Tagged: purple

January 16, 2013

What I Wore: Rage

I know I talked about it yesterday, but I am loving The Steel Remains so incredibly hard right now. I’m half way through and I don’t want this book to ever end. Ringil is such an unmitigated bad ass, I wish I were awesome enough to have him as my spirit animal. At a time in my life where I’m feeling like I need to reclaim some of the massive, fire-breathing rage it took me years to learn how to stop from being my first response to things, this character is helping to guide me back to my core.

I notice that there are times when a little blunt force goes a long fucking way, and I have stopped taking advantage of those times. I did so in the interest of being able to live in society and be employed and have friends, but I think I’ve taken the nice girl routine a little too far as of late. For example, I never would have had to wait two weeks with my thumb up my ass in an apartment with a broken toilet, just wishing someone would notice my patient daily calls and pleasant messages before. I mean, they probably would have tried to evict me for the fit I threw and then not fixed my toilet for two weeks out of spite. But that’s why life is about balance. Sometimes it’s just nice to let people know you’re upset. Not get abusive of course, but not continue to be polite past the point of their rudeness.

Anyway, our toilet got fixed today (at long last), and only after I threw a micro-fit on the phone with the management company. But I came home to see some dirty water drips leading from the living room and into the bathroom, which is totally normal, but I also saw them extend about 2 feet into the bedroom, which I am not overly fond of. The plumber also left his sweater here, so I’m going to text him and tell him to a. come and get his shit and b. stay the hell out of my bedroom.

Next time it won’t take two weeks. They’ll wake up with my dick in their mouth if that’s how it has to be between us. It just takes so much more effort to be an asshole about everything.

UPDATE: Ben says that he thinks the spots leading into our bedroom are the dog’s footprints, not the plumbers, which actually makes more sense. So never mind about that bedroom part. Everything else stands. Cultivating rage, etc.

Striped shirt from Target
Maroon Shirt from Target
American Rag shorts from Macy’s
Deanna Cotton Ribbed Tights from Sock Dreams
Leg Warmers from Target
Dansko clogs from REI

November 15, 2012

What I Wore: Pepper and the Rugby Shirt

I had planned to be in bed 20 minutes ago, but instead I was sitting around I live-tweeting old episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation like I didn’t have a care in the world. This is why we can’t have nice things.

Ben helped.

Rugby shirt from Target
Miniskirt from Target
Leggings from Target
Socks from Target
PF Flyers from Target. Just kidding, they were a Christmas gift from Ben’s dad.

Fuck, I fucking love Target!

Oh, and in a random and poorly sampled social experiment, I asked the citizens of Reddit what it was they felt they were not allowed to do as women, and as men. Got a multitude of interesting results, along with some wacky men’s rights dudes being super dramatic. But otherwise, good data.

Me: Is that sentence about men’s rights wackos offensive?
Ben: I don’t know, but is it really necessary?

Then I made a sound with my nose and the back of my throat that I hope conveyed the sentiment: Um, seriously? Almost nothing I do is necessary.

Men’s rights guys aren’t all wackos, just some of them are. I mean, when decades of white guilt finally gets an exit hole, it blasts itself through with such force that the entire organism starts to vibrate with the screech of a thousand years of entitlement and privilege only recently curtailed. It’s kind of elegant, really. But seriously, some of the rage that sits right behind the eyes of these men’s rights dudes is fucking shoot-em-up ultra-violence scary to me.

Real talk, though: gender inequality hurts all of us, weather that’s the fact that doctors would rather let us die instead of treat us because of sexist laws or the fact that people think it’s perfectly ok to chop bits off a person’s genitals in order for that person to not be considered weird. Men’s rights are necessary, but just like women’s rights advocates, some people can get a little bit wacky.

There, I said it.

June 22, 2012

What I Wore: Business Uptown, Cheer Practice Downtown

I always feel like I sort of hate how this skirt looks, but then I see it in pictures and it’s so pretty!

Purple shirt from The Gap
Vest from Ross
Skirt from the thrift store
Socks from Target
Shoes from Vans

June 11, 2012

What I Wore: Clocket? I Don’t Even Know It!

I have my bluetooth in because I was actually on the phone when these were being taken. Some people might clean up the house while they talk on the phone, I model. It’s a talent.

Clocket (clock/locket) necklace was a gift from Ben, purchased at Hapa Collective in Seal Beach.
Jacket from the thrift store
Red shirt from Macy’s
Blue tank from The Gap
Purple skirt from Targte
Black leggings from Target
Red socks from Target
Blue and orange Nike Internationalists from Sports Authority

March 26, 2012

What I Wore: Scary Forrest

Purple shirt is from The Gap
Dress is from Ross
Houndstooth Converse are from a thrift store

February 13, 2012

What I Wore: Olive the Other Kerchief

When I was coming out of my therapists office, another therapist who was leaving for the day said “That looks great! You have such a great fashion sense.” I wonder if she’d seen me before, or she just enjoys making generalizations. Either way, I am in no position to poo poo random compliments.

Oh, and by the way, I want to draw your attention to the amazingly well made and attractive piece of kerchief around my neck. It was a Christmas present not this year, but the year before from Ben’s sister Mara (seen here), and I wear it quite a lot. I’m telling you this because she now has her own etsy store where you can purchase her jewelry and her artwork, which I am sure you will enjoy. So go to Tangible Thing on Etsy and support a young artist!

Kerchief was a gift from Ben’s sister Mara
Stripey shirt is from Target
Olive shirt is from Target
Overskirt is from Target
Underskirt (not seen) is from Target
Socks are from Target

Wow, I had no idea I had so much Target love until just now.

December 15, 2011

What I Wore: Photoshoot

So, I totally didn’t realize that I have only one crappy full body shot of this outfit until right now. So I guess it’s just a study of my tired, adorable mug. OH WELL!

Hat is from Many Hands Trading Company in Corvalis, Or
Scarf is a handmade gift from Ben’s sister
Necklace is a handmade gift from Ben’s mother (his whole family is adorable!)
Jacket is from Talbot’s via The Salvation Army (I know they’re bigots, but I used to steal from them in high school, so to make up for that I shop there now. Also, they seem to always have the best stuff. Hatred must attract cute clothes.)
Long sleeved blue shirt is Mountain Hardware from REI (and is amazingly comfy and warm, BTW)
Dress is from Forever 21
Belt is from Target
Polka-Dot under skirt is from the thrift store
Leggings are from Target (only $8!)
Socks are from Target
Shoes are from Vans

May 28, 2011

Twitter Design Challenge Parrot and Glasses

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.

January 7, 2011

BACKUP What I Wore: Ultranova

Thanks to a blown fuse in our building, we were without Internet for a couple of days. I have pictures backed up, but none of them are online right now, so here’s a back-up day.

Shirt is from The Gap
Wraparound skirts are from the 2nd Tibetan Shop in Old Town Pasadena
Belt is from Target

December 25, 2010

What I Wore: Christmas Day

So it’s Christmas day, and the weather has been surprisingly mild here in Oregon. It was nice enough that we could go outside for our outfit posts today without being bogged down with too many sweaters and coats. And since it’s Christmas, we had guests!

Ben’s sister Mara and her boyfriend Nick were on the couch, so they were invited to participate.

what I wore, fashion, christmas, guest stars, marina rose martinez

what I wore, fashion, christmas, guest stars, marina rose martinez
Mara has been reading fashion magazines, all the women make this pose. I’m trying, but there’s too much fat in the way.

what I wore, fashion, christmas, guest stars, marina rose martinez

what I wore, fashion, christmas, guest stars, marina rose martinez
Did I mention that she’s been reading fashion magazines?

Hat from the Tibetan Warehouse in Old Town Pasadena
T-shirt from Target
Karen Scott button up from the thrift store
Plaid skirt from the thrift store
Black skirt from the thrift store
Crinoline (not shown, under the skirts) is a gift from Ben’s mom via Hey Viv!
Green and black tights from We Love Colors (review here)
Black conductive gloves are from Target (they work with my touch screen!)
PF Flyers are a Christmas gift

what I wore, fashion, christmas, guest stars, marina rose martinez

As for Mara and Nick, all I can tell you is that Mara’s shirt is also from the Tibetan Warehouse in Old Town because we got that for her for Christmas.