She Came from Planet Z

happy Earth Day everybody!

It's a rainy, april day.  A smoky smell hangs in the air, and along with the smell of rain, and the oatmeal raisin cookies mum baked (note: it is very rare to have spontaneously-made cookies in the house), it is heaven.

Oh, how nice it would be to make an entire graphic novel colored this way.  Oh, how nice it would be to actually have a plot for a graphic novel. 

Yesterday, it was sunny.  Also heavenly.  And strangely summer-like.  I fear the great heat that may attack us when it's actually summer.  Anyway, I felt like being someone else for a few minutes and raided mom's closet. 

Ha-ha-ha-ha HA.  Oh so sweet and innocent.  This was the best shot mom got after my attempts to spin and look girly and young and weightless.  Which is a fun feeling, if you can accomplish it.  In real life I'd be sweating in the buttoned-all-the-way-to-the-top shirt and would have already taken off the skirt out of annoyance. 

No, I have NO idea what I'm doing fashion-wise.  But hey, if you have a blog, and use it to put of pictures of yourself wearing clothes, then you are officially an online genius, right?  I most certainly think so.

warmer weather wardrobe water wednesday? no... it's friday

Well, I'm finally doing something good with my clothing catalog obsession. 

I quickly sketch some of the models on the pages, and leave the outfits blank.  Then, when I feel like coloring, I um... color!  It is amazingly fun and I am just as obsessed with it as I am with clothing catalogs right now.

I only draw girls... and that annoys me.  But then again, I always only draw girls.  I guess, in today's world, they're the only ones wearing pretty much any color or design. 

  Yeah, this one is a little crazy.  As you can see I am yearning for a modest two-piece swim suit (does not exist) 

Weather is warmer.  Much warmer.  Our P.E. flag football unit makes me want to write descriptive sentences of our 7th period:

We, in two teams, form lines.  We squint across at each other on the line of Scrimmage, forgetting the next step as the white light deepens the red of our sweaty foreheads.  When our eyes aren't glued to the coveted football, they hang low, soaking in every neon blade of grass as our tongues become ever more dry. 

more style quest thoughts

Once again I find myself yearning for a style of my own.  Or something with clothes.  Something about clothes.  I want to own clothes maybe?  I don't count the clothes I own as clothes.  They're just sorta... shirts and pants.  Not style.  Why do I want style?  Is it that I want to accomplish that clean, crisp "I've got my style down pat so there" appearance?  Maybe one just has to really care about clothes and really search for every last little detail.  Or am I just rambling on too much?  Yes I think so.

These girls are supposed to be modeling clothes for a clothing magazine.  I'm slightly against clothing magazines and specific companies because I like the idea of finding clothes in weird, small independent shops or thrift stores like all cool people on the internet do.  Still, I have a small obsession with catalogs.

About the catalogs.  Every morning while I eat breakfast I re-read clothing catalogs that were sent to us in the mail.  Some were sent months ago, and some I've read every single morning for a couple weeks now.  My favorites change.  I don't know... I like how the clothes are described in detail.  I like reading all the phrases used like, "Jump into spring" or "stretch your legs".  And now, whenever I look at a catalog not in the morning, I get hungry for cereal.  

Though "I get hungry for cereal" is such a wonderful ending, I can't help but mention a few of my style inspirations. 

Angela Chase from the TV series My So-Called Life.  This series, by the way, is one of my favorites.

April Ludgate from another TV series called Parks and Recreation.  Also another ultimate favorite.  For some reason the characters make me like the clothes even more...

fashion thoughts

Hello there!  I am here to rant about fashion!

I have just had a moment of realization.  About fashion.  (in case you didn't already know that by now)

There is so much of it, fashion.  And, I feel that it has exploded so much in this world and has been explored in such a hyper manner that there's nothing new to try.  Everything that's being done is being repeated somehow.  I know what your thinking, fashion enthusiasts.  Yes of course that's how it is just be yourself that's all that matters. 

True.  But I, at this moment, am new to fashion and am making some sort of un-obvious attempt to try it out.  It mildly fascinates me.  It seems like a mild obligation for me to try out in my life.  And so, I have been rummaging through mega-popular fashion blogs open for something to click.  But it all reflects this cartoon/picture I drew about Forever 21:

It's all the same!  I have that problem of not being able to tell one trend apart from another.

Maybe if I travel to another country?  Is it the source that bothers me?  What if I saw all this style featured in some really un-expected place?  Or what if I only think of myself?  Is this blog only for me?  To just work things out?  Such as fashion?  And, like, our universe is just one speck of dust on a marble that a giant is playing in on a planet in an alternate universe besides ours that's just a speck of dust?

?

???

OK, I think I got it.  Just be yourself.  Thanks everybody!!

Oh I forgot!  One more thing.  Just look on this mega-popular fashion blog and watch the video at the very bottom of the page.  She words it much better.

The State of Fashion Blogging

hallows eve

A happy late hallows eve to you all! 

I wish I had brought the camera for trick-or-treating.  It was nothing different different, though, so this is good.  I also went to a Halloween sleepover, and broke the record for staying up.  Yup, 5 a.m., and believe me, I didn't get much else done the day after but rest. 

tall and disheveled, short and frumpy

I sketched these outfits out on the plane coming back from Oregon, then went and pasted a picture of paper dolls onto Paint.  I used the Bamboo to draw on the outfits.  Also fashion-related, these pictures were taken a couple weeks ago.

I don't really know what they mean.  I always have moments where I'm in front of the mirror and my head's tilted at that perfect angle so that I look pretty okay, and I want to take a picture to capture it all... I guess it was the posture in these ones.  I liked the hair, and then stiffened up to look all un-comfortable school person. 

Now I will do my homework.  Oh dear.  It's getting late.

A little bit of darkness

Now we can easily say, "It's that time of year again" with a corny rising of tone of voice at "time of year".  Most of us (this could easily mean all of the little "me"s in my brain, or the cluster of girls I sit with at lunch) are thinking about...

costumes!!!  Why yes, we're not too old yet!  Right?  Yeah!  We're not!  It's just time to break out that black lipstick and lay on the eyeliner like never before.

 
Ah!  I mean, ah ha ha ha haaa!

 
I picked out the perfect combination of gothic-schoolgirl, inspired by the Addams Family.  Duh duduh duh *click click*.  Yup, I am going to be Wednesday Addams.  I actually kind of envy the name.

 
You should thank me for sparing you the millions of other practically identical sullen photos of myself in my half-finished Wednesday costume - it's fun to be photographed without expression, knowing it'll have meaning anyway.

Oh yeah- noticed how I said "half finished".  Yes, I do know she's got this huge pointy white collar and big white buttons to tail after it.  But, with some stripy tights, I've practially got a 10-dollar costume (thrifted dress).  Ponage!

 
And to be poned as well.  One of my favorite cartoonists, Roz Chast, has poned me (have ya noticed my new middle school vocabulary yet?  Don't try to figure out it's real meaning... it seems so innocent now).  No, my spirits have not been crushed.  I merely agree.  Yes, I do use this blog as a small form of self-publicity, and yes, I do ramble on and on about the crap that I make and do.  This is a blog.   

And yet, blogs slowly take the form of an underdog... as we witness the trend decrease. 

thrifted

 
New thrifted!  I found these and thought their little bubbles would be perfect for coloring... plus my feet had grown.  And only for a few bucks!  (I feel I can't brag about that at school... a bargain is considered weird there... )  Anyway, An and I did the coloring while listening to pop music on the rug.  It was good girl time.

la ropa de la clase

I can always rely on Spanish class for interesting assignments.  This quarter?  Clothing.  Assignment numero uno?  Fashion show. 
I am wearing a trash bag.  This picture doesn't exactly show the outfit to the fullest extent, but it was more for the mood of the picture.  Y'know... reckless and footloose, middle school hallway, dirty sock, hand-me-down, and peanut butter in a jar mood.

Nevertheless, a blue and gray plastic bag belt with plum leggings.

piercing: meh.

Today was kinda crazy.  I looked foreward to the piercing of my ears all week... but it kind of hit me at an odd moment today that I had an orthodontist appointment, none of my friends called back to say if they could come or not, and I had a playdate (er... hang out, in middle school terms, but who cares, right?) clumsily scheduled somewhere in the midst of it all that was pretty last minute and my stomach hurt then.

We were in the car driving back from the orthodontist and all of this was hitting me hard.  I just wanted to pierce my ears, and so we went to the mall right then and there and I sat in that little chair that Claire's makes you sit in by the window so everyone could watch.  It felt like a bee sting and the entire time my stomach was clenching, thinking, she's probably over at my house right now to play... what if my friends really could come to watch...

I had a time picking out earrings, releaved it was over, and pretty much blew threw the whole thing just like that.

So, there you have it, my time in a sloppy nutshell.  Afterwards I bought a bag of gummy worms and the friend and I went to the ice rink.  She made me the planetoid-looking earrings and I like them very much.

 
This is NOT how I felt or looked afterwards.

 
This is more like it.

 
My collection so far.  Along with a small box I found somewhere in my room that I like very much. 

P.S. I watched Juno last night and it is now officially my favorite movie.