Happy Valentine's Day!

Hope everyone is having a lovely day of loving love thusfar. Andrew and I are going to Cinetopia for dinner and a movie. It's a fancy smancy theater with a restaurant, wine bar, and the comfiest theater couches ever. They'll even serve you drinks and food while you watch the movie!

Also, I got a Valentine's Day present for you, internet! For today and tomorrow, you can get 50% off your whole order from my etsy shop. Just use HEYVALENTINE as the coupon code at checkout. Happy Valentine's Day!

Outfit- Birthday!

dress: Guess, thrifted
cardigan: Fossil, thrifted
tights: Hot Topic
belt: ebay
shoes: Plato’s Closet
necklace: handmade by me

Yesterday was my 23rd birthday! It was a lovely day, one of my best birthdays in recent years! I made a crazy delicious Chocolate Stout Cake with Raspberry Liqueur frosting and raspberries on top. I had some of my wonderful friends over for a party, which included multiple rousing games of Apples to Apples and an all out Nerf Gun war.

I’m in love with my birthday dress. I picked it up last week when Stacey and I did some thrift store shopping. After I found this dress, Stacey ended up finding a pastel pink lace dress from the 1950’s! We plan on dressing up together sometime this week for a fancy smancy night on the town.

The tights I’m wearing are pretty fun ones. They make it look like I have jewelry-style garters tattooed above my knee. I picked them up for a dollar on Hot Topic’s clearance rack. Sadly, they’re pretty
cheaply made, and they were already getting holes and runs in them by the end of the night, so I probably won’t be wearing them again. Good thing they were just a dollar!

Also. My lovely boyfriend, Andrew, took pictures with me. Check out his snazziness!
It was hard to get pictures of us together, since this kept happening:

Oh dear.  That’s what I get for purchasing him weapons as Christmas presents. tsk, tsk.

Outfit- In a Galaxy Far, Far Away

flannel shirt: O’Neill, thrifted
t-shirt: thrifted: Buffalo Exchange
brooch: my shop

So today is the day that Star Wars: Episode 1 premieres in 3D, with the rest of the movies soon to follow. I have some pretty mixed feelings about this. I love Star Wars, but I feel like Lucas has the tendency of bastardizing his own creations in the name of $$$$. Alas, I felt the need to wear my Star Wars shirt today, and I’ll probably end up giving in and going to the theater sometime this week to see some three-dimensional light saber action. (I’ll just cover my eyes whenever Jar Jar Binks makes an appearance. But I digress…

I have a long night of work at the pub ahead of me, so I’m wearing the mandatory collared shirt. I’m rocking a dangly earring in just one ear today, inspired by my best friend, Stacey, and her habit of asymmetrical earwear. Sadly, I cannot wear my Darth Vader mask to work while hitting unsuspecting customers with my lightsaber. I may or may not have been a lady Darth Vader for Halloween one year. I also may or may not have a whole shelf devoted to Star Wars figurines.

Lovely Things

This handmade comic dress
I adore anything with comic print. If I had an extra two hundred bucks lying around, I would make this dress mine!

This ray gun mug

I’m a sucker for anything with ray guns! Speaking of ray guns…

This amazing handmade ray gun
Check out the tutorial. The maker creates these out of found pieces like vases, metal candlesticks, and door knobs. They then rig them with LED lights! If I had some power tools and the electrical know-how, this would be a super fun project.

 This delicious recipe for Red Velvet Hot Chocolate

These veiny tights
I feel like these might appear odd from far away, like you had a skin disease. I really like the way they look though!

Outfit- Monochrome & Stripes

dress: ebay: Forever 21
cardigan: thrifted: Goodwill
shoes: thrifted
belt: thrifted: Betsey Johnson
necklace: black heart cameo

I’ve been trying to wear my colors lately, but my favorite outfits still tend to be black/white ensembles. I really like keeping every party of my outfit monochrome and sticking to a theme. The shoes I’m wearing are my favorites ever. Mary-Janes with comic pictures and phrases all over! They’re sadly starting to fall apart; I really wish I knew where to get more! I got them at a now-closed gothy second-hand store called Alteration Nation. Oh well!

Clay Mouse

So for my Polymer Clay Workshop this week, we got some more practice sculpting animals, specifically rodents. I definitely still have a lot to learn about sculpting and making creatures out of clay. It’s still hard for me to get the clay to look how I envision it in my head. I really like this little mouse I made though.

This picture above is before baking and painting details.

After baking, sanding & polishing, and painting.  Little fingers and toes are hard to make! I tried to give it a red tongue, but it looks a bit more like lipstick. Oh well!The real rodent in the pictures is my rat, Volta. It’s nearly impossible to get my rats to stop moving long enough to get pictures, so she had to be bribed with wheat thins, as you can see in the picture!

Volta and Tesla! I love these little creatures.

January in Pictures

Here in Northern Oregon, we got our annual two days of light snow.

Found a detachable Peter Pan collar on Ebay, paired it with one of my brooches. I felt a bit like Wednesday Adams all day, which is never a bad thing!

My new favorite snack: homemade caramel and granny smith apples!

Found this awesome flannel shirt at Goodwill. I actually didn’t realize it had text on the back until I was checking out, but it just made the shirt more awesome.

Went to dinner at Interurban, where the menus come in old-school file folders, LCD Soundsystem flows from the turntable, and the food and drinks are crazy/delicious. I had some delicious polenta croquettes and fried pizza, with some yummy whiskey cocktails. A bit on the expensive side for me, but it was a neat experience. 

Found a stripey long-sleeved dress on ebay with black buttons and a Peter Pan collar! Wore it with a black heart cameo.

And I made some lavender homemade icing (this picture doesn’t do the color justice) and made a mini cake with sprinkles. The icing was a bit liquidy, so I’ll have to adjust the recipe a bit next time. Still delicious!

Outfit: fancy faux fur

dress: Forever 21
cardigan: thrifted: Goodwill
tights: Target
shoes: Miss Bisou
necklace: vintage cameo

I love faux fur, especially in black, grey, or odd colors. If this cardigan was light purple with dark purple faux fur, it would be absolutely perfect! I dress up a bit fancy as often as I can, especially when I have days off work. Unless I’m doing a kitchen shift, you’ll almost never see me in pants or jeans. I actually kinda despise blue jeans these days. They feel so uncomfortable compared to my skirts and dresses!

Lovely Things

This adorable locket from The Black Apple on Etsy
I love Emily Martin’s illustrations! She lives here in Portland, and always has a booth at Crafty Wonderland. Check out her blog!

These awesome Lego walls

This would be so much fun. I love playing with legos just as much as I did when I was a kid, maybe more!

These outer space tights 
I wish I knew where to buy these! I have quite a few sci-fi/space t-shirts that these would go perfectly with.

This diy book pendant
Check out the story behind it on Craftster.

This print
I love the typography of this, and the saying itself. As someone who waits tables, I can definitely agree with this.