forget about everything and run away.

listening to "Runaway" by Avril Lavigne

Blogger is finally back up. This was supposed to be yesterday's post. I took pictures a little later than usual. Kind of like the lighting.
shirt from Tokyo Fashion Co., dark green dress from Forever21, skirt from Charlotte Russe, Leggings from Aritzia, Doc Marten boots.
Prom is tomorrow. I don't have the money for a dress. Yeah. Just going to hang around at home and do homework. I'm not even going to ditch on senior ditch day on monday. I'm such a boring kid.

Love, Kai

this welcome is gone and i've waited long enough.

listening to "Can't Take It" by All American Rejects

Yesterday was cold so I thought today might be too. I wore a turtleneck and two jackets, which turned out to be unnecessary. I hate dressing according to weather. If only I wasn't weather sensitive.
I have this pants problem every morning. I don't like pants very much, excluding this pair that I wear all too often. So I always grab for this pair or my elastic skinny jeans from Japan. I did find this one pair of pants that I wanted to buy last month, but they were over a hundred thirty. A pretty big splurge for me. I think I'd wear them a lot, though. I don't have a picture, but they look kind of Limi Feu. Imagine shin length monochromatic palate in kind of a harem pant style.
lace top from thrift, BCBG knit jacket from thrift, pants and shoes from Taiwan.

On Mother's Day, we went out for lunch at a restaurant near Thrift Town, and I wanted to stop by to see if they had any cameras. At first, I was disappointed because I didn't see any. It turns out that the store was just reorganized so the cameras were in a different area than they were before. I bought another two polaroids; the two on the left. The top right one was from Goodwill from a couple weeks back.
I didn't have too much time to look at clothes, but I went through their vintage clothing section. There was this floral off-the-shoulder evening gown that was probably from the 50's. I tried it on and it was a little bit tight, but not too bad. It has a built in petticoat with a pretty good amount of poof. I wouldn't have been surprised if it were $20 or $30. When I reached for the price tag, my eyes shot out. $3.99!!!! Now that is a thrift store price. I didn't buy it, though, because I wouldn't have worn it and the poof takes up too much space in my closet. I wouldn't have been able to put it in a storage box, either.

Besides the cameras, I also bought a jewelry closet. I've been wanting one of these for the longest time, but I never bought one because they're too expensive. I found the perfect one at a garage sale, but the sales lady was on the phone so I felt like I shouldn't talk to her, and then another person snatched the closet and bought it. At least I got this one.
I spent all yesterday trying to clean it. It was pretty gross when I bought it. In a couple of the drawer compartments, there was a greenish stain that looked like a mix between bubble gum and nail polish. I tried washing it, until the lining started shrinking and coming apart. I didn't realize it was made of such low quality material. So I tore the insides of the drawers out and I think I'll find some time to replace it with floral print lining.

Love, Kai

making a difference.

I am excited to say that my t-shirt design for Japan relief efforts has been chosen to be in the top five for public voting. You might recognize the design as the one I've been working on these past months or the one that Marlena wore. I made the design the night the contest was announced, and submitted it the same night. But because I wasn't sure if it would make it far enough, I wanted to take action right away, and started producing the shirts myself by hand.

When the disaster struck, I started donating what I could for the relief efforts. I wished that there was more that I could do, and then this contest popped up.

I'm really grateful for having got this far already. No matter which shirt wins, a difference will be made! So big thanks to Teen Vogue and Guess for that.

Love, Kai

firefox 4 reminds me of chrome.

I don't like the new Firefox very much; kind of wish I didn't do the update. It keeps on lagging. Though, the last time they had a big update, they wouldn't let me not update. So I thought I might as well just get it over with as soon as possible.

Today was so hot that I started sweating when taking blog photos. Either that or it was the number of layers I was wearing.
teeheeheehee. Oh, that reminds me. Remember the posts I made about not wearing white while painting? I did it again. Well, technically I was printing t shirts, and nothing bad ever happened the several times I've printed before so I figured it was alright. But there were a lot of people who were printing today, and someone left an oozing gunky puddle of black printing ink on the table, and it got onto my dress. Luckily I was able to get most of that off.


dress from Wonder Rocket, American Eagle bolero from Thrift Town, half sleeve shirt from Tokyo Fashion Co Taiwan, thrifted ruffle skirt, Mudd shoes, necklace from Taiwan.
I had to switch my photo spot today because I kept getting these dark shadows. It was harder to take pictures today too because I couldn't find my old camera, which is bulky so it can stand on its side by itself.
I really like this necklace. It's Cinderella's pumpkin coach. I think it was only $3 when I bought it in Taiwan. I saw a near identical one at Harajuku Hearts in San Francisco. It was silver with pink jewels and came with a shoe charm, and was $11.

Fashion Click ate up my last post. Hope this one works.

Love, Kai

and no one even knew it was really only you.

listening to "You're Gonna Go Far, Kid" - The Offspring

It's May. There's so many things going on this month. School work has finally cooled down a bit, but I feel busier than ever. Today at school, I watched movies in two different periods and hung around with no work in all of the other classes. But by the time I get home, I feel like I have a million things to do. Yesterday, I had five things to do on my agenda and only got through three. So. This was yesterday's outfit, but I didn't get around to posting it.
shirt from F21, cardigan from flea market, flower brooch from flea market, leggings from JC Penny, shoes from Salvation Army.
I don't think I've posted this outfit before, but I wouldn't be surprised if I had. It's on dailybooth from a couple years ago.

I'd been suffering from sugar deficiency for ages. I finally went to the stores to buy some candy yesterday. Easter items are on sale from 75% to 90%! Scoreeee. Those Swedish Fish Eggs aren't as good as I thought they'd be.

A few days ago, this mystery box arrived at my door with my name on it. I couldn't figure out why because I hadn't bought anything from Amazon in a while.
I opened them and it was a pair of earbuds. At first, I was pretty freaked out because I didn't tell anyone that I needed earbuds. Then I remembered that I didn't have earbuds because my brother took them from me. My brother had this one pair of earbuds that he lost, so he ordered another pair and then a backup pair. Then he found the pair that he lost and ended up with three pairs, so he have one to me. But then he lost both of the other pairs, so he stuffed he pair he gave me in his pocket when he found them lying on my desk.
He originally had the black pair, and this one that I received is the same style in a different colorway. So I concluded that it was from him. Aw. He can be sweet sometimes.

Thrift shopping has been less successful lately. I know I'm not taking the clothes I buy to college, so I haven't been buying any clothes on my thrift shop visits. So probably wont have many thrift tagged posts for a while.

Love, Kai