Ok, so maybe I got a little bit carried away with the postings today but that's just how I am. You might as well just get used to this kind of behavior. Sometimes I give you nothing, and sometimes I give you too much. I promise I'm not a crazy mentally unbalanced girl. Ok, maybe just a little bit, like any other creative person. There's just too many things going on inside our heads! I actually have something really cool planned for tomorrow. You guys are just gonna have to stay tuned if you don't want to miss it.
Anyhow, back at the ranch. Like I mentioned on my last post (uploaded just a few seconds ago), tomorrow I have to do another visual display project for my visual merchandising class. The purpose of the project is to create a beauty display utilizing things that we can find around our bathroom. With this in mind I headed to Anthropologie on Lincoln Road to find some cute little girlie bathroom stuff for my project. Here's some of the items I'm using. I'm not showing you everything because, like I said before, I want the end result to be a surprise. However, you do get the feeling of my idea by looking at these images. How exciting! #iloveprojecting (projecting: the action of engaging in girlie crafty projects).
Hello there dear friends! Yes, I know, I'm a terrible friend. One that comes and goes, and sometimes just simply disappears for days without giving any signs of life. For those of you who don't know, I'm back to school. This is precisely why I'm in Miami. I'm studying fashion merchandising at the Miami International University of Art & Design. I started school in April and it's been quite an amazing learning experience. Sometimes we're wise asses and we think we know everything, but the truth of the matter is that we don't. These past 5 months I've learned more than I expected. This is also why I sometimes go M.I.A. Not enough time for everything, or maybe I just need to organize myself a little better (ok, I admit it! maybe I should just stop watching show marathons on Netflix).
Anyhow, I wanted to share with you a project I did last week for my visual merchandising II class. This is my favorite class because it challenges my creativity and I love that. It can only make me better. The purpose of the project was to create an accessories display using things that we could find around our kitchen, or the supermarket. We had to come up with three different ways to display the same accessories, using the same props. Here's what I came up with. Hope you like it. Let me know which one's your favorite (if you have one).
Tomorrow we have another project. I get so excited with projects. I'm a project snob. Tomorrow in class we have to create a beauty display using things that we could find around our bathrooms. For this I went to Anthropologie to get myself some cute little bathroom stuff (so girlie). I'm preparing another post to show you some of the items and props I'll be using. I'm not showing you everything because I want the end result to be a surprise. I think you guys are gonna like it.
So my dear friends, enjoy the rest of your afternoon, and until next!
Hello everyone! Hope you're having a wonderful Monday. I'm back after a few days of vacation. Well actually it wasn't quite like that (no I wasn't sipping caipirinhas in Rio de Janeiro, I wish). I think that a lot of you already know that last week was Mercedes Benz Fashion Week Swim , where all the top swimwear designers show their collections for summer 2014 here in Miami. I actually got to do some really hard volunteer work with the shows that took place at The Raleigh Hoteland at the Miami Beach Convention Center. That's one of the great things about being a fashion student at the Miami International University of Art and Design, they motivate us to be part of everything fashion that is going on in Miami. I literally did everything: I put together gift bags, inflated about 50 beach balls, got wet, sweat like pig, got frizzy hair, helped put together the backstage, I was in charge of sponsor seating in one of the venues, did guest check in, and worked as a dresser. Let me tell you, that was a lot of work in four days. All work and no play but it was great. Today my feet hurt, my legs hurt, my butt hurts, and I think I even might've lost a couple of pounds from being on my feet up and down all day long (the pros of working in fashion).
This was my Thursday to Sunday schedule. On Thursday I got to volunteer to set up the official kick off party celebrating 25 years of Roxy with Roxy Pop Surf, on Friday morning I worked backstage at the tents and then in the afternoon I did sponsor seating, which was pretty cool because I actually got to see the shows for Agua Bendita, Dolores Cortés, and Beach Bunny, Saturday I was doing guest check-in at the Sun-Covered party presented by Ocean Drive Magazine, and on Sunday I was a dresser for the swimwear show organized by the Swimwear Association of Florida at the Miami Beach Convention Center. This precise show was huge and really cool and I was impressed of how well organized it was. There were more than 300 looks and a legion of models. I had to dress two models, about 6 looks each, it was hectic but an amazing experience. At the end of the day this is what its all about, learning, experiencing, meeting new people and having fun while doing it.
I didn't get to take any pictures because we're not allowed but here are the videos from the shows I got to be part of. I can't wait to get my hands on a couple of those bikinis next summer!
Until my next fashion adventure guys! Enjoy the sexy ladies!
Beach Bunny designer Angela Chittenden with her models after the successful show.
I'm back! I'm sorry I left you guys hanging there but I was going thru a period of transition. I also had an identity crisis moment. You guys are just gonna have to get used to this type of behavior of mine because I have an identity crisis every other day and I'm way past my twenties (ok not that much, I'm only a thriving 34 year old). I wasn't sure if I wanted to continue with the blog, I wasn't sure if I wanted to continue being a red head, I wasn't sure of a lot things but after a while I noticed how much I missed blogging and how much I missed my red hair. Being a red head was one of my greatest adventures!
Let me give you a rather short review of what has happened to me this past three months. On April 26 I moved to Miami to study fashion merchandising at the Miami International University of Art and Design. This means that from now on I'm a new Miami fashion and lifestyle blogger, blogging from the sunshine city (tropical chic gets me so excited!). I made a rather tough choice a while ago and decided to leave my career, family, and friends in Guatemala and move to Miami in pursuit of my dreams. I wanted to learn and experience new things, meet new people, change sceneries, and expand my horizons. It took me a good three months to get acclimated (when I just got here I was so stressed a little vein on my left eye popped and so I looked like I was high for like a month. Not very attractive) but now I'm ready to start sharing some exciting Miami fashion and lifestyle with you guys. I think this new phase of mine is going to be so much more exciting.
Hope you guys stick around for more Style by Red adventures in the sunshine city.
