MAY I HAVE YOUR ATTENTION PLEASE!

I have an idea! 

I just received an email from W25 magazine, an online magazine that's dedicated to pushing the traditional limits of all creative things, asking me to contribute to the next issue. This is something I would love to do, and I would love it if you all would help. 

So my idea is this: Blogging has increasingly become a larger part of my life, a source of inspiration, and a network of friends, and I want to reflect this through my contribution to W25. This is where you all come into the picture. If you would email me files of pictures you take that are part of your 'bloglife' I would like to put together a collage (I like collages...) entitled something like 'the power of blogging'. I want this to represent the connectedness and inspiration that comes from interweb relationships, and the unique and interesting power that those hold in the world.

So click away on your cameras and email me the pretty things you make! 

On a lonely rode and traveling

This is how I am feeling right now.

This is also what happens when I am on a train for five hours. Please click on it to see the large and glorious version.

I love you all to oblivion. 

p.s. the above line means "I made the damn collage, so don't take it without giving me credit!" Just a clarification. In case anyone was wondering. Which I'm sure they weren't, but you can never be too safe. Unless you are living in a bomb shelter in the middle of Arkansas, in which case, you can be too safe. But I digress.

It's a cruel, cruel, cruel summer

This is how I feel about this summer: 

Also, this is what I wore yesterday:

skirt-selfmade

shoes-target

tee- american apparel

fringe necklace/scarf-selfmade

And this is what I'm wearing today:

top top- old navy i edited it

bottom top- express

belt- marc jacobs

pants- who knows- i edited them

shoes farylrobin

I'm really obsessed with 80's one hit wonders right now. Who knows why. Hence Bananarama. I'm also off to Detroit in the morning to visit family for the next 4 days, so I'm not sure how often I'll be able to post etc. Anyway love you guys!!

Summer in the city means cleavage, cleavage, cleavage

This is what I wore today, er, tonight. I did nothing today. Nothing being sitting around all day making a pair of ordinary gym shorts into an extraordinary little skirt (seen above) and watching movies. 

I threw on this outfit right before I went out to yoga, because I felt I should put some effort into something today, and really liked the outcome. I feel very bad ass and James Dean-esque in it. Or like I should be in Greece (the musical). Not sure why. 

Anyway I always like seeing what I wore today posts on other blogs, so I'm going to start doing more of them (hopefully). I've stayed away from them because my camera is the definition of a shitty piece of crap, and I am very self conscious of my body at this point in time, and feel like I can't take decent photos, but that's a different story. In any case, I will make a larger attempt to do what I wore posts. 

bisous amores.

It's been a while...

Actually it's been a hell of a long time. Since I've posted that is. I think my .o4 readers are quite disappointed with me. Anyway school's out and I have a tad more time so I'll be consistently updating now. 

So I moved to New York City. That's really the foundation of all that's been on my mind and proverbial plate recently. Being here is a far cry from little po-dunk Gresham, and I've really been dealing with some personal shit because of it. Personal shit that just so happens to be mostly manifesting itself in my wardrobe. I am, I have discovered, not an individual here (in both fashion and personal aspects). In Gresham, OR, yes, I am a crazy, unique individual- there is rarely a time I'll go out of my house without garnering at least a couple incredulous looks- but now that I'm in this crazy ass place surrounded by ten zillion other individual, unique crazies, I'm feeling rather less than mediocre. I feel boring! I feel like I can never have an individual, creative, entirely unique and new idea, style, or thought, and it's driving me batty. I mean, I have my inspirations, but I feel like I am just being a big fat copy-cat, and not really being unique. It's really driving me crazy, but until I have an epiphany or breakthrough of some sort I suppose I'll leave you with some of my recent inspirations.

clocks and keys:

bird and clock headband, clock necklace, key necklace, and clock ring- all made by yours truly

the second inspiration of late is my mother, a woman who I respect and love more than life, and who's life I only hope mine will compare to. I put together a little photoshopped confection of pictures of her only to have photoshop quit unexpectedly on me, and delete all the work I'd done...so my next post will be on her.

-a