WEAR: back to black.

First of (hopefully) many outfit posts in the works... Starting out a little bit (unintentionally) anti-summer: all black.

rosette headband: c/o Rissy Roo's

black kimono dress: Target

black bandeau: Heavenly Couture
black capri leggings: Old Navy

black gladiator sandals: Cathy Jean
floral post earrings: Brooke Medlin
red lace bracelet: branchbound
lip color: NYX Lip Cream in Spicy

For some reason I've really been fighting backyard self-portraits.  I argued with myself that it takes too much time which, let's face it, after I set up the tripod, snap photos with either my remote shutter or self-timer, run back and forth from the camera to make sure the images look halfway decent, load the images on my computer, edit the photos in LR, and compile the post, it kinda DOES take a long time.  But I don't have to do it all the time, right?  And I promise that in the future, I'll get more creative than all-black basics.  Consider this my outfit-of-the-day test run.

P.S. Like my little pooch Mickey with me in that third photo?  He kept following me back and forth from the camera; he couldn't figure out WHAT the heck I was up to.  :)