Ulyana Sergeenko and pop culture

I've decided to dedicate my 200th blog post to the on-the-rise Russian designer, Ulyana Sergeenko. Her debut collection for F/W 2011 left me speechless and her most recent S/S 2012 collection is no disappointment. I've selected some photos from both lookbooks and have also collected some photos of some of the cultural references they remind me of. Victory rolls, prairie grasses, complementary colours, and dusty florals are streamlined into billowing skirts, impeccable tailoring, and the delicate balance between modesty and sexiness. I'm definitely looking forward to seeing much more from Ms. Sergeenko.

What I Did - March 2012

My spring break started on Thursday and I started it out right - with some shopping! Local boutique Primp was having their spring trunk sale with 10% of proceeds donated to a local animal rescue. So I broke out the wallet and spent the night shopping with my sister. Everything in the boutique is $100 or less and I walked out with 4 new items (uh oh, I broke my No Shopping Till April rule).

I'm not much of a ring person (small hands) but they had some great accessories (see below). There're 3 belts there that I have my eye on, as well.

I love the studded cluth, yum!

I had Saturday off, and given that it was unseasonably warm for Minnesota (in the 60s!) I headed to the zoo. The polar bear exhibit was also housing two brown bears and a grizzly bear that had been left stranded from floods in North Dakota. I don't know where they were housing the grizzly, but the two brown bears were playing friskily on their side of the exhibit.

After the zoo, a muffin and some reflecting by the melting lake shore ensued (I sound very poetic & romantic sometimes, don't I?) (Just so you know, I'm not too much, really.)

And Sunday night meant bowling! After this big party weekend (ho ho!), my health has taken a toll for the worse. I work Tues - Fri, so hopefully I'll regain my strength for that. Today, my final day of freedom before heading back to the time clock, I went downtown to eat at the restaurant that my mum works at.

I wore this new top that I'd gotten at Primp (it's so lovely, just wait till summer!) and these old booties which I was addicted to last spring. I found them within the depths of my closet and thought they'd be a good choice since I usually wear heels.

Anyways, this is all I have for now! Hopefully I'll have something exciting for the next post, as I noticed that it will be my 200th! I also have a guest post coming up, written by a good friend of mine, on how to be a better writer. Oh, also, I've joined Pinterest! Click here to follow my antics and general pinnings.

life without technology

So, after it took more than a week to fix my laptop, I get it back (yay, I could do homework again!) only to have the internet go out. And so, I have been far from the computer or any of my files for quite some time now. You may be asking, "What does an 18 year old blogger do with her time when, gasp, there is no internet?!" Well, I started out with cleaning my room, which came to a screeching halt when I reached the corner of my room which is jam packed with old magazines. I used to be good about clearing out back issues of magazines, but I eventually became too lazy... And so, I have issues of magazines dating back to 2007 (the stone age!) and they are slowly taking over my life/bedroom. So here I am to show you what I did with all this "junk"...


It seems a waste to just recyle a few hundred magazines which I'd been carefully stowing away for so many years. So I began painstakingly going through each periodical and tearing out any photos, articles, etc. which I liked. This seemed like a good idea at the time, but after I had filled several shoeboxes with these clippings, I realised I had a whole new problem on my hands. And so, I started a fashion scrapbook! It's similar to just a fat magazine, except free of Covergirl advertisments and trends which I don't like.

This is the inside of the front cover, a work in progress.

Using editorials from Vogue, ad campaigns for Burberry, Urban Outfitters catalogue photoshoots, and even some runway photos which I painstakingly (this word shall arise a lot) selected and printed out.

I categorised pages mostly by trend, colour, or season. This here is my "high chroma blue, purple, and pink" page.

A work in progress: my punk page....mostly plaid punk.

"Oranges taste just like it!"

So I guess I just wanted to let you know that, yes, life exists outside the internet realm! I'll keep working on this scrapbook and hopefully share this with you more... I think it's an excellent way to cultivate your tastes and try out some new trends. If you have your own fashion scrapbook and have a link to it online, I'd love to see it and gather further inspiration for my own!