Bed Sheets

This will be short but I wanted to show you guys what I made!!

I made this skirt last night in about 3 hours. I am pretty sure that the fabric I used was bed sheets. I am so proud of this. I didn't have to take anything apart. This is the first time I didn't make a mistake that I had to re-due!! I love this so much!! I just wanted to show you guys because I really wish I could climb up a mountain right now and show everyone!! 

I am in a great mood and I hope you are too and you are having an incredible day!!

Makayla

Fluorescent Adolescent

Last night I got this new book from the book store called Trinkets by Kristen Smith. It was awesome I came home and started reading it right away. I finished it this morning when I woke up. It is such a good book and it's definitely something new to read. This book isn't the same story as most other books are. I suggest you read it if you haven't already. I bought mine for $18 but I bet you could find it online a little cheaper. Maybe even at your library.

I sat out by the pool this morning to get that necessary vitamin D in me. When I came home and took a shower I noticed that where my stomach folds when I sit there was a paler line there. Great. I look like a striped maniac. It reminds of this book I read in elementary school. The main character was sick and started changing colors and had strips and polk-a-dots. I'll let you guys know if i happen to get to that point.

Lets see. I haven't done very much today. I went to Walmart to get some stuff to clean my car with because I was bored of sitting. I even vacuumed it! Talk about productive!! While I was cleaning my car I found some treasures under my seat. They consist of lip gloss, lip stick, some tubes of glitter, a Hershey's kiss, and a notebook. FYI I did NOT eat that Hershey's kiss. Who knows how old that is. I was extremely happy to find that lip gloss. It's the kind that makes your lip get all tingley and cool.

My friend got the lip gloss for me at Sephora for my birthday last year.

This is a new skirt I got at the DAV. I am pretty sure I payed like $5 for it. I love it to death.

I buttons down the middle. I like how long it is. I really like an old school school goer. Hahaa school goer. I usually wear a blue and white striped shirt with it but I wanted to show the skirt off so I wore a plain one this time.

I hope you guys are having fun doing whatever you guys do.

Makayla

P.S. This is why the name of the post is it's name:

This is probably the best music video I had seen! 

Cooled and Bejeweled!

Well to start this post off... IT'S SO FREAKING HOT OUTSIDE!!!!! I go out there and get burned by the air and immediately run back inside the house. Jeez the sun is so POWERFUL!! We need rain.

I love the rain. I think it is so pretty I like sitting and listening to it while reading a book or hangout learning things on the computer. But I only like the storms that make the sky turn black in the middle of the day and are super loud.

I have some sad and happy news to share with you. Let's go with the sad news first: Two years ago I had knee surgery. I had completely torn my ACL playing soccer. I got it repaired and got checked out of rehab early. I was doing very well recovering. This last week I seem to have hurt it again and I have been given a list of things I can not do by my doctor. It starts out: No walking for a long time and no dancing, jumping, skipping, or hopping. I LOVE TO DO ALL THESE THINGS!!

The good news: I have to keep it elevated and compressed to bring down the swelling. This office desk is a great place for elevating so I will probably be writing a whole lot to keep myself from boredom.

See that weird bump? Yeah... That is where my bone is in my leg and its all swollen on top of it. It is red and my scar looks like it's being stretched. If it's possible this could pop. It probably will. It looks so gross and hurts really bad. I look like an alien. 

Despited my knee hurting I took some pictures for you guys. I didn't wear this outfit out. I plan to as soon as possible because I LOOOVE it!! 

The socks are actually knee high tights that I made. I bejeweled them. I think that they look better all scrunched down. If I pull them up my legs look like tree trunks. And that doesn't look good.

I like how they are the ones put in the spotlight because everything else is black. I love this outfit.

This was a short little post. I hope you all had an absolute spiffy Monday!

Makayla

Sit Down Son, We Need To Discuss Something

Usually when your Mother/Father says this to you, you quickly turn around and run for your life in the other direction. Well BE COOL my little children. You're not in trouble and this isn't scary. So stay where you are and keep reading.

This "thing" that I feel needs to be discussed pronto is about "normal" "average" people and their clothing.

I bet you have noticed in the movies and TV shows and even on the streets what the famous ones of us are wearing. But have you ever noticed how the rarely, if not, never wear that piece of clothing again? Some of these shows are "reality" TV shows. THAT IS  NOT REALISTIC!

I know people that say "Oh, I wish I could wear a new outfit everyday!". What is the fun in that? I don't know about you, but when I purchase something I love to death I want to wear it as much as I possibly can. In a way I understand the "coolness" of it but that is such a waist of fabric and money. Think about it. If I lived to be 92 years old exactly I would have lived 33,580 days. if every outfit was between $100-$200 (this includes shoes, jewelry, socks, etc.) that would be $5,037,000 by the time I died. I personally can't afford to spend multiple million dollars to by clothing that will only be worn on my human body one time. I HAVE TO EAT TOO!!

But I know a trick that I live by to make it seem as if my closet is as full as space. When you wear something, put into memory when and how you wore it. Make sure you don't wear that piece of clothing for about 3 weeks before you wear t again and try to pair it with something else. Keep wearing it with different things and then you can start the cycle all over again. When a clothing item is worn with something else it makes it look like it is a completely different item. This makes it look like your closet is never ending.

I guess this includes my informative rant for the day.

I'm changing it up. It's a thing to tuck your shirt into your skirt. Why not tuck your skirt into your shirt for a change?

I think this is different and cute. Now you don't have to worry about your shirt slipping out of your skirt if you sit down or slightly bend over. PROBLEM SOLVED!

I also now have a Twitter account. My username is Makeewah. Feel free to follow. Or not. 

Have a fantastic day!

Makayla

A-Hoy Sailor!

You know when you try so desperately hard to do something to your best ability and when you finish and really look at whatever it is that you're doing you realize that you did everything WRONG?! Isn't that just incredibly frustrating?!!?!? Well I am here to offer you a tool to use when this awful thing happens! The best solution to every problem! Here is the answer:

Drum Roll Please!!

Just put yourself to sleep. Yes. Go crawl in bed, watch something just absolutely ridiculous on the Television, and fall to sleep.

If you don't do this, you will probably keep working and it will just get worse and worse until you ninja kick the wall. Then what would you have? A HUGE WALL IN YOUR WALL AND YOUR MOM WILL YELL AT YOU! We all know that is the most scary thing in the world!!

This has been happening to me a lot lately and I am sick and tired of it! I want to be able to work on something without my stupidity kicking in. JUST ONCE! This might actually be an illness I am describing and you have no idea what the heck I am talking about because it has never happened to you!

Lately I have been changing things. I have recently rearranged my room and it looks so much bigger that was probably the smartest thing I have ever done! I peeled the hideous wallpaper off in my bathroom and am now working on cleaning the walls so I can begin to prime and paint them. I picked out this baby pink called Fading Rose. It is so pretty! I really think I need to see a doctor about my arm though, it feels like it is going to fall off from scrubbing!

I have also been trying to get out of the house and when I do I put together some great outfits!

This outfit makes me feel like a sailor. It is awesome! I love wearing it. The lions and cheetah print gives a cool jungle twist to the outfit. Sailors travel to amazingly beautiful exotic islands to I couldn't not add them!!

 I have a love for this picture. Even though you can't really see what it is exactly that I am wearing, I feel like I look like a goddess because the kitty is looking up to me like that! I am so attached to this!

 These shoes are E.T.Wright mens shoes made in England. I got them at Red Racks for $20 and they are selling on eBay between $40-$300. I don't want to resell them. I love them. Even if the make me look like I have clown feet.

My shirt is velvet. I love the feel of it. I was going to get a velvet shirt just like this one at a store for $39 but I found this one at a thrift store for $3.98. Even better!!

Thrift stores are the bomb people!! Don't look down on them. You can always find something spectacular!!

Peace out Homies!

Drive Drive Drive!!!

So the saying goes: "Good things come to those who wait." - I have no idea to said this

I do NOT agree with this at all. What are you doing as you are "waiting"? Sitting on your lazy butt eating Oreo's? I say Good things come to those with Drive! If you want something good go out there and take it. Don't stop until you have whatever it is that you want. No one can stop you.

Last Friday was Art Walk. I told you guys I was to take pictures. I was going to until my sister took the battery out of the camera and left it at home! Ugh that was annoying! It was truly great though!

I got my picture taken for the News Leader with a good friend of mine. I am in picture 13. There is also a picture of Jake Rogers Band in there somewhere. It is cool to look through!

I haven't really been doing much. I have been hanging out at the pool a lot. I signed up at LOOKBOOK which is an awesome website and you have to check it out if you're into fashion! Fan me if you would like.

This Friday I am leaving to go on a three day floating trip that my family and I take every year. We are on the river for 9 hours! It is exhausting and I usually get sunburnt. Goody! I somehow managed to sunburn the top of my head and it hurts like crazy!

This is an outfit post! The first one of June I believe. I don't know. My memory is not really here. I could very well be lying to you right now! MWAHAHAHAA

Now maybe you guys can see how this place is BORING! But I love it here. It's really old and run down. It is really neat to take pictures. 

This is one of my favorite places to eat. It is a hole-in-the-wall place. I think the max amount of people it will hold is 7. It only sits four super uncomfortably at a really tiny bar like thing. There are posters up everywhere about events and the teenagers just have to draw mustaches on everyone.

This is my town!

Makayla

Upholstery? For Clothes? For Fashion? Yes!

I was sitting on my couch drawing some outfits in my sketch book, you know, the norm, and when I looked to my left it all came to me. Every question in the entire universe had been answered and absolutely everything came together in a billionth of a second. I saw a pillow. This was a very special pillow. My Mom made it. Yes, she made it. She made it out of upholstery fabric. UPHOLSTERY FABRIC!!

I have always liked this fabric and was always drawn to it in the fabric stores. I would show my Mom and beg for it. I would get down on my knees and plead, I needed it so badly! The response would be one of three things: "Ew Makayla. No! It is hideous!" or "No Makayla. You are ridiculous. You need therapy! Not that ugly fabric." or "You have got to be kidding me! Stop living in your head and look at the world around you! That is just absolutely AWFUL! I'm about to be sick!"

Okay, well the last two are pushing it a little. But it didn't matter I needed that fabric. And I never got it.

As I was drawing this outfit I kept trying to picture the fabric it needed I was stuck. It was like everything in the world stood at a halt and nothing was moving. My brain froze and my eyes grew to a blank stare. As I was staring blankly, my head sort of tilted and after about five seconds of being motionless I saw that pillow. The pillow that changed my life. Okay that is probably too dramatic too, but yes. Then after coming to my senses again after looking at that beautiful pillow, my whole family was sitting there staring at me. That is how I was put into this mental hospital.

Nope. I'm in a hospital. My family didn't look at me either. They were staring blankly into the TV. Oh man I'm going to be hit for that one. They didn't do that either. It doesn't matter what they were doing. I saw that beautifully amazing pillow.


I was staring to get extreme;y bored with how the fabrics of the two dresses I made worked together. They didn't really make any sense to me. I have always been a fan of juxtapositions. As I thought about the upholstery fabric I noticed it was heavy and had both a roughness and smoothness about it. I adore tulle and know that that is a must-have in the garment. When I put the two fabrics together in my head it exploded. The tulle is transparent and light weight. The upholstery is heavy, it doesn't breathe.. They are the exact opposites and that happened to be exactly what I was looking for.

This was my idea. It looks a lot better in my head, I promise. I want the tulle to fill out the bottom of the dress and stick out a little bit so it is noticeable. But I also wanted it through out the dress. I have practiced with gathering tulle and it work excellently! I am really excited about this idea. I hope you guys are too.

This might mean that the whole collection is changing. FOR THE BETTER!

Makayla