Wednesday, August 25, 2010

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!

diy nail art rainbow tie-dye design polish

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 :)

Saturday, August 21, 2010

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

Friday, August 20, 2010

nail polish roundup

Packing sucks. I cannot stress this enough. And I know I sound like a whiny drama queen brat when I say that packing is the worst thing in the world, because really there are tons of awful things happening around the world and in people's lives that actually affect them, and I know that. But when I pack, I turn into this snobby snooty whiny miserable brat. And according to this article, I can expect to move EVERY YEAR of my 20s. UGH UGH. I hope you all feel my pain and aren't judging me for being such a whippersnapper ;D

Anyway, all of my clothes are stuffed away, and I stupidly did not think to set aside clothing for the next few days...mostly because I was going to sew new outfits, but of course, I have NO TIME because PACKING SUCKS. Anyway, now I am living in the same clothes until I do find the time to make a new outfit, which is admittedly gross.

So instead of an outfit post, I've decided to do a nail polish roundup post (see above photo).

Apparently I really like blues, greens and purples. Also, RAINBOW NAILS! my fave :)

I'm not much for prints, but I'm anxious to paint me some polka dotted, striped, and leopard print nails :D

Organizational and other DIYs coming up in the next few days! Stay tuned, folks.

love and right triangles,

april

PS: shoutout to my lil sis who turns 15 today! Crap, I'm getting old.

Wednesday, August 18, 2010

more of the same color scheme

apparently, i'm really into greens, teals, yellows and blues these days.

I wore blues and greens yesterday, and I'm wearing blues, greens and yellows tomorrow too. Must be a case of blue-green-yellow-itis?.....Or not.

hard to see, but i'm wearing BRIGHT blue eyeliner (MAC eyeshadow in Zingy)

Since I've pretty much packed all of my clothes away, I have no choice but to sew/refashion this week's outfits! This skirt used to be....a skirt. But now it's got a different waistband, a shorter length and a lining (it's quiiiiitee sheer). And this tank used to be a teeshirt.

skirt, diy, thrifted, $3.

tank, diy, thrifted, $1.

cardigan, Heritage 1981, borrowed.

shoes, Marshall's, $7.

earrings, store in Montreal, $4.

eyes, MAC eyeshadow in Zingy and Maybelline Great Lash mascara.

From the comments it sounds like lots of you are packing/heading to college too, so perhaps I will do some DIY tutorials on various organizational things I'm making in the next couple days? Yahh yahh?! I'm making lots of Ultimate Accessories Organizers, electronics-related doohickeys, pillows, lunch-related thingamabobs, and possibly tie-dying some stuff, if I get around to it. Would y'all be into that?

love and right triangles,

april

Tuesday, August 17, 2010

double belted

I know you can't really tell, but this dress has hummingbirds on it!

And inspired by many a blogger and the September issue of Glamour, I wore two belts instead of one. It really wasn't that exciting.

I was also in desperate need of a new bag, so my friend who is a Purse Expert picked on out for me :) Aside from the blatant pleather-ness of it, I like it :D