They Make Me Smile, Damnit I Like That.

For those who want to know who I am talking about when I say who took my pictures I am here to de-cloak them. , ooo a Harry Potter reference, Karen will love that. 

I am serious, they both work magic when they take my pictures. By magic, I mean they get me to smile. There is a huge difference when they are taking my pictures and I am taking the pictures of myself. 

I say its always great when you have someone to take your pictures, you have someone to interact with and they tell you when your shirt came unbuttoned or a hair is in the face. 

So without further ado my two photographers: 

David 

David takes most of my pictures, simply because he lives about a block away from where I live. Mostly because he keeps me amused from behind the camera. David has his own blog What's All the Rave where he writes about sports, mostly baseball (NY Mets), hockey (NY Rangers), Football (NY Jets) and NASCAR. 

Karen and her dimples

I hope she doesn't kill me for this photo but it is perfect. Karen is a Vegan, a Yankee fan, avid reader, Harry Potter and Steven King fan, and a cat lover. When she is not fostering a homeless cat or looking for Vegan items she and I are hanging out whether for going to Yankee games, shopping, the opera or getting vegan treats at  BabyCakes.

These two are the best friends that a girl can have. I have been friends with them for over 10 years and I plan to keep them for the rest of my life. 

30x30: Day 22 & 23 Amateur Photography, Modeling and Thieving

Ok, I am willing to admit these two days haven't been my best days either taking  photos or modeling my clothes. I am doing my best because I am in a bit of pain. I kind of put on a good face for day 22 but you can see I am pale as hell and sickly looking and I was wearing a lot of makeup.

Still there is no excuse, I am sure there were a few models during fashion week that had the flu or stomach poisoning on top of their eating disorder. Now granted its not fair that I am comparing myself to a professional model, but technically I am modeling my clothes, wait I should get paid for this!

I only have a few decent shots of me so they will have to do.

Day 22

I managed to take this pictures before I changed in to my equivalent of sweats and ran out of the house to my doctors appointment. But this is what I wore to work minus the shoes ( I wore my grey boots. I wore the shoes the rest of the day.)

My equivalent of sweats are leggings, tee shirt, flannel shirt, a large sweater and a pair of flats. I want to thank David (it used to be his, wait I think he lent it to me) for my new large AX hooded sweater its very warm and comfy.

Maybe when these 30x30 days are over (in seven days) I’ll take a picture in my “sweats.”

(Thrifted brown cardi, H&M black sheer blouse, black ballet flats, and blue silk scarf, ON straight legged denim)

30X30 Day 20: Poison Ivy

I think I’m coming down with something, my cheeks are on fire and my nose wont stop dripping. But I am managing to get this post done tonight.

As for my outfit if you don’t like the belt, I agree. But I like it, I just have to find the right thing to wear it with. My friend David said it looked like I had a backward back brace on. I’ve had the belt for years and I do not remember where I got it.

(Spotted Moth green cargo jacket, H&M grey sweater and beige button-up, unknown black corded skinnies, belt and grey boots, vintage silk scarf)

30x30 Day 15 Can You Meet Me Halfway

Wow, halfway through already! I cant believe I made it this far. I tell you though, it hasn’t been with out a struggle. I have had lazy days and days I couldn’t figure out what combinations I wanted to do. I also had to work around snowy cold days.

My main issue though was getting the pictures done, finding locations and people who were willing to take my pictures. I was able to take my own pictures but I had to find places that were secluded that I wouldn’t be bothered by nosy people.

I've also lost two pieces of my wardrobe one to a hole in the arm pit and the other in a friends house. Luckily those two pieces I haven't yet worn so I will replace them with something else that I have in the rest of my wardrobe.

So here is Day 15.

(H&M black tunic, unknown grey boots, grey tights bought 7 yrs ago Wal-Mart, purple lace tank, white military belt bought at army/navy store, chain lapels handmade by me, Express hound's-tooth coat given to me by my friend Karen.)

30x30 Day 14 Pounding the Pavement

I feel like I walked 10 miles today. I took the day off from work since I knew it was going to be a nice day and I needed to run some errands. I was up and down streets, in and out of stores and I backtracked a bit.

Ok so apparently I only walked 2.1 miles, but its still a decent walk.

I just found this here, I thought its pretty cool.

(Spotted Moth – green cargo jacket, Express blue button-up shirt, Target jeans, Spotted Moth brown boots, handmade locket necklace, NYC vendor glasses)

30x30 Day 12 Dont Mean A Thing If You Aint Got That Swing!

First of all I must say I had fun with this shoot. It wasn’t my first location choice, I was supposed to be behind here at the water’s edge, but something at the park drew me over.

Half the swings were knotted but this was was straight but it was a little high to touch the ground while sitting in the swing. I got the swing pretty high, I haven’t been on a swing in years, but I remembered how to do it.  I used to love the old NYC swings that were a flat metal seat that you could stand on, I miss those days.

(H&M blue and white striped shirt and skinny belt, Charlotte Russe skinny jeans, Madden Girl Boots, Express grey wrap sweater, unknown Russian hat, brass sign language “I Love You Pin”.)

30x30 Day 2 Happy Ground Hog day!

 

So apparently the Punxsutawney Groundhog didn’t see his shadow today so spring should be coming early. Good. The weather in NYC is getting annoying, seriously. I love the winter cold and few snows and all but this winter has been ridiculous.

Today it sleeted all day and my car was a solid block of ice this morning and you needed ice skates to go down a sidewalk it was so icy. But sometime in the afternoon it warmed up enough to make the snow on the ground a  slushy mess.

Now normally I don’t complain about this but I forgot my hat at home today so my hair got wet and so it got frizzy. Frizzy never happens to me but the combo of the sleet/rain mix and the static my hair was well fuzzy.

 

                                      

 

(H&M leopard blouse and grey sweater, Target dark denim skinny jeans, Madden Girl tan boots, Handmade necklace, earrings and bracelet)

(F21 cross ring, diamond band and Tommy watch)

My father secretly wanted to be involved

(Wrangler jeans, navy blue collared button-up shirt, Lands End Jacket, leather gloves, grey hat and black boots)

Puddles, puddles, puddles everywhere.

Tomorrow there is sun in the forecast so hopefully the weather will be good.

Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear, Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair. Oh eff enough of this. Whatever ♥

30X30 Day 1, Am I Really Gonna Do This?

 

I’m not mad, I'm frustrated.

My frustration isn't coming from 30x30, but from the weather and me being tired and cranky.

First of all NYC has been having the craziest winter, today it snowed, sleeted, iced, rained, snowed then iced again. I had to wake up at 5 am to shovel the snow off my car which wouldn’t be so bad but I couldn’t sleep at all last night. But the weather fouled up my plans for a decent photo shoot.

I have to take my shots in the afternoon because there isn't light when I go to work in the morning, but today I got home late due to the weather. My car was covered inch thick of ice, so I had to scrap that off to get home. So by the time I got home there was practically no light for any good indoor shots.

So after trying to make it work indoors I ran outside not caring how nosey my neighbors are and took some shots.

The outdoor shots would have been ok except my frustration of the day shows on my face.

So with out further ado.

 

The original idea for the outfit, accessorized with belt and chain necklace

You can see in the first picture that I accessorize my outfit with a belt and a chain necklace. Well I scratched the belt because its too big to wear at the waist it kept falling down all day at work and the chain I never ended up wearing at all because I already had a necklace on that was much more simpler. Coco Chanel said "always take off one thing (accessory, non important clothing item) before you leave the house"

 

(MNG cardigan. H&M striped shirt, Old Navy jeans, H&M ballet flats, H&M necklace and unseen bracelet, Lands End Coat)

 

See a sort of smile. It was getting chilly and the sidewalk I was on was a sheet of ice so basically I skated to my location.

Ok enough of this, I need to plan tomorrows outfit. Oh you should see my face now, I managed to knock my tripod down camera and all, not once but twice. The only thing that broke was a knob on the tripod, it will live.

Oh I made this today

I better have a better day tomorrow. Whatever ♥

A Snowy January

Do you love the snow or do you hate it? Me, I ♥ it! Yes I have to shovel my car out and go to work in it, but I think of the shoveling as a workout for the upcoming bikini season.

My street Monday morning of December 27th after the Blizzard. 20 inches was recorded in Central Park other places got more.

View from my apartment Thursday morning January 27. This storm dumped 19 inches, but not a blowing snow blizzard like the one in December.

We have gotten a few snows in between those last too but not significant enough to make a fuss about. Lets just say I’ve perfected my snow shoveling technique.

With all the snow that’s been falling, I've been dying to play out in the snow. I want to make snow angels and snowmen maybe build a fort and have a snowball fight or perhaps go sledding. When I was a kid my family and I would go to a golf course that had a few hills and take our old metal and wood sleds to go sledding. Its those times that I miss to this day about my family being together and being young.

Being that  there is so much snow around I decided to play, ahem, do a photo shoot in the snow. I did manage to make a snowman. My snowman by the way was tiny and cheesy with no nose, arms, eyes or mouth.

                                                   That little thing is my pathetic snowman

                                

                             

                                     

What I am wearing.

Jacket and boots – Spotted Moth, Fur collar and bag necklace  – Claire’s , Sun glasses – Ray Ban, Corduroy pants – American Eagle, Denim shirt, white longsleeve, and gloves – Target, Wool hat – Hand knitted by me

As far as what I am wearing, there are two repurposes. My hat is made from a sweater that I hand knitted my self that got a few stains over the years. The fur collar on the jacked it a separate piece that I just pinned on with safety pins.

Also some randomness, I got my bangs cut today. You can see the difference between the shot in front of the snow bank and the last shot of me. I think I look better, the bangs cover the 5 finger forehead I have.

By the way as I am typing this it is currently snowing, I am hoping for at least an inch because NYC needs just 9/10ths of an inch in order for it to be the snowiest Month on record, I mean if you are close you might as well beat it, right?  The month that was the snowiest was just set back in February 2010 with 36.9inches. NYC already is the snowiest January on record with a total of 36 inches beating out a record of 27.4 set in 1925.

Watch out I throw hard!

Records smeckords. Whatever ♥

Where in the world is Nicole?

Hi there. Well I meant to put up a post in July but it was a hectic month so I couldn't. So I'm gonna try something new with my posts, I'm not gonna blab incessantly, I'm just gonna put up pictures with a caption, OK? Whatever ♥


I finally bought a DSLR.


I'm in Miami Bitch!



I am Team Edward


I love this flower detail.

My new favorite thing to do

Recently I came upon and photography method "Tilt Shifting." I was instantly hooked, that was until I found out how much the equipment would cost me for my camera. But wait, I'm crafty, through my internet searching I found a website (link is on my page) that will take a picture that I uploaded and make it look like it was "Tilt-shifted." (I did the Cabagge Patch dance!)

This is the before pic.



And this is the after.



Don't the people and the cars look like toys?

Ooo two blogs in one night! Whatever ♥