hello, lover.

what a great weekend, eh?

we had an early lunch in the park on saturday

because the taco truck i'm in love with

was parked on the other side of the park near our house.

solid!

the bright red maples are incredible right now.

some are a super pretty dark pinky romantic-y red

and some are practically neon red.

just beautiful.

was it my love for the gorgeous fall reds 

that drove me to buy this bright ass lipstick

over the weekend?

i'm not sure what has possessed me.

i'm not really a lipstick kind of girl...

even at my wedding i wore a natural looking gloss.

whatever the case may be

i'm kinda in love with it.

it's a whole lot of color!

this one in particular smells like cupcakes.

yes, cupcakes.

and it lasts forever without drying your lips.

it's called "lover".

haaaaaay.

the other theory about this whole bright lipstick thing

is that i'm feeling nostalgic 

about the freaking nineties...

oh yeah.

oh no.

it can't be.

my friends and i had super deep mac shades

falling out of our messenger back pockets like crazy.

although, i did find this gem of a shot from 1994 and 

apparently this is not my first love affair

with bright red lipstick.

what's up palazzo pants?

i loved those.  little cream & yellow flowers all over.

this was really pretty dressy for me in college.

lots of great things here people.

the matisse from the poster sale.

my t-square.

the flip & fold lounge seat.

jane's marlboro mediums.

{i was a parliment light fan at the time}

and the shortest haircut i've ever had.

that was a really bad idea. 

it was SO hard to straighten.

besides the red lipstick

this photo falls into the "lesson learned" category.

let's hope for better use of fall reds 

for now...

and in the future.