Is it bad....

...that i want these?

CHRISTMAS 2011 WISHES

Monday, September 27, 2010

Yeah, failing life.

So I just caught up on some blog reading. I saw all of Kathleen's awesome posts. I feel so failish. I just haven't done much on the weeks. I consider it an acomplishment if I eat twice in a day. Or get clothes on for more than just meals. I Fail. Blob. Blah.

Sunday, September 12, 2010

necklace DIY

the inspiration: juicy couture multi flower torsade short necklace ($148)




the finished product! cost- $0- made from broken or unworn jewelry in my collection

Saturday, September 11, 2010

nails and rings

so sometimes those beckerman bite plate gals wear things that are a leetle too wacky for even me, but i have to admit they inspire a girl to accessorize more. i consider this random ring stacking an inspiration from them. not to mention that i'm pretty sure this ancient skull ring i bought at the roanoke rugged wearhouse is a knockoff of the real alexander mcqueen ring they sometimes share among themselves.

Friday, September 10, 2010

VIctory ! ...rolls at last

okay so obviously they are not perfect, but at least they are up. i've wanted to make victory rolls for my hair for awhile now. i was especially inspired by the countless episodes of 'allo 'allo i've been watching in my bedroom. (or as gendarme crabtree would say, witching in my bidroam). i'll include some images of the french resistance girls to show off my current fashion inspirations. also inspiring me? the beginning of a school year as a poor student. elaborate hair dos were all the rage in the forties because there were clothes rations and girls had to find other ways of tarting themselves up, so my gesture is symbolic.


listen very carefully, i will say this only once: it is michelle, of the resistance!

Wednesday, September 8, 2010

to market to market to eat like a pig

floral scarf-thrifted at second mile, black tank top- old navy, shirt- h and m garden collection, jeans- urban outfitters, shoes- bronx navy and tan sandals

eric took me to the maxwell street market on sunday for some tasty tasty mexican food. I had pork tacos, green chile and chicken tamales, vanilla and strawberry churros and mango ice cream. also for sale were tires and those beanbag boards that you have at church parties and elementary school spring flings. weird, right?

Tuesday, September 7, 2010

fauxchino

guess how much this little gem retails at? $174. for a craft project i think i mastered in girl scouts. fortunately i had some red striped fabric laying about, and i whipped this up in about 15 minutes, label and all.

Monday, September 6, 2010

Prada DIY

the inspiration--prada chandelier shoes and rainbow pedicure photo from sea of shoes


okay so, being a pretty girly girl these days i loove these shoes. obviously they are crazy expensive. so i made em myself. originals, $1,200.mine? roughly forty bucks, all told.




the result- black wire, two deconstructed necklaces from burlington and a pair of lucite prom shoes from sears.

Wednesday, September 1, 2010

a while back....

scarf-missoni brilliant find by donna faye burchfield
silver dress-handmade vintage vogue design (thrifted)
clutch-recycled juice box pencil case purchased at b & n
shoes- rugged warehouse in roanoke, virginia (best one in the world)

......i wore this outfit. i found this dress one spring break in college while visiting NC to see emily wexler. the drawing of those shoes does no credit to their tranny nature. they are silver and orange and blue faux reptile with jewels, open toed and somehow still pointy, t-strapped with fake wooden stacked heels. i love them.

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

up close

so this is that shoe i always wear, the tan and red bronx sandal from la de da. i bought them in college, but after wearing them for a year they got caught in a closing door in a really weird and clumsy way only i could manage and the strap separated from the buckle. so they sat at home all sad and broken under my childhood bed until i recently dug them out and had them fixed. voila! favorite summer shoes.

Thursday, August 19, 2010

fleurs, flowers, flores

from top left: jumpsuit, urban outfitters; kimono top, garden collection from h &m;
blue party dress, betsey johnson; floral sandals, aldo (thrifted)

whatever you call them, lately i can't get enough.

a selection

outfit 1: black head scarf, found in attic; black tank top, old navy; brown skirt (or should i say tutu) la de da; tribeca black leather and wood sandals, kenneth cole

outfit 2: gold, red and black headscarf, thrifted; black nightgown that i pretend is a dress, gap body; red and tan bronx sandals, la de da.

outfit 3: purple jersey dress, urban outfitters; tan wrap espadrilles, payless; tooled leather clutch with flowers and skulls, etsy x-mas giftie from my love.

here are some of the outfits i've been wearing, mostly to the hardware store. i go there like every day. most of the rest of my time is spent in my underpants, so when i go out i like to feel fancy.

Sunday, August 15, 2010

sorry i've been MIA...

...but now that i'm in CHICAGO i'll have plenty of time to catch up since me and e are unemployed and my little love nest is near set up. i've been spendin time with my sweet sweet boy and gettin the old apartment spruced up so it's tidy for when i l around and do nothing in it for the next sweet couple of weeks. more to come, i swear, and maybe in color!

Monday, August 2, 2010

pretty damn girlie.

dress- h & m
two-tone spectators- madden girl

i bought this dress to go to a wedding and i love it, except it has that weird h&m cut that manages to make a simple floral dress a wee bit revealing. ah well, i'm trying to make piece with my cleavage and stop wishing i was a waif.

sample of fabric below:

perfect.

and here we have the best collection of sunday items a girl could ask for. charlie made fun of me for being too fancy to eat crabs out in a delaware swamp restaurants called the boondocks, but i maintain nothing is better than whacking crustaceans in an electric blue sack sundress and a straw hat. i even managed to leave with my bra, which is more than i can say for the lady two tables over, as they have a collection of discarded unmentionables hanging from the pipes in the elvis and gone with the wind bedecked bathrooms.i had fried tomatoes to start and from the all-you-can-eat number twos buffet i ate about 9, (second place!!!!) beating sarah who manages to even eat crabs in a tidy and methodical way. in her defense she was slowed down by that cattail and mason jar creation in the middle, an acid green drink called a swampwater that even the waitress couldn't fully explain. some of the ingredients? vodka, sprite, triple sec and coke. to top it all off? chocolate peanut butter pie. heaven.

Sunday, August 1, 2010

Space Cases

So besides getting even more stoked everytime I see the Scott Pilgrim vs The World Trailer. I always think that Ramona Flowers looks like Catalin on Space Cases in the early 1990s on Nickelodian. Jewel Staite went on to be in another space sieres Firefly. While in Scott Pilgrim vs The World, Mary Elizabeth Winstead's character Ramona Flowers has seven evil exes, you might (or probably not) remember when she played the evil viliness in Disney's Sky High.

When you watch the trailer don't forget to see favorite Philly native Aubrey Plaza, hahaha.v

Friday, July 30, 2010

tricksy flowers

off-white tank- j jill (obviously a giftie from mommy)
high-waisted red rose flouncy skirt- urban outfitters
shoes- bronx sandals

i can usually fool people into thinking i'm well dressed with floral patterns. i don't know what it is, but everyone compliments me when i wear this skirt, even though today i looked like a big ol' slob. (but hey, i was cool)

wednesday.

floral top-old navy
black pencil skirt- forever 21
hair tie- old cut up t-shirt
sandals- bronx

Tuesday, July 27, 2010

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SARAH!!!!!

lil bit scruffy

dice shirt- swiped from 99 after he bought it at buffalo exchange then realized it was too small

skirt- american apparel

not much to say. was hot, so i tried to keep it cool.

oh no tequila

blue t shirt dress-old navy
satin two-tone heels- steve madden via sound feet or barefeet or some other awesome shoe store with a boring name (rampant in philadelphia)
clutch- sparkly floral gift from my sarah b.

so my oyster house temperance gave way four hours later to some free tequila and a handful of boilers at the cantina where i was persuaded to go after being in a foul mood at skeevy landlord mcgee and also to celebrate getting all my student loans from the guhvment instead of having to sell myself to that bitch sallie mae. anyway, the oysters were good, my dress was blue, the cantina company was FABULOUS and last night turned out okay.

Sunday, July 25, 2010

11th Grade Literature that I CAN NOT LET GO OF

I was reading my bloggie blogs tonight when I came across Loveship and Susie was talking about Marina Abramovic whose recent work was a 3 month long performance at MoMA, Marina Abramovic: The Artist is Present.

It appears she sat in front of a table and as a visitor you could sit across from her. They have portraits of every visitor who took the second chair and the amount of time spent across from Marina. Then I saw this GEM of a picture and Q: what imagine did it conjure up?

A: If you answered William Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily" you are correct! The only thing missing a pillow with a “long strand of iron-gray hair.” Poor Homer Barron.

full moon, rose and details

so i finished the name of the rose (although, come to think of it, i haven't really sorted out the title) which left me bookless on the train. I had some time to peoplewatch, and man, was it good. I had the closing shift at work on a full moon saturday. a 10 o'clock train to south philadelphia yielded the following amazing outfit details (with one exception from today):


clockwise from top left-
1. acid green rhinestone covered big toe
2. pink halter top with black and cream bra straps
3. big ass gem earrings that totally blinded onlookers from a truly hideous tank dress
4. Disney Princess luggage tote being wheeled by ancient asian man who i'm pretty sure was also wearing a 'mature woman's' cotton hawaiian print top
5. brave lil' sunflower sarah bought at the urban jungle after pope brunch
6. drunk, loud, frat boy with a solo cup and a wristband who said the usual banal things about pussy and beer BUT WAS WEARING CAT FACE PAINT
7. truly excellent ruffle sleeves on a khaki colored dress that i wish would migrate to my closet (or suitcase, as the case may be)

A more subtle look for my eyes.

Ignore how my nice camera makes my pores the size of craters. And my hair.

I used NYX Geisha, NYX Milk Jumbo Eye pencil, NYX Rocky Mountain Green Jumbo Eye Pencil and a smudge of NYX Green Candy Glitter Liner.

Make Up Geek

Lately I have had a lot of interest in learning different ways to do my make up. At my hairdresser's suggestion I checked out the multitude of blogs and Youtube videos dedicated to makeup. I came across Makeup Geek who has her own store where you can buy products she uses as well as samples of some of the more expensive stuff. I bought some of the Ben Nye pigment samples to try this Hawaiian look. Yep, its a work in progress. I definitely need some more practice.

This or That

Oh Joy has a category This or That. The problem is always This is amazing and That is equally kick butt. So its choosing the better of the two fashionables. The above has been one of my favorites from this summer. What if you were faced with an obvious choice? And with that I'm off for a burrito!

Living In: Debbie Does Dallas

Are you a fan of Design*Sponge blog? Yeah, so am I. I am a big fan of their category "Living In." They take a movie and show current items you can purchase based on either actual or inspired items from the movie. Now one complaint is you get a lot of victorian movies, the last few being Young Vicoria, Girl with the Pearl Earring, Pride and Prejedice and Picnic at Hanging Rock. Though I was a HUGE fan of Sixteen Candles, Frida and of course sent the Jaws one to Kathleen as a reminder to The Summer of Sharks. I thought I'd try my own spin at Living In, and pay homage to the golden age of porn.

Saturday, July 24, 2010

Show me your teeth.

"Don't be scared. I've done this before. Show me your teeth. Show me your teeth!"

So since I got the full Lady Gaga album months ago I am pretty much in love with ALL of the songs. Such a rarity. One of her songs, Teeth, has a constant line of "Shoe me your teeth." Well since it is Lady Gaga I used to think about Vagina Dentata, which is latin for toothed vagina. There is even a movie, Teeth, about a girl who has vagina dentata. After attending the amazingly entertaing Lady Gaga show last week I learned that she is referring to when you are angery and you kinda growl with your [mouth] lips up and show your teeth. In my mind I still like to thing this song is about vagina dentata.

Friday, July 23, 2010

I heart underthings

black strapless bra- h and m

red lace bra/bustier-h and m
pink striped victoria's secret underwear- model's own

Okay I don't really, because bra shopping is a drag, but i tell you what, finding a sexy bra is an instant mood lifter. i tried on a couple today at h and m and bought the top one as i desperately needed a strapless bra. I also like in this changeable day and age that you can almost always get a strapless bra with detachable straps, just in case. ugh i broke my own rules and used the word strap or some variant like six times in one sentence. apologies.

Thursday, July 22, 2010

black dress, white plate

dress- issac mizrahi for target, thrifted with sarah from the st louis goodwill
shoesies-same ol same ol bronx tan and reds from La De Da

So there i am in my simple dress, probably the most flattering silhouette i've ever gotten from an article of clothing, thanks to the genius that is Issac Mizrahi (yes i will make you gowns!) even for target. i drew it on a magazine article, liking the print, which is why there is a giant and distracting piece of spinach to my left.

Slug Poop.

1. Make up and Beauty Blog 2. MissChievous 3. Make up and Beauty Blog

I'm sorry but some of these Fall 2010 Nail Colors are like slimmy slug poop. The second two are China Glaze and the first one is Barielle. To be fair the first one looks more like slug that is dissolved by salt (see the little glitter crystals).

Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Accessorize

so i tend to fall in love with the various accoutrement of an outfit and, as can be attested by my goggled eyed wonder in those shops that dot south street and sell rows upon rows of rhinestone goodies, i love a bit of sparkle-but overall i'm not terribly good at adding the complimentary bracelet to make an outfit. (what a long sentence! can you tell i'm reading Eco? he has lists for PAGES) Instead i prefer to wear a few good things on a daily basis. you can tell from my picturs that i have on a particular necklace from a particular gent every day, but i also have a ring he gave me that i wear on the daily. this you don't see because i'm terrible at drawing hands. so this is my tribute not to my auxiliary accessories, but to my vital necessities.

Tuesday, July 20, 2010

Nightie night

dress- BCBG by way of Ross with iele
kicks- same ol' urban outfitters canvas sneakers

okay so this dress is beautiful and so comfortable, even though it vaguely reminds me of a nightgown. not such a bad asset when you wake up still drunk and have to stumble through a rite- aid looking for one of those double shot trashy starbucks drinks. the color is pretty neat too; on the tag it was described as evergreen and putty. putty doesn't sound attractive, and honestly i'm not making much about this outfit or day seem glamorous, but really, neither was too shabby.

Gin.

Dress- DKNY (thrifted, obvi)
Shoes- Coconuts for Matisse (i think a J.C. Penny brand) thieved from Mom
Gin- all over the place

okay so yesterday i went simple with a grey t-shirt dress and a pair of brown gladiators cause i wanted to accessorize with ALL THIS BOOZE. miz sarah b. and i went to the oyster house for dinner and had a dozen dollar oysters on the half shell each and it is like my new favorite summer food. i just want to be cool and boozy and sucking down frigid, slimy salty things. We also went on an impromptu gin crawl in which things got a bit messy. But who doesn't love sassy girls blitzed on gin? (apparently a man in a blazer who we didn't seem to like very much though we can no longer recount why)

Things of mine I like

I think I am good at doing my eyeshadow. This is from this morning. It doesn't look as dramatic as it was. I'm kinda obsessed with learning new techniques at the moment.

Sunday, July 18, 2010

Everybody's workin for the weekend

Saturday @ 10 am- top found in college giveaway box, embroidered wraparound renaissance faire lookin' skirt La De Da, bag 7-11. @ 12- same shirt, cut-off Chip and Pepper jeans, Betmar collapsible sun hat, Book by Umberto Eco. @ Night- same express shirt as Friday, same American Apparel skirt but in red, Bronx sandals from La De Da

Sunday- DIY dollar-store headband with fake flower leaves superglued on, urban outfitters floral dress, red Bronx sandals

Okay so i did a twofer and included my saturday and sunday on the back of a postcard in my tearaway edward gorey day planner. i'm trying to figure out how to make these look more cute and less ridiculous, but i suppose that's a fine balance when you are documenting your cartoon alter ego. anyway, saturday was so godawful hot that i changed about thirty times. (okay three, but still alot!) and today is getting almost unbearable, which is why i wore my favorite summer braless-cotton shift dress EVER. major bummer equals my camera battery dying, so this is kinda an eh picture.