Twelve Days of Christmas

Twelve Days of Christmas

I really wanted to do a project based off of something to pull inspiration from so I think with the holidays and everything using the twelve days of christmas would be a perfect start.

The twelve days of christmas start on either Christmas day or the day after the 26th, and goes for 12 days until Epiphany (or three kings day) on the 5th or 6th. I've decided I'm going to try to do outfits inspired by each day and post them on the corresponding days.

I'd love for more people to get involved. You don't have to do everyday but if you have an awesome idea for 5 golden rings or 12 drummers drumming then take a picture and tell me about your blog post or send me the picture, and I'll also post yours. So what do you think? Sounds fun? I think it'll also be good because I know I will be spotty with posting at the holidays but this way I will have photos for you!

Here are the dates:
Dec 26th - A partrigde in a pear tree
Dec 27th - 2 turtle doves
Dec 28th - 3 french hens
Dec 29th - 4 calling birds
Dec 30th - 5 gold rings
Dec 31st - 6 geese a laying
Jan 1st - 7 swans a swimming
Jan 2nd - 8 maids a milking
Jan 3rd - 9 ladies dancing
Jan 4th - 10 lords a leaping
Jan 5th - 11 pipers piping
Jan 6th - 12 drummers drumming

Here's wikipedia with a little info on the 12 days of christmas, and the twelfth night that I found interesting. > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelve_Days_of_Christmas

I hope you join me :)

Huggles,
Lauren

Computers Hate Me

Computers Hate Me

So the other night I was working late at work and Kevin came by to keep me company. So we took goofy pictures around the gallery and of an outfit I really liked. Well I came into work this morning put the memory card into my computer and nothing. All the pictures we took yesterday, plus pictures of artwork I took during the work day were gone. Vanished. And on top of that my computer is acting up because it doesn't have enough memory. But see my portable hard drive failed so I can't use that, and my disk burner won't burn disks. Which that was what I took my computer in for and they said they burned disks with no problems. So I'm in a catch 22 with my comp, it won't run right because the hard drive is almost full, but I can't burn disks to free space up... grrr.

On top of that I don't know if I mentioned it but Kevin's computer got fried from a power surge we had a couple weeks ago. So we are in the dark ages.

So instead of an outfit I'm posting some inspiration for weddings, since I'm newly engaged. We haven't decided on when yet but it's always fun to gather things.

Dream Dress
Well I'm not going to show my actual dream dress cause someone looks at this blog too much :) But here are some things I love, and are WAY too expensive.

Another thing, I tried on my grandma's and my mom's wedding dresses, and boy was a depressed about it. See they were both pear shaped, small shoulders and big butts, but if you've noticed I have very large shoulders. Kevin says they are swimmers shoulders. And when trying on their dresses my thought was confirmed, my rib cage is about 5inched bigger then my grandma's and 3 inches bigger then my mom's, this is the case with most all vintage I try on. I have found that I'm probably going to have to go with a low back, which is fine cause I love them... But yeah my shoulders and rib cage can't fit into most cuts... grrr. Why must things be made for petite shoulders? Oh well onward.









Of course I love love Vera Wang, she knows how to manipulate fabric so well... And I love the ivy crowns they have, that is a def for me. I want to be like Titania from a Midsummers Night Dream, hehe.. I'm totally growing out my bangs too, cause I want long fairy hair :)

So I've been scouring OnceWed.com and theKnot.com to get ideas for dresses and prices... Any other places I should look?

Ring Pillow
You may not know this but I'm pretty crafty. So I'm probably going to make a lot of my things, mainly the ring pillow. I've made them before and will probably be making them and selling them on etsy soon. Here's one I did for a friends wedding. We used scraps of fabric that matched her wedding party then I made little roses out of felt. What do you think?


If you know anyone getting married I can do commissions of ring pillows too! I need to earn some more wedding money, haha!

Huggles,
Lauren

I want, I inspire.

I want, I inspire.

This is going to be a pretty straight forward post. These are things I want and gather inspiration from. Both art and fashion.

Diane Kruger

I think she is the prettiest actress, and of course we both have sharp features and are blonds so I really want to pull from her look and style. I don't look like the angelic, round faced, bright eyed big lipped girls in hollywood, so I shouldn't pull inspiration from them... and I don't do the messy look well, I look best pulled together. I think it's the same for her.
And come on she rides her bike, kudos. Now if only I had that body :)

Oh my I love that purple color!

I actually think I have everything for an outfit inspired by this. Just maybe won't expose my midriff.

Those pants! That bow! The hair! It's heaven!

le sigh... girl crush.

Now onto art

John Currin

I love is work, its perfect mixing traditional oil painting with a more illustrative, modern twist. droool.

Misc. Art

Andrew Hem, I think that kinda looks like me.

From the I think '82 Paris Fashion Week, we actually have this at the art gallery.

One of my favorite modern painters process, Charles Gomila

Well that was fun to do an inspire post.... maybe again. :)