I'm making some changes.

If you want to read all about it, I wrote up a post over on tumblr.

The short story: This weekend I'm going through my tumblr, google reader, and email subscriptions to unfollow everything that I don't need to be. All the blogs I enjoy, I am saving into bookmark folders to look at one by one in my free time. This will let me actually visit blogs, give me easier opportunity to comment when I am inclined to, and will free me up from the obligation I feel to catch up with every one of the hundreds of new posts that show up on my dash every day. I want to create and be a part of the communities I observe, not be held down by endless hours of scrolling.

I spent 3 hours painting today and it was glorious.

RAWRS & Sugar Cubes,





. . .

Lost Creativity

Photo by Lissy Elle

She was always reading, sitting on her bed for hours at a time. She read through 600 pages in one go for the joy of adventure the pages brought. If she couldn't get her hands on a new story to read, she'd write her own, or illustrate it with pencil or paint. She was a girl who made music and learned things for fun. In her down time she'd build things or improve on what was. It was always new things for her.

That girl changed a great deal over time. Instead of spending hours with her nose in a book, she started staring at the computer screen instead. She started to make music less and less; her paints and pencils were forgotten in their drawer. Instead of building she'd admire what others were building. Every day for years she became less active in her creativity and ever more passive. She planned but never did.

Eventually she couldn't come up with her own stories and relied on the simple ones of others for entertainment. She no longer learned things just to know them, and began dreading learning the things she had to know. She didn't want a challenge, like those she'd faced head on so many times in her past. She avoided and pretended and floated on through life.

Quite recently she realized what was becoming of her. She lived through other's lives every day and failed to experience anything in her own. She realized she wanted to tell stories and paint pictures and share her passion for knowledge and adventure with the world, but she didn't know how anymore.

***


RAWRS & Sugar Cubes,





. . .

A Splash of Color

It is so easy to stick to a simple, classic, black & white wardrobe pallet. Color is daring, bold, dashing, often too exciting to feel safe. I'll almost always grab for something in black before something in color, and I'm not sure why. I like color, greenish blues and orangy reds in particular. Sometimes I need to remind myself that a dash of color is needed.

RAWRS & Sugar Cubes,





. . .

Guess Who's Back

Back again...

Hello! I have not blogged in a very long time, as my pesky friend reminded me the other day. I can list excuses up the wazoo, but those aren't important. What is important, is that I did some deep thinking, and I reflected on why blogging regularly wasn't really interesting to me anymore. I think I was a little overwhelmed, and I had this idea in my head that I needed to be posting nothing but outfit photos, because my other posts were not worthy/didn't interest anyone.

I didn't start this blog only to post photos (even if it was a large motivator to get started). The title Tea Time With Dinosaurs has a meaning to me. It is a reflection of my many, scattered, and unrelated interests, and that was one of the excitements of the blog. I wouldn't be limited and I would have a place of my own to post outfits, talk science, rant about any little thing I want.

My tumblr was falling into the "post pictures of pretty girls in pretty outfits" rut too. But I've done some tweaking, redid the layout (though I'm still tinkering a bit), and am back to using it as an inspiration board about everything I have an interest in, not just the things I think others will enjoy.

Maybe you are here (if you are still reading this far in) just to see some outfits or something. Those will be more regular, but other content will be making its way in too. I'm not going to limit myself. Maybe I'm being conceited, but this blog is all about me and what I like, and if others like it too, yay, there is more awesome in the world than I know. If not, oh well. I'm going to have fun with this again, because isn't that what it is really all about?

Anywaay. I do have an outfit to share with you today. Tada:

Top from Gap

Pants from Gap

Jacket from Forever21

Shoes from Aldo

Bobby-pin from Target (I think)

I spent my Christmas money on some new shoes and pants (and also new tires for my bike!). Since today was the first day of school, it was the first day since being back from vacation that I both had a reason to get dressed and I wasn't still ill. I was so motivated to take photos, I left my house an hour and a half before I had class to find a good spot and take some pictures.

I had my camera and my tripod all ready to go. It was going to be awesome. But silly me forgot the piece that connects the camera to the tripod. So I decided to find someplace with a ledge or something to take a couple photos. Not perfect, but I won't be making that mistake again. heehee

Look! New shoes!

RAWRS & Sugar Cubes,






PS My jacket was missing a button all day because I was too lazy to sew it back on. At the end of the day another button fell off. Now I have twice the work. Geez
. . .

Hiatus

I obviously haven't posted anything here in a while. I'm in finals mode now, it's been a crazy semester. I'll likely be back in the new year. Happy holidays!


RAWRS & Sugar Cubes,





. . .