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Coral & Leopard

Goodness, love me some Spring weather. You can just dress perfectly when it’s 70 degrees with a light breeze and plenty of sunshine. A great pencil skirt, bare legs, and a nice little cardigan. #ideal

Sweater: Juicy Couture//Leopard Tank: Thrifted//Pencil Skirt: J.Crew//Heels: c/o Blowfish

Enjoy the day, friends!

Natalie

Back to Smiles

I’m glad to show you smiles today 🙂

Glad to show you my cute new leopard headband from Oh, Sweet Joy and my Radiant Cosmetics lipstick.

Totes in love with both of them.

Which is good, because this week has been hard on me. If I’m honest, the year has been hard on me. A year ago yesterday, a week out from Christmas, a relationship with a man I thought I was going to marry ended. So my heart has been all sorts of heavy lately.

I tried to write about eight hundred blog posts about it, but none of it felt settled enough to share. I don’t feel settled enough to share. I’m still a bit of a hot mess (totally tearing up right now). And that’s embarrassing to admit, a year later. I feel like I should be fine, should be moving on, should be dating and happy. But the year really took a lot of life and love out of me, and I’m still searching for healing. A few months ago a friend asked me if I was dating, and I kid you not the word sounded foreign to me. The thought hadn’t even crossed my mind. I think if I really shared my heart about the subject, I’d never be able to put it back together again, so I guess I’ll keep carrying on with joy in the little things and trying to get back to smiles. Happy Natalie is so much more fun 🙂

Much love, my dears!

Summer

70s pink sunglasses.

Summer summer summer.

And now I’m going to resume blasting me some Taylor Swift while I figure out what to wear tomorrow.

And I’m going to paint my nails.

Blue? Yellow?

Because I may not be 14 anymore, but it’s still summertime.

xo,

Draper Girl

Oh my, do I love a good hat!

A girl hop on a train to anywhere with a good hat.

{midnight train goin’ anyyyyyyyyywheeeeerrrrrrreeeeeeee}

Ahem. Pardon the complete digression. But these photos were taken at a train station. And then I just got carried away. Bachelor night seems to make me feel a little over-dramatic.

And then the sun came out for a hot minute before it started snowing lightly. The wind was blowing something fierce, so I had to hold on to my hat for dear life.