NEW BLOG

HI.

Oh, The Right Hypotenuse. It's been a long time, Old Blog, and I'm sorry but I think we should break up. It's just that we were so young when we met, and I think it's only natural that as we grew up, we also grew apart. I have to leave you; it's over. Also, I met someone else. Someone new. New Blog and I have a future together, and you, Old Blog, you and I just don't. I'm sorry. I loved you but it's time to move on.

No, no, you didn't do anything wrong. It's not you, it's me. I've just become a different person than I was 3 years ago, and I have to move on.

What's New Blog's name? Oh, it's ape-z. Yeah, it has the same name as my etsy shop and my facebook page and my twitter account. You were just the odd one in the bunch and I had to change that.

Look, I'm really sorry. I hope we can still be friends. We can still get together sometimes and look back on our years together. I love a good trip down memory lane. Like, remember our first post? Crazy.

Okay? Are you going to be okay? Okay good.

Please don't stalk my relationship with New Blog, ape-z by following the blog with bloglovin' or subscribing to its feed. That would just be creepy.

........

That was weird.

But seriously, I'm moving to a new blog!! I hope that this one will be prettier and funnier and better and smarter and generally more attractive than my ex-blog. Just like all boyfriends should be in relation to ex-boyfriends.

the new header at my new blog!

So go ahead and read my first post on my new blog! And then read my second post on my new blog! And then continue to read all the future posts on my new blog!

(count the number of times i linked to my new blog in this post? first person to answer correctly wins a virtual hug? ehhh? ehhhhh?!)

love and right triangles,
april

finally found the perfect leopard print flats

In 9th grade, I bought a pair of Rocket Dog leopard print flats for $15 in the clearance section at DSW.

And I wore them to death. I still have them and I still love them but I can't wear them as much because they get very gross very fast.

So I've been on the hunt for a new pair for quite a while, but every pair I found was either weirdly shaped, too expensive, or had some strange feature that I just didn't understand (like being metallic or bejeweled or fuzzy).

UNTIL.

Target saved my life. But it wasn't just any Target. Out of the four Targets in my area and target.com, only ONE Target had these shoes. Seriously. They weren't even online!

Given the mysterious elusiveness of not only these leopard print flats but of all leopard print flats known to mankind, I had to buy them, even if I had to shell out a whopping 25 bucks. (kidding, though I never really spend that much on shoes)

I took the opportunity to wear my romper to work training today since rompers are really ridiculously impractical for wearing in many other situations. PLUS, it's finally nice and warm and sunny and August-like. Wearing boots and tights in August is just not meant to be.

Lexy at Quirky Explosion (one of my most favoritest blogs) requested a tutorial on my nails. Since I love her so much, I will totally do it, so stay tuned for that! :)

What else can I do for y'all? Tutorials? more DIY? more nail polish? Let me know!

outfit:

romper, Marshall's, $7

cardigan, H&M, $15

shoes, Target, $25

earrings, Claire's, $1

love and right triangles,

april

inspired by proenza schouler spring 2010.....even though it's basically fall

When I wasn't at work this summer, I was probably at Marshall's. It was pretty bad.

But there was this tank top which looked exactly like this skirt:

Proenza Schouler Spring 2010 (style.com)

And it was on sale for $7. So I bought it, and then I went to a local fabric store and bought some wide black elastic, and this outfit was born:

had to take these photos in the bathroom.....

now that i'm back to school i have no place to take photos......

note the radtastic nails :)

Maybe I'll just suck it up and awkwardly take my photos on the quad where everyone can see me...miiiiight have to think about that for a while.

skirt, diy, $7 + $2
two yellow tanks, Old Navy + Urban Outfitters, $3 + $5
cardigan, Marshall's, $7
shoes, H&M, $13
belt, F21, $2

love and right triangles,
april

diy nail art: rainbow explosion! kapow!

neon rainbow nails from Wet N Wild, Delia's, Claire's, Urban Outfitters and Color Club

I'm at school! Hurrah!

I moved in on Sunday, and I'm still working on decorating and organizing my bajillion possessions and piles of stuff. But WAIT TILL YOU SEE IT. IT WILL BLOW YOUR MIND. sorta not really.

Anywayyy, starting tomorrow I will actually have things to do, like training for my new job. BUT DON'T YOU FRET, readers, outfit posts are coming!

For now, feast your eyes on this supahhh sweet nail art I did today. It's all kapow rainbow explosion tie-dye shazam wowzah kablooey!

Every time I look down at my nails, my eyes go awoogaaah. It's pretty spectacular.

happy wednesday!

love and right triangles,

april

ps: I have something in the works. You may not find out for a couple weeks. Stay tuned.

pps: if you do some stalking, you miiiight figure it out. yes, that's a challenge.

ppps: kidding. you should just wait and see :)

georgie porgie and a super simple diy

Meet Georgie Porgie, my turtle ring! This is quite possibly my favorite ring EVER. All its limbs move, AND it has a rhinestone shell, AND it was only 8 bucks at Target, AND I used to have a turtle ring whose limbs also moved (but didn't have a rhinestone shell) in middle school, but it broke after an unfortunate incident in which its shell was ripped off its back by an aggressive carpet. So I think this ring and I are meant to be. And my friend took the liberty of naming it Georgie Porgie.

I whipped this outfit together this morning real quick so I'd have something decent to wear on my last day in town! The skirt was made from a pair of thrifted shorts, and I made you a quick tutorial which is riiiiiiiight here!

(click to enlarge)

Making skirts from the crazy thrifted shorts I find at the Salvation Army definitely deserves a spot in my top ten favorite pasttimes. Sometimes they are awkwardly poofy in the front, but I don't really mind. And if you find knit shorts, then the poof doesn't happen :) And like I said, I've done this many a time: see examples here and here and here and here and here again.

The teeshirt is just an inside-out thrifted cotton tee with chopped up sleeves and a scoopier neckline.

Packing is still a work in progress. Sigh. Now bumping it up to turbo mode so I can say goodbye to my friends without massive anxiety attacks, and so I can get a decent night of sleep tonight. Leaving tomorrow morning! whee!

skirt, diy

tee, diy

belt, thrifted, $2?

shoes, Payless, $8

ring, Target, $8

love and right triangles,

april