Black and Yellow

Subtitled: "Or Variations of Black and Yellow and When I Mean Yellow I Mean Gold

In This Issue:
1. Shoes by Bobsmade
2. Rachel-Marie I.
3. Fashion scans

4. Impromptu post is impromptu. Celebrating my school's success before it comes crashing down... Don't really care for basketball, though. And I still think that the names for VA suck. I mean, whose afraid of rams? Okay, so they can cause serious damage, like in the gum commercial. And at least the rams sounds better than the spiders... even though I am afraid of spiders.

The Birds

In this issue:
1. runway photos from style.com
2. still from "The Birds" (duh)
3. Tippi H.
4. a Barbie from the past
5. vomit from Pollock

6. Is testing to see if this post will show up hours after it had been typed.

7. Anyways, I've been meaning to write about Bottega
Veneta's FRTW collection for some time. But I can be lazy
at times and for some reason kept putting it off.
I decided to check out BV because of a few ads I saw in
Vogue (and Glamour, I think). My favorite featured this
beautiful apron-like dress the color of lemons... Okay,
not lemons, maybe mustard? Ah, who cares, it's one of the
above images (by the way, the image quality for the scans
are low because I don't want to take up space; their five
times bigger on my computer). Isn't it cute? It's the type
of dress that I would want to wear everywhere; to work,
school, the beach, a funeral.

The review on style mentioned a Hitchcock vibe and they're
absolutely right (at least the first part). Tights,
tweed, knitted sweaters, and that sculpted but wispy
hair. I started thinking of vintage Barbie for some
reason. The colors were awesome; hot pink, orange, some
purple-ish colors. There were some blacks and grays and
lace (?). Ah! I need to learn more about the different
fabrics. I just know jersey and cotton. I especially loved
the latter part of the collection where it looked more of
lace layered on different colors. Made me think of
Pollock, hence the painting.

If I ever land a job, and after taking care of bills, I
would buy one thing from Bottega Veneta (and it'd
probably be that lemon-colored dress).
The above were just some of my favs, the rest can be seen
on style.com.

8. text alignment is a bit off 'cause I copied and pasted from my notepad. Will try Word next time.

9. Also need to figure out how to keep the images the same size that I have them on my computer... I usually load them up being 400 pixels wide (the height doesn't matter)

10. Testing is a failure... but figured out how to save posts as drafts

Play It Beautifully

Finished reading If I Stay by Gayle Forman awhile ago. I loved it for several reasons, one being the length of the book- it's so thin! Yet it took me a few weeks to finish... But that was mostly because I wasn't in the mood for reading. Another reason why I loved the book was the protagonist's, Mia, parents. For a YA book, they were actually likable. And Mia loved hanging around them and her younger brother Teddy. Sure I thought her parents were a little too hipster-y, but I still cared about them. I also loved the fact that Mia, though not that popular, wasn't a suicidal loner either.
Her lovable and surprisingly three dimensional parents are the whole point of the novel. Mia, a cellist, is the sole survivor of a car crash that kills her parents and brother. Mia is left comatose, experiencing everything in an outer body experience. She watches the doctors and nurses try to save her, watches her family and friends try to stay strong around her. I loved the way the novel wove the story from past to present. We see Mia meeting Adam, a guitarist for an on-their-way-to-fame band. We see Mia's first encounter with a cello, her brother's birth. Ultimately, Mia realizes that she has a choice (hence the title) and it's a difficult one to choose.
Apparently there's a sequel which kind of turns me off.

In This Issue:
1. a book cover
2. Alphonse Mucha poster
3. Pantene commercial from youtube
4. a girl with a red cello case
5. "Whisper of the Heart"
6. Anjelica L. and her headphones from lookbook.nu
7. Beck: Mongolian Chop Squad
8. Nicoletta R. and her violin purse from lookbook.nu
9. Marius S. and his guitar from lookbook.nu
10. "The Place Promised in Our Early Days"