INTERIOR INSPIRATION

I feel like I've already told everyone this, but I'm moving in with my boyfriend in a month or two!  I've been thinking a lot about it, from kitchen supplies we'll need to buy to how nice it will be to come home to a house where I can sit in the living room, but my main thought it how I want to decorate.  I love thinking about arranging furnature and making a space my home whenever I move to a new place (I've moved quite a few times in my life), it's actually one of my favorite parts!  I've saved spaces I like on Pinterest for a while, so here's a nice collection of some interiors I like.  All images are from my SPACES Pinterest board.

Many framed artworks on the walls.

A long desk for work and play.

Pops of color and my very own armchair.

A beautiful and eclectic vanity.

A place to put shoes by the door.

Shelving and practical decoration.

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FEBRUARY INSPIRATION

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"Love isn't a state of perfect caring.  It is an active noun like struggle.  To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is, right here and now."  --  Fred Rogers, The World According to Mr. Rogers: Important Things To Remember

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HAIR & RECENTLY

The most recent development to my life is that I've decided to bleach my hair white.

Hello again to you!  It has definitely been a while.  I've written up a couple of posts over the past weeks and just wasn't inspired to post them, which in part contributed to my radio silence.  I just felt un-inspired and all around just not in love with the ideas I was coming up with, which is why I thought I'd just make up this little hair mood board for what I've been thinking about recently.

I work at a salon, so I'll be able to get my hair done for cheaper than normal and I'll also be a part of the training of some of my lovely co-workers.  I've been thinking of a cool-toned white, which I know will damage the bejeebus out of my hair, but I'm ready for it.  I enjoyed having my natural hair color for the past year, but suddenly I just wanted another hair change.  Especially since I have access to having it done professionally!  So that'll be exciting.  I think it'll happen sometime next month, so I'll make sure to post photos (of course).

Other than that?  I've been el suprimo un inspired in terms of my art.  I've had long conversations with Brian about it, though, and he just told me to draw and create what always comes easy to me: fan art.  That way, maybe I could even sell some stuff as well as getting back in to the art making groove.  By creating fan works, I don't have to focus on creating an entirely new concept, I can draw from ideas that already exist while stretching my conceptual and compositional muscles.  So hopefully, I'll produce some work soon enough.  I've watched two episodes of Peaky Blinders, Netflix's new original series with Cillian Murphy, and it's alright.  I just really like Cillian Murphy, if I'm honest, so I'm just going to draw him a bunch and maybe make a screen print.  It'll be good.

I've also picked the bass back up, but not in any exciting way.  Brian introduced me to the Pixies, and I've been listening to them a lot.  They have some really good bass lines that are reasonably simple to learn, so I've been playing a couple of those.  Maybe I'll create some music at some point.

Work has been good.  It's super strange to be working full time, if I'm honest.  This is the first time this has ever been a thing for me, so it feel super weird but also awesome?  I just feel all adult and strange but also totally ready for it.  Either way, it's satisfying to work and then use that money to pay my own bills.  ADULT STUFF.

I should be putting up an outfit post or two soon.  EShakti sent me a great dress for me to review, so I'm planning on putting up a post about that soon.  It's just been hard to find time to take good photos of myself in said dress, especially since it's been cold here in Buffalo and I work 6 out of 7 days a week.  Brian said he would take photos of me soon, so maybe the first weekend in November.  Halloween weekend is going to be super busy, since it's mine and Brian's one year anniversary!  I can't believe we've been together for a year, but at the same time it feels like it's been forever (in a good way).  Maybe I'll make a nice post about it on sunday.  I also can't wait to share some photos of my halloween costume(s?).  

Happy updates! 

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DEFINING MY PERSONAL STYLE

Proportions //

high waisted, loose top

skinny pant, tight top

high waisted, tight top

Colors //

BASICS // Black, White, Gray

MAIN // midnight blue, red, creme

STATEMENTS // teal, purple, pink, maroon

Elements //

dark vs. light & bright

feminine vs. bold, casual, & comfortable

high waisted skirts and pants

bright pops of color

Key Textures //

cotton tops

floaty or thick fabric bottoms

knits

statement textures (lace, velvet, leather)

Uniform//

High waisted bottom, comfortable top, layered jacket or cardigan, boots

Every spring, there's spring cleaning.  Spring cleaning, of course, goes hand in hand with the mass wardrobe clean-outs everyone seems to strive for.  I've been seeing a lot of wardrobe downsizing (or talk about it) in the blogosphere recently, and I'm afraid I've caught the bug!

Before seeing the posts, however, I stumbled across Into-Mind's blog, which contains a plethora of wardrobe and style advice.  Notably, her most interesting bit of advice talks about the idea of a capsule wardrobe: Owning only a certain amount of pieces and using all of them to create new outfits every day.  The trick is to identify your personal style, your go-to outfit (your uniform), the colors you'd like your wardrobe to mainly contain, and the main proportions you gravitate towards.  This technique can be applied every season or whenever you see fit: the most important part is not to get stuck in a rut!

This whole concept really made me think, as I've wanted to clean out my closet for a long while.  I haven't gotten rid of clothing in years, resulting in having about fifteen T-shirts, some of which I bought in high school, almost zero of which I wear on a regular basis.  However, without a clear game plan, it's been almost impossible to weed out: what if I want to wear those shirts again?!

The part I found most enlightening about the whole thing was the definition of style: I'd never really even thought about it!  However, actually setting aside time to go through my fashion inspiration folder and pinterest made me see the similar links between everything I liked, which lent itself to defining the proportions, elements, and textures I would like to define my style.  I started thinking about this a little for my first personal style moodboard post.

The colors were easy, as I mostly just wear red and black when I have no idea what to grab in the mornings, with a few exceptions here and there for gray, blue, and pink.  I also already knew what sorts of textures and fabrics I like in clothing.  Cottons are a must for tops, as I sweat in anything else.  Bottoms don't have to breathe as much, so they can be anything from tights to my disco pants.  I also have always loved the pairing of more feminine fabrics (what does that even mean) with harsher tones, like leather.

Either way, in the end she says not to define your style with typologies (since that's first step down the road of being boxed in, style wise), but if I had to describe my ideal style in ten words:

"a little bit of classic, punk, retro, and quite comfortable."

xxTanya

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PERSONAL STYLE MOODBOARD

all images from pinterest

ELEMENTS //

high waisted

feminine vs. bold, casual, & comfortable

red

dark vs. light & bright

classic silhouettes

alternative casual

I've been thinking a lot about defining my personal style recently.  It's hard!  I have a basic idea of how I want to dress and how I'd like to present myself, but to better cement the ideas floating around I decided to create a little mood board.

This goes hand in hand with my desire to slim down the clothing I own.  I want to be able to look in my closet and love every single thing in there; I've wanted that for years.  I hope to one day have, ideally, a 30 piece capsule wardrobe, though I doubt that'll happen.  However, even a little more than that is less clothing than I currently own, and I'll like more things in my closet than I do now.  I want to be able to pull anything out, put it on, and love it.  I don't want any more days of wearing a "meh" outfit.  I've reached the point where quality trumps quantity (or cheapness).

Look out for a post seriously defining my personal style soon!

xxTanya

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