Summer
June 20th, 2010
Hope your Summer is going as splendidly as mine!! Oh wait…
Best Friends
May 18th, 2010
I took a bunch of silly pictures last night and put them together. This is what I do with my life!
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Meep
May 16th, 2010So obviously I haven’t updated this in two months. Oops! The last month is completely because of my crazy finals schedule, but before that I just… I guess I feel like I have changed a lot in the last few months and somewhat regret not documenting it but I’m mostly happy with my decision. This post is going to be very rambly, so you might choose to skip it if you have no interest in my personal life!
As anyone in my real life knows, me and my very long term boyfriend broke up a while ago. I was a complete disaster zone for a couple of weeks because we had lived together for quite a while blah blah I thought I was going to marry him yada yada. So anyways, after I got over the initial shock and awe I started to realize how unhappy I was. We had comfortable, routine love, and I don’t think that’s something I ever want again. I want someone who makes me a little crazy sometimes, someone I can’t predict, someone who changes [in good ways] all the time so that I can do the same. And it wasn’t necessarily that HE was ohsoterrible or anything, I just realized I had become this completely submissive person. Someone completely comfortable not trying new things or doing anything spontaneous and any shred of creativity I had went completely missing.
So it has just been a very happy transformation back to the person I have always been in the past, someone positive and creative and a little vulgar and very silly and kind of weird and outspoken at the randomest of times. But I have been unsure of how I want to approach this blog. Whenever friends in real life talk about visiting my blog and talk about my outfit or a craft projects I get really flustered and embarrassed and I don’t know why because I am proud of most of the things I post on here. So I need to… work on not being so self-conscious about nothing!
Sorry for the ramblings on and getting 500 times more personal that I usually am, I just felt like explaining why I haven’t posted at all and such!
Um… in other news, I have brown hair now!
Happy Sunday 
Slide Curtains!
March 19th, 2010I feel a little bad because I forgot where I originally saw this idea and am too lazy to look for it, but basically they had these curtains of like, 1000 color slide negatives and it looked way way awesome. I only had about 8 rolls worth of slides, so I made them into a little baby window cover with lots of space between the slides and kind of hanging in weird dangly strands. Whatev, I think it looks totes cool!
I kept reheating a needle and then sticking the needle through the corners of the slides so I would be able to thread them together. It was actually a big pain in the ass, to be quite honest. Then threading them together was an even bigger pain in the ass, woo! But it is done and I’m very happy with the weirdo effect it puts in my kitchen!
Oh, and of course it would be snowing the day I try to take these pictures. lose.
Cool Thing!
March 12th, 2010So I have been dying over this tutorial of a yarn string lamp thing for a while and finally did it! It is very very easy but probably one of the messiest things I have ever done (aka, awesome). I hung it from a clothes line, but I just happen to live in the windiest place in the entire world so I got messy goop all over me and everything around me. I didn’t wear gloves. I did slather to balloon in vasaline though and that really helped, I think. It would be easy if you had someone holding the balloon in place, or if the balloon was smaller… Anyways, it was fun and makes pretty/creepy shadows all over my room!
Julianna Swaney!
March 9th, 2010
I just finished up with Julianna Swaney (aka Oh My Cavalier)’s website! It was fun working with her because I love love her art and she was very nice :]. Anyways… go look at it!
The Beauty You Are
February 26th, 2010
You know how sometimes you read something and you know it’s something you want to hear every day? Well when I saw this Velvet Underground lyric on Milk Children, I knew this was one of those occasions :]. So… I made stencils and hung it on my bedroom wall! If anyone is interested, I have a desktop wallpaper version of the second image here! Have a nice day :].
“Skinny Clothes”
February 24th, 2010So I’ve been losing a few el-bees the last couple of months and finally tried on some clothes I have tucked away in bins. Clothes some may call my “skinny clothes.” I was pleasantly surprised by the amount of them that actually fit! Mainly, this jacket with lacy black flower shit all over it that used to be a staple for me. And this high-waist skirt that *fit* me before but is much more comfortable now.
All of these pictures were taken in my creepy shed. When I moved in it was infested with black widows and roaches and all sorts of nastiness, but it’s a lot better now (and the yellow wall I painted helps make it cheery!). Granted, I wouldn’t sleep in there or lick the floor or anything, but I don’t have to fear that a black widow is going to come crawling up my leg. One of these days I’m going make that door into a table and put together a little screen printing station. I probably won’t end up getting to it until Summer!
Vera Wang Kohls jacket, Forever21 scarf, BCBGeneration skirt, Doir mens sweater, Alex Marie boots
Gala
February 22nd, 2010So Saturday night was the annual gala my work hosts to raise money. This was the first year the event was actually held in the gallery, so it was a little hectic! It ended up going really well though. I saw more fur coats than I’ve ever seen in my entire life… It was fun watching all of the guests loosen up (in attitudes and in wallets) through the night as the liquor flowed, haha. But really, it was a great event and I think everyone had a lovely time.
(img from Spotted | Lubbock)
The place looked amazinggggg. The main gallery and a smaller gallery on the side had all of the tables, and two other galleries were full of the silent auction items. And the theatre held the award ceremony. There were these gorgeous bouquets of flowers all over (I ended up taking one home at the end of the night, heh) and they made the place smell so fresh.
I had a lot of drama over my dress! I bought this ABS dress from Bloomingdales that was on sale for $115, which was an amazing deal. I purchased the last one [online]. So the dress comes and it… is the wrong one! It is a knee length Tadashi dress. So I call customer service frantically, knowing that they won’t be able to send me my real dress since it was sold out. I found this Aqua dress that was *pretty* similar, and they gave me that one for the same price as the ABS dress I originally ordered. It ended up working out well, because I think in the end I like this Aqua dress better!
Oh, and then about an hour before I was supposed to leave on Saturday I was wearing the dress around and realized… I’m just not that comfortable in a one shoulder dress, especially when I’m going to be working. So I cut the liner out of this thrifted blazer I have, cut it into three strips, braided it, and sewed it on as a second strap. A little ghetto, yes, but it ended up looking okay and I felt much more comfortable. See picture below!
It is weird to me trying to look sexy-ish. I’m totally a cutesy girl, and when I have to look classy and sexy-ish I just feel silly and quite a bit awkward! It was fine for one night, but I need to just come to terms that my style is way kitschy, even though I am trying to get away from that lately.
So um… yes, it was a good night!
