Silk Screened Christmas Lights

Guess what super cool Claudia did today? She happened to silk screen. For those of ya'll who don't know what it is you put a design on this fabric type stuff and put it in a frame then paint all the parts you don't want inked with screen filler then you squeedgee it onto the canvas/shirt. Because that was so informative RIGHT?!?! I am now addicted to silk-screening and the top thing on my Christmas list is silk-screening stuff. I better get it... Oddly I'm not really in the Christmas mood, I guess I just have to completely deck out my room in fantastically tacky Christmas lights. Like is

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Except more than this. And executed with more class (as much class as can be mustered from tacky lights). Lights are what I love about Christmas. The songs though.... I shudder just thinking about them.

PS. Happy [late] (C)Hannukah

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This Outfit is Perfection

Sophie came over after school today. What does that mean? Ukulele, Elements v2.0, chocolate chips and uh... that ^. She found a bunch of crap on my floor and put it on, honestly I think it looks awesome. I want to do a photoshoot with just a bunch of stuff worn on top of each other to make a massive blob of awesomeness. I am not even going to try to name everything that she has on. That's my Ohama ukulele though. It rocks. If I do say so myself. Please enjoy listening to the mediocrity that I call myself playing ukulele. I do hope your ears don't bleed.

Ignore the awkward voice, as I said I am sick and should probably stay home. But, I shall not! Peace and Love
-Claudia

Feast Interuptus

Favorite holiday commercial this year. By far. I couldn't find the full version with the dog driving the car but whatever, it's still awesome. I love the extreme not matchiness of the table. And everything else too.

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I want a sweater with one of those pretty and tacky winter patterns on it!
wantwantwantwantwantwantwantwantwantwantwant
(except this one looks a little itchy and I'm not in love with the pattern)

VICTORIA

Angels of Victoria's Secret Fashion Show 2010 from Justin Wu on Vimeo.

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HAYGURLHAY

Hey guys/girls/gals/fellows, so yes, I have been more of a fail than usual at blogging. I made this video because someone on formspring told me to make one if I was too lazy to type... The volume didn't work when I tried to watch it on my computer so maybe it won't for you either, but you can still look at my pretty little face! If the volume DOESN'T work, here is pretty much what it says:
Sorry I haven't blogged
I'm going to show you some of the stuff I got black friday shopping
-Nail Polish: Sparkly and Yellow
-Shoes: Birthday present (because my birthday was last monday!)
-Dress: Only $10! It has a hole in the back (on purpose)
-Skirt/Skort Thing: $5, I enjoy it
-Socks: With that cool pattern that all the awesome sweaters that I want have.
Then I said bye pretty much :).
And even though I haven't been posting I have still been dressing (whoa...). I really like a lot of my outfits and I want to show them to you but I never get the chance to take a picture, I'm gonna try to do better with that one. Love you all!
Peace, Love, and Junk
-C

The Cave- Mumford and Sons


Fashion- Lady Gaga (been in my head for ever!!!)

Emma

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This and this to:

THIS! Emma Watson is one of the most beautiful people I have ever seen. I actually met her a few years ago but I don't really remember it because I wasn't a die hard HP fan yet. But honestly, every time I see her all I can think is how gorgeous she is. I would love to meet her again!
PS. If you ever see her or meet her, DO NOT, I repeat DO NOT, say anything along the lines of "ten points for Gryffindor". It happened in one of her classes at Brown and apparently she flipped.
PSS. Camera? Memory card is gone :/. I'm getting it back Saturday. Also, apologies for the posting fail, I want to post about stuff but I just end up not doing it. I'll do my best to post more :D. But I'm always on tumblr! It's super easy to blog stuff there and it's my tool for procrastination (do not follow my example) so I stay on tumblr all week.
PEACE!

OH MY GOD FOUR DAYS FOUR DAYS FOUR DAYS FOUR DAYS FOUR DAYS. I'm peeing myself. HP7

Fur Hat

Hi. I love you. Wore this last week sometime. I want to do a Q&A so ask away! Formspring, email (beetlebugblog@yahoo.com), or comment here. :D

Hat: Claire's, Shirt: South Moon Under, Vest: Ralph Lauren, Skirt: Thrifted Gap, Socks: Urban Outfitters, Shoes: Wanted

Name to Name

Ida- The Filippa

I feel like I'm on a name to name basis with the people who write the blogs I read. I don't know why but when I read someone's blog I feel like we have some super blogger telepathy connection or something. *Ex Dee* (I feel awkward putting smileys on blog posts, so that mean: XD). I think its funny, and weird when i really think about it. Like, I don't know Tavi, but I feel like i do. I don't know Ida, but I feel like i do. So, I don't really know how to elaborate on that but whatever, what about you guys? Any of you guys feel like that?
Tavi-Style Rookie. Also this is the best picture ever.

Zara... continued

MAH!

This is my friend Glen, an awesome party animal from the Zara on Walnut Street. He gets the title of "First Street Style Shot I Ever Took". Congrats Glen! I'll send you a prize...

I want all of these clothes to be shoved into a large suitcase and shipped off to London where I will have a lovely apartment that is in walking distance from everywhere and a rock star boyfriend who takes me to fancy restaurants and camps out in parking lots in a tent as our anniversary. Isn't it amazing what clothes can bring to your mind? This is Zara on Walnut Street and it's the only Zara near my house.

I went for the first time, and it's amazing. I mean I've heard of how great it is before but it's full of awesome plaid and stripes and lumberjack-ish clothing. There are knit cardigans with bows up the back and floral skirts that land right below the knee. All with staff that match the store, they are all dressed fantastically and Glen happened to be my favorite. Don't get me started on the shoes. Think of the most fantastic pair of shoes, and make it better, well that pair of shoes is probably in that store.

Then my au pair, Antonia, (who took me) told me that she lives near a place where there are five Zara's all near each other that all have different stuff in them. I wouldn't mind moving there.

My first time... at Zara

I walked into Zara for the first time and my mouth hung open. I was overwhelmed by sadness because from the second I entered the store that everything that packed it's four walls would be amazing, and I would not be able to have it... To be continued

We can be Original too

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A few days ago I was on IFB and read an article Original Content in blogs that was written by Vahni of Grit and Glamour. She took a survey on her blog to see which kinds of post her readers liked better, how easy the layout was to use, if her readers liked the really, super original stuff better or the sort of "regurgitated" content better, etc..

When I first started blogging I had no idea what I was doing. I didn't have a plan on what I wanted to blog about or who I was going to be as a blogger so I just posted random crap that was really terrible and made no sense and I apologized for posting more than once in a day. It was a disaster (yes, all these posts are still up (actually there aren't THAT many, but they are REALLY bad), after you read this you will probably go stalk my horrific posts of the past). Then I started really snooping around the blogging world. I was discovering all the "famous" blogs that everyone knew about already and a few that were not so famous. I wanted followers (just like any new or old blogger would), so I said, "Oh, a lot of famous blogs have just outfit posts and "what's in my bag?" posts and catwalk reviews and just picture inspiration posts." So I started doing that (kind of, not religiously but if you go back and see my posts it's pretty "conformist) and I got a few followers so I kept doing it. But then when I came across the article written by Vahni I was like, Screw this!, I'm gonna do what I want, and I don't have to post everyday, and if I'm myself people will like it. Examples: this post.... Crosses in Fashion post.

Tavi of Style Rookie
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So before this epiphany I used to spend a lot (A LOT) of time wondering why certain blogs were famous. Most prominently, Tavi's Style Rookie. I would think things like, "Why is this girl getting more followers and more attention than me? How come she got famous in like four months and I've been going for longer and only have 15 followers that are mostly my friends?"

Please don't get me in trouble for saying I used to think those things! I'm just being honest. Now (and for a pretty long time before this), I actually totally love how much Tavi layers and I wish I had the eye for it she does.

Now I know. Well I knew before but now I know more concretely. TAVI POSTS ORIGINAL STUFF. No other blogs talk about Daria and Neopets (I'm in love with both.. Just saying). Or Pop Magazine instead of Vogue. Or knows about random fantastic editorials and zines. I could go on. T reason Tavi's famous is because she does stuff no one else EVER does, and she does it pretty damn well. And it's stuff she posts about is interesting, I found out about Daria from her blog, I find out about cool current events from her blog, I found out about Sassy and First Kiss. She's posting stuff that people have never heard of, therefore teaching us about a bunch of new stuff that people SHOULD know about. She's a FANTASTIC writer as well so even if her posts are long, they are always interesting and fun to read.

PS. I also think she writes and rewrites and reads and rereads and edits her posts over and over again to make them perfect (which is awesome! But I'm too lazy and ADD about stuff to do it...).

I think (think...) the point of this post was to show new bloggers and my readers what my philosophy on blogging is now... Maybe... I'm not really sure, I just wanted to share my thoughts with you (which is what blogging is also about). This was a super text heavy post so... PICTURE!

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The world's largest freshwater fish...? I typed in "picture" on Google images and this is what came up first.

super camper's outfits for the past two days!

Hi! On Saturday I went to the Eastern State Penitentiary (an old jail turned haunted house) with my photo class to take pictures. It was pretty epic, if I do say so my self. The bottom pictures (photo creds Chelsea) are what I wore there, it was colder than I thought...

Shoes: Wanted, Jeans: Wet Seal, Sweater: Gap, Button Up: Thrifted, Lace Shirt: Free People

I made my giant Super Camper Shirt (every week at camp someone gets Camper of the Week, it was me in week two!!! Yay!!!!) into a tank top and paraded around very proudly in my bandeau. I enjoy bandeaus. Thoroughly. (photo creds Antonia)

T-shirt: Camp!, Bandeau: Urban Outfitters, Skirt: Thrifted Gap, Socks: Urban Outfitters, Boots: Wanted

I put both of these on LOOKBOOK.nu, here and here. If you feel so inclined, hype me! :D

Crosses in fashion

Crosses by beetlbug featuring leopard print tops

Crosses: They are so fantastic, the shirts and the necklaces and the rings. I love all of them but I would never wear them. I don't know if this is like a touchy subject but I feel like I'd be disgracing the Christian community or something if I wear a cross, no matter how much I like them. I'm not religious at all and it makes me feel really awkward thinking about wearing a cross, whether its a tiny ring or a humongous pendant. But I don't feel uncomfortable about it because I'm scared of religion or don't want to associate with religion but because what if people become offended if I wear it? I just don't feel right doing it.

This brings me to other people who wear crosses. I pretty much live on LOOKBOOK.nu and a lot of the time I see people with cross t-shirts and jewelry and I wonder whether they wear it for they're religion, because it looks cool and they're Christian, or they just like how it looks regardless of the religious implications. Then again it would be awkward to email them or something and just ask "what is your religion, I creepily saw that you were wearing a cross double finger ring on this day on the post called "..." on LOOKBOOK last week." Yea, not gonna happen.

Also, I was reading a post the other day about how gap teeth are going in style and how its weird to think that things you can't change are going in and out of style. To me, this seems like a religious symbol is going in style. This reminds me of how the word "retarded" is used to substitute stupid, even though this isn't politically correct, it happens. Is it PC to wear a cross as a fashion statement?

What do you think about this? I want to here your "cross" stories and opinions because this has been kind of bugging me. I don't think I'm gonna ever change my mind about wearing crosses even if they're gorgeous, I just want to hear how other people deal with this (or if they think about it at all)?

PS: I was just thinking about Buggsie from Bedtime Stories. Say hello!

Maxi, Backpacks, and Cheetah. Not going to say "Oh My", because that's cliche.

1) Tennis season is over so now I actually have time to post! Yay!
2) Polyvore is amazing, it's not like I spent the last hour on it or anything...
3) Polyvore thingy: Skirt-Alexander McQueen, Shirt-shopthetrendboutique.com, Backpack-Tylie Malibu, Shoes- Giuseppe Zanotti, Ring-Amazon...?, Necklace-Me & Zena. I haven't heard of most of these BUT! who cares? Polyvore has them all neatly categorized so I don't have to do anything but click and drag. I'm glad fashion websites also know the laziness in which I live. :D.
4) Hi. -.-. Bye!

purple gay day

Wear purple tomorrow to support the people who committed suicide because they were bullied for being gay. People should be equal, whatever they "are".

pretty houses instead of the city

Went to a bunch of open houses today. And then we came to this house. It's BEAUTIFUL. And amazing. And fantastic. I didn't take any pictures of the inside but I should have. It's and old carriage house and it has a gorgeous kitchen and amazing indoor balcony things. That pool is a swimming pool not just a fountain and that giant window looks into the master bathroom. I want to live in this place! I don't think we're going to buy it though. I had an outfit post today but all the pictures were super blurry so I decided It wouldn't. BUT! I wore my tapered sweatpants, saddle shoe keds, floral t shirt sweater, and a cardigain. SO COMFY! Anyway, Phillies game is on now so PEACE!

stickers

Today: Went to photo class (it was awesome, but we honestly didn't do anything). After that I met up with Adam and we walked to old city to go to AKA music. I got cheap used CDs from bands I've never heard of (winner). Then on the way back to the train I took pictures of every sticker I saw, because, they're awesome and I know some of the people who do the characters.
Now, going to my school to watch the Phillies game. Peace out home skillet.
Wearing: White sweater, high waisted polka dot skirt, brown belt, uggs (yuck).

excuses

except that's kind of a lie. i just liked the picture. it should read 'cause lately i've been tired and lazy but totally inspired. or something. wittier than that though. anyway, went to see Easy A today, it was fantastic. like honestly, i loved it. AND!!! for the first time i saw the HP7 trailer on a big screen, i flipped a shit. honestly. peace children (and or creepy middle aged men... jk... i hope)!

trends?

As I was stalking style.com because I haven't been on there in a while I went onto the trends page. I wanted to see what Vogue (read: "fashion god") said was "in" this season.

Layering
I'm a fail at layering, I try to do it but then stuff doesn't match then it looks awkward but I try. Really hard (it's true). Anyway, I actually really like layering if it's done right, especially when it's layer sweaters.

Long Stuff
Yes. Good Vogue. I approve a two hundred million bagillion, to and a half percent. I love long stuff I don't care if its right bellow the knee or dragging on the ground, I just love it. I have no further comments that shed light on this topic so.. NEXT.

Gold
It doesn't do it for me. I feel like it's an extra flashiness that you can achieve with anything else. It seems a little fake and tacky to me. But I can be changed, if someone shows me something where gold is worn fantastically (and nothing short of it) then I will become a believer.

Man Clothes
I like the tomboyish look but not when it's business suits and pants like it has been on the runway. I like the more laid back men's style like baggy jeans and I dunno, huge shirts? I dunno what men wear... Except my dad. Who, by the way, is EXTREMELY stylish. If I could wear what he wears every day, I totally would.

All Colour
I can't pull it off, if I wear too much colour at the same time I look like a circus clown (remember this). I like it on other people though, it's really interesting.

Fur
I love fur. I want a fur jacket, and fur boots, and fur vests, and fur purses. Just fur. But not real fur. Faux fur. It completes outfits if their boring and such. I'm running out of steam for commentary here.

50s
I never felt the fifties vibe. I dunno what to say because I'm tired, and I get all road blocked when I'm tired.

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