Tea for One

It is simply the most fun to come up with brand new ways to wear something that's generally not so convertible. This dress, for example, is something I never would've normally looked at as being versatile--but it just goes to show you that anything in your wardrobe can surprise you. So I tucked the top part under & tied the sashes, & voila! A new way to wear a dress.



So, it's all fun and fancy photoshoots until someone pulls into the cabin you're near, & you have to awkwardly explain why you have the table & chairs from their porch, and the curtain as a makeshift table cloth, before apologizing & dashing home with jostling, tinkling china in your bag. Ahem. In my defense, I hadn't realized we had guests arriving just then for that cabin!



I need to get more comfortable being around people when I take pictures, though, because I won't always have secluded little forests to pose it. It's just, it's hard enough to get the right shot when you're by yourself with a self-timer--I'd rather not have an audience! Nothing encourages you to wrap things up like a bystander, haha.

I was going for a dreamy quality here, hence the expressions. It's pretty fun to set up a totally random scene--it's kind of, in a way, like playing make believe. & tea parties are just so perfect for a dreamlike aesthetic. We used to have really classy tea parties all the time so I'm pretty partial to them!





top / reconstructed tee | dress (worn as a skirt) / handmade | shoes / vintage, wonderwardrobe.etsy.com



EDIT: I apologize about the photo hosting problems! I'm now switching over to Flickr so I never have to deal with Photobucket again, & I'll work on switching things over this weekend. However, I won't be switching my archives, so it may be a couple weeks before the bandwidth resets itself. I'll get the first few pages done, & this will not happen again! I'm super sorry. What a way to start the weekend!