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A couple months ago, Tieka posted an outfit of herself wearing the cutest polka dot skirt I'd ever seen. I commented on the post jokingly asking if she'd ever want to do a swap and less than three weeks later, it was in my mailbox along with this adorable also polka dotted dress! It was awesome. The best part about blogging to me will always be the people I've met and girls I've gotten to know. There are so many of you that inspire me beyond words and I just love being a part of this amazing community!

I feel like I've been on a blogging roll these days which is so refreshing. I always say that if I'm blogging regularly, the rest of my life is also happening on a regularly organized fashion as well. It feels so good to dress up every day and schedule little dates with Niklaas downtown to go take pictures, get coffee, thrift, or walk around exploring. Those little dates keep school stress manageable and I just love hanging out with him so much. (It seems as if I'm on a gushing spree today!)

I got the news this morning as I was walking to my first class that some of my favorite people in the world and the nicest family in the world would be coming into town today! So it looks as if I'll be showing them my dorm room today and getting to talk to people that are almost my second family. This weekend I'm also dragging Niklaas to Silent House which I've been dying to see, seeing my best friend in the world who is also coming into town and going out with her on Saturday night, spending a day writing at a coffee shop, and sleeping in. I never really realized how much of a sleeper I was until all of my roommates delightfully pointed out that I'm always the last to wake up on weekends. It never even crossed my mind as to how much I love sleeping in and how late I'll sleep if I'm interrupted. I slept in until noon on Sunday at Maggie's house in Minnesota! Oops!

I am wearing:

dress- Swap with Tieka

tights- Jcrew

heels & sunglasses - Urban Outfitters

not a drive by

You know that amazing feeling you get when you wake up and make your bed in the morning? When you just know you're going to have a wonderful kind of day just because you started your day right from the moment you woke up? This morning I decided not only was I going to make my bed, but that I was going to wash my sheets, my towels, and all two loads of laundry stuffed into my too small laundry bin. I woke up three hours earlier than my per usual Tuesday regime and between loads, completed my lab report, drank coffee, ate muffins, and showered. All before noon! It was amazing. Oh, and not having class today after being gone in Minnesota for a weekend helped a lot, too.



I had an amazing weekend and came away with a successful load of new items to add to my closet. I discovered that I'm a completely different shopper in a store than I am online. I'm serious. I do 99.9999% of all shopping online and I have found that I'm increasingly unhappy with what I get online. I woke up this morning and chose the smallest item I got: my new mustard yellow belt from Francessca's Collections! I wasn't sure if spending $14 on a belt was going to be worthwhile when I could get a $2 one from Forever21 and the more I thought about it the more I realized that most of my belts are from Forever21 and I no longer wear them because of how worn they are. And the color was really too perfect to pass up. So I went for it and I'm really happy because there's nothing like a quality belt. I threw it on with an older dress and aha! My polka dot cardigan ironically from Forever21. I really do love playing with patterns and bold colors. I wasn't even going to take pictures today but I texted Niklaas and was like you know what!? I like what I'm wearing, let's do it!


It is currently scaring me how close to summer we are. Our spring break falls in April so it's still two and a half weeks away, but directly after spring break we have three full weeks, finals week, and then summer. That's five and a half weeks of school until finals. People think I'm crazy when I freak out about it being so close but I'm honestly not ready! I guess it's a good thing if I want it to remain spring and stay in school? I think I'm just so happy with life and living on my own over here that I'm not entirely ready to go home and live in my little bedroom squished at the back of the house shared with my family again! I hope that doesn't mean that I'm growing up.

Outfit:

dress,scarf, & cardigan- Forever21

tights- Jcrew

flats & readers- Urban Outfitters

belt- Francessca's Collections

i just want to be in...

dear minnesota,

i wasn't sure if i loved you upon first sight. in fact, you made me feel pretty claustrophobic at first when i could see horizon all the way around me. being strictly a pacific northwest girl, i didn't know what to do with this. and then i got in the middle of your beautiful twin cities, ate the best mac&cheese i've ever had at noodles and company, shopped until i literally dropped, and drove for miles between your never ending things to do and i kind of fell a little bit in love. maybe it was realizing how lucky i am to have found such a wonderful best friend in montana and how i'd never be in minnesota with her visiting her family if i'd never made friends with the girl who had cute clothes that lived on my floor. maybe it was having three blissful days away from school and reality to just drive and shop and scream every lyric of lady antebellum's songs from second row in the pit. maybe it was the city which never fails to leave me in awe and fill me with the adrenaline and excitement it contains. maybe it was hanging out and cuddling up to the cutest cat i've ever met and might have definitely swayed me to the cat-lover side once and for all. maybe it was the mall of america which was amazing even in its girl scouts of america national convention busy crowds. maybe it was the landscape which i wasn't impressed with at first but was kind of beautiful upon a closer inspection. 

minnesota, you stole my little heart. i hope i get to see you this summer and for more than three days! i'm so excited to pool together all of the pictures from our three days together. 

love,

the other maggie

one more day

in one days time i will be able to say that i've been to an

h&m

urban outfitters

francessca's collection

anthropologie

all. in. one. place. 

mall of america, maggie's house, lady antebellum, minnesota fun

here we come!

the first official post: him and her!

after i posted a joint q&a post that niklaas contributed to, i got so many emails and comments requesting much to my surprise for more of niklaas. i came up with the idea of specific "him and her" posts that each of us would contribute to much like the q&a one and make it a weekly/bi-weekly thing we'd do. it will range from clothes to music to youtube videos to more q&a's to outfit posts to email answers to what's on our mind and more! this marks our first official one in which we just made simple spring wishlists. i'm really really excited about this and had more fun than i anticipated! please please please email me if you have anything at all you'd like to see or if you have any questions (especially for him!!!!!)! lifesizepaperdoll(at)yahoo(dot)com!

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*niklaas has a serious jcrew crush. i just wish that they had as amazing clothes for women as they do men! and i would seriously be okay with him buying that cashmere sweater if only there was $298 lying around to buy it with.

*i'm dying over that anthropologie top. if i'm unlucky while at the mall of america, i may splurge on it (but probably not)

*i'm a lucky girl.

weekends that surprise you

well, hello march! i love weekends that surprise you. the kind of weekends that are unintentionally busy. i swear to be a homebody but i do love my weekends spent outside my room being busy. in a lot of ways, i think i've fallen into a too comfortable rut of staying in and watching movies all the time because school drains me so completely. not that staying home all the time is always bad. i mean, i basically spent my entire freshmen year doing just that. however, i'm discovering that spending all day finding random things to do and winding up at uswirl, walking to albertson's for a date afternoon and sitting in the sun (*cough* shade *cough*),finding the top of a pretty mountain with a cool view, looking at old houses downtown, and getting dressed up for no reason can be just as refreshing as being lazy at home. i'm definitely more of an adventurer but my lazy habits definitely get in the way of that.

instagram thursday

the good
- spotting puppies tied up outside of your class so that when you walk out of your organic chemistry lab you get to spend ten minutes petting the cute pups. oh, and when one of them reminds you of your own puppy at home, it makes it that much sweeter.
- warm, soft, fresh out of the oven m&m cookies at the food zoo. niklaas ate six.
- downloading all of the civil war's album. sogoodsogoodsogood.
- people that believe in you.
- getting an iphone. not yet, but in two weeks time, i will have an iphone. it may be a 3gs, but that's okay. i don't care.
- amazing episodes of parenthood that make me tear up.
- spending 45 minutes drawing posters for all of your roommates
- a roommate who has a boy lingering and liking her. it's way too cute.
- being reminded over dinner in which we stayed seated long after we finished our meals that i get to date my best friend and we're now soso close to two years.
- going into the weekend knowing the next three full weeks will be completely test free.

the notsogood
- fainting in class. it really wasn't that dramatic, but it happened. that's what working out without drinking and not having time for breakfast in the morning will do.
- getting a bad grade on the easiest test you've ever taken on something you know in and out. overconfidence can shoot you in the foot just as easily as being unprepared.
- going eight weeks without being home.
- getting a paper cut on the inside corner of your lip. worst place ever.
- blaire telling chuck she loves him but isn't in love with him and has feelings for dan. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. sometimes my attachments to fictional characters keep me sane. this ruined my week.
- not being in austrailia for tswift's speak now continuing tour and the fact that it's march but not october and her album is still seven months away from being here. ugh.
- realizing you might never be happy if you don't change your major. now.