Art in a heart

Hey, look. It's my first art project from last semester. These were all hand-stitched. I would not have killed for a machine, but would have greatly appreciated one. This one was the biggest effort I gave to all my projects. After this one, I realized that minimal to no effort was more than acceptable. The next projects didn't begin construction until the night before. And judging from the looks of some of the other pieces in class, conception didn't have to begin until half an hour before class. I got a bag of scrap fabrics from Creative Reuse. It's a store full of fun. I gave the hearts to the YMCA nearby. I don't know what they did with them, but I hope it made someone smile.

It’s only water and sand

This is either really stupid or really deep.
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In the mood

Little Romance - Ingrid Michealson
Can I have the last chance
to be your little romance
Can I have the last dance
I'm in the mood for love

Valentine's Day merchandise on clearance!

Guess what I did today?

It was in this warehouse across the street from where I volunteered for the Y-3 show last year. Note: this translates to I did not get lost going there- at least not much.

The racks were arranged into little stations. Other than at the stations and the art installations, the place was not well lit at all which equals grainy photos.

There were only ten changing rooms and it took forever. A lot of people didn't want to wait and tried things on in the main room. I need to find someone to do these kind of things with.


I really liked this top except for the print on the blue fabric. I'm tempted to recreate my own except I absolutely hate working with knit fabric. It's so annoying. It stretches all over the place and my thread breaks all the time even though I'm using the correct stitch.


This skirt was not made for short girls. If they had it with petite proportions/shorter and with a more nipped in waist I would have loved it. You have to admit, it looks great on the Blythe doll. And the lining fabric was a sheer plasticky type material that I thought was cool but it collected tons of static during the minute I had it on. You need petticoat to make it flare out correctly anyway.


This dress had the same print as the top and it's pretty much your standard 50s-esque strapless dress except maybe a bit punkier with the print and studded belt. I can't be completely sure but I think the belt was real leather which for Target items is almost unheard of.


And lastly, of course I tried on the dress. I couldn't find it on the sales floor but I did see it floating around in the arms of a few women so I knew it existed. Turns out, whenever someone would try it on unsuccessfully, it would get scooped up by other women who were in line for the changing room. The one I tried on was a size too big but this dress was so hard to find, I tried it on anyway. It was beautiful. There's not much you can do in terms of tailoring to make clothing fit people of different heights but I saw this dress on women of all different shapes and it looked great on all of them. If it weren't for the 70 dollar price tag, I would have gotten it then and here. This is just more incentive to find a job. I have until March 4th.


The walls were covered in fresh graffiti(You could still smell the paint when you stood next to the walls) campaign posters and chainlink fences. And then there were the art installations.

There were also two videos playing but I didn't stick around long enough to see what they were.

Sometimes I wish I had a sugar daddy

I would put these on display and only wear them at home because I'd probably fall over and die after a step or two.

Playing with dye

Is it weird that I'm a little bit in love with Moschino's S09 line? Their perfume ads I can't stand but their combination of bows, harlequin prints, and spring colors has won me over.


What really stood out to me were the sheer blue tights and with a little help from the abundant number of tutorials to create last year's ombre tights, I made my own.


These were the tools plus some laundry detergent and water. H&M currently has some 20 denier tights in colors that I personally don't care for and this light blue pair worked for my project.


Yes, that is my sink and a toothbrush. I probably should've covered everything around it. There was a thin layer of blue powder all over the sink counter when I finished and the blue water turned my gloves green. not cool


I soaked them for about 15 minutes before rinsing them in cold water.

I'd love to do a whole monochromatic look but I don't think that'll happen anytime soon due to my current and neverending lack of funds. I'm still working on that whole getting a job thing. I prefer them with white shoes but I bought these online and they're a tad bit too small. Plus, even though I love the backs, they have a horrid 80's pointed toe. Now I need to figure out how to get rid of them.

I suspect I was a bit delirious the day I wore them to work. I think it looks fine in a mini skirt but even though my coat ended about an inch above the knee, it looked slutty in a not necessarily good way with my coat on. Sheer tight will do that.