Style: Stripes and Spiderwebs

It was too dark to take photos outside so this is my room. DIY'ed bat decals on the walls, with a sewing machine desk on the right and my bookshelf on the left... see my POE?

IT'S SO HOT OUTSIDE. GAAAAAH. Makes black-and-covered-up... difficult. But I wore my brand-new tights, with a pattern reminiscent of large webs, anyway.

Claire's choker, Wal-Mart tee, Saver's shorts, Merona tights and ankle booties.

Jewelry: Cage the Moon

This has been a Really Good Week. Wednesday my mother and I tried on clothes at work. And bought some. For me, the most elegant, beautiful, cape-sleeve, drape-back, above-knee, lavender dress I have ever seen. Thursday I went to the library. Friday I went on a bunch of errands including Roger's Gardens and found wonderfully done lenticular photographs and a Tim Burton-ish not-real-pumpkin squashed albino jack-o-lantern, and then a REAL, small, pumpkin utterly abandoned in the parking lot that I adopted. I actually hopped out of the car to rescue the poor thing. Saturday, my dad's birthday (homemade cake!), birthday shopping for my mother's birthday in three weeks, and I finally worked up the courage to ask a co-worker if she is Goth (she is!).

Also, I redid an old necklace I had never gotten to look quite the way I imagined, like I had trapped drops of moonlight or water in a delicate beaded cage. Now, I have, by switching in white pearls and using a four color gradient in the seed bead strands.

Monthly Theme Post: Someone Special + DIY

Woot! The Monthly Theme icon linky works! Yay!
So this will be me and my brother 'Gloombat,' who is one of my best friends. We're very, very close. We usually complete each others' sentences, and if one of us trips up on words the other can finish!
We are both wearing striped shirts layered under black add-ons and black jeans. He has sneakers, I have Merona heels, an H&M rose in my hair, and Claire's rose earrings.

Sorry, both outfit shots are blurry. We were using the timer function!

 The makeup was inspired by this drawing I made, which was in turn inspired by my braces:

The face shots turned out great- probably because we could switch to taking each others' photo!

I did both of our faces in matching lipstitches; he has an extra stitch over one eye, I have pink and purple shadow and caked on mascara to achieve a Dead Doll look.

Here's the DIY:
I have one pair of black jeans and I love them, but they were boring me... and since I can't wear jeans to work, I didn't have to leave them 'nice,' so into the workshop they went!
I sliced horizontally in one-inch increments, all the way from the hem to mid thigh.
Then I ran water over them and threw them into the dryer, which is how you fray destroyed jeans, and which resulted in the texture shown in the photos above.

Half done!

Otherwise they would stay all smooth like this.

And not look awesome like this.

The inspiration:

Maison Martin Margiela jeans

DIY Safety Pin Cuff Bracelet

I was browsing through my blog roll a few weeks ago when I came across this post on Asylum Alice's blog, Aversion to Color. I loved the safety pin bracelet and had to make one of my own!

The photos don't really do it justice... I will have to see if I can take some better ones.

I really liked to part where I put beads on the actual pins. I never would have though of that.

Style- Mixed Textures/Prints

Do I look... startled? I was trying to look like a curious brought-to-life doll!
I really like mixing prints. I'm not quite sure if a lace overlay skirt technically counts, but I'm using it as a black-and-white anyway. And the rose was a serendipitous touch that really worked!
Other people liked it so much too that I got a couple comments from not-creepy, young people on the bus. So that was nice.

Yes, anyway- in conclusion of today's lesson: to achieve good looking outfit with mixed prints, make sure your prints share two or more colors!

Walmart tee, H&M rose pinned to neckline, safety pin bracelet, no name belt, Talbot's lace skirt, Merona watch and heels.