The 2006 Swifties Project

The Old 2006 Swifties cant come to the phone right now...Oh wait...They just did!!

[cages-boxes-hunters-foxes]

@taylorswift I hope that in your mind today is a celebration of all you’ve overcome and everything you’ve accomplished

[the2006swiftiesproject]

Sara - 2016 - 32 yrs old

Still a Swiftie and I was patiently… kind of… waiting for TS6 to come out.

Love, Sara @blessedoptimist

@taylorswift @taylornation

[the2006swiftiesproject]

Sara - 2015 - 31 yrs old

My husband bought me tix to the 1989 World Tour for our 6th anniversary. He knows all of Taylor’s songs because of me and he likes a lot of him but it’s not his style of music. That being said, he knew how much I love TS so he was so amazing. He wore the shirt I made for him and we had so much fun!

He’s really is the best thing that’s ever been mine.

Love, Sara @blessedoptimist

@taylorswift @taylornation

[the2006swiftiesproject]

2016 Natalie at 19! This is my best friend and my current love, call it what you right amiright? At this time in my life we were sophomores in college and I learned so much about him. He has a framed picture of you in his room. He gave me the Fearless Platinum album on vinyl for Christmas before we were even dating! Every time I thought of him I thought of You Are In Love, Wildest Dreams, Everything Has Changed, This Love (which I did a cover of on SoundCloud and he LOVES it!) and it's magical. @taylorswift @taylornation

[the2006swiftiesproject]

Natalie in 2015 at 18 years old!! I FINALLY GOT TO SEE YOU IN CONCERT!!! I worked so hard on this outfit and the shirt reads "from Tim McGraw to James Dead you never went out of style" and I thought it was so cute. The posters are Polaroids with our birth years and favorite lyrics from the album!! I cut my hair off a week before the concert so I could look more like you lol classic. I made a 7min video of the costume process with me singing a medley of your songs through the years and it had a decent amount of reblogs and for sure is still on YouTube with my All Too Well/Clean mashup (search Natalie Toland you'll find it lol). All I listened to was this album. It was that and One Direction's Four that would be the only thing playing in my car that year lol! Still one of my favorite years and eras of my entire life. I was just happy. @taylorswift @taylornation

[the2006swiftiesproject]

@taylorswift @taylornation

[the2006swiftiesproject]

Caroline at 15 in 2014!

Here I was pretending to be Taylor when she was in Hawaii and on the rocks in heels, glad to say I didn't fall!

@taylorswift @taylornation

[the2006swiftiesproject]

Sara - 2014 - 30 years old

This is a pic of me and my fam and it’s one of my faves! L-R Me, my Aunt Krista, cousin Robbie, my Aunt Chris peeking from behind in the purple, and my hubby.

@taylorswift @taylornation

[the2006swiftiesproject]

Natalie in 2014 at age 17! This was me on the right at my homecoming with my friend Laura. 1989 was about to come out and change my life forever!! I was so happy so free sorta confused and so not lonely and absolutely RAGIN to Shake it Off and Welcome to New York (which I used as my music for my homecoming pep rally video for some reason even though I lived in RI lol). I remember listening to the radio in the car ride to school when they were playing a new Taylor track every hour! I got to hear All You Had To Do Was Stay on my way to school and was like whoa that’s new. Soooooooo literally can’t wait for tomorrow so I can post my concert pic!!!!! @taylorswift @taylornation

[the2006swiftiesproject]

@taylorswift @taylornation

[the2006swiftiesproject]

Beth at 16 I’m 2013. This year was one of the hardest of my life and I feel like I grew so much from it, more than a 16 year old should in a year. This year was a mess and I experienced things I’d never want anyone to have to but looking back on it now, i made it through. You helped. @taylorswift @taylornation

[the2006swiftiesproject]

Sara - 2013 - 29 years old

My husband and I went to Chicagoland for his birthday and of course @taylorswift was on our road trip playlist. We had a blast and signed the finish line!

I just kept reminding myself “In this moment now, capture it, remember it…”

Love, Sara @blessedoptimist

@taylorswift @taylornation

[the2006swiftiesproject]

Natalie in 2013! For my 16th birthday my mom took me and my friends to NYC to spend the day. They made me get this huge balloon hat and wear it around too!! I documented it in a series of videos and then made a little movie with Holy Ground in the background for my friends and I to enjoy. That song has always had a special effect on me. It makes me feel confident, nostalgic, happy, brand new, clean, and ready to take on the world. State of Grace also played a huge part in my life at this point, and I’ll never forget when I finally discovered Girl At Home and sang it at the top of my lungs thinking about that cheating boy who knew flirting with me was wrong!!! @taylorswift @taylornation

[the2006swiftiesproject]

2013, 22, just finished grad school and got my first job in my field. The best part of the year? Seeing the Red Tour in Nashville. I had real tears during All Too Well. Thanks for that, @taylorswift Sarah ( @theoldsarnich ) @taylornation

[the2006swiftiesproject]

Caroline in 2013 when she was 14! 

I’m sorry I don't have any photos from 2012, but that was the year my life when to shit and I had nobody because my friends decided out of nowhere they didn't want to talk to me anymore so I didn’t do much and I hated myself. But this is the year things started to look up because I was going to see the RED TOUR on May 12th, 2013 and I made a cute little countdown calendar!

@taylorswift @taylornation

[the2006swiftiesproject]

My high school graduation 🎓 @taylorswift @taylornation

[the2006swiftiesproject]

2012 Natalie at 15! Sophomore year was so boring and I was so ready to leave. This older guy that I liked started to show me interest and even took me out a few times, and he had a girlfriend. I was so young I didn't understand. Red helped me through it. From thinking it was a Begin Again situation to suddenly realizing it was an IKYWT, All Too Well, I Almost Do, Sad Beautiful Tragic kind of situation, I had Red to help me through. And when it was all said and done, and I look back on it with a satisfying State of Grace/Holy Ground/Treacherous feel. This is still my favorite era. I can listen to it whenever and still feel something amazing. It was the perfect genre for that time in my life. Thank you for this. @taylorswift @taylornation