Where Them Girls At?

Sometimes when I'm bidding on pretty coats on ebay, I always wonder about the people bidding on the same coats I am. Are they weird like me? Have they always loved old things? And most importantly, where the hell do they live? So far I've found finding lady friends to be difficult. I don't know what it is. I've always been a bit odd. I'm certainly friendly enough if I like you. I like women who are confident, intelligent and women who consider themselves feminists. A great sense of style never hurts, but isn't necessary. There are plenty of online ladies I would befriend, but I've yet to meet any real life, fleshy girls in my fair city I like enough. I'll keep searching.

Here are two hats from my vintage collection. Gifted to me by my sister and purchased off an estate sale:

Water Deep

Many things are swimming around in my twenty-one year old brain.
Mostly starting to take care of this little blog and starting a new one in which to document my drawings.

The one good thing to happen in September was the fact that I ordered this little number:



http://www.etsy.com/transaction/35163653

I ordered Alexandra Grecco's If I Only Had a Heart Dressed. Fist pumps.

Two years late

I would like to apologize in advance for sharing images of clothing no longer available for purchase, from a duo no longer together(although still making lovely things separately). I am talking about Mooka Kinney.





They tell it this way: Rachel Antonoff and Alison Lewis (twenty-four and twenty-three respectively) met fatefully when Alison rented a room in Rachel's west village apartment. Although they now live separately in the w. village, it was in the cozy apartment on West 12th Street that they discovered a shared love for haunting local vintage stores and the empire-waisted, whimsical wardrobes of their childhoods. Inspired by winged ponies, peter pan and other such fantastical things, the girls set to work on their debut collection of dresses, all of which would be fit for a party in a tree-house.











I want one of each garment, especially the Maximillian dress(third to last). I'm cooing and awing but mostly sighing because I won't be able to get any of these babies.

All photos belong to Mooka Kinney

That summer feeling

Okay so while I'm learning illustrator and working on my header at once(!) and fussing with the layout, I decided to talk about something essential: bedding.

It is so humid in Chicago and I am full of bodily fluids bellow the bosom. So why am I thinking of buying a bedding set I won't use until the chilly Chicago autumn and winter? Oh, only because it's dreamy and perfect and on sale!

I don't usually buy things from a collection titled "Shabby Chic"(in fact, I hate those words), and after much search for vintage sets, I have not been fruitful. Alas these stole my heart when I saw them at Target last week:



They have very high reviews and they're on sale, with free shipping and if you spend $75 or more on household items, you get $10 off.

Comforter set

Sheets

I'll be visiting Target later today to make sure it is the set I want. I'm such an indecisive girl. This sale ends the 29th and is only available online.

I'm currently writing up posts regarding my favorite ladies, Sierra and Bianca from Cocorosie and Anna Karina's style in Pierrot Le Fou. Now it's time to get a $5 haircut, y'all.

Hello, my name is Ana Karen

I wanted to start this blog off as a thank you to my momma for birthing me and sustaining me, but alas I was such a lazy bum that I put it off for four days.

It is currently 3:54 A.M. in Chicago and I'm awake. As of late, I've really been exploring issues of femininity, adulthood, personal style, and truly, the eve of my womanhood. I shall be twenty one years old at the end of August, and although nothing will change, for some reason, that month seems to have become a due date for me figuring all of those things out. Any previous ideas, and formulated opinions I had about any of those topics seem to be flying out the window, and my brain is eagerly awaiting to be seasoned with time and experiences; at the same time I'm being petty and am hunting for a good eye wrinkle cream. This will probably be poorly written and told in circular storytelling, which I'm quite good at. I would like to use this lovely, free online space to figure out in which physical way I would like to present my womanly self to the world. I am a human and love beautiful things, so such pictured things will make an appearance here as well. Okay, there, after putting it off for...five days? My first official blog post.

Okay, I guess I should say a couple of things about myself, eh?
I want to be a storyteller of the comics kind. Holding the title of cartoonist is my biggest desire. I'm currently in the process of learning French, which I hope ends with me living in France, drawing/teaching comics. I have a nice, nerdy, study group of ladies and am currently making my way through all of Jean-Luc Godard's films(Read: Obsessed).

I think that's it for now as my gross morning breath is starting to get to me and I would like to very much be asleep so I don't notice it.