jellyfish fluttering

I felt like a jellyfish in this.  A cute, pink, ruffly jellyfish.  Every time I went down the stairs the edges of the skirt kinda fluttered and poofed.  It was fun :D

butterflies!

skirt - Wet Seal, when Wet Seal had tons of awesome
print designs and cute skirts...

My city has this awesome place that I love to go, with a great, huge greenhouse and all kinds of tropical plants (and carnivorous plants, and cacti, and seasonal plants, and...).  In early spring, they bring in all sorts of butterflies and let them loose in the tropical greenhouse.  It's wonderful to roam around in the warm, humid greenhouse-world and spot all kinds of flitting butterflies.  Everyone is especially always after the blue morpho butterfly.  I've gotten a couple shots of them in years past; this year's best was the bluish blur you see in this sketch (the other butterflies are also from photos I took).  I happened to be taking pictures of another resting butterfly when the blue one flitted by, and my camera snapped the picture just as it was in the middle of the screen.  What timing!

Also, please enjoy two more new-old posts featuring this skirt.  One of them features a small commercial.  Have fun!

nearly-spring sunshine

striped shirt - Old Navy
pink shirt - H&M
skirt - Wet Seal

This drawing goes with the one right below it—another pose swiped from Gals!  But I could swear I've drawn poses like this before... it's like manga has invaded my subconscious!  I draw silly manga-poses without even realizing it!!  Hmmm.

This Sunday was the one before Lent started, and I woke up just as the morning sun was shining right through my window!  It was so wonderful and bright, my sleepy mind thought it must be the middle of summer.  Even when I realized it was still winter and I had to get ready for church instead of sleeping in as I was tempted to, that bright sunshine made me so happy.  I think maybe God arranged for the sun to hit my window just as it did to help motivate me to get up early and use my time more wisely.  So for Lent I chose to give up my laziness and follow a schedule each day.  So far it feels really great!!

[edit: so the reason this pose feels so familiar might be because I did a very similar pose with another outfit that features the same pink shirt and yellow tights.  hah-hah-haaa...]

random posing

Slowly, slowly catching up... (and then falling behind again, and then catching up again!)

This might be a little out of place, but as I'm posting this (11 March), my mind is filled with the news from Japan and the devastating earthquake and tsunami they've been hit with.  Please keep them (as well as all those along the Pacific coasts) in your thoughts and prayers!!

the cat came back

shirt - Arizona (JC Penny)
skirt - YesStyle
tights - Gap

And the very next day... I got back to work with a new lettering project!  A Korean comic about a traveling cat!  I got really excited working on it because it's visually gorgeous—whimsical watercolour-ish illustrations with an amazing range of colours.  There was a night-sky scene that was so beautiful, I couldn't help wanting to replicate it a little with this outfit.

options

shirt - Arizona (JCPenny)
green skirt - A. Byer
pink skirt - Wet Seal
socks - Sockdreams
barrette - dollar store

This is my dilemma.  I got lazy for a few days and didn't write down what I wore alongside the drawing, and then when I went back I had to figure it out based on the drawing and my memory.  It's usually not a problem because I've trained my brain to remember frivolous details like that, but when I got to this drawing I could not for the life of me remember what pair of tights I'd worn.  So I made three different versions—the yellow tights as you see here, the same outfit with pink tights, and with blue tights.  Now for your assignment: please write a five-paragraph essay and explain which you like best, OR which you think Lys was most likely to have actually worn, and why.

golden bubbles

tshirts - Mossimo (Target) and My Favorite Tee (Younkers)
cami - Energie (Kohl's?)
skirt - Old Navy
tights - Gap
earrings/necklace - handmade by friend

merry day after Christmas!

So I had a lovely Christmas.  The next day I went to my parents' place again after church because mum was making hash browns!!  Mm, delicious warm potato-food.  Well, while I was there my dad discovered a forgotten Christmas gift in his sock drawer.  It was... a digital camera!!  A super adorable turquiose coloured one, just for me!  So now I can take pictures of all sorts of cute and wonderful things, like Finny fallen asleep with the yarn I'm knitting, or my mini Christmas tree as you saw a couple posts back.  Thanks, mum and dad!!

sleepy ruffly

The second part of the bored-sleepy set.  Again I am sad that I can never quite achieve the vibrancy of my medium-dark turquoise clothes with the flat colours available to me in a digital palette.  Alas, RGB...

rock the stars

...I went shopping :D I find the best way to properly integrate new clothes into my wardrobe is to wear them as soon as I get them.  If I don't, or am hesitant, it's probably a sign that I didn't really want those clothes and shouldn't have bought them.  So, welcome, purple starry shirt and blue starry shirt with thumbholes in the sleeves! I enjoy drawing stars.

the princess swoons

My landlady said I looked like a princess when she saw me wearing this outfit!  Hee!!  I really, really (reallyreallyreally) love the red lace over yellow tights.  It's so lovely~  Also, I seem to have gotten stuck on the yellow-purple colour scheme.  But I love it, so...

The book in this drawing is the last volume of my favourite manga (世界でいちばん大嫌い, or I Hate You More Than Anyone), which I read last night.  It's a wonderful series :D  (and much more full of love and happy and adorableness than the title might imply!)

a million sweaters

Happy November!!

When I wake up on a wintery Michigan morning and I'm coldcoldcold, all I want to do is wear like a million sweaters.  And then I end up like this.  Warm and cozy all day long!!  Sweater dresses are pretty awesome. This one has big floppy pockets, which makes it the awesomest sweater dress ever♥

all out!

Blogspot, why you gotta put a 200-character limit on my tags?? I had to leave out labels for my barrettes, rings, the floofy underskirt... ah, I didn't even get my earrings in there!

I also forgot to colour my newly painted nails, darn it. Maybe I'll post an updated version later. They're mostly orange, but two nails are purple and one is silver.

It makes me super extra happy to get all dressed up and fancy, even if there's no reason for it. I did laundry and went to a music "coffee house" event at my church in this outfit.

pom poms!

colour for warmth

colours, i love them all

pink is a primary colour

making rainbows