I included this image at the end of a post some days ago, but it makes a good header for a new post. I love the aesthetic of all these bottles lined up together, in their pinks and golds. Still letting them fizz away unsealed, lifting each lid at least once a day to let the gases escape. It'll probably be fall before I seal them and put them away in the cupboard, to age until 2025.
It's an overcast morning, with a high of 65. Looks like clouds and rain in the forecast all day, so it'll probably feel cooler than it is.
Wearing today (and hoping I'm warm enough):
Audrey joins the 5-wears club for April! Thanks to some day-to-evening dress changes, I've now worn each of my 6 dresses 5 times. Nobody has been neglected! Now, some of them will pull into the lead in the four days that remain to us in the month, but I'm really happy, again, to be wearing the foundation of my wardrobe in such regular rotation. Keeping track of my wearing patterns prompts me to reach for things and not to fall into a rut, which would be so easy to do. My default really is to get up and put on the same thing every day --- but I think my mental health does better with a push toward variety and actually thinking about what I'm wearing.
I noted yesterday that many of my shirts are going unworn, however, which is a function of wearing mainly dresses. It's why I pre-ordered a wool skirt that will go with all of them, and why I'm so eager to receive the same. I have done my heaviest culling among the tops in my closet, but there are some I still like enough to hold onto, even though they're not getting regular wear. This Indian cotton gauze tunic, for example, which I found years ago at Goodwill, is kind of a sentimental hippy-dippy favorite, and I'm loath to let it go. So I'm wearing it over my Audrey dress today. It's cool enough that I will want at least one top layer (if not also a jacket), and the long flow of this dress makes it a good candidate for wear with tunic tops. If I were a taller, willowier person, this would be a more flattering outfit, but I still like this kind of thing, especially with a pair of Birkenstocks. Again, it scratches the hippy-dippy itch in my nature. I've tied this tunic up before to make a crop top, but today, as a conscious choice, I'm just not bothering.
I just like blue, as I'm sure I've made abundantly clear by now, and am focused on wearing a good color in a comfortable, flowing outfit today.
Now I really had better walk the dog.