summer simplified

It's still slow going on the old bloggy and this current LA heatwave is doing nothing to encourage me to make time for taking photos outdoors but I really wanted to do a quick post since August was so very slow here!

I've slipped into a bit of a summer uniform this year, particularly in the daytime, and that is: a cotton dresses paired with my trusty Swedish Hasbeens.  This dress is one of my particular favorites. It's vintage - if you consider the 90s vintage - and it is super comfortable which means I'm always throwing it on to run a quick errand, make a coffee run or walk the dogs.  I suppose it's my equivalent to jeans and a T-shirt and since life has been pretty hectic lately I have found that simple dressing helps me stress a little bit less. This is not to say that I've lost my love for dressing up! far from it.  At night, once it cools down, I'm back to my usual antics.  

outfit notes:

dress - vintage 

sandals - swedish hasbeens

hair clip - anthropologie 

How about you? What items do you find yourself reaching for in the hot months?  

 

stick a pin in it

I just realized how truly, spectacularly bad my blogging has been this month and I have no excuse other than busy life taking the reins.  Luckily, there are some very fun things in the pipeline so stay tuned! Meanwhile, I wanted to let you know (if you don't know already) that I am an active Pinterest-er and you can follow my boards here...  It has proven quite a handy little tool and has helped me make use of  all of those images I had saved chaotically in various folders on my desktop.

In case you aren't sold yet, here is a little peek at a few of my boards. starting with a collection of "gorgeous things"...

 an inspiring gallery of "pretty (& talented) ladies"

 

some incredible "places & spaces"

 and some "film love"

Of course, Tumblr & Twitter are still good places to find me should you find you miss me ;)  Back soon! xdjrd

other places

 In case you miss me in between DJRD posts, I've been know to hang around in these other corners of the interweb...

TUMBLR

TWITTER

PINTEREST


xoDJRD

Eek! My belated Blogiversary! DJRD is 2!

This just goes to prove how crazy my life has been in recent weeks! While I was waxing on about my August 30th post being my 400th I managed to completely forget that August 18th was my blog's 2 year Blogiversary. Sheesh!

Despite the month of August being a whirlwind of random, sort of life-altering, events (and, therefor,  sporadic posts) I feel pretty happy with where Don Juan's Reckless Daughter is at this point. Thank you all for making it what it is with your comments, incredible insights and support.

As my blogiversary gift I will continue my tradition of asking you to comment on my blog and/or tweet, post, link, facebook, tumble (what have you) about this blog so that others can find me in my dusty attic corner of the internets.

Thanks again, everyone!  

There is much more to come! Year 3 will be great!

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Sorry everybody! I know it's out of character for me to be gone so long but I had a few (unexpected) things to deal with in the past few days which took over.  I promise I will be back to my normal posting schedule this week! I hope you will bare with me xx

intermission (aka: bad blogger alert!)

Hi Kids! I am terribly sorry for the severe lack of posting during "roadtirp week". This may be the longest ever gap in two years!  I didn't have as much time as I had expected for computing AND now...I'm really sick with a cough/bad throat thing which is really lame but I still had a great time.  Now I'm home in bed and I'm literally working on a real post as we speak but I couldn't stand anymore of a gap! see you soon!