Friday Dec 04 '09

Ranzuki How To Distress Jeans (42)

MERRY CHRISTMAS
THEME TIME!

You know I always gotta have a Christmas theme! So I threw this together. Mike approved of my fail Xmas lights drawing on the banner, haahaa. Hey, I was just happy he could tell they were Xmas lights! This will be up after Christmas for a little bit given I’ll be super busy so… yeaaaa

I saw this how to distress jeans tutorial in Ranzuki and I immediately thought of my outcast-ed jeans from my last post! I want to try it!! I’ve been wanting some really, really distressed jeans.
I already have some that look like this…

What I’m talking about are super stringy distressed! I want to wear colorful tights, like my leopard tights, underneath them!! I haven’t been able to find much in the moderately priced stores here that live up to these looks…

Left is from Popteen obviously, the right is Wei Son from her blog. I know this outfit’s a bit out there but I freakin’ LOVE it! I dunno, I just do! I don’t think I’d do such big gaps on the top though (LOL)

This is the Ranzuki how to, I went ahead and googled a few other how-to’s for distressing too. Since I want to do something so intense it’ll probably take a while. So I’ll do it tomorrow.

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I’m hoping it doesn’t start snowing too badly in the morning. I really want to go to Dean & Deluca’s for a Yule Log Cake

! But it’s saying 100% chance of snow!

I’ll just have to see how the morning weather is.

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Tuesday Dec 01 '09

Organizing My Stuffs (66)

So this past Sunday I forced myself to get to organizing 2 big MUST DO’S. The first, under the sink where all my hair stuff is. With the 2 new tools I needed to clean out old products and shift things around. Turned out really great! Only a few products needed to be disposed of. I’ve been getting better about actually FINISHING more hair products because I’ve found real things I LOVE. In the old days I’d keep buying more random hair products never loving anything.

The orange notebook is a place I’d print out and paste hairstyle tutorials. I haven’t really used it in a year or so~ I really needed it when I was first mastering curls.

The next feat was my closet! I’ve been running out of room having to buy new clothes that fit. So Mike helped me clear our out spare closet in the office/second bedroom. I’m still a little paranoid about getting rid of clothes that are too big. I want to wait just a bit longer before donating/selling/whatever them. So I went through 1 by 1 and moved things I hadn’t either worn in a year or just were too ridiculously big to wear anymore. This is what I came up with…

A LOT of jeans

Others I kept just to wear as “boyfriend jeans” but these plum fall straight off me. Most of these were already comfort fit so I wasn’t surprised I couldn’t wear them.

Gonna keep these in here till maybe the summer? Then I’ll figure out the next step for em.

Since the clearing getting dressed has bizarrely become easier! It’s sad but true!! I don’t have this overwhelming feeling of “OH GOD WHAT DO I WEAR?!” Instead, only my favorites are left in my closet. I might look into purging even more clothing to simplify my life.

This top row are all “play clothes” meaning non-work.

It looks like a lot still~ But this is all season on this rack. Winter~summer. Once I clear out the spare closet with the stuff I will most likely get rid of I can start switching out my clothes with the season instead of keeping them all together. When I look at this though I do feel blessed. All through my life and throughout college I had so few clothes. Maybe 3 pairs of pants and 6 shirts. To have all this now makes me so blessed but also a little selfish.

The bottom row is work clothes (plus a few new coats/outerwear.) I kinda smooshed everything together so it’s hard to see stuff. Just khakis, long skirts and button ups. Oddly enough (and crappily) most the pieces that didn’t fit anymore were work clothes. Ugh….