fetch me a summer: 2012th edition.

it has been one year since the birth of fetch me a darling summer. and it was this post and idea and this woman

that started it all.

it's been a lovely year, and i'm quite excited for the 2012th summer and everything that follows.

a lot has changed since summer 2011. for one: my scar has healed very nicely, and it has been the start of many awkward conversations and friendships. once a belieber, always a belieber.

i lost 15 pounds. and still losing...

my hair is below my shoulders.

i started to tan. for years i was convinced i was part albino. not so, i have golden, sun-kissed legs now. yeah, baby.

star wars is still my life's story.

i learned that life doesn't have to be perfect, and if things don't work out the way you hoped they would, it's okay.

i discovered that i have people who are rooting for me in my life, and not just people, it's almost like a team of captains and cheerleaders and superheroes, and just awesome men and women who love me so fetching much. ps, i love you back.

i learned to love my life. this was a big one for me. i get depressed much too easily, and no matter how many therapy sessions i went to, no matter how many pills i took, no matter how many people i talked with, the only person that could make me happy was... me.

and now that i've found that happiness, i want everyone i know and even don't know to find it, too.

happiness is a choice, baby.

let's have a great summer.

a girl can never have too many shoes.

i saw this and died. how divine.

Katia Raj amongst all her Gaynor Minden pointe shoes... well, a girl can never have too many shoes.

she's a ballerina from Gelsey Kirkland Academy of Classical Ballet. I've wanted to attend that academy for so long now.

it's just a dream that i fear shall never meet reality. c'est la vie, i guess.

KATHRYN.

fact:

i ruin everything.

Lend me your eyes...

...I can change what you see.

all images via tumblr.

hope your weekend is a restful one. lots of sickness going around in my family and with my friends; including my boy. hopefully i can get around not getting sick myself. the weather is rainy and that's always been my favorite kind of weather. i would love to live in a place like washington or somewhere back east, perhaps even in the UK where it's green and rainy. one day perhaps.

do tell me, what's your favorite kind of weather?

have a lovely weekend.

KATHRYN.

i'm weird and twitterpated. it's fine.

fact: i tanned in my unds today. i couldn't find my little bikini and i wasn't going to let my tummy go un-noticed by the sun. it's fine. yes, it's true i'm unbelievably weird in every sense. but my legs are lookin' sexy so does it really matter?  don't answer that.

so... my life is in a little bit of a twist right now. and it's fair to say that i am the biggest and most ignorant hypocrite alive. please disregard everything i have said about love and relationships. you know what it was - a broken heart that didn't want to be broken anymore and yet, was too afraid to let it heal again. so i kept it torn and didn't want to fix it, i wouldn't let anything fix it. and i feared if i ever did it would just break again.

and this was something i never would ever have expected. i didn't expect it. who does? and you think you're shocked? well, let me tell ya. it was such a shock that i couldn't sleep or eat. really, i didn't eat - i lost 10 pounds in one week. but i was too happy to notice. it's lovely and crazy and weird and awesome and new and i have butterflies all the time and happy and giddy and darling and lovely.

{and i love it}.

KATHRYN.