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Fall is here, I can hear the leaves

2009-10-07T18:27:00.000-07:00

Fall is...growing my hair longer and wearing honey hues with pops of pink lips.

Fashioned this necklace by doing a loose slip-stitch on a gray sash.

Oh lawdy, this blog wasn't intended to be seasonal, I swear!

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Midsummer Update

2009-07-09T10:48:00.001-07:00

Midsummer consists of...shopping, watching too much bad tv, reconnecting with old friends, being a yogi at the gym, reading, frequenting downtown and the mission, going on adventures once 'n a while. More and more

Outfit photo from weeks and weeks ago. I wish I had a beautiful and secret garden like this one, but all I have is a hill of dirt and weeds. I guess one can dream, right?

(Details)
gray cami: gap
grey shrug: ross
floral romper: urban outfitters
purple tights: goodwill
flats: nordstrom's rack

I fell in love with this dress while I was skimming through the racks of buffalo exchange. I'm waiting for the perfect sunny day to wear it out.

Super cute bikini top that Zoe gave me!

My favorite shoes that I found at Villains on the Haight. Lovely red velvet. I feel like little red riding hood when I wear them.

My creativity has been pretty low these days. However, I was thinking about what to give my friend for her belated birthday gift. I decided to make her a band of horses from the Ann Wood pattern (http://www.designspongeonline.com/2009/05/diy-project-cardboard-stampede-w-ann-wood.html). Lots of fun to do, I felt like a cardboard toymaker!

I named this one Cinderella. Hand-stitched tulle and hand painted details.

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The 4 Hour Dress

2009-06-15T18:33:00.000-07:00

The other day, nothing seemed fitting in my wardrobe. So I took an old men's dress shirt and started handsewing a dress then and there. Checked the clock, 4 o'clock. Some lazy stiches, safety pins, and I was ready to go.

Of course, I'm going to make a cleaner version with a nicer shirt. Looks like a good summer dress to me.

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Playing Dress Up & other things

2009-05-30T16:14:00.001-07:00

Outfit details:
White shirt: thrifted and reconstructed
mustard camisol: store in la
my favorite pants: decades of fashion
tan heels: Macy's

A couple of days ago, I decided to actually finish some easy projects. After I picked up a hemming technique (blind-stitch), I took in the length of my favorite floral pants. Earlier that day I thrifted a huge white tshirt, which I cropped and sewed some braiding details. I pretty much took three strips of remaining jersey, braided, and sewed on to the collar for a more finished look. I'm happy with the way it turned out, and new ideas are starting to form tooo.

Here's a close up of the braiding detail

I also got a new swimsuit from Target's Tracy Feith collection. I'm super excited to wear it, and it's pretty much the perfect swimsuit for me. Ruffles + cheerful neons.
After I took my happy pants to a cafe for some coffee with Lisa & Lora, I went back to Lisa's house and we decided to play dress up. Dressing up is something I've always loved to do as a child. I used to have a big plastic box filled with tutus, feathered boas, beads, etc. Nonetheless, I never grew out of it. So--I got that same sorta glee whilst snatching outrageous Marie Antoinette gowns and kimonas from Lisa's closet. My photos really don't compare to Lisas---I'm not the most confident photographer. So here are the shots Lisa took of me---as a modern geisha type thing.

More photos on my flickr of course: http://www.flickr.com/photos/tiggy_pop/

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Ladybug Bag

2009-05-18T17:39:00.000-07:00

Yesterday I made a bag for my friend's birthday.

I decided to use a pattern from a book called "Cute Stuff." Cute stuff, indeeed! Lots of funny captions and illustrations. Pretty much the perfect book for gift giving.

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new shoes!

2009-05-11T16:06:00.000-07:00

I was growing tired of my converse. They were getting painty and making my feet feel achy. Soo, I decided to purchase these beauties...!
Thrifted them at crossroads trading co. Super comfy, fake leatha, practical.

Pretty pleased, I must say.

It's been a while...an outfit shot!

neon shirt: pac sun
little girls acid wash dress: thrift town
grey shorts: forever 21
black tights: wal mart
new shoes!: crossroads trading co.

Kinda liking how the rusty shoes go with acid wash.

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Recent Finds

2009-05-09T09:21:00.000-07:00

Zoe gave me this adorable children's vest.

Picked this cropped coat at Forever 21 while I was a long beach. It has a 60's vibe to it. I'm thinking of crazy prints on long-sleeved shirt, dresses. etc.

Words cannot express how much I looove these pants! They are pretty outrageous. Zoe pointed them out to me while I was at Decades of Fashion on the Haight. I'm thinking of cropped tshirts, blouses, cute heels with these pants. Cant cant cant wait to wear 'em.

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I'm a Sloth

2009-05-05T22:04:00.000-07:00

(Egon Schiele)

I swear I'm alive..! Sorrysorry, I guess I've just been bitten by the lazy bug. Watching old episodes of project runway, throwing on this and that, taking naps---all in all being unproductive. However, I got some really fantastic pieces at lovely vintage boutiques & I've got some projects up my sleeves. Pictures and more Tiggypop is promised!

Silly Spring Things

2009-03-28T08:42:00.001-07:00

First off, I love my school..which is a bit weird because its high school and all. But, I go to an art school, where unusual things happen. Students raise pirate flags, dress up as ninjas and hide on the roofs, place "bad paintings" in uncanny places. Its home!

Anyway, I'm taking a psych class and right now I'm studying personality disorders. One of the assignments was to "act devious," as in dressing up/doing socially unacceptable ticks. Since it was nice and sunny outside I decided to dress up in all Christmas garb. Reindeer headbands, homemade beard, holiday sweater from 5th grade etc. etc.
Some people said I looked like a homeless Santa, haha, pretty accurate! It was interesting looking at peoples reactions. Some people tried to act like it was normal, others embraced it and took pictures, then there were those that stared in horror.

It's finally sunny outside, so I've been wearing warmer weather clothing. I'm all jittery because of the blueblue skies and college acceptance letters coming in. AH! I have no idea where I want to go, and I have less than a few weeks to figure it out. Anyway, yesterday I wore:

cami: shop in la
skirt into top: target
bow: handmade
jeans: pac sun
black shoes: bakers

Today I'll be pppainting away, and wishing I were outside

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Bright & Light

2009-03-19T17:52:00.000-07:00

Early day at school. I traveled to Van Ness with Zoe to look at the White Walls Gallery. We saw the Alex Lukas exhibit called "and another shall rise to take her place." It included paintings and digital art of buildings/houses that were underwater. Pretty amazing, I must say. Decided to get banana milkshakes at Lori's Diner....

YUM!

My hair was getting insanely long and unruly, so I decided to get a sponatenous/last minute haircut. I like it..!

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Powdered Sugar, Dollop of Butter

2009-03-16T20:13:00.000-07:00

After school waffles at a cafe

Creative Dabblings

2009-03-15T12:43:00.001-07:00

Not many daily outfit posts due to the strange cold days. Ah! All I want to do is curl up into my blankets and wait until it gets a bit sunnier. And that's where my mind has been I guess--regarding clothing and colors. Yesterday, I went to the mission again. Everything is looking too familiar and humdrum around the area, but I guess it ties into convenience/ lack of $$$. Originally, Me 'n Zoe wanted to find some lace, any interesting print..and make it into something fanciful to wear. Hair accessories, pins, etcetc. Hmm..I should have known better because I always end up with unexpected clothing finds in the end. Fits well, nothing to snip/sew/paint, nothing to reconstruct. However, I remembered a tutorial from childhoodflames about shredded shirts. So, I picked up the softest shirt from the mens section
And I came home and started shredding away. Its incredibly time consuming, and finger-aching. I will probably snip some more of the sleeves so its more of a tank/trapeeze dress, and shred a couple rows for a more ruffly effect. I will post the end result shortly, hopefully--!

I'm also thinking about getting some aprons from the thrift store and sewing them into a skirt. Besides thinking about hot weather and flowy silhouettes, I'm continuing my quest of oversized things. XXL pieces for XS me. I found an incredibly comfortable sweater....turned into a sweater dress. I can't wait to pair this with some boots/colorful legwear, etc. Its pretty warm so maybe I can take it to my trip to maryland over spring break.

Creativity seems to kick in every Friday monring for me. Magically, I button a white shirt into something crazy, or I start making a necklace last minute. I was really craving a ridiculously huge bow, so, I sloppily sewed a bigbig bow and pinned it slightly askew. The fabric is from my childhood bedsheets---babar themed..!

Channeling my inner Aretha?

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Good Morning

2009-03-11T16:57:00.000-07:00

A couple of days ago, I found a box of light in the early morning
I stood in front of the box to see my silhouette. I liked it, but the time was ticktickticking so I sped off to my room, around the corner to get dressed.
Today, was entirely different. I sipped my tea, walked up the stairs, grabbed my camera, positioned the tripod
click click click

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Two Steps Back

2009-03-10T17:07:00.000-07:00

Two days ago was....another Sunday hangout day with Lisa. We started a social experiment, but it failed. However, we are going to try it again and I will definitely post the results when it happens. But yeah, we walked walked walked around the mission. Ate amazing icecream at BiRite, roasted banana and honey lavender anyone?
Found a church surrounded by branches. These are taken by Lisa & tweaked by Me. We did lots of successful shopping. Lisa got a denim jacket from the 'lil boys sections. Then, we visited another second hand store (Clothes Contact) that sells clothing by the pound ( $10/pound). Genius if you find super light things. Soo I found a summer tank, just what a wanted. Very trapezy, summery, breezy. Sort of like childhood flames a while back.
We ended the day with eating samosas at another icecream store. haha, what can I say? foodfood is too goood.
oh oh! and many thanks to tricia royal of bitsandbobbins.com for featuring me on her wardrobe_remix(ers) 'o the week section. Ms. Royal's blog, wardrobe_remix, and her style is prettymuch amazing--!

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An Outfit

2009-03-02T16:05:00.000-08:00

Cropped Cardigan: Mervyns
Red shirt: Pac Sun
Acid Wash Jean Skirt: thrifted @ Thrift Town, one of my most favorite skirts...!
Red Belt: Goodwill
Black Tights: Wal Mart
Black Boots: American Eagle

Hm...I'm in desperate need of some hair cutting.

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Clean up

2009-03-01T12:08:00.000-08:00

Today I took some time to clean up my room.
Clothes are scattered on the floor half the time, and I seem to tread across them like a wading pool.

So, its always nice to have a clean floor in my hospital room, clothing somewhat neatly lined up in my closet from time to time.
I guess the whole process clears my mind a bit.

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Walking

2009-02-28T19:57:00.000-08:00

Bright houses on an otherwise humdrum day.

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Repeat

2009-02-27T21:39:00.000-08:00

Zip-up dress: Thrifted at Crossroads Trading Company. I remember walking into a pricier shop on the haight and seeing the design. I pretty much fell in love with it, but I didn't have the $$. However, I was thrilled to see something quite similar at a thrift store. love it when things like that happen. Its super comfy too!
cardigan: ?
marigold shirt dress: Thrifted at Crossroads Trading
red leggings: target
red flats: nordstroms rack
red backpack: on the streets

Rainy + Sick Days= lack of pictures, posts, inspiration. Spring is coming around the corner though so hopefully things will pick up.

Today was prettymuch a repeat of last Friday. No surprises, just walking around the Mission. Took some pictures with Zoe at a graffitied alley---ahh all of the passerbys, how embarrassing! Today at lunch we were discussing ideas for opening an etsy shop this summer, something like tomtomhomhom? Ate amazing bannana cream pie, which was like heaven on the fork. Walked around thrift stores to find large clothing, but everything seemed too ambitious and overwhelming so I walked out empty handed. We did find this outrageous coat from France....it was red with yellow/green/ blue trimming and had boxing bears quilted in the back. I was going to take a picture of it, but then zoe put it back and some lurker girl snatched it out of our hands. ahh those thrift store lurkers that follow you around while you find cute clothes, they are a small annoyance. Another project I want to do is to find interesting pieces at a junkyard (old clock hands, metal scraps, odds and ends) to make into jewelry.
Zoeee rocking the neutrals with pops of color. She has the best neck warmer thingies!

Ah so many things I would like to do, but then there are the 10 other self portraits I need to paint of myself. Pretty daunting I must say.

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Any other After school day

2009-02-20T19:42:00.000-08:00

Red cardigan: my moms
black sweater dress: ross
leggings: target
boots: american eagle
owl necklace: birthday present

I've been itching to wear oversized shirts. Maybe reconstruct them, snip here, and tie there. I guess I'm due for a trip to thrift town/goodwill. Orr my mom's closet, which is where I got my red cardigan. This outfit is a bit unsual for what I usually wear---I rarely wear all black. But I felt like I needed a change and I always get a little creative on Friday mornings--late days for school. I love this photo from (I'm pretty sure) thesartorialist.blogspot.com/ She looks so comfy and effortless, and I guess this is what I'm shooting for right now as the weather gets a little warmer. The photo below (sorry, source?) is almost a splitting image for chillier days. Layers underneath and a thick scarf.
Afters school, I went to Irving for frozen yogurt with Zoe. She's wearing a dress I thrifted for myself, looks much better on her and the print is the best! She also pointed out a great location for photos. Who woulda thought, a parking lot?

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Valentines Day

2009-02-14T21:12:00.000-08:00

Usually Valentines day is the most painful day to go through at school. Girls get dressed up and pretty, guys act like they want to disappear, and everyone absorbs the artificially sweet atmosphere as they walk around a lamelamelame love festival at school. So, I couldn't have been more happier to see that Valentines on a Saturday.

My friend Zoe and I waited at bus stops. I like the weather. Sunny yet misty. Here are our rainboots and colorful frocks

We decided to go to the best pie place in the city...Mission Pie! I have a serious love for pie, pie over cake any day! Mission Pie is really good because all of their ingredients come from nearby organic farms. Plus a dollop of homemade whipped cream. We got Apple Pie
and Lemon Zinger. mmm mmm mmmmm

We decided to go to this yearly, epic, pillow fight near the ferry building in the embarrcadero. Zoe and I purchased some down feathered pillows at goodwill. Mine was ridiculous, it was probably a couch cushion? hahah! It was really nice watching everybody carrying pillows here 'n there downtown and around the city. It was like everyone was in on a secret. This is a couple minutes before the actual fight...so many people, so many pillows. During the fight..! I've never seen so many feathers in my life. In the floor, in the air, in my hair. crazy crazy stuff. I felt like I was in a mosh pit, a dance party, a war, etcetc.
Plus, everybody got a kick outta me because they thought I was five with a mean grip on the heaviest/hugest pillow in the world.

I've never been more tired in my life..! I will probably hibernate tomorrow. Sleeping in, taking long naps, and having other pillowy dreams.

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Rainy Wednesday

2009-02-11T18:00:00.000-08:00

Raincoat: Eddie Bauer
Layered shirt: rue21
black cami (unseen): store in la
pink skirt: thrift town
black leggings: ?
Red shoes: nordstrom's rack
also on my flickr @ http://www.flickr.com/photos/tiggy_pop/

Playing around with neons and pastels today. Shortly after I took the picture it started drizzling so I changed into my rainboots...I always feel like i'm five when I wear rainboots, I'm extremely clumsy dawdling here and there. But there was one time when I couldn't have been more happy to have them on. My friend and I decided to jump into huge puddles at a nearby elementary school. The puddles were almost halfway up my calf! It was crazy running through a land of puddles.

A close up of a necklace one of my friends made for me as a christmas present. She wove in the pink chinese wrapping strings with chains. Extremely clever, and one of my favorites. I'm always bugging her to open up an etsy shop.
If you noticed that my boots were a little painty, its because I was beautifying my ugly art school with a monet mural. Lisa (last post) and I are doing the painting above. I'm pretty much in love with the colors. While I was putting the lavenders/blues on the wall, I was imagining painting my own room. My room is all white (including the rest of my house), thats why I call my house the "glass house." I'm hoping to do some redecorating/something to my room so I don't keep on waking up in a mental ward everyday..!

Action shot 'o the day

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Tiggy POP's first post!

2009-02-07T19:48:00.001-08:00

Last Sunday I was reading the datebook while sipping some tea. I've always been a bit skeptical about horoscopes. I'll read something heart fluttering like "new love interests around the corner," and then I would go to school and the same smelly boy would be looming above my head (EW-y!). But I decided to look at what the stars had to say about dear sagitariuses in the world and found the horoscope pretty funny and ironic..

My friends often tell me to document and post pictures of things I buy 'n make and other artsy activities. But then I just do a little shrug and continue piling things up in my pink camera, closet, and sketchbooks. After reading "Lets settle for best-read blogger," I thought I'd take a shot at it. So here I am tiptyping awayy

Today my friend Lisa and I had our weekly Sunday fest. We usually shop, try social experiments, eat at new cafes etcetc. Today was slightly different---ah a Saturday! I'm not sure if it was the day or what but we walked around in circles, took unnecessary buses, and peered into a closed cafe windows. Even though we couldn't eat matcha muffins and sip match lattes, we ended up taking some pretty crazy pictures around the city. We walked down Van Ness and saw an alley way of cherry blossoms...it was so beautiful!

Then we found an old victorian styled house with amazingg architecture and colors. A forest green with a light hospital minty green. yumm.

We ended the day by eating some really good mediterranean food---rice pudding and a gyros meat plate. sadly, there arent any pictures of tig the pig..!
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