I’ve been playing with Polyvore and Looklet a lot. Many of you might be wondering what is Looklet? Looklet is a place like Polyvore, but instead of having just random stuff, you have a model and you can style her however you want. I’m a total Looklet addict now and it’s Aurea’s fault (si, te culpo a ti n_n).
So here are some looks I’ve done on Looklet and some sets I’ve made in Polyvore:
So, how you’ve all been?
Damn, I’ve been awake for a little over 3 hours and my head is still throbbing from last night.
At first we didn’t have any plans. My sister was going off to Cuernavaca with her friends and my parents don’t do NYE at all. My friends were all spending it with their families, after all NYE is a family event here. So I was settled, like Alekz, to vegetate and then vegetate some more last night.
Then… the call came. It was V-chan calling to see if we wanted to spend NYE at her place with Tsuneo-san and Ai-chan as well. My mum and dad said yes (Daddy wanted to hang out with Tsuneo-san) and off we went. We arrived there at 4 and then started watching a Kouhaku re-run. From what I understand, Kouhaku is like a NYE music festival with a lot of artist that compete in two teams: Red and White. Red is for the women’s team and white is the men’s team. One team wins at the end of the night and there are judges and stuff like that. The 4 times I’ve seen it the men always win ¬¬.
So during Kouhaku I saw SMAP perform a tribute to Michael Jackson. They were awesome, I think I might have a huge crush on them, they are so fun to watch!
After Kouhaku was finished (like at 10 pm), we had food. So much beautiful, delicious and awesome food! Tsueno-san went to Mikasa (THE Japanese supermarket here in Mexico) and got so much stuff! I had veggie sushi roll, fried octopus I don’t know what and sweet beans and spongy egg. THE EGG!! I just think of it and drool. I also had my first ever rice cake.
“Where are the pics?” you may ask… Well, I kinda forgot my camera because it didn’t fit on the tiny clutch I took there.
So back to the food. I basically stuffed my face until I couldn’t eat more and the Tsuneo-san took out my crack, my heroin, my downfall:
I almost died of happiness. If there is one thing I lovelovelovelove more than any other food in the entire universe is omochi with sweet beans. I ate two of those things!! Tsueno-san was laughing so hard at me but I didn’t care. I was in food heaven!
Ehm, ok back to the post…
I also had Plum Dew and like 4 types of red wine and white wine. It was like a liquor fest. Ai-chan and I just drank and drank and drank some more. Then we spent the whole Kouhaku dishing on the cute guys and I started plotting my trip to Japan, you know, to like snag one of those cute Japanese boys that seem to not age at all! I swear I was like “Who is that?! When does the next flight to Japan leave?!”.
I rang the new year singing karaoke with Daddy and then the next stuff comes blurry. I just remember getting home and collapsing on my bed.
Right now, I drinking massive amounts of water and staying away from food.
Disclaimer: No I’m not an interior decorator, interior designer, architech or anything like that. I just decided to paint a wall because I wanted to paint a wall.
So I’ve been rambling on and on about what I want to do to change my bedroom. I’m seriously not moving anytime soon and it realy needed a change. You know, just because I wanted to make it mine, really mine. I moved into this house almost 5 years ago and my room has looked the same for that long. One day my parents decided to move and we brought all our stuff here and that was it. We just tidied up the place and that was our big move. I never really liked my bedroom. It is big, bigger than the one in the other house, I have a dressing room, a walk-in closet and a jacuzzi in my bathroom… but it never felt mine.
So I decided that the first step to make it mine was to get rid of that hideous wallpaper and paint the wall.
I went to Comex’s website to look for colours. Comex is a Mexican copany, so I knew that was te best place to look for colours because I would be sure to find tem easily and at good prices. So after fumbling with the website and finaly finding the colours I saw one that really caught my attention. It was like a weird magenta-pink-violet thingy and it’s name is Unicorn. Unicorn, I liked that name and then looked for the hexadecimal number (#ba6b95) and painted a huge chunk of space in Photoshop to see if I liked it.
I did like it… a lot!
Unicorn!
So we went to get the paint and some supplies to get the job done. Then the hard part started: ripping off that wallpaper!
It was so much harder than I thought it would be. You have no idea. I started ripping as much as I could while it was dry. Then I got it wet and with a spattula took as much as I could. I totally have a blister on my hand from doing that. The worst part was when I had to climb up a ladder to get the top part off (stupid high ceiling ¬¬). My mum helped me a lot and in a matter of hours we got the whole thing down.
The next part was to fill in all the holes and imperfections. My dad did that with some plaster mix we got at Home Depot and itwas really fast (luckily, the wall wasn’t that much damaged). Then we waited for it to dry and we started painting.
Comex’s paint is water based, so you just dillute the amount of paint in 15% of water and you’re ready to go. It also doesn’t smell and is washable.
All the cleaning I have done was for nothing. My desk was a mess and with the wall all bare, it looked just horrible. It stayed like this for two days while the repair and paint was going on.
Unicorn paint!
First coat of paint
Second coat!
The next day, I woke up and saw that there were huuuge white makrs on the wall so we did another coat. This is how it looked after the third coat.
Third coat!
In the afternoon, after painting.
At night with my lights on. My lightbulbs are yellow so the wall looks kind of orange.
I’m organizing the room again, and as soon as it gets done, I’m going to post more pictures of the wall. Right now we’re working on my sister’s room and yeah, we’ve turned into renovation central here. My mum really likes to get into these things o_O.
Yesterday, my sister and I went to our friend’s wedding. We went with dates and had an awesome time eating away and dancing. I ended up with horrible and painful blisters on my feet from all the dancing but damn it I had an awesome time. Dearest, my date for the night, knows how to dance every genre XDD. It was so fun! I love men who can dance.
This is what I wore:
My sister ended up wearing a dress very similar to mine and then we whined about it before leaving the house.
Dearest and I, not one of our best moments XDD
And this is how I finished the night. Tired and with my hair eugh.
We also bought this:
A sequined fedora!
It is from Zara (TRF section) and it was $199 pesos (less than $20 USD). It is so Michael Jackson, I love it. I wore it right out of the store and everyone turned to look at me. It was fun.
We went to Mango where my sister got a clutch purse and I tried on a dress:
It was sequined, short and fitted me like a glove. It was a dress made for me. Too bad it was $1,800 (like $150 USD, more or less). With some black opaque tights and my Steven Madden ankle boots I could totally rock this dress.
How was your weekend?
Today, here in Mexico was Election Day! No, we weren’t electing president but we were electing representatives.
So of course I woke up early to go work out and then go vote.
I went to Naucalli Park, then had breakfast, showered and got ready. My sister on the other hand was just waking up and she took very long getting ready. Finally, when she was done we made our way to our voting site (forgot it’s name in English but in Spanish is casilla electoral).
The problem here is that we didn’t want to take the car because it was close enough to go walking but, and this is a big BUT, the walk there is uphill and I’m taking about a very big, steep hill. So up the hill we went…
I’m not kidding we were up the first hill and my sister couldn’t move anymore! She spent all the way whining and panting and holding to me so I dragged her ¬¬. It was horrible. No to mention that the sun was high on the sky and there was little to none shade. You can imagine that when we finally got to our destination we were sweaty and tired.
Then we went to the line and they sent us to a mini classroom (the voting thing-y was at a school nearby) where there were like 30 people (I’m not exaggerating) and it was hot as hell! Lucky for us they located our IDs easily and then we voted. The process was very fast since there was little to no line at the site.
After that we went back home, this time downhill which was easier and faster n_n.
Once back I washed my hands like 30 times trying to get rid of the stench of the ink they used to mark my thumb. It doesn’t stink anymore but eugh, it was just plain awful.
One of the things I enjoyed the most today was sitting with mum and Maximus watching TV. We were taking it easy until he decided that he wanted to go running all over the house. I had to chase him and it was terrible…
Have you seem Ice Age 3? My sister did and she said that it wasn’t as good as the others. Mum and I are going to watch it when she’s better and I want to know if it’s worth paying for the 3D experience or not.
Kisses,
Julie.
Oh how I looove going to the mall!
Which reminds me of:
Anyways, I went to the mall today with Daddy, my mum and my sister to get some new suits for Daddy. He got some really nice ones and then we went around the mall just watching stuff.
Since the family started exercising in the mornings (not me, because I’m too lazy to wake up early) we went to the Nike Store to get Daddy and sister new running shoes. In the store, we saw the Nike+ iPod adapter and I spent 20 minutes explaining to Daddy how it worked with the new iPhone 3Gs.
While in some aspects the iPhone 3Gs was a disappointment, I think that if I can afford it, I’ll get it come July. I was going to get another iPod (for when I go running) but I’d rather wait another month for the iPhone.
Yep, nothing interesting today. I’m getting new running shoes soon (Nike+ ones) and I’m going to join the family in the morning jog.
Kisses,
Julie.
