♥Betseyville IPOD Case♥

I remember the first thing I wanted to do when my brother gave me his old ipod was to get a cute case for it. I was, and still am today, a sucker for anything cute! Browsing through the shelves of cases at Best Buy, I couldn't seem to find anything cute or to my liking UNTIL- I came across a cute collection of ipod cases by Betsey Johnson, called "Betseyville." I was super excited and probably spent at least thirty minutes debating on which design to get for my case. Blue or Pink? Haha, tough decision right? Well in the end, I decided to get the blue studded case and couldn't be happier. Here are some recent pictures of me showcasing the cute case I got three years ago. LOL, please don't mind my messy hair.

Betseyville

Can you believe I haven't uploaded any new songs into my IPOD for almost three years now! Phew, talk about how fast time flies by. So this summer, one of my summer projects is to re-vamp my playlist and add new songs and music videos into my ipod. I guess one of the reasons why I haven't been consistent with uploading new songs onto it is because I really don't carry it anywhere with me and only listen to it when I'm on the bus/plane back home from college. However, this year, I will make more use of it and carry it with me wherever I go. Haha, sometimes I just can't help but to wish I had "Stuck In The Moment" by Justin Bieber playing when I'm on the six hour+ bus ride home.

A Taste of Japan

For some reason, it's really hard for me to find and view collections of Asian designers online, however-THANKFULLY Fashion Snaps has a section on their website dedicated to Asian designers, primarily from Japan. I was able to look through a few fashion show photos and the ones below are some of my favorites from the many different collection of designers there were. If you haven't already, make sure to check out the website at www.fashionsnaps.com.

Keita Maruyama Tokyo 

2011-12 Autumn Winter

"KEITA MARUYAMA TOKYO PARIS (Paris, Keita Maruyama Tokyo)" of 2011-12, April 21, Autumn and Winter collection, antique art deco architecture Tati Hiroshi Aoyama in Tokyo "1999 Roarabusshu Museum" was held at.

Title of the season and laid out a contrasting color black "Rock'n'Roll Widow". Luxurious materials, dance pop star motif with flowers and delicate handwork. A Rediraiku Outer hat style Actress, knit patterns and a variety of forms, and finished in a chic and glamorous. "Fashion is to show that raising your heart," said designer Keita Maruyama. Yes, right after the earthquake to feel a sense of helplessness as a person living in fashionBut did not say, "I have a sense of everyday life. Do not Reach" is chosen such that the light and beautiful colors as tomorrow, showing off an elegant collection.

http://www.fashionsnap.com/collection/keita-maruyama-tokyo-paris/2011-12aw/

Muller of Yoshiokubo

 

2011 Spring Summer
Kubo Yoshio women's designers had their "muller of yoshiokubo" (Yoshiokubo of Muller). " The vague boundaries of modern men and women clothes, for women, "her clothes" has been proposed. Spring-Summer 2011 collection is a female figure representing the color transparency in natural products. Using Kino Hiraku back and frills, which complements the two feminist duty to represent the brand's sense of pace and volume of detail.

http://www.fashionsnap.com/collection/muller-of-yoshiokubo/2011ss/

MercuryDuo

2010 Spring Summer
January 28, 2010, MARK-STYLER (Makusutaira) of fashion event "Tokyo Real Mode Collection touch Me" was held. Barely the top, "MERCURYDUO (Makyuridyuo) × Yoshiyuki Shimazu (Shimazu Yoshiyuki)." With silver hair, which started with the introduction of models wearing bondage black Doberman. Tight style and tone black and gold, colored tights and body, the brand concept "rich elegance" style that made impressive offensive edgy feel.

http://www.fashionsnap.com/collection/mercuryduo/2010ss/

Emoda

2011 Spring Summer
Toukyou Riarumodokorekushon by Makusutaira "touchMe". Nana had their fifth show the producer Matsumoto Megumi "EMODA (Emoda)" × Watana Shun all stylist.
There are energetic and playful, we propose a style for women to enjoy the fashion of the 21st century "EMODA". Based on a monotone, to the second half brightly patterned flowers. As if wrapped in a thin veil of female strength and desire, an elegant collection of lace and organza overlaid.

http://www.fashionsnap.com/collection/emoda/2011ss/

Wedding Fever

One of my cousins is getting married next June and boy am I excited! I'm excited to be part of the wedding party and helping her plan out everything that is needed in order to make a wedding, a wedding. From our mom's side of the family, she is the eldest grandchild and the first one to get married. She's an amazing woman whose accomplished many things and she has set a lot of great example for all of her younger cousins to follow. In the midst of the wedding fever, I do have mixed feelings about everything. Of course I am happy that she found someone great to spend the rest of her life with, however, I'm feeling a bit sad because though we'll still get to see each other, things won't be the same.

ANYHOW-onto the wedding plans.

My cousin has decided on coral and green to be the color theme and decided to have all of the bridesmaids wear black dresses and incorporate our assigned color into our outfit. Why black? As most bridesmaid dresses are usually worn only once, my cousin wanted us to be able to wear our dresses again to other events, therefore, black was the perfect color. Besides, who wouldn't want to add another black dress to their collection of "Little Black Dresses." 

Here are a few dress styles that I like. I'm aiming for a dress with a nice neckline like a few of the ones below. I was assigned to accessorize my dress with coral accessories, so if I end up buying a dress with a nice neckline, I'll find myself a pair of bold coral earrings. If I end up buying a strapless dress, I'll find myself a bold coral necklace.

Bari Jay Designs

 David's Bridal

 

Coral Accessories 

Christian Dior

 Ahh, it's so hard to make a decision when there are so many options to choose from.

*All images were found on Google Images

Gowns, Gowns and more Gowns

If I haven't mentioned it before, I am in love with gowns! Gowns of all kinds, evening, prom, wedding and of all styles, princess, mermaid, sleek-you name it. As a matter of fact, I wouldn't mind wearing gowns everyday, EXcept, for the fact that I know I would get weird stares and be talked about wherever I would go. IF only I didn't care to much about what others thoughts of me would be, I would definitely wear them everywhere. Until that happens, here are a few of my favorite gowns from various designers.

Alexis Mabille Spring 2011 Couture 

Alexis Mabille

I think this gown looks beautiful in both red and white.

Lanvin Spring RTW 2011

I love the color combination and the high-low style!

*All images are courtesy of www.style.com

Timeless Beauty

Camilla Belle is truly a beauty! Here are two of my favorite dresses she wore to past events.

Camilla Belle

I saw a picture of her in this dress a few years ago in Teen Vogue and absolutely fell in love with it! The dress was designed by Yves Saint Laurent and it literally filled my mind for days. It got to the point where I was like, "Ok, I am going to make a dress exactly like hers!" So my mom and I took a trip to Joannes, I got all of the fabric I needed and came home to sew on my mom's old sewing machine. LOL, unfortunately that failed because I have no sewing skills and I'm not the type of person who's able to self teach themselves. *Sigh, well at least I can say I tried right? Who knows, maybe in the future, I'll be able to sew after taking a few sewing classes.

 

Camilla wearing a dress by Jason Wu, with Jason Wu

Again, she looks absolutely stunning in the red dress.

*All images are courtesy of  Google Images

Update On Group Project

Just last week, one of my group members and I met to discuss our part of the project, which was to create an advertisement for our group design. My group member came up with the slogan while writing her part about our target customer and together we came up with the design concept.
Look for our ads in your local Lucky and Cosmo magazines! LOL

Yikes, the quality isn't too great in JPEG format, but this will do.

P.S. The design majors in my group actually drew the clothing/models. Skillls, I tell ya.

For those who are still in school, Happy Studying! For those who are already out, lucky you!

Jay Park♥

I've been so busy "preparing" for finals that I haven't been blogging as much as I would like to. Anyhow, here are some photos of a pop up birthday card I made for Jay Park last month. As some of you may or may not know, last month was the Korean Music Festival in LA and Jay Park was one of the feature guest. I was really excited, for one thing, my cousins and their friends who were attending this event was going to get to meet him(!) and I was quite sad that I wouldn't be able to go with them due to moolah issues.
Therefore, I decided to make him one of my famous pop up birthday card AND add in coupons for him and gave it to my cousin to give it to him, since they were going to stay at the same hotel as all of the celebrities. My cousin ended up giving the card to one of his friend from his Art of Movement (AOM) crew to give to Jay Park and she recorded Jay Park's younger brother and his friend Cha Cha Malone talking about the card for me. Haha, that def. goes to prove that Jay Park got the card=)  *Sigh, all of my love in one neat card. Enjoy!

Front of Card

Surprise



Pop Up



Coupons;)

This card is totally do-able and very fun to make for any occasion. I'll find the how-to video of how to make this card and post it up soon!