true.

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JTE doing The Replacements… I couldn’t love it more.

This collection is about to grow… Upon my return from Japan! #paumes

I am going to Japan! JAPAN!!

I have known for a week now, but I think it has only just hit me.

I am going to buy SO MANY Paumes books I will need another suitcase.

Huzzah!

year-long wardrobe essentials…

In continuing my effort to live with less… I found this post on Tumblr this fine Monday morning…and feel inspired to get rid of even more.

Look how interchangeable everything is…

I don’t even want to think about how many coats I have in my closet(s).

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Exactly my point.

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It’s been a while…

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Post run coffee. The Current. REM Nightswimming into Cheap Trick I Want You to Want Me (original - not live). Kind of a perfect morning.

Confession: During my one year hiatus from buying new clothes, three months in, I went shopping in Austin, Texas and purchased a shirt. A beautiful, hand-embroidered Mexican blouse, which in my defense, I have been on the hunt for since our vacation in Baja California Sur two years ago.

So last weekend, BB and I had a little… disagreement… he commented that I never follow through with anything. Ouch. That one hurt a bit. However, I’m honest enough with myself to admit…several days later…that he was correct. 

I have a lot of great ideas. A lot of good intentions. But I don’t always make the time to follow through. To make them a priority. 

Hey - I’m working on it. 

Today I decided to reflect on whether I am truly commited to no shopping for a full year. Will I stick with it and make it for the year? I can’t say for sure. Right now, I feel very committed. I am avoiding the usual shops that suck me in. I unsubscribed from the store emails. Unfollowed them on Facebook and Twitter. I feel different about the clothes in my closet. I am rediscovering things I’ve held on to for years. And I am parting with clothes that I know I’ll never wear again. 

More importantly, I feel different about my body. Instead of shopping to accomodate my lack of working out, I am actually working out. Running. Who thought that would EVER happen??

This is the only “frivolous” clothing purchase I have made since July. I don’t regret it one bit. 

I didn’t backslide into a shopping frenzy, as I feared I would. I am feeling the effects of my project - my restraint. I don’t get the initial anxiety I felt in the beginning when I saw the new Fall lines from Madewell and J. Crew popping up all over blogs, Facebook and Pinterest. I look at labels now to see where items were made. If it’s made in China. I’m out. No thank you. And by the way, how can ANYONE justify charging $98/$108/$188 for a shirt or a dress made in China? I’m talking to you Anthropologie!

I’ll have you know THIS shirt was hand made in Marfa, Texas. 

Week 1. Day 2. Running by choice. I no longer think “I hate this, I hate this, I hate this”. Big step. I figure. I run because I can. Because I am capable. And because I love pork and gelato.

Week 1. Day 1. Me after my first run…by choice.

Full disclosure: I own a lot of t-shirts that I almost never wear. But only one of them is red. @artbyellengreene this is for you… (Taken with Instagram)