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I’ve been in DC for well over a month, and I think I am finally getting accustomed to Capital living.  While I’m constantly running into fellow Tar Heel graduates, DC is definitely not Chapel Hill.

I’ve learned a lot about myself since moving into my “big girl” apartment, and I am definitely not the same person I was (duh, I now have bangs and a signature lip color!).  But seriously, with all the events happening in my life and the people I’m meeting, it’s no surprise I’m changing.

But in all the chaos and changes around me, I’m having to learn to stop, take time for myself and rest.  I feel that people — especially those in the city — are constantly rushing to get to the next point in life that they don’t enjoy the current moment.  (I know I’m guilty…)

I don’t exactly know where I will be come November when I move out of this apartment; I have ideas, but who knows what will unfold during the next 108 days.  However, I do know I will be closer to being the woman I want to be.

  xoxo

Hillary Rose

“The girls who were unanimously considered beautiful often rested on their beauty alone. I felt I had to do things, to be intelligent and develop a personality in order to be seen as attractive. By the time I realized maybe I wasn’t plain and might even possibly be pretty, I had already trained myself to be a little more interesting and informed.”

-DVF

 

 

Savvy

I graduated.  It’s time to face the adult world.  Needless to say, I’m a little nervous.

But, I did take on Europe solo (The Chic Traveler)…so, living in DC should be easy-peasy?  Right?!?

(DC is kinda the first stop on my journey to NYC…just give me three years!)

In less than two weeks, I’ll move out of my cozy house to a teennyyy-tinyyyy apartment where I will attempt to make it without sacrificing my savvy and chic self!  Which, leads me to my current wish-list book!

I’m a bit of a girly, lifestyle book “whore.”

All those books can be found on my bookcase (along with Breakfast at Tiffany’s, A Farewall to Arms, A Moveable Feast).  So, call me weird or tell me to live my own life…I honestly don’t care.  I get joy from these books.  It’s as if someone else is speaking exactly what’s running through my mind.

So, maybe I’ll purchase this book.  Or maybe I’ll be spend savvy and go inside the bookstore, find the book, curl up in a chair and take notes.  (Means I can splurge on a coffee, right?!?)

But for now, I’m going to finish finding coins in my couch and taking it to the coin machine.

Cheers to a savvy yet thrifty next couple of years!!

xoxo

Hillary Rose

shirt:  h&m // necklace:  vintage

DC

So, I’ve been a bit M.I.A.  Actually, I’ve been gone for over a month. AHHH!  I’ve kind of been a bit busy….

See, I had this entire fashion show to co-coordinate (which you should click here to take a gander at the photos and designs).  I’m also to appear as the cover story for this event in the future.  When that story is up, I can link ya to it and tell you more about it.  But for now, here’s a sneak preview:

My short self is on the left sporting some red Trina Turk pants (that I much wanted for myself).  You can also see that Izzie makes an appearance!  The shoot was ’50s themed, and I was told I look a bit Jackie O and politiciany wifey….

Following the fashion show, I prepared to graduate from college and officially be granted the smarts and intelligence of a grown-up! BAM!

(dress:  target  // shoes:  jessica simpson)

I finally purchased some flatform espadrilles.  Happy happy dayyyysss!

And around the time of graduation, I was making a few stylish appearances out and about the town!  (I’m on the right incase you haven’t figured out what I look like yet…)

(pants:  h&m // shirt:  h&m // necklace:  vintage)

Immediately following graduation, I was in a wedding for a best friend.  Want proof?  Here’s another photo for your fancy!

ANNNDDDDD, on top of all this, I have been searching HIGH and LOW for an apartment for my big post-grad move to WASHINGTON DC!  Yuupppp!  This small town raised Southern belle is about to take on the city.

Here’s a photo from a few months back, but a good one of me in the city….

(pants:  gap // jacket:  vintage leather jacket // scarf:  ??? // purse:  vintage // glasses: ray-ban)

Okkkk…So now that I have updated you on my life and proved that I have not fallen off the face of the earth, it’s time to get back in the fashion action!  Hopefully DC won’t freak out too much when I come to stay!

(Maybe those polticiany-wifey comments will work in my favor in DC…I can see myself as a wayyyy-in-the-future first lady….)

xoxo

Hillary Rose