A THOUSAND SORRYS

Sorry I haven't been really blogging lately (especially sorry to all my followers & new followers ) But alot of crazy stuff has happened in my life in the matter of a week that has completely changed everything as far as my life plan and now I have to make difficult changes. So its hard for me to be any kind of inspired right now but please stick with me I promise I wont disappoint you. I will be blogging ASAP!

ON MY MIND: PURPLE LIPSTICK + DIY SILK SCREEN? + GOOD OLE AMERICAN ART + FINAL PROJECTS!

So lately (does it seem like lately/all the time I start my sentences off saying "So lately...." hahaha) I really do! But honestly It seems like lately I've been into purple things and lipsticks! I really want to buy a couple! I have a few MAC shades in mind that I've been eyeing for a couple of weeks. If you've been reading this blog for the last couple of weeks you've seen when I made the 'everything blue' post and now I'm in love with 'everything purple' lol I guess I'm going through my color phases But now I'm really into everything purple (hence my on my mind post)

Hole 'Live Through This' album I've been tweeting on and on and writing #nowplaying tweets for months about this album even though it is from the 90s Its still amazing! every time I listen to it I feel bad ass like I can take over the world! I feel empowered! If you don't know who Hole is Its Courtney Loves' band :) LISTEN TO IT NOW!

So the quarter is almost up at my school is almost over theres 3 weeks left and final projects are coming into effect! With my Pattern Making class in mind I am so excited to be able to make my own pattern from scratch and design my own outfit! (and If your not really familiar with what pattern making is heres a little information about it!) Ok! So the assignment is to make a pattern and also design something that interprets an fine artist/any artist through actual fabric! I have a few things in mind but If I'm able to actually pull this through I will definetly show it on here! because I'm so excited! Just a little hint I'm trying to use an image from this book and interpret it into an outfit (this book is amazing by the way)

FUTURE PLANS FOR PLANEE JANE + JUST A THOUGHT + INSPIRED BY MY PEERS

I was thinking to myself today maybe I should add another section to PLANEE JANE I was thinking maybe I should start making actual mini design boards/ mood boards and post them on here so you can see my actual professional design process? 

Then I thought maybe I should wait until I start my personal blog because that would be more considering school work rather than what Planee Jane was intentionally set out to be which is an inspiration blog but either way it will still I think it would still be great for both blogs! But I think I will wait until I start my new blog.

ALSO recently my schools fashion design program has created a facebook group page and I've recently joined (in an act of me trying to be some sort of social at my school...lol) but also I browsed some of my peers design work and I just fell in love some of the students at my school are AMAZING! It was just so inspiring to see this come out of my school being in Dallas, TX in all I automatically expect to see bland work and out of date designs but there was alot of amazing detail work and innovative designs. So that really pushed me to work hard because sometimes (all the time) I'm my worst critic and sometimes automatically diss my work as being not up to par even though I am just starting out...I never start from the bottom and work my way up, I always start from the middle and work up and thats one of my MANY problems but HEY WERE NOT GOING TO GET INTO THAT! anyways that just really inspired me to work harder practice harder, live, love and design, stay creating something everyday so I can better myself for the future!

ALL APOLOGIES

You guys I'm so sorry I havent been really posting lately I've been really busy with school and overwhelmed with work and everything I promise that I will make up for it with a mass post this week! So get ready!

I've also been kind of uninspired...But I have been visiting my good friend Roberts blog CHINA BU which has been feeding me all types of inspiration all day everyday! So if you haven't visited it yet I suggest you click on that link! :)

TRUTH

If you don't feel good about yourself it will reflect in everything that you do

I WANT TO WALK BEFORE I CRAWL

Sorry for the lack of good posts lately its midterms at school and I've just been a mess trying to study for everything and to the new people who just subscribed to PLANEE JANE hold your horses you haven't seen nothin' yet! lol just kidding!

In other news I cannot wait to start my other blog! I'm going to buy a new camera so I can document things that happen in my day to day life as in school, design, etc! and also vlogs and videos! I've been waiting for this for a long time! and I cannot wait!!!


AND WHEN I DO START MY NEW BLOG ALL OF YOU WHOM SUBSCRIBED TO PLANEE JANE MAKE SURE YOU 'FOLLOW' THE OTHER ONE TOO!! :)

P.S I've dicided on a camera that I'm going to buy! A Nikon Coolpix (I really hate that they call them that) S70!

I've done my research watched product reviews and I really like this camera alot!

So keep your eyes open! xx

COMING SOON!? YES? NO? MAYBE SO?

(screen shot of new blog coming soon)
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WORK TOO HARD? + THANK YOU

My worth ethic is very...I don't know how I should put this...I don't stop until the job is done or until I think its perfect...I'm a perfectionist when it comes to getting something done. So when people tell me I work to hard I say that is there isnt any other way to do it? and in a way its really taking an negative effect on my body and my personal health when I'm at work I don't really take breaks or stop what I'm doing to really relax I rather get the job done and have it done in the most short amount of time possible. But I guess I get it from my mom she always taught me to give a 100% in anything that I do...


Ok lately I've been having alot of obstacles on my plate and even more in the near future that are coming up at my job where I work now is as a paid student work study at my college. This summer I'm suppose to be moving out on my own into my own apartment and on one hand I don't want to move because I don't think I can do it but then on the other side I have it inscribed into the back of my mind that this day has to come sooner or later and I don't like nor do I want to have that feeling of being dependent on someone else for support all the time so I think it would be best to move out on my own as early as possible! So now I'm working overtime at my current job and now I'm searching for a second one...


My boss and I where discussing that (since I will be working overtime) I don't want to overwork myself until the point to where I get sick or my something goes wrong with my physical health (which isnt up to par anyways)...But I'm thinking to myslef isnt that what I have to do? Isnt that what college students do... work one or two jobs just to make it through? its like what am I suppose to be doing I'm independent now and I'm doing what I have to do to basically survive and make it in this world! If I don't do it now I'll be depending on people for the rest of my life and that is not something that I want happening to me!


+ THANK YOU TO EVERYONE WHO COMMENTED AND SENT EMAILS ABOUT/ON MY 'YEARS OF THE UNKNOWN' POST! I'M GLAD THAT SOME OF YOU COULD RELATE WITH ME! IT REALLY MAKES ME FEEL NOT SO ALONE ABOUT THE SUBJECT SO THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH! xoxo


& ALSO THANKS TO THE NEW PEOPLE WHO'VE RECENTLY SUBSCRIBED TO THIS BLOG! IT REALLY MEANS ALOT TO ME :)
ENJOY! xoxo

NEW PROJECTS ***UPDATE!

*Technical flats due to change over the course of assignment ;)

Remember my post when I was obsessing over seafoam colored greens? Well today when I went to the garment district to go buy some fabric for a garment I'm making...and being the person that I am I will have an idea of what I want to do at home or in my mind and then actually get to the fabric store and do a complete 360 on what I orginally had planed. Also remember my post about what I was originally going for? But I knew I probably couldnt make a ultra-sheer blouse and have one of the models that model for our school not wear a bra if my garments made it towards the fashion show. So sheer was out of the question sad to say...But during my off time I'm going to make the shirt in the sheer material that I bought! :)

Ok so I get to the fabric store and I start looking at all these diferent fabrics that I could use to make a stove pipe (skinny) pant out of and I'm looking around and trying to keep in mind that I'm designing for spring! I want color! I need to get out of these neutral colors and get some color into my design process and start being open towards color. So I see this seafoam green color sort of I think linen polyester mixed fabric and I'm thinking in my head meanwhile looking at the clock realizing that its 30 minutes till closing time at the store so I picked up the fabric so they can cut it. But also I bought it in black just incase I fall out of love of how it turns out in the end and also automatically when I see this seafoam color I think of Davidflin Spring2010 and I'm like oh shit! its an amazing collection and beautiful color pallet but now I'm going to have to add something to these pants in order to not make it look identical to his pants in his collection but also stay limited to the requirements that need to be met for this assigment...UGHH RESTRICTIONS! :(

So even though I bought the sheer fabric for the blouse that I wanted to make....I still need to buy blouse material for the actual assignment I need to turn in for a grade...so I have a couple of weeks to descide on what color and material I will use that will go great with these pants! so wish me luck! and I will try to keep everyone who is interested updated on the garments I'll be making this quarter!

Thank you everyone who reads my blog and follows subcribes. I really do appreciate it and love you all!

DOT DOT DOT

the new blog is almost here!
keep your pants on! ;)

New Projects

New quarter, new design project and I'm happy to say that I get to make/design a blouse and trouser pant in one of my classes this time around...I kind of have an idea of what I want to consist my theme around here are some of my inspiration images...



Dior Homme Spring 2010



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(photos:style,gq,google,yahoo,flickr)

My ideas are still a little jumbled in my mind but I'm still trying to put everything together I still don't have a clue for what I'm going to do for the trousers yet but hey I have until next week to figure out what I'm going to do and buy fabric


**NOTE: By the way I still haven't posted a picture of the sheath dress from last quarter that I made that I know some of you really wanted to see but didn't post the pictures so I will also be taking pictures of that dress on a propers dress form next weekend! :)

HAPPY NEW YEARS! + PLANS?!

(photo:yahoo)

The new years is right around the corner for people in the US! :)

For other countries HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

What are some of your new years resolutions?

or did you make any at all??

This year I'm not going to boast on about what I want to do for my resolutions because I look at the post I made last year and half of none of them were completed! lol so I will keep them to myself this year
and you as readers will see the progression as I grow and change as a person (positively of course!) :)

I don't have a new years resolution because I believe I change & grow every day. Everyday in 2010 will be a new day, filled with new goals.

So I wish everyone a GREAT beginning of the new year and alot of great things for me will be changing in my life and also with my blogging I'll keep you posted! Love you all xo


P.S also look what I FINALLY got in the mail... Its been like 2 years since I requested information from this school! (Hence the year 2010/ 'continuing' wrong information requested) But hopefully this school will be in my plans in the near future after I graduate from design school in Dallas! :)

BRAIN + FINALS

This is what the walls of the inside of my brain look like...Finals are coming up and I'm trying to pass all of my classes this quarter. Am I the only person who doesn't like math? all of my instructors and fashion directors say that "creative people don't like math were visual people" which might be true (especially in my case) But I envy people who are great at math!...you guys just pray for me that I pass my last math class I'll ever have to take at my school! It will make my life a little bit more easier! :)

(please dont mind my eyebrows eeekkkk!)

ahhhhh the smell of being at school on the weekends! I hope this pays off

ON MY MIND: MY LIFE

These pictures describe the last 2 weeks of my life....Black & White, Vulnerable, tough, stubborn, dark, lonely, and confused, and I've been listening to Lady GaGa's "Dance In The Dark" and "Alejandro" and "Bad Romance" on repeat for atleast week...

I'm getting to that point in my life that I'm more concerned about me as myself growing as person working on the things I want to change and being the person I want to become and actually doing the things I actually say I'm going to do. I know I talk alot of shit when I tweet/facebook/tell some of my friends that I want to do this and this and it never gets done its not that I'm just talking out of my own ass to get a reaction out of people. Its just that things take time on my part personally and also money wise...I'm not the type of person to start one project and then work on another one and then forget the other one. I've learned a long time ago that, that is not the way to get things done if you want to be successful...

My personal life is in shambles because everytime someone asks me "so how are you what have u been up to?" my answer is always not just once or a couple of times its always "oh just school and work" and nothing else I know its good to be focused on school and especially work but all the time 24/7???? like I don't go out or anything!

+ + +Also to add November 13th marked my 1st full year in college...whoopi...I still feel like I haven't progressed at all...I'm not motivated to actually do good in school I feel like I'm not suppose to be there. One full year of bullshit...and failure how depressing

Planee Jane is starting to become a joke to me...for reasons I really wont go into but I will say that its the reason for my lack of posts/ and or good posts lately. I know alot of people really like the blog and come to it for inspiration but its like now I want to move on to something bigger and better which I am trying to work on but It starts with me first so its like I'm stuck or either moving slowly to get where I want to get

I'm happy to have the people in my life I would lastly expect to be there for me and uplift me when I feel like quitting which were my boss and one of my teachers in college. They really uplifted me when I really really needed it. So I thank them the most and in the end through all of my emotions and failures and how much I put myself down I always try to keep their words in my mind and in my heart to not give up and that I am somebody important...

Sorry for the lack of posts and inspiration...Someone please inspire me send me some good GREAT links to a movie, designer, design, art, book, music...or something in the comment section

THANK YOU ALL FOR READING,SUBSCRIBING, AND COMMENTING I REALLY APPRECIATE IT!

JUST IN ADVANCE

I will start back school tomorrow (Monday) and after fashion week is all over I think I'm going to go under a rock and hide out and take care of myself for a while and really stay focused in school. I need to stay focused for the next couple of months because on November 13th it will mark one year since I've been in college and I fucking feel like I havent done shit that to say I really feel "accomplished" for the yeart I was in school...But thats my fault so next year 2010 I'm not making any resolutions I don't think... for next year. I just want to start getting somethings straight right now before I go into the new year! Because out with the old and in with the new right!! no negativity in 2010

THANK YOU, SO MUCH

Thank you to people who wrote me emails and on facebook and via twitter to tell me to keep pushing towards my dreams and to not give up I'm moved to tears I'm just so thankful that people actually care and have faith in me when I feel I'm at my lowest you guys have don't have a clue on how much better I feel right now! I just want to thank you so much and I really do appreciate all of you! you know who your are!!! :)

thank you xo


(the power of technology and the internet is amazing, isnt it?!)

STUCK

Have you ever felt stuck? Meaning like your stuck somewhere in some state or country where you feel uninspired where you feel you cant progress creatively?

I feel like where I am now (Texas) I feel like I'm being held back from what I'm really capable of doing...I really hate it here. But before I tried to cope with me living here because this is the place where I'd be spending the next four years of my life since I'm in college...but it always seems like while I'm in school I'm not giving my all and I'm not feeling inspired to do my work which is design It just seems like I don't care ever since I started back in November 2008 (ALMOST A FUCKING WHOLE INTERE YEAR) it seems like I've been taking steps backwards and not progressing as a designer...It's not that I don't still want to be one its just that my scenery is lackluster. I thought that since me living Texas it would be something of a challenge to show people here in this mediocre state something different since I'm not "ordinary" when it comes to my ideas and thoughts...

For me to fail is the worst burden on my heart...I don't like the feeling of it or I don't like the outcome of failure, and yes I do keep in mind that in order to be better you must make mistakes...But I cant get that into my head when It comes to money (financially) there is no room to make mistakes over and over again...I just really feel like giving up or getting out of school...either way I'm stuck...right now I don't have the money to move to where I want to move and I cant really drop out of college right now because I work at my school...so either way I'm fucked I really don't want to stay here a minute longer and now that I'm on a student break from school and work I have Idle time and thats what scares me the most I'm not going anywhere special I'm here at home just left with my thoughts bored out of my mind. Right now I'm not thinking positively, and I have no one to really talk to about how I feel...so this blog (sadly) is my only outlet of communication to anyone...

I don't know whether I should just give up on this school thing or either just keep going and push through and take this as another lesson learned...

TIME FOR A BREAK?...

I think Its time for me to take a break...time to get my life together It seems like more and more each day I'm getting mad and upset at the smallest things...and thats not good I really need time to get myself together physically and mentally (NOT LIKE IM CRAZY BUT I WANT TO TAKE OUT TO MAKE MYSELF HAPPY) and I think I'm going to take out time for myself and school for a while...

Everytime I say this or mention this on the blog I'm back in like 3 or 4 days but this time I really do think I need time out for myself...

I'm scared I might lose followers or readers from Planee Jane but if you've ever felt like this at a point of your life you would really understand where I'm coming from...I love all of you who read my blog and come to it everyday and check it out and read it I really cant stress enough how much I am thankful for EVERY-SINGLE-ONE-OF-YOU! XOXO


But hey like I said this just might be a 3 or 4 day thing...who knows its just right now the way that I'm feeling I need to take better care of myself and stop living through various outlets... and take out time for me to be healthy and live my life the way I want to live it...See you soon send me emails! I will still be checking that...and I think I'll still be twittering but I don't know

Email:
alannahscott2@gmail.com

Twitter:

www.twitter.com/alannahscott

I'll still be blogging just not as much as before :)