Bright, Bold, Blue

Friends, I am pleased to tell you that today I wore a yellow cardigan instead of that blue one! I don't think I would have worn it anyways, considering the fact that it would have been a lot of blue, but still it feels nice to do something different for a change. I would have taken pictures for proof but totally forgot to bring my cardi with me when I went to take pictures. But it's okay, the challenge continues for the week!

Now for a different topic, what do you feel when you see the color blue? I know it's often portrayed as a sad and mellow color, but wearing this bright blue today in my skirt made me feel empowered and noticeable. Blue is such a gorgeous and wearable color (take the navy blue cardigan for example) and I think sometimes we take it for granted that we don't notice it as much. It's in our jeans, jackets, school colors (for BYU anyways), and even in the sky for heaven's sake, that it tends to be a color that's just there, one that blends in with the rest of the crowd. I think something I would like to try doing more is making blue more noticeable, more of a statement color than just a "there" color. Can I do it? Can you/will you do it? Haha I sound like I'm speaking for charity or something, but really! This skirt has inspired me. You can never have too much blue :)

[Hunger Games Party] Set-Up and Decorations

So as people came into our apartment, this is what they would have seen (with the exception of the sign being so curled, I took this picture the morning after and I guess it was a little rainy that night). We covered our apartment number with a district 12 sign and also had an invitation/announcement on the door. This is how all the other apartment doors in our complex looked as well when we went around to deliver invitations the Tuesday before the party (which was on a Saturday).

When guests walked into our apartment, they saw this:

For the apartments in our complex, those people were in whatever district their apartment number was. The rest of the people I decided to just divide it by birthday month and it worked out really well, considering there are twelve months in a year and twelve districts haha.

Just like we did for our Harry Potter party, we covered the walls in tablecloths we bought from the dollar store. To incorporate the coal/fire trade of district 12, I bought yellow, orange, white and black tablecloths. It worked out well and we still had our old Christmas lights out so we strung those all around too and it looked fun.

On the wall we had all the twelve district posters up to show what each one's trade was. Also randomly scattered about on the walls were some capitol propaganda posters (like this, this, and this).

For some reason one string of lights wasn't working :/

I know I showed this picture in the food post already but I felt like it might be necessary to show how we set it up. We had our table of food in the corner and also put the drinks on the counter. We happened to have all the plants already but they added a nice touch.

And the tree...let's just say we've had it since November and never got rid of it so we decided to make it part of the decorations. I have to admit, that as much as I currently hate that tree, it added a nice touch to the decorations.

And to honor President Snow, we had white flowers strewn about on the table, in the tree, and this one hanging from the ceiling fan. I thought it was the perfect thing. I just got two bunches of them from the dollar store which gave me about twelve flowers.

If you want to read about all the other aspects of the party, just click on the links below!

Invitations

Food

Party Day

Costumes

Fashion Sketches

I have a little sketchbook where I like to sketch designs if I have time. Designing clothes is one of my favorite things to do and I'm trying to learn how to do it better. Right now it's just a hobby, but one day I suppose it could be a career, or not, who knows? For now, all I know is that I definitely want to do something with fashion in my future, whether it is designing, merchandising, event coordinating, or whatever, I know I can do it, because fashion makes me happy. :) Anyways these are some of my sketches. And if you hate them...just don't tell me so. :)

Sometimes...

....I get in really weird moods where I just start blabbering on about stuff I probably shouldn't be talking about. It's really funny for the people around me because I just keep going and then realize I sound ridiculous.

Take today for instance: I was in the hot-tub with some friends and we were talking about relationships and I just started going on about boys and how I want a boyfriend and blah blah. I wish I were a better explainer at how these things go on. These moods tend to happen around once a month and always around boys. Once I told a boy, "Okay, you can kiss me!" It's been a laugh ever since.

Anyways, I'm really tired right now and falling asleep in my bed (even though it's covered with a lot of stuff. I know I promised another Hunger Games party post today but I'm afraid I'll just fall asleep at the computer trying to write it. Therefore...it will have to wait until hopefully tomorrow. I'm terribly sorry my friends, but I do need my sleep.

So yeah, I'm going to bed. With my koala bear Kuddles cuz I'm cool like that. Night peeps. :)

Also, when I was randomly writing stuff at the beginning of this post. It's the aftermath of my crazy talkative mood. Lucky you got a taste. Or I'm just tired.

Cardigan Queen

I realized that I wear my blue cardigan a lot...maybe too much? The nice thing about fashion is that there truly are no rules and it's all about your style (but by wearing that cardigan every other day I might not be keeping the fashion police away haha..). Anyways, it's just hard not to wear my navy blue cardigan! Let's face it, navy blue is definitely a staple color, especially in my wardrobe, and I feel like that cardigan seriously goes with everything I wear. Also, I wear cardigans a lot because I always get cold at work and sometimes it's too warm outside to wear a coat but too cold to just wear short sleeves. Enter cardigan.

Obviously I love cardigans probably more than anything else in the world, and I have quite a few, so my goal for the rest of this week is to not wear my blue cardi. Think I can do it?? Just watch me!!! :)