I love lace

love love love
lace lace lace
i love lace!!

the outfit:

the lace dress is vintage

the grey tights are from urban outfitters http://www.urbanoutfitters.com/urban/catalog/productdetail.jsp?itemdescription=true&itemCount=60&id=15181613&parentid=W_ACC_TIGHTS&sortProperties=+subCategoryPosition,+product.marketingPriority,-product.startDate&navCount=150&navAction=poppushpush&color=04&popId=WOMENS_ACCESSORIES&pushId=W_ACC_LEGGINGSANDTIGHTS&prepushId=

the wrap is from zara

the bracelet is a ribbon and chain necklace from Club Monaco

the python flats are from Urban Outfitters

paper doll

i remember when i was a little girl and i would love getting those cardboard dress up doll kits! Cut out the clothes and attatch any assortment of them you want to your doll with the little paper tabs you fold over the back... at 8 years old, life didn't get much better than that.

Nowadays i fill my doll-dressing guilty pleasures with a website i'd like to share...

http://www.looklet.com/


Looklet is a website that lets you pick your model, pick your background and then dress them in any way you'd like with thousands of virtual pieces of designer clothing. It even lets you choose how to layer pieces, or how to wear jackets/cardigans (open or closed?)... I've spend too much of my afternoons at work creating countless outfits and wishing i had a closet that contained even half of my available options on here





ch-ch-ch-check it out.

xoxo love S

Amanda's DIY Project

Hello Hello!

Note to S:
Nice post on the chess board, I loved it. Want to watch the movie when I get back?

So I have been working on a little DIY project this week and I wanted to share!

Why I love DIY's:
1) Because I'm a student, and its fun to have a finished product that didn't take dinner off the table.
2) Because I'm just a born craft-enthusiast...I like play dough, stickers, homemade cards...you get the picture.
3) Because I am PICKY. I constantly find things that for the most part I really like, but there always seems to be one little thing that I would change or add to the article. Whether that's the style of buttons, the length, the neckline....you get it. DIY's allow me to have exactly what I dream of!


So anyway! This week I took on a project that was entirely inspired by a skull cut out sweater I fell in LOVE with at "Shop With Asian Stereotypes":
http://shopwithasianstereotypes.blogspot.com/2009/05/studded-leather-ring_2625.html


(Quickly refer back to reason #1)
On that note I challenged myself to complete this dreamy number in under $8 instead of $80 US +S&H

Tools Used:

1) Scissors

2) Any sweater that tickles your fancy:

3) A marker or pen

So I found a grey sweatshirt and VV ($3.99) and scissors at my desk, and a pen also at my desk..(wow) and this image online...and I just went to work! Drawing it was a cinch, but cutting out all of the little teeth was a bit on the frustrating side, but I feel the finished product and mula-save-age was well worth it!!!

So here it is:
The final project + a little fun at the Reservoir with Sara + the nicest day I have seen all summer =

Anyway! Hopefully I can do some sort of little DIY project to post about each week, that would be fun.

Enjoy the good weather friends, I will be doing the same in Mexico this week!

xoxo love A

Judy

Now I'm a Jetson's fan as much as the next child of the 80's - but I will never embrace any rendition of spandex silver space suit; Impractical ( Tailored shoulders are one thing, but have you seen Judy and Jane’s lapels? Eye hazard much…), Unflattering (slip the word spandex into any clothing description and most women over 30 go running for the hills), and just because the costume designer for Metropia thinks that’s the future for fashion doesn’t mean the rest of us need to follow suit…

Now contemporary (NOT futuristic) is a niche that I feel very comfortable with. Minimalistic being the current goal of contemporary designers, an influx of transparent pants, cut-outs, and blouses have been turning up everywhere from runways to the streets giving new and almost literal meaning to "what you see is what you get"



Many designs have been inspired from "new fangled ideas" found everywhere around us; art, architecture, and abounding technological advances...
(Harry Potter invisibility cloak anyone? http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/08/11/tech-invisible.html)

One item that specifically catches my interest is Yasmin Sethi’s Alice Chess Set.

The glass playing pieces are opaque when they’re off the chessboard and become transparent when in play, each revealing a traditional chess piece encased inside.

The chessboard is made out of glass that has LED's embedded in it; the pieces are coated with a material called "mirona", which is opaque, but becomes transparent when a light shines through it. When a piece is placed on the board it completes the circut and lights up the LED under it, becoming transparent, like magic!

It's based on the book "Alice Through the Looking Glass", the magically appearing pieces are a callback on how a chess piece has no value unless it is in play on the board. If removed from the board, a pawn and a queen are equal, in that neither have any value.

Thought that was pretty cool....

xoxo love S

Amen Coppola

After a lot of smacktalk and a bit of procrastination I finally set up a blog. Sara and I have been talking about doing this for a while and we are finally getting started.
Sara who is both my blog-partner in crime and big-sister, is a talented new photographer you will surely get to know. I am a starving student, an English major to be more specific. I am really quite excited to get my musings and ideas out onto paper and by paper I mean blog. I know Sara is excited about getting more experience behind the lens, so its a kill-two-birds-with-one-stone kind of project. We are both blogging-beginners, so you'll have to bear with us!

So first embarrassing note about myself:
Most of my day-dreaming time goes towards fashion.
However I do from time to time venture off into topics such as boys, candy etc (see chart below) but a substantial amount of my free skull roaming goes towards things fashion and garment related.
Now this is something I don't love to admit because there are things associated to this girl...you know the one. The fashion-lover girl, the trendy girl...This is who I like to call the Lauren Conrad. (Please take no offence LC lovers, I'm sure she is a nice person I wish her every happiness)
Nonetheless, this is not particularly the group I would like to be lumped with as I like to think that I have a good head on mt shoulders, a head with more than just sequins bopping around inside. I read that while discussing the topic of her movie Marie Antoinette, Sofia Coppola said "You're considered superficial and silly if you are interested in fashion, but I think you can be substantial and still be interested in frivolity."

Amen Coppola. I take solace in this.

And thus, the blog begins!!!