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Wednesday, March 21, 2012

little vintage style: the birthday dress


I love picking out a pretty dress for the girls to wear on special occasions. It makes me happy and I think they look darling, plus I plan on storing them so they will each have a box of their own special dresses to keep as heirlooms.

This year for Lark's birthday I had the three options above to choose from, so I had her try them on one afternoon for a little instagram fashion show. They were all cute, but the clear winner, and my favorite as well, was option number one:


I love this dress! The colors and little details are just perfect for a birthday girl. I bought a huge gold number one balloon for her party, envisioning her wearing the dress while holding it for a fun birthday photo (picture this background, the planets aligned, angels singing...). The weather, however, didn't get the memo and turned out to be quite windy. This was the best shot I could get, ha! She was frantically signing 'All done!' and trying to protect herself as the balloon bounced off her head. I quickly realized it was not going to happen and abandoned the idea. Thankfully, my mother was helping me and had a hold of the balloon, otherwise it would have blown away.

We'll try again next year with another dress and a number two.
Lark wore: dress, vintage//tights, Old Navy

5 comments:

  1. that last picture is SO cute. i'm so happy to see that babies don't magically turn into teenagers at their first birthday. she still looks like a baby to me. cute little one.

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  2. Perfect choice! I love seeing the shot from the photoshoot that didn't turn out as planned :) Yesterday Elsie wore the yellow dress you sent and it was painfully adorable. I'll have to send you a picture...

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  3. My pictures NEVER work out the way I want them too. Sometimes they are better in hindsight when they tell a story and are not "picture perfect." It seems to say a little somethin' about their personality. I thought Lark looked adorable in her birthday dress.

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  4. @jessica - YES! I would LOVE to see her in it!

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  5. what gorgeous dresses you had to choose from,she looks very cute in the balloon photo even if it wasn't quite what you had imagined

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