Lent End

    You may or may not have noticed that new outfit posts have been pretty sparse for the past six weeks.  That is because I participated in Lent this year and gave up shopping/spending for 40 days.  If you ever want to know how much control something has over your life, just give it up for a while and you'll quickly learn.  To be fair, I have known for quite some time that I shop too much, but I have really been working on it for the past 16 months and can tell that I am making progress.  I never would have made it on a no-buy for 40 days last year, so the fact that I completed this challenge gives me a lot of hope moving forward.  Have I shopped since Lent ended?  Yup, sure have.  But I did manage to stop when it was time and that's a victory too.

    I haven't been taking photos because I really just committed to wearing the same things on rotation during this time and with all the work we are doing building onto our house, it seemed like a good time to just put the blog on hold for a while.  We're back now though, and a little thrifted Collectif dress seemed like the perfect way to come back.  I really have enjoyed the break from getting up before dawn on my weekends to avoid fighting crowds to try to get a few decent photos.  As an added bonus, the break has given my yard enough time to leaf out and become lovely once more, so I decided to take these photos close to home, which is why you'll also notice an attention hungry tom cat bombing my photos near the end.  

Outfit Collection:  Caterina Dress from Collectif is old.  Shoes from Honiara Vintage are also old.