being late drives me crazyyyyyyyyyyy, I dont like to be early, i just like to be on time, and It really peeeeves me when i'm not.ugh

new years frustration

once again new years eve is coming and I'm not looking forward to it one bit, every year I try and make plans and every year it ends up sucking, next year im booking myself a vacation so at least I can be somewhere warm and tanning with a tropical drink in my hand when nye rolls around because I've had enough of this B.S. I'm 5 seconds away from planning a night in my room alone with a feast of the 3 C's: Chinese food, Chocolates, and Champagne. Maybe I'll even put on my dress and take pictures and then photoshop myself into party pictures. Or I'll just stream my fabulous little shindig live on youtube so all of you can get a piece of the action like.. what should I order veggie lo mein or chicken lo mein? Champagne glass? or just the bottle and a straw? dark chocolate, milk.. or both? But I guess i shouldnt be such a debby downer even though that option sounds like the best one right now. Whoever made up this whole idea to celebrate the new year sucks. I'll just celebrate the new year a month later so there's not as much pressure, and it will be much cheaper.  Sorry for my immature ranting I just figured I couldnt keep updating my twitter status's with angry tweets every 2 minutes and none of my other venting methods were working. So hopefully everyone else has better plans than I do or feel free to Join in with the 3 C's option.
  I'm gonna miss you 2010 for the most part you were a good year, and the only reason I'm not looking forward to 2011 is well because I have no idea what I'm doing with my life at the moment and I tend to fear change and the unknown.
any ways Mozel tov!

also, this blog

because I'm a crazy gadget junkie at heart, i cant afford most of them but I like reading about them

http://cs.condenastdigital.com/cs/promo/blogs/onestowatch/?cat=5
all the blogs on the ford website are pretty cool, I was on it to try and enter a contest but I couldnt find the entry form for the contest haha but at least I came across these cool blogs

fun!

just came across this site

sucha cute idea this website shows you how to make easy versions of some high end fashion trends

http://psimadethis.com/

dad's christmas present

This is the one I did for my dad, it's in water color, I did it last night, the water/horizon area came out a little sloppy but I was doing this around 11/12 last night after m parents went to bed and I heard water but I assumed at first that my mom was showering upstairs and then as it continued for a while figured it was raining, after about an hr, I'm almost done with my painting, I gotup to get a clean cup of water from the kitchen  and realized the sound of gushing water was coming from the kitchen? not the dishwasher.. not the freezer... then i realized it was coming from the basement, i open the door and it sounded like a waterfall in my basement, so i got my mom up to asses the problem, yep a pipe burst, she got my dad up who braved the gushing cold water in the basement to try and fix it but since he couldnt figure it out we had to shut the water off.. awesome... but if i hadnt been awake and heard it the whole basement probaly would have flooded, being the hoarder that I am, i keep a great deal of my fabric and stuff I have yet to unpack from school in the basement so I had a mini panic attack thinking of all of it being engulfed in water, but it didnt happen and I'm so grateful and in a way i think it may have been shi(the dog) I like to think that she's still with us in spirit, i mean if she had been alive i probaly would have gotten up to let her out and notice it so i think it was her way of still helping out, yes its a far stretch i know, but thats what I'm gonna stick with, so needless to say i kinda got distracted with this more, cus i had to hide it under the table cus it was still wet and i didnt want my dad to see it

I've had this and the other picture for a while, its from sandyneck beach, summer of 2007, and ive always loved this picture here, the colors of the sunset on sandyneck are my favorite

christmas present for my mom

so how managed to whip out this pastel drawing today, its not really her present more like the card cus i hate lame greeting cards so this is a pastel drawing of me and the dog, a did a water color painting of my dad and the dog for his card, our dog passed away in august so, its hard not to have her here at christmas she always  brought some lightheartedness and laughter to us when we were all stressed during the holidays, I miss her lots <3 xoxo

I'm actually kind of proud of how it came out considering my time crunch and i only had a four pack of sepia colored pastels, some charcoal and a red and yellow colored pencil and the fact that i hate drawing human mouths with teeth

new year new you hahah

so cliche right?
but seriously after seeing pictures of myself at a christmas party I attended over the weekend I was  in shock at how heavy I looked. I mean I have been avoiding the scale lately because I know that my eating habits over the past month have been atrocious. Well its find monday through wednesday then the weekend roles around and for an unemployed person like myself the weekend consists of thursday through sunday, and all hell breaks lose. Cheeseburgers, buffalo chicken pizza, french fries, ant kind of fast food, all mixed in with some nightly alcohol consumption. So I shouldnt have been surprised at the current state of my body weight but it really doesnt hit you until you're trying to get into your holiday outfit that fit good last year and now is lookin kinda snug. So last night I had my last fast food fixe a.k.a. some taco bell and now plan on getting back on the healthy food band wagon excluding christmas eve christmas day and new years eve. But what I'm really hoping for, short term is too shed acouple of these extra pounds by new years eve, not that I have anything special planned but it is again one of those days where me and my friends like to get dressed up and take lots of pictures soo thats why I plan to detox.. raw fruits and vegetables for the next 11 days? along with exercise so hopefully i can cleanse some of the toxins from this month out of my system. I had planned on starting today but was hit wit a snag when it decided to snoww and I really don't intend on dragging stella to the grocery store in the snow(stella is my car) and I'm not really in possession of any raw fruits or vegetables right now soooo I'm not sure what to do ughhh

Dear Santa

I want a puppy for christmas

dior new look

dior new look by lysscious21 featuring pleated skirts

elephant

elephant by lysscious21 featuring layering tops

hit predictor

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for those of you who are bored and unemployed like me, or just need something to consume some of your time , this is almost as addicting as polyvore, and you can eventually win stuff

white romance

white romance by lysscious21 featuring camisole tops

your love is like...

your love is like... by lysscious21 featuring gold plated jewelry

wishin for blue skies

wishin for blue skies by lysscious21 featuring a beach hat

dance at bougival

dance at bougival by lysscious21 featuring rhinestone jewelry

inspired by renoirs paintings and his color palette, especially the dance at bougival

le cirque

le cirque by lysscious21 featuring black jewelry

ooh baby its rainin

ooh baby its rainin by lysscious21 featuring leather shoes

the best part about thanksgiving

for me the best part about thanksgiving is the day after, when i get to make leftover thanksgiving sandwiches, nothing fancy i like it classic, white bread, because weirdly i like when it gets all soggy from my classic gel cranberry sauce, stovetop stuffing, turkey and a little mayo, and i make it the night before so it has time to mush all together. by lunch time today ill have a big perfect mess to eat


>>>sidenote, i may not be able to post all weekend, because Ill be in Nh for the 17th annual woodwards trip,and since I current;y am without a laptop, internet using may be minimal


happy black friday to you crazy ppl who are venturing out there to shop (last yr I worked black friday so i have no desire to ever shop it)

poppies

poppies by lysscious21 featuring a chanel bag

She's fading away

She's fading away by lysscious21 featuring grey boots

Pocket full of Posies

Pocket full of Posies by lysscious21 featuring cardigan tops

Brocade Babe

Brocade Babe by lysscious21 featuring skull handbags

Loosen up

Loosen up by lysscious21 featuring white jewelry

Frosted Flakes

Frosted Flakes by lysscious21 featuring peeptoe shoes

Isn't she charming

Isn't she charming by lysscious21 featuring diamond jewelries

25 years young

25 years young by lysscious21 featuring party dresses

Cheers! halfway to 50!

Cheers! halfway to 50! by lysscious21 featuring cocktail party dresses

Get Inked version 2

Get Inked by lysscious21 featuring a cropped tee

Get Inked

Get Inked by lysscious21 featuring a cropped tee

The key to becoming a Goddess

The key to becoming a Goddess by lysscious21 featuring a gold ring

aatc and pantone design competition

if you like making moodboards or designing textiles you'll love this design competition put on by pantone and aatc for the summer 2011 color view

http://www.aatcc.org/members/students/C2C_comp_2011/Pantone_View_Colour_Planner_Summer_2011-symmetry.pdf

i love looking at all the pictures and color trends even if i dont enter

here's how to enter http://www.aatcc.org/members/students/C2C_comp_2011/C2Cbrochure.pdf

you have till april, so start working now haha

what im grateful for this holiday season

I'm starting an on-going post of things that I'm grateful for this holiday seasons, things that may go un-noticed sometimes, but without them my life would probably be miserable, feel free to comment things of your own
(they're in no order of importance)

1. spell check- you're little red zig zag underlines make me realize that my education is never done.

2. google maps- i would probably be dead by now without you

3. seat heaters, I don't know how i lived the first 21 years of my life without you

4. flannel sheets- because you're the definition of cozy

5. gingerbread lattés. so delicious and cheerful that I don't even care about the calories that you behold in your frothy goodness

I made a new friend this weekend

no, this is not a stuffed animal, or a photoshopped image
but it is a cardboard cutout of a pig, that is somewhat creepy
but because of him, who's name is winston, i now know that pigs have 44 teeth
and that everyone should hang cardboard cut outs of pigs in their window for the christmas season, or if you don't know what sort of gift you should get for someone...this is an awesome idea.
i would love to make a video of winston and marcel

I play with my food

..or their wrappers... yes i've made a flower out of my cupcake wrapper.. what can i say, maybe I'll make a dress out of them haha

bored? make your own looks?

so I tried to randomly pick an assortment of items that you can match up, but its hard with sooooo many categories, but still fun, so click and drag and see if you can make some cute outfits or maybe some "what not to wears" I'll make a new set next week maybe I'll go with some color themes next time


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Midnight Masquerade....madness

Midnight Masquerade by lysscious21 featuring sleeveless dresses

ok so im pissed , and probaly too tired to be doing this, so this is the first set i tried to make on this site, the parts to the left as I was making it looked much larger and i thought wear taking up half the screen the stuff to the right I didnt even know were there, I dragged them to where I thought was off the page and removing them until I published my "masterpiece" and was left with this ughhh frustration and i've been staring at a computer screen too long so I'll go at it again in the a.m.

I whip my pearls back and forth

Now normally, I'm not one to wear pearls, as classic and iconic as they are, I sort of had a falling out with pearls after high school, I wanted to rid my self of everything preppy in my life, this is what 22 yrs of living on cape cod did to me, and pearls can be worn in many ways that aren't preppy, but I just didn't want any part of that pearl wearing, khaki's, popped collar, lily Pulitzer wearing, cable knit sweater thrown over your shoulders lifestyle, because its not a stereotype sometimes I believe that people down here think that's the only existing style, including the visitors, I have since tried to come to terms with this over the past summer, I wear my polo shirt sometimes with my khaki shorts, and this fall i whipped out my cable knit sweater(not thrown around my shoulders, not ready for that yet)
wow sorry for the major digression there, because this bag is more classic pearls than preppy pearls, and I think the fact that they're on tassles are so fun, and I really wish I had an occasion to use a fun bag like this, i recently even started making a dress that I hand beaded some pearls so go figure... so I'm definitely pro-pearl now, i mean it is one of my birthstones so I couldn't reject it forever.

saw it on polyvore.com ( $96 (60 GBP) - coast-stores.com)

Morning Sunshine

thanksgiving menu..we'll see

thanks to foodnetwork.com I've decided on some recipes for thanksgiving this year, because mom's working and me and dad are cooking, and since its just us, thought I'de try some new stuff, usually we have a pretty traditional Italian thanksgiving, mom's Italian wedding soup, antipasto, home-made sausage stuffing, mashed potato's, butternut squash, and alot more home-made traditionals which I love, but since there's only 4 of us this year, and I'm going to be home to make all of this and we can't eat till at list 4 on Thanksgiving day so I'm going to need something to occupy my time, and I wanted to try some new stuff, better to try it out on a small audience first

Appetizers:

1. Brie en croute http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/paula-deen/brie-en-croute-recipe/index.html (Recipe courtesy Paula Deen)
2. possible anitpasto
First course:
1. Roasted butternut squash soup and curried condiments http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/ina-garten/roasted-butternut-squash-soup-and-curry-condiments-recipe/index.html

Main course-side dishes

1. mashed potatoes-mom's recipe
2. stove top stuffing,(I'm weird i prefer stove top to homemade), Trader Joes cornbread stuffing
3. Oceanspray canned, gel cranberry sauce(same reason as the stove top)
4. Bumped-up brussel sprouts(sans the raisins)http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/guy-fieri/bumped-up-brussels-sprouts-recipe/index.html Recipe courtesy Guy Fieri
5. Bread- rolls or loaf? not sure

Dessert

1. Pecan Pumpkin Crunch http://www.cookingchanneltv.com/recipes/aida-mollenkamp/pecan-pumpkin-crunch-recipe/index.html Recipe courtesy Aida Mollenkamp


really for me thanksgiving is just the prep work for the next day, my all time favorite meal, thanksgiving sandwiches made from the leftovers of course

White Hinterland - Icarus

love this song, not sure why, maybe it's the ice skater in me, I can totally see myself twirling around on the ice to this song.. doesn't it seem like a skirt twirling or hair flipping type of song? hah and for some reason everytime I hear it on the just bitten commercial it gets stuck in my head, and I love that gretchen used it for her line on project runway

late night internet browsing

so I'm trying to diffuse my urge to reach in my freezer and grab that delicious carton of pumpkin ice cream, hence the projects and internet surfing(at the same time I'm trying to distract myself from eating it I'm also thinking of excuses that validate me being able to eat it)
anyways so I'm browsing polyvore and I came across this image
Bush Antiques - 19th Century Italian Bed,
first glance, i love it, so endearing, then I'm picturing it in my bedroom...no...no way would I ever want to sleep on something that looks that rustic, on one frightening hand I can picture an exorcism being performed on it, I blame that image on the bedding, but I just love the headboards, Wouldn't they make a cute gate.. to a garden or something
... very secret garden-esque
I also feel like I could do something of this sorts on the headboard of my bed

This is what happens when I have too much time on my hands

So like I am with my hair color, I also tend to have project ADD, I'll start one project get bored half way through or see something else I really want to do, start that and then never get back to the other one, this problem is also hindered once I enter the craft store because I see all of these project Ideas and I want to start them all immediately..all of them, so obviously this is what happened to me today, I'm stuck at home, none of my friends are around so on my days off I need to find stuff to occupy my time besides snacking my way through bordem, so why not work on stuff to boost up my portfollio, so I bought these cute little canvas's today, well they were on sale, and once again that miniature thing, I just think they're so cute, so now the hard part what do I 1. want to put on these cute little canvas's

ideas.??

something scenic?

multi-media?

ugh i dont knoww... I think I'm just gonna put them on my wall blank, and who know's maybe I'll dream up something to put on them

anyone have any input?

new project

Sooo i absolutely lovee the techniques in this book, sooo my goal is to practice doing some of these techniques and then work it into a garment.
First up, pattern shirring- 3 different patterns: chevron, wave, sawtooth.. ill post my samples, once they're finished

My fav

found some stragglers..

Walking out in the driveway and these guyscaught my eye, because everything else looks dead and the colors are so muted and soft, I loved how the these red leaves splice through the landscape kind of like the sky's lipstick right? it definitlyneeded a pop a color, because lately its looked so drab and gloomy outside. Then when I was uploading them I noticed that they would make a cool background for a moodboard, especially for the black and white dove dress

so anyways enjoy looking at natures last few stragglers of leaves... that aren't completly dead..and brown

In loving memory..

( pastel/charcoal drawing i did of my dog last week)
Its weird the things that make me think of her, like this morning when I was slicing a banana, I used to always give her the end of the banana, so I dont have to throw it away and waste it of course, but now I have no one to give it to. I did that drawing of her last week, when she was still here I had wanted to do a photoshoot of her so I could do a series on her, but I never got to. I saw these amazing paintings of a golden retriever that was all black and white except for the green tennis ball. Originally I had wanted to do something like that but somehow I swapped out the charcoal for the beige pastel, which i was glad I did, because she was not a black and white kind of dog. I do hope to dig out some more pictures of her and do a series of her soon. Such a good dog deserves to be remembered. never forgotten

not quite what I was hoping for..

So I saw these cute dove ornaments the other day and I thought it would make a pretty dress design to have the silhouette of a tree going up the side of the tree but skinny, kind of like in an ink drawing, and then have the doves hanging from the branches, painted on the fabric then towards the skirt of the dress have them appliqued on. I pictured it done on a white dress, with the branch and doves outlined in black with red accents, i tried to draw a quick sketch of it, but it was too hard because i couldn't find my micropen or skinny tipped paintbrush . But i pictured the dress in cotton,and to paint that fabric and maybe with a chiffon overlay to give it that eferial look, anyways so I didnt really succeed with it tonight, but since I've been staring at computer screen all day I'm gonna give it a rest until tomorrow, hopefully with the correct devices :)

MARCEL THE SHELL WITH SHOES ON

Recently,over the past weekend this little gem of a video was brought to my attention, im obessesed. the cuteness is overwhelming.another video I'll be quoting for months, yes.

Lastly,

its getting pretty full,

just cleaned out my purse today, which usually has at least $5 in change hidining in the black hole at the bottom.
maybe by 2032 I'll have enough change...to make it halfway there

lunch time :)

What's better than pizza bagels? mini margarita pizza's! amazing. but anything with tomato's and buffalo mozzarella I'm prettymuch in love with, as well as anything miniature, so this is the perfect package