spotlight six: melted chrome statement piece

 note to self: a pumpkin patch that includes 12+ bounce houses might not be the best place for a shoot. you might end up with slightly busy backgrounds, some of which include scary skeleton pirates, spiderwebs, and witches. note to the rest of you: sorry.  (see below - i clumsily photoshopped the worst parts out of this first image ;)

 the outfit: layered tops: thrifted, jeans, thrifted (used to be flared 90s style when i bought them and i made them skinny in the 00s... and now it's the 10s ;), flip flops: old navy, necklace: handmade

i have a lovely friend who always brings me little discoveries from her hiking all over southern california's mountains. this time, it was a piece of melted chrome with all these little rocks embedded (found after the fires in the area)! and i turned it into a necklace :) as an artist friend said this week, "you couldn't have designed it better if you'd done it on purpose" - love capitalizing on those little "accidental art" finds (click on link to head over to my art blog and see some more accidental art captures :)! 

and now, of course, the real reason we went to the pumpkin patch ;)

 aren't my boys the cutest? i love their flannels :)