I never realized quite how many cheesy holiday themed puns there are until I became a blogger.
I am one of those people who has to aesthetically catalog and decorate their life. Apparently, I am also one of those people who houses creepy things. Surprisingly enough, that owl came from Disney World, and stays in my room year long in the Disney shrine. Yes, I have one of those. I realize I haven’t posted in many days, and there’s a reason for it too. But trust me when I say there’s 3 other drafts of posts I have to finish writing a editing.
I find the easiest and most interesting thing to blog is my ASOS saved items list, once they have been filtered through for things I can afford, things I will wear, and things I can convince my parents to buy. Voila! See, now I am cosmopolitan.
Fall on Your Face, and Feet, and Everywhere Else
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Halloween only comes around once a year, and if you’re like me, you’re still growing. So most likely anything I get for Halloween in terms of clothes would never be worn again, because my sisters are not as original as me. So because I’m just a wonderful person, also went through and found some really great everyday Fall items. I think my favorites are the “Fashion Blogger” sweater, the clunky sandals, and the furry sweater. The latter (can you still use that if there’s three items?) reminds me of Sully from Monsters Inc.
Ghostly Gifts, Creepy Cravings, and Witch-y Wishes
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Because I know how time consuming and distracting ASOS can be I took the liberty of combing through pages and pages of clothes and shoes for you. While I will not be spending $80 on anything I wear once, I know some of you have jobs. And you know, can… So there are some less pricey items from the sales page, my favorite, and there are some full priced pieces as well. A lot of this has been sitting in my saved items basket for a week or more, so I’ve actually seen things go from $60 to $3o. Everything here I think is very Halloween-ie, as well as technically not a costume, so I don’t think you’ll get sent home from school. But if you do have a batty old teacher (see what I did there?) or spend over $100, don’t blame me.
This little corner of my room is completely full of Halloween and Fall aesthetics. So pretty much my life right now.
I’m off to send this to my dad. Hopefully I’ll be coming into some new clothes soon.
I’m not one of those people who walks around with earbuds in all day, or brings a Bluetooth speaker on the bus, but I do like music. Some of the time. Some of the time I think people have gone crazy. For example, have you seen Nicki Minaj lately? Stick with starships please.
My friend told my other friend about my blog. So that happened. She likes fashion too, so I guess it’s all good. But maybe this is getting too diary-like. I mean, boys, and other crazy stuff like that has become a daily thing. Too bad, people, deal with my problems. Because I can’t consistently keep a journal. The one I have now, with 17 pages completed is my record.
For right now. Because we all know 10 days later, I’m going to love something else, and this is all going to change.
Pins and Badges
Shop the Trend- Etsy, Etsy, Asos
These are the easiest ways for me to make a plain sweater more quirky and original, along with my favorite jacket of the moment. But I am very disappointed because there’s no need for these sweaters and jackets when it’s 70 degrees Fahrenheit outside. Any Disney themed pins are from those lanyards you can buy at Disney World. Anything else I got from my grandmother.
Stacked Rings
Shop the Trend- ASOS, Forever 21, Forever 21
I never wear rings in the summer because I never have good summer outfits planned, so spending my time on jewelry takes too much effort. But in fall and winter, sweaters cover up any bracelets, and I find putting them on top to look bad. So the best way for me to accessorize is my rings. Plus, they’re really simple and inexpensive, or intricate and expensive, so take your pick.
Plus, Forever 21 is having a Buy 1 Get 1 Free Sale on select jewelry so it’s the perfect time to snatch some up.
I sit here in my bed on a school day, combing through Twitter, not because I am sick, but because I get school off today! Anyways, as I was reading tweets, I discovered an AMAZING deal for any teen bloggers. With every order you purchase at Sun Jellies, they will give you a FREE BAG AT CHECKOUT until MIDNIGHT! Am I amazing or what? See this is why you definitely need to follow me on Twitter, because sometimes I will be to lazy to compose a whole post to update you on this madness. SO go now, because I am currently forwarding this to my mother so she will buy me some shoes, and get me a bag.
Now who doesn’t want some old school jelly shoes? Enjoy their lookbook(it’s literally a virtual book with page flipping and everything *squeals*!
As I’m writing this, I’m also not-so-secretly eating some apple pie I made last week, and it’s distracting me, so I think I’ll have to put it down. Okay, I’m ready now. After seeing all these amazing teen bloggers, I’ve pressured myself into buying a tripod, (so OOTDs to come) and taking more pictures. You know, the good kind with my camera, and not my phone.
After finally finishing the “redoing” (I say like that, because I didn’t rearrange, or repaint, but I did swap some furniture, and get some bits and bobs, so call it what you like) my room or if you want to be nice, studio, and I’m pretty proud of myself. Plus I needed to busy myself, so I could stop pretending I have a good English accent.
Polaroid Camera//Fujifilm Camera, Jewelry Tier (TJ Maxx)//Jewelry Tree (TJ Maxx)//Wooden Name Hooks (Pottery Barn) shown here
Dresser and Jewelry Area: My dresser is a key part of the blogger experience. It’s pretty much the only place I get ready in the morning. I lay out my clothes the night before here, the jewelry, whatever homework I have to turn in. It’s also a really good backdrop for rainy days when I have to photograph inside. Basically all my little blogger bits and bobs go here.
Dwarfs (Disney World)//Sleeping Beauty Set (Disney World)//Lanyard and Pins (Disney World and New York)//Mickey Mouse(Unknown)//Postcard (Disney World)
Disney Shrine: I will not lie to you. My favorite place in the world to go on vacation is probably Paris. But the most reasonable vacation spot, is probably Disney. And I’ve been there quite a lot of times. So I took the journey into our cold basement filled with spiders and collected all my Disney memorabilia. I didn’t realize I had it all until I put it out for the world to see. But I’m missing one of the Seven Dwarfs, so that’s kind of sad. P.S. That perfume box is filled with fake flowers for crowns. Post coming soon!
Pink Pillows (handmade)//Yellow Pillow(Target)//Small Pillow (Pottery Barn Kids)//Bedspread (handmade)
Bed: This is usually where I am. Not gonna lie about that. Whether it’s online shopping, watching YouTube, going on Tumblr, or Tweeting, it’s all done in my bed. I almost always have my laptop here, unless I have my phone, and it’s the only place where I get any “real” work done.;)
Desk: Sometimes I blog at my desk, and sometimes I blog in my bed, it all really depends on how I’m feeling and time of day. But the most functional space for that is this desk. It’s where the real magic happens. Notes are made, people emailed, brands tweeted, inspiration hit. I have a shag locker rug on my desk partly so my arms don’t hurt, but partly to cover up the years of creativity that has taken place on this here very desk.
Sitting here in bed late at night online “shopping” (which I put in quotes because I never actually buy anything, being twelve that’s kind of hard) on sites like ASOS and Lazy Oaf, makes me miserable. I can like all the clothes in the world through my computer, but do I ever actually get to go out and buy anything? No.
Sometimes I just want to redo my whole wardrobe, which is totally fair, since up until I cared about what I wore, my mom did my shopping. But now I have a big rack of unworn shirts I don’t like, and dresses I’ll never wear, and the occasionally semi-wacky piece of clothing (since dressing as fun and creative as I want without caring what the heck other people think is one of my life goals) I pick out on my own.
Of course that is unreasonable, because you know this stupid thing called growing is still happening, at a size 8 1/2 in shoes right now, and the verge of children’s/women’s is still where I shop. And I’m like 5’1 or 5’2 or whatever, so yeah, with my mom being 5’7 and my dad 6’0, I’ve still got a while to go.
Anyways, that needed to be said.
But you know if someone important in the world (say Barack Obama) asked me what my one wish would be I would say world peace, partly to look good, and partly so I can stop worrying about my friend’s country being destroyed by Russia, and oh, I almost forgot, GENOCIDE!!!! Props to school for teaching me all these horrific things, but not well enough, because I have to go home and talk more because I don’t understand.
Fashion… clothes… blah blah blah…. I have actually succeeded in creating outfits worth sharing.
I have not succeeded in creating the time and effort it takes to take good pictures. SOOOOO sorry, but no outfit pictures until I get a tripod. Excuses excuses, reasons, blah blah.
This is a really lazy random, post, but I felt like contributing something to the world today, (and I can’t finish a paper journal, I’m working on it) so here we are.
Well here I am, since you will likely be closing this in 3….2….1….. oh no! You’re still here, that means… Well, I have to do an actual post. Here are some vibes. Enjoy be inspired, all that blogger stuff.
P.S. I am quite frustrated with my theme. It pretty, 1 picture a column, caveman talk, zzzzz…. huh what? click and read description… big picture… zzz……… (yes, I know these go at the end. jeez leave me alone, I know what I’m doing, just for that, no caps for you).
Very Tavi Gevinson, teenager with personality thing, not the fake, annoying talkative “girls” (if you can call them that, they’re more like robots, or zombies) who think they should drink coffee in middle school and Do Not Enter Diaries. I am currently in the process of achieving this moodiness.
Kind of perfect in that messy way. I can’t figure out how to clutter without making a mess.
For whatever reason I’ve been hearing the word aesthetic, and since I didn’t know what it meant (gosh, give me a break) I decided to ask Siri, and voila! I’m a little bit smarter. But it kind of describes my life and the way I live it. I have these “vibes” after seeing things on Tumblr and movies and blogs (and yes that if how I spend my time) and then I try to live like that. So usually after Tumblr I sit in my room with sad music on while attempting to paint my nails and make flower crowns and despise people who deserve to be despised. I let my room be a big unorganized mess, in the way that is organized to me (and no one else) and I lock the doors and watch Netflix instead of cable because I have a very limited selection of channels. But other times I’ll read and see all these happy people, so I bake cookies and banana bread eat ice cream and pretend to ride a retro bike so I can model clothes (and mock people who give me weird looks when I take pictures).
Behold the deep depths of my mind! I will not give you the key, (I considered it) because I do not think I would like you poking and prodding around my brain. You might find something wrong with me. Something else at least.
I would love to have dinner alone at this little table with one other person where we could pretend to be classy as the world falls apart around us. And we can pretend everything is fine, even when it isn’t, because that is just the messed up life we live. But because no one else in the world thinks I this, I am left pretending.
These are just watermelon, and they should be insignificant, but they are not, they are beautiful and noticed and that really gets to me (as I am writing this post I realize I can think of great metaphors off the top of my head). Something small is often disregarded in this world, so therefore I am often disregarded when someone walks right into me and I automatically say “excuse me,” and they just keep on walking. And that is when I am noticed by everyone when I stick my tongue out at them, and in my head call them a bunch of not-so-nice words.
Everyone tries to take all the gorgeous pictures of the Eifel Tower on sunny days and with lots of lights, but I am a dark person as of right now, and quite cruelly all of them are ugly compared to this one.
I would love to have three feet so I can walk down the street like this and make people stare, but also so I can wear mismatched pastel shoes and call myself creative and original for that very fact.
If you were a good little reader you would know this is my attempt at all this Tumblr and We Heart It stuff (which to me isn’t quite stuff because I live by it, but for everyone else it is) and I do not know if I have succeeded, but I can live like I have and continue pretending to be a fancy little 7th grader when we all know I am far from the fact.
I cannot truly live like this because 1) I do not have long hair, 2) I do not live by beautiful bright flowers, and 3) I would not like to cut hearts out my shirt and expose the straps of my underclothes. But I can admire this and act like one day I will.
The day I can sit on a dock and take pictures of me taking pictures while waiting for the perfect light without getting bored is the day pigs fall from the sky. I know how to read, but I DO NOT KNOW HOW TO BE CLICHE!
I would love to live like a movie and go riding on a merry-go-round in an abandoned theme park, but for now I can settle for going into stores late and riding on the cart like it is a scooter.
I like to imagine when I sit for 12 hours in the car it will rain and I will see a rainbow. So to prepare myself for such paralyzing beauty I will play with the hose and the sun, while I pretend to be watering the plants even though we have sprinklers. HAHA! No one would believe I voluntarily did extra chores. That was quite a stupid thought.
I would absolutely love to live in New York, but with all the violence I keep hearing about on the news, I am not so sure I would ever do that. I know you are not supposed to let fear control your life, but I will let the possibility of danger and death control it. Away from those morbid thoughts, I still love the city, and have been there before.
This is hardly the tacky stuff I try to channel, but in some way it is perfect.
A lot of people may think I am crazy for loving the black flower above and them loving the colorful flowers here, but it is something with the photography which captures my attention, even though I can not live my life through pictures. But as I have said many times before I can pretend that I have a movie all about me, and I just happen to carry around paper bags of roses and things.
If I am on Tumblr it is only necessary that I have a flower crown shown. It is not just because this is a flower crown that I picked it. It is because I want a flower crown that I am putting this on here. I would also love to turn my head away from the camera, like I am camera shy while donning a string of silk things that people pretend grew from the ground.
For whatever reason I am quite inspired by flowers… Though I would rather have a single red rose, so many red roses are just fine too. You know, if someone wants to buy me a bunch of dying things to put in water, I’m not going to be too picky about it. Though I will be quite literal.
I think I’ve decided to live a very Tumblresque (yes I make words up) picture-perfect life. And that is not good because Tumblr has unbelievably high expectations, and I am trying to get by with my crazy and messy life, and it is all a little heart breaking. But I will continue living this way until piece-by-piece my little fairy tale falls apart and I am forced to stop pretending. But until then I will enjoy living my slightly tacky picture-worthy life and hope it lasts forever.
{This is all made up from my depressing 11 year old mind.}
I sat on the studio floor, tears dripping down my face, with a scratchy lace dress on my back. It was terrible, part of the reason I was crying was because of my dress. No it’s not my dress. It’s my mother’s dress. My caring, loving mother. The dress only reminds me of being a flower girl. Toddling around the aisle, laughing and throwing little rose petals. Then I heard a “boom” sounds and my butt started hurting. Tears came out of my eyes, and I couldn’t stop them from falling. My tears were thick, and I couldn’t see, but none of that mattered. I wanted to get up but no one was paying any attention to me, they were all staring at my mom. I wanted my mom to carry me, or at the very least pick me up. “Mama, Mama,” I cried. She broke free of the crowd and ran to me, picking me up, and spinning me around the room. Then the dream ended and I was torn away from my mother.
The cracked lipstick sat on the floor, but some was smeared on the broken mirrors and windows. My mom would have snapped her fingers and people would line up the sweep floors, donate glass, and clean up tutus and tap shoes. I crumpled to the floor so that my face was inches away from scuff marks and rat poop. I sobbed heavily, with short breaths in between each one.
The door swung open and a scary, red face appeared. Dressed in a black trench coat and a knit cap was my dad. His clothes were drenched. And even though I knew he was my dad, I couldn’t help but think he was a different person altogether. His happy eyes were gone, lost in…
{That is when I got bored and stopped writing.}
I can finish this if you want, just leave a comment below.
I was reading one of my favorite blogs and I saw a post that was really cool and fun to read as a viewer and a blogger. It seemed like a lot of fun, but finding the time to do it was very hard. I know it’s summer and I should have all the time in the world, but I just don’t. Anyway, the post was a “Girls’/Summer Night In,” which could easily be a tag, as it’s very fun to do and customize. So I present to you… My summer night in!
To Wear: PJ Top (Forever 21 Girls)//PJ Bottoms (xhilaration)
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and collected all my Disney memorabilia. I didn’t realize I had it all until I put it out for the world to see. But I’m missing one of the Seven Dwarfs, so that’s kind of sad. P.S. That perfume box is filled with fake flowers for crowns. Post coming soon!
