Tagged: grey

What I Wore: Green Bucket Hat

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As you know, I’m working on a couple different ways to make some extra money around the house. So last week, Ben and I went to the park and took some shots to showcase the three main styles of crochet stuffs I’ll be selling on Etsy. I wanted to launch today, but all the pictures I took this morning with my own camera turned out pretty crappy. I thought about it, and I decided that if I have the time and the energy to do it right, I might as well scrap it and retake everything with Ben’s camera, even though that is maddening.

I don’t actually have a lot of time to work on the Etsy site, even though I think about it and talk about it basically constantly. I worry that when we do open everybody’s going to take one look at it and think, ‘all that drama for this?’ I mean, if I just wanted to make money, a minimum wage cashier gig, or a string of housecleaning jobs would have doubled what I’ll make from this store in half the work time. I’m starting this in the same spirit that I started to blog. I don’t really know where this journey will lead, but I’m going to go forward and figure it out along the way. There’s no real rush to open. It’s only my own anxiousness that’s making me want to get to the next step. I’ve been toiling over something nobody but Ben sees for literally months now (a month and 24 days counts as months, right?), and I’m anxious to get it moving. So, instead of this being a launch post, it’ll have to be a sneak preview of sorts. What can I say? Patience is not one of my virtues.

In the meantime, I’ve found a good calendaring solution for my immediate needs:

show no mercy, expect no mercy -commander shepard, mass effect 3
My “to do” board/office mirror

Hat by me (of course)
Scarf is a hand-me-down from my great grandma
Green tank (under the vest) from The Gap
Vest from Ross
Navy Talbots jacket from the thrift store
Overskirt is a wrap around from Many Hands in Corvallis, Or
Underskirt is from the thrift store
Shoes are Taos from Footwise Corvallis, Or

So now that I’ve talked up the Etsy store nobody’s allowed to see, here’s my most recent ebay auction: A VHS copy of Gregg Araki’s Splendor!

I’d feel like a bad friend if I didn’t tell you that you can watch the whole thing on youtube here:

Just, you know, if you feel the need to own an obsolete copy of a film you can watch for free anytime you want…

Today’s also the last day of my Clementina van der Walt cup auction. It only has one bidder for $10, so if you ever wanted to pay $10.50 for hand-painted South African cups, now’s your time to shine!

What I Wore: Sassy in the Front

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Yesterday was my Liveblog/Livestream of Die Hard 1. Counting myself, my boyfriend and everybody that joined us online, there were four people in attendance. No one stayed for the whole movie, not even me (pee break), but I had a great time and I can’t wait to do it again tomorrow.

Jacket from the thrift store
Red shirt from The Gap
Dress from Ross
Leggings from Target
Extraordinary Thigh High Socks from SockDreams.com
PF Flyers were a gift from Ben’s dad

Because Fuck Labor Day

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You’re getting an outfit post because the WordPress app on my phone crashed and deleted the last half of what was supposed to be today’s blog… just as I was trying to save it. I was so mad I could have drop kicked that phone into Southern Kentucky. But, that just means I get to share this great outfit with you, and also talk a little bit about the idea of attractiveness, and how much bullshit I think it is.

So this outfit would probably be on a list of fatty fashion don’ts. Light colors highlight my rolls, capri leggings make my short fat legs look even shorter and fatter, and I’m actually wearing this belt on the worst possible place if I wanted this outfit to be “flattering.” But in the words of fashion designer Gisela Ramirez, Fuck Flattering.

I think there’s something to be said for wearing clothes that accentuate your “assets,” but I also think there’s something to be said for telling the concept of “assets” to fuck right off and die. If I want to wear white, and strap a belt around my spare tire, I’m fucking gonna. Because I want to. And if I end up looking squared off, or lumpy, or fatter than I actually am, who gives a shit? I like white, and low waists and sometimes I want to wear them anyway. So I do. It feels good to not try and ‘flatter’ away my actual shape or put so much stock into imitating something I’m never going to be.

And let me tell you, this outfit was insanely comfortable.

White minidress from The Gap
Grey tank (not pictured) from The Gap
Tan belt from Target
Black Leggings from Target
Shoes are Birkenstock

What I Wore: Tulip Envy

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I bought this skirt on clearance at Target for, like, 6 bucks and I love it. It has pockets! Also, it’s basically see-through, so that’s why I’m wearing leggings under it.

Cardigan is from Macy’s. I cant remember the brand and I can’t find it right now. It might be NY & Co.
Olive tank is from Target
Black undershirt is from The Gap
Skirt is from Target
Leggings from Target
Merell flats from REI

What I Wore: Black in Black

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I’ve been wearing these Merrell shoes a lot lately. They’re the perfect work shoes, so comfortable and low-profile. I got them on sale at REI, and I always look on the sale rack for Merrells when I go there. I wish they weren’t so expensive. These are 100 bucks! I can’t pay that for slip ons!

Houndstooth dress from Ross
Vest from Ross
Leggings from Target
Merrell Shoes from REI

What I Wore: Carmel Edition

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While we were wandering around Carmel, I had an opportunity to do a little outfit modeling outside of my kitchen for once.

Patagonia Down Sweater is a gift from Ben’s parents
I honestly can’t remember what shirt I was wearing
Long sleeved wool shirt is Mountain Hardware from REI
Skirt is from REI
Wool leggings are Smartwool from REI
Socks are from Target
Shoes are Nike Internationalists

What I Wore: Irish Woolfhound’s Tooth

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I love painting my nails, but I often feel that after a few days of being painted, they get weak and brittle. I think this is because they don’t get enough air with all the varnish on top of them. So I’ve started only painting the top portion of my nail, leaving the beds to air out. I call it the half mast manicure. I think it works. My nails don’t feel weaker, but they still get to be pretty.

The way I achieved the manicure I have in this What I Wore is I painted a majority of the nail with Revlon 571 Posh (green), let it dry completely, then applied Sally Hanson Salon Effects 240 Check It Out (houndstooth) to the top of the nail, leaving a stripe of green exposed. I cut the nail strips in order to save as much as possible, but that meant losing the handy strip tab that separates the strip itself from the white backing and the clear cover. So if you’re not good at pulling near invisible clear plastic coverings off of sticky things with one hand, you may want to just let the extra go to waste for the benefit of your sanity.

fat girl with short, asymmetrical curly hairdo in a green shirt, pinstripe vest, navy jacket with white piping, brown and rust striped skirt, green socks and houndstooth converse with green laces. Her finger nails are half houndstooth with a green stripe at the bottom of the pattern.

fat girl with short, asymmetrical curly hairdo in a green shirt, pinstripe vest, navy jacket with white piping, brown and rust striped skirt, green socks and houndstooth converse with green laces. Her finger nails are half houndstooth with a green stripe at the bottom of the pattern.

fat girl with short, asymmetrical curly hairdo in a green shirt, pinstripe vest, navy jacket with white piping, brown and rust striped skirt, green socks and houndstooth converse with green laces. Her finger nails are half houndstooth with a green stripe at the bottom of the pattern.

fat girl with short, asymmetrical curly hairdo in a green shirt, pinstripe vest, navy jacket with white piping, brown and rust striped skirt, green socks and houndstooth converse with green laces. Her finger nails are half houndstooth with a green stripe at the bottom of the pattern.

fat girl with short, asymmetrical curly hairdo in a green shirt, pinstripe vest, navy jacket with white piping, brown and rust striped skirt, green socks and houndstooth converse with green laces. Her finger nails are half houndstooth with a green stripe at the bottom of the pattern.

fat girl with short, asymmetrical curly hairdo in a green shirt, pinstripe vest, navy jacket with white piping, brown and rust striped skirt, green socks and houndstooth converse with green laces. Her finger nails are half houndstooth with a green stripe at the bottom of the pattern.

fat girl with short, asymmetrical curly hairdo in a green shirt, pinstripe vest, navy jacket with white piping, brown and rust striped skirt, green socks and houndstooth converse with green laces. Her finger nails are half houndstooth with a green stripe at the bottom of the pattern.

Jacket from Talbot’s via the thrift store
Vest is from Ross
Green shirt is from somewhere that I forgot
Skirt is from the thrift store
Socks are from Target
Houndstooth Converse are from a vintage shop, now defunct.

fat girl with short, asymmetrical curly hairdo in a green shirt, pinstripe vest, navy jacket with white piping, brown and rust striped skirt, green socks and houndstooth converse with green laces. Her finger nails are half houndstooth with a green stripe at the bottom of the pattern.

What I Wore: Pattern Combustion

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So I spent this entire photo shoot trying to smile naturally. This is the result. Smiling is really difficult, you guys!

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Kerchief from REI
Game of Thrones shirt from the Internets (Ben got it for me)
Stripey undershirt from Target
Underskirt from Target
Overskirt from the thrift store
Heart socks were a gift
Shoes are Vans

Twitter Design Challenge Parrot and Glasses

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By now every creative person on the internet has read or heard that quote from Ira Glass about wading your way through shit work in order to make something good. In the interest of getting more crappy work behind me, I put this out to twitter yesterday: “Experiment. The first person to give me a noun, an adjective and a color can be my first Twitter Design blog. This may end badly.”

Fairy_Princess_Holly replied first with her request of ” Parrot. Sparkling. Purple.”

And AldoMcGee won second place with his request for “Sunglasses, fierce, white.”

Holly’s was the most challenging one. Sparkling parrots are a difficult concept. Parrots in general are a difficult concept. I ended up doing a lot of little doodles to try and figure out my plan of attack;

a page full of line drawings of parrots

Eventually I settled on a sketch I liked, and I picked an image that I had been looking at for my sketches and used it for shapes. I kind of think this might be cheating, but the shapes felt so much more organic than if I would have tried to freehand them.

a picture of a parrot

Then I used the pen tool to assemble the parrot.

parrot

Yeah, the purple sparkle is a lazy second thought, but the parrot is really my favorite.

Aldo’s request was a breeze. In fact, I did it before Holly’s because it was so easy. I just thought of Lady Gaga and how she is pretty fierce, and she loves the lightening bolt right now.

sunglasses

I hope you guys liked my first design challenge. I feel a little strange calling it a design challenge. I don’t consider myself to be a designer, I don’t really consider this design, but there’s not really a better word.

I’d love to hear your feedback. What did you think about the designs, do you think that my use of the parrot image is cheating? What do you want to see next?

I think in the future, I’m only going to take one challenge at a time. Doing two caused too much of a lag.