Nail Polish of the Week: Lacquered Up

This week I wanted to stay away from the blues. In my quest to find the right shade, I have just been wearing blue tones for weeks. Over the weekend I had Sinful Color's Gorgeous. Its a metallic sometimes blue sometimes green color.

But I changed it up Sunday night. I wanted to put on KnockOut this bright red color... the perfect red, from 17 by Boots. I got it when I went to England in high school. Sadly it was all clumpy and I just couldn't use it. 

So I settled for Essie's Lacquered Up. It is a great candy apple red color, but not as awesome as the red in Knockout, I so wish I had asked my friends to get another bottle for me when they were in England a few months ago. 

The pictures shows more orange that it really is. 

Anyways, this week seems to be very busy. I am working almost every night, and I have a special interview Thursday which I will tell you all about later. Its gearing up for a busy week, but I have some updates planned so hopefully I can stick to it. There might even be an outfit post this week. 

Queen Bee

I hate bugs, but for some reason I don't mind them when it comes to jewelry. Especially if it's  a bumble bee...

Necklace- Topshop, Mirror-Vintage

Is it the fact that bees are the epitome of my favorite color combination, black and yellow? Or maybe the vintage feel of items containing them... Whatever it is bugs and bees seem to be okay for jewelry, even my wall gets some of the love. I have two bee illustrations in frames hanging above my dresser.

Crazy studying and work have been on the agenda all week. Leaving little time for postings... hence the short and sweet little post to display one of my favorite pieces of jewelry. I have my first test this semester, tomorrow for my Product Development class, I am so unsure about what we will be tested on. I'm super nervous but hopefully everything will go smoothly.

Shrouds of Muslin

Today I draped for the first time. We draped the front of the bodice to our dress forms today.  Betty, my dress form, was lookin' special.  I so wish I had a picture of me doing this and getting all frustrated when I didn't get it correct the first time. My biggest problem was that my muslin wasn't grain perfect when I started, so there was a point when I had to take everything down and just realign the grain to fix it.

This is similar to Betty, but not her.

It is slow going now, I cannot wait for the day when making a pattern becomes more second nature and quicker.

Nail Polish of the Week: Flyin' High and Zebra toes

I have been crazy about teal lately, first I bought two new pairs of earrings, both teal, at Francesca's.

Then I painted my nails China Glaze's Flyin' High. It was my first time using China Glaze and I did like it. Its on par with OPI and Essie, I just didn't like the brush very much. Loved the color though, it is very similar to my bedroom wall color.

But then I went a little wilder and painted my toes Zebra, which earned me some compliments and some people asking how much I paid for it... free I did it myself!

It's so odd to take a picture of your own feet to put up on your blog, just saying.  But this weekend was okay, it was mainly spent working. I worked this morning then went to the outlets in the afternoon. I tried on some boots at Nine West, but didn't buy anything. Hopefully I can go shopping this week and find myself a new pair of boots!

How was your weekend?

I'm Sorry, Do You Have an Issue?

In class the other day we spent at least 2 hours talking about fit, and how to go about tweaking a pattern to compensate for fit issues...

Set wrinkles, from the shirt fitting a little too tightly.

Well now all I can think about is what sort of fit issue people are having. I was reading a blog (I won't say which) but she had all sorts of fit issues going on with her top. I know I have fit issues, hell everyone has them. But its all i can think about now. I look at clothes and just see the set wrinkles pointing out these issues!