Halloween Past

Since Halloween is only 10 days away, I thought I'd show some of my costumes from past Halloweens.
2004



My boyfriend and I decided to dress up as Britney Spears and K-Fed.My outfit was pretty simple: white tank top, cut off shorts, flip flops (because I didn't want to go barefoot), a Kabbalah bracelet (not the glow stick bracelet, the other one haha) pepsi, Marlboro lights, and some cheetos.2005My friend Emily and I dressed up as flight attendants. We got $10 for winning first place in our cosmetology school costume contest. Emily put me to shame, she wore the costume so well... I'm sad I don't have picture of the whole thing.
2006
My sister's halloween party was pirate themed, so we all dressed up like pirates. I think my favorite part of the costume was the black wig, I could get away with wearing so much makeup!
2007
I had to work this halloween so I decided to go as Indiana Jones. It was great because not only do I love Indiana Jones, but I didn't have to buy a single thing for my costume. I made it from things I already had. I wore my old work pants, old navy button up safari shirt, my brother's leather fedora and I wore my dad's binocular case so I could carry necessities.
2008

Last year was probably one of my favorite costumes eeeever! I went as Melanie Daniels from Hitchcock's The Birds. I wanted to be this ever since the year before when I watched the movie on Halloween, and was trying to think of the best way to make the costume myself when I actually came across the costume for sale! It's one of the few costumes I've actually bought, but I think it was a good investment. It was a really great conversation starter while I was at work, too. Some people got it right away and some people looked at me like I was crazy.But my favorite costume of ALL TIME was this:I dressed up as grapes when I was 6. It was my mom's idea. I already owned the purple leotard and tights, my mom sewed together the stem hat and we blew up balloons and pinned them all over. Completely homemade, and completely awesome. Come to think of it, my mom made pretty much every one of my costumes growing up:BallerinaAn angel. Look at those tin foil wings and halo! haha and look at me looking adoringly at my sister.Other homemade costumes included Miss America and a bride, but I'm too lazy to scan the pictures haha. Halloween is probably one of my favorite holidays, if not my favorite because you get to be whatever you want. Sometimes I wish I could dress in a costume everyday, but I guess that would get old after awhile, so I'll just take advantage of dressing up once a year. I'm excited for this year's costume. I'm going to be (drum roll, please)..............AMELIA EARHART!I already had everything in my closet... I only had to buy two things: the helmet and goggles, because I didn't just have those lying around, obviously. I can't wait to dress up and show you guys! What are you guys dressing up as?!

Trying out mixed prints

I was actually wearing this top when I originally tried on and bought this skirt, so I guess you could say it was love at first sight in the dressing room mirror.

Top: Ross
Skirt: H&M
Sweater: LC for Kohls
Sandals: Forever21

Cutdrop

Today marks the launch of the brand new site Cutdrop! Cutdrop is a website that features different designer and brand name clothes every week at discount prices. And the best part? Part of the proceeds go to a charity of the designers choice! This week they're featuring Seneca Rising and proceeds will go to Fashion Targets Breast Cancer. I'm currently swooning over the Perk Skirt!




Upcoming sales include:
October 26th
Lorick x The Pink Agenda
November 2nd
Grey Ant x Bark Avenue Foundation
November 9th
Society Of Rational Dress x Los Angeles Children's Hospital
November 16th
House Of Cassette x Surfriders Foundation
November 30th
Betsey Johnson

Go check it out!

Clouds, oh clouds

1. God's Holga rays... From Mexico..., 2. X'(, 3. takemehome, 4. Freedom, 5. YIP September 4, 2009 (friday night... clouds), 6. clouds will clear, 7. Sunset, 8. what a cloud., 9. SF Sea of Clouds, 10. Untitled, 11. Wild and wonderful., 12. glorious trees, 13. Sunny Side Up14. Not available15. Not available16. Not available

I'm not sure what it is about big white puffy clouds that I love so much, but flying through them or high above them... or heck, even looking at them from the ground makes me ridiculously happy.

Sequin beret gone terribly wrong

After watching recent episodes of The Rachel Zoe Project, I pretty much fell in love with her sequin berets and thought what a fun accessory to have in your wardrobe!



I looked around at a couple of websites and nobody really had what I was looking for as far as color, style and price so I thought I'd try my luck on ebay. And what do you know! I found one that looked like it would be perfect! When the package arrived I was so excited... until I pulled out THIS:


ahahahaha I DIE. but not in a good way. and just imagine how I felt when I realized that the seller has a NO RETURN OR EXCHANGE policy! I cannot believe I actually paid money for this! What am I going to do with it? I can't re-sell it on ebay, nobody would buy it! It's like a bedazzled Swedish Chef hat!



I'm wearing it right now, and I think I should make it into my blogging beret... kind of like a thinking cap. I honestly don't know what else to do but have a sense of humor about it because it's so ridiculous and if I actually think about wasting my ebay gift card on this, I would surely cry from regret and embarrassment. Does anyone know of a place or website that sells cute and reasonably priced sequin berets? Is it even considered a beret? Maybe that's what got me into this mess in the first place. oy vey. help.

Stragglers

It's so rainy and gloomy here, and believe it or not I'm sick AGAIN so all I want to do is wrap up in my snuggie (yes, I'm in a snuggie) on the couch and do nothing. But I did find some pictures from Texas that I didn't post (are you tired of my Texas posts yet? haha)
























from the Junk Gypsy booth.

The End of the Road

yes, this is pretty much the same outfit I wore on the first day we were there (minus the top) but I figured that if I was going to be sitting in the backseat of a car for 5 hours I was going to wear something comfortable!

Top: Fossil
Jeans: Kohls
Shoes: Ross















This was our last day in Chappell Hill... and the town was so quaint and decorated with all these scarecrows downtown. We spent 5 hours driving to my sister's house outside of Corpus Christi, and while driving we got caught in the worst storm my little California-self has ever been in. It was raining so hard that we couldn't see anything in front of us, I honestly thought we were driving right into a tornado. Thankfully we got out of it and arrived at my sister's house safely. We only got to spend a night at my sister's before we flew home, but I wish we could have stayed longer.


Dolly and Dallas watched us leave through the window. Poor pooches, I miss them :(

and just for fun my sister and I saw these shirts during a trip to Walmart and thought they were too good to pass up. The sad part is that I actually think she would trade me for candy.


and speaking of my sister, you should go check out her blog for stuff about the trip I didn't post like the zapp hall show and our trip to the Bluebell factory and The Junk Gyspy Prom.