I met Cait through this fancy little app called Instagram (go follow her on instagram here, and you can find her blog over at The Bedazzled B).

I knew right away that I loved her style and her energy, so when she reached out to me about a session with her husband and their pup Tilly, I was ALL in.

We met up at William B. Umstead State Park in Raleigh for an unseasonably warm afternoon of hiking through the woods, splashing around in the creek, and trying really hard not to twist our ankles — which I’m happy to say was a huge success.

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If you consider yourself a “creative” (a term I kind of hate using because aren’t we all creative in some way? Also it just brings to mind imagery of every smug “creative” type I’ve ever known and puts a bad taste in my mouth which is admittedly my own baggage but maybe you relate? This intro is already too long), then maybe you’ve gone through a slump.

A plateau.

A period of days or weeks or months (hi.) or even years (hello!) when your brain and heart just didn’t combine forces to do the thing you ... 

Why Weight loss?

I mentioned over in this post that Justin and I started Weight Watchers at the beginning of the year, and then kind of breeeeezed on past that to talking about cooking. Which might have led to some of you wondering why I, a self-proclaimed body-positive and very opinioned anti-diet-culture blogger would join such a traditional…well…diet.

I wish the answer was deep and complicated.

That I had discovered some sort of hidden meaning in the Weight Watchers philosophy and it was actually NOT a diet, but a lesson in body-positivity!

It’s ... 

When it comes to most things, but especially clothes, I am a creature of habit. I have a closet absolutely FULL of stuff (despite all of my attempts at NOT having a closet full of stuff…Marie Kondo, help!) and I still gravitate to a handful of pieces that I absolutely wear out and then buy again. 

Please tell me we all do this. 

While I attempt to step outside of that comfort zone and branch out and use the other pieces of my wardrobe…I always come back to these. 

Here are the 6 things I’ve worn a million times (at ...