesy.

well, that's what i put the jello mixture in. and we didn't have any nicely colored ones either... so they're in christmas paper. bright green with red on it. oh yes, mature, isn't it!

now, i just tried one, and they're very hard to eat... so i think what i'm going to do is just leave the jello mix in big bowls, and we can spoon it out as we please! classy, i know.

i just finished making the icing for the cake, and soon my mom and i will make the gluten free birthday cake! it's much too hot today to cook, though, i must say. i'm boiling just sitting here!

anyways, i hope everyone has a lovely monday!

xxo.

p.s. thank you to everyone who commented on the header, it means a lot to me and really helped me out!

remember me

so, as you can tell, i changed the header for my blog. it's definately more personal now, but what do you think, does it go? should i change it?

i really liked the picture i had as the header before, so i'm going to post it here.

sadly, i can't remember from where it came. but it is not my own!

let me know what you think about the header, and whether or not i should change it again.

i was thinking, is it acceptable to put as my header someone other than me, or a picture i didn't take? like, if i found a picture of a model that i really like, then wrote think rich, look poor... does that work? is that okay? please, let me know!

xxo.

where soul meets body

this post is dedicated to dearest abbey, the amazing creator of Life's No Storybook. (if you haven't read any of her posts yet, i recommend doing so. they're fun to read, and she's incredibly creative!)

anyways, the reason i am writing this post about her is because i saw a picture recently, and i wanted her to see it.

courtesy.

so, darling abbey, what do you think?

xxo.

paris, je t'aime

well, i've found one. i've found another amazing artist on etsy with incredible jewelry. this time, the name is blinkphoto.

here is my favorite piece by blinkphoto;

it's like an ode to any entertainment we've seen; kiss, alice in wonderland, star wars, princess diana, twilight (i do love twilight, but i wouldn't wear a locket with edward and bella in it), the wizard of oz, hello kitty... you name it, i'm sure they have it. there are a select few that i would actually wear, but if you like sharing your love for any of said things, then blinkphoto is for you!
other then the one i've shown, i'm not a huge fan of the work of blinkphoto. though, i've never been one for advertising my love for this type of entertainment.


another i've found is talula. her stuff is beautiful, classic. you might think it's thick, chunky... but i love with. bronze/dark metal is very popular right now, which goes perfectly with the vintage look. here are a few of my favorites.

j'adore!
that's it for now, but i'll keep looking up lovely things on etsy for you!

xxo.

p.s. the layout for this particular post is VERY strange... awful sorry!

feels like heaven

courtesy.

isn't this picture wonderful? the model is gorgeous.
xxo.

tell me your secrets, child

i just realized that i never wrote about having my fortune told! (by the way, what's up with the word realized? is it realized or realised? i always thought it was realised, but on my phone, realised doesn't seem to exist! on realized does. how strange. what do you think?) moving on...

so we decided to get our fortunes told quite in the heat of the moment.

courtesy.

my mom, my sister and i were walking around rockport, in gloucester, and walked by this little place that we noticed had ' fortune telling ' in the window. we mentioned how we'd never had our fortunes told, and decided to do it!

we went in age order. my mom first. my sister and i waited outside. we decided that having your fortune told is very personal, and if my mom wanted us to know, she could tell us herself.

next my sister went. and finally, so did i.

i was terrified, sweating palms, fidgety, heart racing. since i'd never had my fortune told, i didn't know what to expect. i didn't know whether or not she'd bring up dark secrets from my past, or tell me that i was going to die a tragic death. in the end, though, i had nothing to worry about.

from what i remember, (i did write it down, but i'm not sure where i put the paper... this is an example of trying to help my forgetfulness, and it failing...) i'm going to live a long life and die of old age, have a good education (but will need to work really hard... college starts in less than two weeks. i'm ready!) and have a good career. she said that i would be really heartbroken twice, and then fall in love and get married in my late twenties. oh, and i'll have two kids. apparently, none of my family or friends are going to die a tragic death. and, according to her, i have two spirits (or presences) surrounding me, protecting me. she didn't tell me who they were, but i think i've figured it out.

and that's pretty much it!

what do you think of fortune telling? full of truth or full of treason?

i'm still undecided about fortune telling. but we'll see, won't we?

xxo.

p.s. the rumours you hear about 'gypsies' or 'fortune tellers' being very creepy? so not true. she was a very nice woman. i really liked her!

without you

courtesy.

from one of the most romantic movies ever.

i have yet to meet someone who hasn't cried at one point during this movie.

xxo.

she's going to try it tonight

courtesy.

just thought i'd share this with you.

isn't it so true?

xxo.

i'm in love with love

courtesy.

i'm a survivor

a lot of people see soccer as a pointless sport. chasing a ball and trying to kick it into a net. but for those who play, it's a passion. not just a way of excersize, but a way of proving oneself.

courtesy.

i don't know why, but when i first walk onto the field, i feel like i can conquer the world... soccer cleats and all. when playing, as pointless as it may be to try to get the ball in the net, it's a goal that i put my heart and soul into.

i had a game last night (we're in the semi finals). it was slightly stressful beforehand; not only we're we playing the best team that we've never beat before, but my sister had borrowed my cleats and forgot to bring them home. the alternative? my brothers cleats.

he is two years older than me, and i had trouble just walking around the house wearing the cleats.

the weirdest thing? i played one of the best games of my life. my coach moves me between forward, midfield, and sometimes defense. i'm the all-around girl, and i'm a runner. last night, i made an assist, and almost scored 4 times. they were so close!

i just thought i would share my passion for soccer with you.

courtesy.

are you passionate about anything?

xxo.

in the moonlight

so, i've never personally really ever been able to wear skulls, and i know my dad hates it when my brother wears shirts/belt buckles with skulls on them... but uhm, how fantastic is this
alexander mcqueen clutch?

again, courtesy of miss fashion whore.

xxo.

dedicated to you

i have a friend who loves math. yes, i know. you'd hardly think that's possible, right? but no, she was in the highest possible math course, she has a 'math clock', and she makes jokes about math. for example; my love for you is like soh-cah-toa. at her sweet sixteen, we made sure to mention all that in her speeches...

the great thing about her is she doesn't care what anyone thinks about her loving math! all that matters is that she loves math.

i was browsing through photobucket and came accross this picture.

courtesy.

i wouldn't exactly say she's the type to get this tattoo, but it caught my eye and i wanted to share it with you!

xxo.

always waiting for you

found the most adorable boots thanks to being part of mylook fashion. the picture is from the miss fashion whore site.

check them outtttt;

i like the bottom right ones best, what do you think? i definately need to invest in some of these, perfect for fall/beginning of winter!

take care.

xxo.

just because...

courtesy.

i'd like to be under the sea

as promised;

' destiny '.

lucy in the sky with diamonds

just to give you an example of my art work. please don't mind the not-so-amazing photography, i had to take it with my phone. these are the only two i've done in this style; incorporating my drawings into the paintings. i love drawing bodies, and i never knew what to do with them once i'd finished them.

'ecstasy'.

part of 'discover'.

let me know what you think, or if you have any advice, that would all be greatly appreciated!
i'm listening to the beatles and working on another painting, a different style, which i'm going to call 'destiny'. i'll post a picture as soon as it's done!
i hope everyone is having a lovely monday!
xxo.

in my heart is shows

isn't this fantastic? i came accross it just now while trying to find something to paint. it's posted by audrey083053.

xxo.