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 invested 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
In other and less-acceptable-for-this-blog news, my boyfriend of three years broke up with me. I cried and went totally crazy for two days, but I’m starting to feel a lot better. Instead of focusing a bunch of hate on him to store up in me until I explode, I’m focusing on how incredibly awesome I am. Focusing on making myself a better person, being more creative, fashion, school, decorating my house, hanging with lovely ladies, and just being great. There’s no use beating myself up over something that won’t be undone, and really had nothing to do with me being a bad person. I still have faith in love.
Because of that, I thought I wouldn’t be posting here much, but now I actually think with will be the opposite. I will probably be like “omg, pictures of me me me me me” all the time and overload this place with vanity. Whatev, that’s what a [mostly] style blog is for, yeah?
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!
Ahhhhhh!
February 18th, 2010I am seriously so excited to see all of this camaraderie among many of my favorite bloggers. From the Delightful Dozen stuff to everyone meeting up in New York and looking terribly adorable, it just makes visiting everyone’s blogs so much fun! Everyone being friends and doing cool things that involve more than visiting each others blogs takes the whole fashion-blog thing to a different level.
(from Blonde Bedhead)
Aren’t they just adorable?! I decided to do an outfit post as to what I would have worn if I had gone out with all of the cuties (and because I am dying to play around with my new dress and need an excuse).
So a while ago I was ranting about how I was obsessed with this Marc by Marc Jacobs dress on Gilt. When it came up on my waitlist it took me all of two seconds to decide to buy it. I super super love it and it is soooooo comfortable but man… VERY unflattering :[. I am leaning funny in the picture and it still looks bad. So I will probably not be wearing this in public until I feel a little more comfortable and lose a few lbs. But it is very soft and fun and a great addition to my closet.
The dress looked really familiar to me and it took me a while to realize that it is because I have a vintage Foley dress that is SO similar. I am actually kind of embarrassed about it. I guess I just know what I like! I mean… they are SORT OF different, right?
Black dresses with off white trims and intricate buttons – I love?
La la la… Daily Outfit Sale Things
February 12th, 2010
Everything in this outfit was vastly on sale, so I figured I’d post about it! I look like such a turd in these pictures, but… long hair don’t care! I wore a shirt under my dress because I feel like, since there was snow on the ground yesterday, it would be a faux pas to wear bare shoulders. Thoughts?
Nine West shoes via amazon last year. They were 20 bucks or something crazy like that and are super nicely made and the leather is very softtttt.
Belt from Urban, got it on clearance a couple of weeks ago for… ten dollars, I believe.
Crazy ass dress is Twinkle by Wenlan via Gilt Fuse for 25 dollars. Again, CRAZY quality for 25 bucks, it has all sorts of fun little details and hidden pockets. Love it.
So… the entire outfit was under $75 and the dress alone is normally over $200 (the gilt sale said $350, but I never believe the “retail price” on sample sites because they are usually inflated)!
On an unrelated note, everyone in Tyler (where I used to live) is freaking out because they got a TON of snow and they never ever ever get snow. So my Facebook is full of all of these excited status updates about snow and snowmen and such and it makes me jealous because I am totally over the snow, heh. It is pretty, but driving in the snow is NOT fun and it freaks me out too much to be excited when I see snow.
la la, chinese new years dinner party thing tonight, pictures maybe soon!
The Utility Curve
February 7th, 2010So I am pretty darn swamped with school right now… In an attempt to mix business with pleasure, I am going to take a moment to talk about the utility curve. The utility curve is something used in economics and decision theory, as well as some other areas of business (and probably other areas as well). An ordinary person has a concave (bending away from you if you are standing underneath it… like a dome concert stadium) utility curve. It looks something like this:
“Utility” is basically the joy you get from gaining some material object. When you have nothing, gaining utility from an object is really easy. When you have a lot, gaining utility from an object is really hard.
Think of it as… you just ate a spoonful of peanut butter. That first glass of milk you had was absolutely AMAZING (lots of utility) and then you have another glass and it was pretty good (some utility) and then you have another glass and it was okay (a little utility) and then you have another glass and it was eh (hardly any utility).
The point of this post is to say… I am so glad I didn’t grow up having everything I wanted. I see people around me who get everything they want and get so little utility and joy out of the shit they have, and it just makes me sad. They end up acting in extreme ways, trying to gain utility where there is nothing to be gained.
I can still dream and want and strive. I am so happy that I am still at a point in my life where I gain joy out of most things and can stay positive. Even though there are so many amazing things I want to do, I’m very glad I am pacing myself. I am so happy that I am still drinking my first glass of milk.
I probably won’t be updating for a few days because of school… hope you are all doing lovely :].
Daily Outfit…
February 5th, 2010Two outfit posts in a row? Both involving lace shirts and high-waisted skirts? Why the heck not!?
(kimchi blue top, h+m skirt, harajuku lovers shoes)
Do you ever feel like you just HAVE to have an item of clothing, even though the aspects of wearing it are slim to none? That is how I felt about these fricking cute as heck harajuku lovers from modcloth (they have since sold out). My big excuse was that “I will wear them for new years!” but me and David ended up just staying in and smoking hookah and watching Drag Me to Hell, so the shoes never, and still haven’t, got worn. So I’m thinking of wearing them tonight to work (I have the coolest job ever, I intern for a gallery that runs a first friday art walk) but chances are I will end up backing out. I don’t know when this happened, but at some point I became an absolute puss about wearing tall stilettos for excessive periods of time. Chunky heels, easy… stilettos, failure. So… we shall see.
Officially done rambling.
