This just came in the mail this morning! I'm so in love with this case. Black cat + iphone = the perfect combo! I've been using just a simple light blue plastic iphone case for a while now and I was getting a bit tired of it. So I was on the search for a new case online and I came across this one. I had to get it! Just thought I would share it with you guys <3
Today I went to Melanie's house so we can film a DIY on a floral headband. Melanie wore it on our Summer Trends video and people requested us to do a DIY. I was curious myself as to how to make one because tons of people on lookbook, youtube, and various blogs have been rockin' the floral headband this summer. I thought it would be pretty easy to make, but really it was more tedious than I thought it would be. However, the hard work paid of because now I have a really pretty floral headband!
From this....
To this!
If you want to make one yourself, check out our video on how to make the floral headband!
Hello there! Today I will not provide any pictures. It's just gonna be me rambling about some random things. I am allowed to do that right? After all this is my blog. I just feel like writing and so here I go... First of all, I will share with you what I did today, but before that I want to state that my life is not exciting at all so it would be kind of impossible for me to write about my life daily. When I do write about my life it wouldn't be a long laundry list of awesome things. In fact, I barely go out. I have no where to really go and people rarely ask me to hang out. I'm not trying to be all dramatic, just stating the facts. Sad life I know. I used to be really emotional about it, but now I'm completely used to it and don't really mind it. Although, I wouldn't mind having more of a social life. Basically what I'm trying to say is that I would love to put some more content on my blog frequently but I just don't know what I would put. I don't think I will have a lot of life blogging simply because I don't do much. Unless if you consider sleeping, eating, breathing, or going to the grocery store exciting... Anyways so what did I do today? The only "exciting" thing I did today was that I went to photography class. I don't think I mentioned this before but I have been taking photography lessons. I love it!.. even if everyone there is over the age of 30. It is a Photography 101 workshop for 5 days. One class per week on Tuesdays. Next Tuesday will be my last class. I learned a lot in that class and the instructor is great! Of course I still have a lot to learn, but I was able to learn the basics of photography and I think that's progress! Every week we have a photo assignment to turn in and when the class meets we show the photo to everyone in the class so we can talk about it. I really enjoy that part of the class because it's interesting to see how others take pictures and it's a great way for others to say what they think about my photo; that's really a rare opportunity for me because I don't know anyone that is interested in photography enough to give constructive criticism towards my photography. After the last class, I am planning on uploading every photo assignment I did. I'm actually really excited to upload them because, unlike other photography things I put up on this blog, these were done with a purpose. It's sort of like "publishing" my work. I'm not saying the other pictures I upload are less important because they are important to me. I have to admit though that I am still iffy about the concept of uploading my "photography" pictures with my random day to day/fashion pictures because I don't want them to get mixed up... I'm having a hard time trying to say what I actually think lol...whatever. I also don't want people to just copy my pictures and spread it all over the internet because in the end these are MY pictures that I put a lot of effort into. So I guess to those of you who have a strong inclination to take my pictures, please at least link it back to my blog. Hopefully I can trust you guys. I mean I doubt anyone would even want to take my amateur pictures, but for precautionary measures I just wanna put it out there. ... I don't really know what I'm trying to write here lolol... I'm just going with the flow. Because I tend to feel more lively at night, I wanted to be a good, productive girl (because I haven't been at all lately) so I decided to start my college application process. YES the infamous college apps. I can't believe I'm that old already... never thought this day would come. I honestly don't even know how this thing works. It's super overwhelming. Since it is late at night I didn't wanna go all overboard and complete like all the sections of the application, I thought it would be a good idea to just start off by making the accounts for each college I want to apply to. Of course, life, being its usual self, can't go according to plan. I was able to make an account for UF without any trouble. But then I got to UCLA, or more specifically UC applications. I was halfway through with making the account and I got to the section that told me to check which semester I was applying for. Fall 2013 wasn't on there... After freakin out a bit, I decided to do some research like a sane person. Found out that the apps for fall 2013 don't open up until like October... This frustrated me because I just made a freakin account for Spring 2013... I'm still going to be in high school spring of 2013... So I emailed the uc admissions people. Obviously because it's past midnight they wouldn't reply till morning, meaning my panic attack won't go away until I get some kind of reassurance from them saying that they will delete the account. I mean what is up with that ... counselors tell me to start applying for college during the summer. So here I am trying to be productive, only to find out that colleges actually have "opening days" for the application. -____- To my knowledge, most of the college websites I looked at has only one huge button that says APPLY NOW and so it's easy to start applying, but all the important details (such as opening dates) are basically hidden. The thought of that just makes me paranoid because how am I supposed to apply correctly when I don't know what's going on. That is why I stopped making the accounts for other colleges because I am too scared to go further. My deepest concern: what if I mess up?... I want this to be perfect because this is a huge deal. If anyone is actually reading this and knows when the common app is "open" for fall 2013...can you tell me?
I think I'm done rambling. I don't really know what else to say. I'm kind of brain dead at this point. The time is now 3:09 AM. I should sleep. Am I going to? I think not. Goodbye folks.(<-- why did I say folks..) P.S. I doubt anyone made it this far, but if you did, please comment below. I will definitely gain some respect for you. I know that if it was me and I was browsing through some random person's blog, if a post is this long I wouldn't even bother reading it. Anyways if you read all of this, comment below! :)
My awesome friend, Melanie, bought me this Monet book from the Louvre. She knows how much I love Monet so this is a perfect gift. It's all in French though... I don't know French. Who cares? Anything in French is cool!
Yesterday Melanie slept over and we filmed our Summer Trends video. In the afternoon it was bright and super sunny but then it started to rain... YAY for Florida's bipolar weather! -_- Luckily the rain stopped right around sunset, letting us film our floral outfits in a gorgeous setting!
At night after our long editing process was over we attempted to do a rice flour/honey/green tea mask as a little reward. The mask didn't look pretty but really... what mask is? It managed to make our skins really soft though. This morning I realized a lot of my breakouts were gone so I'm considering doing masks weekly.
In fact, I've been thinking about starting to get into skincare routines. After watching tons of youtube videos on skincare, I realized that the reason for my acne is probably because I don't take care of my face (and obviously the teenage hormones). I always thought that washing the face day and night was all anyone really needed and that people who were skincare obsessed were just being superfluous. Silly me.
Anyways if you haven't already seen our Summer Trends video here it is....
And if you've never heard of Melanie and you wanna know more about her (or you just wanna stalk her) ... here is her personal blog. http://lovelyautumnflower.blogspot.com/
This is the particular photograph that I was instantly drawn to while randomly flipping through some magazine.
I was browsing through the magazines in Target today with my boyfriend just to kill time and I stumbled upon a beautiful photograph in either Vogue or Harper's Bazaar magazine by Nicholas Mendise. It was apparently the winning photograph for the 2011 Hearst 8x10 Photography Biennial, which is a huge contest for the photography community as the winners are chosen by world famous photographers, editors, art directors, and museum curators. (so yeah it's kind of a big deal contest) Not only that, but the winner's works will be "published and included in the Hearst 8x10 Photography Biennial show." I didn't have time to look over the entire article but I managed take a quick iphone picture of that particular page just to obtain the picture and his name. When I got home I searched him on google and found his official website ( http://nicholasmendise.com/ ). His pictures are so lovely. Definitely check out his website for more!
