• A Sundry

    Christmas Traditions

    Brian and I celebrated Christmas with my parents in Montana this year. I haven’t been home on Christmas for three years, so it was nice to have a chance to visit. There’s nothing quite like Christmas on a farm in Montana. Of course I might be biased. Just maybe. Since this is Brian and my first Christmas together as a married couple, there was a lot of talk about traditions. Traditions are one of my favorite things about the holiday season. They make the holidays richer. More magical. They add warmth and flavor to memories. They increase anticipation of the future. This year, we each brought traditions with us from our childhood.…

  • Fashion,  Outfits

    Fuzzy

    I apologize that my images came out rather lackluster today. My trusty wingman (aka husband) was busy so I dusted off my tripod and went solo. And failed. Rather miserably. All of my tripod images turned out rather blurry, dark, and poorly composed. Do any of you have tips or tricks to tripod photography? Because I just can’t figure this one out.

  • Fashion,  Outfits

    Christmas at the Rebars’

    Brian and I decorated our Christmas tree today. This is our first Christmas together as a married couple, and I’m pretty excited. I’ve still got a little bit of work to do on the house before we leave Sunday to visit family…but decorating is all fun work, so I’m okay with that! Today, I wore a oversized grey sweater, with my skinny jeans and my favorite pair of cozy socks. I was originally planning on getting rid of this sweater because it is designed to fit off the shoulder and is difficult to make modest. But I pulled it out of my give-away bag after a moment of desperation a few…

  • Faith,  Modesty

    The Problem with the Victoria Secret Fashion Show

      A quick scroll down Twitter last night revealed a plethora of tweets–gathered under a single hashtag–in which girls shamelessly debased their bodies, while binging on ice cream and chicken wings. The hashtag in question? VSFashionShow. The Victoria Secret Fashion Show–which aired last night–is an annual event that seems to have a rather magical ability to inspire both avid fans, and aggressive self-hate. Girls from around the world wait all year to watch the event, and then plop themselves down on the couch with a bucket of ice-cream and a box of tissues when it finally rolls around. Why this show seems to have such an appeal to young woman is a…

  • Fashion,  Outfits

    Welcome to December

    It was cold outside today. Cold and drear. It snowed yesterday, but today it has warmed up just enough to turn the snow into a slippery sludge. The worst kind of snow. I often feel like the best, and only redeeming quality about the cold is snow. But when the snow is like this–a sloppy porridge which mixes with the dirt and lays about like ice-slick puddles–I begin to wish there isn’t any of it at all. But I should remain positive. Positivity is like sunshine. It keeps the cold away. There are good things about this weather. When the snow is wet and the air biting, I find it…