Archive for March, 2011

things i love thursday

Posted: March 17, 2011 in things i love thursday
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haven’t done this in a while! consciously. about time i brought it back.

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MY NEW TATTOO how well my evaluations at school went this post-evaluations peace devin townsend live spotting people at the station/on the street of whom you just know that they’re going to the same show tivoli oudegracht, how i’ve missed that venue; way better than certain melkwegs utrecht in general, i can’t BELIEVE i hadn’t been there for over a year & a half at concerts, when very tall guys in front of you notice tiny you behind them straining for some semblance of a view of the stage & offer to trade places leftovers from the good old 90′s like boy meets world (forever & always) & hole compliments on the street by complete strangers the pants i made for sewing class, they’re SO comfortable my new haircut the beauty in science exhibition at boijmans, especially the underwater part that a certain order didn’t get lost in the mail after all spending the long hours traveling to school & back reading really absorbing books surrounded by the same people every weekday, there’s something so quaint about that my new series of unfortunate events books & special edition fight club dvd when i can almost immediately take the subway after the train after those long days running into old school friends on that same subway, under agreeable circumstances cloudy/rainy days, especially right after the absurdly sunny ones all the new things i’m learning

twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did so. so throw off the bowlines. sail away from the safe harbor. catch the trade winds in your sails. explore. dream. discover.
–mark twain

feel free to add your own list of things you love this thursday in comments (:

as much as i love dressing up, i keep going back to that casual dykeish look. blame the l word. shane in particular.

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shirt: pottercast, gift
waistcoat: vintage
pants: river island, customized
scarf: american eagle
gloves: borrowed from my brother
shoes: vans, customized
necklace: bella lili
pocket watch: gift

also, i got a new haircut yesterday! i love it so.

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i woke up with ‘cell block tango’ from chicago (love that musical/movie) in my head. & when i was browsing etsy for items to feature that led to my theme.

razzle dazzle ‘em & they’ll make you a star.

all from my super talented attackofthecraft etsy street teammates. enjoy!

ps. if you have an account on etsy, please comment & click on items in the treasury form of this, so they’ll get more exposure.

ever since i saw confessions of a teenage drama queen (what a terrible movie) & heard lindsay lohan say “in my family i feel like a flamingo in a flock of pigeons”, i’ve had a little obsession with flamingos. so when i was in a necklace shopping frenzy & saw this flamingo cameo necklace by fellow attackofthecraft etsy street team member dame named redd designs, i had to have it.

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right the day after i had bought it, i received an e-mail that it had been shipped. yay, fast shipping! lovely packaging too.

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& the necklace itself! i can’t believe it was only $15, the quality & detail are so good. or maybe these things are just easy to make, i don’t know :p either way, i love it! the length & size are also just perfect. i’ve already been wearing it a lot.
all that’s left to say is that i would buy more from there in a heartbeat (:

some more things from the shop:

be sure to check them out!

i really like how these turned out.
we had to choose three different periods to make a series of drawings of, one typical, one modern, silhouettes & accessories.

‘biedermeier’/victorian:

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(the last one is just patterned paper stuck behind a cut-out, i didn’t draw that)

20′s:

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still have to fix some parts of these.

80′s:

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this one is my favourite! mostly because of the ecoline i used for the hair & dress. usually such messy materials scare me, but i LOVE how it turned out here. think i’ll have to use it more often.
for the rest i used promarkers, soft pastels, fineliners & pencils.