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Sometimes you see something that you know you can't have, and you know that it exists just to punish you for some distant wrongdoing.  The universe holds grudges, and when you behave badly, it offers up the perfect whatever that you've always wanted, and then says "Screw you, jerk - you can't have it!"  I'm waxing melodramatic, but seriously, would you look at this freaking perfect dress?!

I mean, are you kidding me?  A beautiful taupe color, the kind of vine-y print that I swoon over, AND AMUSEMENT PARK RIDES TO BOOT.  If you knew me, you would understand why the pricetag on this amazing dress is the ultimate cruelty to me - $185.  Click the picture to visit the dress in VintageFrocksOfFancy's Etsy shop.  If I had a couple hundred extra dollars lying around (that wasn't already earmarked for an upcoming tattoo), I would be all over this dress.  As it stands, I'll have to drool over it on the internet until some other lucky lady scoops it up.

I've always wanted to go to an old-fashioned carnival.  I've never even been to the circus!  Unless you count the time when I was two years old that my mom took me to a traveling circus on the mainstreet of my tiny town, and I rode an elephant, but I don't, because all I remember is the elephant.  I want a real sideshow-having, cotton-candy-selling, weird and scary carnival (I just learned that the word "carnival" means "farewell to the flesh" - how awesome is that!?).  Needless to say, Carnivale is one of my all-time favorite television shows.  If you've never seen the show, stop reading and go find it.  Seriously...right now.

So, there was no outfit post yesterday, because it was nuts here - I only had to work for two hours, but there were SO MANY PEOPLE at my house when I got home!  I had been wearing some skinny jeans and the Kissimee dress I posted about a few days ago (as a tunic), but I tore a hole right in the rear of my jeans.  So, when I got home, I threw on some blue-and-white striped linen shorts in place of the jeans.  It was over 90 degrees, anyway, so I needed to ditch the jeggings.  It sounds atrocious, but it was actually pretty cute!

Even though the circus dress is a bit out of my grasp at the moment, I do have another amazing vintage dress find coming my way via FabGabs' Etsy shop.  But it's a secret for now!

Okay, off to dream of ferris wheels and winning giant stuffed creatures for the imaginary girl of my dreams....


reading/"listening"/watching - "Moon Over the Freeway" - the Ditty Bops