Summer Begins!

Finally it is starting to feel like summer! Even though I start work soon, I feel like summer is finally beginning. I actually don't mind working at all because it at least gives me something to do, something to get up for, something to keep me busy. Although I do have projects here to keep me busy as well. I have two dresses that have been commissioned by a friend and my dad asked me to make him a custom bag and two hankerchiefs as well. Also I plan on making myself some things of my own! whew! But it's a lot of fun so I don't mind! I'll keep in touch with my projects as they get done!

The Past Year

Annie just gave me a bunch of pics from the last year at three specific times.

1. Major snowfall in Menomonie
2. My 21st Birthday
3. The Fashion Show

So I'm going to post a whole bunch here to share some moments of my last year!

Winter 2009
A big snowfall led to our only snowday!

We didn't have a shovel so Annie used part of our broiler pan haha!


Queen of the Snowpile! and she doesn't share very well :)

Birthday smiles with my roomie!


Annie, Annie's Friend, Me, Carissa, Ellie

Yes, I had to wear the crown all night long hahaha

Carissa and Ellie wearing Carissa's Fashion Show garments!

Final Push

It's the final push. Less than seven days and I'll be home yea!!! I've got a 18 page CAD project Due Monday with a Powerpoint due Friday and a 16-18 page Quality and Anaylsis Project Due Tuesday and a debate on Friday and an Interpersonal Exam Tuesday, Zoology project Due Monday, Zoology exam Thursday. Then, I'm done. hahah. It's going to be hard because I am in summer mind already, I just want to be home! But I've got to push, I'm almost done with Cad 3 more pages to do, and I've got a nice amount of QA left but I gotta work through it! Can I do it, yes I can!! hahaha
For now I'm stuck at the Library working till 6...stupid extended hours. Monday night I have to work till 2 am. ugh. People better be here, taking advantage of the hours they demanded and I now have to work. oh well. tra la la la la back to CAD!

Shifts

Since I'm still under hair-dying arrest and I don't have money for a tattoo or piercing I decided changing my blog layout will have to suffice my lust for change for now. (key word being for now...) Other than that nothing new, except for how cute the kitty were babysitting is! I've grown to love her quite a lot, especially since she puts up with so much crap from me. I'm always picking her up and carrying her on my shoulder, she's so tiny but we know she's over a year old (just how old she is we don't know). She loves napping on my bed while I do homework!
Isn't she cute!!!

Rewind

I was watching Moulin Rouge a few days ago, I hadn't watched it in a while but it's been on my mind. I was surprised how different the movie was! Of course, the movie itself hadn't changed but I saw so much more this time. Namely in costuming, I was able to see better the structure of how things were created and what they portrayed. After the movie I watched some of the special edition stuff. They had a section that showed all the garments from conception to completion. I almost peed myself with amazement at the work they did. The designers made over 300 garments for the movie. Each Cancan dancer had a personality, which in the realm of theatre and film I always think that every character should have fully developed story no matter how small. What impressed me more was Baz Luhrmann's take. He wanted things to be historical but more than that he wanted to evoke the feeling of what people would have felt going to the Moulin Rouge more than what they would have seen. This just makes me want to design for films so much more!!! I love film and theatre, the fantasy mixed with reality. There's so much depth (to some movies haha). The possibilites of fashion get me soo excited! I think I'm the only student who smiles when we get a new project in school haha! I don't know why but I think spring puts me in a "musical" mode, especially for theatre musicals haha. It seems everybody falls in love in spring, most people fall in love with other people, I fall in love with clothes ahaha, you always wind up with who your meant to be with, and despite our rocky relationship me and my sewing machine cannot be apart,ever. Oh I do hope summer gives me the time to sew, sew, sew! (and have jam sessions with Margie) hahaha!

Don't forget Saturday is Mother's Day! Thank your mothers dammit, they do everything for you! haha

Que Sera Sera

Why Truly Nice People Are So Rare

I seem to have found out in my ventures that being nice is no longer valued in our world. Not is it only no longer valued it is looked down upon. You see truly nice people do things for others without asking anything in return and sometimes without even being asked. These days people seem to think that doing things for others out of the kindness of your heart is proof that you are weak and clearance to walk all over people because most nice people will keep being nice, which yes, opens them up to being doormats I guess, but that doesn't mean you have to take advantage of it. I kept thinking that I was weak, that I let everybody walk all over because I have no spine, truth is I am NICE and people walk all over me because of that but being NICE does not mean people are weak. I just feel it's soo rare to come across people who are truly nice these days, people who consistantly do things for others without asking, without expecting anything, just to be NICE. I feel like I am talking circles and I probably am. Here's my heed to the world out there, don't walk on people because you can, thank people often, make efforts yourself to go out of your way to do something kind, prove that being NICE doesn't mean being weak.

I guess here's my message: SERVE OTHERS, NOT JUST YOURSELF, TREAT EVERYONE WITH RESPECT, and BE GRACIOUS ALWAYS

So proud of ME!

sorry I am here again but I just had to pop in and say how proud I am of me because for the first time ever I have had the strength to go out to a restaurant and eat BY MYSELF. I hate eating in public alone, probably one of my biggest fears, conquerd! Take that society! Being alone is awesome! hahaha!

The end of another year

While the fashion show is over!!! (ok it was over like last weekend haha) and pictures will be up soon (as soon as Annie gives them to me). I think they are pretty cool. I made Annie dark and evil looking and she walked perfectly as I told her to. No garment mishaps whoo!!! Next year will be exciting as long as I stay on top of my game. I am using Freak Shows, Pippen, and the idea of the Underworld (like in Moulin Rouge) to inspire me. There will for sure be a piece for the "LP" or "Ringleader" (probably worn by me!) and I've got two other garments I would like to design but am unsure of how exactly to pursue them, I know I want to make corsets but I don't want my garments to look too much like a whorehouse or TOO old fashioned. I have to bring it to a new level, hard! Currently though I have to keep my mind on finishing school, this upcoming week is the last full week of classes and not this friday but the next I am going home!!!!! I can't wait! I want summer to be here so bad!!! I can't wait to start my summer routine

Workout
Job 1
Job 2 (fingers crossed)
Sleep


And on the weekends!
Workout
Sew
Drink Beer
Sleep
hahahahaha!

Should be busy but fun, my main goals are to finish the dresses I owe Margie, Start on my fashion show garments, lose weight (for real now ahahaha), and SAVE MONEY!!!!!! Lots of it!

In Interpersonal Effects were have been talking about Happiness, and I find the more we talk about it the more I realize I really am happy. Obviously happiness isn't smiling all the time but it is having a contentment and satisfaction. Now is the time for me to start the wheel of moving forward because next summer I need an internship so this summer I am going to start contacting Film Costume Designers hoping someone will let me intern for them. It's weird to think I'm halfway through my schooling. I'm not forward as fast as my friends but I'll get their, besides whats most important to me right now is ME. Making sure I get a good job is what is on my mind because I can't count on anybody and I want to design for films ssooooooooo bad! but it's going to take an ass load of work to get myself their. Since I've turned 21 I do feel more adult and in more control of my own life, it also rocks being able to go to bars and clubs. Bars are just a great way to get a giant group of people meeting as everybodys friends show up and we all hang out which is fun! Though don't get me wrong I don't go out a lot once a week if that! I do go bowling on thursdays which I enjoy because it is kind of my "me" time with Annie. Anyways I've been taking a break from CAD but I suppose I should get back to it as it is due in about a week and I have a lot of work to do still! whoo!

Que Sera Sera!