((collage above by Emily))

Hi friends! Just a reminder that today is the last day to enter the Polyvore fall contest, with a chance to win $1000! There are over 700 outfit collages right now and that’s so amazing, thanks to everyone who has made one (or more!) thus far. Keep ‘em coming, because the more we have the better our chances are at winning. Please follow this link to use the mini editor to create & publish your fall outfit collages, go nuts till the end of the day (deadline is the 7th). Also, sorry for the silence over here the past few days, I’m working hard on finding fall stock and have been updating the shop, so check over there. Many of the vintage items that I included in the mini editor are up there now!

Ok, so I realize that it is a little bit silly to be running two Polyvore fall fashion contests at the same time, but the entries over at Calivintage (there’s still time to enter!) are looking so good, why not give this one a shot too? Polyvore just made this new Mini Editor that you can embed on your blog, and they are running a contest as well, with a gigantic $1000 prize. The blogger with a bunch of awesome entries will receive a $1000 visa gift card, and the best part is that they also get another $1000 card to give out to one of their readers! The mini editor that I made is filled with one hundred of my favorite fall pieces, and I included some vintage from my shop as well. Use these to make some fall-inspired collages, and make as many as you want! It sounds like the winner will be chosen based on how many entries there are and also how awesome the collages are, and if the ones you made for my giveaway are any indication, I think we could win this thing! It would be so weird/cool to get such a huge prize, and even better to share it. So, make as many outfits as you like with my Mini Editor (below) before September 7th and keep your fingers crossed! I think you’ll like the things that I picked. Please note, if you’re viewing this through google reader or other RSS feed services, you’ll probably need to click through to the actual post to use the editor! Also, if you send any of your blog readers over here to enter, it just increases your chances to win too. I’m sorry for being so spammy about this, but wouldn’t it be rad?

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In case you need some inspiration, here are some things that have been collecting this year in various folders on my computer!

Above, Wood Wood‘s fall 2010 collection and a mystery gal (don’t remember where she came from!)

Gorgeous and classic looks from Parisian label Thomsen. Their lookbook backgrounds are always the best.

Keller A/W 2010 collection. I loved the dark 70′s vibe of these photos.

Fall collection from Lewis, inspired by one of my favorite old movies, Valerie and Her Week of Wonders

Top two images featuring clothing by Ulrika Sandström, bottom two from Rachel Comey‘s fall 2010 collection. Haha, that jacket on the right reminds me a lot of the latest episode of Project Runway, one team made a collection that all the judges HATED (ugly granny clothes, yesss), and Tim Gunn seriously harshed on the Portland lady at the end. Dramatic!

Finally, a couple images from the fall Topshop wares. I think these colors are just too good!

It’s rainy and cool here in Portland, which means it’s the perfect time for a fall inspiration-themed contest! Erin/Calivintage is hosting a giveaway for two people to win $45 in store credit to my vintage shop. Click here to head over to Calivintage to see the details and enter to win!

Last week Rachel and I got together to take some photos of these awesome Lalouka pieces! Lara sent me her denim mini dress and floral tap shorts, which were actually inspired by me and some vintage versions of shorts like these that I found for my shop. Having Rachel come out to take photos was a million times more fun than doing it alone, we explored some corners of my neighborhood that I haven’t spent much time in and found a scene just perfect for the floral shorts, a hill covered in some kind of wild sweet pea blossoms.

I really, really love these shorts! They fit perfectly, have the ideal shape (40′s inspired shorts silhouettes are the best), a little velvet button… I’m excited to wear them with some tights in the fall. Rachel’s also wearing an old art deco blouse that I bought last year at an antique store for $5.

I love the fact that the denim dresses use vintage fabric accents, my dress has little blue flowers and blueberries (or some kind of berry, I’m sure it would be delicious). I realized after taking all the photos that this dress has a little bit of an Alice look to it… I think it was the combination of seeing a photo of my feet lifting off the ground (hoisting myself up to sit on the wall) and one where the breeze is puffing the skirt out into a perfect circle that made me think of Alice.

Thanks so much to Lara for sharing her awesome designs and hooking me up with two great and comfy creations, and to Rachel for being a seriously delightful model and generally awesome buddy to have around. I’m planning to have an interview with Lara up soon, she’s been on a cool vacation and has been taking some really great film photos, some are up on her tumblr. Please check out Lalouka for rad original designs and her vintage shop too!

I really like the colors in this editorial from the July issue of Marie Claire Turkey.

Seeing something like this is kind of unreal to me… I feel like I’m dreaming! This is some of the oldest color motion picture footage, and it’s completely charming and beautiful to see. I think it’s the closest I can ever really get to time travel. Found via Chateau Thombeau, a great blog that I recently started reading.

Warning to people who never read the text in blog posts: today you should pay attention or you might miss out, haha! I received this gorgeous lace collar necklace from Lisa, the proprietress of Tree & Kimball (one of my sponsors!) and you can have a chance to win it by leaving a comment on this entry. The winner will be randomly selected, and it is open to the whole world.

I think it’s really fun to do a giveaway like this! It gives me a chance to still be creating my own pictures, while also offering up something nice to you guys. I thought this collar necklace would be a good choice because I know most of you love collars, and a detachable collar has a lot of possibilities. I’m glad that I hung onto this old Topshop dress that I bought on ebay a few years ago, because it ended up being a great match for the necklace and also gave me a little peek at autumn even though it was really hot yesterday. Rachel took all these photos for me, and we shot a whole bunch of pictures for some upcoming posts too! I gotta say, it was a pretty cool way to do “work”. We even found blackberries and had a little treat, I had blackberry blood juice all over my hands but I promise I didn’t berry-stain the lace. The above photo is funny, you can really tell that I’ve been getting some sun, but that my tops aren’t usually quite as low-cut. SUMMER!

So, if you’re interested in winning this necklace, you have until Saturday night to leave a comment on this entry, I’ll be announcing the winner on Sunday. Good luck! And if you live in Portland, you win an extra cool delicious prize if you walk fifty feet in any direction, cause I bet you will run into some blackberries!

Whenever I get to the end of a roll of film I usually have a few pictures left to shoot before I can finish it up, and they’re usually images of the trees around my house, or the chickens, but I tried to something a bit more interesting on this roll. Since it was a quiet weekend afternoon I took the opportunity to do some color collections of my vintage clothing. It was pretty satisfying! I’ve color coordinated my closet before, and I always like seeing pictures of people’s bookshelves when arranged by color. I’m not very good at keeping organized after the initial sorting, and I’m definitely the sort of person who gets distracted while trying to clean by “organizing” my stuff, which is usually just an excuse to procrastinate and look through things that I haven’t given any attention to in a while. The best is all my paper bits & pieces, photos, etc, but this clothing session was fun too because I grabbed things from my closet and from the shop. The last one was actually a green collection, and the colors were much more similar in real life but my film saw them in a different way!

Before my cabin trip, my friends and I got into the idea of doing a Southern river baptism style photo shoot, but in the lake! We were all really into it but the idea somewhat transformed while we were there, the moment was never right for a group shot, but I hope I’ll get another chance, there are plenty of rivers around here. Instead, the shoot turned into a ladies only 1930′s meets 1970′s David Hamilton romantic semi-softcore (plenty of bums and nips!) shoot, but I was still able to find bits of that dark Southern mysterious baptism vibe amongst the laughs and straw hats.

Some ladies just can’t help but radiate a cool attitude & great style, and Emily is one of them! It’s not surprising that she appears in Ali’s photos so often, not only because they are best friends but because Emily’s vibe translates so well in photos, and it’s neat to see how her style can transform from casual snapshots into otherworldly images. She’s currently living in New York state and runs Golden Fur Vintage, a great etsy shop with some seriously cool finds & deals (almost everything is under $20 right now!), and shares photos from her life right here, I recommend giving both of those a look. I hope that Emily & Ali both make it out to the West coast someday, I think the Northwest forests have a magical spot just waiting for their arrival.

Here are some photos of Emily’s transformative nature- outfits to bombshell to flower child to mystical spookster. I love it!

The last three images were taken by Alison Scarpulla. Please don’t repost them without linking back to her!