Saturday, May 26, 2012

Molly of ViviDot

Molly is the entreprenurial genius behind the oh so cute ViviDot line! Molly recently had her line picked up by the one and only ModCloth, so let's join in on giving her a big ol' congratulations! Enjoy her guest post today, then pop on over and see what she's all about!
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My husband, Duncan, and I got married just over 6 months ago in a neighborhood slightly south of Seattle called Georgetown. Not only did we fall in love with our wedding venue, but also all of the quirky and fun places nearby. On the top of that list is the always amazing Georgetown Trailer Park Mall. 
 A graveled side street is lined with eight vintage trailers stocked with locally made a rt, vintage and indie designer's clothing and accessories. Last time I wandered through I came home with a dainty milk glass vase, a super sized, embroidered rooster patch and a miniature handmade porcelain cow skull. How's that for variety!? 
Bring your dudes because this place ain't just for ladies. From camping and sporting gear to fifties era barware, your friends of the masculine persuasion will be excited to dig through all of the treasures too. 
The shop owners and friendly and ready to tell stories about their finds. They are usually cooking up something to eat and hanging with the other vendors as they allow shoppers to wander through their trailers and pick through their always changing inventory. 
If you're in the Seattle area on a Saturday I highly recommend making the trip to the Trailer Park Mall. There are a lot of tasty places to grab a bite to eat nearby too so you can make a day of it. I hope you enjoyed my little tour of a favorite weekend destination here in Seattle. Now if only I could get Kaelah to drive her cute little mobile boutique up to the Pacific Northwest.... hint, hint. 

If you're interested in finding out more about my company, Vivi Dot, I'd love for you to check out my online shop, blog, and tweets. Don't be a stranger though and make sure to say hi! 

Thanks for having me Kaelah!
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Friday, May 25, 2012

Southern Peach

It's not very often that I go sans-cardi on the blog... or really in real life. Between feeling the need to cover up my tattoos a decent amount when living in Franklin (very stuffy/conservative ~small town) and not always being the biggest fan of my arms, cardigans were an easy and stylish alternative. The Nashville heat can sometimes make it hard to enjoy them comfortably, but I think most Tennesseans know to spend ample time indoors during the summer! Haha However, something the past few weeks has made me just say "Screw it!" and just rock the sleeveless/tights-less dress. It's not the most revolutionary thing, of course, but still a salute to loving myself as-is. There are so many more pertinent things to worry about -- like how I can't manage to shave my legs without nicking myself, as demonstrated in these photos! Or how I can't use my curling wand without burning the sweet bejeezus out of my hand. Those are kind of a big deal.
This dress is one of my all time favorites. It's from Dorothy Perkins. A sweet friend picked it up for me sometime last summer and sent it over from the UK. (DP has US shipping, but this was way cheaper) I love the illustrated fruit motif. The wedges are a much more recent purchase from last month via Ideeli. I picked them up for 50% off so I snagged them in red, too. They're so so comfortable and I've seriously worn them to death already. And this handbag is the Michael Kors Gansevoort bag Mike surprised me with when I graduated college. 
I didn't know it was a holiday weekend until last night when talking to my mom on the phone. I thought that was next weekend. No big deal less the fact that the bar is going to probably be so so dead. Everyone packs up and heads to the river (I don't blame them!). It's supposed to be like 97* all weekend so I'd rather be at the river, too! Instead, we're loading up our little family and heading down to my parents' house for the weekend. Grilling out, reading on the deck, hammock naps and pool time. I can't complain! I hope you're weekend is equally as enjoyable!

Dorothy Perkins dress
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Thursday, May 24, 2012

Things I Love Thursday

Here's what I'm loving this week...

First and foremost, it's a very special lady's 3rd birthday! Happy Birthday, Georgia!





and now for my TiLT...
coffee. ♥
this street art. ♥

this bathing suit. ♥

this panda illustration ♥

♥ all things mindy kaling. ♥

♥ gwen has the most stylish family EVER ♥

this

this looks beautiful ♥

this makes me want to go to the farmer's market ♥

this is art. ♥

Other Awesome Stuff:

// Wishlist Wears: If I were a 7.5 in shoes, I'd so scoop these up. -- This vintage dress is swoon-worthy  -- If you have a smaller waist than I do, you should snag this up! It's so so cute! -- This tea party dress is the best dress to ever exist -- I wish I were more prone to wearing skirts because this peach maxi is beautiful -- and I'm kind of crazy about this bathing suit for our Florida vacation in a couple of weeks!

// Jeanie recently attended a blogging conference in Australia and she shared 15 of the key points from her time there! Super helpful if you're looking to build your blog.

// Foodie Finds: Peach Mango Pineapple Sangria -- Jello Cookies (perfect for kids!) -- Zucchini Bites (yum!) -- Pancake Pops (because everything is better on a stick... haha) -- Easy Baked Tomatoes

// Amber just redesigned + rebranded her blog! You can now find her at Design Urchin! Congratulations, lady!

// These pictures on Kiley's blog are so beautiful. She shared some fun film photos from the day of the eclipse in San Jose, too.

// I've found myself poking through the archives at Pure Green Design this morning. Such pretty things!

// Instagram Favorites:
@starrcrow

@whitjohns


@bebebird_


What are you loving this week?
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Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Little Chief Honeybee Turns Three!

I don't think I ever expected to keep up with this blog for an extended amount of time, much less three whole years. I can think back to the day I started it... sitting in my "Chocolate Sparkle" painted bedroom in the apartment I shared with two friends. I was packing my bags for NYC, moving to a place I had never been (less Times Square for one weekend). I was 21, totally unaware of the adventures ahead of me. I was in limbo with an exboyfriend of a few years, and decided to sever all ties with him until I had experienced NYC alone. I still didn't exactly know how to be single, but I was trying. I promised to update this blog while in New York, but the first summer was hard. A horrible sickness and being bedridden for 2 weeks left me sleeping and watching entirely too much Hulu. I didn't put a lot of effort into the blog for the first month or two. After returning home to Tennessee I decided to give it another go. I rented a house in downtown Franklin with some friends, enjoyed what was left of summer, and prepared myself for my last half of college. Still blissfully unaware that this little blog would become something so much more to me. 


I know I say it every chance I get, but I really have met some of the most amazing people through here. People I otherwise may never have crossed paths with. Eventually I stopped documenting tiny, seemingly insignificant things. I stopped taking outfit pictures with my iPhone in a huge mirror in my bathroom. I started to find my actual blogging voice. (The old, old entries are cringe inducing! Seriously.) I started to treat this blog like it was something more than just a catch-all for my thoughts. I guess you could say there was finally a method to the madness.

Time passed, exboyfriends were let go, old relationships were rekindled. I'm still surprised at how honest and open I was about the failure of my relationship. To be truthful, those are the type of posts I long to write but often find it hard with such an audience. I don't have as large as a venue as many bloggers out there, but knowing that no matter what I say, someone will misinterpret it, well it's hard. (That sentence probably didn't make sense.)


This blog has been a blessing, but there are still times when I feel like I can't commit myself to say some of the things I want to. That's the part I hate. Absolutely no one is holding me back from saying these things or writing these posts except myself. I appreciate people who aren't afraid to offend. I don't like to intentionally rock the boat or anything, but I believe in honesty and integrity. And for LCH's fourth year, I hope I can be more upfront and honest in the things that I write. Everything on this blog is valid and true, but I find myself only drafting the posts that are sticky or just seem so silly. I can't imagine that thousands of people want to know about that one tiny trivial thing that I did, so I end up not publishing it. That's silly. This blog serves as a virtual scrapbook for my twenties. I don't want to just skim the surface anymore.


LCH has undoubtedly taken the backseat to my freelance design work over the past 6 months or more. Over half of the last year was spent squeezing in blog posts when I could find time, and groaning when I couldn't think of a topic. I was allowing work to distort my view on my space... Blogging shouldn't necessarily feel like "work" (Okay, there is a lot of work that goes into it) but I want to "re-find" my space. My outlet. I want to blog with intention.

Blogging with intention doesn't just mean blogging about the nitty gritty -- I mean I want to document my "hour a day" posts, I want to show off my Jeffrey Campbell shoes (so I can look back years from now and scoff at my decision to own so many ugly shoes. I love them though.) I want to share day to day stuff even though it's far from exciting. That's my life... that's my scrapbook. I don't want to censor myself with "Well, I doubt anyone would want to read that" or "That won't get any comments at all". Screw comments. Screw pageviews. I'm ready to blog with purpose and I'm ready to blog for me... solely. Asking y'all what you'd like to see on the blog really helped solidify that decision. Ironic that I'd be asking what you want to see only so that I could do what I wanted, but so many of the answers were things I was afraid to share in the first place. So many of you want to read the things I want to write about, and that excites me. There will still be plenty of outfits, and Instagram roundups (oh how so many hate those!), and you may not notice any immediate changes on the surface. But I'm excited to explore other topics for future posts.



Just like the motto for my 24th year of life is "Make yourself proud", the motto for LCH's 4th year is "Blog with intention". Not even write... just blog. It could be sharing 17 photos or just 1. Words or no words. Quotes I find inspiring, pictures of things that are pretty... 

That's the plan, honeybees. Happy birthday, little blog!

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Here are a few of my favorite posts from the past three years:

for those getting over a really crappy breakup.

a post about feminism and misguided advice.

sometimes a pretty dress and new lipstick can work wonders.

getting engaged in wilmington, north carolina

the post that inspired me to start my Honest To Blog series

the one that really hit home for people

Toby news. I can still sense the excitement + terror in my post.

Here's to another amazing year!
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Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Flowers In Her Hair

Okay, so today is really only appropriate day to post this outfit (from weeks ago!) because the high is only going to be 77. Wanna guess about this weekend?! 97! Ninety-seven degrees! With like 100% humidity! Sometimes I have to ask myself if Tennessee is worth it in the summer haha I know it gets like 110* by now in places like the southwest, but the humidity is honestly what kills. I feel like I'm such a hermit in summer and winter. Anyway, this is one of those outfits where I really kind of hate it after looking at it, and I cringe that I walked around like that for several hours ya know? I mean, there's nothing fundamentally wrong with the pairing, but I just don't care for it. I don't know, maybe I'm sharing to show that sometimes I hate what I throw together haha.
My closet spans the width of my entire office, about 15', and is hidden by walls on both sides of my French doors. I sometimes take advantage of those little nooks to shove things like my printer, a bunch of craft supplies, and my Jeffrey Campbell box collection (the only shoe boxes I can't seem to get rid of... maybe I should put them in storage). These photos are a little embarrassing to share thanks to the clutter, but at least they're honest I guess haha. I promise I don't belong on an episode of Hoarders! 

Anyway, I picked up this dress many many moons ago at Ross (just like basically everything else I own), and this cardigan is about 2 years old from Target. I bought every color Target had of these cardigans and I still wear every single one. They're perfect! Not too thick, not too thin, perfect material, length and I love the ruffle detail. I wish I could find more! All of the cardigans now are too stretchy and thin. The belt was a new-but-thrifted find and the ring is Betsey Johnson. (Kintage has a replica in their store.) The ring matches Pipkin perfectly. Now I just need to get the English Bulldog one for Georgia!
Have a great Tuesday! I woke up swearing it was Wednesday. I don't know where my days are anymore haha

Dress via Ross
Target belt via Southern Thrift
Target cardigan
Forever 21 headband
Target tights
Target shoes
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