Goodbye to a close friend

One of my best friends moved 8 hours away from me not very long ago.  I'm still pretty bummed knowing that trips see to each other will now by few and far between, but that's life isn't it? Everyone moves away eventually...  But at least our last weekend spent together was a lot of fun!  We went out to explore new places in our college town that we had never gotten around to doing.

We saw new trails and new sights!

It was great weather so we decided to eat lunch at this beach!

At night, we ended up watching the entire series of Detroit Metal City, which is an anime about a sweet, feminine boy who dreams of being a pop star but ends up having to work as a crude and vulgar heavy metal rocker instead.  The animation and art style is nothing to write home about, but the irony of the story is entertaining enough to keep you going.

Other than that, no new news worth reporting so I'll bring this post to an end.  Hope y'all all have a great Valentines day (whether you like the holiday or not)!

Mori Girl Style

My grueling finals are OVER, I can finally get back to spending time on the internet guilt free :)

This Autumn and Winter I've become quite interested in mori girl style!  It has a very romantic-woodsy-fairytale appeal with a dash of mysteriousness.  I've had a lot of fun sketching out characters and sketches that are "forest girl" inspired although I myself am not sure if I'd want to make a big closet makeover into total mori girl.  Seeing it on other people and using it as an influence in character design is one thing, but wearing shapeless below-the-knee dresses 24/7 is something I'm not sure I can commit to.  Maybe a couple of pieces here and there will suffice for me.

Typical mori girl, for example.

Instead, beyond the clothing style, what I'm enjoying most out of this trend is finding mori girl inspired home decor.  I used to be strictly clean-cut contemporary home design only kind of gal, but suddenly I've found newfound appreciation for rustic accents and shabby cottage inspired interiors.   I love the idea of having lush green plants growing all about the house and I'm trying to come up with a way to introduce this home decor style to the half-room I rent at school, but it's been tough.  Maybe I'll post a couple of pictures for a room tour of sorts and see if any reader might have any suggestions :)  But that'll have to wait until I go back in January because for now I am home free for the holidays!

mori style living room, super cute!

The start of the holiday season!

I did some online shopping at the end of October, and nearly two weeks later my tights finally came in the mail!  I got one "tattoo tight" with a bone print on them that I really like and a pair of "faux-suspender" stockings with little transparent polka dots that don't show up in the picture. 

I don't normally wear shoes inside, but for picture's sake I broke the rule.

I gotta admit, when I first got the tattoo tights in the mail I was a little disappointed that the material was actually an opaque nude tight instead of transparent, but they were so comfortable once I tried them on that I decided I didn't care!  I wore them out today and got some nice compliments so that also makes it all the better :)

Christmas decorations from when I was walking around at the beach! I love this time of year!

So besides new tights I actually had a really social past weekend, despite the impending finals.  Jesse's roommates and friends cooked up an amazing Mexican dinner on Friday followed by hours of hot tub, and Saturday evening after class was my roommates' Thanksgiving pot luck.  We had some high school kids try (multiple times) to crash with beer as a peace offering, I guess it looked like we were having some raging house party from outside but it was actually a pretty mild-mannered gathering, lol.

And finally, at long last, I'm on Thanksgiving break.  Going to try to have an awesome, yet still productive (final projects due in 3 more weeks) long weekend!

Take care!

Happy Halloween!

I love Halloween, but it's always been a bummer to have it thrown on a school day.... especially in college when classes can last all night up until 10pm :(  So instead, I went out with the bf yesterday to Downtown Disney! It was the perfect weather for walking around and checking out the seasonal store fronts.  My favorite is the candy apple store, I love watching them make the Halloween apples!

A Snow White poison apple along with many Jacks.  Disney loves to break out the Tim Burton stuff in October.

Not as many people out in costume as I thought there'd be, except for a couple of really cute toddler princesses.  And these two cool tourist girls pictured below:

They were so nice too!

Afterwards we came home and carved our pumpkin we picked out earlier this month.  We had planned to carve Totoro onto it but it was just too small for that so we carved the white chibi Totoro instead!

Hope everyone had a spooky and safe evening tonight!

Make Up Collection

Ok, so "collection" may be a stretch... I always try to hit pan before buying a new product (budget reasons), so it's a relatively small collection of make up.  But since I love seeing other blogger's make-up collections, I thought I'd do the same!

1. Betsey Johnson and Too Faced make-up bags.  Used when traveling, but for now they hold an assortment of Lancome's Juicy Tubes, Smashbox's Primer, mascaras, etc.
2.  Moroccan Oil.  Not make-up, but on the shelf anyways.  Very important to keep my ombre tips from drying out.
3. Physician's Formula Happy Booster blush in Rose.
4. Laura Mercier's translucent powder.
5. My make-up brushes.  Most are from Sephora and Too Faced.
6. Lancome blush in Aplum.
7. Josie Maran's Argan Blend concealer.
8. Some drugstore eyeshadow palettes.
9. Lancome eyeshadows in Drama, Pink Zinc, and Pink Pearls.
10. Mabelline's Fit Me foundation (I've just about run out of this).
11. My moisturizers for day(Olay), night (Lumene), and eye cream (L'Oreal).

 So there it all is, pretty basic for the most part.  But in other news, I love how my new bathroom has a closet inside of it.  Now instead of stashing my make-up and brushes under the sink, I can organize them at eye-level on that little shelf!

Welcome October!

I shouldn't really be on the internet right now (midterms next week), but I really wanted to blog!  I've been so busy with all my classes lately, honestly I'm kind of nervous about my grades in 3D animation and visual development... But I will pull through! I won't let myself or my grades slip this year.

So although this past week has been mostly school-homework-sleep, I did whip up some mini pumpkin pies for my roommates and I!  I can't let October go by without doing anything pumpkin related, I'm really seasonal when it comes to Autumn and Winter :>

Pumpkin pie bites!

Tomorrow after my life drawing class I'm going out with a friend for a good-bye dinner.  She's leaving back to Seoul for an indefinite amount of time, unfortunately.  We'll be going out with a small group of mutual friends to eat... Ethiopian food! I've never eaten Ethiopian cuisine before, so that'll be exciting to try out!

and a quick outfit snap to finish up this post :)

All-nighter

I had to pull a dreaded all-nighter last night in order to finish my animation for class this morning. Despite accidentally falling asleep at 5am, I managed to pull through and finish what was due.  Unfortunately, the aftermath of that was nodding off in class. Although all-nighters are common among college kids, art college kids especially, I'd really like for that to be the last time I do that until finals.

On a brighter note, I spent my lunch hour at the beach with J! We couldn't get all the way in of course, but it was nice to wade in the water before having to get back inside the dark and chilly classroom. School comes first, but I really hope I can squeeze in a real beach day before the weather catches up to October!

shiny waves from today