Fashionista

Posted some newbies to my asos marketplace collection

this one sold to my lovely model Kristen--after all, she rocks it so well!

London!

The first purchase was made from my asos marketplace collection!  I sent off baby blue gloves that were my mother's today to London!  It makes me happy.  Because I loved my mother's hands, and items that belonged to her are sentimental to me.  But, we can't keep everything.  I'm always happy to donate items to Mel Trotter, but certain things, well, I just felt like another life was intended for them.  So yeah, I'm quite pleased actually (I say with my bestest country Brit accent)...mum's baby blue gloves are off to play in London!

Just now, I saw photos my friend Eddie posted on FB--from where?  London!  #jealous of him and the gloves!  dang!  wish I could go there!  I was there once as wee girl with my parents en route & perhaps returning from France to visit my mum's fam.  I remember being on a bus with my little French dolls that I carried in a cute little bassinet style carrier.  I was covering them up with wee blankets to keep them from getting wet from the rain.  Those Brits sure loved me, I can remember how they smiled watching me...they adored and cooed about how I cared more about little babies getting wet and cold than I cared about myself.  It's a sweet memory.  Awww nostalgia!

The pretty blue gloves off to London!

One of Eddie's pix taken in London--I wanna adopt one of these cats!

Evening Gowns

Added a couple of cocktail party dresses to my asos collection both by Niki Livas:

Brown Velvet Evening Gown

Red Evening Gown

girl's just gotta have fun

I've been gradually adding photos to my asos marketplace site to recycle some fashionable outfits.  I'll create a Fashion album for my FB page soon.  If nothing sells, at least I've given it a shot.  The photos might serve a purpose toward my photography career or legacy--who knows?  Whatever the case, I do what I do, cuz a girl's gotta do what a girl's gotta to do!  haha  But...sometimes...a girl just wants to have fun!  So these were just me having fun with a few of the shots.  Maybe I'll play with more of them too, and they'll take on their own life n character aside from ol' asos.

Photo shoot with Krissy Dreamflower

Did another fashion shoot today for my asos site, tho nothing I've posted so far has sold. I'm not sure if my goods get seen on there, or if shipping costs hinder the out of country folks from buying? I still have photos from my prior two shoots to post too, but just adding a few at a time hoping to get noticed in the Just In section. It reached 50 degrees F here today! It was windy, but her wind blown hair looks great in the pix!

It was fun to spend time with her, and we went to Gaia after for some fabu vegetarian eats. Wishing I woulda brought home a Gaia cookie right now!

Vintage rules!

I'm getting the system down now for my AristCG's ASOS Marketplace Collection.  Here's a couple pix of my model Chelsea who has always seemed like she walked out of the 60s to me.

A Girl Gotta Do What a Girl Gotta Do!

Oh haven't I said that a lot in my life time!

I can't spend a lot of time whining about the tragedies, hardships, injustices and other struggles in my life--though perhaps I should spend a little time describing some of the former, or how will people begin to comprehend or identify if I don't?  But, I can't.  I am so much like a Vietnam Vet.  It's painful to relive some of these things--near maddening.  So...onward I press!

I am currently without a job for a few months.  I have too much debt after my year with breast cancer and the snowball effect of car troubles that followed.  I have a prick of a brother who took control of all my father's assets, blah blah blah.  No family nor partner to support me.  So...onward I press!

I've always been industrious.  I'll say it again:

A GIRL GOTTA DO WHAT A GIRL GOTTA DO!

Shy of selling my body or drugs...I do what I can, when I can, with what energy I have to try to make a buck here and there.  I'm nickel and dime'n it through life.  I'm making little cactus/succulent gardens & terrariums--Lucky 7 Gardens--though the expense is higher than the return so far.  I'm trying to get my art out there--my photography book In the Bedroom is now available as an ebook!  And now...I'm trying to sell some clothes off my back (well, my closet) on a website based out of London.  It's proven to be extremely time consuming.  There was the time spent photographing my models, and then days of doing photo facials and other editing to the images.  Then, and entire day--yes, entire day--just to get one entire outfit posted on the site!  phew  I hope I can narrow down the time spent on this process as I go along.  I hope it pays off.

Here are a few images and a link to my collection at asos Marketplace:   ArtistCG's collection

A couple of the outfits I will have to reshoot :( because though I thought I read all there was to read about the requirements, I didn't see that you could only have one person per photo until I went to list the items.  Chasity & Que sure look adorable in the shots of them together, so they'll be happy to have them anyway--and I like them too!  :)

well hell...let there be Jammies!

I'm screwing up on my writing daily thing, but I will make the leap so I have 366 posts for 2012 anyway. 

I've got dry eyes from working the entire day on the photos I took at the WYCE Jammie Awards.  It's our local Grammy's type of thingee.  Local, non-profit, public radio.  Cool.  Folk, Jazz, Rock, Blues, Alternative, and then some.  For the Jammies, not only do they give out awards to the winning bands, but a fair share of the people who go to this FREE event rock their jammies!  I did this year!  Ok...here's a few pix for you:

ZumbaLikeItsHot!

I was lookin up a song on YouTube by Pit Bull - Pause - that my friend Elise is going to use for her routine in her first body building competition.  I discovered this chick Heather Michael who has a Zumba video to that song, and many more.  She looks similar to Elise and has similar moves.  I think it's cool that there are workout videos on youtube!  Though the sound and video quality isn't excellent, I dig the dance moves, and I'm going to try to dance along with her tomorrow for some of them!

Here's one:

Today, I sorted through all my clothes, making one side of my closet the holding tank for items I'm going to try to sell.  I'll have several of my friends model the various outfits and I will photograph them, then post them on the ASOS site that I've been hooked on lately.  Wish me luck! 

While trying on the clothes I realized I'm a little porky, so these rump shakin' videos oughta help that!

2 more! I'm addicted!

Outfits I put together on ASOS

More outfits

Still having fun on the ASOS fashion site piecing together styles :)  Here's a couple more:

 

OZ does Brokeback Mountian (for Men)

                                                the Bird Cage (for a Victorian Garden Party)


I'm not selling these items...they are mostly from sellers in the UK, but can be shipped elsewhere.  I'm considering selling on this site though.  Like I always say....A girl gotta do what a girl gotta do!

V-day outfits!

I was on the asos fashion site again today playing and created some fun Valentine's Day outfits!
Click here to view full photo with links to items.  :)

asos

  

Discovered a new site asos -- swanky UK based sellers of vintage and independent designer fashionable apparel.  This is my kinda style!  Love the photos!  Love the combos!  It's like how I like to dress--coordinating uncoordinated items! 
Yeah Baby Yeah! 

If my Power Ball hits I know where I'll be doing a lot of shopping!  It's also got me thinking about selling....hmmm...what's a girl to do in these economic hard times?  I would love takin shots of chickies in outfit combos I pull together!  It would kinda be like combining my mannequin dressing roots from Hudsons with today's photography, and social networking into some sales.  Hmmmm....maybe!

Here's a little outfit combo I put together--I don't have anything uploaded to sell, it's just some little thingee they have on the sight to create your own outfit:



Here's a link to the page for larger pix w/more details: 
Blues on the Town (my outfit)



You can buy from the UK sellers in US dollars, and there is a US site, though I'm not too excited about that one.