WHAT i WORE : NUCLEAR CiTiZENS

Happy October! I can't believe how fast this year is going. October is my favorite month so I'm going to do my best to get a few Halloween posts up. 

I love hunting for cool products and art so when I found Josh Ln's Nuclear Citizens artwork I kind of fell in love. Like most, I grew up with the Simpsons and they have been a part of my life since 1987 when they appeared on the Tracey Ullman Show. The Simpsons were some of the first characters I would draw on everything. I even painted a giant Bart for an art contest in elementary school but was disqualified because I didn't create the character. I was in 4th grade, I just wanted to draw Bart Simpson! I actually still have the painting I did, I'll see if I can find it.

Okay, so back to this illustration, it's very Treehouse of Horror in feeling which I love so I though it would be perfect for Halloween. I loved the look of the overall printed shirt but hadn't ordered a shirt from Society6 before so I wasn't sure how well it was going to print. Unfortunately my first shirt arrived with some printing errors I just couldn't ignore. You have to be aware when printing these kinds of shirts that there will be some imperfections but there were too many for me to ignore but Society6 will re print and ship you out a new order free of change if you are unhappy! Thankfully my next shirt looked much better and I'm pretty happy with the quality. 

SHIRT AVAILABLE HERE

Josh has other products available with this print so be sure to check them out! Have a wonderful week!

Sara

ART PRINTED SCARVES

Happy Wednesday! So next up on my products I wanted to share from Redbubble is this beautiful scarf with artwork by Karl James Mountford. I'm in love with it. I've been wearing more scarves over the years and I'm excited about this one because I love the illustration. I really wanted to see how these printed and looked in person and I'm so pleased with the quality. Any artist or designer looking to print your work on products, be sure to check them out. It's totally worth trying. There are so many amazing artist whose work you can get printed on these and now I'm obsessed with what to get next and how I can style it. I made this one into a quick skirt over my dress because I wanted to be able to see the fun print but there are so many ways to wear it or just hang one on your wall as art. It looked really nice on my bed as a way to change up your decor as well. 

Once again, have a wonderful night!

xoxo

Sara

WHAT I WORE // COLOR BLOCK

I'm excited to getting back to posting outfits. I will be posting other things soon as well because I know not everyone is interesting in what I'm wearing each day, ha! So Here is the other beautiful bag I received from MeDusa. I love the blue color. It's the same color as my favorite car I had growing up which was a bright blue Dodge Neon and the key would glow in the dark! Man I miss that car... anyway, I always unintentionally dress in very primary colors sometimes. I can't help it. It just happens. They go so well together.

DETAiLS
CARDIGAN : ModCloth

BAG : MeDusa

Just recently I was able to find all my clothing and I've currently been sorting through all of it to let go of some more things. I don't wear a lot of it and the weather here is different than what I'm use to so I'm really needing to update my wardrobe. I will be selling some things soon on the app Depop. Check it out if you've never heard of it. It's a great source for buying things from others with Instagram type of images. I will share more information when I have those up.

Hope your week is going well. We're half way done! 

xoxo

Sara

WHAT i WORE // MEDUSA BAGS

Happy Friday! Woo hoo! I'm finally able to take some time to post more outfit photos again and I wanted to share some awesome bags from MeDusa. I love the bright colors they have and there is a rainbow of colors to choose from. I'm also a huge fan the embossed designs they have in the material used. I had a really difficult time picking my favorites. If you check out their instagram account you can see how that pattern was used to press into cookies! How cool! I love when people create things using something you wouldn't normally think of. The quality is great as well and I have been using both of mine all the time recently with no problems so far. 

I didn't want to post all the photos at once because it was just too much. I will have a new post up here soon with the other bag. But first up, this really fun backpack that's perfect for a laptop and sketchbooks! I've been looking for some backpacks recently and this one is definitely unique.

(Outdoor photos by Doug Smith, edited by me.)

DETAiLS
CARDIGAN : ModCloth

SHORTS : Forever21
SOCKS : ModCloth

SHOES : LeBunny Bleu
BAG : MeDusa

I hope you have a great weekend! We are finally getting the floors replaced in our home so I will be getting furnture out soon! I'm so excited. We've been living on a mattress and rugs but at least we have a tv installed so I can watch HGTV and cartoons all day! ha!

xoxo

Sara

WHAT i WORE // ALiCE

A little while back I was contacted by Redbubble to help share their Art in Motion campaign and awesome new clothing products you can get with art and illustrations on them and anyone can upload their work to be printed. Redbubble is a global artists' marketplace with over 80,000 selling artists. If there is one things to know about me it's that I always support fellow artist and love that I can wear their art on me to share with people who may have never seen their work before. You get to express yourself with art and I think that's pretty wonderful. 

One of their new products is a tube skirts. Mine has a wonderful illustration by artist Karl James Mountford on it and I had so much fun styling it. There is a rose garden pretty close to were we are currently living so I thought it would be a good backdrop for some photos. Silly me decided to go at golden hour on Mother's Day! What was I thinking? Everyone was there so taking many photo wasn't an option without photoshopping out people around me. I'm pretty excited to go back on a different day and take some more photos. The roses there are beautiful! 

MORE ABOUT THE ARTiST

Be sure to check out all other fun products Redbubble has that you can get artwork on. I got lost for hours looking at artwork.

Personal site

Blog

Redbubble shop

Society6 shop

Stay tuned, I have a few more outfits/artist coming up over the next few days.

XOXO

Sara

WHAT i WORE // MiNTY FRESH

A couple weeks ago we were driving around the neighborhood and past a Greyhound station. I'm always on the lookout for cool places to take photos and fun walls to use as a backdrop. This particular station was painted in two of my favorite colors, a mint/teal color and bright blue. It also was covered in teal tile in the front of the station. My head goes instantly to what I could do with the environment around me. Most of the time it comes in the form of creating an outfit and making my own world or story with those surroundings. I create characters for myself in these environments. Since my hair is teal right now and I have a teal vintage dress that I love I thought it would be fun to go all out in the color for some photos. Lucky for me I have a partner who loves to take photos as well and is amazing at it. Before now, it was just me and my tripod, usually in my house, and I would just get lucky if a photo turned out how I wanted. 

It took me awhile to get these photos together but I finally took some time out of my day to create this post because I love the photos Doug took. I'm actually really awkward and get uncomfortable when someone takes my photo so I'm kind of amazed any came out not looking like I was a crazy person matching the wall at a train station. 

DRESS : Vintage
SLIP : Vintage

SHOES : MelShoes

Have a wonderful day!

XOXO

Sara

TOYS AND OUTFITS

A lot of the time when I post "Toy a Day" photos on Instagram or my toy blog, I will match what I'm wearing to the toy. I pretty much have a color palette I make for that day. I may be matching my hair, or a holiday, or anything that comes to mind. I play "dress up" everyday. Well unless I'm sick... no, I'd probably be dressed like a giant bear or other random creature in one of my kigurumi onsies. So yes, I play dress up every single day. 

Yesterday I posted one of Doug's toys, a KAWS Boba Fett Companion. I had also matched my outfit to him but didn't have a chance to take any photos until night time which is never when I prefer to take an outfit photo but you work with what you got! Here is some of yesterday.

I really don't do any of these photos for any reason other than to entertain myself and keep me creating. Hopefully they inspire others to play with their clothing more. Creating outfits is one of my favorite things in the world to do. Hope you enjoy them :)

XOXO,

Sara

WHAT i WORE // HAPPY DECEMBER

Happy first of December! I hope everyones holiday so far have been great and hopefully a little relaxing or if nothing else I hope you ate a ton. I know I did and it was amazing! I am more than ready for the holidays to be over though because that means I will be moving forward with my life and I couldn't be more excited about it.

I'm so sorry for my lack of posts lately. I should be back to a more normal schedule after the holidays and can get back to thing that I enjoy like sharing art, artist, and products that inspire me. I mentioned that I am going to be moving so packing up a 4 bedroom home and working has taken up all of my time. My house looks nothing like it did before with just some furniture still out and random piles of things I'm still sorting through to let go of. Because of all of this, I haven't had time nor the motivation to do much else. There are so many projects I what to work on but they will have to wait until next year. 

It's a little early but I was in the holiday spirit so I dressed the part and took a few photos.

SKIRT : Chicwish

GREEN DRESS : Anthropologie

SWEATER : Forever21

SHOES : MelShoes

I hope everyone has a wonderful week. Thank you for being patient with me and my little blog. I have a lot planned for the future and tons of posts that aren't just me playing dress up ;)

XOXO

-Sara

WHAT I WORE // HALLOWEEN

Happy Monday everyone! Thank you for stopping by! 

Halloween is one of my favorite days. Even though technically I play dress up all year, Halloween is the one day I can do it and not get as many crazy looks if I go out in public dressed up. Unfortunately for many years I haven't really had the time to create a costume not to mention the last time I was ever at a Halloween party was at least 14 years ago, sad I know. Even though I really had no time to put into much, I still tried to dress up as much as I could. Since I collect halloween masks and have a lot of clothing I can style, I always can come up with something at the last minute. This year was no different. I knew I wasn't going out but I still wanted to dress up. Since I had shared my "Toy Sideshow" video on Halloween it only seem fitting to dress up as something carnival related. When I put that much time into makeup and an outfit I always need to document it. I also have to say, this was the first time that I can remember, painting my neck in more than one color and that was so hard! Painting over a collar bone is not the easiest task in world and I give huge props to people that wear false eyelashes on a normal basis because those suckers are not easy to put on and took me a good 10 minutes or so, ha! So here are some of the photos I took after everything was all put together. I ended up with makeup from my neck in all kinds of weird places. My dog Ash was getting annoyed that I wasn't giving her my full attention so she showed up for some pictures :)

DRESS : Choies

HARNESS : Etsy

SOCKS : ModCloth (similar here)

SHOES : ModCloth

Have a great night!

xoxo

-Sara