i'm a victim of these photos

I wanted a new and creative photo involving words for my about page on All the Words of a Language site (you know my regular website).  With a white board marker, my lil lil sis had written on her mirror the lyrics to the McDonald's filet of fish commercial so she could remember it and I thought, "mmmm I LIKE THAT!"  I put my own twist on it; write lyrics from The Shins and bring the mirror outside (wow I'm so clever!).  It was a lot better in concept than in execution. 

These suck because: I didn't consider texture.  There's too much.  Desaturating couldn't even help that.  There's not enough white space to balance the darks.  There's not enough darks at all.  A simpler background might have helped the tension in texture of the dress and grass but that mirror was too heavy to move.  Speaking of which, perspective was tricky to play with because of the reflections in the mirror.  Texture then created no contrast in color.  In desperation I went blur tool happy in photoshap.  Personal Lesson: photoshap can't save crap because it was crap to begin with.  Balance texture with white space (don't take white space as literal white space).  Try again.