Well, it's been almost a year since i've updated this... so skipitty skip skip!

To condense it: I'm working in an art supply store, Estefania and I adopted a cat and named her Princess Buttercup Melty Butters Poop Stain Alicandri-Schneer. She's the best cat ever. Lots of snowboarding, a little silkscreening, lots of rollerblading, Roller Disco, dancing, much too little, but a little sewing. I made this dressfor the lovely, radiant artist and poet Cassandra to wear at her opening I've been playing, falling in love, making glow in the dark jewelry, and other silly things.

Winter Music Conference in Miami was pretty much my favorite part of these past months, and I saw some pretty fantastic outfits. This was by far my favorite: I want to Move there and just make dresses for pretty party people all day, every day and dance all night, every night.

I just have to stop acting like this guy who I also met in Miami:

His name is Maximillion, He lives in Coconut Grove on the same street as Estefania's mom. He's awesome, but I definitely need to pick up the pace!

LakeyCakes

So Tonight is my last night at the lake house with my gigantic family. It's been lovely WAY upstate here at Keuka Lake, but I'll be happy to get home.

There are 40 something of us... too many to count! And 2 pregnant aunts, AND my uncle Nic just got engaged to his girlfriend Sarah, They were my upstairs neighbors all last year, and the best, so that's really exciting!

My little cousin Nic (not to be confused with the uncle) who has been hating on me the whole trip, stomping on my feet and trying to play pranks on me, now is saying only the nicest things to me because we won the race driving go carts  together this afternoon. I love the way little kid's minds work. 360 turns in the right direction in every aspect.

I'm searching like crazy for a DESIGN job. I'm beginning to feel very trapped in an uncreative well... trap, working in retail. I'm so ready to design! I'm trying so hard to find something! I spend hours every day trying and trying... I'm feeling fed up, but I'm not going to give up. 

Tomorrow morning it's back to brooklyn with me, and I'll finally officially unpack and be moved in. Yay!

Mermaid Parade

My first mermaid parade was a little bit rainy and wet, but that means only the real mermaids (who don't mind getting wet anyway) came out.

It was so joyful, colorful and spectacular! So much fun! I couldn't wipe the gigantic smile off my face all day! I'll never miss it again!

I was riding on top of Lenin's shoulders for most of the day, so I had a great vantage point, and we got our picture taken by tons of people for this reason as well! I felt like a famous person for a few hours. it was quite a rush!

I took about 200 photos, but here are some of my favorites.

The mermaid with the pink hair was so so so detailed and fabulous! Her tail (and purse) were entirely covered in hand stitched soda tabs! Look how scale like they are! It was so amazing! and her headpiece was so beautiful and elaborate! She was by far my favorite mermaid. The group in the little white chemises with the umbrellas were a close second. Adorable!

If every day were just like that one It might mean that i've become queen of the world, or something like that.

Just Lovely.

PLANS

Very important plans. So I'm getting together with some friends, and going to wear those canal street T shirts that say HI HATER on the front and BYE HATER on the back with neon leggings and roller blades and LOTS of glitter  and then we're going to rollerblade across Manhattan waving at everybody. Not only that, but the Mermaid Parade is this Saturday! Oh there is a lot of dress up fun in my near future, and I'm damn giddy about it. 

You don't like me?    

 BYE HATER!  

xo

As soon as it's possible, I'm going to get one of my beautiful friends to model my thesis collection for me and one of my lovely photographer friends and I will do a photo shoot... or maybe i'll take pictures myself... I'm not half bad at it.  They have a ton of detail that those runway photos don't show, especially the evening piece! it's beaded like crazy with freshwater pearls and coral. 

Life is going well. Everything is new and exciting except for these liberal arts classes I have to finish up... not super exciting, but I'm content just the same. 

I just got a job in retail at Armani Exchange in SoHo. I'm really psyched about it, because of the awesome discount I'm going to have and especially because the music in there is really fun and it's always nice and loud. Wanting to dance all of the time (and doing it) will definitely keep me wanting to come back every day. so YAY! Hope they'll give me lots of hours though, so I won't be poor. I found out also that the A/X line is designed in NY... so that's intriguing... you know... I love Armani, I speak Italian, I went to a really nice design school for fashion and I live in NY... hire me?? PLEASE?? Well, I was thinking to try and get an internship there anyway, after my classes are done.

I really have not felt so positive about life since I was in Italy... oh, and another thing; I'm crushing haaaaaaard on a super sweet boy... ^__^ 

And my Evening piece...

The rest of my sportswear collection, La Testa Nel Nuvole...

Pretty... yes? :)