On The Streets:
Adventures in Nashville!

I've lived 30 minutes from Nashville all my life and yet I really haven't spent that much time there which is a bummer. So the other day my dear sweet friend Hannah, my sister Eleanna, Halley (a lovely friend from out of state) and I all decided to venture into Nashville! These are some of the things we found...




Hillsboro Village!

These buildings are so colorful and pretty!

In the midst of a sea of lovely books she's... on her phone?

I just love Eeyore! 

Such a beautiful window display!

Coffee Time!

They have such creative coffee drinks. I wanted to try them all!

This was the "Grey Skies". Really good!

In case you can't remember the type of drink, don't worry, they have charts with the proportions!

Delicious salad!

Latte Art!

The walls in this place are awesome!

So much silliness and laugher with these friends!

(Thanks to the lovely Eleanna for this shot of me!)

Back to the streets.

Things were already closed but we had fun window shopping anyway!

Chandelier inside a metal globe -fantastic!

Classic window picture of Hannah and me! :)

Butterflies!!!

On a gas station sign!

My amazing photography buddy!

Halley ran all the way across the street to get a magnolia flower... she's THAT hardcore!

Stunner!

Apparently this was the perfect spot for it...

Folk Musicians.

These gentlemen are incredibly talented and also super nice guys! It was so cool getting to hear them!

Car Tour

Such great friends!

(Thanks to the beautiful Hannah for this shot!)

And so we came to the end of our adventuring... at least for now! ;) It was an amazing day of laughter, reconnecting and exploring!

These are some amazing ladies!

 My heart is so blessed by them!

Fondly from an adventurer,

Susannah Flautt Photography

Tea Picnic!

Picnics are the beeeest! This year I'm really trying to embrace spending more time outside in the fresh air instead of being stuck inside. There is almost nowhere quite as lovely or inspiring as God's creation. Reading there is a delight! 

With this in mind, an idea was formed. I decided to have my tea outside! I took my tea, reading and quilt out to my favorite reading tree. But what quilt would be complete without lovely companions?!  Thus ensued a marvelous afternoon with my sisters!

 So here you are- our tea picnic!

 Annaliese read a short passage to us from (get ready for this name)

"The Rhetorical Manual or Southern Fifth Reader: Embracing Copious and Elegant Extracts both in Prose and Poetry. With A Treatise on Rhetorical Figures, and the Principles of Elocution." From 1853.

Needless to say -it was hilarious!

The Tea!

Meringues Eleanna made- yummy!

Peppermint green tea.

Little Bit stopping by for a visit. :)

I started reading the manuscript for one of Annaliese's books- it's sooo good!

This is what we had to do to keep the flies away from our delicious tea. haha

All in all,

 a lovely and entertaining afternoon!

Fondly,

~Susannah Flautt Photography

Self-Portraits and Clothing Discoveries!

This is the first time I've ever done self-portraits. I had to set everything up so that it was exactly the right angle/lighting etc. to capture what I wanted. It was actually pretty fun! 

I did the shoot in our Tea Room at my house.

Here's the setup-

I needed height so I used the chairs.

This bench was only in the picture with the accessories but you get the idea of the proportions.

The Shoot!

I'm a huge thrift store shopper! I love finding inexpensive clothing and piecing them together to make fun and cheap outfits! There are SO many things you can do with outfits if you just let creativity loose! 

This is an outfit I just discovered the other day from clothes I already had in my closet!

This dress on me is quite unfortunate. It's too short. And too low hence why I'm wearing a t-shirt under.

The Solution-

Tuck in the top, take it to natural waist, put a safety-pin in the back and wrap the ties around the waist, tying it.

This is the shirt and also because the skirt was still a little too short I'm wearing another skirt from my closet.

Time for the accessories!   

And Voila!

Thanks for letting me share my first self-portrait shoot! 

I hope you even got some outfit ideas for yourself too!

Fondly,

~Susannah Flautt Photography

~A Thrift Shopper