Want

You know those articles of clothing you see that you just have to have?

Well these are mine.



Joe's Brenda V wedge in nude leather




American Apparel 3-D flower mesh jumper




They are my to die for items right now.. my paycheck needs to come sooner!!

Score 1 for me

So I finally did it.

One of my many tasks I laid out for myself, I mean. I went to Houma to visit my good friend Ian Haydel's grave. It was an odd experience, and I don't have much to say about it. It was different than I expected, but not in a bad way. I don't think there is much to say about grave visiting, really. I do dearly miss him, but on goes my life.

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This weeks Inspiration

The always lovely Olsen Twins
AND
my beautiful friend from Savannah College of Art and Design Summer Seminars (who should be a model) Samantha Burns.

ENJOY!

It'll Be Alright

I come to you from the mind of a newly changed teenager.

During the months of my absence I got myself into a lot of trouble; let's just say I made two MAJOR mistakes. I will put it this way, it had to do with a lie, loss of friends, gain of true ones, and the challenges that came my way.

I've waited to post because I felt that I never had anything meaningful to say. If I am going to say something, it better be worth while, right? So today, at 10 at night, it has hit me: I need to share what I have learned and how it is changing me.

a) Everyone makes mistakes. Whether you hear about them or know about them or not, everyone does it. It's one exception to the rule where you can have a vaild reason of "everyones doing it." I just happpened to make two big ones one after the other.

b) True friends will stick with you, through thick and thin, they won't feed you to the sharks for making a mistake, no matter how stupid, wrong, or unjust it may be..

c) Be yourself. No matter who is telling you what to be, you should know better.You can't sit there, waiting for someone to come and set you free to be yourself, but that is not the case, you have to want it. You have to break free because it is what YOU want. You won't get anywhere in life if you are faking it. Sure, you may get far, but you won't get where you initally want to be by taking the easy way out and faking who you are.

d) Love yourself. I can't stress this enough; If you don't love yourself you can't do much of anything in your life.You need to do what is good for YOU, take some time for YOU, do what YOU want to do. I think this is the most important lesson I learned, and it brings me to so many other things; things I need to do for myself.

1. I love fashion yet I've put it on the backburner along with plenty of other things recently. At least once a week I will post an outfit or look for my lookbook, no matter how camera shy I may be.
2. The same with art... backburner, bring it back to the surface, yeah yeah yeah... at least once a week I want to post someone new I've done pertaining to art.
3. My best friend Ian Haydel died recently, and I haven't brought myself to visiting his grave, something I need to do soon.


I know what you, the reader, are thinking right now, about how you hear this all the time from plenty of people and books and on tv, but it never sticks with you until it happens to you. I've heard all these things before and not until I was missing them did I notice how much they are needed in a human life.

Checklist of things to be looking for:
1. Art posts/ updates
2. Fashion posts/ updates
3. A trip to the Houma cemetery
4. Becoming more myself-- lessons I learn along the way

So what are you supposed to do, reader? How are you supposed to be a part of my life? By keeping me on track and watching how I evolve into who I should be and who I am creating myself to be, and hopefully it can somehow translate into helping you be a better self in your own life. Help me help you =]

P.S. My newest peice of artwork, of the always lovely Emily Campbell.

Dreaming Big vs. Reality

There is good news and bad news.

The good news is, this summer I am attending the Parsons Summer Seminars!! It is my dream to attend Parsons for college, and this program gives me a taste of what life would be like if I went there. Notice how I used the words "would be"?

And that brings on the bad news.

As my mother was telling me that she had singed me up, adding how hard financially it was to do so, she just happened to mention that she will not send me to Parsons for college. Smooth way of bringing that up, Mom. It is not that she doesn't want me to go to college there, it is that we cannot afford it, and my family refuses to do student loans. So what happens? Not only did they FAIL to bring up the topic smoothly (remember how I said it was my first choice?) but they asked me to consider UNO, which is a small (crappy) college here in New Orleans. Do my dreams mean nothing to them? I tried to bring it up and they kept shooting me down, and they didn't even do it nicely. It was like they were saying "Hey, we are sending you to the summer program but you're not going there so don't get your hopes up (imagine a very casual, non-chalant attitude)." Thanks for being supportive, you guys.


So now it's the classic case of dreams vs. reality; what is a girl to do?
Lets break it down:

Dreams: To go to Parsons and to study fashion design.
Reality: My parents won't pay for it.

I started saving money not too long ago, but not the type of money I need.


What does a girl do in such a situation? Follow her dreams or edit them to make everyone else happy?
p.s. I'm going to visit my friend Emily next week; that may be the best thing for me right now. I CAN'T WAIT!!!

Backburner

I figured if I waited to blog, I would have something interesting to say.
This is not the case.

I've been talking a lot about how my educational part of my life has taken over, well, most of the rest of my life. Tis true, and I don't think it will receded back into it's respective part. I've been looking at my fashion sketches, wondering if they are good enough for Parsons, and if I really will accomplish my dream. I've been a little down on myself about it; wondering if this can become my reality.







Unfortunatley, I had to drop Honors Art for this year; my class sechedule was too full and I had literally, zero breakage time.

I am NOT dealing so well with this, so I think I am going to squeeze and pry my way back into the class for the next semester; who cares if I have too much work, I need to fit it. Art is what I want to do with my life and it has been on the backburner for too long now.

Any ideas on how to balance my life? Fashion Ideas? You name it.

I'll be at Voodoo Fest all weekend, a music fest here in New Orleans.

Have a fantastic Halloween weekend!
xoxo, A.