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
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
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