adventures in sewing 2013

Recently I've felt the urge to sew.

ALL THE TIME.

I love making my own things, but I've only ever sewn about two garments in my life; my favorite being skirts because they're just so darn easy.

Cut a few rectangles, sew a line, gather, and sew it all together = fluffy gathered skirt like this skirt that I sewed for my little sister some time ago:

So I recently came up for a goal for myself...I'm going to try and make at least 50% of my wardrobe myself this year. That's going to take a lot of sewing, but I'm up for the challenge! There's so much that I want to learn and try~!

First up is a lovely pair of bloomers I made from an old pillowcase. I followed Sparklewolfie's tutorial with a few modifications made myself. You should check out her other tutorials and the rest of her blog; it's great!

Unfortunately, I didn't get any pictures of the process but I'll probably try to put together a tutorial when I make another pair.

Here they are!

 Pretty easy to make and just so darn cute!

PLEASE excuse the fabric mess in the background...

I love these bloomers so much! They fit comfortably and actually aren't too short to wear outside. I plan on wearing these by themselves and also under a matching gathered mini skirt I'm going to make from the other pillowcase sometime next week.

Please look forward to it and thanks for reading!

quick update: $5 shoes from f21!

Sale items were half off! I'm so going back for more this week!!!

Alex is having an awesome giveaway!

I'm entering; you should too!

http://androgynousotaku.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/girly-giveaway.html

mall haul: accessories

I mentioned in a previous post that I recently bought a bunch of stuff from Forever 21 and H&M. I probably spent too much money, but I had absolutely no fall/winter clothes and I hadn't gone shopping for myself in a very long time.

I've decided to split up the haul into a few posts so I don't have to put together a super mega picspam of all the stuff I bought. Today's theme?

Accessories!

I am absolutely, positively in love with this collar necklace.

The details on this thing are just lovely. I can't exactly remember how much it was but I think it was around $12 at Forever 21; a steal in my opinion!

 Here's another one from Forever 21.

More details I adore.

Seeing as I almost always lose my earrings I decided to buy some more! These were only $5.95 at H&M so I won't feel too bad if I lose them too, but I'll try to always keep them in my jewelry box.

I don't quite know if this counts as an accessory, but I love it anyway. Who wouldn't want a gold, sparkly lash curler?!

 Last, but definitely not least...  

TIGHTS!!

The patterned ones are my faves, of course. I probably would've bought more tights, but then I definitely would have spent too much money. As it is, I already spent about $100 on all these tights haha...

These are my favorite out of all the tights I bought.

 Can't have tights without some basic solids as well. These look great, but they look even better...

...when paired with lace tights! I can't get enough of this combination.

And that's all for accessories.

I also bought some lip glosses and a nail kit, but I don't think those are very interesting so I left them out. Maybe shoes could go in here, but I'll probably throw those in with the clothes post since I only bought two pairs. 

I so love all my new stuff!  

another fotd

Just a quick post with today's FOTD. These probably won't be done too often since I'm trying to save money and really only go anywhere on the weekends.

No need for makeup if I'm just going to sit at home in my pajamas all day.

 Taken via Instagram. 

Here's yesterday's Instagram photo while I'm at it.

Mall haul posts, Ulta Beauty haul posts, an update on my bedroom, and more coming soon!

friday is british professor day + fotd & ootd

First day back to school in years~

It was a long day, but I'm ultimately glad to be back and to have homework and sit through super long lectures.

That being said, what are the odds that both of my professors today were British? I was seriously like...hm...wtf? Makes for interesting listening, though they're both completely different kinds of people.

Anywho. Here's my first day of school FOTD and OOTD:

 For some reason my makeup never looks the same in photos. Wearing a cheap pair of Sassie lashes that I doctored with the Ardell accent flare lashes. Not too visible in this picture, but I do have one with a better look at how much bigger they make my eyes look.

Big difference, no?

And here's the OOTD. 

Please do forgive my awful camera quality. My actual camera's battery died while trying to get a shot so I had to settle for my cell phone. Everything I'm wearing here is from my recent mall haul.

Top, skirt, boots: Forever 21

Stockings:  H&M

I've got an Ulta Beauty haul coming in the mail, too so I should be able to try a wider range of makeup looks soon. I really love the gyaru look so I'll keep trying to improve!

haul preview

I went crazy at the mall today; primarily at Forever 21 and H&M.

Here's the pile of stuff I'll show in detail later:

In my defense, I had pretty much nothing to wear for the fall/winter! I lost about 20lbs (about 9 kg) in the past year so everything I own (excluding my shirts) doesn't fit well anymore.

Also, most of the clothes I was holding onto were just....old and ugly. ┐('〜`；)┌

I look forward to sharing this stuff with you!