• Fashion,  Pregnancy

    Oh Baby…

     Well, we know what the baby is! If you’re an Instagrammer, you already know the gender since I’m terrible at keeping secrets and I’ve already revealed it there. But if you’re not, then surprise! The tally is: 27 for a Boy, 26 for a Girl, so far as I can count via Facebook, blog, and Instagram (before I revealed it). Just within the family, the vote was 14 for a boy and 12 for a girl. I love how close it was with the guesses! Hehe, but, of course, someone always loses. And…  Surprise! Mr. Owl and I both were thinking it was a girl for the longest time, more…

  • Sponsors

    Sponsor Spotlight: Mess of a Dreamer Design

     Today I would love to introduce Mess of a Dreamer Design as one of my new sponsors. If the name sounds familiar, it’s because she kindly made and sent me these owl earrings, which are now some of my new favorites! I highly covet the lighthouse necklace, which you see above (or here), and those wolf earrings might be calling my name. I can’t wait to see what lovely things she comes up with next. As an added bonus, she and I share a name, which means you know she’s going to be awesome. So what are you waiting for? Head over and check out Mess of a Dreamer Design.…

  • Fashion

    The nineties called…

    I saw this dress at Sarah With a Bow‘s etsy shop, Bridgetown Vintage, and I had to have it. I plan to shorten it to just below the knee, partly because that’s more my style– I want to be able to remix it in the fall and winter with tights (I cannot wait!)– and partly because, as I predicted before I even tried it on, I knew Mr. Owl would not be fond of the length. Unexpectedly, though, he didn’t give me his usual “What do you think it is, 1850?” line. I was disappointed. I like that line. It makes me laugh every time. Instead, though, he looked at me,…

  • Fashion

    Revelations and Introductions

    Quite a few of you new readers probably don’t know that Mara is not my real name. I have been blogging and posting on the internet as Mara since I was sixteen– spurred by my old username and elf name, Maranwe Telrunya– and the fact that when I started up online, I was young and the internet seemed like a scary place. I decided quite a while ago that when I publish my writing, I would like to use the pseudonym Mara Bjornsson (the last name is a very old spelling of my real last name) because I never thought my real name was very author-y. But lately, along with…

  • Fashion,  Health and Fitness

    Body Image

    Well, hello there! I apologize for the lack of a Monday and Tuesday post; as I mentioned in my Friday Links post, we went camping last weekend and thus there were no outfit pictures for Monday, and then Monday was Mr. Owl and my 7-month anniversary, so we didn’t take any pictures on that day, either. But yesterday I decided it was a good day to take pictures because I wore the above shorts, and since shorts aren’t the most flattering on me, I figured these are good pictures to talk about two subjects that tend to get a lot of reaction (not bad, just reactions) from people wherever you…