I’m giving up (sort of)

So, once upon a time, I took photos of my outfit in front of a mirror. Then, one magical day, I decided that I should get a tripod and fiddle around with a (sort of old) digital camera and see if I could be fancy like real bloggers are fancy. Well, I’m not fancy. And I’m out of time. Dragging out a tripod, taking like 30 pictures of myself because 28 of them will be me looking a fool and then uploading them and editing them and so on and so forth makes me agitated. Frankly, I feel like a fraud. If you all can see what I’m wearing in a quickly snapped mirror shot, that might have to be good enough for now. I am in the midst of full-on CRAZYTOWN in my home most days. I’ve had people suggest that Brandon help me take them outside, but the last time (a couple years ago) I asked Brandon if he would take an outfit photo for me, he laughed and went back to eating Fritos.

I’ve written before that I’ll blog until blogging stops being fun. Well, self-timer tripod shots are definitely not fun for me anymore. There are millions of bloggers out there taking gorgeous, model-worthy outfit photos and sometimes I wish I could do that too, but I just don’t have the time or resources.

For a long time I struggled with blogging competitiveness and I had to keep up and do this and do that, and oh man, it sucked so hard. It was hard for me at first to do the easiest thing instead of the best and prettiest thing. For example, I would cook something, then inhale it so fast that I’d remember after the fact that I should have photographed it. That is no way to live/blog/exist/eat/wear/drink/friend—that stupid, incessant guilt that you should have taken a photo of something or it’s nothing.

This is just a really long, semi-coherent (I took some Benadryl for my wasp bite, FYI!) way of saying that my outfit photos may or may not strike/have stricken your fancy, but I’ll try make it up to you in book reviews and wallet itch.* I’m just a normal girl wearing normal clothes on a normal budget. I think some of you all are too, which is why this was fun in the first place.

*Wallet Itch: The burning desire to buy pretty things posted online

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  1. overflowing said: I think this is a great idea. You should do what you want, because you want to, and not for any other reason. That is the only recipe for happiness.
  2. mylifetheultimaterollercoaster said: Keep doing it the way you started. That is why your followers love you. Like you said. Normal girl, normal budget clothing! You are real and that is what makes you special! Don’t give up! Throw that tri pod out the window! LOL!
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  4. lizlemon said: I love this. And even more, right under it on my dashboard is someone asking someone to post outfit photos. Amazing.
  5. reneenicolesays said: do what you love, love what you do… it doesn’t need to be more complicated than that! personally i love your instagram photos of isobel :)
  6. thepreppyhippielife said: Fully support.
  7. dailybaxter said: Good for you!
  8. noraleah said: ha! it’s hard for a blogger w/o a man who wants to take her outfit posts. M & i haven’t ever really tried ‘cause lawd there’s no point. sometimes i feel like it’s the secret to cupcakes & cashmere success… but your simple mirror shots are *great*