I just might have a serious addiction...

to magazines.

Yesterday i decided to clean out under my bed (a very scary place) and discovered I had 150 magazines under there. The number isn't huge but when layed across my bedroom floor we had a problem. With everything ranging from last months nylon to marie claires from 2006 and the last issues of Cosmo girl and teen people the clutter was some what over whelming. I managed to throw away 50 (mostly old Girls Life and Cosmo girls) but I couldn't bare to throw away the rest in fear i will throw away the one with that one spread I loved or the one ad for this and so on. Maybe In the future I'll get over my addiction (or just continue it hehe) or I could take up a hobby of magazine sculpting which for the record is f-ing cool.

Fake

About a year back i posted a rant all about fake purses and how I hate them so much. I finally found the perfect article stating why I hate them so much.


"It is estimated that up to 7 percent of our annual world trade — $600 billion worth — is counterfeit or pirated; that fakes are believed to be directly responsible for the loss of more than 750,000 American jobs; that everything from baby formula to medicine is counterfeited, with tragic results; that counterfeiters and the crime syndicates they work with deal in human trafficking, child labor, and gang warfare; and that counterfeiting is used to launder money, and the money has been linked to truly sinister deeds such as terrorism."

'I remember walking into an assembly plant in Thailand a couple of years ago and seeing six or seven little children, all under 10 years old, sitting on the floor assembling counterfeit leather handbags,' an investigator told me... 'The owners had broken the children's legs and tied the lower leg to the thigh so the bones wouldn't mend. [They] did it because the children said they wanted to go outside and play.'"

It's stories like this that make me so upset when i see a girl carrying a fake "chanel" or a fake "coach" bag.

for the rest of the article...http://www.harpersbazaar.com/magazine/feature-articles/the-fight-against-fakes-0109_

Girl Crushes

I feel like all fashion lovers have girl crushes. those effortlessly beautiful women who just always seem to look chic no matter what they where. I'm in love with cover girls Ashley Olsen and Emma Watson recently. And I've always adored Alexis Bledel and Zooey Deschanel and Anne Hathaway.

I'm completly obsessed with Marie Claires September Ashleys pictures are so beautiful and I love the interview too totally reminds me of Influence.

My new obsession...

I recently fell in love with jcrews flirty ruffled blouses, casual cardigans, plush blazers, and chic skirts. If only I could afford the hefty price tag of my wish list...I'm hoping to find similar styles a little cheaper.