by Diana Deaver

hi guys.

i know i’ve been awol for…  ahem, cough, umm…  about two months now.  you were missed dearly.  thank you so much to all of you who sent emails/searched me out and found my personal blog/contacted me in one of the plethora of other ways possible, to send me your love, well-wishes and thoughts.  it really meant so much to both me and the bf.  i know there are people out there who are skeptical of this internet world, but it has brought me such an incredible amount of support.  i wouldn’t give you guys up for anything.

i feel so unprepared to jump back into the fashion-blog world.  sort of nerdy-3rd-grader-ish.  like, “hey guys!  check it out!  i’ve been thinking about hats!” 

but whatevs.  i have been.  especially my newest addition to the collection – a vintage (fake) ‘coon-skin cap i acquired at my favorite thrift shop for $3.  yes, you heard me right.  every word of that is the truth.

i’ve also been obsessing over teasing my 6 inches of hair into the biggest beehive i possibly can (which is not big, and i get a little shy about taking it out in public sometimes, so i compensate with platform shoes.  both accomplish the task of bringing one’s hair closer to god.) pea-coats from the little girl’s section of department stores, and that embarrassingly over-exposed double u-neck american apparel dress.  i know i’m totally behind on the times, but i’m allowed to clamber up on the u-neck bandwagon and shake it too, ok?

 anyway, “winter” (read, 50-degrees at night,) has finally come to tucson, which meant that today i got to wear all three!   (well, four if you count the ‘hive, but that got covered up by the ‘coon-skin…) 

i know you want to see what this looks like.  i took a picture for you:

(i’m trying to see my hat.)

also, today i discovered that the 120-year-old converted adobe barn i live in was not equipped with any sort of central heating system.  which is rather unfortunate for me.