tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1133377025188017702024-02-20T15:27:20.085-08:00Quote PhotographyThe Mystery of Loving, he lets her go out of love and she returns out of pity.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1412125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-113337702518801770.post-6583400990319452652012-09-29T10:19:00.003-07:002012-09-29T10:19:46.783-07:00Quote Photography The Mystery of Loving<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />1. It's Memorable<br /><br />A good scrapbook quote is easy to remember and has impact. Perhaps your quote is a famous one that is familiar to everyone. They don't even have to read the whole scrapbook quote to know what you intended. Many songs have this quality, and song lyrics are a great way to add flare to your scrapbook. Song lyrics combine the grace of poetry and music, and they are easy to remember. Whatever scrapbook quote you decide to use, make it memorable!<br /><br />2. It's Relevant<br /><br />The scrapbook quotes you select must directly relate to your materials. They should communicate the important message you want to record. They should help even the unfamiliar visitor understand the photo or memento and its importance to your life. Even if the scrapbook quote seems trivial or silly, as long as it's important to you and is relevant to your material, it's the right quote. And unless you want to create an air of mystery, you should avoid overly vague or misleading scrapbook quotes. Give your reader a break!<br /><br />3. It's Brief<br /><br />You don't want to take up too much room with your scrapbook quote, and you want to get your message across quickly. The focus should be on the photo or memento, not the quote. Overly long or flowery quotes can seem pretentious or ingenuine. The scrapbook quote is used to bridge the gap between the object and the memory. It adds information without becoming the memory itself. Look for a scrapbook quote that expresses your meaning as simply as possible.<br /><br />4. It's Meaningful<br /><br />The best scrapbook quotes touch both your brain and your heart. Scrapbooks are created to capture important memories that made a difference to your life. The quotes you use should reflect their importance and enrich your spirit. Whether joyous or sorrowful, your memories represent the things that formed your personality and character. Your scrapbook quotes should be serious without being overly intellectual or brooding, and they should be important to you at a very personal level.</div>
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These are from the small streets of Shimokitazawa in Tokyo. What I wouldn't give to be back exploring those little laneways, started the day in search of a donut shop but instead getting lost and stumbling across sweet cake shops, overpriced vintage clothing stores, and a Mos Burger joint. That first photo looks like a double framed photo, that I honestly can't remember how I took it. So of course, I love it.<br />
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Meet the newest addition on my bookshelf; a very complete resource for references in the minimalist field of fashion. A book that briefly goes through the history of minimalism in art and fashion, and covers all its icons. But also talks about different approaches to minimalist design, it's connections with futurism, realism and functionality. If you´re into this stream in fashion, this book is a real must have. Get it <a href="http://rstyle.me/ezuyu6d36w"><u>HERE</u></a>.<br />
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What I found most interesting and want to share with you guys is the theory behind the opposite approaches that designers have towards function and aesthetics. <br />
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...the fashion theorist Rebecca Arnold suggested "Labels like Donna Karan and Calvin Klein provided the essential wardrobe for those who wished to be viewed as serious and career-minded." These minimal designs and the aesthetics of New York career clothing began to influence the work of avant-garde designers from other fashion industries. While Ladicorbic Zoran, a Yugoslavian immigrant who arrived in the United States in 1971, channeled Halston's work through rigorously basic garments in lavish, if restrained, textiles, Issey Miyake took an interest in the American employ of the working-classfabrics of cotton knit and denim. Miyake ultimately was inspired to look to his own heritage and adapted the quitled sashiko cloths and durable cottons of Japanese laborers' clothes into oversized tops, coats, and loose pants for his lower priced Plantation label. In a 1983 New York Times article, Miyake told June Weir, "I'm working hard on Plantation, my less expensive collection. I see many people wanting comfortable clothes that are easy to care for. So many woman say, 'I'm not interested in fashion. I want clothes that last for years.' I thought that after the T-shirt and the jeans, I could make clothes that are simple, interchangable.... I have only two sizes and half of the styles can be worn by men." When one such ensemble appeared in Vogue in July 1977, the magazine declared, "Issey has the Prototype." <br />
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Since the early 1990s the collections of Martin Margiela, Helmut Lang, Hussein Chalayan, Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons have emphasized simplicity of shape and realistic form, focused of aesthetics over function and employed repetitive structures and serial systems or progressions. The principles materialize in the designers' interpretations of deconstruction fashion, defined by Barbara Vinken as the demonstration of constructedness. In 1993 the New York Times columnist Amy Spindler noted that the origins of the deconstructed entity in the literary critisism of the French philosopher Jacques Derrida and cited the Oxford English Dictionary definition; the act of undoing the construction of a thing. In "Deconstructing Fashion: The Making of Unfinished, Decomposing and Re-Assembing Clothes"(1998), the historian Allison Gill associated the term "deconstruction" in fashion with garments that are unfinished and transparent. Approaching deconstruction through a minimal lens, the moniker encompasses the reduction and exposure of an object's fundamental design in order to highlight construction and rejects the intentional deconstruction or demolition of a garment through tearing or fraying the fabric or pattern or the restructuring of garments through misplaced or reassebled component parts. The garments are unfinished with care for the traditional sewing Techniques.<br />
...Like the minimalists of the 1960s, the deconstructivist designers discussed here have created garments that concentrate on the specifics of form, pattern, and fabric rather than on the garment's essential purpose as body covering. These designs reveal the the various elements and processes of dressmaking and reduce the pattern to its fundamental parts; the subject of each of these designs is the garment itself.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-113337702518801770.post-90275773093898664082012-05-07T19:55:00.003-07:002012-05-07T19:55:52.051-07:00i like you more than pizza<a href="http://i1147.photobucket.com/albums/o546/_lelove_/tumblr_m02pyqpdxd1qkigjto1_500_large.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="http://weheartit.com/entry/24261958" border="0" src="http://i1147.photobucket.com/albums/o546/_lelove_/tumblr_m02pyqpdxd1qkigjto1_500_large.jpg" /></a><br />
ph: <a href="http://weheartit.com/entry/24261958" target="_blank">weheartit</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-113337702518801770.post-49211455471189269342012-05-07T19:55:00.002-07:002012-05-07T19:55:36.488-07:00OUTFITS | Uniform, I don't have that many clothes<img alt="Photobucket" border="0" src="http://i684.photobucket.com/albums/vv201/ive-c/loveaestheticswearingmonday.jpg" /><br />
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Yes, you're right, everything that I'm wearing has already made an appearance(or two) on my blog. The truth is that I don't have that many clothes! And I love the little collection that I've built dearly and wear all my pieces to death.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-113337702518801770.post-87860620886589091442012-05-07T19:55:00.001-07:002012-05-07T19:55:20.629-07:00what heartache was<a href="http://i1147.photobucket.com/albums/o546/_lelove_/hands.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="heart break hands" border="0" src="http://i1147.photobucket.com/albums/o546/_lelove_/hands.jpg" /></a><br />
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i found this many years ago. before i had even met him. before i had even dreamed i would find a man who could take my breath away and make me feel so utterly complete like he did. anyways, back then, before i even knew what heartache was i bookmarked this, pasting it into a document and shortly then forgetting about it. now, three and a half years later, now that i'm counting days (32) we have been apart, instead of days we have been together, i come across this:<br />
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<span style="font-style: italic;">"someone once told me it was comparable to death. to mourn the loss of a loved one. cause really in your life, they are dead. left only with the memories to play over again. i still don’t understand how you’re supposed to stop ever loving someone? to be everything one day and nothing the next. i don’t get it? but i think it was best stated in everwood...<br />
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What you're feeling right now Amy, it doesn't ever really go away -- not completely. It's not like, ya know, you're gonna go back to being the person you were before they died -- the person's gone. It's more like something inside of you breaks and your body finds a way to compensate for it. Like if you busted your right hand, you figure out how to use the left one. And sure, you might resist for awhile because you're pissed off that you have to learn all this stuff again that nobody else does. Eventually your body takes over and figures it out for you. And you’re glad. Because if it was up to you . . . you'd look at your broken hand forever and try to figure out what it was like before"</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"></span>I wrote an article, and it was published on <a href="http://www.lomography.com/magazine/locations/2012/03/07/a-stroll-through-meiji-jingu-japan" target="_blank">Lomography</a>! Yay! It's about my trip to Meiji Jingu in Tokyo. <a href="http://www.lomography.com/magazine/locations/2012/03/07/a-stroll-through-meiji-jingu-japan" target="_blank">Go and read and see many more photos of mine</a>...... if you like :)<br />
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ph: <u><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/59892473@N08/6875330495/" target="_blank">lovebug ‹3</a></u>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-113337702518801770.post-90173111486186674042012-05-07T19:54:00.001-07:002012-05-07T19:54:18.137-07:00NOVELTY | Chalayan fw12<table><tbody>
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I never thought I would be one of those girls that lay awake at night thinking about a boy. All these questions, and I only have my friends theories as an answer. "Of course he likes you, it's so obvious. He always looks at you!". The bad things is you know that you say anything to them to calm them down if it was the other way around. Do he think of me? Does he tell his friends about me, like I tell mine? Do he find me pretty?<br />
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We have two classes together, and yeah that's how I found him. I know he's not the cutest boy in the world, but in my eyes he's gorgeous. His smile can make my day, especially when I know that I made him smile. He can make me laugh with his stupid jokes and his intelligence never stops to fascinate me. I've never felt this way before, this crush goes deeper than any crush I've ever had. I want him so badly, I have to fight every urge in my body to not kiss him when I see him. I want to call him my boyfriend: and that's a huge step for me.<br />
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We are going on a date tomorrow. I'm dreading it but at the same time I can't wait.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-113337702518801770.post-26403993097507841772012-05-07T19:53:00.002-07:002012-05-07T19:53:44.904-07:00OUTFITS | Glitter<img alt="Photobucket" border="0" src="http://i684.photobucket.com/albums/vv201/ive-c/loveaestheticsglitter.jpg" /><br />
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ring: COS<br />
beanie: someone left it at my house<br />
lipstick: Airborn unicorn, <a href="http://www.limecrimemakeup.com/idevaffiliate/idevaffiliate.php?id=1169_0_4_1" target="_blank"><u>Limecrime<br />
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This Sunday really feels like spring, waking up to the sound of birds, a blue sky and a ray of sunlight peeking through my curtains called for a bit of a party. And what's more festive than glitter?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-113337702518801770.post-61823886280801473252012-05-07T19:53:00.001-07:002012-05-07T19:53:21.506-07:00perfect guys don't exist<a href="http://i1147.photobucket.com/albums/o546/_lelove_/96475616987088490_CQgFGEQ3_f.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="love quote via wide open spaces" border="0" src="http://i1147.photobucket.com/albums/o546/_lelove_/96475616987088490_CQgFGEQ3_f.jpg" /></a><br />
ph: <u><a href="http://wideopenspaces.squarespace.com/wide-open-spaces/hes-not-perfect.html/" target="_blank">wideopenspaces</a></u><br />
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What happens when you are not sure of what's right anymore? Actually, it's even worse: you know what is right, but you don't have the courage to do it. I know what they say is true: if you love somebody you've got to set them free. If it wasn't true nobody would say it that often, right? The problem is to let the happiness you've always sought and fought to have it. How? How can I manage to do that? Let go, and forget all the obstacles I had to been through? Let you go, just so we avoid to suffer even more further, when our love is even stronger than it is now.<br />
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Either I wanted it or not, I know we're not synchronized: different stages in life, different goals and different plans and perspectives. The distance between us will grow with each lack of time, each undone trip to see each other. Those are the times when i ask myself: Is this worth it? But seconds late, I remember our happy moments, how we are complete with each other and how this love that nourishes us is strong and beautiful.<br />
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And I know he's been questioning the same thing. But unlike me, hes put into his mind that its not worth it, that as much he want to be with me, he will never can. He says things will never go the way he wants, the way we want. That reality is against us. But, he wont deny how much I'm important to him, how much he loves me. He cant deny that he found the woman he wants to marry with, the woman of his life. So, why cant he fight for our love, for our relationship?! One moment he decides that he wants to be with me forever, no matter what obstacles we'll have to face. The other one, he says hes not my boyfriend anymore, that he cant take this, he cant suffer like that. WHY? I guess its like Katy Perry says " I've gotta a case of love bipolar".<br />
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I was sure before, he didn't want to break up. Now I'm not sure of anything. I just wish I could show him,things are not gonna be like him expect them to be: my parents wont be a problem for us, we are gonna be able to do anything we want. We are going to be soooo happy and wonderful things are waiting for us.<br />
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I just wish he would take my hand right now, and allow me to show him the bright side: we are meant to be happy together. I only want to hold his hand, be with him, having the love of my life to take care of me. I just want him close, feeling his heart and body close to mine.<br />
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I want, and I never wanted that bad, to be sure we gonna have a great future together.<br />
A future where everything will be fine and nothing will come between us. I just want you and our perfectness together. Screw the rest of the world. I don't care. I just need you and I know you feel the same way.<br />
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So stop filling your heart, mind and soul with negative thoughts. We want and we can change things and make them perfect. It's you and me against the world. We are gonna be fine.<br />
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I truly hope that.<br />
Don't give up yet.<br />
Don't give up on me yet.<br />
You love me and I love you.<br />
I love you more than anything.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-113337702518801770.post-12147703868606510802012-05-07T19:52:00.002-07:002012-05-07T19:52:41.575-07:00SHOES | Monochromatic Docs<img alt="Photobucket" border="0" src="http://i684.photobucket.com/albums/vv201/ive-c/LOVEAESTHETICSmonodoc1.jpg" width="800" /><br />
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Dr. Martens calls this model the <u>'refined'</u>,it's a slightly slimmer shoe than their originals. For this season they decided to dip them in several colors so that the sole, leather and shoelaces become one monochromatic whole. It reminds me a bit of barbie shoes; which I imagine are made from coloured plastic poured in a tiny shoe-shaped mold. But as you can see these babies are everything but pink, tacky or plastic. Get them <a href="http://rstyle.me/hdpsc9d36w"><u>here.</u></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-113337702518801770.post-19663651051494010422012-05-07T19:52:00.001-07:002012-05-07T19:52:26.886-07:00when i am holding you<a href="http://i1147.photobucket.com/albums/o546/_lelove_/tumblr_m0cevnb9sw1rr0dnyo1_500_large.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="weheartit" border="0" src="http://i1147.photobucket.com/albums/o546/_lelove_/tumblr_m0cevnb9sw1rr0dnyo1_500_large.jpg" /></a><br />
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cape jacket: courtesy of <a href="http://thescarletroom.com/" target="_blank"><u>The Scarlet Room</u></a><br />
scuba pants: Monki<br />
shoes: 1990s Chanel<br />
necklace: Nelly <br />
clutch: courtesy of <a href="http://www.shampalove.com/" target="_blank"><u>Shampalove</u></a><br />
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Yesterday I wore this -what you could hardly call a- jacket. Temperatures are slowly creeping up and this cape-jacket was more of a symbolic addition to my outfit that says something like 'I'm not walking outside without a coat yet'. But in fact, I kinda was. The jacket is thin, doesn't close and does not offer protection in cold weather. But luckily we don't need that anymore! Only 6 days left till it's officially spring!Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-113337702518801770.post-59068176839384355622012-05-07T19:51:00.003-07:002012-05-07T19:51:56.695-07:00hope for friendship<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/hannahdavis/4755162411/" title="Untitled by hello hand, on Flickr"><img alt="" height="324" src="http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4117/4755162411_3f184311b5.jpg" width="500" /></a><br />
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We speak every once in a while. Every two weeks or so I can expect a call from you, and its usually two or three weeks to the day that we last spoke. I'm not sure if that reflects on the kind of relationship we have. I would like to say the calls are always the same, but they're not. You've gradually become more affectionate and open, as where I want no part in that. I want it to stop, and more so need it to stop.<br />
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You ask if I still love you, if I think of you every day, if I'm seeing anyone, if I'm coming to visit and so on and so forth.<br />
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We met very randomly and instantly started up something. At first I had no interest, and you made it very clear that you did. I wanted to remain friends, but that changed pretty quick and I'm not sure how. It's safe to say you grew on me (that's an understatement).<br />
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I knew you weren't going to be here forever, or even close. I knew you were going to move back, and sooner than I thought and what you led me on to believe.<br />
We were just friends, and then we had a fling, and then we were together, and then I got scared and we broke up, then we had a fling, and then we got back together, and then we fought, then broke up and then were together again without the actual label.<br />
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After a few months you somehow convince me to allow you into my home, I felt an instant regret when I said yes. Not because I didn't want to be able to wake up next to you every morning but because I knew how this was going to turn out. The most passionate and intense two months I have ever had and then just like that, it was swept from underneath me. Within two weeks you had bought a plane ticket and you were gone.<br />
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We never had the "talk" before you left. It was never clear what we were this time around. But it sure seemed exclusive before you got on that plane. Within the first two weeks of you being back in your home country I could feel you pulling away, and when I asked, your response would either be 1. I miss you so much or 2. Your constant partying with your friends makes me question this.<br />
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Then within a month of being a part of each other we were done. You decided that one morning after my night out with my girlfriends you were going to end it. And that you did. You said its best that we be just friends because this relationship is just going to end up hurting both of us. From then on you didn't speak to me for 2 months.<br />
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I don't think you understand, or ever will for that matter, what I went through in those 3 months. Losing someone your in love with to another continent, and that someone also happens to be your best friend, and then within a month of losing them, they drop you like a hot potato? I had no explanation for what happened, I couldn't really piece this puzzle together. How can someone I thought I knew so well just forget about me so quick? Was there someone else? Did he just fall out of love? Or was it actually because he was scared of getting hurt?<br />
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I don't think I'll truly know the answer, because the longer I know this person, the more skeletons I find in his closet and come to realize that I don't believe half the shit that he says. I've come to know him better as a person now that we're not together through how he treated me during this really painful experience and truths I've found out about him, than when we were together.<br />
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In my eyes, he is not the same person I met over a year ago, nor is he the same person I fell in love with. When I speak to him and see him (skype) I still see the same person, but I feel like I'm speaking to a stranger.<br />
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The one thing ( I don't want to call it a lesson) I was able to take from this: I'm an amazing, intelligent, beautiful, genuine, loving, kind-hearted woman, and although I definitely had my share of mistakes in this relationship, I did not deserve the abandonment and pain that could of been prevented with a little honestly and sensitivity on his behalf.<br />
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I don't think things with us will ever start up again, but I do believe that there is hope for friendship.<br />
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ph: <u><a href="http://weheartit.com/entry/24169584/via/loveforcry" target="_blank">weheartit</a></u> + unknownUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-113337702518801770.post-25462477397302950082012-05-07T19:51:00.001-07:002012-05-07T19:51:21.129-07:00SHOES | Simone Rocha Footwear<img alt="Photobucket" border="0" src="http://i684.photobucket.com/albums/vv201/ive-c/loveaestheticssrfootwear.jpg" /><br />
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At London Fashion Week I got the chance to see items that I only know from images saved on my computer. <a href="http://simonerocha.com/" target="_blank"><u>Simone Rocha's</u></a> little corner was one of the highlights of what designers where showcasing at the Sommerset House; two racks with the most unusual materials, and of course her famous footwear; the elevated oxfords from last season in leather and transparent plastic. And these grey, cheetah printed, pony skin derbies with transparent sole for next autumn. Seeing and touching the craftmanship, detail and smart designs left me in complete awe.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-113337702518801770.post-12288503599074842552012-05-07T19:51:00.000-07:002012-05-07T19:51:05.122-07:00BEAUTY | Dots on the Tips<img alt="Photobucket" border="0" src="http://i684.photobucket.com/albums/vv201/ive-c/loveaestheticsmanicure2.jpg" /><br />
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I copied this manicure from my sister in law who is experimenting alot with her nails lately. She did it in another color skeme though, a grey nail with a turqoise tip. I used a matte nude nail polish as a base and added a little black stroke. I absolutely love these kinds of manicures that hardly consume any time, I even did mine on the train.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-113337702518801770.post-18410924782468211342012-05-07T19:50:00.003-07:002012-05-07T19:50:51.179-07:00take a risk<a href="http://i1147.photobucket.com/albums/o546/_lelove_/685.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="take a risk via weheartit, http://weheartit.com/entry/24851337" border="0" height="auto" src="http://i1147.photobucket.com/albums/o546/_lelove_/685.jpg" width="500" /></a><br />
ph: <u><a href="http://weheartit.com/entry/24851337" target="_blank">weheartit</a></u><br />
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I continuously write and delete this email.<br />
2 days<br />
48 hours<br />
Who knew that those 48 hours would still be with me almost a year later. I went on a family vacation. The trip was drawing to a close and i was thinking that this trip was really lame until my third last night. We went to a show. He sat in front of me. He would look back and I would smile. Nothing all that big.<br />
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Then the next day I saw him again at the beach. Once again he would look back and i would smile, wishing I had the courage to say something more than just the hey response to his hey.<br />
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Finally I did, and I will forever be grateful that I did. He was sitting and I went over to talk to him. If I could go back to any moment in my life it would be that. We laughed and talked for hours. I never laughed like that in my life or felt that way about anyone ever.<br />
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At night a me him and a group of other people we met were sitting by the ledge laughing. I can't explain how I felt.When I had to go back up to my room he was all i could think about.<br />
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The next day I was anxious to find him I wanted to talk to him some more. And we did. This may sound like just a simple story but it will stay with me forever. It was almost time for me to leave when we all started swimming in the rain. Finally when I had to go he picked me up and hugged me. I was walking away when I turned around and see him waving and blowing me a kiss.<br />
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That moment held the most genuine smile ever.<br />
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I still think about him sometimes. Wondering if he thinks about me. But I doubt it. If this experience taught me anything it's that- take a risk and it could be worth it.<br />
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lipstick: Yves Saint Laurent Rouge Volupté number 27</i><br />
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The mail brought me this no fuss pair of black cat eye <a href="http://rstyle.me/eka4wwd36w" target="_blank"><u>sunglasses</u></a> today. Just in time to still catch a few of hours of sun!Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-113337702518801770.post-47821360834162658782012-05-07T19:50:00.001-07:002012-05-07T19:50:21.165-07:00you deserve to be happy<a href="http://i1147.photobucket.com/albums/o546/_lelove_/tumblr_lzseweuY3F1qapvcuo1_1280_large.png" target="_blank"><img alt="unknown source via weheartit" border="0" src="http://i1147.photobucket.com/albums/o546/_lelove_/tumblr_lzseweuY3F1qapvcuo1_1280_large.png" /></a><br />
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Spring is the season that my jeans, leggings and tees fear for their lives; for it is the season that the scissors come ou4-t to slash them in half and rip them apart. But my dear clothes shouldn't be afraid because with these small adjustments they'll be loved and worn even more. <br />
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Today it was the turn of my new pair of vintage Levi's to become the perfect 1990s mom jeans, a cheaper and more real alternative to the ripped denim pieces from Acne. I'm sure everyone is capable of making a couple of holes in fabric. Though denim doesn't always do exactly what you want it to do, so I documented this little trick to make holes in denim while at the same time keeping the beautiful white horizontal threads intact. <br />
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1. Put on the jeans and mark the places you want the holes to be with chalk or pen.<br />
2. Cut horizontal slits on the spots of the holes.<br />
3. Start pulling on the white horizontal threads. You can use a needle to loosen them up. <br />
4. After removing some of the horizontal threads, the vertical blue threads can be pulled out.<br />
5. Pick and pull out all the blue vertical threads.<br />
6. Done! The holes will look more natural after your jeans had a wash.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com