HUGE Halloween entry. More to come later.

Thought I'd show you something I'm working on for my watercolor class. Our next assignment is to paint a series, and for mine, I've chosen to do some studies of my dad's turn-of-the-twentieth-century football helmet. Of course this is just the thumbnail, and it's not finished yet! AND I have to do two others - before next week! Oiiii.

Off to sew Marie Antoinette before movie night tonight!

I launched my new blog just a few minutes ago. I'd been waiting until I could register the domain name, and as soon as godaddy sent me a coupon, I decided the time was right.
www.seecreatures.com

I'll still be posting personal stuff here, but photos and whatnot will be on see creatures!

Mark & I liked this photo a lot - it looks like a cheesy 80s glamour shot of Momo, which, combined with her ugliness, is like an old greasy man trying to cover up his stench with perfume. And Momo even looks like an old man! It's not edited at all except for color correction & resizing - she was moving around a lot and this is what I happened to get.

I'm having terrible wanderlust at the moment. Ever since a dream the other night in which I met up with hanaagogo to see some concert (I can't remember the band), I've been dying to drive up to Chicago. Before that, it was LA (thanks to Vanishing Point). I would like to do Chicago in the winter, but obviously that's a terrible idea, so perhaps in the spring. And LA in the summer DEFINITELY around Expo, with a Grand Canyon detour.

Small Picture Post



( You would never guess I had a nice camera )

Oooo hale yes. I'm doing Marie Antoinette, as you guys already know, and considering I'm terrible at keeping my own secrets, and considering I've already talked about it a bazillion times, no.

Anyway, the purpose of this post is to really just vent about my poverty & my love for:

( Lanvin S/S 2010 )

( Yohji Yamamoto S/S 2010 )

( Rick Owens S/S 2010 )

Also, I hate that I wake up this morning, decide that tonight is going to be my ONE NIGHT OUT OF THE MONTH TO GET TRASHED, then I take a nap this afternoon, and my boyfriend wakes me up to say, "HEY, BE OUR DD TONIGHT COS WE'RE ALL ALREADY DRUNK D:" Of course I love my bf/sister/brother too much to say no, but fkdalfad;.

I'm going to treat myself to some socks and tights this weekend. My current black ones have no elasticity and are wrinkling around my knees for the ultimate grandma effect.

Over the past few days, I've come across a number of things that have made my wishlist (basically consisting of a Yashica med format camera and a 50mm ƒ1.8) increase tenfold. I normally try to avoid "window-shopping" online but I couldn't help myself. Here are a few things I'm lusting after.
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Yesterday was supposed to be my last day of work, but since I haven't secured a job up here, I'll be working 3 days next week.

Mark took a phone picture of Momo so I could show my coworker what she looked like.

Coworker: I thought she was bald...
Me: That's probably because Lulu told you she looks like an old person.

Just a few words of wisdom before I hit the sack after an 8-hour day of work.

If you want to look current with fashion this year, do NOT buy the following [over-priced] Jeffrey Campbell knock-offs:

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They are all lovely styles, don't get me wrong (except for the first, which are much more cumbersome and much less elegant than the original Chloe Sevigny ones) but if you get the Ann D knock-offs, EVERYONE will know you are a Sea of Shoes reader*, and if you get the Chloé knock-offs, everyone will wonder whether or not the pattern is accurate.

Just save yourself the money, they are all around $200 each anyway! You can find some nice Burberry booties on eBay for cheaper, believe it or not (and I don't mean the checked rainboots either).

*This is not a bad thing! I love her! But she really made that particular style of Ann D's hugely popular, it's almost her trademark.

i'm so drunk ut kat primary_sources i almost drunk dialed you on daniel's phone to tell you hello so instead of bothering you i just wanted to say hi and i love you !



also lena happy birthday

i'mso drunk lolololol

omg after 1.4 seunka NS Laure you sare quitting yous aid you wouldnt smoke in my dress

We think our kitten Tomo is a toyger (every time I say that I feel like I'm doing a terrible impression of an Australian saying "tiger"). The markings on her forehead are identical, and she has large/fluffy ears, REALLY soft fur, and some orange coloration. Toyger or not, she's still a pretty kitten (and she's getting so big, and has the most playful personality ever):

A ton of positive and very negative things have happened to me tonight, but of course, unrelated to any of those things, something else is irking me even MORE. I learned that one of my sister's friends' moms doesn't want her daughter to go to an in-state school. Having gone to private schools all my life (and one of the most prestigious high schools in the country), I'm not new to this sort of snobbery, but it still irritates me every time I encounter it.

Until about a year after starting college, every time someone asked me where I went to school, I always felt like I had to respond with some special preface or explanation as to why I went to UNT (a public university just an hour north) when a good chunk of my fellow high school graduates ended up at Ivy Leagues. It was never, "Oh, I go to UNT," it was always, "Well, I got into Loyola with a $25,000 scholarship, but I didn't like it, so I went to UNT instead."

Fortunately I've become comfortable enough with myself and my school that I don't feel compelled to explain myself to anyone unless they pry, but it still irritates me that people care. It doesn't bother me that people want to go to Ivy League schools, or out of state for college - what bothers me is that people judge others based on their own preferences of these schools.

Another thing that irritates me is peoples' narrow-minded perception of intelligence. Almost EVERY major is taken more seriously than art - yet few biochemical engineering majors can paint a scene employing a full scale of chroma and value. True, many artists I know never made it past college Algebra (I am one of two in all of my art classes that advanced past Pre-Calculus), but I do not know any math majors who could draw a proportioned face (though I don't deny they exist). There are many ways of being intelligent! Art is just as legitimate a career path.

Anyway, I'm out before I start off on another tangent. I just had to get this off my chest.

I'm basically done with the robe, and I'm going to create the sash tonight. There are some things I definitely wish I'd done differently (the trim just doesn't lay right) but here it is anyway:



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Proper picture of my new hair and jacket! I had lost my camera battery charger for a few weeks but finally found it again.

Also, my roots aren't that bad, my hair is just kind of dirty and the lighting is bad!

Total 180 with the hair. I was actually aiming for something longer, but god knows I needed the shorter length. Well, there you have it. I am no longer a redhead (although remnants still remain).

Mark: You are going to have to take a new profile picture, because that's not you anymore.

Also pictured: my new jacket from Anthropologie!

I remember when my sister and I were like, 9, our parents bought us a Jackson 5 CD and we were upset that it wasn't Hansen. We thought it was a practical joke. BUT we listened to that CD for years, and loved it.

Sorry guys, I know that eventually you will be inundated with Michael Jackson posts, but this one's mostly for myself. I keep my livejournal to track the monumental and not-so-monumental things that happen to me for my own personal reference, nothing more, and this is HUGE to me. Farrah Fawcett is upsetting but this... this just takes the cake.

Anything good that happened today was just totally eclipsed by this.

Happy [belated] Birthday, bobbarker!

and happy 21st birthday to me!

Today at work I got asked out by a guy - like, legitimately asked out, not roundabout hit-on by the dude-bro. He called me on the work phone to ask me on a date since we'd talked about Clue with Tim Curry the night before. It was cute, but of course, I am happily dating Mark who is handsomer and smarter than any guy I know. But still, it was cute. Guys should be like that more often.

Thank you to stripesalesman & potthead for the birthday wishes. Much rabu for you guys~ ♥

I just polished off an entire bag of popcorn. I'm so sleepy now :( ugh I hate my period.

Here's a little rage-inducing convo in liking: click.

also, i started drafting a pattern for a costume. No, it's not Relena, nor is it SailorV. It is a girl who loves to eat a lot, and hates to study (but not Usagi). I don't want to say since I never finish stuff but I've already cut out some pieces so I'm sure it's gonna happen.

My baby kitten and Momo are both laying on me right now! so cute.

I was supposed to get my hair cut & colored tomorrow but due to unforseen circumstances I can't switch work shifts with my sister. Urgh. I will just have to celebrate my twenty-first birthday (on Sunday) as a redhead.