Love Letter to Yourself, Part 2, an example

Yesterday I wrote about how to write a love letter to yourself. Today, I give you mine.

Dear Rosie,

I love your sparkling green eyes, nestled under your beautifully arched eyebrows. I love the smiles that play across your rosebud lips. I love your curly hair bouncing in the light. I love your curves and the way you sway when you move. I love your towering height and your elegant, long hands. I love that you don't hide your intelligence. I love your unique sense of style, and that you don't shy away from what you like. I love that you are independent and and confident. I love that you don't feel the need to be like everyone else, and that you are courageous enough to act on this. I love that you refuse to fit a stereotype. I love that you use your imagination. I love that you stand up for, and do, what you think is right, even when you don't know the consequences. I love that you can do things without being told how, and your organizational skills. I love your sense of humour, and that you aren't afraid of having fun.

Most of all, I lov that you are unique and totally Rosie.

Also, some of you may remember way back when I had twitter. Well, I decided to create a new account, so you can click the box in the sidebar to follow for hopefully interesting tidbits.

Love Letter to Yourself, Part 1, a How To

When I sat down to think about what I was going to post today, I thought about something I hadn't seen that often: Love letters to oneself. I deiced that we need far more of these in our life, so today I bring you instructions on how to focus on the many wonderful aspects of you.

1. Write a list of everything you love about your self, from the tiny details, to the big picture stuff. List the things you love about your body, your mind and your life in general.
2. Write a rough draft, thinking of how you would write a love letter to the love of your life. It doesn't have to be flowery, but go for it if that's your style. You may write in simple, statement sentences, or you may want to write with lots of adjectives, it's all up to you.
3. Use your favorite pen and nicest stationary to write up a good copy. I'm serious, it means to much more if you write it by hand.
4. Now, it's up to you: you could send it to yourself in the mail, you could put it in a time capsule, you could slip it into the pages of book, really, whatever you want.

I hope this helps you be more positive and optimistic! Keep a look out over the next few days to hear about what I wrote in mine.

Love, Rosie

Rose of the Summer Wedding

This is a picture I took a while back of a rose in my garden, and it inspired me to create a set on polyvore. Here is the result:

Summer Wedding by RosieUnknown

I chose the green dress to serve as a background, like the bush is a back ground to roses. Then the rosettes on the purse and headband are self explanatory. I chose the shoes to stick to the colour scheme. I decided to go with simple gold jewelry, because I felt that it was a better match with the other colours than silver.

I see this ensemble being worn to your friends garden wedding, in the full bloom of summer. I don't ever see this outfit on me, well at least not on summer '09 Rosie, but I can imagine a person very similar to me, but different, wearing it, if that makes sense. What I am trying to say is that it is a outfit I designed for someone with a personality like mine, but a different style.

Thoughts? Requests?

Ten Things About me, and a "Prom" Photo

A while back, I was tagged by the awesome Frock Around the Clock to post ten things about me, so here goes:

1. I like vegetables. Spinach, peas, turnip mashed with carrot, I love them all.
2. I spent most of my life disliking my father's mother, but recently grew to really like her.
3. Despite loving black clothing, bats, and doc martens, I am playful and giddy a lot of the time.
4. I am incredibly vain, but only on the surface. I guess you knew that though, since I write a personal style blog, and that requires self-centeredness.
5. I am a huge nerd. I worked at a science camp this week, partly because i like money, but mostly because I miss going to science camp.
6. I am a huge Harry Potter fan. I was the only person at the midnight showing to turn up in costume.
7. Aesthetically, in a guy, I like either somewhat feminine features, bad boy style, or unique style.
8. I cannot stand guys who don't get fashion. I once had a guy ask why I was wearing heels at school, the answer: because I like them.
9. I try to put on a tough outside, but inside I am extremely fragile.
10. In sixth grade, my class put on a production of The Little Prince, and I was the rose. I was silly and thought bright green eyeshadow would look good with bright red lipstick.

Also a while back, Hanako66 of Through the Looking Glass tagged anyone who wanted to be tagged to post their prom outfit. Well, I haven't graduated yet, but I have a dress from my middle school graduation, so I thought I would share.

The first picture is me wearing the dress for the dance, with Aldo heels, and some old bangles. A note: I made this dress myself. The second photo is me wearing the dress to a holiday party, with the heels from the first picture. The third picture is me wearing the dress to a math competition. I got a lot of strange looks, but hey, whatever! I also wore this dress with my Rampage heels(seen in the third photo), with heavy eyeliner for a fancy birthday party for my Grandfather, but sadly no photo.

I would like to tag anyone who wants do either of theses tags, and if you do, please let me know! I would love to see what you write.

How my Style Survived/is Surviving Life as a Summer Camp Counselor

Summer Camp Trials by RosieUnknown

This week, I am stuck in a bright yellow shirt. Not the shirt featured here, but very similar. The reason: I was deemed responsible enough to be a day camp counselor. Crazy world, eh? The point being, I was wondering how I was going to still express my own style while wearing a shapeless yellow bag.

Since I have some common sense, and I worked this job last summer, I knew that I was going to want flat, broken in, relatively comfy shoes. Enter the Converse All Stars. Second common sense point: these are kids, who will want to run around, and play games. That explains why everything is relatively easy to move in, and when I choose skirts, I include leggings. 8 year old boys do not need to know whether or not you are wearing a thong. I know that in some climates may not be compatible with the longer leggings, in this case substitute shorter leggings.

After that, it is all fun stuff. This set is a bit more what I would like than what I am wearing, example, today I wore roughly the fist outfit, but my shorts are pale gray with white pinstripes, and I am wearing a brightly coloured bow in my hair.

For me, eyeliner is a total must. I don't advise skipping your fave make up/accessory, just maybe tone it down, example, today, instead of drawing a thick line all the way around my eye, with wings out the sides, I just did my "grandmother-able" thick line on the top lid, with a little wing.

Thoughts? Advice? Requests?