parading

I recently had the BEST San Francisco trip with my friends. Jessica, Kelsey, Karinna, and I (Charlotte, Miranda, Samantha, and Carrie) all went to SF to celebrate Karinna's birthday. Karinna loves SF so it was only just that we spend the day doing stuff she loved to do. Which is shopping and hanging out with friends in San Francisco. 

I got up super early to take pictures of myself.

H&M jacket, stripe knit shirt gifted by Kelsey, collar made by me, shoes are vintage

When making my collar I wanted to recreate the beautiful sparkle effect of Miu Miu's sparkle booties. So this was my attempt. Out of all the collars I have made, this is my favorite.

I decided to really take seriously the SATC vibes, and go for a NYC city-walking outfit. I looked like I had somewhere to go, and I obviously had to look good going places. There was so much we had to do, and I mean I wanted to be taken seriously, and to do so you have to dress seriously.

Our first stop of the day was Amoeba! I usually don't really go into music stores, since my taste in music consists of a handful of artists and all of their songs. I also only buy physical albums when I really am crazy for the artist/band. I however found this note on this Lily Allen album so funny. (Note: all the other albums by Lily Allen were recommended by Matt)

I always stop by the SF H&M, because they have such a distinct collection of clothing. Everything is so clean and organized too! The David Beckham displays were attracting a lot of attention outside, and when I bought my new white faux fur collar, they gave me a bag with naked David on it. I also was dazzled by the huge picture of Daria inside the store.

We then wanted to find a macaron shop, since none of us had ever tried a macaron. So we had to walk by the United Nations building and then City Hall to reach macaron heaven.

City Hall has to be the most beautiful building in San Francisco.

This was my little Chinese Empire boat that would probably take me to a magical oriental palace in the sky.

We finally found our macaron destination. It was the cutest place ever to exist, and even though some of the customers started bothering me with questions about my clothes, I loved the experience. I did get compared to Mark Indelicato, and I pulled a Madonna and walked away. The guy proceeded to follow me and apologize. He was so drunk too. Damnit Reggie, you almost ruined my macaron experience.

♥♡♥♡♥PASTELS ♥♡♥♡♥

I bought Persian Rose and Raspberry Lychee. I loved them both so much because they were so sweet and different in taste. Persian rose was my favorite. I love Rose deserts. I think it was because I used to eat rose petals as a kid since our garden was always full of roses.

Here they are. The shoes that caused tears. After eating our macarons we took a regular trip to Wasteland and I spotted these mint Doc Martens. Of course they weren't my size, but they were Karinna's. She is also obsessed with mint as I am, so it was obvious she freaked out. Oh did I forget to mention that I spotted them, right when Karinna was paying for her other pair of shoes?? Yeah, well she was already spending over $80 in shoes so she didn't have enough to get the Docs. She basically left the store crying because they were her dream shoes and she couldn't even get them. I think it's karma for having good luck with shoe findings (all her shoes are amazing), so this time the thrift store gods punished her with the unreachable Docs.

She went home with mint Hush Puppies, knitted leopard print loafers, and these dreamy Jefferey Campbell shoes that have the most amazing cut-outs.

The irony of the title of this post is that it was the Chinese New Year parade this same day, but we didn't go. Kelsey had to get home, so we couldn't stay to watch, which crushed Karinna and I. However this is the day that Whitney died, so I mean there wasn't a big need to celebrate at the moment. I like to believe we had our own little parade around San Francisco.

long awaited

New year, new news, new trends, new adventures. That's what we expect of every year. After we make those New Year resolutions, we slowly fall back to our old selves. Many of us don't experience any kind of change during the new year. OR SO WE THINK. Change comes like an unstoppable gust of wind and we are not able to avoid. Something happens to us every year that makes us a different person from what we were the year before. I always tend to blame the year for everything that went wrong, but this year as I tried to say that 2011 was a horrible year...I realized that there were so many more good moments than bad moments. For starters I created this blog which has been so much fun, and I really started sinking myself more into fashion. I applied for colleges, decided on a major, decided I need to now change my major when I get accepted, and planned my life after high school. 

 For me 2012 will have unavoidable change. I will start out a new life (hopefully in New York) and my parents might come along, and then again they might not. However I know that I will finally have to confront all my fears, and my disadvantages to become the person I wish to be.

Lately I've been really worried about not being able to get into a NYC school. I've actually been panicking ever since I submitted my application. It's not that I don't think I can get in, because I think I have a pretty good chance, it's just that I'm afraid that no school will take me. My fear is a little irrational, but it is realistic. I've thought about my options if I don't get in though, and they are actually not that bad. I think there is a really good chance that NYC is my future.

I did take time to plan how I was going to react if I don't get in to any schools. After watching the Sex and the City move for about the trillionth time, I figured that if I'm going to mope about not getting into a school then I'm going to do it glamorously. I'm going to buy myself a black fur coat, and big dark glasses. I'm going to walk around all depressed, and let a tear run down my cheek every time someone mentions college. I was mostly inspired by Carrie Bradshaw's moping in Mexico. I just made my reaction more wintry. And I'll do this just for the fun of being dramatic. I like to listen to Alicia Key's Empire State of Mind Pt. 2 to prepare the water works.

New Years Eve this year was very quite, and very short. The only time I was really excited was when Lady Gaga was performing in Times Square. I thought about how far she has come to get where she is now, and it was so inspiring. Mostly because of New York, but also because it shows how people become successful in the most unexpected ways. I then proceeded to count down until New Years, which we were the last to do so since we are in California. I know that next years New Years will be spent in such an epic way! (Confession: I hate using the word epic, but that's the best adjective for the situation) 

My outfit this year was simple. Mostly because I didn't have anything to wear that was blingy, but because we were spending NYE at my uncle's house and since he is Mormon I didn't want to exaggerate. I kept it quite conservative, because there were so many Mormon visitors I didn't want to be disturbed by their looks. I actually ended up going to some Mormon event the next day, and I went even more conservative. I was so disappointed to start the year off in such a conservative manner. However my mom didn't think my necklace was very conservative, so it made me feel better knowing I still stood out.

Gifted shirt, grey H&M pants, H&M metallic necklace 

I really liked the necklace because I've been really into metallic jewelry and what not. I bought it in SF when I went on my little shopping trip. I loved the way that the gold stood out from the Cerulean blue shirt. It also reminded my of Lady Gaga's orbit head piece, which I was in love with when she was using it everywhere. I had always planned buying one and wearing it to school. OH FRESHMAN DREAMS. I love the way the necklace reflects onto walls and my neck. PERFECTION.

The following are a little of my 2012 inspirations. They include Audrey Hepburn, Daphne Groeneveld, Marc Jacobs Spring/Summer 2012, Daphne Guinness, and Karlie Kloss...and then Daphne Guinness again....and Gisele for Givenchy (I love the ads).

Now this is a little outfit I put together; it's my dream NYE outfit. It's darker than what most people wear for NYE, but I like my outfits dark for special occasions. The pants are Proenza Schouler, the jacket is Top Shop, the necklace is Givenchy, and the boots are Doc Martens.

I just made a Polyvore account, and I don't get it too much quite yet, but I plan on making little dream outfits occasionally for the blog.

Hope you guys are enjoying 2012 so far. My favorite news of the early year are. Katy Perry and Russel Brand file for divorce (it just makes her song The One Who Got Away ironic okay...), Kanye West announces his DW by Kanye West Twitter account is fake, AND that the label isn't even called DW (it's just Kanye West).

I've waited for 2012 for so long. It's the year I turn 18, finish high school, and start college. It's going to be full of me getting over a lot of things and confronting my responsibilities as an adult possibly living on his own. AND WE FIND OUT IF THE WORLD ACTUALLY ENDS ON DECEMBER 21!