Faltering Bird

Thursday, March 7, 2013

// NOUVEAU SUFOKIA // Let the noise run through your head

Earlier this week Josh & I hung out with our friend Michelle! She's one of my best friends from high school, and she's often really busy so getting the chance to hang out with her is always fun--and she's the fabulous photographer who took almost all the photos in this post!

Also, this outfit is based on a French online videogame I play online with my friends Jennifer & Bobby, called WAKFU! I linked to Jennifer's Sufokia outfit, since all 3 of us are doing themed outfits!! I made my outfit girly, but incorporated inspired elements to be reminiscent of the armor you wear in the game. I wore the metal filigree necklace and the lace shirt to emulate the detail of a breastplate, heavy metal bracelets to remind you of bracers, and high shoes and tall socks to mimic the idea of tall leather boots! The title "Sufokia" comes from the land me & my friends are citizens to--it's a sun bleached beach town with lots of sand and soft pastel hues.

(Top is by Chicwish, and skirt is by RIRE Boutique!)

Here's the song that inspired this post! It's called "Jane Doe" and it's by Rebecca & Fiona. Usually I make these embedded videos smaller, but this one is neat, so I'll leave the full thing here this time!

Necklace by Romwe.

Skirt & belt by RIRE Boutique

Michelle is doing a project for her portfolio and needs photos of couples together, so we rocked this heart for some photos!

It looks like he's so sleepppyyy

This skirt needs to be wayyyy longer. Every time I see these photos that "Ass Everywhere" song by Freedia kinda just starts playing in my head, lol.

Josh took a few photos of me & Michelle! Isn't she cute?!

Usually I hate photos of my face and faces in general and find them cloying as fuck, but I really like these ones of me and Michelle! XD

♥ Frieeendsss ♥

RUNDOWN

top- Chicwish

skirt & belt- RIRE Boutique

necklace- Romwe

socks- Guess

shoes- Jeffrey Campbell

PS: You can find my post on Chictopia of this look, here!!

xoxo, ashlei

Sunday, March 3, 2013

Back when we were young

Hey guys, long time no post! I feel like lately all I'm doing is saying sorry for the lack of posts, so I'll try to rectify this! Anyway, here's my first look of many that was a collaboration with aSociete!! This look was shot at Mt. Pisgah, a local park I used to go a lot as a child! I haven't been there much recently, but it's super relaxing here! I can't wait to post all the looks I did with them!

(Top is from aSociete, sweater is from Indressme, and skirt is from Romwe)

Necklace by Angel Court

Above 3 shots all by Levi Lopez of aSociete, bottom two shots by Josh, as usual!

It's amazing how different our camera is than the ones aSociete were using--I'd really like a nice camera, some day!!

Also, Josh made me sit in this little teepee. I didn't want to because it was muddy inside, but he made me. There, are you happy, Josh??

RUNDOWN

crochet top- aSociete

sweater- Indressme

skirt- Romwe

necklace- Angel Court

socks- Guess

shoes- Jeffrey Campbell

xoxo, ashlei

Friday, March 1, 2013

Photobucket technical difficulties

Hey guys!

Just wanted to apologize for the fact that a good number of photos aren't showing up currently on my blog.

I pay for a premium Photobucket uploading account, however some of their servers are currently experiencing technical difficulties and have been for a few days, so this is what's causing some of my photos to not show up.

As soon as Photobucket gets their shizz together, all my photos should be up like usual!

Sorry for da crap!

xoxo, ashlei

Thursday, February 21, 2013

Golden State of Mind: Pacsun Spring 2013!!

I've been following Pacsun's Golden State of Mind blog for quite some time now. I remember last summer as I was shopping locally for my summer trip to Las Vegas with my friends, I bought a bag at Pacsun and saw advertisements for the GSOM and thought they were super neat, went home, and checked out their blog! I never dreamed that I'd later be teaming up with them for Spring 2013!

Anyway, I was lucky enough to get some awesome Spring 2013 swag, so check this awesome stuff out! (Even the box is rad, now my whole room smells like fresh wood!)

Super happy with everything inside, camo, denim, AND animal print?! Right up my alley. Even the blanket underneath is from them! We've really been needing a blanket for the back of the seat in our truck, so this will look great!

Cross bracelet, shapes necklace, and a neat keychain I gave to Josh, my lovely boyfriend & phtographer!

I totally can't wait to style all of these pieces in looks--please sun, please come out!! I want it to be warm!

xoxo, ashlei

Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Kitty Cat & Aritzia!!

Let me start off this post by saying I hate pants. Hate, hate, hate. There's nothing more outfit stunting than a boring pair of pants. However, these pants are far from that! Despite my hatred for pants, I decided to accept working with Aritzia for a game of "blogger tag"--where 1 blogger receives a different colour of the same pair of pants to style, and "tags" another blogger friend of theirs to wear a different colour! And I'm glad I did, because for once, these pants are changing my mind about the boyish style.

Check out my Aritzia feature with several of my friends, here!!

(Pants are from Aritzia of course / top is from Sheinside)

As you can tell, I have really short legs and an extremely long torso XD lol

I actually have a strange story about this sweater! When I was in grade school in the early 90's, the brand "Self Esteem" that sold clothing through JCPenny's stocked a white shirt with nearly (if not the exact same) cat face that's on this sweater! I lost the shirt years ago and was always bummed...until the whole cat sweater fad started, and I found this, and rekindled my love with it, because I am apparently forever like a five year old.

(Sweater by Sheinside/ Necklace by Romwe)

I think these pants are a bit too tight on me, haha! They're pretty warm, too!

RUNDOWN

pants- Aritzia

sweater- Sheinside

necklace- Romwe

shoes- Sammy Dress

xoxo, ashlei

PS: As you'll notice, these photos are way bigger than normal. My blog used to be glitched a lot smaller, but I figured out a way around the problem, so no more tiny pictures, yaaay! Now I just need to finish saving for a fancier camera, and the photos will actually look great this large, haha!

Saturday, February 16, 2013

Autumn safari party!! // Annual Tomato War

These pictures are actually super old from this summer, and I somehow I forgot to click "submit" on this post--it's been sitting here this whole time, so I figured in an effort to remind myself of how much I miss summer, I will finally post these!
Also, I wanted to apologize for my lack of blogging! I've been SUPER busy and the weather here hasn't been good for taking pictures.

I have a lot of looks coming up soon from working with aSociete (who came up here from San Fran to see me!) that I'm excited to show off, so I hope to post those soon!!

(Top is from Motel Rocks, necklace is from Vanessa Mooney, and skirt is from Choies)

I love everything about this skirt from Choies! Ring & brown breaded bracelet is by Vanessa Mooney.

Anyway, these pictures are from my dad's company's "Tomato War" this year! He works for one of the biggest Organic food's distributors in the USA, and every year, there's always old tomatoes left over, and somehow a long time ago they started the tradition of making mock battles with the left overs.
Pictured is a bouncy castle, that I'm sad to say I was over the height limit for. NO FUN ALLOWED.

My mom, dad, and Josh at the farm!

Some of the people really get super into the battle!

For some reason I had like 30 good photos of this guy. I always seemed to catch him at just the right moment, haha!

Some people kind of just stand there and take it though, note the guy in the red shirt in the middle, lol.

Awee my baby & photographer! Love hiiiiimmm! We went on a hayride with my parents!

Pigs never looked so glorious!

They were actually sad when we all drove away, they kind of remind me of French Bulldogs--they have a similar temperament!

Everyone who participated in the tomato war!!

Pretty contrail as we were leaving!
Kind of reminds me of the meteor / metorite that hit Russia yesterday! I'm assuming you all heard about it so there's no point going into detail, but dang! I'm prepared to hear Bruce Willis Armageddon jokes for the next month. My heart goes out to all the poor people who got showered in glass from their windows exploding, how scary! I'm just super glad that the asteroid that passed by us the same day didn't hit! Sounded like it was a pretty close call, cosmically speaking.

Again, sorry for the lack of updates, I suck, etc. etc. Expect more updates soon!

RUNDOWN
crop top- Motel Rocks
skirt- Choies
necklace, siler ring, & brown beaded bracelets- Vanessa Mooney
antler necklace- Angel Court
boots- Durango

xoxo, ashlei

Friday, January 25, 2013

Snow Leopard

The weather recently has been so interesting! It's been raining non stop for the last few days, but before that, it was foggy for almost a WEEK straight. And all of the trees were all frosty like this! Isn't it pretty??

(Bag is from Persunmall, jacket is from BangGood, and necklace is from Romwe)

Cute bag from Persunmall.

The tree had little frozen apples on it!

Layered cross necklace by Romwe!! I've worn it like 5 times already XD

This road is actually riiiight behind where the first photos in this post were taken, but it was seriously so foggy you couldn't even see the road despite it being really close!

Byebye for now!!

RUNDOWN
bag- Persunmall
sweater- BangGood
necklace- Romwe
top- Jovonna London
shoes- Sammy Dress
skirt- friend's
socks- dont know!

PS: As I'm sure you've noticed, I changed the layout of the blog ever so slightly! Hope you like the new banner at the top and stuff!

xoxo, ashlei

Thursday, January 17, 2013

BLACKJACK // Snow on the Mountain

Aruuugh there's snow so close I can SEE IT!! It's what I'm looking at, in this photo. I wish that is was at a lower elevation so I can have a snow day, since I'm still secretly still like five or something. Anyway, finally styled my UNIF Hellbound heels for a look! They're so much taller than my Jeffrey Campbell lita's! Lita's are a breeze to walk in, but these...I sort of feel like a need a helmet. Won't stop me from climbing mountains in them, though!

(Coat is from Bang Good)

Here's the song that inspired this outfit! It's "Do It Again" by Steely Dan.