Fashion Plates

Here are the two new fashion plates I'm working on for a lovely young lady who works at my work. I feel her walls need some art, as she moved into a new office. Hope you like. They are still in progress. They are water color pencil yet to be smudged and made into a fluid motion. And the leaf one I played with in Photoshop real quick for fun. I'll keep ya'll updated on their progress. There is going to be a third one I think as well.

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Oh Yes Huge Update.

Okay so it's been a while. So here is a huge update. With straight hair from my asymmetrical cut to the new hair. Some random photos of food, people,clothes and more. Pretty Hodge podge. Hope your holiday season is being bright. Only another week.

Although I'm clothing obsessed I'd like to say that really the holiday season is truly about family, giving, and being with the ones you love. Regardless of your religion this time of the year is instilled in us to be special. So we might as well take advantage of being able to being with friends and families and give thanks for the healthy people in your life. The things and people, events and moments that make life smile worthy.

Keep smiling my friends, keep smiling.

Another Alter Ego project

My final for Art, white charcoal on black paper

A alter ego piece for Art

Love the face on this. Doing your research really helps bring out the best when rendering costumes.

random

My curls straightened before the drastic cut.

New NYC lipstick

Modeling the circle skirt

Oh Goodness my new hair, I'm in love with this cut. Who knew I could pull off a faux hawk.

Yeah the shoes and a 5$ skirt from Forever 21+

Shawl collar cardigan. Forever 21 Straight size

Age, struggle, rebellion can and is beautiful.

Oh yes the circle skirts I made these last two weeks!!

The shoe collection. Corduroy booties from ALDO, Faux taupe leather boots from Avenue, and vintage turtle smoking slipper from etsy.

My new pieces on a model with the Mui Mui shoes I cannot afford and will never have. But that is alright. Because they are unimportant.

These are pieces of clothing I've either made, revamped or already own. ( the two skirts I made from free fabric, the dice corset is super old flannel, the white shirt is a white shirt, and the gold button and sweater ribbed sweater from the eighties was taken from a dress to a sweater by the sewing machine)

Give Back
Hug a Tree
Hug a Bear they're just grumpy
Tell your friends how much they mean to you
Call a parent, grandparent or sibling if available
Cry a little
Remember good times, bad times, then move on and create new moments
And Keep it Fierce

Jlivia

Happy Holidays

" Girls who read never go to bed alone"

SOURCE: TUMBLR(reblogged from Bleedforfashion.com)

"Date a girl who reads. Date a girl who spends her money on books instead of clothes. She has problems with closet space because she has too many books. Date a girl who has a list of books she wants to read, who has had a library card since she was twelve.

Find a girl who reads. You'll know that she does because she will always have an unread book in her bag. She's the one lovingly looking over the shelves in the bookstore, the one who quietly cries out when she finds the book she wants. You see the weird chick sniffing the pages of an old book in a second hand book shop? That's the reader. They can never resist smelling the pages, especially when they are yellow.

She's the girl reading while waiting in that coffee shop down the street. If you take a peek at her mug, the non-dairy creamer is floating on top because she's kind of engrossed already. Lost in a world of the author's making. Sit down. She might give you a glare, as most girls who read do not like to be interrupted. Ask her if she likes the book.

Buy her another cup of coffee.

Let her know what you really think of Murakami. See if she got through the first chapter of Fellowship. Understand that if she says she understood James Joyce's Ulysses she's just saying that to sound intelligent. Ask her if she loves Alice or she would like to be Alice.

It's easy to date a girl who reads. Give her books for her birthday, for Christmas and for anniversaries. Give her the gift of words, in poetry, in song. Give her Neruda, Pound, Sexton, Cummings. Let her know that you understand that words are love. Understand that she knows the difference between books and reality but by god, she's going to try to make her life a little like her favorite book. It will never be your fault if she does.

She has to give it a shot somehow.

Lie to her. If she understands syntax, she will understand your need to lie. Behind words are other things: motivation, value, nuance, dialogue. It will not be the end of the world.

Fail her. Because a girl who reads knows that failure always leads up to the climax. Because girls who understand that all things will come to end. That you can always write a sequel. That you can begin again and again and still be the hero. That life is meant to have a villain or two.

Why be frightened of everything that you are not? Girls who read understand that people, like characters, develop. Except in the Twilight series.

If you find a girl who reads, keep her close. When you find her up at 2am clutching a book to her chest and weeping, make her a cup of tea and hold her. You may lose her for a couple of hours but she will always come back to you. She'll talk as if the characters in the book are real, because for a while, they always are.

You will propose on a hot air balloon. Or during a rock concert. Or very casually next time she's sick. Over Skype.

You will smile so hard you will wonder why your heart hasn't burst and bled out all over your chest yet. You will write the story of your lives, have kids with strange names and even stranger tastes. She will introduce your children to the Cat in the Hat and Aslan, maybe in the same day. You will walk the winters of your old age together and she will recite Keats under her breath while you shake the snow off your boots.

Date a girl who reads because you deserve it. You deserve a girl who can give you the most colorful life imaginable. If you can only give her monotony, and stale hours and half-baked proposals, then you're better off alone. If you want the world and the worlds beyond it, date a girl who reads.

Or better yet, date a girl who writes." — Rosemarie Urquico (in response to Charles Warnke's You Should Date An Illiterate Girl)

 

I'm a reader..how about you guys?

 

Jlivia

 

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Invites

Bored on day and decided to make wedding invitations for a fake marriage. I like the fall colors, though the leafless tree is a bit creepy.

Happy Holiday Fierceness

Oh Scanner

So the scanner in our room refuses to scan my costume final properly and it is really beginning to get on my nerves. Here is a couple of the uncolored  pieces. They are for A MidSummer Nights Dream.

Jlivia

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Street (campus) Fashion

So I like to do quick sketches of awesome outfits on campus, just picking up the main points of each outfit and moving on. There are really quick and not very neat, but some I may clean up and make formal drawings of them. A few are what I wore on certain days.

This was me one day with a sweatshirt and errings from Forever 21+ and a dress from Goodwill and some Torrid tights and a pair of Old Navy heels

Me again in a sheer blouse from Forever 21+, a skirt from Old Navy and oxfords from Target

Girl on the bus had the coolest orange button down with little crosses all over it under her giant sweatshirt.

Quick digital coloring

Hipster in my art class

Best outfit on campus this year.

My doppelganger, I wore this gorgeous kimono jacket and pin tucked skirt and leaf earrings from Forever 21, and my new kicks from Payless. Loved the outfit just decided to play with the body shape.

Hope you all had a wonderful thanksgiving.

Stay Fierce

Jlivia

Pictures Oh My!

So a bit of the nature photography that I like to do, along with my two kitty cats that I love because they are wonderfully soft and fuzzy. Sadly the girl (the one on the stairs) dislikes people and anything to do with them. No petting, no staring, no nothing. Yet of course she is the softest thing ever to be on this earth...and she won't let you pet her. How unfair right?! But of course she is still the cutest thing to look at. Not much of a post today, I'm scanning a bunch of my drawings so hopefully those will be up in a day or so.

Oh I almost forgot. This dress was added to the American site on Monday and I think I'm in love. It is simply fantastic! So flattering for so many people and a right proper length. So amazing for the holidays and for any mildly more dressed up even. With black tights and black shoes, its will sing.

ASOS CURVE Midi Dress in Geo Smudge Print $80.87
 ( plus there is a ten percent off everything sale happening right now!!)

Keep it Fierce

Jlivia