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Christan

I'm not surprised.

He was pretty much destined to win it.  He wasn't one of my favorites but he had the backup for all that talk I suppose.  I can appreciate his work from an artistic point of view, the boy's got skills.  Bluefly.com has a nice collection for getting his winning look. But I think "Manhattanite" sums it up best at Gothamist (see the comments). Seriously, what does Posh Spice really know?????  I think Rami & Jillian did much better.

Overall, I still like Chris' final lookthe best even though he wasn't a finalist - human hair and all!

Oh yeah, it's Thursday isn't it? It's Flickr time!!!  Here are my favorites for this week....

1. ●, 2. two ladies, 3. coconut cupcake, 4. hot pink., 5. caffeine spider, 6. Pinkstone, 7. Look Who's Talking, 8. Fishermen in Mahé - India, 9. Day 40: Transforming Thoughts, 10. Tea for two, 11. Polly is MAD !, 12. 48bba6322eced0df_o - Oh les jolies souliers !, 13. another corner, 14. peas, 15. nostalgia, 16. Wink., 17. Hina-dolls sushi, 18. Loch Ness Express, 19. Crowne Plaza Mutiara Hotel, KL, 20. Coffee without cigarettes, 21. cosby, 22. Untitled, 23. entryway, 24. Angie 1, 25. Color-full life Created with fd's Flickr Toys.

Happy Valentine's day

Let me start by saying I love all of you who come and pay my humble blog home a visit.   I hope all of you receive some extra special love today, whether it's from a significant other, friend, family member, or a random act of kindness from a stranger.

Today I reduced the prices on some select items from the Etsy Shop, like these items but there are quite a few more!

And it wouldn't be Thursday without a mention of Project Runway. I am pretty content with the results and I already checked out everyone's final collections they showed during Fashion Week. I hate to say it, but I'm not impressed with Rami's line (I'm sorry Rami!!!!) but L.O.V.E.D. Chris'. Never has someone grown on me so quickly as he had. Talk about FUN! Go see!

Diva Designs

I've read throughout the web how annoyed a lot of fans of Project Runway were about this week's challenge. I can understand.  Creating a design for a professional wrestler, excuse me, WWE Diva, is probably not what they had in mind when they decided that they wanted to become a Fashion Designer. But whatever! Suck it up and do it!  Besides, it's not like you're creating an outfit for the Fabulous Moola (RIP), but for someone who looks like this....

Stripper-ish? A little bit. I have followed wrestling ever since I was little and let me tell you, women's wrestling is not the same as it was 20 years ago. It's ALL glam now where you don't have to be good, you just have to LOOK good and get with some nice breast implants. If you're lucky, you get a Playboy spread out of it.

The above design belongs to Chris who won the challenge, big surprise...not. Even he admitted that it's not a big feat for him to win "the tackiest challenge". I know these "divas", not personally but I've been watching them for a few years and I have a pretty good idea of what they wear and wrestle in and I think most of the designers captured that EXCEPT for Ricky who finally got the boot! He made his diva a friggin' bathing suit that you can buy at any department store.

Just stop it, enough! He's gone. Let's move on.

O_o

WHAT?????  Ricky????

I think I'm going to cry now.  It's not that I think he's a bad person, he just needs to develop some thick skin if he plans on becoming some big time designer, I don't care what his resume looks like.

When they said what the challenge was going to be last night on Project Runway, I yelled at my television "BORING!!!!!!" The whole episode was product placement for Levi's 501 so the designers  had to construct an outfit using all Levi's denim.   Once again, my favorite did not disappoint me:

But Rami did not win either, but Ricky did! RICKY!!! Ok, his outfit wasn't bad but Rami's and Christian's were better. It turns out the challenge wasn't so boring afterall. I wish they had this challenge when Kevin was still there. He would have rocked it! But yes, Ricky won the challenge and as a result, this will be available (for a limited time only) at Levi's website....

I think I'll pass. This outfit is not meant for curvy gals.

PR Bullets

I do not have much to say about last night's episode. I *get* the whole avant-garde couture but at the same time I don't get it. 

Another of my favorites, Kit, was eliminated but I understand why. She didn't fully embrace the challenge and someone with her creativity could have gone crazy-nuts with it but she didn't for whatever reason.

Why is Ricky still there?

I felt sorry for Sweet Pea.  She was soooo excited to be paired up with Rami but it turned into a nightmare, tears included.  I liked her ready-to-wear dress. I may think she's a flake but I still believe she makes the clothes I would most likely to wear.

Rami is still my favorite, even though he's thick-headed.

I refuse to comment on Christian.  I just don't like him but he makes good television, I'll give him that.

Chris is kind of growing on me. I guess since he was given a second chance, he's not screwing around this time.  Wouldn't it be something if he actually wins this thing???

Spooks & Fashion

Wednesday night is my TV Night.  It is the only night of the week where I have control of the boobtube and last night was sweet.

First was the premiere of Ghost Hunters International. They were in England & Scotland (two places I am DYING to visit). I think the team leaders, Robb and Andy worked really together.  I am a big fan of the TAPS team.  I love stuff like this.  Ghost, monsters, aliens, I just eat it all up.  I am a skeptic but I want to believe, I really, really do!!!!

Next, Project Runway. Waaaah! Kevin got the boot.  He was one of my picks (I never said I was good at this) but yeah his dress was pretty bad.  This week the challenge was to design a prom dress for a group of teens. I am actually surprised that my favorite this week came from Chris!

Talk about the PERFECT color!!!! I love this green, it's perfect for her skin tone and it fits her beautifully. You can tell this young lady feels like a movie star on the red carpet in this gown. Come to think of it, Chris should have won! I didn't like Victorya's (the winner) dress but I can see how her design was more youth-oriented. I can't relate, I'm not a youth.

I would say I felt sorry for Christian dealing with such a difficult model, but I'm not. His cocky-ass deserved to be handed a slice of some humble pie.

Yay Rami!

Now that I'm taking a break from plugging away my Etsy shop, that leaves me time to write about trivial stuff, like my new found love for Project Runway.  Which you probably will be seeing more of in between craft-related stuff. Did you watch last night? One of my favorites won the challenge, RAMI!!!

This is the winning dress.

The designers were taken to the Hershey's store in Time Square and given 5 minutes to grab as much stuff to use as material for an outfit. The skirt? All Peppermint Patty wrappers. The top? I believe he said it was vinyl from a Twizzlers item, I can't remember if it was a bag, pillow, banner, something else, definitely Twizzlers....I love Twizzlers.  He did such an awesome job tying all the colors together, I can't believe he pulled all of this off in one day.

First Post of 2008!

Here is my first entry for the new year and I hope the first day of the year is not an indication of what lies ahead in the next 365 days (it's a leap year you know).  I was hoping to stay home yesterday and relax but my granny neighbor upstairs had other plans for me.  She had her grandkids over and they are VERY LOUD and pretty rotten children.  I don't know them but I can just tell that family sucks. So we had to leave the apartment for a couple of hours before we completely lost our minds and got into a lot of trouble. I keep telling myself It's not every day, it is not every day!

That was yesterday and yesterday is in the past so I must not let it bother me anymore.  Tonight there should be a new episode of Project Runway so I plan to kick back, relax, have a glass of this..

And talk trash to the television.  As of right now, I like Rami, Kevin, and Kit so I'm rooting for those three.  Sweet Pea I'm on the fence about.  I like her designs and she makes clothes that I can see myself wearing but something about her personality is iffy with me.   The rest I am either indifferent about or just don't like at all like Christian. Out come the claws!

I noticed a lot of people did a 2007 recap on their blogs, that's great and all but 2007 was pretty whack year for me with the exception of a couple of things but instead I wish to look ahead. I won't bore you with resolutions as I haven't exactly made any. I just wanna make this the best year I could possibly make it that way this time next year, I can look back and smile.