2 days until my fashion show

who would have thought that I would be designing for a fashion show this year. In the beginning of my last year, I considered that as a thought but never thought that I would actually go through with it. One day while I was having a conversation with my roommate, she was telling me of her friend who kept talking about these great ideas and of things he wanted to do but never did it. I began to hear myself and see that I might become the same way if I didnt commit to something and follow it through. This is my one chance to show my parents I am serious of considering designing as a career. Especially, this whole career change was slowly landed on my parents right after I came back from studying abroad.

So here I am. weaving fabric on a self- made rustic loom to make belts to go with my clothing.

During the model fittings, some of the models say that they like the clothing they are trying on. It makes me soo happy even if they are kissing up or whatever. It makes me feel like what I have done has accounted for something. It looks so much different to see it on a person other than myself and see it come to life. I think my roommates are excited to see it in the fashion show since for the past months I have been sitting in the corner table of the dining area sewing and then moving into the living room to watch tv while I cut fabric.

It was hard to make a decision to detach myself with my previous designs since the theme was kind of lacking and I was half way done.I was making clothes based on the fact of using recycled clothing but had the problem of lacking the skills to create something I drew. So I decided why not stick to something more simple and theme oriented. I used one of my favorite pieces in my previous designs as the staring point to my current line of 7 designs.

Looking back at how much I have accomplished already, I am proud of myself. I have managed to make 7 dresses and finish weaving 7 belts. I am not the best at making clothes YET but I strive to learn by taking apart clothes or trying to learn by books. Before, I would make an excuse for my shortcomings and not attempt to try to learn without all the possible materials and instruments. I would say " I need a dress form to make the clothes" or "I need the right wood piece to make a loom" and so on. But, I have learned to do without such things and try to make it work.

What to be for halloween

I would like to be able to make my halloween costume by halloween. so i need to start brainstorming on what to be. hmm. something simple to make of course since I am a beginner sewer. I would also need a detailed tutorial to follow since I cant make anything just by sketching something out and create it into a pattern. hopefully one day I can though. More like I will since I would like to enter a fashion school after my last yr in a public university.


does anyone know about any good costume tutorials.or any costume ideas.

日本に戻りたい

７月８日アメリカに帰ったけどちょっと時差がある。今友達が仕事したり、サーマスクールをしたり、みんなが忙しいんだ。でもあたし超暇だ。あたしにとって、アメリカはつまらない。車がないなら、どこでもいけない。車免許があったよかった！一年間運転してないからちょっと不安な気持ちがあるだ。最近、暑くて、何もしたくない。でも、ファシッヨンの話をするためにあたしは本気な気持ちを伝えないといけないから、パンツを初め作る。

物：things

i feel like I didnt buy anything but have accumulated a lot... some are papers from classes, magazines, and clothes. Packing is such a pain. i have packed and repacked for like the fourth time each time lessening my carryload. However, I am a packrat and call on things to have sentimental value. I need to stop this...


I have been very good at throwing things away now and have lessen my load by a lot. I feel like after studying abroad or going to a place other than home and then coming home. you realize how much you have actually accumulated during that time.

simple is bliss however I always want to acquire things. I feel my money control and food control has been ruined by coming here. you would think its the opposite for food since most ppl probabally expect me to go back all skinny since the food is expensive.

I feel like I have destroyed all the expectations/stereotypes of ppl studying in japan

1) you are fluent in the language NO
2) you will lose weight and be all skinny like them NO ( quite the opposite)
3) you will get a japanese boyfriend NOPE
4) you will become girlier?? NOPE
5) you will be good at cooking ?? NOPE im good at making food that comes in mixes hehe
6) you will be good at making sushi ( haha havent made sushi once here )

my room is a complete mess.... packing kills.



my goal once i go back and move into the apt..

have the least minimum to live with... use the money I save for after I graduate.

june...オムライス・ダンス大会・パーマ・ICU・寮・家庭教師生徒・moffle

FIRE BOYS aka. PURE BOYS

Today was a really fun day. thanks to leeyeon.

so we had tickets to the chanel mobile art exhibition and got there a little early and decided to kill time by walking around. all of a sudden we saw these two birds humping and laughed at them. all of a sudden the pigeons came towards us flapping their wings like right on top of us and we screamed. (note: leeyeon is afraid of birds because of traumatic reasons)

so after that we waited to get into the exhibition.. soo cool

everyone who entered had a mp3 player to use while going through the exhibition. it tells u when to leave one artwork and move to the next. like it talks about the artwork in like a story/dialogue way.

so we walked around and i bought some gifts for ppl. i had to keep in mind to get something small because of spacewise in my suitcase. even though i keep throwing things away i cant seem to pack everything...

i found the greatest bento box for me to bring to school once i go home.. wait and see.

i am in search of these really cool pants called balloon pants.

so me and leeyeon decided to get tickets to this radio station with these famous ppl i guess. i didnt know about them until i was informed by leeyeon. so we waited with these other girls for tickets. the girls are so crazy about them that we saw these girls like dancing to their music.( you have to get tickets at 3 to see the show at 7pm. ( i noticed u cant even watch the whole thing so u can only watch for like 10 mins of the 1 hr show) my friend has met one of the guys at a club so didnt want to be seen so i was blocking her for her.

so i will tell u a lil about pure boys that i know. most of them are actors but become singers too because its easier to promote themselves in a group...

http://pureboys.jp/

so i called them fire boys accidently so i keep making fun of them as fire boys. i was probably the most unexcited in the line of girls waiting to see them since i didnt know about them much until today.and guess what!!!! i became the lucky girl by random.. yaya.. i had to fake happy excited look to make the girls feel like it wasnt such a waste that i got the lucky girl number..

i was scared not because i would see them more like if i was to talk to them... i cant since my japanese sucks and i know absolutely nothing about them...


so i decided why not just do it since im only here for a lil bit more...
so i was guided into the studio near the end of the show and waited in this itty bitty room. after that i went on air with the pure boys ppl... so me being the stupid gaijin not knowing what they were really saying i made a fool out of myself.

so they asked how long i waited for the ticket i was like about 30 mins before they passed the ticket.. i think that hurt their ego since like im sure a lot of girls wait a lot longer than that. and then they asked me to tap the guy i came to see/ i like but i was soo clueless cuz i didnt hear them explain so i was like why the heck are they like putting their heads down and sleeping. so me being stupid i just stared at the audience and like copied them ...haha dumb me.they had to explain it again and then i tapped this guys shoulder..http://ameblo.jp/minami-keisuke/

and i got a picture with them too ... yaya

the one in the girl who is holding the green blob is the one i touched...


p.s. i thought two of the staff guys were better looking than some of the pure boys... the one who guided me in was really cute..