March 2

I got this necklace when I was around 13- I had this weird phase when I was younger where I was obsessed with lemons. I liked the taste, the smell, the color, and the object itself was just cute. My mom got me this necklace and I wore it all the time. Even now, when I can't handle sour stuff at all ( and hopefully have become less creepy) I still like wearing it.
Am I creepy, readers?
Don't answer that, I'm content with my own opinion.

Slice of Life: It's March now?

I have had a hard time staying asleep lately, readers. TMI? I dunno, but maybe my schedule of going to seminary at 6:20 every morning has made it so I'm dying to get out of bed around 7:50 on weekdays and snowdays.
 Yeah, that's the other thing- there is another snow day today.
I guess it could do with the way my bedroom is arranged. My bed is right by my window- I'm really lucky and have the biggest bedroom window in the house. I like to leave the blinds up and the lights off so I can watch the cars go by, and how bright the moon is, and how blurry all the lights and moon and stars are without my glasses. As a result of this wonder at nighttime, I end up waking up with the sunrise.
'Early to bed, early to rise' though, right? The thing is I'm not really early to bed either. I was up fairly late last night working on the first edition of PRISM: THE ZINE. Prism was going to originally be a zine, but I was trying to make it too complicated. No technology on this one, no sir. Purely collage, drawings, writings with a PEN, and whatever stickers I can find. I will upload pictures soon.
I took a zine-making class when I was 9 or so. Back at the old college where my dad worked they hosted summer camps for kids 6-16 for a camp themed towards their choosing. I was doing a painting main course, and had a few little classes on the side including this 'intro to zines' class. It was one of the smallest classes- only four other people besides me. The teacher was friendly and he showed us a few cool examples of zines and comics he and friends had made, and then set us loose. I don't know where mine went, I probably threw it away, but I still remember how fun it was.
So that is the birth of a new project to occupy the time that I'm not spending blogging, doing homework, or whatever else I do.

Image from Pinterest that sums up my night

Tights are Cool

To be honest, I hadn't heard of Olypia Le Tan until I was drooling over last months issue of French Vogue. It had a wrap-up of all spring/summer shows and when I came across this I really liked it. With other collections I have the issue that if I had the money, I wouldn't actually wear most of it, just whimper over others wearing it. This one is right up my alley though. Here are some highlights
The tights- Opaque red tights with EVERYTHING! Under capris, over lace up heels, under dresses and skirts- EVERYWHERE. I used to have a pair of tights like this and I would wear it with everything (not under pants though) and I literally wore them to their holey run ridden demise. These ones are fun, and I like how they compliment every other color in the show. It's like 'How to wear red rights 101'

 The collars- I'm a button-up shirt kind of girl. I like them patterned, plain, colorful, neutral- they just suit me. I like wearing them alone, under cardigans, and under sweaters. This is an aspect of the show that really struck me- all the clean-cut and patterened button-up collars!I love it when I see something that I haven't created that is just me- it makes me think that other people are really weird too, and that if they can make that weirdness a good thing, so can I! Bask in the glory of these collars, friends.

The teapots- I don't know why, but those teapots are just so cute! I had a tea party for my 13 birthday, and every girl who attended (not many did, but it was magnificent) got to take home a little teapot that I had thrifted somewhere. It makes me remember that, which makes me smile, so I am sitting at my computer, alone in the silence of morning, grinning over little teapot icons on dresses.

The bags- SO. CUTE. Adorable little lunch bucket like clutch/purses with images of old books and Japanese cartoon characters? Yeth. Yeth please. I have a metal lunchbox with Wonder Woman on it, I may have to use it as a purse soon.

Would this collection please make it's way to my closet now? Thank you
Have a tight week, readers.
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But I love them so

For bad days

Writing Tunes

Things we like: Gravity Falls

It's no mystery (GET IT?) that we love Gravity Falls. Maybe it's the action figures of Grunkle Stan, Mable, Bill, and Waddles perching on my bookshelf that gives it away, maybe it's the iconic theme song I play on the piano 24/7

me playing with my action figures.

 But who doesn't like it? (I understand some don't, but guys...) I consider it Good Art. There are only a few fandoms out thee where the fan is so closely connected to the creator and Gravity Falls is one of them ( Along with Doctor Who/Sherlock- Moffat, All Emo Bands and their children, and Night Vale- Fink & Cranor) Alex Hirsch based Gravity Falls on the adventures he and his twin sister had on their visits to Oregon. I don't know if there were gnomes or bottomless pits or mechanical sea monsters in his childhood, but even if there weren't it all sounds cooler than my childhood.

Gravity Falls was one of my first fandoms. I remember seeing an ad for it on Disney XD and thinking 'that looks cool' but assuming I wouldn't be allowed to watch it because Soos said 'butt' in the commercial, as in 'butt island' (look dudes) But I was wrong. My parents were chill with it and are still chill with me singing The Little Lambey song as I fold laundry.

As funny as Gravity Falls is, it's surprising in a few ways. Like movies Napolean Dynamite and Nacho Libre not only is it hilarious and cult like but it looks really good. There is a good art directing going on to give a shot something cool or unique and to make it look like something more than just a funny quote (that's confusing, forgive me) I started watching Gravity Falls when I was 12 or so, and that's when I first started really noticing that kind of thing. I mainly noticed it in Gravity Falls where there is a specific 'look' to it.

This was my first experience with an aesthetic. I didn't know the word for it at the time, but whatever it was that made the pine trees, shacks, and cheap things of Michigan seem cooler I was all over. A run down ferris wheel at the fair wasn't run down any more. It was 1. beautiful in some weird old sad way 2. A great photo op

Is it weird to say that I learned something key to my interests and personality from a cartoon? Don't answer that, I'm content with my opinion. But I'm not going to lie. I learned how to look at things longer and in a different way that has affected me and this blog.

I also learned that I can do the best Lazy Susan and Lil' Gideon impressions of all time.
Have some deer teeth, readers