Midweek Menagerie 7/8

July 8th, 2009

ONE

I’m sure most have you have seen this great gradient fade tights tutorial, but I keep stumbling to it!  I feel like it is following me around the internet, begging me to create some beautiful tights and probably ruin my carpet.  After I move and actually have a backyard I may try this out, but for now I just have to drool.  Anyone tried this?

TWO

From last week’s post you should now know that I love shoes with wings, hehe, so when Ranna at Only Shallow posted these heels by Minna Parikka I just about had a cute attack.  So amazing!  I might have to save up my lunch money and do some research and get these someday (I don’t believe they’re released yet).  Oh dear.

THREE

I love staring at my lovely, decades old Schwinn Hollywood bike, but that is usually where it ends.  To be honest, I have only rode it twice.  Besides the fact that the town I reside in is covered in hills (I can’t even bike to school, a mile away, because it’s just one big hill), my little Hollywood may have lived the end of its usable years.  Every peddle takes all of my energy.  So… I’m looking into buying a new bike, and there are so many cute ones out there!  My current #1 choice is this Nirve bike above, but there are so many I’m in love with!

FOUR

Drawing with light has been done.  I love it and think it looks neat and all, but it’s been done.  But… PICASSO can make anything look fresh, and when he drew with light, magic happened.  This series of photos taken for LIFE magazine in 1949 are super inspirational and neat and fun.  :) .

FIVE

More shoes, I know, but I had the most amazing run at Goodwill yesterday!  I found these wondrous old etienne aigner loafers and was instantly smitten.  I looked at the size and it was a 9.5 (I’m an 8.5) :-/.  I tried them on anyway and they actually fit!  One might even say they are slightly too small, but I am working on stretching them out :) .  They didn’t have a price on them, so I took them up and she said “is $1.99 okay?” and I said “YES” because all of the other loafers I was looking at were $5 or $6 and not nearly as amazing as these.  So… yay for shoe finds!

SIX

I love doing fun little things with my camera, so this idea was really exciting for me!  I can’t wait to try this out and make everything look like it is full of love, heh.

Hope you’re having a good week!

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Midweek Menagerie 7/1

July 1st, 2009

ONE

Super old news at this point, but my love for these Jeremy Scott Adidas was renewed when I saw them on lookbook yesterday.  A few months ago I saw them in Nylon and fell in love with them, but eventually forgot they existed.  When I showed them to David he said “what purpose does that serve?” but come on, do you really need a purpose to have sweet wings on your shoes?  I think not!

TWO

This guy on the Satorialist has been my hair inspiration the last couple of days.  I had my hair in curlers a couple of nights ago.  I got up and did my hair and then grabbed a cup of coffee and checked my bloglovin.  After seeing him I immediately went and poofed the heck out of my hair.  I don’t think I’ll ever be able to fro out my hair that much, but I did make it about 5 times bigger than it was before :) .

THREE

If you haven’t seen how fricking adorable Emma Watson looks in Teen Vogue, you should probably see these.  I am terribly excited to see Harry Potter on opening night… even though no one will dress up with me, haha.

FOUR

I left this fabulous tutorial opened in a window on my desktop for about a week before I finally closed it.  I knew if I closed it I would never getting around to reopening it and trying the tutorial.  That was a month ago :-/.  Anyways, this tutorial on embellished tights is fabulous!  I would probably get a run in them the first time I wore them, knowing how clumsy I am, but they are so lovely it would probably be worth it.

FIVE

So I have accounts at all of the fashion sites (stylemob… chictopia… modepass… probably some others) and never really post in them.  It seems like they all have kinks or confuse me or I just don’t want to take the time to learn to get around.  When darling Jane (she and her boy run Burger and Friends!) invited me to join lookbook I was excited because it’s the only fashion site I actually look at, but didn’t really think I’d end up posting anything.  But it’s super easy to get around and I like it a lot more than the others, even though I’ve only been on it one day!  Go be my friend :) .

SIX

We did a secret package exchange at the message board I’ve been posting at since I was 17 (!) and an adorable girl named Sarah got me as her partner.  She sent me lots of cutie pie things, but my favorite was this necklace!  It’s so pretty!  I’ve been wearing it any time it matches.  It has real flowers set in resin (or something).  So cute :) .

SEVEN

I got in to Texas Tech for my MBA!  My family is kind of obsessed with Texas Tech, but when I was looking at schools I never really considered it because I wasn’t excited about living in Lubbock.  But then David got accepted into their PhD program and I started playing around with the idea of applying and researched the program a bit more… and decided I liked it a lot :) .  I applied a couple of weeks ago and am really excited I got in, woo!

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Runny

December 22nd, 2008

Frequently occurring pet peeve: getting holes in my tights

So I bought a couple of pairs of tights yesterday.  As I was literally trying these tights on for the first time, half way up the first leg I poked a hole through them with my finger.  Luckily I put some clear nail polish on them and the run is low enough that I can still wear these with boots, but sheesh.  This seems to be happening to me a lot lately, usually not the first time I put them on, but lots of running tights.  Is it because tights have gotten cheaper this year or that I’ve gotten much more clumsy?  Whater :-/.

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