[Frills and Grace] Magazine rack

To start getting into a fashion is always good to check the magazines that are out there. Sadly US magazines haven't impressed me in that fashion department. Here is why...

1.I don't care for the model look. They are almost always to skinny. It's just unreal and unhealthy. I loved as a kid one of my friends bought me a Barbie comic and one of the stories covered how a friend was starving herself to get model pretty. The friend then spent a day with Barbie and saw that Barbie eat right and worked out to keep healthy. By doing this Barbie was able to keep an active life and worked well as a model. At the end a photographer goes up to the starving friend and says if she gain a few pounds that she would work. In short, I was to see average girls display their fashion love.  

2. All I get are product adds. Yes I want to see product but when it's 75% of the magazine I feel that the magazine should have paid me to read the magazine.

3. Let me state I don't mind the story articles. It's nice to read a well written price and feel I am not being spoon feed with dribble gossip. Keep the gossip to the tabloids.

4. Last, scrap book fashion. You know where they show the clothing and accessories just laying down, not on a body. It's looks lazy and really doesn't do the clothing any favor as you just slabbed down  some fabric and beads on the floor. 

So for us market magazines I pick up maybe two a year and I found more fashion in a strawberry shortcake magazine then a vogue that I liked.

So in turn I picked up some Japanese magazine.  By the way they have a ton of different magazines for fashion and they all cover different styles. The ones I have picked us so far and love are Kera, gothic Lolita bible and Cutie. Here are some key notes of what I love.

1. Models mostly wear what they love. 

2. Street snaps, adore. Your not getting just one brand on a body but mix and match and working out something that works. Also giving credit to those who are in the fashion and supporting it.

3. Free product goodies. You might discard the magazine in a few weeks but they give something with it. (Usable bags, body spray etc. )

4. I don't understand kanji so I can't say much about the articles but they are there is just the right amount too.

5. Make up and hair tutorials and awesome. I don't understand kanji but there are enough step by step photos and photos of the products they use I understand.

So there is a magazine review. I have very little budget for fashion but I will support what I like and so will buy the Japanese magazines when I can. Also have the Tokyo fashion app and kawaii magazine app on my iPod and they are good. I've only used the vogue app like twice and when I have a want to look at runway fashion sure but most of the time not into runway stuff.

[By the Window] Good Distraction

So right in the middle of reading Wizard of Oz. Loving it but I am greatly distracted by a new purchaser. Animal Crossing: new leaf. It lets me design stuff and then SHARE it. So here is my Dorathy inspired dress. I'm thinking of doing all the classic book characters.

[By the window] summer reading list

Everyone should try and make a summer reading list. I know, I sound like some teacher or writer and in a little way I am. 

Truth be I had a hard time getting into reading and thank goodness I had loving English teachers that didn't demand that we read from a certain list of books. They did have a list of books they wouldn't take credit but for the most part we where free to read what we want. This did lead me away from reading classic books. And truth most classic books have some sort of movie version so why was my time reading the book. But now when I watch them I wonder what details where left out. I feel a good movie won't be including the details. You want more details, one hopes that you will be inclined to read the book.

So this summer is the summer of classic reading. The classic books that my parents always had a copy of, a easy readers version with pictures and them original version. Me, I would look at the picture book versions from time to time but never read them. Thanks be I have found all these books for the iPod book app for free. So no worry of library rentals or money to pay them. (No money in the pocket book for me)

Pollyanna

Wizard of Oz

Daddy long legs

Hedi

Little princess

Secret garden

Anne of green gables

Alice though the looking glass

Little lord Fauntleroy 

Sherlock Holmes adventures

Many of these books are part of a series of books but I just want to get the first ones read. Might squees Robin Hood and Tom Sawyer. I think I might do little book write ups and art for each in the coming weeks. 

[By the window] My summer movie list

Let is be known this isn't one of those best summer movie list. No, this is a list of movies I always find I crave to watch at the begging of each summer. Here are the top ten of my summer movie cravings.

1. Tiny toons How I spent my Summer Vacation

I grew up with tiny toons and at the start of ever summer I bike to the local rental store and pick up this movie. Always wanted to have an adventure like Babs and Buster. 

2. A chipmunk adventure

World travel movie seemed very summer time thing to do and also it be by tiny toons at the rental store.

3.Parent Trap

 I enjoy the old version and the new one and it takes place at a summer camp to start. So a very summer movie.

4. Tom and Huck

.... Jonathan Taylor Thomas is hot... -blush- ok next

5.Camp Nowhere

Every kids dream camp. And Christopher Lloyd is just awesome and fun.

6. Don't tell mom the babysitter is dead 

This movie was on the no watch for a while but then it was removed and I fully enjoyed it. I mean, sneaking into a cool fashion job, totally awesome. Although my summers where more like the happy burger scene.

7.rookie of the year

Baseball and summer go hand in hand in my mind. Although is really sucks when you live close to a baseball diamond that has no walls and some nights forgets to turn off the lights and you have work at 5am.

8. Sandlot 

I think there are very few my age that can not place this movie on the summer watch list. Cool note, I have been to the place they shot the fair scene.

9. Troop Beverly Hills 

 I rented this movie so many times as a kids my brothers wanted to die. :D but I did stop watching it and only of late picked it up and yes it's a cheesy fun movie.

10. North

  Yes, a totally panned movie but I enjoyed and yes, mostly because of Elijah Wood. But all the star cameos are fun to watch as well.

 

[42 cookie] Is it warm now?

The weather final turned warm where I'm at and I'm so happy. 

This weather totally gets me into summer. wait, it is summer now!? YAH!!

This brings me to summer plans and ideas. Its been on the brain all may but its time now to place that plans into action. How many times do we make summer plans and get nothing on the plan list done? Or am I the only one who never gets my summer plans off the ground. Well, I am a dreamer so I tend to dream the days away and never get the work done. Bad me. But I might as well make a list and see if I can get anything on my list done.

Summer actives usally are these...

Reading books and then writing my own stories.

Going to parks; local, national or amusement.

If not that, enjoying a green yard and drawing.

Summer Movies.

So this week I am going to make it summer plans week. 

Times a wasting.