Etsy Update: Valentines Day Cards

I know I just posted my art, but it's incredibly important that you go and get Valentine's Day cards for your loved ones! I just listed a bunch in my shop, and the couple's portrait would make a super sweet gift for your best pal, bf, or cat!!

Let's Bone Card

Cat Lady Card

Eat All The Chocolate Card

Art Lately: Christmas Break Work

I actually forgot about posting my art on here, and since I've been super busy since December, I've got a ton of work to show! Expect some more soon.

As always, you can find me on tumblr, or commission me on etsy!

Gallery Show Outfit

Thank you guys so much for your support on my last post. Since the teacher wasn't offensive in my second class, I've decided not to report him for now, but one of my friends confronted him about it, and if he makes any more off color jokes, we're both fully prepared to complain to someone in charge.

Anyway, this is what I wore to my gallery closing (shaved my pits and everything)! The Illustration majors all had a show (that we spent like 6 hours hanging last semester) and we had a little party, complete with chips and Little Debbie cakes! A lot of us even sold prints, which was a really pleasant surprise!

Funny story: I was moving furniture around in my studio after taking these photos, yknow, strainin like the muscle woman I am, and this pretty little choker popped right off my neck! I fixed it tho, no one woulda even known.

Dress: Forever 21

Shoes: Modcloth

Tights: Nordstrom Rack (?)

Choker: Gift from my Roomate

Bow: Relic from my Childhood

I also conducted my photoshoot for my thesis project on Saturday, and it was largely a success! All the girls did an excellent job, all decked out in red lips and kitchy prints. They were adorable and put my modelling skills to shame! I can't wait to share some images with you guys, but I've got a lot to sift through.

I really want to diversify my posts on here, but I don't know how to go about it. If I have to carry my big camera around everywhere I don't know if it'll happen. Any ideas? (Other than DIYs, I know I haven't  done one in ages.)

P.S. Walking all day in heels is way more comfortable than standing in them for 3 hours.

Anxiety and a Nice Dress

Okay, I'm gonna level with you guys. This week has been incredibly stressful. I've been a walking anxiety attack since Monday.

The worst part was my night class, because the teacher is awful. He spent the evening making fun of students and telling crude stories (because you know a teacher is cool if he curses). I don't want to hear about the time you peed on your friend's sleeping bag as a joke, thank you, not to mention how unprofessional that is. He really crossed a line from unpleasant to unacceptable when he told a story about how he made a girl cry in class. He "made the mistake of asking her what's wrong. You never ask a woman what's wrong because then she'll start sobbing. Turns out she was mentally unstable and medicated lololol" Yeah even if he wasn't basically bashing my entire demographic with that line, labelling women as hysterical and laughing about mental illness is not fucking okay. I left the class sweaty and shaking and have been anxious ever since. 

This really isn't fun to talk about, and I don't like admitting my weaknesses (on my fashion blog) publicly, but the whole experience really triggered my anxiety disorder and all week the old symptoms have been coming in waves. It really hasn't been this bad since I went up for Specialization Review and learned I had GAD in the first place.

Luckily, Wednesday's class went a lot better (if it hadn't I was prepared to report his ass). It seems like the guy is annoying in general, but tolerable as long as he's not talking to you about his life or opinions... so I'm feeling better right now.

I also found out that my elective, which I thought was on advertising, is on journalism, which I have no clue about. Haha we'll see if I'm any good at on-screen interviews and opinion pieces! There are a multitude of other stressers that have been bugging me this week (and that wouldn't have effected me so badly if it weren't for my anxiety), but I'll keep them to myself in an effort to look on the positive side. I will say that my  thesis photoshoot is Saturday and I'm nervous as hell! I hope it all goes well.

I got this pretty new backpack for Christmas and I'm excited to carry it around school this semester. Unfortunately, it doesn't fit my camera. :(

Dress: Dear Creatures

Tights: Target

Cardigan, Shoes: Thrifted

Backpack: Hershel

Anyway, here's to my next post being a more positive one!! (And I wish I could get this damn pink to stay in my hiar!)

Sass > Class

I'm heading back to campus tomorrow. So here are some pictures of me being sassy in my stunna shades (dollar tree chic) to brighten at least my mood.

Idk if you remember my little DIY cage skirt here, but I wore it once back in the Fall. One of the horizontal elastics hit me straight across the boobs and it looked a little too bondage (a little too ill-fitting bondage). So I took the top one off and now it's more of a modified suspender skirt. It'll def get some more wear now!

Gahh I have such a busy week coming up. I mean, there's the whole back to school thing, and then I'm doing a photoshoot for my senior thesis next Saturday! I'm so freakin nervous, I want everything to go perfectly! I'll be sharing some of it on Instagram, so follow me there if you want to see!

Other big news in my life: Travis is home from Italy!! I'm so glad we're in the same time zone again. It was such a hassle, I left to pick him up at the Columbia airport, where he was supposed to fly in from Charlotte, but they made him go through customs a second time and he missed his flight! I had to turn around and drive up to Charlotte, and then we had to go to Columbia to get his luggage (which hadn't arrived). I wanted to stay with him longer, but I had to come home to get my tires changed. :P Lamest ever.

Shirt: Old Navy

Sweater: Forever 21

Skirt: Forever 21 + DIY

Shoes: Urban Outfitters

Sunglasses: Dollar Tree

Pink(er)

I repinked! I bleached it again, then I mixed a darker dye this time and left it on for 16 (!!) hours, so I'm hoping it'll last longer this time! It fades from pink to peach because I just can't get rid of that orange on my hair from the multiple auburn dyes I used over the past year. I also had my Mom give me a trim last night, so I'm practically a whole new woman now!

And I've completely forgotten how to dress myself. Not that I don't like this outfit, I think it's fine, but I went through about 10 different combinations before I decided to wear this. I just don't know what I want.

In other news, Travis comes back from Italy tomorrow and I'm picking him up at the airport. I'm really excited for him to be back! We're gonna eat a pizza and then snuggle. It's supposed to be like 8 degrees here tomorrow night! That's gotta be considered cold, even for people who don't live in the South, right?

I get a week more of break before I have to go back for my last semester. Omg.

This dress is probs the best pattern I own. It's strapless, but I want summer dressing back so I wore it anyway, under some layers. It's been gathering dust lately because the boning in the bodice was starting to wear through and get bent out of shape. So I just removed it with a seam ripper and it's tons better now!

Dress, Tights: Target

Vest, Collared Shirt, Cardigan: Goodwill

Necklace: Forever 21

Shoes: Target + DIY

I've been watching a lot of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia (Charlie <33) and sitting around in an art rut, so I'm determined to actually paint something today. No excuses.

PS. LimeCrime Velvetines are just as good as everyone says. Little drying perhaps, and come off when you eat greasy things, but still. I'm wearing Suedeberry here.

Orange

My Dahlia dress finally came! It was meant to be a Christmas present, but it didn't arrive until the 30th. I'm so glad it's here now! So it's definitely more of a summer dress (that's why it was on sale lolol), but I can still wear it in December, look at me go! I only took off the jacket to show off the pretty back, I promise I put it right back on.

It's the first dress that I've liked with my weird orange transitional hair. I look like a giant creamsicle! I'm going to re bleach and pink it soon. Waiting a month between bleachings is kosher, right?

Check the bokeh! ^^ I finally figured out how to change the Fstop on my camera. I had it confused with aperature or exposure or something and to be fair, there's not a button for it.

This Christmas break is drawing to a close pretty quickly! Travis comes back from Europe on the 6th, and then I go back to school on the 13th. I def need to get some stuff done before I regret wasting my entire break away.

Ahh look at the back of this dress! So pretty!! I can't wait to wear this in the summer.

I def wore it on NYE though, I don't have a single sparkly item in my closet!

Dress: Dahlia

Tights: Target

Jacket, Belt, Shoes: Thrifted