I need to listen to more Peter Bjorn and John.
My friend's birthday celebration was yesterday!
Shopping for fashionistas is hard for someone who doesn't know much about fashion. This is the girl who tried to explain the concept of Burberry to me, and convinced another friend and I to go to The Yorkdale Shopping Mall the day renovations were done and all these high-end stores were opening. I remember seeing people on stilts for the opening of the new section. It was really surreal. All these celebrations! For the opening of stores!
I got her some headbands from Lululemon. The first time I ever heard of Lululemon was in the context of this friend telling me that I should go check it out and try on their pants. And my reaction was "you want me to try on lemon-coloured pants!?!?!" because I had no intention of becoming an image in Meringue. Oops.
Lululemon is far outside my price range for pretty much anything substantial so the decision process was: headbands - she wears headbands! + Lululemon - she likes Lululemon!
And thus was the sad image of me walking into the store to being approached by friendly smiling salespeople who may or may not have known my pocket book did not include enough monetary support for yoga pants. I wandered the store, then launched myself at the bin of headbands and spent a good while crouched on the floor just PAWING THROUGH the things looking for appropriate colours. The thing is when you buy really small items, they still give you a huge bag which gives the rest of the world the impression you actually got something substantial and not two teensy pieces of nylon-lycra designed to hold back hair. I walked out of there with the impression they probably thought I was crazy, but I did ask for a gift receipt so maybe they could infer the craziness was just me trying to find something for a fashionista, and not that I was fulfilling some secret desire I'd harboured throughout childhood of digging through bins of coloured headbands at 12 in the afternoon in a near-empty store while being watched by salespeople.
There was some other stuff I got her, and I thought I'd post this one:
It's supposed to be some kind of Shopping/Style Sprite/Fairy. But without wings because that's too stupid Tinkerbell.
(I am not particularly good at coming up with gift art. Pencil, ink, pastels-which-I-don't-know-how-to-use and pencil crayons.)
FACE CLOSE-UP:
I don't give gift art as a general rule, because it would seem to indicate what I barfed out on paper has some kind of prettiness value to it that the other person would appreciate and I have a hard time attributing value to my poorly drawn things. But this time around I tried, because as I mentioned, fashionista shopping is HARD.
Drawing on a Wacom versus on actual paper results in misjudging the amount of space available for text. With Adobe it's like "oops!" and then you do some cuttin' and pastin' and the text fits. With pencil it's more "the words won't fit and now I have to contract the word Birthday into B-day, you idiot".
I hope she liked it. I tried to 'research' it:
TOP: Chanel
SKIRT: Oscar de la Renta
HANDBAG: Marc Jacobs
SHOES: Jimmy Choo
... and that's all for me I've got tons of stuff to do now and I don't waaaaaannaaaaa'.
Shopping for fashionistas is hard for someone who doesn't know much about fashion. This is the girl who tried to explain the concept of Burberry to me, and convinced another friend and I to go to The Yorkdale Shopping Mall the day renovations were done and all these high-end stores were opening. I remember seeing people on stilts for the opening of the new section. It was really surreal. All these celebrations! For the opening of stores!
I got her some headbands from Lululemon. The first time I ever heard of Lululemon was in the context of this friend telling me that I should go check it out and try on their pants. And my reaction was "you want me to try on lemon-coloured pants!?!?!" because I had no intention of becoming an image in Meringue. Oops.
Lululemon is far outside my price range for pretty much anything substantial so the decision process was: headbands - she wears headbands! + Lululemon - she likes Lululemon!
And thus was the sad image of me walking into the store to being approached by friendly smiling salespeople who may or may not have known my pocket book did not include enough monetary support for yoga pants. I wandered the store, then launched myself at the bin of headbands and spent a good while crouched on the floor just PAWING THROUGH the things looking for appropriate colours. The thing is when you buy really small items, they still give you a huge bag which gives the rest of the world the impression you actually got something substantial and not two teensy pieces of nylon-lycra designed to hold back hair. I walked out of there with the impression they probably thought I was crazy, but I did ask for a gift receipt so maybe they could infer the craziness was just me trying to find something for a fashionista, and not that I was fulfilling some secret desire I'd harboured throughout childhood of digging through bins of coloured headbands at 12 in the afternoon in a near-empty store while being watched by salespeople.
There was some other stuff I got her, and I thought I'd post this one:
It's supposed to be some kind of Shopping/Style Sprite/Fairy. But without wings because that's too stupid Tinkerbell.
(I am not particularly good at coming up with gift art. Pencil, ink, pastels-which-I-don't-know-how-to-use and pencil crayons.)
FACE CLOSE-UP:
I don't give gift art as a general rule, because it would seem to indicate what I barfed out on paper has some kind of prettiness value to it that the other person would appreciate and I have a hard time attributing value to my poorly drawn things. But this time around I tried, because as I mentioned, fashionista shopping is HARD.
Drawing on a Wacom versus on actual paper results in misjudging the amount of space available for text. With Adobe it's like "oops!" and then you do some cuttin' and pastin' and the text fits. With pencil it's more "the words won't fit and now I have to contract the word Birthday into B-day, you idiot".
I hope she liked it. I tried to 'research' it:
TOP: Chanel
SKIRT: Oscar de la Renta
HANDBAG: Marc Jacobs
SHOES: Jimmy Choo
... and that's all for me I've got tons of stuff to do now and I don't waaaaaannaaaaa'.