Review: Art Class

What's up, you guys? So sorry that I did not post on Saturday, but I had an all-day cross-country meet (it was awesome). I got 425th out of 607 people, which is pretty good for me. I'm still improving. Don't laugh at me; running hurts. But my team is awesome, and they are super cool. But this will not be a long post - rather, it will be quite short. But ok, so I have Art Class tomorrow, which normally I would be happy about but we aren't doing art....we're writing. SAVE THE WRITING FOR ENGLISH! That's what I say about my wonderful, wonderful art class. Anyway, I did this...incredible doodle. For some of the things that are in it:

• Fat vampire ghost singer
• Giant mother eagle with rainbow mohawk
• Sleeping rhinoceros with living dreams
• Flying fish on fire
• Mohawked beak-nosed man
• A large amount of cats

That is what I will be posting next time. So for now, have a good rest of your life up until my next post!!!! Love you all!

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Art Blog

Hey guys! Happy autumn! Or fall...whatever So, recently I found out that a much larger group of people were viewing my blog (they know who they are) than I believed, and as I believe in being equal to everybody,  I am ... expanding ... my blog. It will now be an art website, not just a fashion design website, because I like art. Art is cool. Anyway, school is busier than usually, so until further notice, I will be posting on Saturdays and whenever I don't have homework. Which will not be often. Um.....let's see. I'm not exactly sure what to say at this point, so I'll tell you a little about the girl behind Yannsbury. Which, like, over half of you already know me, but whatever. I am learning guitar, and at the moment I learning how to play Wagon Wheel (I'm working my way up to American Pie or Eleanor Rigby).Yesterday I set my personal record for the 5K. It was 25:5-something...I'm not sure; I was dying. For classes in the new land of high school...they are so much harder than middle school -_- which is pretty obvious. I have the most fun in art class because I sit next to a super cool, awesomely funny person whose name shall not be mentioned. We are drawing faces and right now I've been doodling a lot of faces. Like, a lot. I have at least ten faces and I started yesterday morning. It's crazy. My doodling streak begins! But anyway...I did this major doodling thing the other day and it is insane like you wouldn't believe. I love it. I LOVE art. As my pictures would imply....

It's a little dark. And bald...

It's better in this picture. This is of my workstation...my drawing is on the left. It has ears now :)

Still no hair...awkward.

Art class is pretty inspiring, thanks to my art buddy, and my art teacher who likes to call attention to people's facial features (Ms. Price). Well, thanks for reading; have fun in fall!

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Inspirations: Corkboard

This is a cork board. Yes, you read right; my second-best inspiration is a cork board. It is so perfect for almost everything I could ever imagine. I have pretty much everything that inspires me: my magazine clipping of stairs in a forest. There is a vampire playing card, a Prince of Cats calling card, and a postcard with a fat walrus on it. These things all make me happy, make me think that I can accomplish something, and that is why they reside upon the cork board. I have good memories up there as well. There is my ticket stub from the Hunger Games, my invite to my friend's Bat Mitzvah, and the horse ornament I got when I was little. I have fun, ornamental objects too; the keychain with the pink bear, the painted flame flower I got for my birthday. There is a fabric applique of a cartoon cat, and a Dove chocolate wrapper that says 'Discover yourself.' I did discover myself, Dove. I tried, and I did. I took what I had, and I then archaeoligised the crap out of it, and I made something beautiful: me. Relatively smart, kind of nice, slightly mature me. And the corkboard is my representation of all the stuff I took out on the way. Also, about Project Runway on Friday... I loved Melissa Fleis' dress, though that isn't the way I would have designed it. Christopher's dress deserved to be on the bottom; the print was beautiful, but covering it up with the sheer black was lame and pathetic. Dmitri deserved to win. His cutouts actually looked like they were floating over the dress. It was really cool. I wish that Ven had been out, not Gunnar. Ven's dress was like, yeah, you can make a fan, that's super cool, oh yeah, you can make designs with the fabric, what a surprise; but it was nothing new, nothing off-the-wall. That's what the challenges should be about; surprising people, making them think about your fashion. Anyway, that's all for today, I have to finish my homework. Sionara!!

My Awesome Cork Board

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Inspirations: Portland

Wow! Ok, I am so tired today, because I stayed up all night watching Project Runway! No, but seriously, I just had a cross-country meet and I am so tired, but I am writing for you guys. And this will be a very long episode, because it is both an inspirations post and a review post for PR. But no, I am ready to go to bed right now and it astounds me that my relatives in Oregon are wide awake, and probably eating dinner right about now. Since I love Portland, Oregon so much, I wanted to make a 'tribute post' towards it, and give all my relatives over there a shout-out from me. They follow me so devoutly and I thank them for that. They live in Portland, which is literally the best place ever (besides New York, because that is the fashion central of the world)! I'm just going to list my five top favorite places in both of the Portlands (Oregon and Maine) because I love all cities named Portland equally (because I have lived near both of them). Now, I'm not saying that you have to visit these places, I'm just saying it's a good idea if you are ever in town. These are listed in no particular order, as I think that these places are equally awesome. (Also, I did not include addresses, because that took too long and I am very lazy. You can look it up on Google maps).
In Portland, OR:
-Tilde
-Portland Museum of Art
-Jade Teahouse
-Voodoo Doughnuts
-Fuego (yeah it's a chain store, it's still awesome)

In Portland, ME:
-Sunny's Restaurant and Bar
-Sapporo Sushi
-Urban Outfitters (also a chain store, super awesome)
-Longfellow Books
-Two Fat Cats

I have not watched Project Runway yet, so I don't know about anything that happened! I'm super excited about watching it though.

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Artwork: Power-Up

Hey everybody! So, today is my first design post (squee!). I am super excited, but I would really appreciate if you would just acknowledge a couple things. First of all, I want to say that it is not okay to use my picture without citing it or without my permission. Also, this template is not mine, though the design is; it is created by the Fashion Sketchpad (www.fashionsketchpad.com). Don't make fun of the name 'Power-Up'; I couldn't figure out a better name for it. And also, please keep in mind that the dress faded slightly when scanned; it is supposed to be completely black. Anyway, now that we are past that stuff, let me just say that yes, I left her hair white on purpose. She is an albino. She was born that way, so don't judge. She would not judge you (or would she?). Anyway, yes, I did include the power button (aah I'm so craaaazy) and the blue circuit-thingy that runs down her back is actually a zipper. The fabric (since it's supposed to be a sporty kind of thing) is going to be a modal-cotton mix or a polyester-cotton mix. Either way, it's going to be cotton-???? so I hope it will be really cool. And sporty and awesome. I am also having trouble figuring out how to make the blue fabric glow...if you have any ideas at all for that, please contact me. I really wish that it hadn't faded. It looked really cool, believe me. My mother told me that if everyone wrote down what they loved when they were three, you would know what you wanted to be as a grown-up. I loved sports and drawing, so here I am. Anyway, I really hope you like this dress. I worked super hard on it. If you have any questions about it (or anything) I have an email at yannsburydesigns@gmail.com. Also, my relatives from Oregon are arriving tomorrow! So exciting, and I can not wait. It will not be all of them, unfortunately, but there are three of them and I love them so much! I can not wait for them to get here. Anyway, you guys know the Facebook and Twitter pages (Yannsbury Designs, @yannsburydesign). Sionara!

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Inspirations: Best Friends

Hey guys!!! I just got back from a cross-country meet, but I'm actually got a cold, so I did not run...But it's okay because my best friend ran, and she got second place, which is super good! Anyway, the design that I told you guys about last week; it's not entirely what I usually make, but it is kind of inspired by my best friend Tiffany. Okay, the first thing you might think of with the name Tiffany is probably really frou-frou, blonde hair blue eyes kind of thing, but that is not my best friend. She is the coolest, most athletic girl I've ever met; and so she is my inspiration for today! She is not the most fashion-forward person, but she loves technology and athletics, so I wanted to make a mix of the two for her. So the first thing about the dress is that it's got a power button symbol right on the chest. Ha ha, yes, I know, "A power button, Cleo? Those belong on computers, you silly little girl!" Yeah, I know, but believe me, it's going to look really cool if I can find a fabric that looks like it's glowing. Sorry!! I know I'm being suspenseful, but I want everyone to keep reading! Also, about Project Runway, I'm so sad that Alicia Hardesty was eliminated!! She did not deserve it; just because Elena and Dimitry were battling and she was caught in the middle; that does not mean that she was that bad. The other two on the team kind of threw her under the bus, so to speak. On the other hand, I really did like Gunnar's items, especially in the way that he color-blocked the skirt that he made. I don't think that he should have described Sonjia's dress as Legend of Zelda-esque; I really liked her colors and I am really glad that she won, especially with that green jacket. That was just so cute; I would totally wear that. Girl power! Anyway, I hope that you'll keep me in mind next Tuesday and thanks for reading!

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Review: School

So, today was my first day of school, and as it was not too inspirational, nor did it invoke a design, I'm just going to post it under reviews. So, today was my first day of high school - freshman orientation- supposedly a rite of passage. It was...interesting....I guess. I got to see my friends, and they all looked nice; obviously they did, it's the first day of school! So, anyway, I saw this really cute top on one of my friends that I just thought was totally awesome. It was green sheer with black polka dots, and a black peter pan collar. It had loose three-quarter sleeves with cut-outs from mid-arm to the shoulder. It was really cute. Also, we had these awesome jugglers who came it, and one of them was (I think?) a contortionist. But they were juggling these really sharp swords and, like, eight juggling pins at once. It was pretty cool. I was really inspired by it, and I'm going to be posting a designed based on the costumes that they described to us, because they weren't wearing them at that moment. Anyway, that was my great first day of school. So, I'm including this, a picture of our beautiful school. We don't have to wear uniforms, thank god! I used to go to a school where we wore uniforms, and it was awful. Uniforms made getting up in the morning easier, though. :) Anyway, I will see you guys on Friday, thanks for reading!!!

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Review: Oh My Lord and Taylor

Hey everybody! First of all, I am so sorry that I did not update yesterday! My cross-country meet went surprisingly late, so I had to update today. So, did anyone watch the most recent episode of Project Runway the other night? If you haven't, it was the Oh My Lord and Taylor challenge, in which the contestants had to design a cocktail dress for Lord and Taylor's Project Runway Collection ( http://www.lordandtaylor.com/eng/CMS/PRDress_Dress.cfm). I loved Christopher Palu's dress, but I agree with the judges on the fact that the shredding technique isn't anything new from Chris. I think that he could have tried a little harder to make something different from what he had made in the former challenges. Melissa Fleis' dress was my personal favorite, but I agreed with Michael Kors in the fact that her asymmetrical hemline was a little too much. I loved her fabric and the 'boat neck' that was not actually a boat neck but a strapless. I am posting a picture down below of her cocktail dress. I really did not like Gunnar Deatharage's dress; it is just way too much sparkle and lace. It was just too gaudy to be a little black dress – I really think that Gunnar should have been cut. He was going to be out but it didn't happen, and I really didn't like how the judges actually liked it. That thing was hideous! Sparkles and lace? Really, Gunnar? I really think that Gunnar can do better than that and trying to mix two of his favorite dresses in the collection together just equaled something that was not good. If Andrea Katz had still been in, she would most definitely be eliminated on this challenge, considering her designs. Kooan, although he is totally awesome (see my tribute to Kooan here http://yannsbury.blogspot.com/2012/08/inspirations-kooan.html) he would have probably failed at this challenge as well. So, just keep in mind that you should watch Project Runway, as it really is great reality show (http://www.mylifetime.com/shows/project-runway/video/full-episodes).

Melissa Fleis' dress

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