She Made Something! (Finally)

I got the book Alabama Chanin as a prize in a random drawing on BurdaStyle earlier this year, and it came with the kit to make one of handkerchief that they make. Never got around to doing it until last week, but it turned out to be fast, easy, and really enjoyable! Here's the final product:

Then Arthur came by to visit!

Worn with my new favorite jewelry:

I'm kinda into the whole naturals, imperfections phase. The ring and bracelet are vintage from my brother's godmother's aunt. Confusing right? She had awesome jewelry, and I got to pick my favorites. The necklace is by Wax Insignia Jewelry that I got at the wedding I went to last week in Georgia. St. Simon's Island is chock full of all those adorable lil tourist shops! They had a henna tattoo shop, and I got, what else, an octopus on my foot. His name is Eugene, pronounced EU-gene.

I'm BACK.

So basically...

I have an octopus ring.

And you don't.

Hey, guys! Meet my pet that made it all the way from Hong Kong today! It only took almost 6 weeks to arrive, but he's here now! My octopus doesn't have a name yet but I'm liking Emilio (after Emilio Aguinaldo of course.) My parents think it is the ugliest thing ever but I've always been a sucker for ugly things I guess. I adore it. It's fat and chunky and stares at your nemeses across the room.

He loves me, too!

We've bonded so much in the past three hours that we even played dress up together with my new 60s style jacket and obnoxiously round glasses from Target, both of things I've also recently aquired and adored. Especially the glasses.

As for sewing, it's going to be impossible to do anything until after mid May. I have AP history and language tests to prepare for, and I have to make a math video, and I have to blablablabla...It's just hectic. I have a jacket I'm working on now, but it's just not happening right now. It's army green [my seriously favorite color right now!] and really cool, but the forest green zipper is just clashing and I'm too lazy to rip it out. Ah, well. It just can't ruin my super happy mood. Ben is going to the University of Illinois and NOT Hawaii so he'll be close and getting super smart and I might go there too so I'm so excited for him! And I got some liquid eyeliner for the first time, too, which is why I look so fiercee. Meow.

Gosh I'm lazy.