SEVEN GIRLS HEAD INTO THE DESERT: Last Stop, Balmorhea!

Okay, now it's my turn to share from my (Brandi)  perspective).

As soon as we arrived in Balmorhea, we were ready for a dip! btw, the stretch of land between Marfa and Balmorhea is absolutely BEAUTIFUL.













Check out these Bronzed babes. Some guy came up to us with 6 kids and asked if we would all take a photo with them. Right after he said it was his turn to take a photo with us and posted it on Facebook.
Oh Brother!




Oh these two....perma giggles

Before it got dark we headed back to set up Camp.



Dinner and Drinks with the bugs. Jo pranked kelly so good with a fake fuzzy spider. She screamed so loud, I thought we'd for sure get kicked out. We were already warned by the park ranger once.




Happy Birthday Edica! We love you Mucho Mucho!!!


and this would be our Rape Whistles we mentioned in our packing list. They even have a compass on the end. How neat.


This is why we take our whistles to the bathroom.


Scary story time? Blair Witch? Kelly and I actually passed out around 1 am before the girls really got crazy and drove into town at the wee hours of night. I also missed their photo session with flashlights and ugly faces. I wanna see those photo's so bad!


The next morning I got up walked around and watched the sunrise. It's not everyday you get to see something so beautiful. I actually had a moment.






I was hoping with all the clicks of my camera someone else would wake up....





I waited til 8 am and announced that the pool was now open! Time to swim girls! This was when some movement started then stopped again.







Kelly and I headed down while the girls got some more beauty sleep, I think they had just gone to bed 2 hours prior. Party Animals...

We were pumped to have the pool and high dive  to ourselves...until we realized JLo and Enrique's Tour guys were all parked on the side watching us jump.


This man (Rick)  later becomes our friend. Kelly described him as a character straight out of Wayne's World. I recognized him instantly. He came up to talk to her when I went back to the tent to wake up all the sleepyheads.




Sister Sister Time!


Practicing our high dive moves!

Cowabunga dude!!!!!

Then it was Kelly's turn... she hasn't been off a diving board since the third grade. She was terrified. btw check out her rad tan lines :)

freaking out up there. YOU CAN DO IT!!!! I mean, really freaking out up there.



"Kelly Jump up into the Blue!!!!"

So proud of you seester! YOU DID IT! I believe you can fly!





WOOOOOO HOOOOOOO! look at that body!



pretending I'm dead in the water.

We do NOT want to leave.

Mermaid?


f Of course Kelly forgot her towel...




AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!







Birthday girl soaking up the sun.



Such a cool feeling being in the desert with your girlfriends with nothing to do except just be.

I died when I saw this.



Belly Flop!!!!!!!! Psych!!!









catching bubbles

Grace Kelly in the air!

We got this girl.







There's Rick! just hanging with the girls. He later wants to jump off the high dive with me and Jo because he was scared. Once we got there we realized he meant at the same time. Oh.

There they go!




All we got to say is Girl trips never fail me. This one is going down in HISTORY! Kelly and I still bust out laughing when we think about this weekend. We also keep sending each other texts from funny moments that happened. Too many good moments to handle. I mean 7 girls? & crazy girls with strong personalities. We did good. Everyone there was an important piece to this magical weekend. Yes I said Magical ugh. But it was! No other words to describe it.

You all Teenwitched it!
Nailed it!
You made my marshmellow come out!
So what if I swerve all over the road, it's all in the name of Instagram!
UGH WHY ISN'T MY INSTAGRAM WORKING!?
SLUG BUG!
Better maced than Raped.
Guys it's cool I got Bear Mace!
I have had to poo for an hour!
Thank You Indians!
DUDE take the rape whistle!
Maybe he has jumple cables?
When I gwoe up I'm gonna Dadopt a baby..
Don't you dare close your eyes. Hold your breath it gets better (these really are the words, kelly and I looked it up)
Double Devil Dick Canyon!

FEATHERS BOUTIQUE: Ax+Apple Trunk Show (Austin, TX)

Ax+Apple

Ax+Apple

Ax+Apple

I know we've posted about Feathers Boutique before (click here to read), but when you love something, you keep going back to it. Last week we took a middle of the week trip to Austin to support the ladies of Ax + Apple and check out their trunk show.

The evening was full of amazing females, cocktails, buying Ax+Apple jewelry (and other goodies), lusting over the merchandise, and making a few new friends. Feathers Boutique is probably my favorite clothing/accessory shop in Austin. If I ever have a walk-in closet, I will need it to look like this place with all the vintage goodies included.

Erica and her dang love for robes + kimonos. Love that girl.

The last time we went to Austin, Brandi spotted these loafers and told me if they were still there when we returned for the trunk show she would get them. Between then and the trunk store, we went to at least 32 thrift stores (in Houston and Austin), searching for better. Nada. She was so happy to see they were still waiting for her tiny feet when we got to Feathers that night. Look at that smile...

Of course I've had my eyes on something a little more expensive. These beauties... If I owned these, I'm quite confident they would never leave my feet. I'll have to drool a little longer.

Sometime I think Austin is the land of the beautiful. In this photo: Elza & Brandon Burkart (they have an awesome lifestyle blog, The Lingernots), Jamie & Jessica (lovely ladies behind Ax+Apple), and smiling in the corner is the talented Erica Heidepriem (see her here).

Elza

Nikki Cloud, Feathers store manager. She has an awesome style blog, Altered Vision.

Aura by Ax+Apple

Cheyenne by Ax+Apple

You name it, Feathers has it.

Orange boots, white boots, purple boots, Square toes, round toes, pointy toes. It's so easy to spend 3+ hours in Feathers Boutique before realizing how much time has passed.

I ended up buying the Maya and I think the Shaman will be my next Ax+Apple purchase.

We fell in love with the ladies of Ax+Apple and can't wait to get them down to Houston. 

Visit the Feathers Boutique blog.

AROUND YOUR TOWN (NASHVILLE): IMOGENE + WILLIE

i just love old photo's. i love to imagine who they were, what they did, and make up stories.

AHHHHHHHHHH! i want,i want! ...but not for that price. i'll leave it for a cool musician.

how cool is this? this is where they make the jeans :)

A while back Jacob went to Nashville, TN and came back to Houston raving about this shop he had stopped in called Imogene + Willie. He surprised me with a few goodies from the shop, an oil and a body scrub, and then continued to praise the shop. My curiosity was peeked, so I looked them up online, fell in love and added the shop to my list of 'must sees'. Around the same time, Kelly's boss at Fossil had just told her about the same place. 

I recently went on a road trip to Nashville, TN with Kelly to help her move from Dallas. While I was there, we hit up as many places as we could together. Somewhere near the last day we were walking to Burger up and passed a signless building that resembled an old gas station with a large orange '+' sign. There were no cars out front, only a bike and a motorcycle, and we couldn't tell if it was open or closed. We went on to lunch at Burger up and I guess we both could stop thinking about it because as soon as we finished lunch we raced back over to the 'gas station' to figure it out. We soon remembered learning about this place months prior. With a little hesitation (because the place looked so cool), we walked in and felt like we just stepped into another world. Every inch of the place was covered in treasures of the past. To our right, the ceilings were covered in patterns and the room was filled with denim and sewers and machines and to our left was a shop that felt like a family member's living room. There was even a dog napping under the table! There was a fella standing in the room to the left that was quick to help and chat about Nashville recommendations. Needless to say, we were in love.

If you find yourself in Nashville, we highly recommend stopping by I+W.

CHECK OUT THE STORE HERE

Psst! These are the goodies from I+W Jacob got me.