Thursday, September 29, 2011
Sunday, May 29, 2011
Sunday, May 15, 2011
Melted Crayon DIY and Holton Rower
So, in my fashion design class at school, we are designing gowns. I was inspired by this video of the "Tall Painting" by Holton Rower. He is officially my most recent favorite artist. It's absolutely amazing. I'd love to try it, but I'd need a LOT of time, patience, and PAINT!
Anyway, so that's what I was inspired by. So I showed my original sketch and a picture of one of Rower's finished pieces to my teacher and she was like "Why don't you melt wax or Crayons onto matt board for your finished piece?" and I agreed that it would be a really cool idea.
So now, after tons of research and asking art teachers at school, I finally figured out how to do it. I shaved bits of colorful Crayons onto my piece, covered it with wax paper, and put the iron over it. This is the finished result:


You like?? Taken with my Canon Power Shot SD1200 IS. I figured out how to put it on these crazy settings that let me take pictures with intense detail. Now please, pretty pretty please (with sugar on top) contact me/ask me before reproducing my photos/illustrations and/or copying, printing, 'reblogging' them. Thank you oh, so very much :)
xoxo
Nikki
Sunday, May 1, 2011
CHECK IT.
i hardly post on here...but i'm ALWAYS posting on my tumblr...
http://www.nikkinectarines.tumblr.com ;) come check it out!
it's like a fashion blog...with no commitment..sort of
anyways,
xx nikki
Friday, April 29, 2011
Prince William and Princess Kate
Did you get up at, say, 4 am to watch? Well, I had every intention of doing so. But I was so pooped from all this studying (finals, hello!) to get up. So I saw her walk out of the church while I was brushing my teeth. And that dress??!! Simply to die for. The only thing that bothered me was that awkward 'V' neck thing? But it wasn't terrible. It was so simple, and she looked beautiful. And let's not forget our cute but now taken Prince William...very handsome in his military get up. Very nice. LAST BUT NEVER LEAST, Prince Harry...oh, I certainly do like this man very much. He's just so...cool (for lack of a more substantial word)!
But what really bothered me was that today at school, people were talking about the wedding, which was fine. But these people had no idea what they were talking about. I mean, they were like "oh, did you hear about the wedding?" "what wedding?" "you know, the one with the British people". It was rather irksome (?) I also couldn't stand how some people refused to pay any attention to it because it was happening in England and we don't have royalty. People are so uncultured.
All of the art teachers at school wore fancy shmancy hats stolen from the school's costume vault for the occasion. That was very cute. Especially my fashion teac
her! Hello, feathers! My friends and I were raving about h
ow it looked like Philip Tracey designed it! (sorry if spelled wrong) hahahaha
All in all, the wedding was gorgeous. Did you hear that her dress for the wed
ding itself was $450,000? I could be wrong or I could've heard wrong, but that's what I thought they said on the radio earlier this week. Also, it was designed by Alexander McQueen, of course (my fashion designer idol). I practically peed myself when I found that out. My friend, Jordan, and I were freaking. We must've been a sight to be seen!






Photos from Google images
I can't help it...I'm a sap. It's like a fairytale! The things I would do to be British for today... ;) Off to go watch it on DVR!
xx Nikki
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Saturday, April 23, 2011
oh
i wish so much that i could've been at the Coachella festival over yonder on the west coast. but i guess it's an east coast vs west coast sort of thing. that, and i have no car/license/friends interested in it. well, i mean, there's one friend...but she's seeing Lady GaGa live in the near future and i am very jealous. and i'm seeing Panic! At The Disco with her in May. but that's beside the point.
ANYWAYS, i have no idea who i'm talking to right now. it's like an empty expanse of cyber blogging in which no one knows who Nikki (me) is...or who the Shoe Whore is. it's rather depressing, actually.
arrite...i'm going to go start that English homework that I've been putting off. Happy Easter/Passover, everyone!
xo nikki
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
heh. this is the abandoned blog.
or sporadic blog. which ever suits your fancy.
anyway...check out these fabulous Betsey Johnson heels I bought yesterday. I'm officially a 'Maxx-inista'. $140 pair of shoes for $70? count me in!
but now my only problem is going to be finding a place to wear them. or I could just wear them where ever. but I feel that if I wear them where ever, they will lose their charm. you know what I mean?
anyone watch Gossip Girl this week? did you see Blair's houndstooth coat? to die for, really.
xoxo Nikki
Monday, February 28, 2011
Friday, February 25, 2011
Dinner Time!
please pardon the random post...i needed to write something...
xo nikki
i just felt the need to post SOMETHING from my most recent vacation...
i just felt the need to post SOMETHING from my most recent vacation...
firstly, my gramma got me a sewing machine as a birthday present! i'm SOO excited...and i mean that.
also...DINNER!
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
i'm baaaack!
sorry about the brief interruption...my computer crashed and we finally got a new one. i also got my own apple macbook for my 16th birthday, which was a few weeks ago.
anyway, finals sucked. my camera's back working. and i'm back blogging. too bad i've been to lazy to have any outfit posts because of the thought "oh, i don't have a computer. so why waste time taking pictures of my outfits?" but now i have no excuse. i can't let myself get distracted. i CAN'T!
alright. that's all for now.
ttfn lovies,
nikki
Friday, January 14, 2011
whoooops
looks like i've forgotten about my blog, YET again.
i've been waiting for cold weather so i can layer, but as soon as it gets here, i'm sick of it and i want to wear my moccassins and granny boots with bohemian dresses and skirts and flowers knotted together in the form of headbands.
BUT ALAS,
it's cold. and i have school work.
xox nikki
i've been waiting for cold weather so i can layer, but as soon as it gets here, i'm sick of it and i want to wear my moccassins and granny boots with bohemian dresses and skirts and flowers knotted together in the form of headbands.
BUT ALAS,
it's cold. and i have school work.
xox nikki
Friday, November 26, 2010
Thursday, November 25, 2010
happy turkey day!
i love thanksgiving...but i hate turkey... O_o
now i must go brush my teeth and sleep and then go for a run! :P
xo nikki
now i must go brush my teeth and sleep and then go for a run! :P
xo nikki
Friday, November 19, 2010
no words can describe this
i just saw harry potter 7...
AND PRACTICALLY PEED MYSELF BECAUSE IT WAS JUST THAT BRILLIANT.
AND PRACTICALLY PEED MYSELF BECAUSE IT WAS JUST THAT BRILLIANT.
Thursday, November 4, 2010
no outfit post today

and to think i was really getting into it! but it's raining and cold and i just didn't feel like it. mwhaha. the beauty of being able to do (or not do?) such a thing. right now, i'm in a tshirt, jeans, bearpaw slippers, and my hair is in a pony tail. if anything i would've photographed my hair but...i didn't.
heh heh. i have a headache...and english homework. we've started To Kill A Mockingbird.
(collage: polyvore.com!! i need those shoes...and that shirt! haha!)
^^^my life ;)
xo
nikki
Wednesday, November 3, 2010
Wednesday, November 3, 2010
bracelets: two braided friendship bracelets made by yours truely ;) and an "i *heart* boobies" bracelet from Zumiez (part of the Keep-A-Breast foundation)
hurlie beanie, kenneth cole reaction coat, american eagle jeggings, aldos wedges
i had some fun in my backyard with my favorite Halloween decoration :D
xx nikki
hmph.
belly shirts. are. in.
figures.
i hate them.
why can't long colorful skirts and saddle shoes and poodle skirts and fun 70s retro stuff be in again? is it because our generation is full of sluts who can't wait to show off their belly button rings? i mean, seriously. it's ridiculous. this girl came into my math class today wearing one that probably went up to an inch and a half above her belly button. i really don't need to be seeing that, especially while doing my logic proofs.
i'm more into long shirts, crazy layering, blah blah. ya know what i mean?
outfit post to come? off to go get some homework done!
luuurve,
nikki
figures.
i hate them.
why can't long colorful skirts and saddle shoes and poodle skirts and fun 70s retro stuff be in again? is it because our generation is full of sluts who can't wait to show off their belly button rings? i mean, seriously. it's ridiculous. this girl came into my math class today wearing one that probably went up to an inch and a half above her belly button. i really don't need to be seeing that, especially while doing my logic proofs.
i'm more into long shirts, crazy layering, blah blah. ya know what i mean?
outfit post to come? off to go get some homework done!
luuurve,
nikki
Friday, October 29, 2010
happy halloween!

happy (almost) halloween! be safe! :)
today at school, i saw some CRAZY costumes (tacos, telly tubbies, fruit)
too bad halloween is in two days and i have no idea what i'm being...seriously contemplating going to the party store and buying a Lady GaGa wig... o_O too bad everything i wear is pretty modest and i own nothing by McQueen...it'd be perfect! i'll just have to figure something out...at this rate, i'll be sitting at home with friends handing out candy to little trick-or-treaters!
off to go catch up on Gossip Girl and Project Runway!
xo nikki
thrifted lady gaga tshirt, jeggings, vintage army green converse, old navy cardigan, pacsun circle scarf
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
whoa.
i feel absolutely terrible that i've completely abandoned my blog (again.)...and i would make an outfit post, BUT MY MEMORY CARD BROKE...AGAIN. my patience for technology is growing quite thin. you know that little switch on the SD card that says "lock"? well, it fell off...o_O
i've been looking up ways to get it to work, and i tried the tape trick...and it won't fit into my computer. so now i have to find time in my uber busy schedule to go to the drug store and somehow get my pictures onto a CD and put that onto my computer and YEAH. life is wayyyy too complicated. it's ridiculous.
i've had no time for anything lately (school, homework, sleep *repeat*)...high school sucks...
just sayin'.
lot's o' luuuurve,
nikki
i've been looking up ways to get it to work, and i tried the tape trick...and it won't fit into my computer. so now i have to find time in my uber busy schedule to go to the drug store and somehow get my pictures onto a CD and put that onto my computer and YEAH. life is wayyyy too complicated. it's ridiculous.
i've had no time for anything lately (school, homework, sleep *repeat*)...high school sucks...
just sayin'.
lot's o' luuuurve,
nikki
Sunday, October 3, 2010
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