Get A Job-The Movie

If you remember this post here where I was coming up with concepts for characters in a movie I was supposed to be the costume designer for then you'll be glad to know the movie is coming along, however I dressed no one, well I had a small hand in the choices for the the character Dawn, but I wouldn't say there was a full on Costume Director, but maybe next time.

Here is a dress I picked out for the character Dawn, that you can see around the 0:49 second mark. The dress is from Bronzeville Boutique 4259 S. King Drive Chicago Il, 60653.
Anyway here is the trailer for the movie Get A Job. 6:18p.m.

Sexless in Chi-City 12: Confusion

The outfit I chose.

Here we go, I swear to tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth, so somebody help me.
I shouldn’t have gone on this date? Not because it was horrible, in fact it was the opposite. Not terribly exciting but good conversation. However, it ended for me with more questions than I set out with.
The main issue or problem is his friend. Yes I know trifling little ole me, but let me explain, though I’m not sure it will make a difference.
I‘d been noticing Martin for a while, we’ve had each others number for years, always spoke to each other at parties with mutual friends but he never really flirted or gave any indication that he noticed me. Be it that I couldn’t get a read, I just left it at he must not be interested.
So last weekend we were both at a mutual friends event. Everyone is having a good time and I end up in a long and interesting conversation with an old college friend I hadn’t seen in years. Eventually we exchange numbers with plans to keep in touch and maybe hang out later in the week. As the night wore on it came to my attention that Martin and Harold, the interesting conversation guy, were friends and actually met up with each other at the party, hmm.
Not to long after Harold left everyone started to leave and of course after a night of drinking, breakfast was mentioned. It ended with four us about to go eat, my girl who I came with and I, Dude, the host of the party, and Martin. I’m not exactly sure how this happened as I was quite tipsy and I’m sure it was at my girl’s suggestion (she’s the only one aware that I was ever interested in Martin) but Martin and I end up going to his place to wait for my girl and Dude to come back with the food, hmm.
At this point I have to remind myself that I swore to tell the whole truth so I’ll go ahead and add that while waiting we did end up doing some high school like making out, no clothes were taken off, no sparks flew.
Fast forward to Tuesday at this point both of them are texting me, Harold more so than Martin but this is the night that Martin asked me to “come watch a movie with him.” So began the big question marks. Clearly Martin wants to finish what was started but is that all? Could there be a reveal that he’s actually noticed me all this time or am I just being the average hopeful chick in thinking that? And what about his friend Harold, a really nice guy who at first, made it clear that he’s not looking for anything more than a friend right now but would like to hang out and get to know me better.
Well I didn’t go “watch a movie” with Martin because clearly he was expecting one thing and one thing only and I couldn’t give it to him without me feeling like I would be playing myself, plus there was still Harold. I couldn’t sleep with his good friend then go hang out with him.
So I went on what felt like a date with Harold, I’m thinking I should have let some time pass before going out with him because clearly he’s interested in me but he’s just doing what nice guys do and take things slow and not try to come on to strong. I appreciate that dearly. But now we’re at the point where if I hadn’t been mentioned between the two of them I soon will be. Now I can’t really say anything to Martin without becoming a Bitch in the eyes of Harold or maybe the both of them. I don’t know if I was supposed to just choose one in the beginning and just go with that choice and forget about the other guy, if I had done that I would have chose Martin. But because of how it played out, I’m thinking the best thing to do is to just leave them both alone and wait for the next guy. This is why I’m single. What do you think?


How I looked. 1:00a.m.

Date?

Okay so I'm getting ready to go on a "date." I'll explain the quotation marks later in a Sexless in Chi-City post. You can check out the first Sexless column here.
Anyway I don't know what to wear!!! Today is better but its still HOT as hell outside. We're going to a poetry thing and I want to wear the dress, but I think I look a bit more irresistible in jeans. I've had the dress for about a year and the shirt and belt for about a month or so and have worn neither. Don't know what to do... 5:17p.m.

Fourth of July weekend

Downtown Chicago, near the Taste of Chicago Festival. $20 Carole Little dress from a discount store(haven't the slightest idea who that is or what actual company produces the brand). The model is my little sister.



This is my little sister again. We had an impromptu shoot in her living room during a BBQ/Birthday party for the younger brother.
The Fourth of July and Thanksgiving are my favorite holidays but this particular 4th will forever be remembered... so much fun. 12:28a.m.

Birthday Dress- The start...

Because of some recent compliments on some super old work I have decided to share the process of me making a dress. Yes the fashion bug has bitten me yet again and I certainly have the fever.
So the pictures above are the start of the dress I designed back in January after buying the fabric next to the sketches. Is that velvet?! I can hear you all saying that, and yes it is velvet, but there's nothing wrong with it done right! Anyway I actually call the dress my " Birthday Dress" because I started it at the the end of February or the beginning of March and had every intention of fnishing it and wearing something original, however, that did not happen, why? I think it had something to do with my being a procrastinator and other excuses but I'm back wanting sew so hopefully sometime soon I'll have something to show!
The pictures below are an example of this same process with another dress, when I actually had space to move around, and was making stuff consistently. 8:15p.m.

Today didn't go as planned...

...and I don't know why I expected it to. Okay here we go in as much of a nutshell as possible. Initially I thought the model (who is actually my little sister) being used worked close to my job downtown. I figured since I get off at 4p.m. Friday and she got off work at 4:30 that I could just meet her at her job, have her change clothes and we head to The Taste of Chicago to get a few shots for my portfolio and be done.

Wrong, she doesn't work dwtn, as a matter of fact her job is further south than I live, I only discovered this maybe this past Tuesday June 29. So since she was headed to the Taste to see Trey Songz on Thursday July 1st, Today, with some friends I figured I would either call off work or go in late and just get the shots then. She told me she was leaving work at 2:30p.m. and going straight to the Taste which, by public transportation means she'd be there no later than 4p.m. Cool, that means I would pretty much have to call off if she didn't want to chance being in the very back of the crowd since the Trey Songz concert started at 5:30p.m.
And I'm not the kind of person who calls off to take a a couple pictures, that could really be taken some other time than the the time I have to work, but I hate that job and have only called off once in the almost two years I've been stuck there and I was extremely sick and couldn't move let alone function that time, AND I requested today off a month ago, and there's absolutely no reason why I was scheduled to work on today (this is one of those things that makes me hate the job).
Anyway the new plan was in motion as I got there later than I meant to at almost 4:30p.m. but the model was still looking for a park when I text her letting her know that I was there. And to make this getting to long story short, I could've just went to work because by 6p.m. I hadn't seen her, or Trey Songz.
It was just a stupid plan, on my part to begin with. 11:59p.m.

Last week of June, told in Shoes

These are Sam Edelman wedges, okay I'm going to get better at getting the name of the shoe and/or style number to share but I didn't buy them so I couldn't refer to the box, the were $80, didn't/don't have 4 spare $20 so even though it was difficult I left them :(




Found these up north at a Lincoln Park shoes store -Lori's- I think these are Jeffery Campbell (I was in a rush to meet a friend so I didn't get all the details Sorry :( but they were $74 before tax and they only had one of my size left 8.5 but the nice salesgirl said they ordered more as they were selling pretty quickly)






These were $80 as well, very comfortable but my feet were a little to slim for them but a wide foot diva could totally rock these.