KNEES AND TOES, KNEES AND TOES

90's shorts + 60's Grateful Dead tee = summer

it's that simple

As much as I like them for their music (which in all honesty, I wasn't that familiar with till I bought the t-shirt, I confess, I'm a poser!) the artwork for their posters and albums is so rad! I'm pretty sure the artwork on this t-shirt is a poster, it's signed

'66 Bindweed Press, San Francisco

I'm thinking a fuller post of some more 60's/70's psychedelic artwork is due soon...

anyways...

P.S. For everyone that cares out their (I.E. MOTHER) I got my haircut really short. I had a bit of a nervous breakdown after a very unsuccessful "trim" at the hairdressers, it was more of a hack. So I just chopped it all off, aren't I such a wild/crazy/hormonal teenager? Don't answer that... Anyways, it was quite a while ago, like three months, I just haven't blogged for a while oooops. SOZBABEZZZ.

DREAMING OF ANOTHER GIRL WORLD

The new Mystery Jets album (Serotonin) is, ozzley, AMAZEBALLS. As cliched as it is, they really do just get better and better as they go on. Their new music video, is fittingly also AMAZEBALLS (I was bribed to write that word as many times as possible, swear).

And a song as sweet as this one necessitates an equal match for its music vid. Anyways, I'll stop fangirlin' now, and let the screenshots speak for themselves yo'

So basically the model is a B-A-B-E, but besides that, the video is actually really interesting, make of it what you will. I just loved the little details like playing suitcases as drums, and the Bonnie + Clyde-esque feeling when they're playing with their breakfast.

mmmmm nom nom.

I'll leave you with the video, just seemed like a kind thing to do, you know?

BACKLOG MEGAMIXXX

Apologies for being a bad, bad, bad, blogger, and not being very, um... punctual? Anyways, I've developed this insane backlog of vain little photo-booth sessionz that I had planned to share with you on separate blogging occasions, but because I am such a shit/smelly/inconsistent blogger, I am presenting them to you in this super-amazing-mind-blowing MEGAMIXXX Y'ALL...

//FIRSTLY//

Thanks to a Christmas money fueled Wallmart shop, I made my own necklace. Just bought a packet of coloured feathers and hot glued them to a piece of black felt, then glued them to a spare chain I had. Pretty sweet, non? It reminds me of like Zelda or something. Anyways, I let my sister wear it out to dinner, and I wore it the next day, so by now like literally all the feathers except the two orange ones have broken in half. What a bummer, so easy to just keep replacing them though...

//SECONDLY//

I'm confused, blatantly.

Got a new red lipstick, this one is super bright, so I think I'll be wearing this more in the day than my other deeper red one. It's from the new Maybelline line of the pigment stuff, I bought the matching lip liner as well, just cos I'd never used liner before and I wanted to see if it made a difference. The only difference it does is making me feel like a Mexican Lolita before I put the lipstick on!

I also went into this hippie store the other day, came out with this sweet 'healing' necklace, I just got it because it's cool quartzite, I think you can just see it in the first pictue. I don't really believe in the 'powers' or whatevssss, but here's what it says on the back anyway, and I quote...

"This stone has strong mystical powers of healing and is excellent for unblocking negative energy. A deep soul cleanser, energy amplifier, enhancing physic abilities (yada yadaaa)

Use this gemstone as it has been used in ages past to aid you in focusing on your dreams and goals"

Oh Lolza.

//THIRDLY//

Went to see Avatar in 3d today, it was pretty sweet, although the two guys in-front of us smelled SO badly of weed! My mum even said, "Does someone smell skunk?", like literally meaning the animal, no slang, just a small critter, it was funny at the time... anyways, just wanted a chance to show off my new Docs, although it isn't great quality, I was wearing these white socks poking up above them as well. I think the next picture is a bit Lady Gagz remeniscent, no? The crotch shot TOTES is, wot? wot?

//LASTLY//

New year's resolution, you ask?

Trying to learn to do my eye make-up like this babe at chicheroin

DREE

beaut.

It's Ms. Hemingway's fault that i'm seriously considering the dip-dyed-hair

and sunglasses-over-fringe look.

A POOR MAN'S COMBAT

Literally just ordered some new shoes off forever21, mon oncle treated, well, it is Christmas after all! I'm pretty excited, they're just like a knock off of the a/w 10 burberry prorsum boots with like a full ankle brace and all, ha!

I actually want to take a moment to just worship burberry shoes for a minute. They're actually always so good, looking back on them, I think it's just the styling that really makes them so good, season after season, no matter what shoe, the shoes are without fail, styled with thick, chunky, socks.

Can't wait for my shoezzz to arrive now, I'll be stocking up on some nice thick socks to wear them with from Target right after I drool all over the Rodarte for Target collection (I die, right?) anyways... spot the fake...

In other news, I've obsessively started knitting in the past... let me check... um, 24 hours...? I've been doing some research trying to find a good enough pattern for a cape/poncho, and even bought one on the internet for some er, market research? Anywho...

Hopefully by the end of my Christmas holidays I'll develop some mad knitting skillz, and eventually be able to knit this cape, like, walking uphill, upside down, and asleep, duh.

BERRY LIPS AND NARROW HIPS

This cut-out from a magazine has been on my wall for a few weeks now. It's Rachel Weisz at the MET gala last year.

Firstly: (heh heh) she's wearing this amaaaaaaazing Vera Wang gown, you can see the tiny flash of yellow that's underneath it, it's got this amazing bodice back to it as well.

And Secondly: Her lips are amazing! So being the unoriginal person I am, this inspired me to go search for a brownish-red lip stain, sounds gross in theory, but it worked out, believe me...

oh the joys of Photobooth...

I found a really nice kind of waxy Mabeylline lipstick, guess what it's called, that's right... "crazy plum" hollah! There's something I really like about tacky names for colours, they make me really happy or something.

for example dear friends: One of my friends has red hair, so we matched her hair colour to a paint swatch (a la Henry Holland, no?) so now whenever we refer to her hair we must call it "Autumnal Fiery Sunset" pretty sweet, jah?

Just to prove my point...

House of Holland A/W 09

Q.E.D.

SLASH ME SLAYER

I watched the original 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' over summer, and I don't know why, but it's stuck in my head for ages. Not like it's that an inspirational of a movie.... anyways, here's the sitch....

Went shopping today and managed to somehow restrain myself to only buying in the sale section (good job Tara, good job). anyways, went wearing my Weekdays top, which I'm guessing only has a life time of about one more month considering that I live in it at the moment, and my mom shorts (only 2 dollah at the goodwill, sometimes life is soooo sweet...)

dunno why I thought this would be a good pose...

So basically, the achievement of the day was this sweet trompe l'oeil top from Urban Outfitters. When you wear it, it doesn't look that trick of the eye-y, but still a pretty cool print.

It's got these amazing bat wing sleeves as well, you can see the light come through.

I feel very Swedish when I wear it, and believe me friends, feeling Swedish is a good thing...

Trying and FAILing to keep up this whole "i'm flexible" theme...

I wore this necklace I made/collected over the summer. It's a bunch of ring-pulls on a chain. Sounds wierd, but when they're all grouped together it looks pretty sweet, if I may so myself... I may. and I do.

Bought some random stuff too. A bracelet, plain crop top, sunglasses (even though it's going into like October.. ooops...) Almost bought a pair of wanna-be Doc Martens in H & M as well, resisted though. I SRSLY need to get some Doc Martens soon, before I die/implode/cry/become-a-mongoose etc.

P.S. sozzz for the shortage on posts guys, I know I get really annoyed when the blogs I follow kinda randomly slow down. Not to be an excuse-maker, but me excuse is.... haha.... I live in school so there's no internet (it hurts, believe me...). I'll promise I'll make it up to you though, I'll send you a virtual cake, no, a virtual horse on FarmVille, better yet, I'll join your Mafia, no? fine then....

slayters. x.