Vintage Cat Eyes

Hello everyone! Today I woke up feeling like doing a photo shoot. I’m wearing a coat that I made previous this fall, along with a vintage dress that I found at a thrift store for $1.50! I got these stellar glasses from eBay! They’re not my prescription glasses (although my prescription glasses look similar) but they’re just so much fun! I’m thinking of wearing these glasses to prom, what do you think? :)

^ this one was a test shot to check my focus, but I actually kind of like it. haha.


The difference between my mom and my dad when they see that I’m doing a photo shot.

Mom: “Awwwe you look so pretty!”

Dad: “Have fun lying in the poison ivy.” Hahaha I love my parents!

Hide'n Go Seek

Here’s a little video I made with Ruth and Nate while they were home for Christmas. We thought that it’d be fun to make a short video and we even got my little brother David in on it! Nate had his camera going (the 5d mark ii. Sigh, I still would like to marry his camera if it were only legal to do so… although Norman, my d7000 is still my baby! Haha and yes I name all my favorite devices) and I had mine running as well, so we got a bunch of fun footage to put together! I just finished editing it today so it’s ready to watch :) I hope you enjoy the video!

P.S. If you click on the video and watch it on Youtube you can see the whole frame that way...for some reason everytime I post a video on here it always cuts out part of the frame :/


Music: Mango Tree by Agnus and Julia Stone

My Twin

Hello everyone! I’m posting something new and it’s only been a couple of days. Whoa! I think this must be a new record! Haha yay. The following are old pictures that I took way back from this past summer.



^ Haha this one reminds me of those Troll Dolls from the ninties with the crazy hair that stands up. hahaha




I don’t know if you remember when I talked a couple of post ago about my twin Rachael who’s a super talented artist? We’re not related or anything, but we have so much in common it’s freaky! She has red hair, I have red hair, she likes art, I like art, she wears thick framed glasses, I wear thick framed glasses, she has a pair of floral doc-martens that she painted herself, I have a pair of floral doc-martens that I painted myself. The list goes on and on!

We met this past summer at an art camp held by the Fort Wayne Museum of Art. We hit it off right away! About a week after the camp she came over to my house and we did a photo shoot together. It was a lot of fun! Here are some of the pictures from it.

Also, like I said before she’s a super talented artist! I need to brag on her a bit :) She won 3 Gold Keys and a Silver Key in Scholastics this year along with receiving a Gold Key Portfolio!! How awesome is that?!!! :D Here are some of her amazing paintings!

A self-portrait story

Self-portrait drawing. It recieved a regional silver key in the Scholastics :)

During the past few weeks I’ve been working on my artist statements for the Scholastics Art and Writing competition. After writing them and seeing the crazy amount of self-portraits I’ve taken over the past two years, I’ve realized something: my self-portraits have really become a personal diary/journal for myself. At first it was just a way to document the clothes that I made. Then I needed models for my clothes, but by the time I called up a friend to model for me, the weather that I wanted would change into something else. So I was stuck with doing self-portraits most of the time.

For a while I didn’t want to show my self-portraits, because I didn’t want anyone to think that I was in love with myself or anything (blgh, gag me). I felt like they were more of an embarrassing thing. It’s really not until this year that I’ve finally become comfortable with showing them.

The first self-portrait that I ever took...oh dear.

A more recent self-portrait

I was looking back on some of my first self-portraits the other day, and it was pretty funny to see the difference! I’ve changed so much within the past couple of years that I wonder what I’ll be like in a year, or even five years from now. Woah, I don't know if I want to think that far in advance!

I’ve been thinking a lot about colleges and what I should be, and I have so many people giving me advice about what I should go into that it’s all kind of turned into a jumbled mess. But I’ve decided that in five years from now, whatever it is that I’m doing I just hope that I’m truly happy and in love with whatever I chose to go into. Maybe it will be fashion, maybe it will be film, or maybe I’ll combine the two and do something with costume design! Who knows! All I know is that whatever I decide on it’s going to be something that I love and something that I’m crazy about.

Masking Tape Dress

I made this dress for the Scholastic Art and Writing competition. It’s made completely out of masking tape and let me just tell you that it was a bit of a sticky situation (haha pardon the pun, but I just couldn’t help myself). I was inspired by architecture and an empty butterfly chrysalis.

I first constructed the underneath by using a stiff interfacing. Next I had to add a couple of layers of masking tape on top of that in order to get the length where I wanted it. Then I started adding, one by one, layers of masking tape starting from the bottom. I used over 18 rolls of masking tape and over 80 hours went into making the dress. The dress is completely wearable. It has a zipper sewn in the back for getting in and out of.

I might have nightmares about wads of tape attacking me in my sleep, but I’m pretty happy with the way it turned out. Haha. I just dropped it off for judging and I find out Sunday if it got in. Oh I’m so nervous! Wish me luck and I hope you like it :)



***Update Sunday*** I got the results back and the dress won a Gold Key!! :D Thank you everyone for all the kind and encouraging words!

Infinity Scarf

Hey Everyone!! I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas! What was your favorite part of Christmas this year? Mine was having my sister and my new brother-in-law home for Christmas :) It was super fun! On Thursday Ruth, Nate, my mom and I took the train into Chicago. I saw this amazing shop with an amazing quantity of beautiful, old sewing machines lining the front of the window…oh how I wish the sewing machines were actually for sale. Ruth and Nate took a picture of me while I was gawking in front of the window. Haha, I’ll be sure to post those photos later.

Most of my time right now is going into my Scholastics project that’s due by the 14th. Last year I made a dress out of pennies. As you can imagine it didn’t work out too well due to the weight of the pennies, so I didn’t even enter it. Haha so this year I’m making something that’s much lighter! Haha

Above is an infinity scarf that I made the other day. It’s for sale in my etsy shop if anyone is interested. A really nice elderly lady from my church taught me how to crochet last year and I’ve been hooked (no pun intended) ever since! I’ve been crocheting like a crazy lady in my down time. I like to crochet in my free time, because it’s very relaxing and I don’t really have to think about anything while doing it. If any of you would like to learn I found a good tutorial on how to crochet :)

P.S. Happy New Year!! ...well almost - in about three hours from now.

Merry Christmas / Video / Etsy Sale

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!!! I'm so excited that it's Christmas! All of my family is home and it's so nice! My sister's home so we're going to be doing a bunch of photo shoots and we're thinking of making a video too :) Photos and sewing projects are on their way! I hope you all have a wonderful Christmas this year filled with fun and family.

P.S. Here's a video I made when I went to my friend’s house a couple of weeks ago for their traditional cookie baking weekend. I've been doing this with them for years! I look forward to it every year. Their family gets together and they make thousands of cookies in only a couple of days. Last year we made 8,141 cookies in less than four days. I'm not quite sure on the cookie count for this year, but I know that it's over 6,000. It's always just so much fun spending time with friends and getting to know their family even more every year. I almost feel like part of their family. I hope you enjoy the video :)

Music: Mouth Full of Diamonds by Phantogram

P.S. - P.S. I'm having a sale in my Etsy shop right now on some for my photography prints. If you'd like you can check it out :)