organization is key

organization is key
Originally uploaded by it girl_rag doll

I've somewhat recently cleaned and organized my room. Here is just a small taste of what i did with my shoes and magazines.
i subscribe to MANY magazines, and they were all just stacked in my room, when on top of one another, they come up to like my waist id say?
so i divided up the pile and placed some of my favorite shoes on them. iv got a ton more shoes too in my closet. i really need to sell some...

Erin Fetherston spring 2009 ready-to-wear

i just cant get enough of her. she always designs with such a whimsical beautiful girl in mind. those cloud dresses, oh how i would LOVE to own one. i would wear it everywhere.







i find i strange how almost all of the designs, with the exception of like Marc Jacobs, are all using very light colors, bordering on white. im usually a pretty colorful person, but the faded washed out color pallet is kind of a nice change. like a breath of clean fresh air. silly how fall is just around the corner and i have mixed feelings about the seasons. i cant wit for fall, i love fall. but the industry sure knows how to temp us with those loose swinging dresses of spring time.

oh yea..

TOPSHOP is coming to NYC! it was going to have its 4 FLOOR! grand opening in October, but not i hear its pushed back to November. does anyone have an idea of what prices will be like? because i read in a NYLON article about it that we don't have to worry about the steep exchange rate. is pricing similar to say forever 21? either way i cant wait! but im sure it will be a mad house for months after opening. ill have to go real early some time.

Marushka!

i bought a painting by Marushka at Selden Thrift a while back when i was redoing me room. i have no idea of hes a big artist or anything..or if Marushka is even a man..but i have flickr searched some of his art work and i just had to share it with you all! its beautiful. he seams to draw inspiration from either summer or fall, and his color blocking brings me straight back to the 70's..my favorite decade!



this is the one i own, and one of the 2 colors on my walls was chosen from that rusty red sun.

a little here and there

so i got my wisdom teeth removed today. i got it done bright and early at 9:00 am so that i could get to recovering asap. it really wasn't too bad as i thought it would be. i was knocked out for the procedure which probably helped with my nerves beforehand, knowing i wouldn't be awake.
has anyone ever seen that movie, awake? about the guy who goes for heart surgery in is put under but only his body looks like hes knocked out when hes really awake for the whole thing? and then theirs this whole other story of the doctors trying to kill him on purpose, and his soon to be wife Jessica Alba is in on it..but that's a whole other story. what im trying to say is i kinda had a fear of that happening..but it was all fine.
it was like i went to sleep and woke up a minuet after with some gauze in my mouth and pumped up on Novocaine. and im actually feeling quite well! so now im spending the day in bed. Jason came over earlier, he brought my get well soon balloons! it was sweet. we watched some dirty, sexy, money. our new favorite show right now. and im spending the rest of the day catching up on online things such as this hear blog!
so here is really what i came on to do, post a few recent outfit pictures, as well as some recent thrifted finds and such. so here it goes..



this was worn to the Bronx zoo with Jason and my sister Madeline.
everything is thrifted except for the belt and bag which are from h&m


wore this last night
glasses- f21
cardi and bag- h&m
american apparel tee, belt, skirt, and shoes all thrifted
Yves Saint Laurent book in hand!

now these are all recent or somewhat recent finds that i had to share..

this dress i got yesterday from this woman in town who holds a tag sale out of her garage every Thursday. well most Thursdays, over the summer on hot days she dosent. she has AMAZING THINGS! i got many vintage dresses from her like summers ago when i first discovered it. tons of jewelery, picture frames, books, anything you name it. i got this and all the dresses last time for 5$ each. you can see how great this dress looks by this photo, but i plan on wearing it Monday and believe me, its amazing! i have to fix a hole in the right strap, but its one of my favs right now.



ahh, my favorite shoes! i got them thrifting a while back during the summer for $3 i think. they remind me so much of Effie's (the snail and the cyclops) pair that she loved so much. i love taking inspiration from that girl! she knows good quality vintage when she sees it.



another pair of really great shoes. i haven't worn them yet, i may sell them im not sure. but they are beautiful to look at.



haven't worn these yet either. i think they may be a 7, a size too small for me as my heel sticks out a bit. but these reminded me of the 30's/4-'s sandals that Rhiannon (Libemarlene Vintage) was taking about all summer. if your a size 7/6.5, id be happy to sell them to you..even though they may be slightly out of season soon. but hey! down south it stays warmer much longer!


this is from h&m, my first actual store score in a while. i love it! its sheer and i just love the colors!


haven't worn this, don't know if i ever will but this vintage apron was too cute to pass up!


blue cropped sleeve blazer, courtesy of the little boys section at selden thrift!


detail of some vintage pins i placed on the lapel, bought them, a while ago.

for real...IM BACK !

wow...so finally, for serious this time, my laptop is fixed! ahhh, it feels so good to have it back. i have been using my boyfriends laptop over the summer to stay on top of the blogs i read a much, but i have to say i am really disappointed in myself. before the laptop bust i was a frequent user of wardrobe_remix, like my absolute favorite thing in the world. the site that linked me to such wonderful girls and the snail and the cyclops, liebemarlene, and sally jane vintage to name a few.
i became inspired by all these great girl from all over and i haven't posted anything in so long! i started up this blog and a few weeks later i posted nothing all summer before of my laptop. and now getting it back i was honestly considering just forgetting the whole blog thing. im no where near as good at is as these other ladies.
but i just did a random search of my user name, it girl_rag doll..and it turns out i may have inspired some girls as well. i was surprised to see posts of my photos as inspiration. and even a post about being excited i started a blog! gosh, i didn't think anyone read this thing. i mean its not very well kept or anything, but it made me smile. and so i think im gonna give it a go again. it may be a little hard getting back in the swing of things. i have started school again at FIT yet this time im commuting an hour and a half each way to get there, ug! so im short on time. but i tell you, im going to do all i can to at least become a frequent w_r again!

she & him!!

on saturday night jason and i went to see she & him at terminal 5, and it was wonderful!!! i waqsent able to get very good photos of zooey because we got there like 20 minuets before they came on and the place ws packed, and there were no good spots left. so the ones i have here are all terribly blurry, however i did take a video thats a little better. they were amazing live! zooeys voice is simply amazing and it was adorable how shy she seemed on stage. she wasent trying to be someone shes not, she just wanted to preform the music she loves for the people who love her. and she was dresses so cute! in a halter sparkeling baby blue dress, and a great big flower on a ribon in her hair. i sag along and had a wonderful time.
after the show we tried to catch her coming out the back, i wanted so badly to meet her and have a phot owht her to put up here, but we waited nearly an hour and a half and it was almost 1 am, and we had a long treck back to the car then a long drive back to long island. so after much waiting we left. i didnt get to meet her but seeing her live was wonderful!!

the video i seem to be having problems posting directly on here...so heres the link..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDDIi1CAH5k

still here!

so im still alive, however my laptop is still out of commision. for the past week or so iv been using the family computer to still stay ontop of all my blog reading and flickr updates. however i cant really update them myself. i havent been taking photos of my outfits as of late for a two reasons:

1. i have been wearing variations of the same outfit recently and its nothing new of fun for anyone to look at.
2. i dont want to upload any photos onto this computer because iv been on my little sisters desktop and i dont want to spead my overflowing picture files i tend to build up.

so this weekend i hope to get it all taken care of. im not really sure what happend to it, but i hope to god i didnt loose anything. well really just my picture files. i dont download music, i have my boufriend od that for me, so really all i have are pictures. tons and tons of differnt things i have found over time that i like to keep and perhaps never do anything with, but i still have them! now they may be all gone and i never backed them up. oy vey.

on another note, i have started my summer job. one of two actualy. last summer jason and i worked at adventureland, a long island amusment park operationg rides. its not amazing, but its pretty easy and i get to be outdside in the sun all day and my family and i can get in free. i also get to work the rides with jason all the time wich is a good plus. on sunday ill be starting my other job at trader joes. a super amazing grocery store where i used to work for like 2 years when i was in high school. i have some great friends there and its really laied back and im happy to start up again. hopefully i will be bringing home the bacon because i have alot planed this summer...

first disney with jason and his family july 10-16. then lollapoloza july 31- august 4 wich i will be brining my laptop and im gonna try to do some style blogging on the people i see there. it will be my first time asking people if i can take phot so of them, i hope not to be too shy! i wat to try to do that a little more often too. im july is the free siren fest in cony island and id also like to take some shots there as well. so its quite a packed summer so far.

okay, well this was all jsut a little update so you all dont think iv gone missing or something. speaking of which, i read stylebytes, like im sure many of you do as well, and maybe its jsut me, or my computer, but since like march when she went on vaca to stockholm, she has not posted..did she move her site? has anyone heard from her. im actualy slightly concernd she got eaten up and swollowed by something. i miss her posts!

oy vey

so i think my laptop may have crashed. im not sure what happend, one minuet i was checking all the blogs i read, then about to upload photos so that i could update my own, then it shut down and now its all scrambled. and i only like scrambled when its pertaining to my eggs! so im not sure whats happening now, i havent been the best at blogging so far, but now this will slow it down even more. so bare with me, whoever if anyone reads this. hopefully i will get my prpblems fixed and be back soon!

may 25th

grey tee- rogan for target

floral skirt- thrifted

handbag- thrifted

boots- steve maden

memorial day weekend

so let me give you a little recap on what i have been doing this weekend. it was my first real weekend of summer break, and it started off great with a reunion of sorts. in my backyard we had a bonfire with jason and my best friend ali and her boyfriend steve who had been in san francisco at school. we had margaritas and pina coladas and caught up by the fire side.

ali and steve

jason and i by the fire

saturday jason and i went to the carnival, we didnt go on any rides becuse it cost jsut to get in the place, then you have to buy tickets to go on the rides, but theres free entertainment like a circus, magic show and pig races! also a petting zoo with some very hungry giraffes.

and a zebra!

sunday we were suposed to go to jones beach to see the blue angels air show, where the jet planes fly around in cool formations. but by 12:30, 200,000 people filled the lots and by the time we got there around 1 we were turnd away as well dozens of other cars. but we did get to see some cool stunts from the car, and we just went to a differnt beach anways.

me in my nre bathingsuit from target. liberty print florals with some adorable ruffles. i have to go back and get the bottoms though because they didnt hve them in my size.

jason sleeping in the sun

then we walked over the the fire island light house and on the way met a deer!

the light house

emi and j

it was feall nice weekend with beautiful weather! today is memorial day, im not sure what my plans are yet but i know it involves a bbq!

may 23rd

today i woke up and cleaned out the garage with my mom!!! oy vey, our garage is mess. its fulled with old old things. some really great old things, like my grandpas old barber chair and work bench, some neat suitcases and n old plaid cooler. ill take some photos next week. we are going to be hving a garge sale so thats what called for this huge clean-out. i have so so so much clothes, way too much. and way too many shoes. im going to be selling lot of it, some im saving to sell on ebay at some point. after all the hrd work, jason came over and we we went on a bike ride with my sister madeline up to the school yard. its finly beautiful out this weekend, its suposed to be 80 on memorial day!

striped tee- thrifted

belt- old navy

skirt- thrifted and hemmed

sandals- thrfited

Rogan for target

i am not aware of this new designer got GO international for target, but i really fell in love with most of it! i am more of a vintage girl, but sometimes modern looks just hit me, especialy when they are simple type tanktops, like most of what i tried on.

not the most flatering dress by this photo, bit the tube top i liked, nd the pockets were very neat.

sorry about the no pants, this is a tanktop, i jsut didnt have anything to pair with it for the picture

more tanks

LOVE this tee, i this im going to go back and get this!

interesting neon yellow knit dress

grey jumper

may 22

it seams i have moved onto loving this mickey tee. jason graduated from his college on tuesday nd as part of his gift i got him a disney mickey tee so he can wear it when we got this summer. it was get 2 for $20, so i got one for me too!

mickey tee- the disney store

belt- old navy

skirt- thrifted

pixie boots- thrifted

may 21

sorry i have been totally slacking wiht this blog. i hrdly even got it established and then i took a break. i jsut moved back home to LI, so iv been spending the past couple of days cleaning and unpacking. now im back, and will hopefully be around more regularly!

sunglasses- h&m
mickey tee- disney store
cardie- uo
floral skirt- f21
handbag- thrifted
tights-...beats me!
socks- h&m
pixie boots- thrifted

what a day

jason came into visit again today. we didnt have much of a plan as far as what to do where as we usualy do before he gets here. weather its going to show or a play or what have you. but it turned out to be a very very full day indeed.

we took our bikes out all over the place. we rode over the williamsburg bridge to brooklyn. its deffinetly a workout going of the bridges. uphilll one way, but a fun ride down the other.

jason and i ontop the bridge

we wanted to checkout park slope, but never quite made it to the area. instead we went into williamsburg, got some pizza then checked out beacons closet. i havent been there since the summer when i sold some clothes there. this time i didnt have anything to sell nd only 6$ in my wallet. so it was jsut more of a brousing kind of visit.

i love the way they color coordinate all the racks!

brousing

may 15th- FREE iced coffee day at dunkin' donuts!!

vest- thrifted
white tee- target
skirt- f21
flats- esprit
ice coffee- free!

untill 10 pm tonight free iced coffees at DD! everyone go and get them. i like mine light and sweet. how do you take yours?

summer part 2

some photos from my last summer. all taken by or with my best friend ali.









sorry for the really bad quality of these..i had some trouble between my photobuct nd my blog recognizing he size of the images.

summer summer summer

with spring in full swing..and the semester coming to a close end...all i have is SUMMER on the mind!





all looks from facehunter

may 13th

glasses (wish i think my be stuck to my face nowadays)- f21
flanal- thrifted
short sleaved sweater type tee- target
jeans- f21
keds- marshalls

today was so beautiful out. a week or 2 ago we were having wonderful spring wether every day of the week. then we got this patch of cilly weather that also came along with rain. yesterday it was raining too, but the clouds blew away and brought spring again!
today jason came in, we road out bikes downtown to get tickets to see the long blondes for friday. then got some dominos-mmmmmm cheesey bread! then we saw a play-dangerous liaisons- wish ws the origonal story in which crule intentions was taken from. it took place in the mid-1780's. i couldnt help moticing the costumes and naming in my head all the pieces of the outfits due to my vast knowledge from my fashion past and present class.

this is my last week of classes as well as my last week living in the city. like i said in my first post, ill be living at home again on long island which i am looking forward to. it will be a welcoming summer nd i cant wait. my boyfriend still lives there and for the last year with the exception of last summer we hve ben traveling evey week to see eachotehr and it takes a toll. it will be nice to be closer to him. as well as my family too.

sketch journal

i have a sketch book that i have put all of my inspiration from this semesters classes and projects as well as just some doodles and scrapbooking.

this is the cover

inspiration for my fashion art final

inspiration for some old projects

alot of my markers i stole from my dad and they are very old and drying out. so i messed around with them and used them up drawing some flowers.

inspiration

night time-bedtime shoot

this is a little silly, but the other night i took some photos in bed. i was excited about my new thrifted night gown so, voila!

may 11th- tom boy

glasses- f21
blue tank- thrifted
belt- h&m
jeans- f21
keds- marshalls

i rarley really dress down, but for mothers day my sister and i went with my mom to shop or dresses for my cousins wedding in june-a beach wedding :D, so i wanted to be comfy for trying on dresses. i got a relly beautiful calvin klein dress that i got at marshalls for 60$. i love discount shoping! ill show a photo of it later this week.

she & him

everyone loves zooey deschanel, am i right? rolling stone calles her the indie boys' movie-star crush of choice. but i have to say, she is becoming more and more popular with the ladies in that light. i think we ll suffer from a little zooeyitus. or some deschanel pocks now and then.
well shes now collaborated with m. ward to take her music career a step past singing in the shower in "elf". i have been listening for a little while now, mostly on their myspace untill my boyfriend, jason, put them on my ipod fo me. im in love ll over again. i have never really been a fan of country music, but she puts a nice little twang to the music that brings me to a campfire in the gret wide desert somewhere sharing rodeo and traveling stories with her. there is also a do-wop wintage feel to a few of the songs as well. its just plain old great to me.

they keep the songs nice and simple wich was a smart choice considering the jump from film to song can be quite dificult sometimes. but dont let me tell you how sweet the songs are, take listen for yourself. heres the link to their myspace http://www.myspace.com/sheandhim sit back, relax and let the mellow vibes fill your head. enjoy!

may 10th

glasses-f21
tee- my boyfriends, deep-v american apparel
luella inspired skirt- f21
boots- mjm shoes

floral detail

todays outfit. i got the skirt the other night, this seriously is the first non-thrift store purchse i have made in probibly 6 months. i felt naughty buying it, but it was only 20$ so its nothing thats gonna mke a huge dent in what little money i have.
i have been looking for a skirt like this in every thfirt store since luella sent that beatiful collection down the runway. its nice to not have to buy something that has the jist of the look im going for and then hve to chnge it, and to just have it ready to wear.