25 facts~

Friday, September 12, 2014



This tag has been floating around forever, so I thought, hey, why not finally do it? It'll be a quick and easy post, right? Wrong. I'm not a super intriguing person. I'm just a girl with a camera and a need to purge words from my brain via typing. So keep that in mind as you skim over these 25 facts about my small world.





1. I'm a cat lady. I have three. Heidi, Friskey, and RĂș. I miss them way too much. They literally make me want to drop out of college and get a job as a stripper just so I can cuddle with them nightly again.
 2. I could live off of chocolate covered strawberries and rose flavored macarons. And also chips and salsa and fried pickles. I like food ok.
3. My all time favorite movie is Breakfast at Tiffany's. Or The Shining. Or 500 Days of Summer. Actually maybe the titanic. I like movies ok. 
4. I'm a phlebotomist. I adore all things blood and gore and veins.
5. I'm in love with Amsterdam and I wouldn't be surprised if I ended up living in The Netherlands for at least a small part of my life.

6. I feel absolutely naked when my nails aren't painted light pink.

7. I'm in a sorority at the University of Kansas. I never expected that to be a part of my life.

8. I have three polaroid cameras and various film cameras because I'm slightly obsessed.

9. Fashion blogger by day- XL t-shirt collector by night.

10. I only write in cursive. The curves and loops mesmerize me.

11. I'm a dancer and I miss my dance studio so.

12. I'm a firm believer that music sounds best on vinyl.

13. Every concert that I've been to has changed my life in some way.

14. I basically want to explore. Places and ideas and people. Curiosity will indeed kill the Chantel.

15. I love sensory a lot. If I could only have one sense, it would be touch. No doubt.

16. Wednesday Addams is my favorite TV character.

17. I have one tattoo- I got it done fairly randomly my last day in Paris.

18. My favorite flowers are daisies and sunflowers.

19. I'm the girliest girl ever, since before I can remember. In kindergarten, I refused to wear anything but dresses to school, even in the snow and I refused to paint my nails anything but pink. Not much has changed.

20. I'm allergic to shellfish. Get dat shrimp away from me.

21. My socks never match. My thigh highs are even slightly different from one another every once in awhile.

22. I tried to hunt once. I wore a pink satin ribbon in my hair and refused to shoot anything.

23. I read too much. Stephen King, Edgar Allan Poe, and Hemingway are my favorite writers. I'm inherently drawn to writing with a slightly existentialist view.

24. I drink more coffee than I should.

25. I've been working on this post for weeks because it's hard to think of facts. I'm not that interesting.

When Peace & Chaos Collide

Tuesday, September 9, 2014

The moments right before I am fully awake
are my favorite moments.
The ones when I'm simply lying in bed,
not fully conscious,
or fully recovered from the previous night's reveries-
looking out through my seventh floor window
at the blurry neon shirted construction workers
floating around the earth below me
like the butterflies that once inhabited my abdomen.
The moments before I put my glasses on.
Before I can see their faces,
lines drawn in them like stories,
telling me about lovers lost and children grown.
I've always had a secret love for chaos.
Sporadic, enchanting mayhem;
the kind of clutter and confusion that passes me by
too quickly to even form opinions.
I like the moments before anything is real
when I can imagine and be whatever I want.
When the commotion feels orderly enough.
When everything just is.


Guys I made this top and these shorts. For like a total of $10. This is what I do when I'm bored and have spare time. I'm not sure if I'm ready for fall or not. As much as I love layers, hats, and pumpkin spice lattes, I sure am going to miss sundresses, crop tops, and skirts. But, wow, I can't wait to see Lawrence lit up with bright dying leaves and lively anxious souls. I'm already pumped for halloween, honestly. I love creepy, ominous things. Haunted houses, cemeteries, crazy makeup, crazier night skies- it's what I look forward to every year. But then again, every holiday is my fav. Whenever someone asks me what my favorite holiday is, I literally name whichever big calendar date is coming up. What's your favorite holiday? Season? Moment? Tell me things. I love you for sticking with me through my own personal chaos by the way. From overseas trips and fragmented fairytales to moving away from my tiny town and starting over. I just adore you all a lot.

Be Nice

Wednesday, September 3, 2014

& as they sat together,
sipping black coffee,
spilling white lies,
he romanticized every moment that she refused the chaos of daylight and welcomed the subtle hush of the moon,
until 3am came,
when he slowly came to realize that maybe she didn’t love him at all, but only the quiet stillness of the night.
it didn’t matter. She had let him into her unreachable world.
The one she didn’t allow words to define.
Besides,
how could he be upset,
at a face whose smile only lit up in the darkness?

He cursed himself with immortality the very first time he spoke to her.

His voice cut and her typewriter bled.


I'm in love with where I am,
but sometimes,
I miss my curtains
I miss my cats
I miss big beds and bigger cuddles
I miss my mom
I miss rooftop stars
I miss my suitcase
I miss my fragmented fairytales
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PJs- Forever 21 (similar)
Bow- forever 21
Skirt- ModCloth
 

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